How a Nuisance Character Survives in a Horror Game

 

Rumble…. Kaboom!

 

A woman screamed as a flash of lightning struck.

 

“Kyaaaah!”

 

“It’s fine, it’s just lightning.”

 

A man who calms down a frightened woman by gently holding her.

 

The woman, perhaps bewildered in the strange atmosphere, gently pushed the man away and smiled awkwardly.

 

“I’m s-sorry. I was so surprised.”

 

“That’s possible.”

 

While I was half engrossed in her, she looked at me with a look on her face that showed she was worried.

 

I took my eyes off her and stared at the abandoned hotel in front of her.

 

“Miss Evelin, are you okay?”

 

This woman, who gently shakes me and asks me as I look in vain at the gray abandoned hotel through the heavy rain. She has the charm of sunlight even when she’s very wet.

 

The woman with her long light blue hair and eyes, pointed nose, and pink lips worried about me even as she shivered from the heavy rain.

 

This person has such a great presence that you can tell who she is just by looking at her.

 

***

 

She’s the female lead of <A Child’s Secret>.

 

And Evelin.

 

A nuisance character who provides an incredibly frustrating sweet potato that can never be left out in horror games.

 

(sweet potato: overall it means very frustrating bcs you can’t swallow sweet potato easily when you eat it)

 

From the beginning, she gets the female lead and male lead into trouble and survives by using others as bait.

 

A character who does everything she’s told not to, kills people who don’t need to die, and survives until the end.

 

She dies the most cruelly and painfully among those who have died, as if receiving all of their past karma.

 

What if that nuisance character is none other than me?

 

After seeing a huge abandoned hotel with its old reputation intact before my eyes and realizing where this place was, along with memories of my past life, there was only one thing I had to do.

 

‘I should never enter that hotel.’

 

Even the signboard was unrecognizable.

 

Even the letters ‘HOTEL’ written at the end were extremely gloomy.

 

I swallowed dry saliva as an eerie feeling invaded my whole body and a gloomy energy that seemed to pierce my skin.

 

The reason my body was shaking was because of fear.

 

The only person who played the game there who knew well the cruelty of that abandoned hotel was me.

 

‘Die.’

 

If I go in there, I will definitely die without a ray of hope.

 

***

 

‘I did think it felt somehow familiar…’

 

Of all things…

 

I curled my lip and bit it, barely able to hold back the scream that was about to come out.

 

An abandoned island with a bitchy atmosphere.

 

A large and luxurious luxury hotel towering over the island.

 

Its presence was unrivaled, as if revealing its once majesty, but now it has long since fallen into a faded reputation.

 

There was no particular reason.

 

It’s just a story that often appears in the horror genre.

 

A story about how an entire island’s humans were sacrificed to bring someone back.

 

A story about a madman killing all the island’s travelers.

 

The story is that the hotel owner secretly locked guests in the basement and conducted biological experiments on them…

 

Rumors abounded, but nothing was proven true.

 

No…

 

Even these terrible rumors suddenly disappeared as if nothing had happened.

 

Now that countless years have passed, there is no one left who remembers that island and the hotel.

 

However, I’m the only one who knows because I have played games featuring this setting.

 

How dangerous this island is.

 

In particular, the most dangerous one among them is that hotel.

 

That luxury hotel is the main location of the horror game <A Child’s Secret>.

 

Strange incidents and accidents occur at the hotel where it’s said that once you enter, you can never come out.

 

A place full of the smell of the dead, where unfortunate incidents and accidents never cease.

 

Just entering it erodes a person’s spirit and stimulates fear.

 

With such a setting, it was natural that it was judged unusable by teenagers.

 

Fittingly, this horror game was famous for being quite vicious, and at the same time, it was also known for its amazing illustrations.

 

It’s a horror game where more than half of the players fell in love with the illustrations yet they turned off the game because they thought it was scary.

 

‘Of all of them, the most dangerous ones are the five demons living in that hotel, aren’t they.’

 

In the abandoned hotel, the main setting of the game’s story, there were five powerful demons that humans couldn’t overcome.

 

Living up to their reputation, the demons were incredibly cruel and didn’t know how to show mercy to humans.

 

For some reason, the five demons who were sealed on the island never forgave uninvited guests who entered the island, which was almost like their territory.

 

‘For example, people like us.’

 

Undeterred by the threat of the devil, the main characters in the horror game rely on each other and develop affection within a huge and scary abandoned hotel.

 

However, there are also people who sometimes betray and cause trouble.

 

If you endure all these hardships and hardships, you will face the final boss of the horror game, the most powerful of the five demons.

 

And no player defeated the boss and escaped from the abandoned hotel safely.

