Chapter 2508 – 2508. The Devil’S Game
It was almost 1 AM. Time for the ghost in the hallway to disappear. Yoo Jin-myung and Jo Na-young stood nervously in front of the front door. The kitchen knife in their hands glinted under the fluorescent light.
We planned to go outside as soon as it hit 1 AM and kill the other participants. Camping? Why camp when I’m here? That was a waste of time.
‘Should I roll the dice before going out?’
Even though I was thinking of rolling the dice, the advice was silent. It wouldn’t be a bad result if I rolled now.
I rolled the dice. The number that came up was 3. The mechanism of the dice was simple. If you rolled 3 or less, it was bad luck, and if you rolled 4 or more, it was good luck. 3 came up, so it was bad luck.
‘I guess I should be glad it wasn’t a 1 or 2.’
Wasn’t the advice supposed to warn me if a number of 3 or less came up? I was a little disappointed in the advice.
‘What kind of bad luck will come to me?’
I found out right away.
My body became hot. Not in a good way, but in a bad way. My senses started to dull.
‘It’s a cold.’
I suddenly caught a cold.
I shouldn’t have rolled the dice. I regretted it belatedly, but surprisingly, the situation wasn’t bad.
I caught a cold. So what? Did my abilities disappear? That wasn’t the case either. Even though my condition was bad, I could still use Super Focus.
If things got bad, I could just hole up in my room and camp.
‘Just like the effects of good luck don’t last long, the effects of bad luck won’t last long either.’
Cough.
I couldn’t help but cough. The two of them turned their gaze to me. They were tense. They were worried that a ghost might come.
I also tensed up and watched carefully. I was planning to use the escape ticket as soon as a ghost appeared.
‘No, wait. The advice is silent.’
If my life was in danger, the advice would warn me. No warning? That meant it was safe.
‘A cough is a physiological phenomenon. Are physiological phenomena okay?’
If that wasn’t okay, then I’d die the moment I farted. Even if my stomach rumbled, I’d die. That’s not the way the devil wants people to die. The devil wants people to die.
(Yoo Jin, the dice didn’t come out well. Are you okay? You don’t look well. Taking a break might be a good idea.)
(I’m fine. Let’s stick to the plan.)
Just because my condition had weakened didn’t mean I couldn’t slice people up.
‘I have the escape ticket as insurance. So now is a chance to see how much I can do when my condition isn’t good.’
It was time.
I got up from my seat. I was disappointed with the kitchen knife in my hand. It would have been nice to have a weapon with a long blade.
I opened the door and went out into the hallway. The hallway where the ghosts had been roaming was quiet, without even a rat. All the others except us had decided to camp in their rooms.
‘Did they come to see who starves to death first? They’re living a tiring life because they’re weak.’
Open doors and closed doors.
Inside the open doors were corpses withered like mummies. It seemed they had their life force sucked out by the ghosts.
Jo Na-young pointed to one of the closed doors. It meant there were people inside. They were probably blocking the entrance.
By the way, blocking the door wasn’t easy. The door could be opened by pulling or pushing. Simply blocking the entrance wouldn’t prevent the door from opening.
I ran towards the door and kicked it with all my might. The door didn’t break. Instead, it was pushed in. The two men and one woman who were in front of it fell to the floor, struggling. Before they could get up, I moved the kitchen knife.
Stab, stab, stab.
I stabbed the three of them in the neck. It was easier than I thought. It felt like a kind of work, not a battle. It wasn’t particularly difficult. After killing the three, I headed to the next door.
I kicked the door open with all my might and killed the surprised or fallen guys with the kitchen knife. This simple method worked surprisingly well.
Of course, there were times when I had to fight with swords. At those times, it was a bit annoying, but in the end, I won.
‘Most of these guys are clumsy fools who don’t know how to handle a knife.’
Well, modern people would only have cut up food with a knife. Of course, I’m a modern person too, and I haven’t learned martial arts either.
‘It’s possible because I’m a genius.’
As I was walking down the hallway, a door slammed open. A man with a kitchen knife in both hands rushed at me with his eyes wide open. I reflexively activated Super Focus.
‘What is this idiot?’
I just had to dodge to the side and stab him in the neck.
It was the moment Super Focus was deactivated. The guy’s body multiplied into three.
‘An illusion? A magic trick?’
It didn’t matter which one it was. Using my abilities now was meaningless. Before the guy could reach me, I moved diagonally and swung my knife. The blade cut through the necks of all three at once. The two fakes disappeared, and the real one dropped his knife and covered the blood flowing from his neck with his hand.
“Sh, shit…!”
I hadn’t cut deep enough to stop him from speaking. But the moment he spoke, the result was decided.
A ghost appeared in the air and covered the guy’s body. The guy couldn’t shake off the translucent ghost and was sucked dry of his life force, withering away and dying in real time.
I casually swung my knife at the ghost. The knife passed through the pale ghost’s body. There was no feeling of resistance at all.
‘This is a bit scary.’
I stepped back. I didn’t know if I could kill the ghost. It was a bit unsettling that I couldn’t kill it.
