How Does It Feel To Be In B-grade Horror Game

“Uh, are you okay?”
“Well… … .”

Fidelis looked at the stamina bar in front of her with a perplexed look. Only 1% was filled. She didn’t know when the killer who had fallen to the bottom of the stairs would rise up and attack again.

To restore her stamina, she couldn’t stay here. Fidelis thought about what to do, and looked at Russell.

“Hey. I have one request, is it okay?”

“Yes! I’ll listen to whatever I can do !”

Russell nodded her head enthusiastically, wanting to help her Unnie who kept her watch over her.

“Then will you hug me for a moment?”
“Okay.”

Russell wrapped her arms around Fildes’s waist and hugged her. Fidelis also hugged her and felt Russell’s warmth. Her breathing, which had been exhaled at a rapid speed, regained its stability, and it felt like her heart was at ease.

Her energy was recovering faster than usual. As she saw the killer climb half way up, Fidelis grabbed Russell and hurriedly left the place.

“Noona, blood on your feet… .”
“It’s okay.”

With a faint smile, Fidelis glanced back at her, and she quickly walked down the maze of hallways.

She had to keep her energy consumption to a minimum because she had no stamina to run away when another murderer jumped out.

‘Oh, I forgot that there was ‘Lion’s Breath’.’

When I was being chased, I couldn’t think of anything. No, even if I remembered, I would not have been able to scream properly in front of that because I was so frightened.

I tried to go down the stairs before just in case, but I couldn’t go down because it was still covered with a transparent membrane. I didn’t want to go upstairs though. If I go and get blocked and can’t go downstairs like this again, it’s like the way to the exit gets farther away.

[…… .]
“… ?”

As Ruseell tilted her head at the faint sound in the distance, she looked around her anxiously.

[…uh… .]

“Uh, Unnie, can’t you hear that?”

Even though I heard it, I wanted to pretend I didn’t hear it, so I wanted to run away in the direction where the sound wouldn’t be heard, but I couldn’t help but be distracted by the sound that echoed in all directions. Fidelis stopped herself from running while hugging Russell tightly and trying to find a direction in which the sound would not be heard.

[….Where are you.]

This time she heard it clearly.

[Give me, give me that child. I’m going to tear it apart and eat it. Give me the child, give me… .]

She was definitely listening to someone. She was clearly heard up close the voice, but no form, shape or body was seen. Fidelis squeezed her arms as they held Russell and looked around her.

“What do you see?”

“No, nothing.”

[Give that child to me. Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me!]

She wanted to cover her ears to the sharp noise, but she couldn’t unwind her arms since she was holding Russell.

“Ahhhhhhhh!”

Someone grabbed Fidelis’ ankle. Fidelis jumped, startled by the cold touch she felt from her ankles, but one of her legs got caught and did not go up, and even though she screamed loudly, the ‘Lion’s Breath’ did not activate.

With her gasping, Fidelis lowered her gaze to the floor, the female ghost’s ghastly face with tears in her eyes followed along her eyes as she looked down. As if the floor was water, the ghost was floating only on her face and arms.

Goosebumps swelled all over Fidelis’s body, and her hair stood up. Fidelis was acutely aware and sure of herself when she had already thought before that she would be so startled that she wouldn’t even scream if she saw something like this.

Fidelis thought for a moment that if she was suddenly haunted by ghosts like this, she wondered if she would clear the game if she protected Russell from these ghosts. She opened her mouth at the possible answer in surprise, but the ghost’s eyes moved to look at Russell.

[Give that child.]

“Yes, yes?”

[Then, you live.]

Russell clasped Fidelis around her neck like a lifeline and shook her head. I could feel the child’s desperation not to throw her away.

“Unnie, no.”

Wiping the tears from Russell’s eyes, Fidelis hugged her back. Of course, she had no intention of giving it to her. Crumpled in her face, she stepped on the face of the ghost beneath her.

“… … .”
[… … .]

As a strange silence enveloped them, another arm, this time from somewhere, grabbed Fidelis’s neck and tightened it. The sensation of the ice-like cold hand made her swelled goosebumps all over her body.

“ね!”

She didn’t even have to look back. The ghost, who choked her neck, moved her head strangely and poked her head to Fidelis side. It had the same face as the female ghost on the floor.

The only difference was that the ghost that strangled her neck had empty eyes in her sockets, and her whole body was covered with scars.

The ghost facing Fidelis didn’t say anything.

The ghost took Fidelis with her hand opposite her, not even paying her attention to the gagging Fidelis. As she hugged Russell even tighter, as if she wasn’t going to take it away, a gloomy voice came from beneath her.

[If you give the child, I will save you. Give her to me .]

“No… uh!”

With her throat strangled, Fidelis barely let out her refusal. As the power of the demon’s grip on her neck grew stronger and stronger, Fidelis hurriedly struck the demon’s shin with one of her free feet.

She thought the hard bone would hurt her toes, but instead the ghost’s leg creaked and broke.

“You have acquired the skill, ‘Iron Feet’.”

Fidelis was now in a state of absurdity. But for a moment, she liked that the system showed her skills at just the right time.

