I Think I’m a Horror Game Villain - Chapter 55
Chapter 55
“What did you just say, Heyna?”
His eyes were filled with confusion. But after a moment, he looked at my serious face and responded earnestly.
“…Actually.”
Before Dekir could finish his sentence, he took something out of his inventory.
It was a page from a picture diary with a drawing of me and Anna smiling.
[Today, I became friends with Big Sis Heyna.
Big Sis gave me my name.
My name is Anna!
I’m so happy to have a name.
I want to play with Big Sis Heyna again.]
The diary was filled with joy and excitement, written in a crooked, childlike script.
‘That’s it!’
I opened my collection window to check.
【Collection】
Second Memory Fragment.
A diary containing Anna’s happy memories of ‘Heyna.’
Sure enough, the second memory fragment was in Dekir’s inventory.
“When you broke the main spring, this appeared in my inventory.”
“Then why did you say you didn’t have anything earlier?”
“I thought others would suspect you, Heyna, of being the villain if I showed them this.”
“…Of course they would suspect me. There’s such clear evidence.”
As soon as I said it, I realized my mistake.
I should be grateful to Dekir for hiding the evidence that I was the villain, but instead, I was questioning him for hiding it.
‘Dekir hid the fact that he had the memory fragment to protect me from suspicion, but…’
Instead of being grateful for his consideration, I was upset that he hadn’t questioned me.
However, Dekir didn’t seem offended at all.
“Dekir, even after seeing this, you don’t suspect that I’m the villain?”
“No, I don’t. Actually, I had a feeling ever since I saw you talking to Anna. It seemed like you and that child, Anna, knew each other from before.”
He wasn’t wrong.
Of course, it wasn’t the current me, but ‘Heyna’ had given Anna her name.
“But why did you pretend not to know it in front of others?”
“I didn’t want to put you in a difficult situation.”
“What do you mean? You said you suspected me. So why wouldn’t you want to put me in a difficult situation?”
“That’s because…”
Dekir, who had always spoken without hesitation, hesitated for a moment. His warm, crimson eyes darted around before meeting mine again.
“Because Heyna, I like you.”
His face was like that of a boy whose hidden feelings had been discovered.
He blushed shyly and confessed his feelings with difficulty, clearing his throat.
“Oh, I didn’t want to say it like that.”
His embarrassed appearance, as if he wanted to confess more seriously, made my heart, which had just calmed down, race again. My fingertips tingled, and my face flushed.
This wasn’t the time to be flustered by this half-hearted confession.
If it weren’t for this situation, would I have been happier? To the confession of a fictional character in a game, not a real person.
I calmed myself and spoke, “Then, what if I really am the villain who trapped you and the others in this mansion? You know that the villain has to be eliminated to escape this terrible place, right?”
“Well, if you really were the villain who brought us here…”
After a moment of contemplation, he answered with determination.
“Even then, I’ll be on your side, Hetna.”
Even if I were the real villain, he would be on my side. What a sweet and cruel thing to say.
“And I don’t think everything you’ve shown me so far has been fake.”
“Everything I’ve shown you so far…”
“Like the way you tried to survive until the end during the game of hide-and-seek, or the way you struggled to find the key to save Tommy.”
“….”
“If Heyna were really the villain and was simply toying with us, there would be no reason for you to be so desperate, right?”
Desperate.
His words struck a chord in my heart.
That’s right. Unlike these people who can come back to life thanks to the save system, I only have one life. And-
‘I want to go back.’
I want to escape from this terrifying horror game and reclaim my original name and life, not as ‘Heyna.’
I have always fought desperately to survive.
I was grateful to Dekir for noticing that. But at the same time, I was embarrassed and tried to change the subject.
“That could just be an act to avoid being caught…”
“So, was that an act just now?”
“….”
“I don’t think the way Heyna cried in my arms was an act.”
“Cried? When did I ever do that?” I shouted without realizing it, and Dekir laughed with a mischievous expression.
“See, it’s not an act?”
My gloomy mood lifted in an instant.
How could he play with me like this?
Suddenly, I had a thought.
‘I wish Dekir wasn’t a character in a game, but a real person.’
His gentle and affectionate words, his appearance that was my type. He always seemed to know what I was thinking, and his warm encouragement gave me the words I wanted to hear. Dekir was my ideal man, the one I had always dreamed of.
It was a pity that he was just a character in a game who would eventually part ways with me.
“Dekir.”
“Yes, Heyna.”
As I faced him, who smiled gently, a smile naturally spread across my lips. I decided to tell him the secret I had kept hidden until now, for he always put my mind at ease.
It was time for me to be honest.
“Dekit, there’s something I have to tell you.”
“Yes. What is it?”
“It’s just that…”
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