Surviving as an Idiot in a Horror Game

But it happened so quickly that no one seemed to have seen it properly.

Cyan, who was wandering near me, raised his head curiously.

"Didn't the mirror just shake and flicker?"

"Did it?"

The image in the mirror had returned to its normal form. Yeniel tilted her head in confusion.

Ah, this isn't the time to be distracted by this mirror. If I remember correctly, the mid-boss will appear soon.

I need to move things along a bit.

"Ah, something is shining up there!"

I pointed inside the mirror as if I had just discovered it.

A key was at a height where it could be reached by standing on tiptoes.

"Inside the mirror...? It's true. There's a key inside."

Yeniel finally seemed to have spotted the shining key in the mirror and looked surprised.

At that moment, the mirror twisted and distorted, revealing the true forms of the doppelgangers.

The five of us, distorted into demon-like forms, faced us from the mirror, grinning.

"Aaargh!"

As if their eyes had met, Max screamed and collapsed.

All five reflections in the mirror simultaneously held knives in their hands. And slowly, slowly they approached.

Clink.

At that moment, the key popped out from inside the mirror and fell in front of it. Then it rolled around, making a clear sound.

'You want me to pick up something right in front of the mirror? Are you crazy?'

While cursing internally, I reached for the key with the most innocent attitude I could muster.

The outcome was obvious if someone other than me picked up this key.

Whoosh-!

Along with the sound of air being cut, the Crown Prince shouted.

"Lady April! Be careful!"

A sharp blade passed right over my head. It wasn't different from the path I had predicted.

I just stared at the key as if I knew nothing.

I exerted extreme concentration.

Another sharp blade came flying. I quickly calculated the range in my head and gauged the position.

And as if by chance, I ducked, neatly avoiding the blade.

I didn't forget to pretend to be distracted by the key.

Then I picked up the key and stood up with an innocent, puzzled expression.

"Huh?"

The pattern of sword swings was irregular and faster than in the game, so it seemed others indeed couldn't have avoided it.

"Why April?"

"There's no time to explain! Get away from the mirror!"

Cyan shouted.

"Get away?"

I tilted my head as if confused and slowly backed away.

Yeniel grabbed my sleeve and pulled me sharply away from the mirror.

Our reflections in the mirror, holding knives, started to come over to our side. The surface of the mirror wavered unstably.

Eventually, the blades protruded out of the mirror. Even the room's lighting flickered and turned blood-red.

With creepy smiles, they showed bizarre mouth movements as if giggling that they would soon arrive here.

'You guys can't come here.'

Unlike their chilling appearance, these aren't the mid-boss.

Why? Because the mid-boss is about to appear now.

I waited for the next event to unfold.

Just as the doppelganger monsters' bodies were gradually emerging from the mirror.

A thumping sound is heard from inside it.

A huge greatsword flew from far inside the mirror.

The well-forged greatsword instantly tore apart the doppelgangers and stuck into the mirror's surface.

It felt unsettling, as if my reflection had been killed.

'Maybe the talk about a demon worshipper and a demon on the second floor...'

Until now, I hadn't thought that the mid-boss would be the demon worshipper said to be in this dungeon.

The reason I hadn't associated the mid-boss with the demon worshipper was due to appearance.

Usually, if one worships demons, wouldn't they look thin or pale, wearing all black and gloomy?

But the monster that appeared now broke such stereotypes.

A huge body that seemed over 3 meters tall.

It had an animal's head. The head of a goat, often interpreted as demonic. The large monster's body was thick with muscle, and a bright red demon eye was attached to its chest.

The monster slowly retrieved the greatsword that had brutally killed the doppelgangers.

'No, this isn't a demon worshipper but the demon.'

Just look at that appearance. It's the demon itself.

What's even more chilling was that the demon worshipper looked down at the doppelgangers and then suddenly detached its own head.

"What...!"

Cyan involuntarily blurted out at the unimaginable sight.

Black blood dripped, plop, plop plop.

The headless monster stretches out both hands. Then it twisted off a doppelganger's head that didn't match at all and attached it to itself.

"My, my head!"

Max screamed as if about to faint.

It wasn't funny even though it was Max's doppelganger's head. Because there was no face, like an egg ghost.

Seeing the flat face, Max screamed loudly again.

After alternating between different heads, the demon worshipper who struck everything down with the greatsword, thump, thump, thump, discovers us.

We could barely tell it saw us with the bright red eye on its chest, as Max's faceless head was turned around.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The demon worshipper started swinging the greatsword against the mirror.

"Run! Everyone!"

At Yeniel's cry, everyone ran out.

I had a sudden intuition that we would really die if caught by that thing.

The moment we got out of the room, Crash-!

We heard the sound of the mirror shattering completely as if the monster had thrown the greatsword or something collided.

"Lady April! Show me the key you got!"

As soon as I held out the key, Yeniel checked the number on the key in my hand and shouted.

"Number 3! It's 203! Let's go there!"

The demon worshipper ran out of the room following us.

Its body was put together in pieces unnaturally.

It looked clean inside the mirror, but...

Looking closely, it seemed like the traces of the shattered mirror were reflected on its flesh. It might be the effect of breaking the glass and coming out from inside the mirror.

As soon as we arrived at 203, I inserted the key into the keyhole.

At the very back, Cyan was using spirits to protect the Crown Prince.

"Lady April. Let me do it. Like this..."

Click, click.

Yeniel hurriedly turned the key instead of me. But the lock wouldn't open easily. The sound of the key turning stiffly was drowned out by the thumping noise.

The more anxious you are, the harder it usually is. I overlapped my hand on Yeniel's soft hand to help her be a little calmer.

"Lady Yeniel. It's okay."

I narrowed my eyes.

Yeniel's gaze was vaguely on our hands and what was beneath them. We turned the key together.

Click.

With a deep and clear sound, the door to 203 opened.

[Yeniel's suspicion has increased. Suspicion level increases.]

A chilling metallic sound rang out.

[Total suspicion level 12%.]

'Why is this...?'

I had to blink for a moment in disbelief.

Until now, 5%, at most 10%.

Until now, when the system explained why the suspicion level rose, it used the expression 'people are suspicious'. So it was 5% or 10% combined suspicion from several people.

That suspicion level rose by 15% at once. And that was from Yeniel alone.

I couldn't understand why I was being suspected by Yeniel.

'What on earth did I do wrong?'