Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 31
Chapter 31
Translator: Yonnee
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It’s nothing when I think about it, yet it feels like I’ve confessed something I shouldn’t have.
Dietrich’s expression hardened.
“I’m sincere.”
“I don’t see anything like that.”
“It’s what you’ve been saying until now.”
Dietrich, who had set down the item in his hand, stood up.
As he slowly approached, he tilted his head to observe me.
“Why do you ask what it has to do with me, yet you’ve been trying to involve yourself with me until now.”
“…Have I?”
“Yes, you have. That’s why this question also contains my sincerity.”
Was this guy always this cheeky?
I was taken aback, not knowing if he would back off until he spoke.
“…I don’t remember.”
“You don’t remember?”
“Yeah. I don’t remember anything before being in this mansion.”
It wasn’t a secret, but I didn’t want to tell it.
Revealing it felt like it would make me sick.
“…Is that so.”
Strangely, Dietrich seemed to accept it.
Hmm. I turned my gaze to the book on the desk.
[ About the curse ]
Was something written in that book?
“So, what about you?”
I quickly changed the subject, worried that he would dig deeper into me. About him.
But then, Dietrich’s expression darkened.
Ah, so there’s no pleasant past on that side either.
“If you don’t want to talk about it, you don’t have to.”
Since he was the one who brought up the topic in the first place.
“I worked at a temple before coming here.”
Surprisingly, Dietrich opened up about his own story.
He stared at me with deep, sunken eyes.
“Raised like a slave, like cattle.”
“……”
“Then I was cast away.”
I felt a chill run down my spine, as if ice-cold water had been poured into my chest. I knew what this sensation was.
Discomfort.
“Because I was useless.”
Dietrich lightly tapped his own head with his long fingers.
“Because of certain circumstances,”
He taps my head once again.
“I’ve become strange.”
“Strange how?”
“…Probably everything. Or maybe I was messed up from the beginning.”
“Why are you so negative?”
“…It’s not just me. I’ve heard such things several times from other people too. Maybe it’s part of my personality.”
Saying this, he smiled wryly.
“Is it part of your personality to belittle yourself without hesitation?”
“Because it’s the truth.”
“You have a quite harsh evaluation of yourself. I consider you quite competent and strong.”
Come to think of it, before…
“You mentioned there are people you need to protect, right?”
“Yes.”
“…Are they your family?”
“We don’t share any blood, but I’m supposed to treat them as if they’re family.”
What’s that?
Not family, but he’s supposed to treat them as if they were family. It was the first time I’d heard such a story.
Suddenly, a memory from the past came to mind.
In my early years, I wanted to love my family, but I didn’t want to depend on them.
I couldn’t depend on them.
But sometimes, I felt desperately lonely and yearned for love from others.
There was a time when I believed that others could become my family and provide that love.
No matter how well I treated them, how much love I poured, there was always an insurmountable wall.
“Family is family, and others are others.”
I don’t know where he’s formed this bond, but.
Of course, Dietrich might not be in the same situation as me.
But no matter what the situation, ‘others’ can never become family.
“I know that too. No matter how ‘they’ think of me… I don’t care. I can cherish them.”
“…Who’s ‘they’? It’s strange. Who exactly are ‘they’?”
‘They’ were also mentioned in the game.
I wonder who he’s referring to with ‘they’.
But he didn’t seem to have any intention of answering. He just smiled quietly.
Even though he didn’t really want to smile.
A moment of silence.
It didn’t take long for both of us to move.
Dietrich seemed to reach for another book from the shelf, and I turned around.
[ ‘Dietrich’ has acquired a portion of S’s diary. ]
Huh?
I was suddenly bewildered by the system window that popped up.
Turning around to look at Dietrich, he had picked up a piece of paper tucked between the pages of the book.
“This is…”
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