I'm a Supporting Role in a Horror Game, Don't Kill Me

‘Ah, crazy. I’ll pass out.’

Realizing how happy it was for the doll-like little boy to hear such a declaration from the girl, I hugged her tightly. Shine looked at Luna in my arms and crossed his arms and said.

“Are you saying you know how great the Rearmonds are? It’s safe as long as you’re next to us.”

I laughed, but inside I shook my head. Well, well, that’s what you say because you don’t know. Couldn’t this be the most dangerous? If there is a murderer in the Leermond family. Shine, who raised his chin calmly as if to trust me, was cute. I stretched out my arms and quickly pulled Shine into my arms.

“These cuties, whose teachers are the cuties? Huh?”

“It’s Mrs. Alby!”

Perhaps it was difficult to pronounce Arbice, so Luna called me Alby.

“Ah, the answer is good too.”

For a moment, I forgot all my concerns, such as a revolver and a letter with a crow on it, and went to bed holding the children’s hands. Before entering the game, I was terribly lonely and unhappy. Was that why? To be completely trusted by someone like this, to receive unquestionable affection and love for me, even though I was cheating in the game, I was so happy. But me before entering the game…? I remembered spending days and days playing the game.

‘But what exactly did I do to fall asleep? No, what is my last memory?’

While opening the first page of a children’s book with such thoughts, I felt a strong pain in the back of my head.

“…Ugh.”

“Teacher, are you okay?”

The headache finally stopped when I shook off the vague memories that came to my mind, as if I had forced a light into the fog that was hard to see in that voice. I saw Luna and Shine looking up at me worriedly. I laughed and shook my head.

“It’s fine.”

‘Because it’s hard to remember a daily routine that is too repetitive. That’s it.’

I quickly opened the storybook as if being pushed aside by the children’s worried gazes. I read the first sentence slowly, fixing the book so that the children wouldn’t see the cruel illustrations unique to children’s books in horror games. Eventually, night came. I, who had been turning off the lights the whole time since I returned to my room to pretend to be asleep early, watched the night fall and watched outside, clinging to the window. No matter how many times I checked the case notebook, the story about Catherine Hunt hadn’t changed at all. I was anxiously looking down at the garden in the rain lit by dim gas lights for a long time, when I suddenly saw a whitish figure moving. Even in the dark, even from such a distance, it was not difficult to figure out who he was just by looking at his handsome silhouette.

Luke Rearmond.

As expected.

‘There must be something to be done while it’s raining. Killer bastard…’

I shot at the raindrops falling in pursuit. No, I looked at myself reflected in the window where the raindrops clung to and flowed down. Long green hair, emerald eyes, and the neat attire typical of a tutor. I still didn’t think it’s real. However, over the few days I lived as the character Arbice Green, I became more and more convinced that this repetitive daily life could not be just a dream. No matter how the world was formed, this place was also another reality. So even more, I had no desire to repeat the nightmare of the first day. That moment was too real, and it was so scary that I didn’t want to think about it again. And I was not familiar with Catherine Hunt in any way to risk losing my life. However, the images of Luna and Shine kept flashing in my eyes. The harmless children who said they would protect me. It’s not like you don’t know what’s going to happen, so will it be okay if I just ignore it? After something happened… Could I be confident in front of those children?

‘Ah, I don’t know.’

I didn’t know.

‘Aaaaa. I just want to think about my comfort.’

Damn it. I tousled my hair, took out the raincoat I had been looking for in the closet, and picked up a palm-sized gun lying on the table. I hesitated, fastened the holster to the waist of my coat, and left the room. It was late, so I couldn’t run into anyone on the way to the first floor. From the front door, I saw that the rain was pouring down. I went straight to Catherine’s house. About the murder of Catherine Hunt, I remembered clearly until 10 o’clock at night. It’s not too far away, so I was able to arrive in about 30 minutes by walking diligently. All I could hear was the occasional barking of dogs, and the alley at night filled with the sound of rain was desolate and dark.

‘Ugh, I’m so scared.’

I hid myself in an alley with the hood of his raincoat tightly pressed down. It was on the side where the criminal had a good view of the front door, which he had to pass to enter the house.

