I Think I’m a Horror Game Villain - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50

Anna glared at her with her confident words.

“You don’t believe me? I’m telling you that doll is a teacher doll, not a mother doll!”

“No, I believe you. Anna, you’re right that this isn’t a mother doll, it’s the daycare teacher Emma doll.”

“That’s right! So…!”

“And Anna, you probably thought of the daycare teacher as your ‘real’ mother, more than your birth mother who gave birth to you and your adoptive mother who adopted you.”

“….”

Anna blinked mutely, the taut corners of her eyes slackening.

“No.”

Her voice was choked, as if she was about to cry.

“She’s not my mom. I… I love her, but not as my mom. Anna’s family is…,” Anna continued to mutter the same words, her head bowed low.

It looked as if she was brainwashing herself into believing that she should love her foster mother, not Ms. Emma.

Tommy, who had been watching this, scratched his head irritably. Then he blurted out, “You could love your preschool teacher more than someone who doesn’t even act like family.”

When Tommy found the fourth clue, he told her about the ‘family game’ he had been subjected to, saying that there was no way Anna could love her family.

Thanks to that, she was certain that the family doll Anna loved was the Emma doll. He could see the warm affection overflowing in Anna’s eyes when she introduced the Emma doll.

“Families are supposed to love each other! So I…”

She carefully lowered her posture.

“That’s not a family.”

She looked straight into her tear-filled, dark eyes and repeated, “Families aren’t supposed to love; they just do. Those who force love aren’t family. You don’t have to love people who don’t love you.”

“….”

A tear rolled down from her watery eyes.

“Anna, you said you liked me?”

“…Yes.”

“Even now? After I made you sad?”

“Even so… I like Sister Heyna. Heyna is my friend.”

Anna’s face, which answered without hesitation, was simply that of a child who wanted to be loved.

Anna’s feelings for her were genuine. It was just that she didn’t know how to receive love properly because the environment she grew up in was too violent. She didn’t know how to love and cherish someone.

“Thank you for liking me. I like Anna too.”

“That’s a lie. You like them more than me.”

“What about you? Who do you like more, me or Ms. Emma?”

It was the same question Anna had asked me. Anna blinked blankly at my question.

“I, I…”

Anna, who seemed flustered, quickly closed her eyes.

“We-well, sister is more…”

“You don’t have to choose one.”

She gently stroked Anna’s head with a soft smile.

“Ms. Emma is also someone precious to Anna, right?”

Anna nodded, her eyes still wet.

If they hadn’t met in a place like this, they could have been good friends. It was heartbreaking that she couldn’t love a lonely child who didn’t know love.

* * *

I carefully unpicked the stitches, being as cautious as possible so as not to damage the doll. And I pulled out a golden spring from among the stuffing that had turned to dust.

‘Will Anna disappear if I break this?’

Anna smiled brightly at me as I held the spring.

“…Sorry.”

Anna shook her head at my apology.

“I won’t hurt you next time. I like you, Sister Heyna.”

Next time…

‘Is she talking about the next round?’

I would never see Anna again. I would leave this game once this round was over.

Even though I knew that, I nodded.

Then…

[New collection registered. (3/20)]

‘Huh?’

【Collection】

Anna

Waiting for a new friend to play with her in the hidden room. When she finds someone she likes, she makes them into dolls so they can be together forever.

Anna was added to the collection, following the severed wrist.

This brought the total number of collections to three.

“Heyna, do you need help? I can do it for you if it’s too hard.”

Zion said worriedly, seeing me staring blankly at the system window.

“No, it’s okay. I’ll do it.”

I said my last goodbye to Anna.

“Goodbye, Anna.”

I applied a little force to my fingers, and the spring snapped with a crack.

[Mission Clear!]

[You have obtained ‘Distortion’ as a clear reward.]

As the message appeared, Anna’s figure disappeared without a trace.

“Is it over?”

Rose, who had been sniffling in pity for Anna, sighed in relief.

“It looks like it’s over since it says ‘Mission Clear’ …but I didn’t get the reward.”

“Huh? Really? Didn’t they say we’d get a memory fragment or something if we cleared this mission?”

Tommy checked his inventory and frowned.

“Did they rip us off?”

“I don’t know. Could you guys check your inventory too? Maybe one of us got the reward randomly.”

I checked my inventory.

【Inventory】

[Bloody Knife]

[Suspicious Poison]

[Severed Wrist]

[Pick Up]

[Distortion]

There was still no memory fragment.

‘Since the reward I got was Distortion, I’m sure the memory fragment I get this time will also have proof that I’m the villain.’

If, as Zion said, one of us had a memory fragment in our inventory, things would get complicated. I had to use Distortion before anyone else could check their memory fragment…

“I don’t have it.”

“Me neither.”

Rose shook her head after my reply.

There was only one person left.

My gaze turned to Dekir. Dekir, who met my eyes at that moment, smiled broadly.

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