How a Nuisance Character Survives in a Horror Game

 

As time was running out, I hurriedly checked the towel that reached below my knees carefully to make sure it didn’t slip down, and then pressed number 2 with just over a second left.

 

Immediately my body began to move out of my control.

 

I just suppressed the urge to pass out.

 

Will I soon be receiving Holloway’s disdainful gaze?

 

Since I had already chosen it, I had no choice but to follow it. My body moved on its own and opened the door.

 

After sitting still, Holloway’s eyes widened slightly when he saw me come out of the bathroom.

 

Moisture that hadn’t been wiped away dripped down to my feet. Holloway stared at me in silence for a moment, then slowly opened his mouth.

 

“Sister, what you look like now…”

 

I shouted, cutting him off.

 

“Look at me! Look at this! Look at my bright blue lips! Don’t I look like I’m trembling?!”

 

As I let go of all my bad temper, silence fell.

 

Why are you giving me this shame and hiding?

 

Ah, cold, it’s cold…. What on earth is this coldness?

 

Holloway, who had been watching me trembling for a while with my teeth chattering, suddenly turned his head and spat out.

 

“You look like you’re trembling.”

 

“Y-You see.”

 

Geez, I stuttered.

 

As I did, Holloway turned his head again to look at me and asked, suppressing his laughter.

 

“But why are you crying?”

 

“It’s because it’s cold…”

 

When I’m cold, tears flow.

 

“What about your runny nose?”

 

“My nose is crying too.”

 

He crouched down and began shaking slightly.

 

[Holloway bursts into laughter, saying, ‘She’s like a comedian.’]

 

When did I become a comedian…

 

I felt like my whole body was heating up as Holloway laughed heartily at my appearance. I sniffled the snot that was hanging down.

 

Would it be better to curse, I wonder…

 

Then a window popped up.

 

[Holloway is completely convinced when he sees your blue lips.]

 

Thank you very much.

 

“It must have been quite cold.”

 

“It wasn’t hot.”

 

He laughed like a child at my sarcastic tone.

 

When I looked at Holloway blankly without even going back in, he wiggled his eyebrows and checked the door leading outside. Soon he pointed at me.

 

“Aren’t you going in? Change your clothes before you come out.”

 

“Ah, yeah.”

 

Isn’t it too serious that there is no reaction?

 

How low is his interest in me…

 

I don’t think the final boss is even embarrassed.

 

Out of frustration, I slammed the bathroom door. In response to my nerves, Holloway called me in a voice filled with laughter.

 

“Sister?”

 

It sounded like a harsh sound when I slammed the door shut.

 

I was scared for no reason, so I hastily made an excuse.

 

“I guess the wind must have shut it down!”

 

“Ah, wind.”

 

Although I heard laughter through the door, I tried my best to pretend not to notice.

 

I went near the clothes and first squeezed the moisture out of my hair.

 

I cried when I saw my miserable appearance in the broken mirror, wrapped only with a towel.

 

What’s the point of doing something like this and shouting so proudly?

 

Who speaks like that! Can’t I just say it’s cold?

 

I was so embarrassed that I lost my temper by punching the air.

 

Why does the selection window only appear in these situations?

 

Who wants to choose number 2!

 

Didn’t you make me choose this because you wanted to see me being a disgrace?

 

While I was blaming others, windows popped up one after another.

 

[The danger gauge starts from 0!]

 

I stopped punching the air and raised my thumb. Very good choice.

 

I will give this honor to you all. Thank you.

 

[Possessiveness has increased by 1%.]

 

No, don’t do that.

 

[Holloway’s risk level changes to ‘I won’t be suspicious.’]

 

It made me cry that his possessiveness had increased, but fortunately, the stage had changed.

 

Now, no matter how much I act, there won’t be anything creepy that causes the danger gauge to rise.

 

No matter how hard I tried to calm myself down, the replay showed me standing proudly in front of the final boss, only covering my body with a towel.

 

Someone said so.

 

When tears well up, lift your head up.

 

So who should I listen to when I feel embarrassed?

 

“Sister, when will you come out? Are you going to live there?”

 

Should I lift that bastard up…

 

I slowly changed my clothes and opened the bathroom door.

 

As I turned my eyes, sticking them out, I made direct eye contact with Holloway.

