Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead - Chapter 66
Chapter 66
Translator: Yonnee
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Dietrich roamed the second floor looking for Charlotte.
But even after a long while, he couldn’t find them.
“It doesn’t seem like they’re here,” Felix said.
And Hesta added, “…We haven’t checked the first floor yet.”
“I’ll go down to the first floor.”
“Then we’ll take another look around the second floor.”
Dietrich nodded and immediately headed to the first floor.
He hurriedly opened doors to the nearby rooms.
Empty rooms, rooms with monsters, rooms with delicate dolls, and so on…
After opening countless doors, Dietrich finally reached the end of the corridor.
A sense of foreboding crawled up his legs like vines.
He stepped forward as if to break those vines.
Thud—
The moment he opened the door at the end of the hallway, a strong smell of blood hit his nostrils.
He wanted to deny it until the end.
“…Here you are.”
Dietrich finally found the woman.
Sitting in a corner, stained with blood.
And beside her…
Erik, bleeding on the ground.
“…Dietrich?”
Charlotte called out to him, surprised as if she hadn’t expected to be found.
Dietrich stared at the unconscious Erik for a while.
And then he realized.
Erik wasn’t just unconscious.
He was dead.
Dietrich reflexively checked the woman’s eyes.
…They were blue.
“I didn’t kill him.”
“……”
“It’s the truth. I didn’t do anything. Well, I did do a little, but his death has nothing to do with me.”
Strangely, despite someone being dead, the woman was remarkably calm.
She looked at him steadily without any flinch.
“…You don’t believe me?”
“……”
“Ah, you don’t.”
Dietrich struggled to look away from Erik’s body and at the woman.
“…It’s not—”
“Forget it. I understand. If I were you, I would have doubted myself, too.”
“……”
The woman nonchalantly wiped one blood-stained hand on the wall.
If she didn’t kill Erik, whose blood was on her body?
“But what should we do now? I might be accused of being the murderer. Erik doesn’t have the ring. I didn’t take it.”
“……”
“Just looking at the scene now, anyone would think that I took… What should I do?”
She only asked Dietrich one thing.
Whether to reveal the truth or not.
It was up to Dietrich’s choice.
—Miss Charlotte was there, standing with a blood-stained candelabra… while screaming at Erik to hand over the ring.
Dietrich remembered what Felix had said.
Felix and Hesta were together, and Dietrich had been unconscious.
So, the only person who could have killed Erik was Charlotte.
But in truth, if the ring wasn’t on Erik’s body right now, a different hypothesis might present itself.
Erik could have gone into a room and had gotten himself killed by a monster.
But a monster wouldn’t steal a ring, would it?
Many thoughts passed through his mind.
In the end, Dietrich made a choice.
“…We have to hide the body.”
* * *
The blood from Erik’s body sticking to him clung to me uncomfortably.
But what bothered me even more was the number floating above Dietrich’s head.
[ Darkness: 25% ]
By how much had it jumped?
Once the number exceeded 30%, Dietrich would begin to change slightly. He would start to question his own sense of justice.
Yes, I could see that happening.
And if once exceeded 50%, he would start questioning even his own rationality.
Then, after going past 70%, Dietrich would become somewhat aggressive.
Dietrich, broken.
It was an unpleasant thought.
“Hide the body?”
“…Yes.”
I laughed hollowly.
Hiding the body would surely make that number above your head jump higher.
“Forget it. It’s not necessary.”
“…Why not?”
“Why would I ask you to do such a thing when you’re trembling at the sight of a corpse?”
“I’m not trembling.”
“Sure, you aren’t. And really, I’m fine.”
“You’re fine? Then what are you going to do now?”
I had no special plan for such a sudden thing.
I stepped away from the pool of blood. The sticky blood clung to the soles of my shoes. Really. So unpleasant.
“Oh, what to do? Perhaps it’s about time to stop playing the role of an innocent lady.”
“……”
“Don’t worry though. I’ll just stop acting, but I’ll live quietly, hiding away like a dead mouse.”
[ Darkness: 27% ]
Seriously.
How troublesome.
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