Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 49
Chapter 49
Translator: Yonnee
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Dietrich just blinked in confusion.
At that moment, I snapped back to reality.
…What did I just say?
“…’Annoying face’? What do you mean by that?”
Dietrich muttered, seemingly bewildered by my outburst.
I couldn’t understand the situation either.
Why did I say such a thing about a face that could only be called handsome?
Dietrich must be confused too. What a thing to say to someone who’s always been praised for their looks…
“It was meant to be ‘annoyingly handsome’. Don’t misunderstand.”
“……”
Dietrich sighed. It seemed like he was used to my antics now, resigned to them.
“Fine.”
“……”
It’s all because of the assimilation.
I was temporarily swept up in the ‘young lady’s’ emotions.
Dietrich had let me go. I looked at him in a daze.
“I have something to say.”
Something to say?
“I hope that we never cross paths again.”
That topic again?
“I don’t understand why you’re doing this to me. You trapped me, then helped me, and then pushed me towards death again. It has just been a series of deception.”
I couldn’t think of anything to say.
“I don’t understand how you can approach me so calmly after all that. What are you thinking?”
I was just trying to help him, but a few missions had created complete mistrust.
Maybe this was the situation the system wanted.
“If you had even the slightest consideration for me… No, you tried to kill me, so that’s unlikely for you.”
Dietrich laughed hollowly.
“You’ve realized it, but I can’t lay a finger on you. I’m a fool, after all. But…”
His amethyst eyes flashed intensely.
“I can’t promise I’ll always be like this.”
“……”
“I loathe people who deceive others.”
Terribly.
Utterly.
With those words, Dietrich left the room.
I remained alone in the room, just staring blankly at the door he hadn’t closed.
‘Hmm.’
I have some common sense too.
For a while, it’ll be hard to make an effort to approach him.
Anyway, now that Dietrich has found S’s diary, new rooms will be unlocked.
‘It’ll take some time before they’re open.’
So, there’s no need to follow him right now.
I stood up nonchalantly.
We’ll meet again anyway.
‘They’ will come to the mansion.
There’s not much time left.
“It won’t be bad to rest until it gets busy.”
* * *
I dreamt of a memory from long, long ago.
—One thousand four hundred six, one thousand four hundred seven, one thousand four hundred eight…
It was around the time I first got trapped in this mansion.
Trying to get through the day with the ‘steel mentality’ skill, life in the mansion was unbearably dull.
There were times I even tried counting my hair strands, leaning against the door.
.
.
“Ha, ahh!”
As I woke up from the dream, my arms flailed wildly in the water. After a while, I grabbed the edge of the bathtub and pulled myself up.
“Cough, cough…”
Ugh. Water got up my nose.
I should never sleep in the bathtub again.
I had no idea I would slip and fall asleep underwater.
‘I must never do this again.’
As my breathing steadied, I reflected on the recent changes.
‘Ah… I’m so weak.’
Since coming to the second floor, my condition had worsened significantly compared to when I was on the first floor.
I lay sprawled in the bathtub.
I knew I should get out, but I lacked the strength to do so.
Blinking dully, my ears caught a ‘noise’ as I lay there.
Drip. Pitter, patter.
It sounded like rain.
And then…
Boom!
A loud clap of thunder.
“Is it raining outside…?”
As I muttered absentmindedly, I realized that sounds from outside don’t reach inside this mansion.
That means…
Ah.
I got up.
My wet hair clung damply to my collarbone.
I stepped out of the moisture-filled bathtub.
As I entered the hallway, a chill made me shiver slightly.
I had forgotten my body wasn’t the same as ‘before’ and had dressed too thinly.
Below the second-floor railing, I could see the first-floor hall and the entrance.
And the men who had entered through the entrance.
Three men, drenched in rain.
I looked at them as they were standing by the door.
And there was Dietrich, more surprised than I, standing in the first-floor hall facing them.
‘They’ had finally arrived.
The ones who once increased Dietrich’s darkness meter by 70%.
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