 

His smiling face was disgusting.

 

“Come out quickly, Sister.”

 

“…”

 

“Ah, but you can’t come out like you did before to prove your innocence in front of others, alright?”

 

“I know. I’m not a child.”

 

I’m not doing it because I want to either.

 

I pretended to be calm, put an iron plate on my face, came out of the bathroom, and quickly climbed onto the bed.

 

“What are you going to do, Sister?”

 

“Go to sleep.”

 

“Suddenly?”

 

“Because life tends to suddenly become shit.”

 

It’s like my situation where I suddenly remembered my past life, and suddenly started playing a horror game.

 

Despite my harsh tone, Holloway tilted his head cutely.

 

“What does that mean?”

 

“Dunno.”

 

I answered calmly and lay down on the bed, and Holloway also lay down next to me.

 

Without realizing it, I tried to hug the warm Holloway, but he grabbed my hand.

 

“Ah. Sorry.”

 

I thought he was a human stove, well.

 

“…”

 

[Holloway looks a little distraught.]

 

He’s upset about something.

 

I was the one who stopped trying to hug him, but I couldn’t understand why he was doing that.

 

“There are monsters in this hotel, and we need to save up our stamina.”

 

“You keep saying that you want to sleep, you know.”

 

He’s really good at making people like him just by smiling…

 

Even him staying still could make people like him. Aren’t you giving too much to the final boss?

 

“I’ll sleep a little bit.”

 

This is my limit now.

 

How many quests did I go through without even sleeping, I wonder.

 

In particular, because of this final boss, I suffered a lot mentally as well as emotionally.

 

Maybe that’s why it felt more exhausting than usual.

 

Since I had finished showering, my body felt tired and I fell asleep.

 

***

 

It was good for him that she put her mind at ease. That’s because he was walking around like a child.

 

‘But isn’t that too much?’

 

This time, Holloway didn’t reject Evelin, who secretly embraced him while looking for a human stove.

 

Looking at Evelin sleeping peacefully, hugging him tightly, he felt sick for some reason. It was then.

 

“There are traces of eating at the lounge bar on the first floor. There are no traces of being attacked, so I think it’s around here.”

 

Werner’s voice was heard. And next to him was Cleta’s voice.

 

It seemed like they had joined by chance after they got separated.

 

“They might be sleeping in a guest room nearby, it would be a good idea to open it one by one in a while. Monsters seem to have sensitive hearing, that’s why, refrain from making loud noises.”

 

Holloway looked at Evelin, who was sleeping soundly. Her white face and blue lips were regaining their color.

 

The soft sound of breathing and the breath flowing from between her nose and lips tickled Holloway’s forehead.

 

Holloway raised his hand and it twitched. At that moment, the door was,

clack

, locked.

 

It wasn’t long before the door handle started spinning.

 

“It’s locked.”

 

“You didn’t lock it from the inside?”

 

“I don’t feel any presence.”

 

“Maybe she went somewhere else? Miss Evelin doesn’t stay in one place for long.”

 

Moran’s voice was also there.

 

The voices gradually became quieter and soon moved away from the room.

 

***

 

“Sister, I thought you were dead.”

 

“At that time, you should say, ‘I guess you were tired.’”

 

Why are you saying such creepy things to this sister when she wakes up?

 

Thanks to this, I was able to escape from my short nap.

 

And I made an excuse with a pitiful face. I didn’t know I could sleep this long either.

 

I must have slept a long time for Holloway to say that.

 

“I didn’t sleep peacefully either. I was so anxious that we would be attacked by monsters.”

 

“You were snoring.”

 

“I will report you for spreading false facts.”

 

“Haha, to whom?”

 

My body felt refreshed too.

 

I got out of bed, pretending I didn’t hear what Holloway said. I wore a cardigan, carrying a revolver and a sword.

 

Great. I became the strongest weapon.

 

I felt very reassured. Of course, I can’t be this confident in front of a monster.

 

Before leaving the room, I first investigated the room. I’m not sure about other rooms, but I had to investigate the unlocked rooms.

 

There might be some clues,

 

If it’s a forbidden room, there must be a reason.

 

I didn’t find anything in the ‘It’s safe here!’ room, so I guess that’s the case here too.

