Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 136
Chapter 136
Translator: Yonnee
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Despite persevering with all his might, the glass bottle he had been desperately searching for rolled in the wrong direction and toppled the dominoes.
Once the dominoes start falling, they collapse endlessly.
How far will they fall? When will they stop?
No one can predict that.
“Ugh… Diet… rich…”
“Save me…”
Even at this moment, the undead were pretending to be his friends.
With a hollow laugh, he gripped his sword and charged at the undead.
Like a child abandoned by the world, like someone who had nothing left to lose.
The world before my eyes turned red from the blade he swung.
Splaaat—
Blood splattered.
It splattered and splattered, again and again.
Puddles formed, and bodies piled up.
And the crushed shards we had longed for so much gathered at our feet.
‘Ah, I see.’
Only then did I realize.
It was a mistake to set up a sloppy plan and hope for a miracle.
It seemed like everything had been going too easily. The administrator of the third floor must have intentionally left things loose.
Because he had a different goal in mind.
[ Johan is truly clever. He sets the stage, creates a big trap. Naturally, I get caught up in it, and by the time I realize it, I’ve already been struck from behind. ]
It was exactly as written in the diary.
You fall for the trap and only realize it after you’ve been caught.
The point of S’s diary wasn’t about the undead.
Perhaps the person who wrote that diary assumed we already knew who the sorcerer controlling the undead was and wrote it based on that assumption.
Dietrich and I had been deceived.
We were so focused on our mission and the immediate threat of the undead that we failed to see the real intentions of the one who had set this stage.
[ Darkness: 80% ]
It had risen so rapidly.
Maybe this is what the master of the third floor wanted all along.
To deliberately create undead with the faces of Dietrich’s dead friends, forcing him to kill them repeatedly.
Even in the end, they were cruel to Dietrich.
Come to think of it, Dietrich’s darkness level had spiked sharply from the second floor onward.
Ever since that ‘strange variable’ appeared.
I don’t know how the master of the third floor managed to intervene on the second floor, but…
The forbidden item that ended up in the hands of the thieves multiple times, Eric’s death, Hesta’s death.
Finally, the resurrection of Eric.
And how, after we killed Eric, they didn’t resurrect him again and just ended it.
We had been played all along.
To push Dietrich further into darkness.
“Charlotte.”
Dietrich looked at me.
His eyes gleamed with madness.
There was only 10% left before [ Game Over ].
Once his darkness reaches 90%, Dietrich will completely lose the will to escape.
* * *
To find Dietrich, the temple organized multiple squads of trackers.
Just to search for one man.
Though the temple belittled Dietrich and treated him as a fool, in this moment, they recognized his true skill.
Even with this many people, it might not be enough.
“Dietrich is here in Lindbergh?”
A man adorned in a lavish golden robe entered Lindbergh and spoke.
The man’s name was Tuvio.
He was the leader of the squad assembled to capture Dietrich.
“Yes, that’s correct. I’ve heard that Sir Elias is also on his way here.”
The leader of another squad, Elias.
Tuvio had rushed to arrive ahead of Elias’s squad on purpose.
There were two reasons for that.
One was that delivering Dietrich would bring him an enormous achievement. He didn’t want to miss this opportunity.
The other was a personal grudge.
“I knew it when that bastard started acting like a fool, but to think he was hiding in a place like this?”
The ghost city of Lindbergh.
Isn’t this where most criminals end up crawling?
“So much for acting like he was better than everyone else.”
Tuvio mockingly sneered at Dietrich’s situation.
Like Dietrich, Tuvio had also been taken in by the temple as a child.
The temple had always encouraged competition among the children, so a strict hierarchy was established from a young age.
Tuvio was near the top of that hierarchy.
He had acted as the leader of a formidable group among the children.
Some struggled painfully through the harsh life at the temple, but Tuvio was different. For him, every day was fun.
Until Dietrich came along.
As usual, Tuvio was bullying the other children.
He had a cruel habit of trampling others to secure his place at the top, but one day, a newly arrived child stood in his way.
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