Confined Together with the Horror Game’s Male Lead

Chapter 17

Translator: Yonnee

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Dietrich was slowly getting corrupted.

Even if all Dietrich would do was breathe, the darkness meter would rise slowly but surely.

What should I do.

My steel mentality attribute was activated not long after this realization, so rather than getting worried, what preceded anything else was annoyance.

No, rather than just feeling annoyed, I was fed up.

‘Since he’s being like this, let’s just kick him out.’

The rational thing to do was help him escape from this mansion.

In any case.

A system window popped up in front of me, which I soon glared at.

[ As you are getting one step closer to ‘Charlotte’s Authority’, access to certain features have been added. ]

[ New Authority ]

– Ability to bewitch your chosen target. (Success rate: 5%)

〈 Authority 〉

– Ability to control a few monsters.
※ However, there will be side effects.

– Ability to polish windows to the point of luster.

– Ability to select steak sauce.

– Ability to bewitch your chosen target. (Success rate: 5%)

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– ……

…Bewitch?

Come to think of it, they’re similar to the abilities ‘Charlotte’ had.

I had been given a total of two tasks thus far—to attack Dietrich and to send him off to Aculus.

Each time, a system window would pop up carrying the message of, You are getting one step closer to ‘Charlotte’s Authority’ with a succeeding reward for the task’s success.

Did getting closer to Charlotte’s Authority mean that I’d be able to use the various abilities of ‘Charlotte’ in the game?

There were instances in the game when Charlotte robbed Dietrich of his five senses, but went on to treat him on a whim at times as well.

I had transmigrated into the game and now possessed Charlotte, but I didn’t have any of her supposed abilities.

…By the way.

‘What am I supposed to use those things for?’

I frowned.

I wish I was given some other useful ability instead, like ‘healing’.

‘Then I don’t have to go through the trouble of looking for medicine anymore.’

I gave him some salve last time, but it didn’t even seem like he used it.

I picked up a new vial and headed towards Dietrich.

The dark corridor I treaded upon was an unfamiliar place as it wasn’t within the usual route.

Unlike me, Dietrich didn’t have a designated room, so he was like a nomad who would take a rest wherever he could.

Here, outside at the hallway, there was a collapsed monster.

“Dietrich, are you there?”

I knocked on the door a few times, but I didn’t receive any response.

If Dietrich’s location hadn’t been marked on the map, I probably would have assumed he wasn’t inside.

Though still without being given permission, I opened the door.

He was lying on the bed in the middle of the room, as still as a corpse.

I guess he had just finished them off, but the bodies of the monsters were strewn all over the place.

“…Dietrich, are you asleep?”

“……”

With his eyes covered by one arm slung over his face, I couldn’t tell whether he was awake or not.

Was he really sleeping?

I thought over whether I should wait for him to get up or if I should leave first and come back later, but I decided quickly.

“I’ll come back next time when you’re awake.”

He wouldn’t even hear what I was saying since he was sleeping, so it’s a futile effort.

“…I’m not sleeping.”

But as I had already turned away from him, I stopped in my tracks. Looking behind me, I saw Dietrich on the bed, lying as still as ever like a corpse.

“…And don’t come back here.”

“Why?”

“Are you truly asking because you don’t know?”

Only then did Dietrich, who was lying so motionless until now, sat up.

The moment that the arm over his eyes was removed, the hostility he held for me was palpable in the depths of his gaze.

“I don’t wish to get involved with you. You seem clueless, but whenever I see you, I…”

Whenever you see me?

Dietrich trailed off and didn’t continue. Brows furrowing to the center, he looked like he really felt offended.

“Don’t come anywhere near me. I don’t quite think I can continue showing just my good side.”

“You already declared that you’ll exact your vengeance on me anyway. What’s the point in trying to show your good side? Isn’t it already too late?”

“…That’s not the point.”

It looked like he had returned to his senses a little by now.

‘Still though, I’m glad to see that he can regulate his emotions.’

If the darkness meter were to rise even further, just meeting him like this would become difficult.

“Don’t bother. Because it doesn’t matter what kind of side you show me.”

“……”

I just need you to get out of here.

I was well aware that it’s difficult to see one’s good side once the darkness had already started to spread.

Now that Dietrich was in this condition, whatever he’d set his mind to, he’d make damn sure to get.

“…In this mansion, I feel like I’ve become a stranger, even to myself.”

That’s only natural.

Any normal person would go crazy under such circumstances and environment.

After all, this game was designed to drive Dietrich to the precipice of insanity.

Madder and madder the longer he was to stay in this mansion.