Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 123
Chapter 123
Translator: Yonnee
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That day was very strange.
Because of the rain, the clothes I had washed recently were soaked, and I stepped into a puddle and spilled the meal I was supposed to deliver to the lady.
It was an unlucky day with many small mistakes.
The lady, unable to watch my mistakes any longer, told me to go outside and avoid causing any more trouble.
She spoke harshly, but I knew.
She had a worried look on her face.
I was heading back to my room, feeling guilty, when I noticed my fellow maids huddled together.
As I approached, they seemed strangely startled and flustered. They tried to act as if nothing had happened, but it was very suspicious.
When I kept pressing, one of the maids finally spoke up reluctantly.
“Fine. I’ll tell you. But you can’t tell the lady, okay?”
The maid’s name was Emma.
Among the maids, she had the loosest lips and the keenest ears for gossip.
“I actually saw something last night.”
Emma began her story.
“I saw the lady having a secret rendezvous with a man.”
I was shocked to hear this rumor coming from my fellow maid.
Emma’s story was as follows.
She had gone for a walk at dawn and saw the lady secretly meeting someone in the garden. The atmosphere between the two was unusual, and she saw the man kiss the lady’s hand.
I asked,
“Then, who was the man?”
“I don’t know. I couldn’t see his face because it was hidden by the trees.”
Could the lady really be secretly dating someone?
If so, why did she keep it a secret from me?
It was too much. After all, I had known the lady since she was a child.
“Don’t you know anything? I told you something, so you’ve got to tell me something too.”
Emma poked me in the side and persistently followed me around, asking if I knew anything.
But I truly didn’t know. I had no information.
“I’m thinking of going out again at dawn. I have to see the face of the lady’s secret lover this time.”
Emma whispered quietly into my ear.
She was determined to find out who the lady’s secret lover was.
That day, I pondered. Should I tell the lady about this and warn her to be cautious?
I spent the night worrying about it.
And the next day, it happened.
Emma was dead.
—Excerpt from S’s Diary
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Fortunately, the undead didn’t follow us here. Maybe they couldn’t come this far.
When we reached the fourth floor, the scene that unfolded was shocking.
‘What is this?’
There was a single ‘door’ on the fourth floor. Other than that, there was nothing. Unlike the previous floors, it looked like a wasteland.
‘What is the purpose of the fourth floor?’
Up to the third floor, we had gone around rooms, collected diary entries, and found crushed shards.
But what was this place…?
‘I need to read the book first.’
There was something more urgent than solving the mystery.
[ Deciphering the language. ]
When I used the authority, the unreadable scribbles became legible.
Let’s see…
[ The undead are reanimated corpses. ]
Oh, it’s readable.
[ The undead cannot live on their own. This is because they can’t live. ]
…Is this a translation error?
This sentence doesn’t read smoothly, almost like it had been run through a machine translator.
[ Before becoming undead, they were ordinary corpses. Someone reanimated them using forbidden sorcery.
Centuries ago, ‘dark sorcerers’ would reanimate corpses from cemeteries with plans to start a war.
However, their attempts failed.
The Histania Empire struggled with the reanimated corpses until a sorcerer helped eliminate all the undead.
The sorcerer said,
“Killing a reanimated corpse is pointless. They will come back to life anyway.”
“Then what in the world should we do?!”
“The undead follow the sorcerer’s orders. Find the one controlling them.”
“Do we need to kill the sorcerer?”
“You need not kill that person. If you just find out the sorcerer’s name and call it, the undead will be paralyzed.”
Upon hearing this, the Histania Empire immediately began capturing the ‘dark sorcerers’. ]
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