Patter. Patter.

No matter how much I was wearing a raincoat, my body temperature dropped little by little because of the rain that was constantly falling, and my body shivered. Rather than the cold, nervousness and fear made my teeth chatter. I gently touched my waist. The feel of the smooth metal gave me goosebumps. I didn’t even think that I could face Luke alone with just one item like this.

‘What did he really come for?’

But if I just sit in the corner of my room and let this happen, I’m sure I would regret it. So I had no choice but to come out. However, as time went by, regret about coming this far gradually dominated my head.

‘What was it just now?’

I was holding my breath in the dark for a long time, when I suddenly felt a shadow move to the side. I gripped the gun tightly in my hand and looked around, but nothing caught my eye.

‘Raindrop? Cat? No, is it a person?’

The hair stood on end. I pressed my body closer to the wall, glanced back once, then looked ahead, only then did I see someone’s figure standing in front of me. But I discovered it late. I reflexively unlocked the gun and aimed, but the opponent deftly hit my gun and lost aim. Then, before I had time to retake my aim, my opponent’s foot tripped me. A large hand with a strong grip grabbed my wrist and pressed me down like a beast.

‘I’m no match!’

There was absolutely no opponent I could beat. I would die again.

As soon as I was about to close my eyes with such an intuition, the rain had stopped before I knew it, and the moonlight that newly appeared in the clouds like a lie reflected the other person’s face. Smooth skin as if it were carved from marble, gray eyes full of melancholy, and a face with perfect proportions. No surprise, it’s Luke.

But unlike me, Luke seemed quite surprised. In an instant, the power drained from the hands that had been gripping my neck and wrists tightly and killing me, and emerald hair shimmered in his dilated pupils.

“…Miss Green? Miss Arbice Green? No… What the hell is this now…”

‘I don’t know why he is surprised, but now is my chance.’

I tried to re-aim the gun I was holding tight for a moment. But Luke didn’t know whether he knew my intentions or not, and even while he was so surprised, he simply twisted my wrist and took the gun away. And he looked around with a curious gaze at me, who was in a state of despondency. I knew he would try to kill me again, or he would question the fact that I had a gun. I think this dead ending will be greeted that way, but the Lakers said in a casual tone.

“You know. No matter how much you surprise a person by showing up in the middle of the night, you can’t point a gun at him without checking the other person.”

‘It’s not that I didn’t check, Luke knows I was the one and took out the gun.’

“That…”

“Put this back well. Having at least one piece of self-defense is a good thing. Rather, what are you doing so late at night?”

I had no answer. Rather, it was because I was confused because he took the gun and returned it.

‘Why doesn’t he kill me?’

Having met right in front of Catherine Hunt’s house, I’d be a cumbersome witness. It would be him who would be in trouble if Arbice went somewhere and complained about seeing him.

‘Is there a need to keep me alive by acting on me like this?’

I was curious about his intentions, so I wanted to say something, but I couldn’t get my voice out because his body was shaking because of the fear of being crushed by the overwhelming power of Luke. He could have killed me at any moment if he wanted to. Of course he could still do that. I was struggling to keep my body in check with the bump, but the Lakers suddenly raised their heads and looked up at the building as if they heard something.

“I don’t know what they were thinking, but this area is dangerous right now. I have something urgent to do, so I’ll have to go first… You’ll catch a cold if you stay like this.”

He muttered and clicked his tongue, then jerked his head once more to look around. At that moment, a sound was heard from behind. A strange, low noise that sounded like the flapping of bats’ wings or like the sound of cicadas that could only be heard in summer when the sun was shining.

Shoo!

And the moment the trees in the alley swayed all at once, an indescribably huge shadow suddenly hit us. In the rain, the dark gas lamp was the only light I could rely on, so I thought I was mistaken for a moment. However, the shadow that suddenly jumped down from the high building above my head without even having time to prepare my mind was definitely a creature (monster). It was dark, so I couldn’t see it closely, but it resembled a spider, several times the size of a human. Something resembling a spider with a human face.

‘Um, what is that…?’

In overwhelming terror, I closed my eyes.

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