I Think I’m a Horror Game Villain - Chapter 30

Chapter 30

Zion pointed to the end of the hallway.

In the dark hallway, a pale hand was crawling under the dim light seeping through the gap in the blocked window.

‘The severed wrist…!’

The severed wrist that found us moved its fingers even faster. Like the hands of a pianist playing a fast-paced song, the five fingers started running on the floor at a terrifying speed.

“Heyna!”

Zion called me, saying that we had to run away quickly.

“I’m sorry. My legs are too weak to walk.”

The severed wrist doesn’t harm the player. Besides, if the memory I just saw was correct, that wrist would be friendly to ‘Heyna’.

“I’ll be fine, so you run away.”

Zion’s expression distorted painfully at my words.

“I can’t do that.”

Zion, who seemed to have made up his mind, embraced me with a determined expression.

“Zion…?”

“Stay still. If you move, I might drop you.”

His words were not a simple threat. Zion was set up to be ‘weak in strength but a strategist with a good head’. True to his setting, he had a rather slender body.

I’m also quite petite and thin for an adult woman, but it would be difficult for Zion to carry me and run.

Zion’s arms, which were trying their best not to let go of me, trembled. He was panting as if he had run a marathon, even though he hadn’t run a lot of steps.

‘Is he going to break his arm like this?’

I was more concerned about his arms, which were shaking like an aspen tree, than the severed wrist that was chasing us from behind.

* * *
“Ugh, gasp.”

Zion, who had entered a nearby room and put me down, collapsed and gasped for breath.

“I’m sorry, Zion. You went through a lot because of me.”

Zion smiled reluctantly with a sweaty face, trying not to worry me.

“It’s okay. Heyna. If I knew this would happen, I would exercise more….”

I fanned him as he gasped for breath and spoke intermittently.

‘It was unexpected; I thought Zion would leave me in that situation.’

He took care of me until the end, in a situation where both of us could be caught if we were careless.

“Thank you. I’m alive because of you.”

[‘Zion’s’ favorability towards ‘Heyna’ has increased by 1.]

I succeeded in raising Zion’s favorability by 1 unintentionally.

‘Why did the favorability increase just now? I don’t understand.’

Anyway, this made Zion’s favorability the same as his suspicion.

His suspicion goes up whenever I do something, so I want to keep his favorability as high as possible.

I was thinking about whether there was a quick way to do it.

“Zion…!”

Somehow, the severed wrist was attached to the corner where the wall and the ceiling met. The severed wrist, which noticed my gaze, jumped down with its five fingers spread out and attacked Zion’s face.

The severed wrist grabbed Zion’s neck and lifted him into the air.

“Zion!”

My hand, which I stretched out in a hurry, couldn’t reach them.

“Ugh!”

Zion, who was floating in the air, kicked his legs. I couldn’t do anything in front of Zion, who was struggling and choking with his neck caught.

His rapid breathing gradually slowed down, and his arms and legs, which had been struggling in agony, drooped. He closed his eyes with a blue face, letting out a groan that became a scream.

My head turned white. I couldn’t see Zion properly because of my tears.

‘No!’

He might really die if I leave him like this.

I shouted desperately. “Don’t! Put Zion down right now!”

This wasn’t something that would be solved just by shouting like this….

Huh?

As soon as I shouted, the severed wrist flinched and dropped Zion roughly onto the floor.

‘What? Why……?’

Taken aback by the unexpected development, I quickly came to my senses.

‘This isn’t the time to be acting like this.’

I checked Zion’s condition. Fortunately, he was breathing. He had only fainted because he hadn’t been able to breathe for a while, and he didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere in particular.

“Phew.”

I was just about to lay Zion down comfortably when…

Thud, thud.

The severed wrist, which had approached me without my noticing, touched my arm with its finger.

My body stiffened at the chillingly cold sensation, but I pretended to be indifferent and spoke curtly.

“What is it?”

The severed wrist flinched, seemingly taken aback by my reaction. Then, it folded its fingers and flattened itself against the floor.

‘So it does understand what I’m saying.’

Judging from the fact that it had put Zion down as soon as I shouted, the severed wrist must be able to understand human speech to some extent.

Furthermore, for some reason, it seemed to listen to what I said.

‘No, there’s a reason I can guess.’

In the memories of Heyna, the severed wrist, she, and the seeker were like friends.

What if ‘Heyna’ had become close to the ghosts for some reason?

All of the severed wrist’s questionable actions up until now suddenly made sense.

When we first met, it probably just wanted to greet me. And just now―

‘Zion caught me when I almost fell. It might have seen that and thought I was upset because of him.’

Let’s put aside for now how the severed wrist, which has no eyes, was able to see me. It would only give me a headache if I thought about it too much.

After thinking about all this, I began to calm down.

This isn’t a severed wrist. It’s a talking bug, no, a pet.

‘Yes. There are people who keep spiders or scorpions as pets! Let’s think of it as a unique pet like that.’

Thinking of it not as a ghost but as a unique pet that I keep at home puts my mind at ease a little.

After finishing calming my mind, I spoke calmly to the severed wrist.

“Hey there. Severed wrist?”

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