Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 47
Chapter 47
Translator: Yonnee
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I used my authority to quickly clean the room.
After hiding the food well inside the room, I stepped outside to find Dietrich wandering the hallway, trying to open various door knobs.
However, unlike the first floor, all the doors on the second floor were locked.
Dietrich, looking increasingly anxious, tried to open the next door, but it remained shut.
“Why…”
He muttered, as if he couldn’t understand.
Then, at that moment.
Ding— Ding— Ding—!
The wall clock on the second floor began to ring loudly, as if the mansion itself was taking off.
At the same time.
All the doors that had been firmly locked suddenly sprang open.
Astonished, Dietrich looked at the opened doors with wide eyes.
As he seemed about to make up his mind and enter one of the rooms, I quickly stepped forward and grabbed him.
“Just a moment, Dietrich.”
He stopped moving as I called out with an urgent voice.
“Wait.”
I walked past him, intending to check inside the room Dietrich was about to enter.
‘Good grief, really.’
After taking a look inside the room, I shook my head in disapproval.
It’s better not to enter here.
From the dizzying scent wafting the moment I stepped in, it was clear it was filled with poisonous gas.
And…
Closely examining the wall, I noticed it was riddled with tiny holes. Those with trypophobia wouldn’t stand a chance.
‘Probably where poison arrows would shoot from.’
Nothing had been triggered yet, but as someone who had reached the third floor in this game, it was pretty obvious.
“Hmm…”
Even with agile movements to dodge arrows from all directions, the poison gas would gradually slow your movements.
As I closed the door and turned around, Dietrich was looking at me with furrowed brows.
“Step aside.”
“No. It’s better not to go in there.”
I slowly explained the hazards inside the room.
“I think there might be poison arrows. It’s dangerous.”
“I see.”
Dietrich nodded as if he understood. Just as I moved away from the door, feeling relieved, Dietrich flung it wider.
“Dietrich, wait—”
“How can I trust you?”
Click.
Leaving only those words behind, Dietrich entered the room.
“…This isn’t right.”
Should I follow him in and try to stop him?
I hesitated for a moment.
But in the end, I decided against it.
Our relationship began with distrust, and the thin trust that we had built on the first floor… had shattered entirely.
Going in now would only worsen the situation.
I eventually gave up and went to look for medicine.
* * *
A few hours later.
“See, I told you so. It’s dangerous. You shouldn’t have gone in there.”
As expected, Dietrich returned covered in wounds.
He could slash through monsters and whatnot, but it seems even he couldn’t escape the effects of the poison gas.
‘If I knew he’d come back like this, should I have tried harder to stop him?’
But he had entered the room before I could even try.
“…How… How can I trust your words.”
“But didn’t the arrows fly around just like I said?”
“…Cough. You lie every time, and just this once you tell the truth. It must be to deceive me further, isn’t it?”
Not really.
I sighed and took out the medicinal salve I had brought, applying it to Dietrich’s wounds.
He was quite injured.
“Here’s a painkiller. Drink it.”
“…I won’t. What if you’ve poisoned it?”
Seriously so stubborn.
Can’t be helped, I guess. It’s all the product of my karma.
I nearly lured him to death by enchanting him on the first floor.
‘But he needs to take the medicine.’
I thought coldly as I grabbed his chin and forced his mouth open.
“You… Mmph!”
I forcibly fed the painkiller to the resisting Dietrich.
‘This painkiller also neutralizes the poison gas.’
That’s why it’s important that he’d take it.
After swallowing the medicine, Dietrich protested vehemently, but I just ignored him.
He must be thinking that I was trying to poison him.
Soon after taking the medicine, Dietrich fell asleep. He must have been exhausted, and the strong medicine likely induced drowsiness.
“…If I leave this place, you… you won’t be safe either.”
He muttered something strange before sleeping, but I dismissed it.
As I watched Dietrich sleep, I hoped he would leave this mansion as soon as possible.
Ever since he arrived, the system hasn’t left me alone, and I’ve been nothing but tired.
You need to leave so I can finally rest.
And so I don’t have to keep worrying about you dying in front of me.
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