Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 44
Chapter 44
Translator: Yonnee
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The fragment, emitting an extraordinary light, was as brilliant and noisy as an ore mined from the cosmos.
Dietrich caught the piece as it fell from his hand.
Then, the multiple beams of light emanating from the fragment converged into one and shone towards the staircase.
The light shot out, contagiously illuminating the entire staircase in pure white.
The sacredly glowing staircase seemed to beckon, lighting up the dark mansion.
[ ‘Dietrich’ can now ascend to the second floor. ]
I hadn’t done anything, I felt strange.
Even though it was a scene I had become numb to from countless repetitions in the videogame, seeing it in reality felt like fireworks bursting in my heart.
I wonder how Dietrich was feeling now.
He, too, was staring blankly at the staircase.
“Go ahead, Dietrich.”
I called him with a voice slightly tinged with excitement.
Truthfully, it wasn’t something to be too happy about.
We had just passed the first floor.
It was only going to get harder from here on out.
And on the second floor…
‘They’ would be waiting.
But for now, what does it matter? Let’s fully enjoy this moment of joy.
“Go on.”
“……”
‘Cursed mansion’.
At this very moment, the epithet seemed unfitting.
Ascending to the second floor felt like stepping on a bridge that was sacred beyond anything in the universe.
As Dietrich stepped on the staircase, a burst of blinding white light erupted.
Really, the effects were splendid.
I had felt it even when watching through the monitor, but the graphics of this game were indeed top-notch.
Seeing it in person, the brightness was almost blinding.
“Kkyung!”
Just then, a ball of fur popped out.
As the fur ball also stepped on the pure white staircase, the brilliant light shimmered around it.
We slowly ascended the stairs.
Upon reaching the second floor, the light from the staircase, which seemed dusted with stardust, gradually faded away.
And it returned to its original form.
Barely savoring the afterglow of the spectacle, a new system window emerged.
[ Charlotte shall now bear the responsibility. ]
Huh…?
* * *
A pursuit team was formed in the temple to find Dietrich.
The team arrived at the village where Dietrich was last seen.
The town of Hanzers.
He had reportedly stayed and left the sole inn of the town. Other than that, there was no more news of him.
Fortunately, the innkeeper remembered Dietrich, even the conversation they had.
“He said he was going towards ‘Owen’.”
“Owen?”
The pursuit team scoured the map.
Owen was a small village not far from Hanzers.
It was an unremarkable place, known only for its poor law and order.
“This was the original planned route.”
It was the village Dietrich had to pass through to meet Archduke Clarit.
The pursuit team left Hanzers and soon headed towards Owen, hoping to find the next clue there.
But upon arriving in Owen.
“Good lord…”
“What on earth…”
The village had turned into a sea of blood.
An ominous feeling crashed down like a wave over them as soon as they entered the village.
The familiar stench hitting their noses.
The eerily quiet atmosphere.
It wasn’t long before they saw the streets turned to ruins.
Bodies were piled up like mountains, and there were signs of brutal slaughter.
“What the hell happened in this village…”
“We’ll halt the pursuit for now.”
Given the grave situation, investigating the incident in the village was the priority.
“There’s a survivor here!”
Just then, one of the knights scouting the village came running with a child in his arms.
An orphaned child, rotting away, unable to even care for their own wellbeing after everyone in the village had died.
The clerics hurriedly treated the child.
Normally, those proud men would have been disgusted to treat a raggedy child, but this child was the sole survivor and witness here.
“Ugh…”
“Little one, are you conscious?”
“…Uh.”
“Can you tell us what happened in the village?”
The child, after struggling on the brink of death, burst into tears upon recognizing the man as a cleric.
“Bandits… Bandits attacked the village.”
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