I Think I’m a Horror Game Villain - Chapter 104
Chapter 104
“No.” His answer only deepened my confusion.
“No? Then what are you sorry for?”
“Neither my promise not to harm you nor my promise not to lie to you were lies. But in the end, I made you uneasy, Heyna. I’m sorry I couldn’t earn your trust.”
He hadn’t intended to harm me. He hadn’t lied. It was just a paradoxical lie.
“If everything you’ve told me is true, prove it.” The words tumbled out before I could stop them.
“Prove it?”
“Yes. Prove that you’re not lying about not wanting to harm me.”
Despite my absurd demand, he didn’t seem fazed. Instead, he smiled as if he had been waiting for me to say those words. “How can I make you trust me again, Heyna?” He moved without hesitation, sitting down casually in the chair I had been occupying. He rested his chin on his clasped hands and looked up at me with his red, glass-bead-like eyes. “I’ll answer exactly three questions.”
“Three questions?”
“Yes.”
My initial surprise quickly gave way to the thoughts forming in my mind. “Who… are you?”
“That’s a difficult question from the start. I am…” He paused, his eyes fluttering closed and then open again. “Let’s just say I’m a man who loves Heyna very much.”
“Not that! Your name, or something…!”
“I’m sorry. I can’t tell you that. It’s a rule.”
“….”
“Instead, I’ll tell you how I came to love Heyna. How about that?”
“That’s…!” I couldn’t bring myself to say I wasn’t curious. I was, admittedly.
“Fine. I’m not particularly curious, but I’ll listen. So go ahead and tell me.”
He chuckled at my words. “It’s an honor.”
With a look of pure delight, he began his story. “At first, it was simply interest. You were different from anyone I’d ever seen. So my eyes kept being drawn to you.”
“Different how?”
“I can’t pinpoint one specific thing. For some reason, my gaze kept following you. As I watched you, I realized something. I had fallen deeply in love with you without even knowing it.”
He seemed to have known me for a long time. I had only met him this morning. Had he been watching me from somewhere I couldn’t see?
“…So you don’t even know the exact reason why you like me?”
“Now that you mention it, that’s true.” He laughed sheepishly.
In the end, he hadn’t given me a proper reason for why he liked me. Yet, my heart softened a little. I found myself almost believing his confession. Because…
‘That’s how love is.’
The thrill that arrives unexpectedly, shaking your heart. And the strange feeling that takes root deep inside before you even realize it. Isn’t that love?
‘No… what am I thinking? I’ve never loved anyone like that.’
I had never experienced such heart-fluttering emotions that clouded my judgment. Or rather— ‘Not until I met this man.’ I wasn’t foolish enough to fall for a ghost just because he was handsome. But looking directly into his face, listening to his soothing voice, it made my heart flutter. This feeling I couldn’t understand… ‘Is it love after all?’ If so, was this feeling mine, or was it ‘Heyna’s’?
“I’m sorry. For not giving you a proper answer.”
“It’s fine. Then, my next question. Before that, you were watching me before, weren’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Since when?”
“From the moment Heyna arrived here.”
From the moment I arrived? So he had been wandering around me this whole time.
“Then you must know everything that’s happened to me so far.”
“Yes. I know everything about Heyna.”
“Everything…?”
“For example, I know what Heyna was looking for here.”
He rummaged through the books spread out on the desk.
“Then, do you know how to proceed to the next chapter?”
Still focused on the books, he nodded. “I do.”
The way he turned the pages was so elegant that I almost lost myself in watching him.
“Tell me how!”
Unlike his previous prompt responses, he didn’t answer immediately. His hands, busily flipping through the pages as if searching for something, suddenly stopped. He turned, met my eyes, and stood up.
“I’m sorry, Heyna.” Long, pale fingers brushed my hair. “This is all I can do.” He walked past me, leaving behind a string of cryptic words.
“Wait, where are you going! You haven’t answered all my questions yet.” I called out desperately, but he didn’t look back.
“Hey!”
I stared blankly as he walked further away, my hand reaching out as if under a spell.
‘Uh… I’ve felt this before.’
‘Don’t go.’
Just watching his retreating figure, my outstretched hand never reached him.
Just like now.
‘Don’t go!’
Someone else’s desperate cry…
‘Don’t go!’
…mingled with the cry in my own heart.
My mouth opened on its own, releasing the burning cry welling up from deep inside.
“Don’t go, Deki!”
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