Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 150
Chapter 150
Translator: Yonnee
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“Anyway, I ended up hearing some useless talk.”
I spoke, still feeling uneasy.
“Tuvio mentioned that he had seen a clock that ran backward, like this one. When I asked him about it, all he had to say was that I should be his concubine. That’s all.”
“……”
Dietrich remained silent for a while, staring at the spot where Tuvio had been, as if lost in thought.
“You seem quite interested in this clock.”
“Yes. I think it might have some significance. Maybe this…”
In the middle of our conversation, something suddenly clicked.
“I think I understand what Noah’s words meant now.”
“……”
The backward-moving clock and the ‘countdown start’.
When Noah first left me with those words, I was too focused on dealing with the undead to make the connection. I had assumed it was related to that situation.
But it wasn’t.
‘It’s connected to the wall clock.’
It seemed like time was counting down. But what could that mean?
“Charlotte, was your interest in Tuvio’s words because of my escape?”
“Of course.”
“…Ah. Because of my escape.”
For some reason, he seemed upset again.
“Do you not want to leave?”
“How could I leave without you?”
Another nonsensical response.
The more Dietrich said things like that, the more convinced I became that I had to get him out.
This mansion had broken this kind-hearted man.
I wanted to save him.
* * *
Charlotte wants me to leave.
But Dietrich had no intention of leaving.
Though he subtly expressed his feelings to her, the more he did, the more she insisted that he must go.
If he disappeared, Charlotte would wither away alone in this mansion.
Of course, Dietrich didn’t stay by her side out of some noble sense of sacrifice.
Even before entering the mansion, he had no attachment to the outside world. He had lived solely out of guilt.
His ill fortune led him to become trapped in the mansion, and everything about him had now become shaped by this place.
To Dietrich, the mansion and Charlotte were things he had to protect.
His former colleague and his subordinates, who had entered the mansion, were nothing but obstacles.
After meeting them, Charlotte only strengthened her resolve to push him out.
So, Dietrich contemplated.
He wanted to firmly tell her that he had no intention of leaving this place, but he knew from experience how Charlotte would react every time he mentioned it.
“Sir Dietrich!”
Dietrich had been sitting on the sofa, lost in his thoughts, when Charlotte and the knights descended from the fourth floor.
“We found the crushed shards earlier!”
One knight ran toward Dietrich, clearly excited.
Tuvio’s subordinates held Dietrich in high regard.
To the newly initiated knights of the temple, the children of the temple were seen as figures to look up to. And Dietrich, being the best among them, naturally became the object of their admiration.
“We’ll hurry to gather the pieces and make sure you can escape, Sir Dietrich!”
The knight shouted enthusiastically, oblivious to the fact that Dietrich’s expression had turned icy.
If they left, Dietrich would be in trouble.
Charlotte clapped her hands joyfully next to the knight, her face beaming with happiness.
Was she really so eager for him to leave?
Dietrich found himself truly curious.
Once Charlotte was alone, he approached her quietly.
“Charlotte, what will you do if I leave?”
Charlotte turned around, looking slightly surprised.
“When did you get here?”
She hadn’t even noticed him approaching.
She seemed to ponder his question for a moment, then calmly, as if it was nothing, she answered.
“I’d be happy.”
“……”
“I think it would be a good thing.”
She seemed sincere and composed.
It was as if she had become a completely different person from the woman who had wept and called out for him the previous night.
Charlotte was strange.
One moment, her eyes were blue, the next, red.
She could handle anything with composure, but then suddenly, she’d break down and cry.
“Are you sure?”
“I’m sure.”
Her tone was confident.
“Lies.”
Dietrich wanted to deny her words.
But her calm expression didn’t seem like that of someone lying.
When he thought about it, even when she had broken down and begged him, she had never once said he shouldn’t leave.
“And what if I don’t want to leave? What would you do then?”
At that, Charlotte gave him a cold, chilling look, as though she had heard something that should never have been said.
As if such a thing could never happen.
Dietrich realized.
The moment to decide had come.
[ Darkness: 87% ]
* * *
Ka-chak, ka-chak.
The door wouldn’t open.
‘What’s going on all of a sudden?’
I was trapped in the room.
“Ahhh! Help me!”
…And something unsettling was happening outside the door.
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