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

In an instant, my ears become sensitive and all my attention was focused on the outside of the door.

Drurr, rumble.

It was clear that the sound of objects being dragged across the floor was not a good sign. Even if I had a rough guess, I could think of all the rough tools that carpenters use. I hurriedly opened the item window again. My eyes landed on a six-shot revolver that was shining silver.

‘Keep calm, you can do it.’

The moment I was about to grab the revolver with trembling hands, the door opened. A black mask slipped in through the door and took a quick look inside. Even though I reflexively lowered my hands and lowered my eyes, I had the feeling that my gaze briefly met the grim gaze beneath that mask. How should I express the feeling when our eyes collide? It felt like the look in a butcher’s eyes when appraising meat. I knew I was absolutely weak anyway, but I didn’t want to show that I was scared, so I braced my trembling chin and straightened my body. The man who had already entered the room lightly swung what he was holding in his hand.

Deep.

I reflexively flinched. The black double-edged ax that he dropped fell right through the board on the floor. The ax, embedded in a thick board, stood upright in place, no matter how heavy it was and how well the blade was sharpened.

‘I would never be able to lift it with one hand.’

Gulp.

I was drooling all over my head. A voice that sounded like boiling phlegm spoke to me as if it was mocking me.

“Did you rest well?”

The voice, which still felt as if it had been altered somehow, had an eerie level of pitch. I answered without letting my guard down, covering my goosebump-covered forearm with my hand.

“…yes.”

He took a step towards me.

“Still no answer from Luke.”

“…yes?”

“It looks like they’ll respond if I send them a gift.”

I raised my head to see what was going on, but the kidnapper took another step in front of me.

“There’s no need to wait long. If you’re not going to answer me by now, I’m telling you I have no intention of answering you in the future.”

I bit my lip. It seemed like he really threatened Luke using me as an excuse. I don’t know what threats were exchanged between the kidnapper and the murderer, and I didn’t want to know… Is it a misunderstanding that the Lakers care so much about me that they will do anything for me?

‘But if I say now that I am a useless bait, I will be killed right away.’

I glanced at the ax stuck in the ground.

‘Even if you think I’m useless bait… That’s just as scary as it gets…? They said something strange like sending a gift…’

I didn’t think he would think normally, but I couldn’t see any way to persuade him at all. The criminal must have felt me looking at the ax with frightened eyes. He whistled and lifted the ax with light movements. The sight of him swinging a double-edged ax, like a boy about to do something fun, was unusual. I felt like I wanted to jump up and run away to a corner of the room, and at the same time I felt like I would get into even bigger trouble if I provoked him like that. I was so scared that my whole body was shaking.

Wrong.

If I didn’t do something now, something would happen right away. I felt my chin shaking and shifted my gaze to the flashing item window in front of me.

‘Can I do it?’

I couldn’t forget the feeling of having my gun taken away by Luke, so I took a slow, deep breath.

‘Let’s not make a mistake. Let’s not make a mistake.’

The only thing I could count on now was his carelessness.

Swish, swish, swish.

Listening to the sound of the double-edged ax turning and the sound of the whistle, I wiped the sweat from my hands on my pants and quickly snatched up the revolver, disengaged the safety catch, and held it out forward. Perhaps because it was a sequence I had thought about dozens of times in my head while I was trapped here, it was smooth and without mistakes.

“Stand back.”

“Woah.”

The kidnapper made a sound as if he was surprised by my soft words, but in reality, he didn’t seem that surprised. Even without looking at the expression under the mask, I could feel the composure flowing from the way he looked at me as he adjusted his grip on the axe.

“What are you going to do with that? You want to shoot me?”

“If you don’t back off, I will really shoot.”

“Hahahahahahahaha. It’s fun, it’s fun. Luke really likes you. Where on earth did you hide those toys? Huh?”

“Stop playing around and really back off.”

But the kidnapper took a step closer to me, as if he was telling me to shoot if he really wanted to. Now, if I really swung that axe, it was within reach. It looked like he was trying to take the gun away from me. He held out his hand as if to grasp my wrist. The hand came very quickly, but I didn’t panic. Since he had already lost his gun to Luke, I expected him to come out like this.

‘…Pull the trigger!’

Bang!