-Congratulations! You have won the game.
-We will provide additional game points based on your performance!
-Please look forward to the next game!
Along with the devil’s broadcast, I returned to reality.
Shin Do-hyun was in front of me. She was looking at me with worried eyes. It was the same as before I started the devil’s game. Because not even a second had actually passed. Maybe because I came out of the devil’s game, my cold was gone too.
「Game Points Held: 45」
“Did you just go?”
“Yeah. This time it was a team battle. I did it with Yoo Jin-myung and Jo Na-young.”
I felt a little sorry for Shin Do-hyun. Because of what happened with Jo Na-young. Of course, I had no intention of telling Shin Do-hyun about it.
‘It wasn’t like we kissed or had sex.’
I just accidentally touched Jo Na-young’s soft, squishy chest a little. And if I had to make an excuse.
‘Jo Na-young was invisible, so I didn’t know.’
I confidently hugged Shin Do-hyun. Shin Do-hyun was startled, but soon hugged me back.
Shin Do-hyun’s chest touched my upper body. It was an overwhelming chest that couldn’t be compared to Jo Na-young’s. Size, shape, touch. Everything was superior. The image of Jo Na-young, which had been subtly lingering since earlier, disappeared.
‘As expected, it’s Shin Do-hyun.’
My hand slowly moved and stroked Shin Do-hyun’s back. I was trying to take off her clothes. It was also a signal to have sex.
But Shin Do-hyun pushed me away.
“There’s no time for that. The killer is coming at 2 AM, right?”
“There’s still two hours left?”
“The problem is that it won’t end in two hours.”
That’s true. When we had sex, it was usually three hours. She and I had a stronger sex drive than others.
“Just once. Let’s do it just once. My body is hot after coming back from the devil’s game.”
More than half of it was Jo Na-young’s fault. I didn’t bother to say it.
“Haa. I guess I have no choice. I’ll do it with my mouth, so be satisfied with that.”
“Yes!”
It was a bit disappointing, but it was better than nothing.
I took off my pants and lay down on the bed. Shin Do-hyun also lay down on the bed and crawled towards my lower body. Her mouth touched my thing.
‘Oh, oh, oh!’
I saw heaven.
• • •
1:55 AM.
Shin Do-hyun and I hid in the darkness, waiting for the killer who would come soon. She had a gun in her hand, and I had a Japanese sword in mine. In the case of the Japanese sword, I had sharpened the blade with a whetstone during the day. It wasn’t professional level, but the Japanese sword was usable.
Shin Do-hyun seemed very nervous. Even though it was chilly in the early morning, sweat was flowing from her forehead.
On the other hand, I wasn’t very nervous.
‘A killer isn’t a superhuman. He’s not a ghost or anything. If I slice him, he’ll die.’
Above all, I had the advice.
‘The killer is coming at 2 AM, right?’
〈That’s right. The killer will come through your front door.〉
It was a house, so it was a key system, not a door lock. There was a gate outside the yard, but the gate could be climbed over with just a ladder.
It was 2 AM.
Click… Click…
I heard the sound of the door being unlocked. It was night and quiet, and I was focused, so I could hear it well.
‘But this bastard is coming exactly at 2 AM. Did he come on purpose?’
It seemed like the killer had some kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Click!
The door opened.
Shin Do-hyun and I aimed our Japanese sword and gun at the killer, respectively. The killer widened his eyes and then raised both hands.
That was the end of it.
The killer was somehow anticlimactic.
We subdued the killer. We handcuffed his wrists and tied his legs with rope.
“It’s too anticlimactic. Are you really a killer?”
“…Killers aren’t anything special. They just have to kill people somehow. I didn’t expect you to be ambushing at 2 AM. Is this a trap?”
“Yeah. It’s a trap. Peng Chun-soo told you to kill me.”
“……That’s a lie. I get it now. I received information that you are a participant in the devil’s game. I heard that participants in the devil’s game have abilities… Did you use that ability to figure out that I was coming?”
He was calm even in this situation. He was quite sharp.
“Yoo Jin, let’s kill him and be done with it.”
Shin Do-hyun looked at the killer with cold eyes. She was aiming a pistol with a silencer at his head.
“Wait a minute. Please spare me. I can be of help. If there’s someone you don’t like, I’ll kill them for you.”
“Can you kill Peng Chun-soo?”
“…Peng Chun-soo is difficult. Peng Chun-soo is never alone. He’s always wary of killers, so it’s hard to even infiltrate the place where he stays.”
“He’s the kind of guy who would make a lot of enemies.”
If I were Peng Chun-soo, I would be wary of killers too.
‘I guess I could kill him. But this is too easy. He might be useful.’
Like Ji Byung-soo.
Judging by his appearance, he seemed like a guy who had received several requests from Peng Chun-soo, so he probably had quite a bit of information.
I looked at the killer and pondered before coming to a conclusion.
‘Let’s hand him over to Yoo Jin-myung. If it’s Yoo Jin-myung, he’ll use him as he sees fit, whether he kills him or keeps him alive.’
