Chapter 70
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 70
Chapter Title: Please Write One Item Needed to Escape This Place. (1)
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[I Almost Really Died This Time...]
Anyway...
(Photo)
Surprisingly, all of those things are doppelgangers lol...
They say doppelgangers have to consume the target's flesh and bones to perfectly mimic a human...
(Photo)
Hey... see the tooth marks on my toe?
Big Whale... I almost got eaten while I was unconscious...
Doppelgangers really have insanely high intelligence...
They pretended to be on the same team, biding their time perfectly to strike and kill.
Everyone... be careful of doppelgangers.
I'm so pissed at the doppelganger right now that I sent bomb packages to D1 Doppelganger.
Sent about 3, and now I'm calmed down.
Phew...
How dare a mere doppelganger act tough against a human?
'O, God' Horror Tale is cleared.
Guess I need some downtime for a while.
If only I had more crafting uses... I would've turned all those doppelgangers in that tale into items ffs.
[Comments - 36]
Account number for D1 Doppelganger? Which horror tale is that from?
???
? What does that mean?
I don't know.
..You sent bombs without even knowing who it is?
Yup!
Lmao that doppelganger acted tough against a human lololol just a random monster lololol
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lololololololol I don't know where D1 is but J2N is pitiful lolololol
Oh lol who told that first doppelganger account opener to do it~
Whoa... it's quite different from what I imagined doppelgangers look like.
But if they eat bones and flesh to transform into that person... eww;
Doppelgangers are smart, so they observe humans for hours before killing to mimic habits and speech patterns after transforming.
For real???
????? How does Big Whale know that?
Another doppelganger told me.
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Your wife monster was a doppelganger?
Nah, got some info from Monster Gallery.
lololol threatening monsters with a knife for info is hilarious lolololol
Hey Gold Whale!!!! Why do you get to see all the fun galleries!!!! Tell us about Monster Gallery too!!!
Not Gold. And Monster Gal is where real monsters gather, post wrong and Sanity drops 200~300. Could even die if severe.
Oof; Moderator's been fighting those kinds of monsters all this time?
Yeah, Mod is legit badass.
Aa.. Moderator.. is he a god..?
There are 2 gods in Korean Gallery. One is the community admin, the other is Big Whale God.
..I'm not a god.
Big Whale God...
..
I believe in you, Big Whale God...
Write properly with spaces, seriously.
I believe in you... Whale God...
This fucker????
Confirmed clear of 'O, God' Horror Tale. Good job, Big Whale God.
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I announced the clear of the OD Horror Tale to everyone.
Today, my Sanity in the Status Window couldn't recover any further.
Me: Sorry, honey.
Me: My Sanity won't recover anymore today, so I'll visit around lunchtime tomorrow.
Opponent: Okay.
I promised my wife I'd drop by the house around lunchtime tomorrow.
Of course...
'Whoa... this is really fucked... this, this... she seems really pissed...'
Judging by her extremely curt reply, my wife monster was currently...
Looking more furious than anything else.
'Ha... what should I do... what can I even do...'
With no choice, I steeled my resolve.
Tomorrow... I'd close my eyes tight and just face the wife once...
...
"Phew..."
"Leaving now?"
"Ah, did I wake you because of me?"
"...At least stay the night..."
"Gotta go sleep there. If I use tiredness as an excuse and nap a bit... maybe she'll cool off a little?"
"...Tch."
"Pardon?"
"Nothing. Be careful not to get eaten by your wife monster."
"If my wife wanted to kill me, she could've done it through notes plenty of times."
"Yes. Be careful not to get eaten by your wife monster."
"Hm? As I said earlier, I won't get ea— Ah... I'll be back."
"Take care!"
Thanks to Mina's witty joke to ease my tension.
I wrote RY in the input field, feeling a bit relaxed.
"Phew... I'll be off."
The moment past noon when Sanity started recovering again, I immediately entered the Roleplay Horror Tale.
'Is she sleeping...?'
My foggy vision cleared back to normal, revealing familiar furniture before my eyes.
Last time I came here, I woke up in a different house.
But now, recognized as the official husband in the Roleplay Horror Tale.
The place I opened my eyes was right in front of the husband's bed in the bedroom—
"?"
On the bed where the husband role's me should be lying in the Roleplay Horror Tale...
"...Huh?"
"You said... you'd come... in the evening... didn't you..?"
"Just... missed you so much... so I came... early.."
"Ah... you must be... tired?"
"Y... yeah... I was definitely... tired.."
"Sleep... honey.."
"..."
"I have... work... so I'll head out first."
"Stop."
"..!"
My eyes met with the wife monster holding my very familiar pants and underwear in both hands.
"...Honey?"
