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

Luke recalled their trip to the police station today and rolled a decision like a small glass bead in their hands.

It was harvested from that Creature.

The results of Cather Hunt’s autopsy were disappointing. The autopsy video was extremely blurry, as if the culprit had intervened.

It would be difficult to expect cooperation from the police with such a video.

If he was going to catch that non-human thing, it would be nice if he could find out what it was like when it was human.

Well, he didn’t have to be disappointed just because there wasn’t anything special about it, once again. Because it was a result he had seen before.

However, the reason he thought he would check it one more time was because there were a few events that changed only in ‘this episode’.

“…For example, Arbice Green.”

He nodded his head as if answering what he muttered.

‘Yeah, like Arbice Green.’

Luke’s life was cursed. He was abandoned. From the blessings of oblivion. He ended up living the same life over and over again like a treadmill. As if he was the only one who accidentally opened his eyes in a world full of blind people. At some point, his memories suddenly became clearer. This was the 10th life Luke would remember.

‘Now I even get the feeling that I may have lived the same life before, in a roundabout way.’

As he repeated his life, trying different things one by one, one thing became clear.

This was his fight with the criminal who commits the same crime every time.

If he was a protector, the culprit was a destroyer. He had no substance and was a monster that could not be killed.

Luke was holding on against a strange opponent that used neither swords nor guns, but it wasn’t an easy task. Although he had never been happy with that precarious balance, he could never escape it.

A life that repeats, repeats and repeats again. There was just one unusual being that he discovered for the first time: Arbice Green.

While Luke was wondering where on earth she had appeared, he suddenly remembered the scene of Arbice pouting at him this morning and burst out laughing to themselves.

Pick.

‘…Did I laugh just now?’

Luke was a little surprised and touched his mouth with his hands. He didn’t know how long it’s been since he had laughed like this, not because he was smiling for others to see.

Beep-!

At that time, a sharp sound was heard. As he narrowed his eyes, his unusually good eyes caught sight of a blond boy lying on the ground in the distance. He immediately got up from his seat.

For the first time in a very long time, Luke’s heart beat faster. Something was going wrong. When Luke arrived, Shine was already surrounded by three officers. Luke still couldn’t shake the impression that something was wrong. Shine, who had rarely shown tears since he was adopted by him, was sobbing and crying until his sleeves got wet. Moreover, he had given him a strict warning not to leave the mansion. He couldn’t understand at all how on earth Shine was crying here.

“Neither this nor that is something I’ve never experienced before. Is this a good thing? …I have no idea.’

“What happened?”

“Ah… Duke Rearmond.”

Among the three officers, one with a short cut stepped forward. Contrary to his confident attitude, his eyes were full of embarrassment and guilt as he looked at the other officers who were comforting Shine.

“What is it?”

“This is Officer Amanta Valve. Today, I was in charge of Arbice Green’s training…”

“Ah yes.”

Luke glanced to the officer’s side. He was said to be in charge of Arbice’s training, but for some reason, Arbice was not around.

“I came all the way here after hearing Shine blow the whistle… that is…”

“That is?”

“…So, since Shine keeps crying, I don’t know what the situation is…”

“Where is Miss Green?”

“…That too…”

‘I would have asked you to select a competent officer as an attendant.’

Luke muttered this to himself and bent his knees to make eye contact with Shine.

“Shine.”

When Shine heard Luke’s voice, he tried to say something, but perhaps because he was relieved that he had finally met someone he knew, he burst out crying, which he had been barely suppressing. Shine looked up at the sky and cried.

“Huh. Huh. Sweet, whimpering.”

“Shine, what happened? What is this whistle again? I can’t help you if you don’t explain it clearly.”

“Ew… Sigh, Alby… Sobbing.”

“Alby…?”

“Alby… Alby… Teacher Arbice… Sobbing.”