 

Everyone experienced frustration from the bad ending.

 

‘I heard there is a normal and happy ending, but…’

 

There’s no player who saw any ending other than the bad ending.

 

Among them, the bad endings have different ways of dying at the end depending on how the story progresses.

 

The remaining half cursed and left en masse, saying that they wouldn’t have played the horror game that boasted of extreme difficulty, if it weren’t for the illustrations.

 

<A Child’s Secret> is an unfortunate horror game that has been forgotten.

 

All that remains are illustrations of the five gorgeously beautiful demons and the main characters who entered the abandoned hotel.

 

The reason I ruminated on this game was simple.

 

‘Because now before my eyes is the abandoned hotel without dreams and hopes.’

 

Strength naturally entered my body so little.

 

‘I don’t want to die.’

 

The thick raindrops fell even harder, as if they knew I would never go in. They seemed to pierce the ground.

 

Drizzle~

 

In the current situation of pouring rain, the best option is to stay in the abandoned hotel and avoid the rain.

 

Because this was the island, and we were castaways.

 

But, but…

 

‘I don’t like amputating limbs!’

 

First, I tried to run away from that abandoned hotel, but someone grabbed my wrist and pulled me back.

 

There was frustration in that hand that was so strong that I couldn’t shake it off.

 

As he mercilessly let go, I fell backwards and my entire body was covered in mud.

 

“Ahh!”

 

My body screamed from the pain I felt in my back and buttocks.

 

Instead of feeling sorry, the guy who threw me away got angry at me with a big frown on his face.

 

“Please make some work, Lady Evelin!”

 

That bastard!

 

I almost cursed, but I automatically became solemn.

 

We, nobles, were at a party on board a ship when a sudden typhoon struck and the ship was wrecked.

 

We were caught in a typhoon, but luckily we survived and woke up on an island that became the main setting of a horror game.

 

The whereabouts of quite a few nobles who were on the boat with me are unknown now, but what is clear is that there are only seven people here, including me.

 

As befits a horror game, there will be no other humans on this island. In fact, while walking around, we didn’t even see anyone else other than us.

 

Although everyone was puzzled, they were also devastated that they were the only ones there.

 

That was also the part that announced the beginning of the story.

 

And ever since I met them, I’ve been dragging my feet like a nuisance character.

 

It was so bad that I sat down and cried because my legs were sore. I said I was hungry and took away Moran’s, and when I was pointed out, I cried because I had been scolded.

 

I cried that I couldn’t walk anymore and even had to be carried on someone else’s back, whining so bad that even they went away.

 

It was natural that they, who had been suffering from this ever since the shipwreck, were very sick of me.

 

‘But it was thanks to that kind lady that they didn’t abandon me.’

 

The female lead calmed them down and comforted them by not losing her calm and bright smile even in an atmosphere that was becoming hostile because of me.

 

She was no less than an angel, enduring my whining to the point that even the demon would get sick of it.

 

“I loathe having you around crying and complaining!”

 

The man in front of me scrunched up his face in disgust.

 

It was almost a shame that no swear words were spoken.

 

I’ve done something and yet I can’t even say anything…

 

In fact, I fell so ugly, but no one offered me a hand.

 

I just clicked my tongue with a look in my eyes that said I knew that would happen.

 

Just as I was about to choose my words and answer, a system window suddenly appeared and flashed before my eyes.

 

[Werner looks down at you with a disdainful expression.]

 

[▶What should you say?

  

(.·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. )

  

((╬▔皿▔)╯)

  

((⊙_⊙)？)]

 

Do you think I don’t know l-loathe?

 

Selection window, is this

your

best?

 

[Time limit: 10 seconds.]

 

[※If you do not make a selection in the meantime, it will be automatically selected.]

 

In the first place, the system itself was anxious to make me a nuisance character in the game.

 

More than that, what’s with that selection window?

 

Where do they leave the main seriousness of a horror game and have such a clever selection window appear?

 

To the sound of the second hand ticking, I first reached out my trembling hand to the system window.

 

They wanted to make me a nuisance character, so I decided to resist the system as much as possible. I pressed down on number 3, which was really, really better.

 

Ding!

 

[Number 3 ‘What is l-loathe? ((⊙_⊙)？)’ has been selected.]

 

My mouth opened slowly and automatically, as if waiting.

 

Like the three emoticons, my eyes widened and the three words I chose came out spontaneously with an expression of ignorance.

 

“What is l-loathe?”

 

For a moment, the air calmed down.

 

The sound of rain was loud because it was raining heavily.

 

…Right?

 

It’s not because everyone is at a loss for words, right?