"..."
"Honey??"
"..."
"...Where the hell did you get that?"
"Don't... know."
"Where...? No, how..?"
"...Not... that."
"...I didn't say anything?"
"Don't... know..!"
...
'Not sleeping, huh.'
Something squirming on my chest woke me up.
"Ah... honey... you're awake?"
"Yeah. Did you sleep well?"
"Yes."
"You look full of energy since morning. Nice."
"Hehe... he..."
Last night, I wanted to ask in detail how she got my pants and underwear.
But since it seemed like a good card for easily passing the mandatory defense battle, I decided not to pry further.
"By the way, honey."
"Yes?"
"Do you know about Bellierd Library?"
Out of personal curiosity, I asked if she knew anything about Bellierd Library.
"I... know."
"Do you use the library too?"
I got a much more unexpected answer than expected.
"I... worked there... as a... librarian."
"...You worked as a librarian there?"
"Yes."
No way. How strong is she exactly...?
A library that employs my wife monster, who's overwhelmingly called that even in Monster Gallery...
"I worked there too."
"Really..?"
"Yeah. We have something in common now."
"He... he... happy.."
...
Two days.
I spent a full two and a half days in the Roleplay Horror Tale.
'Can't stay three days.'
I tried my best to spend as much time as possible with the wife monster.
But the mental corruption here stacks.
As time passed, the Sanity drain became unbearable.
'About 30 minutes max from now on.'
Around the time I realized I could only last about 30 minutes in the Roleplay Horror Tale going forward.
"Come... back... soon."
"I can stay a bit longer."
"No... go... now."
The wife monster, already aware my Sanity was draining fast, kept trying to chase me out of the horror tale.
"Just 10 more minutes, then I'll go."
For the past two days...
As an apology for constantly avoiding intimacy under the excuse of mandatory defense battles.
I hugged the wife monster tight, who was trying to send me back to the safe zone quickly.
"Let's stay like this for 10 more minutes."
"No... you have to... go... dangerous..."
"Right, it is dangerous, but I've been avoiding you too much."
"That's... true... but..."
"Sorry. I'm... way more of a coward than you think."
"You're... brave... braver... than anyone."
"Then, bravely stay like this for 20 more minutes?"
As I held the wife monster...
"...5 minutes."
Unable to break my stubbornness, she gave up sending me back and hugged me in return.
"Sorry for being this kind of husband."
"No... you're the best."
"Really? Even though I kept running from intimacy with you?"
"Yes... this is... love too."
"Thanks for saying that nicely."
As I gently stroked her head, I felt sorry for maybe overdoing the mandatory defense battles.
"..!"
Suddenly startled, the wife monster broke the hug.
"Go... back...!"
"...Yeah?"
"Now!"
"Ah... yes..!"
She raised her voice telling me to go back immediately.
Wondering what happened, I quickly opened the Status Window and hit the return button...
1 / 1000
'Whoa... drops sharply at the end.'
Beyond my gradually fogging vision... I could see the Status Window with only 1 Sanity left.
'Ah. It turned off.'
Then the Status Window flicked off.
Fortunately, I'd already hit return, so I safely returned to the safe zone...
'..Where is this?'
Yeah...
Fucked.
'If Sanity hits 0 on return... you end up in another world...?'
Still 12 hours left until Sanity fully recovers in the Status Window, so to return to the safe zone... I'd have to spend half a day here.
Can't just sit idle that whole time, so might as well figure out where this is.
'What happens at 0 Sanity—'
I raised the camera to document the place...
"..Hm?"
Feeling emptiness at my neck, I looked down...
"..What? Where'd it go?"
The camera that should be around my neck was gone.
No, to be precise... it wasn't just the camera.
"..Good thing no one's here."
Camera, knuckles, ring, armor... even my regular clothes.
Nothing left on my body... I woke up inside an empty house with no one around.
'No clothes... and what's with all this burned paper everywhere?'
Please write one item needed to escape this place.
Write one item to use for escaping this place in the blank below.
Once written, it cannot be erased, so be careful.
