Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 54
Chapter 54
Translator: Yonnee
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“Fine, tell them. Do as you wish.”
“……”
I had told him to do as he wished this time, so what didn’t he like now?
He irritably ran his hand through his hair.
I pulled Dietrich, who was messing up his hair.
“But, if you talk about me, they will become hostile towards me.”
“…You’re making an obvious statement. They need to be hostile towards you. That’s the right thing.”
“Yes. That’s right. And then they’ll try to kill me.”
“……”
Dietrich’s eyes widened in surprise at my remark.
“Oh my. Didn’t you know? It’s obvious, isn’t it?”
“……”
“It’s a foregone conclusion. Once the idea has been planted in their heads that I am the cause for their imprisonment in the mansion, the next obvious step would be to kill me. Do you wish for me to die at their hands?”
That would never happen.
No one in this mansion can harm me.
The moment they try to threaten me, the ‘mansion’ wouldn’t stand by.
If there was any being that could harm me, it would be the ‘mansion’ itself.
And I wouldn’t die anyway.
Wasn’t I fated to live forever like this?
“If luck isn’t on my side, they’ll capture and torture me. No, it’s more likely than not. There’s no guarantee that killing me will allow them to leave, so it would be easier to torture me.”
“…If you don’t like it, you just have to say that.”
“Do you really think so? That it’s enough for me to speak up?”
I knew no other way out except for the Room of Truth.
I just knew just a little more than them.
“…You’re merely reaping what you’ve sown.”
“Yes, yes.”
So, was coming to this mansion a product of my own actions as well?
What sin did I commit?
…Ah, I’m a bit annoyed now.
“Then should I say goodbye to you in advance? Since I’m going to die by their hands.”
As he was unable to say anything, I smiled at him.
And not a moment later, I pulled his hand towards me and kissed it.
His eyes wavered.
Smack!
He pushed me away by the shoulders once again.
“What are you doing!”
“Saying goodbye.”
“……”
He looked at me with a dumbfounded expression, as if he was at a complete loss for words.
“…Are you perhaps ill?”
“What?”
“…You are acting strange right now.”
“You always thought I was strange.”
“But… it wasn’t like this before.”
Not like this before.
“Me, strange?”
“…Why are you acting like this all of a sudden today.”
…Could it be because of ‘that’?
Something clicked, and I kept my mouth shut.
“What was the usual me you saw?”
“…It wasn’t like this.”
“What do you mean by this.”
“Not so sly, and also… and also… not pushing yourself unreasonably…”
Sly and…… pushing myself unreasonably?
Come to think of it, didn’t Charlotte in the game do just that?
Unhesitatingly embracing Dietrich, or kissing him when he was in pain.
Realizing this fact sent a chill down my spine.
Unable to explain, he sighed and let go of my shoulder.
“…Let’s do this then.”
Lost in thought, Dietrich began to speak.
“As you said, I won’t tell them about you. But there’s a condition.”
“Condition?”
“Don’t harm them. Never act towards them as you did with me.”
“Fine.”
I didn’t plan to do anything to them anyway.
Why would I, if it might just worsen your darkness meter?
“Don’t agree so easily. Promise me sincerely.”
“Yes, I agree.”
He doesn’t believe it’s sincere.
I hooked my pinky finger around his.
“I promise.”
“…What are you doing now?”
Ah, the pinky swear didn’t exist here?
“It’s like a sort of ritual.”
“Ritual… Ha, fine, okay.”
He also curved his pinky finger to entwine it with mine.
Feeling it was enough, I tried to pull my finger away, but Dietrich applied pressure.
“It’s a promise… You must keep it.”
His voice, heavy as he uttered, was laden with profound unease.
“If you deceive them as you did with me on the first floor, I won’t sit idly by.”
I couldn’t help but laugh out loud, finding it a bit funny.
Were they that precious to him?
Those fiends who would aim for his life.
“Don’t laugh.”
“Yes, yes. So, are we done now?”
“…Yes.”
“Then let’s go. We’ve been here too long. They must be waiting.”
I felt Dietrich’s displeased gaze, but pretending not to notice, I pulled on his arm as if to hurry him along.
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