Luke’s eyes narrowed. The more he thought about the fact that Shine was not his child for some reason, the more ominous he felt. Moreover, it was very suspicious that he was holding a whistle that he had never seen before. As if he didn’t care that the wounds on his hands and knees were bleeding when he fell to the floor, Shine raised his small hand and gestured to the alley behind him. Shine looked like he wanted to talk urgently, but he couldn’t stop crying and was hyperventilating.

Luke grabbed Shine’s shoulders, looked straight into his eyes, and whispered.

[Calm down.]

For a moment, a very brief moment, Shine’s pupils opened and he swallowed his cries as if he was possessed by something.

“…after. Haha…”

Then she let out a slow, short breath and looked up at Luke with his tear-filled eyes.

“Arbice… Arbice was taken away.”

“…What do you mean, she was dragged away?”

“She was dragged away. She was kidnapped.”

Kidnapped. The kidnapping incident itself was not unfamiliar. The culprit of the serial murders taking place in the park had no thorn in his eyes as much as Luke. Of course, Shine and Luna, the people Luke was most attached to, were kidnapped. But that happened very early on, when Luke was more immature than he was now. The incident could have been easily controlled as long as Rearmond prevented Shine and Luna from going outside. But he never thought he would hear that word again now. And he had no idea that those words would sound so shocking.

“Miss Green… Are you saying Arbice was kidnapped?”

“There was a man on her shoulder… Over there…”

“On herr shoulder? Are you saying it’s surrounded?”

“…Ugh, hum. That’s right.”

Luke squeezed Shine’s shoulder and made eye contact as he pursed his lips as if he was about to cry once again.

“Calm down, Shine. You need to tell me straight. What exactly happened?”

Shine muttered as he tried to swallow his welling up tears.

“It’s because of me.”

“Huh?”

“If Miss Arbice had been alone, this wouldn’t have happened. The teacher protected me…”

“What do you mean?”

“Give me this… She gave me this…”

The whistle that Shine was holding tightly seemed to have been given to him by Arbice. Luke asked after looking down for a moment at the whistle she took from Shine.

“Did you two come out together?”

“…no. I am… I just wanted to give the teacher a gift…”

From the looks of it, Shine had gone out to buy a gift, disobeying his orders not to go out without permission. Luke knew now was not the time, but he was mildly surprised by this.

It was the first time Shine had disobeyed his word, and it was even more surprising that it was only because of a gift. Luke clicked his tongue and nodded. It seemed that even if he questioned Shine further, he would only increase the child’s guilt.

‘It’s obvious who the culprit is anyway. That guy is the only crazy person in the park.’

The question was where the bastard was hiding…

‘…shit.’

Luke thought he was suddenly suffocating due to the anxiety and nervousness that had grown strangely quickly.

‘…Ha. There’s nothing we can do about it because it’s already happened.’

Resignation may have become a habit now. But even though he told himself that, for some reason he couldn’t think of this incident that easily. Impressed by his nervousness, he lifted Shine into his arms, and before he knew it, his breath caught in his chin and he looked at Inspector Triver who had followed her.

“Huh, huh… Ugh, what’s going on? Kidnap? Kidnapping?”

Luke narrowed his eyes and nodded. Inspector Triver was never able to produce satisfactory results, no matter how much support he received in both material and spiritual ways. But now he felt like he wanted to lend a hand to the dog.

“That’s right. I’m not sure because I wasn’t there, but they say Miss Arbice Green was kidnapped.”

Inspector Triver was at a loss and took off his hat, clutching it by the folds, and gesticulating urgently to the officers who ran with him.

“Even if you have to search the park like catching a mouse, find Ms. Arbice Green! Group 1 searches District 1, Group 2 searches the commercial district, and Group 3 searches the outskirts! Call for assistance right away!”

“Yes!”

Even after seeing the officers scattering in perfect order, the inspector seemed to be relieved and his face became melancholy.

Luke clicked his tongue. The reason he let him know that there was a misunderstanding between Arbice and himself was because he wanted him to care about protecting Arbice that much. But even though he asked for a police officer, he was kidnapped and all that was left was a sense of useless apology.

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