How a Nuisance Character Survives in a Horror Game

 

“What? Wasn’t this a place where mana and aura don’t work?”

 

Looking at Cleta who was confused, I continued licking my dry lips.

 

Rather than being confused by that sight, the priority was to run away.

 

If you encounter this situation in the game, you can’t defeat the demon, so if it’s ‘back’, it becomes game over.

 

[Suriel’s murder scale has reached MAX. Everyone here except Holloway is subject to murder.]

 

Look! We’re f*cked!

 

[Because you are at risk of death, the time limit for moving to the 5th floor is reduced.]

 

What? How much?

 

However, time wasn’t shown as if it had been deliberately hidden.

 

In this situation, the system window for Holloway didn’t even appear.

 

It didn’t matter to him if I was killed.

 

F*ck, the only one I can trust is myself.

 

Moreover, if I were the only one to move to the 5th floor, Cynthia and Cleta remaining here would become targets.

 

Even though the system seemed like it didn’t care.

 

My conscience pricked me to say that I don’t know those two just because I’m alive.

 

“T-T-That…”

 

Cynthia covered her mouth, her body shook.

 

“I-I knew that. I thought you didn’t look like a normal human…!”

 

“S-Sister….”

 

That detestable one!

 

It was when I wanted to get rid of Holloway, who was running towards me, pretending to be scared.

 

[There is a weapon on the sofa in the left room, five steps behind the current location.]

 

That was the moment when that window popped up.

 

“KUAAAGHHH!”

 

Suriel’s long nails pierced Alholf’s stomach. Alholf cried out in that terrible pain.

 

Blood was pouring out as his stomach was pierced.

 

In fact, it was Cleta who made his face look like that, but the reason he didn’t touch him was probably because he liked his face for one reason or another.

 

Only Alholf was accidentally sacrificed.

 

Suriel withdrew his hand from stabbing Alholf’s stomach and waved his bloody fingernails.

 

Every time he did, the blood on his fingernails dripped onto the floor.

 

He raised the corners of his lip strangely.

 

“If it were that crazy woman’s thumb, this would have ended easily.”

 

This isn’t the time to be bewildered when I see that.

 

Weapon!

 

I have to do something here before the game ends.

 

I need to buy time!

 

The instinct to survive somehow kept my body moving even as the cruel scene unfolded before my eyes.

 

I immediately walked back five steps and opened the door.

 

“

Cough,

M-Miss Evelin…!”

 

Alholf reached out his hand to me pitifully, as if he thought I was betraying him, but I turned away and went into the room.

 

Everyone was shocked by my sudden action and shouted my name.

 

“Evelin!”

 

“E-Evelin!”

 

“Sister!”

 

Suriel, listening to their earnest calls, tried to dissuade them.

 

“Leave her alone. She wants to stay alive alone, you know.”

 

[Favorability has decreased by 2%.]

 

[Attachment has decreased by 3%.]

 

[Possessiveness has decreased by 5%.]

 

[Favorability: 4.5%

 

Attachment: 4%

 

Possessiveness: 2%]

 

I ignored the system windows that popped up in succession.

 

Meanwhile, the voice of Suriel scoffing and mocking me rang in my ears.

 

“No matter how confident she pretends to be, isn’t there nothing she can do in the face of death?”

 

Say whatever you want.

 

I finally reached the sofa, listening to Suriel’s voice with one ear.

 

I picked up the weapon the system told me about.

 

[‘Nunchucks’ acquired!]

 

(nunchucks (nunchaku): a traditional east-asian martial arts weapon consisting of two sticks, connected to each other at their ends by a short metal chain or a rope. source: wikipedia)

 

What would I use this on!

 

[Feature: Attack power and accuracy increase the more times you shout ‘hee-yah’ in succession!]

 

(hee-yah: the shout one does when they do martial arts)

 

“Hee-yaaaah!”

 

Suriel, you bastard, I’m coming!

 

The game can’t end here!

 

Suriel, who was making a mess as he saw me appear with nunchucks making strange noises, stopped.

 

“Hmph.”

 

Suriel asked seriously at my confident smile.

 

“…Did you eat anything after going into that room?”

 

What did I eat.

 

I confidently approached the guy who was talking strange nonsense, yet Cleta blocked my path.

 

“Evelin, he’s not a man you can deal with!”

 

“Hee-yah!”

 

I screamed loudly and swung it everywhere, and it hit him right in the side.

 

“Ugh!”

 

Suriel sneered as he continued walking, pretending not to notice Cleta falling.

 

“Ha, do you think you can beat me with that strange weapon you picked up somewhere?”

 

“Do you think I brought this with the intention of winning?”

 

How dare you think of something like that!

 

As he humiliated me, Suriel gently bit his lower lip.

 

“I have only one purpose for coming before you with this.”

 

“…?”

 

“Evacuate everyone here.”

