I Think I’m a Horror Game Villain - Chapter 24

Chapter 24

What happens to the mission result in this case?

‘The mission was to ‘survive with your partner,’ but my partner died and I survived alone… Does that mean mission failure?’

[Mission cleared!]

It says cleared? That’s a great system!

[Conditions were only met 50%, so only 50% of the reward will be given.]

…Cancel what I said earlier about great system.

[You have obtained the distortion as a reward.]

【Distortion】
It can distort objects or events to hide information.
*Only 50% of the effect will be exerted.

‘Why are they giving me something like distorting objects or events? I don’t need this item at all.’

But strangely, I had a feeling that I would need this item at some point.

While reading the item description, Tommy entered the room first. I followed Dekir, walking together.

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“Is this the Room of Memories?”

“It looks like an ordinary room to me.”

According to the map, I confirmed that this place was the ‘Room of Memories’.

Contrary to the fancy door, the interior of the room was relatively ordinary.

An old bed and desk. Delicate potted plants and a few books on the desk. It was an ordinary room with traces of someone who had stayed there.

“So why aren’t they giving us any fragments of memories or something?”

Tommy grumbled irritably, scratching his head.

At that moment, a red arrow appeared in front of me. The arrow pointed to a red book lying on the desk. It was as if it was telling me to come here and open it.

I approached the arrow as if I were possessed and opened the book. Strangely, when I opened the wider part of the book, an old photo appeared.

As soon as I saw the photo, I froze.

“Heyna?”

Dekir was the first to notice the change in my expression and called me with a worried voice.

“Oh no!”

My heart, which was already pounding, raced even faster. Holding the photo tightly with trembling hands, I couldn’t afford to let it slip. At that moment, I remembered the item I received as a mission reward.

‘How do I use it?’

As I thought about it in fear…

[Would you like to use ‘Distortion’?]

[Yes] [No]

A window appeared asking whether I wanted to use the item.

‘Yes! Use it! Please use it right now!’

With an earnest cry, I activated [Distortion].

“What did you see that made you look so upset?”

“Heyna, are you okay?”

“What is it? Let me see too.”

“Are you okay, Heyna? What’s wrong?”

From Dekir to Tommy, and then Rose, they all looked at me with concern, leaning in closer.

“This is…”

Zion pulled out a photo trapped between the bookshelves.

“It’s a photo.”

“What kind of photo is it?”

Rose looked at the photo with curiosity and grabbed my arm tightly, then was startled.

“Oh my gosh! What is this? It’s a creepy photo!”

In the photo, there was the pale hand that crawled on the floor, and the seeker from our first hide-and-seek game in this mansion.

“Get rid of it immediately! Why are you carrying such a creepy thing?”

Rose closed her eyes tightly, finding it terrifying just to look at it. On the other hand, Zion and Dekir stared at the photo with a serious expression.

“The place in the photo is this room.”

Dekir nodded in agreement with Zion’s words.

“Yes, and the child here is the seeker we encountered earlier. The hand on the desk…”

“That’s the hand we ran into in the corridor earlier.”

“So, everything in this photo must be the ghosts in this mansion.”

Zion, who had been glaring at the photo, frowned.

“There seems to be something near the bed, but it’s blurry and hard to see due to the poor resolution.”

Upon hearing Zion’s words, I swallowed hard. In the part where it was too blurry to see, my figure was captured in the photo.

Fortunately, thanks to using [Distortion], my image in the photo was blurred. Thanks to that, I could pass over the fact that I was in the photo with the ghosts without letting others know.

‘Why am I in that photo, anyway?’

The severed wrist looking for its owner and the seeker in the hide-and-seek game. I was sitting in front of them, smiling happily. It seemed as if I was having a friendly conversation with a close friend.

‘Why…?’

My mind was in turmoil.
I couldn’t turn a blind eye anymore at this point.

The villain behind this game…

It was me.

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