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1. XY (52) | Requested: Building map | Provided: Building blueprint | Survival: 3 min | COD: Immediate death from depressed skull fracture
2. XY (31) | Requested: Map of this building | Provided: Blueprint of this building | Survival: 5 min | COD: Immediate death from depressed skull fracture
3. XX (18) | Requested: Map revealing all trap locations in this building | Provided: Blueprint of this building with all traps marked | Survival: 36 min | COD: Exsanguination
4. XY (18) | Requested: Where tf am I? | Provided: Request not understood | Survival: 1 min | COD: Immediate death from depressed skull fracture
5. XY (22) | Requested: Button to let me escape this place | Provided: Teleporter button for № Corp | Survival: 17 min | COD: Fall death
6. XX (94) | Requested: Painless death pill | Provided: ㏂ Corp NN-01 (30 tabs) | Survival: 4h 1m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
7. XY (29) | Requested: Large quantity of long-term preservable food | Provided: HL's cooking fridge | Survival: 107d 8h 37m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
8. XY (43) | Requested: Gaming console with hundreds of games | Provided: ⁿㅰ Corp latest gaming console | Survival: 3d 12h 45m | COD: Exsanguination
9. XY (31) | Requested: Charger for the gaming console here | Provided: ⁿㅰ Corp latest gaming console charger | Survival: 483d 22h 21m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
Normal gameplay deemed impossible. Staying 48+ hours without special reason prohibited.
10. XY (17) | Requested: Rules changed cuz of that retard above.. argh. | Provided: Request not understood | Survival: 27d 19m | COD: Exsanguination
11. XY (25) | Requested: Info on monsters outside the room | Provided: Booklet with requested info | Survival: 5d 14h 25m | COD: Death by infection
12. XX (25) | Requested: Weapon to one-shot monsters | Provided: Requested weapon does not exist
Fucking kidding me | Survival: 1d 23h 42m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
13. XX (42) | Requested: ..My deceased parents | Provided: Corpses of Kim Man-cheol and Lee Young-hwa (2) | Survival: 13d 39m | COD: Shock death from right arm amputation
14. MX (133) | Requested: I'm not human? | Provided: Request not understood | Survival: 13 min | COD: Inappropriate escape route
15. XX (22) | Requested: Anything related to body enhancement to fight the monster beyond that door | Provided: ∝ Corp body enhancement suit | Survival: 98d 17h 49m | COD: Multiple organ failure
16. XY (1) | Requested: (blank) | Provided: (blank) | Survival: 48h | COD: Disposal
17. XX (23) | Requested: Meds to maximally prevent multiple organ failure | Provided: ∝ Corp vaccination kit (50 doses) | Survival: 233d 2h 11m | COD: Exsanguination
18. XY (53) | Requested: Something else to offer 6F Foundation instead of body parts | Provided: 30 sweet chocolates | Survival: 37d 17h | COD: Cardiac arrest
19. XY (25) | Requested: Anything to see the future | Provided: ⊙ Corp future vision pill (1) | Survival: 12 min | COD: NN-01 ingestion
20. XX (21) | Requested: Hello, I'm Yoo Ha-min. Mom said be home by 7! | Provided: Request not understood | Survival: 48h | COD: Disposal
21. XX (49) | Requested: Lord... please save these young lambs... help us overcome any hardship... | Provided: 1 corpse | Survival: 23 min | COD: NN-01 ingestion
22. XY (83) | Requested: Paper with the easiest way to escape this building | Provided: Paper with the easiest escape method for this building | Survival: 47h 55m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
23. XY (45) | Requested: Paper with the safest way to escape this building besides death | Provided: Paper with the safest escape method for this building | Survival: 149d 21h 44m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
24. XY (19) | Requested: Super hot beauty who loves only me, human, age 23-25, sensitive | Provided: Living beings impossible | Survival: 73d 17h 11m | COD: Immediate death by impalement
25. XX (30) | Requested: Pill that makes eater immortal | Provided: ♭ Corp immortality pill (1) | Survival: 477d 19h 35m | COD: Disposal
26. XY (27) | Requested: Latest smartphone | Provided: S Corp latest smartphone | Survival: 17h 3m | COD: Exsanguination
27. XX (16) | Requested: S Corp latest smartphone charger | Provided: S Corp latest smartphone charger | Survival: 19d 3h 47m | COD: Suicide by mental corruption
28. XY (39) | Requested: Reasons people failed to escape so far | Provided: Paper with requested info (1) | Survival: 288d 12h 25m | COD: NN-01 ingestion
29. XY (25) | Requested: Reason 28 failed to escape | Provided: Paper with requested info (1) | Survival: 369d 11h 19m | COD: Exsanguination
30. XX (22) | Requested: Tried every method, reason people can't escape here | Provided: Photo of escape route (1) | Survival: 22 min | COD: NN-01 ingestion
31. XY (27) | Requested: (blank) | Provided: (blank) | Survival: 3 min | COD: NN-01 ingestion
32. XX (37) | Requested: (blank) | Provided: (blank) | Survival: 18 min | COD: NN-01 ingestion
33. XY (17) | Requested: Flamethrower | Provided: Flamethrower | Survival: 17h 25m | COD: Disposal
Intentionally destroying the only safe zone results in disposal. Be careful.
"..That fucking bastard number 33..?"
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