Unknowingly, a loud noise echoed in the room. One bullet flew straight toward the kidnapper’s body. The place I was aiming at was the exact center of his torso. As soon as I saw the hand that was trying to grab my wrist move past me, I stumbled back from the gun’s recoil, which was stronger than I expected. The boarded-up window hit my back.

‘…Did you collapse?’

Grasping the gun tightly with both trembling hands, I managed to keep my balance and glared ahead, only to see the masked kidnapper standing calmly with his hands down. He ran his hand across my chest with the hand that wasn’t holding his ax and pulled out something stuck in his pocket, as if it were a piece of candy. What was rolling around in the hand that was outstretched towards me was a silver bullet. There were only six bullets that I had just fired. This was more bizarre and scary than swinging a very heavy ax. Even though he was shot, he raised his head without any damage and looked straight at me.

‘…Why on earth, why am I still so fine after being hit by this? Isn’t he human?’

“Kkkkkkk, kkkkk.”

The kidnapper giggled in amusement and wrapped his hand around the bullet he was holding.

“It’s Luke’s bullet, yes?”

“…How do you do that?”

“It hurts just a little bit. Just a little bit. Kkkkkkk. In any case, you were prepared to pay the price for provoking me this much, right?”

As soon as he finished speaking, the kidnapper threw away the ax and rushed at me. I was so scared that I couldn’t even scream. I hurriedly ran to the opposite corner of the room, avoiding his hand, and fired the gun repeatedly.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The first and second shots struck him in the shoulder and chest, and the third shot grazed the kidnapper’s ear and embedded him in the wall.

‘Why on earth don’t you die?’

I held my breath in nervousness. It didn’t seem like there was any damage at all, but it only hurt my nerves to the point of ‘very little’ pain. I took a deep breath and aimed the fourth shot at the head.

‘Why, if you watch movies, even zombies die like this.’

Bang!

But he didn’t even blink even when a bullet was lodged in his forehead. In a panic, the last shot aimed anxiously at his knee.

Bang!

But it wasn’t painful or itchy, and his steps didn’t even seem to slow down.

Slam! Slam!

All of the bullets had been used, and the only sound coming from the empty chamber was that of it whirling. I might imagine that the kidnapper was somehow grinning with remorse beneath the expressionless face. The unusual degree to which the Lakers’ face kept returning to him was heightened as a sensation of crisis tightened around his neck.

“Why?” What caused this to occur? Luke, you grin-wearing killing bastard, why are you bringing me into my work and making things seem like this? If all you do is cultivate goodwill, what then? Bastard. You little bitch!

As soon as my back reached the room’s corner, the shadow of the kidnapper materialized in front of me.

“I got it.”

Each syllable of that word sounded very long and slow. I’m so, so scared. I was so scared that I felt like I was going to faint. A hand wearing a black leather glove was about to grab my wrist. The moment you try to close your eyes,

Bang! Ujikkeun!

There was a loud noise as if something was breaking, and the startled guy flinched and stopped his body. And before I could even close my eyes, something kicked the kidnapper’s huge torso.

“Tsk!”

With a short groan, the kidnapper flew away, as if defying gravity, with such excitement that one could not have imagined seeing something the size of a human flying.

“…uh?”

Even as I thought about it, stupid sounds came out of my mouth.

Flash.

After that brief moment of closing and opening my eyes, the scene changed again. The knife held by a handsome man with soft blonde hair was constantly clashing with the kidnapper’s axe.

Visor! Visor! Kang! Kang!

“…Luke?”

He wields a sword very skillfully, easily cornering the kidnapper with a double-edged ax with a terrifying weight, and the sight of him from behind was, as always, extremely beautiful. The curves of his open back and narrow waist were so beautiful that if it weren’t for this critical situation, you might have thought he was dancing. The battle between the two was so intense that I didn’t even know how they were interacting.

Thud!

When he blinked about five times, the kidnapper’s body fell to the floor with a loud sound. My eyes barely caught the sight of the two, and in an instant, Luke was stepping on the kidnapper’s neck as he fell to the ground. The masked man fell to the floor and growled.

“How can we get here…?!”

However, Luke, who had no idea where or how they appeared, didn’t even listen to those words and stabbed them without hesitation.

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