Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 45
Chapter 45
Translator: Yonnee
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Let’s see.
With the first floor administrator, Penny, now dead, there were a few items to be obtained.
Defeating a boss drops quite the rewarding loot. Dietrich seemed unaware of it yet.
I was in Penny’s room.
After Penny’s death, I was able to enter her room.
It was a quaint room decorated with pink and yellow teddy bears.
There were items in Penny’s room that I needed to collect.
The Fire Ring and the Curse Resistance Earring.
The former could shoot flames, though it had a cooldown.
The latter could resist curses from monsters of a lower tier than Penny, the first floor’s boss.
Having these two items would make things much easier going forward.
‘Hmm?’
Wait…?
While rummaging through the room, I sensed something was off.
‘Gone.’
Both the Fire Ring and the Curse Resistance Earring were missing.
‘This can’t be…?’
It was impossible for them not to be here.
Dietrich couldn’t have taken them. I watched him all day—he hadn’t even entered this place.
‘What’s going on?’
Could the game have changed? Was there something I didn’t know?
I was perplexed.
I searched the room again, but the items I was looking for didn’t appear.
In the end, I had to leave the room without obtaining anything.
“Kkyung!”
Just then, Furball rushed towards me.
Adorable.
I instinctively picked up Furball. It hadn’t been long since we met, but I felt a closeness as if we had been together in a past life.
But why does it continue to follow me?
“Have you eaten, little one?”
“Kkyung!”
It nodded its small head as if to say it had eaten.
Unlike others, it seemed to take care of itself well.
Holding the furball, I headed towards where Dietrich was.
[ HP: 90/100 ]
[ Satiety: 40/100 ]
[ Darkness: 15% ]
Time had passed, and the darkness meter had risen slightly.
Dietrich was quietly sharpening his sword blade in the hallway.
He must have dulled the blade significantly after visiting quite a few rooms.
“Dietrich.”
I called out to him, but no response came.
“Dietrich.”
Silence.
I thought maybe he didn’t hear me, but that seemed unlikely.
“Dietrich?”
“……”
Impossible.
He was ignoring me.
He had decided to ignore me.
Our relationship had been like this since the fight with Penny.
Honestly, I was slightly regretting it too.
Maybe I should have just refused the mission and taken the penalty.
‘No. Never.’
The mere thought of the horrendous pain I had suffered through brought back chills. I didn’t want to experience it ever again.
There’s a limit to human endurance.
‘It can’t be helped.’
I decided to respect his choice.
Holding Furball, I quietly moved aside.
* * *
‘What on earth is that woman….’
He tried to be as vigilant as possible.
Yet, how long had he resolved to do so when the woman brought him an apology, and then…
When that giant teddy bear attacked the café…
—We need to run, too.
Upon reflection, it seemed a trivial thing to say.
But in his life, in moments of danger where he was often used as bait, it seemed somewhat meaningful.
The woman had given up several times for his sake.
It was visible to the eye. That’s why he unwittingly relaxed his guard and…
Perhaps.
Foolishly, he seemed to have believed her.
The hand sharpening the blade tensed up.
He nearly laughed at how ridiculous he was for falling for such pretentious kindness.
To the extent of pondering whether the woman trapping him had her own reasons.
Dietrich had many enemies.
He wasn’t one to harm others, but his mere existence sometimes threatened someone.
There was a time when he could have risen to the highest ranks, now rendered useless.
That’s why someone wary of him could have orchestrated this, and the woman could have been exploited.
No, he wanted to believe that.
Even if it meant forcibly attaching a story to it.
But the delusion quickly shattered.
In the moment fighting the giant teddy bear.
The woman had said:
—You will go into the fireplace instead of the doll.
Truthfully, his memory of that time was blurry.
However, he vividly remembered the woman’s red eyes and her words at that moment.
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