 

I was rummaging around, opening a drawer, when I saw something shiny under the sofa and was about to lower my head. Holloway suddenly pulled my hair back.

 

“Aagh!”

 

Suddenly the final boss was trying to take off my scalp. I was surprised, holding my hands and praying.

 

“I was wrong.”

 

“About what? I just pulled your hair out because it’s amazing that it’s puffy.”

 

“Ah.”

 

Washing my hair with soap wasn’t enough, drying my hair was a nuisance so I slept without doing so.

 

“So you didn’t mean to take my scalp off.”

 

“Why are you saying such scary things, Sister?”

 

“I guess because I’m in a scary place, my thinking circuits jump out like that without me even realizing it.”

 

I secretly looked in the mirror.

 

My hair was puffy, as if it hadn’t been done in days.

 

“You don’t have a hair tie?”

 

“Yes, it’s funny, but let it be!”

 

“Shall I do so.”

 

Then it will be less scary, won’t it.

 

Because my appearance is funny.

 

And it was when I tried to look again under the sofa, which I hadn’t seen before.

 

Slap.

 

“…?”

 

Holloway hit me on the head this time.

 

I suddenly got hit on the head and looked at him with an aggrieved face.

 

“Mosquito.”

 

Don’t lie.

 

I think this bastard is blocking me from looking under the sofa.

 

Is there something important here?

 

I’ll ignore it and take a look…

 

[Holloway is watching your eyes as you try to look under the sofa.]

 

Forcing isn’t good.

 

I gave up completely and got up.

 

“Holloway, you don’t have to wash yourself?”

 

“I did while you were sleeping.”

 

It seems so. He’s soft and fluffy.

 

“With the same soap as mine?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“But what’s wrong with your hair?”

 

Why is it soft?

 

Is it that he was the hotel owner and shampoo wasn’t enough so he did treatment on himself without me knowing.

 

Holloway lightly accepted my look of serious disbelief.

 

“Isn’t the strange one your hair?”

 

You’re not hiding your unlucky side, you little bastard.

 

First of all, I decided to look under this sofa later. If Holloway was this alerted, I had to see it when he wasn’t around.

 

No, do I really need to see it? What if I incur Holloway’s wrath by looking at it?

 

It’s scary, so let’s put this aside for now.

 

“Let’s go out, Holloway.”

 

I just said that and Holloway hugged my waist tightly.

 

[The level increases with successive skinships.]

 

[Attachment has increased by 1%.]

 

[Favorability has increased by 2%.]

 

So he likes skinship.

 

If it goes up that well, wouldn’t it be possible to increase attachment and favorability without having to say anything?

 

…was a huge mistake on my part.

 

[Possessiveness has increased by 2%.]

 

[Favorability: 7.5%

 

Attachment: 14%

 

Possessiveness: 15%]

 

I gently pushed him away.

 

[Holloway feels uncomfortable looking at the empty arms. He is watching your waist and wondering what to do.]

 

I gently pulled him closer.

 

I saved my back from being almost cut.

 

He put his hands on my waist again, opened his round eyes and asked with a pure face.

 

“Where are we going now, Sister?”

 

“As far as we can go….”

 

I have to do a quest to find the escape gate, but I don’t want to do it to death.

 

As soon as we opened the door and went out, Holloway and I ran into someone right away.

 

“Huh? It’s a person!”

 

That man pretends not to know anything and points his finger at me and Holloway as if he’s happy to see me.

 

“…”

 

I know that guy.

 

In an illustration depicting four demons, Dilaph is the only demon with an eye patch over his eyes.

 

A man with red hair, bronzed skin, and an overall aura reminiscent of a burning flame.

 

[‘Demon of Anger’ Dilaph has appeared.]

 

There wasn’t a single picture of that demon with his eye patch removed even in the game.

 

No one had ever looked into his eyes.

 

I looked at the red-stained window with trembling pupils.

 

[Do not take off his blindfold.]

 

[Instantly, your world will become despair.]

 

At the same time, my eyes began to be plastered with emoticons.

 

[(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)

 

[(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)]

 

[(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)(◔◡◔)]

 

The emoticons that were plastered without saying anything seemed to be laughing at me.

 

As if no matter how hard I tried to avoid it, I would have no choice but to take off that blindfold.