I Think I’m a Horror Game Villain - Chapter 45

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Chapter 45

“Answer me, sister.”

“…No, you can’t, Anna.”

Anna’s expression became distorted in anger when she heard my answer.

“Why not? Sister said you liked me the most! You said we were friends!”

“Yes, Anna. But the people over there are also my friends. So you can’t kill them.”

“…I hate you.”

After saying this, Anna ran to the doll box. Then…

“I hate you! I hate you! I hate you!”

She took out the dolls inside and started throwing them at me.

“Anna, wait!”

Among the dolls Anna was throwing, there were hard dolls made of wood or iron. I had no choice but to cover my head with my arms and crouch down in case a hard doll hit my head.

“Anna! Stop this and let’s talk….”

Before I could finish speaking, I felt a searing pain in my right arm.

“Ouch!”

Anna stopped throwing dolls when she heard my scream.

The scissors that had grazed my arm flew to the floor, scattering drops of blood.

“Heyna!”

Dekir, Rose, and Zion ran to me in surprise.

“Oh, my. Blood…!”

Blood oozed out from between the red lines etched on my skin. The throbbing that spread from deep within my skin made my eyelids twitch because it was cut quite deeply.

Tears welled up in my eyes.

However, this was not the time to be like this.

Now was the time to appease Anna.

Contrary to my thoughts, my body did not move.

“Oh, sister. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt you… I, I just….”

Anna seemed surprised herself as she approached me with a trembling voice, stammering an apology. That was when it happened.

Dekir, who had kept his mouth shut the whole time, said, “Get lost.”

It was a cold voice, as if it had come from the depths of an abyss.

“If you have eyes, look. See how Heyna is looking at you.”

Not only us but even Anna flinched at the murderous voice that sounded like it was capable of burying a person right away.

Anna’s gaze slowly turned to me. The moment our eyes met, I looked away without realizing it.

I realized it only after my arm was cut.

Anna was not a real child, but a ghost living in this mansion.

A ghost who shows overflowing affection, but might kill me anytime if I make a mistake.

I didn’t know when the capricious mind of a child will change.

Like the countless dolls here, she might show affection as if she would live with me for the rest of her life, but get tired of me at some point and throw me into a corner of the box.

What if the scissors that Anna had just thrown had hit my head or my eyes instead of my arm? My body trembled at the thought.

“Sis, you’re scared…?”

“….”

“You said it yourself. Friends aren’t supposed to be scared of each other.”

“….”

“You and Anna. We’re not friends anymore…?”

Anna blinked back tears, her expression one of disbelief. I felt bad seeing her like that, but…

“….”

I didn’t answer.

In that instant, Anna’s eyes turned cold, and her unfocused eyes shook like crazy. Anna, her head half-bowed, looked up and glared at me. Her lips, devoid of a smile, moved rapidly, and a chilling, low voice spilled out.

“So you liked those people more than me after all. It was all a lie. It was all just an act to trick me. You lied when you said you liked Anna, and you lied when you said we were friends. There’s no one in this world I can trust. Even you, Heyna. You’re human too. Humans always lie. They always betray.”

“….”

“I can’t trust anyone. I can’t trust anyone at all. Humans are untrustworthy.”

Anna slowly closed and opened her wide eyes and curled her lips. Her smile was no longer the innocent expression of a child that she had been wearing just a moment ago.

“That’s it. I’ll just turn you into dolls.”

Anna muttered in a barely audible voice and then suddenly shook her shoulders and giggled. She continued to laugh like that for a while before lifting her head.

“But I used up all my strength on Brother Tommy just now…”

When she said she had used up all her strength on Tommy…

‘She must mean she used up all her strength turning Tommy into a doll and can’t turn us into dolls.’

I felt a brief sense of relief, but then Anna spoke.

“I’ve got it! Let’s play a game. If you lose, you all have to become dolls and play with me forever!”

A flame-like red light flickered within her soft hazel eyes.

* * *

[Mission] Eliminate ‘Anna.’
(Reward) Distortion.

We had received a mission that offered a Distortion item as a reward.

“Kill that thing? Are you crazy! How are we supposed to kill something like that!”

Tommy, who had regained his senses and was desperately running away, shouted in disbelief.

“Judging by the reward, which is a Memory Fragment, it seems like it’s a required mission. There must be some way for us to kill it….”

Zion calmly analyzed the mission based on the reward.

“I don’t care what it is, I’m not doing it!” Rose whined, saying that her leg hurt too much to run anymore.

It seemed that everyone else had received the same mission as me. The only difference was that everyone else’s reward was a Memory Fragment, while mine was a Distortion.

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