Surviving as an Idiot in a Horror Game

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The spiders were still chasing us.

The Crown Prince was hit, but we couldn't slow down our running speed.

Fortunately, the Crown Prince avoided a fatal wound.

"Ugh!"

The baby spider tried to pounce on the Crown Prince's face, but it seemed to only bite his neck after being blocked by his raised arm.

"G-Get away! You monster!"

Max used superhuman strength to tear the spider off the neck and throw it away.

"Evantel!"

As Cyan shouted, water flowed from the floor behind us.

"I used magic, but it won't work on demonic beasts! Fortunately, the end of this section is close! Just a little more...!"

The baby spider that was about to pounce again, affected by the poison, was washed away.

But most of the spiders seemed to quickly adapt to the water and chased us even faster and silently.

Luckily, as a result of our desperate running, we entered a section where the spiders no longer chased us.

An area where torches burning with green flames appeared.

The huge cavern had ended.

The high stairs we had seen from afar and the temple above them were right in front of us.

The giant monster spider, seeing the green fire, growled and slowly, silently retreated back a little by little.

"The spider! The spider is retreating! Your Highness!"

Max shouted.

The small spiders that had been making sharp cries also followed the big spider, but gradually moved away from us.

And then it became quiet.

When the silence had continued for quite a while, the group seemed to vaguely be assured of their safety.

Thud.

"Haa, haa..."

Yeniel, who had been wearing a tense expression all along, collapsed.

Her dress was damp with sweat from running. Her hair was all tangled over her white forehead. She couldn't even speak, panting with breaths she hadn't yet caught. It was truly a sight without human rights.

After all, isn't the human right of a romance fantasy female protagonist a pretty outfit and neat appearance?

To be sweating in such a mess, chased to death by monsters and rolling into a beggar-like state. The game company that put romance fantasy into a horror game was to blame.

"Uuugh..."

The Crown Prince, who was about to sit down, was in pain. His condition didn't look good.

"Your Highness. Are you alright?"

"Your Highness!"

Following Cyan and Max, I checked on the Crown Prince first.

Part of the Crown Prince's neck had turned purple, as if poison was circulating.

"I'm fi-fine. I'm fine... Don't you know the constitution of the royal family?"

The Crown Prince smiled.

"Poison circulating in the body... our constitution will burn it off. Just like we blocked assassination attempts. Ugh... Actually, I'm not fine. The poison of demonic beasts seems to be circulating in my body, unable to be blocked."

This was really strange.

In , the player's companions don't get hurt.

Moreover, the spider was definitely supposed to be an easy monster.

'Why was the spider so strong? Is this a hidden event too?'

Or was it due to a variable?

Or maybe the game was just a game and described things briefly, while in reality, these were truly such monsters.

There were many strange points, but I decided to cut off the thoughts that kept connecting one after another for now.

I'm not my brother, and would I get answers just by speculating?

The important thing is to build a bond as a definite member of this group. That's how I'll be able to survive.

Cyan, with a tired face, muttered something to the spirit while waving his hand. It seemed like he was telling it to go back.

The injured Crown Prince and the beggar-like Max also had tired faces.

"Lady Yeniel, are you alright?"

I approached innocently.

I was the only one in this group who was in decent shape. April was truly a monster in terms of physical strength. She had good dynamic visual acuity like my original self, and strength and speed to match.

Yeniel shook her head weakly, as if she didn't even have the energy to answer.

"Oh my, your hair is a mess."

I might as well try to raise affection. I chattered on.

"You look very hot and tired. I'll tie your hair up again for you. Your ribbon is disheveled!"

"Will you do that for me...?"

She must have really felt like she was dying from exhaustion, as even Yeniel entrusted her hair to me. In the game, there was a setting that no one except a lover could touch her hair.

I wrapped the black ribbon around my wrist and gathered Yeniel's hair.

'It was half-up, right?'

Perhaps I pulled her hair too tightly, as Yeniel's eyes were stretched up to her temples. It was a disaster.

"Kuhup..."

In the silence, the Crown Prince was the first to swallow his laughter. Is this funny?

The Crown Prince's affection has increased.

Others didn't dare to laugh, but the tension had clearly left their bodies.

This is the effect of a dumb supporting character refreshing the worn-out atmosphere.

With the atmosphere a bit more relaxed, I smiled brightly too.

'That's right. Laugh all you want and raise your affection a bit.'

As if answering my thoughts, affection update windows popped up one after another.

Advisor Cyan's affection has increased.

Max's affection has increased.

The Crown Prince's affection has greatly increased!

I have my own desperate reason for needing to stick around here.

As the game progresses to the middle and later parts, the atmosphere becomes somewhat darker, and the in-game atmosphere becomes more horrifying.

The finishing touch is April's corpse found in various places.

Found dead after going ahead and falling into an event trap.

Found dead after being poisoned and vomiting blood.

An event where she stays alive all along, then saves the player, smiles brightly, and says she's sleepy and needs to sleep before dying.

If there's no cause, April is always found as a brutally mutilated corpse.

My brother wailed:

-That's why you need to bring April into the faction! sob... If you just bring her into the faction! April can survive and get out too! She lives longer when she acts with the player! But when you take your eyes off her, she's dead!

-Stop it.

-Recruit her! Recruit April!

-It keeps automatically rejecting recruitment requests now because you keep asking. Stop trying.

-There's an empty companion slot! Why can't we bring her into the faction...!

I referred to those memories.

So I will adapt as a companion in their faction and be carried out nicely.

Suddenly, my eyes met Yeniel's.

I smiled prettily at her as if facing a real friend. While gently closing my eyes.

[Yeniel's affection has increased.]

[Advisor Cyan's affection has increased.]

[Yeniel's affection has greatly increased.]

I read the kindness in Yeniel's gaze.

If it's the altruistic female protagonist Yeniel who would shout to save others even in that banquet hall, she would probably take me out together.