When she lifted her foot again and kicked the ghost, which was staggering with a broken leg, the ghost powerlessly crashed into the wall and fell to the floor.

As she looked down with a cool light, the ghost’s pupil that had been grabbing her ankle shook slightly. Fidelis decided to share some of the information with this ghost. This is because she is the most sane ghost than anything she has ever seen, So, she asked the ghost.

“Hey. How do I get out of here? Can I go out the front door?”

[Let’s make a deal, give me that child. Then, I will let you go.]

Fidelis let out a breathless sigh.

“Why should I believe!”

“The ghost’s words are the truth. Would you like to hand over the child and go home?”

Fidelis’ pupils shook violently at the sound of the system’s voice.

Can I go back if I just hand over the child?

As Fidelis looked at Russell, the child was staring at her with her trembling and scared eyes. No matter how frightened she was, she couldn’t give up her personality.

“No… !”

At the moment,

Fidelis closed her mouth without speaking, pondering about something.

Wouldn’t the opposite be ok?

Wouldn’t it be possible to send Russell back by handing over myself to this ghost?

“How about me but Russell? Are you going to return this child home?”

[No. Only that child.]

In the opposite case, it seems unlikely. Fidelis bit her lip. She had never played the game, but wanted to know what to do if this was psychological warfare.

But now, Fidelis had no ideas left to roll her brain and think.

“Go before I smash your head with my feet. I have no intention of handing over Russell.”

She couldn’t sleep, her stomach was hungry, and the situation was getting worse and worse. The ghost didn’t do any harm, so it wasn’t as scary as the first time she saw it.

Until now, I’ve only seen monsters that can’t speak, so it may be that I feel that way relatively.

Fidelis easily brushed off her ankles from the ghost and hurried her steps again, holding the child in her arms. Her stamina was fine, but she didn’t seem to be recovering mentally. She was getting tired.

In particular, her mind and spirit were gradually weakening.

“You turned down the offer to go home, and you chose a child.”

She was sad.

Honestly, very.

She wanted to go back right away, but she couldn’t give Russell to the ghost who talked about eating her. Given the same circumstances, she would not have given Russell, unfortunately.

“In return for refusing the ghost’s offer, one ‘home’ item disappeared.”

“What?”

“There is now only one ‘Home’ item.”

Fidelis, who stood still while walking, opened her mouth again in shock. Russell called her puzzledly, but there was no answer from her even when they reached the safe place.

‘Who’s the one who forced me to answer yes?!’

It was so ridiculous that I wanted to cry. But there was still one left. Well, there was hope. Although I was upset, I did not regret my own choice.

Fidelis grinded her teeth at the voice that echoed in her head again.

“This is a last question and an opportunity. Will you send Russell to her house, or will you go back to your own?”

It was clear that this game was eager to push me away. Otherwise, there would be no way to torment people in this way. Fidelis patted Russell’s head, who looked at her worriedly, and put her down.

“Unnie… ?”

“Now let’s go back.”

“… Yes?”

“I want you to go home.”

“You chose the former. Player Fidelis has perfectly cleared the game event theme ‘Protection’. At the same time, the last remaining ‘Home’ item has been completely destroyed.”

Was this the last item? I felt like I was going to burst into tears at the sudden feeling of emptiness, but I persevered. I had no regrets. There was no way I could be at peace even after I returned since I’ll be thinking about Russell here.

“Thanks to you, the child will be able to achieve Nirvana comfortably.”

“… Nirvana?”

After those words, a bright light gradually gathered around Russell. Fidelis could do nothing but blink with her embarrassed face.

Isn’t nirvana for the dead?

Amidst the confusion, Russell’s bright voice was heard.

“Thank you, Unnie!”

“… Uh?”

“Thanks to unnie, it is successful! I can meet my Mom!”

Fidelis took the hand of the brightly smiling child. It’s so warm, why?

“Aren’t you human?”

“Huh. Sorry for deceiving you.”

Russell’s eyebrows drooped sadly.
“It’s so warm… ?”

“Everything here is alive, not alive, except for those who came in here.”

Fidelis simply nodded her head at Russell’s puzzling words. I forgot for a while, but this place was in the game. Russell’s remarks weren’t that surprising, because she had experienced so much in such a short period of time.

Fidelis asked, who raised the corners of her lips faintly while clasping Russell’s little hand.

“Then did you know that the ghost would ask for you?”

“No… . Most of the time when I meet a monster, they either run away from me or lose their life… . It’s the first time I’ve been in this situation!”

The child’s words pierced her chest.

“I was almost giving up now, but Unnie protected me and saved me until the end! You were really cool!”

Fidelis unknowingly loosened her innocent face. All she had to do was to make Russell happy no matter what. It was enough for her to have no backstabbing from her.

“Thank God. Rest in peace now.”
“You are an angel! Thank you!”

Fidelis waved her hand until the child disappeared in a bright light. She thought to herself that it was okay just to see Russell’s bright smile, and she decided she would never regret this choice, which she almost thought of as a disappointment before.