 

I didn’t know how much time was left, but if I beat him to death for the rest of the time, I would also be moved, so my priority was to separate them from Suriel now.

 

Only then can I live and they, too, can live.

 

“Did you hear that, Miss Cynthia?”

 

“…What?”

 

“The person I can trust right now is Miss Cynthia. Please take care of Alholf, Cleta, and Holloway.”

 

Alholf was useless, Holloway was young, and Cleta would give a shit about not going, so the only one I could trust was Cynthia.

 

“I’m not going, Evelin!”

 

See.

 

Although Cleta said he wouldn’t go and tried to come towards me, when I threatened him with the nunchucks, he narrowed his eyes.

 

“…Leave it to me.”

 

Ignoring Cleta’s words, Cynthia first grabbed Alholf, who was the most injured, and pulled him.

 

Alholf looked at me, his eyes sparkling.

 

“M-Miss Evelin…”

 

“Hurry up, Holloway too.”

 

Instead of Holloway’s answer, the window rumbled.

 

[Favorability has increased by 6%.]

 

[Attachment has increased by 7%.]

 

[Possessiveness has increased by 10%.]

 

[Favorability: 10.5%

 

Attachment: 11%

 

Possessiveness: 12%]

 

I-I’m glad. Even though it has risen that much, there is not much of a difference between attachment and possessiveness.

 

“Ho…”

 

Suriel was dumbfounded by my sacrificial actions.

 

For one thing, Suriel hates good people.

 

To the point where he wants to take everything from that person.

 

His face distorted as he saw me saying that I would make others take refuge in the face of such a demon.

 

“Do you think I’ll let you go?”

 

The moment I heard the typical line that villains usually say, I started screaming.

 

“Heeyahheeyahheeyahheeyah!”

 

Now even shame can’t stop me.

 

As I recklessly swung the nunchucks, a window appeared.

 

[Attack power increases by 5%!]

 

[Accuracy increases by 10%!]

 

[Attack power increases by 7%!]

 

[Accuracy increases by 14%!]

 

Every time I shouted hee-yah, I became stronger. At the same time, the number of times Suriel was hit increased.

 

Suriel, who was blocking well, began to be beaten helplessly at some point.

 

“Aagh, aaagh! It hurts, it hurts!”

 

“Hee-yah, hee-yaaaah! Hee-yah!”

 

[Everyone here looks at you and thinks that your qualities as a ‘comedian’ are great.]

 

I’ve saved them, so what?

 

However, I couldn’t distract myself now.

 

Although it seemed like a funny situation, I was desperate.

 

Although my attack power and accuracy would increase, it didn’t say that my stamina and strength would increase.

 

My weak forearm soon began to throb with muscle pain. Still, I couldn’t stop.

 

The moment Suriel sees even a brief gap, his sharp nails might pierce my heart this time.

 

In order to do that, I had to attack Suriel without stopping until the group ran away, so I couldn’t stop shouting ‘hee-yah’.

 

“Hee-yah, hee-yah!”

 

Huft, huft.

 

It’s so f*cking hard.

 

Guys, have you gone? I’m on the verge of going to the afterlife, but have you run away?

 

As I can’t look back, I’m going nuts.

 

“F*ck, I told you to stop!”

 

“I’ll stop once they’re all gone!”

 

Suriel, who was speechless at my confident words, was frightened by my nunchucks being swung again and screamed.

 

It was then.

 

[5 seconds left.]

 

“Hee-yah, hee-yah!”

 

While making noises with my mouth, I looked at the window, and they filled my vision one after another.

 

[4 seconds left.]

 

[3 seconds left.]

 

[2 seconds left.]

 

[1 second left.]

 

[Move!]

 

“Hee-yaaakh!”

 

Shoo!

 

Clang…

 

The nunchucks, which had lost its target, fell limply in my hand.

 

My vision changed in an instant, and there was no one in front of me, including Suriel, who was being hit.

 

My shoulders and chest rose then fell with heavy breathing.

 

“Huft, huft… what? Have I really been moved?”

 

I narrowed my brows, wiping the sweat running down my jawline with the back of my hand.

 

Before I could understand the situation, I covered my nose against the strong scent of blood.

 

I was tremendously shaken by rotten fish that had been left for quite a long time.

 

Even if I covered my nose, the sour and disgusting smell was so strong that it invaded my brain.

 

In the end, I couldn’t stand it anymore and was nauseous.

 

“Uuuugh…”

 

[You have entered the 5th floor, the location of the 09th ‘Free Me’ story.]

 

[Before the story progresses in earnest, we address risk factors.]

 

[The hotel’s difficulty increases by 2 levels.]

 

[The current hotel’s difficulty level is ‘Survive Well.’]

 

Survive well, it says…

 

Strange sounds heard at moments of panic.

 

Keeeeekh…

 

Keeekh… Kikeeekh…

 

Slowly, very slowly.

 

Something was approaching me from both sides, as if pressing on me.