Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 131
Chapter 131
Translator: Yonnee
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Thunk!
When I stepped out of the room, Dietrich was in the hallway, swinging his sword at the undead.
The undead kept pretending to be his friends, attacking him and then switching back, over and over again.
But in Dietrich’s movements, there was no longer any of the hesitation that used to be there.
However, his pale face still showed that this situation was still taking its toll on him.
“Charlotte.”
Dietrich approached me after dealing with the undead.
I looked at the man covered in blood and pulled a handkerchief from my pocket.
Slowly, I lifted my hand and wiped the blood splattered on his face.
[ Darkness: 72% ]
Even though he knew they were undead and had killed them once before, his darkness level had risen again.
Unless we could find a solution, this situation would likely keep repeating itself.
Seeing his darkness level rise to 72%, I lost confidence in our ability to clear the game up to the 5th floor.
Maybe we would end up failing on the 3rd floor.
But even so, I held his hand.
“Dietrich, let’s go find more diary entries.”
He nodded with a bright smile.
* * *
We found the next diary entry.
[ ‘Dietrich’ has acquired a portion of S’s diary. ]
[ The contents of the diary shall be shared with Charlotte. ]
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Emma, who was determined to reveal the lady’s lover, died the next day.
They said a gardener found her at dawn, lying in a pool of blood, having been struck by a blade wielded by an unknown assailant.
The mansion was thrown into chaos. His Lordship was furious, declaring that he would thoroughly investigate who dared commit such a terrible deed in his house.
I couldn’t stop thinking about Emma, who died that day.
Did the lady really have a lover? Did Emma actually see him?
Nothing was revealed, but for some reason, I felt there was a connection.
In the end, I decided to ask the lady directly.
Despite how I may seem, I’ve served her since she was a child. There’s no one in this mansion closer to her than I am.
I trusted the lady.
So, I laid out everything I knew.
The lady looked at me with a shocked expression.
“Then, what I’m asking is, Milady… Do you really have a lover?”
In this mansion, no less?
“Do you really have no idea how Emma ended up dead?”
When I asked, the lady’s face went pale. It was then that I realized.
She really did have a lover.
The lady, who had her secret uncovered, began to tremble in fear. Unable to bear seeing her in that state, I hurriedly spoke.
“Don’t worry, Milady. I won’t tell anyone. I’ll keep your secret. I only asked because I was worried about you.”
The lady looked at me weakly and let out a small laugh.
“Yes. I did have a man I was seeing.”
I gasped.
“But I didn’t love him.”
“What? Then why…?”
Why meet a man you don’t love, especially when you’re about to be married?
“Because it was the only way I could resist.”
“……”
“It was the only thing I could do.”
The lady’s face twisted in a bitter smile, full of deep helplessness.
Even in that moment, she was beautiful. And that made it all the more tragic.
It’s natural for a flower to wilt, but the lady’s bloom had been forcibly plucked.
Did she want to defy the master?
“They say that a woman’s value diminishes if she meets another man before marriage. But it’s strange. My fiancé already has a mistress.”
…Poor lady.
Most noble marriages were like that.
The lady was born into nobility, but in reality, she had nothing.
In exchange for a life of luxury, she was expected to endure for the rest of her life.
So was this her way of resisting—by destroying herself, by defiling herself?
Is this really defiance, or is it self-harm?
“Milady, will you keep seeing that man?”
In that moment, the lady’s face changed. After that, no answer came from her.
“…I shouldn’t have trusted him.”
She muttered something incomprehensible under her breath.
The next day, the lady disappeared.
—Excerpt from S’s Diary
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The more diary entries we collected, the more I couldn’t shake this strange sense of déjà vu.
With no other way forward in sight, I continued to search for the diaries, while Dietrich, without question, continued to kill the undead.
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