Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 152
Chapter 152
Translator: Yonnee
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“Don’t you think there’s a limit to shamelessness?”
“…So this is how you felt back then.”
A look of bitterness crossed Dietrich’s face.
Slowly, he approached and knelt at my feet.
“You experienced something similar on the second floor, didn’t you? I think I finally understand what that feels like.”
When Eric and Hesta died.
I had been misunderstood many times.
Knowing the unfairness of that moment, I listened to Dietrich’s words.
“…Then what happened?”
“All of them are dead. The ones who lived here with us, aside from us. Or rather, when I got there, they were already dead.”
“…What? How?”
“They fell into a trap on the fourth floor and died.”
“…Then what was the scream I heard outside my door? And why was my door locked? How do you explain this contradiction?”
“They came back as undead after they died. So I had no choice… I had to kill them again.”
“Then why did you lock my door? Why did you keep me inside?”
“That’s…”
At that moment, Dietrich hesitated.
Then, as if he had made up his mind, he looked directly into my eyes.
“Because I was originally planning on killing them.”
“What?”
The words struck me like a blow to the back of my head.
“I intended to kill them, but they were already dead when I arrived. So, I didn’t have to.”
He didn’t kill them, but he had planned to.
I didn’t know how to process this truth.
I was so taken aback, I couldn’t even close my mouth.
“Charlotte.”
Dietrich took my hand and kissed each of my knuckles.
“I’m sorry, Charlotte.”
“……”
“Charlotte…”
As his lips moved from my fingers to my wrist, he looked up at me with eyes full of desire, even in this moment.
“What is this…”
I trembled with betrayal.
“You’re not some lust-driven dog…”
I shook off his hand and stood up from the bed.
“Charlotte!”
As I hurried out of the room, Dietrich frantically followed me.
I could hear him calling my name, desperate, but I ignored him and kept walking.
When I reached the stairs leading to the fourth floor, I paused for a moment.
“Wait here, Dietrich.”
“……”
“If you follow me, I won’t forgive you.”
* * *
< What do you mean? After the crushed shards were found, no one else has entered the fourth floor. >
What’s going on?
The administrator of the fourth floor and Dietrich were telling completely different stories.
< I told you how to conquer this place. Do you really think I’d let someone in here to kill me? >
“……”
< I have always been loyal to you. >
Who was telling the truth?
[ Steel Mentality is being implemented. ]
Instead of getting closer to the truth, the path ahead was tangled like a web of threads.
After gaining nothing, I descended from the fourth floor, and there Dietrich stood, waiting for me.
I stopped a few steps above him, unable to descend all the way. The distance and position felt comfortable.
“…Charlotte.”
“……”
“I’m being framed.”
In the end, trapped in my room, I hadn’t found the answer.
The most suspicious person in this situation was still Dietrich, who had blocked my door and tried to kill his own comrades.
Without a clear answer, I knew I had to choose based on my own will.
To trust him or not.
“Dietrich.”
In the end, I went down the stairs.
I embraced him as he desperately pleaded his case.
“I’ll trust you.”
Because you did the same for me on the second floor.
Back then, you were kind, and even though you were tormented by stepping outside your moral boundaries, you helped me clear Eric’s body.
“Charlotte.”
Dietrich’s face brightened.
I held his cheeks and kissed him.
“But don’t make me feel uneasy.”
“I understand.”
Thinking back, it was the same on the second floor.
After clearing Eric’s body, Dietrich had said the same thing to me.
Never lie to me.
‘You must have felt this way too.’
Wanting to trust me but always fearful my words were false. I hadn’t understood that back then.
I had only seen my own unfairness and my own situation.
Now, it was my turn to trust Dietrich.
“Cough…”
Just then, I heard a faint cough from not far away.
Someone was there.
“I have to go.”
“Charlotte, wait…”
Dietrich grabbed my arm urgently, as if something was troubling him.
For the first time, the man who had always acted so confident and calm, now had a crack in his composure.
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