HH Chapter 21
by Geli Cake“Would you like to go for a walk in the garden?”
‘No.’
‘Why?’
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‘I don’t want to walk.’
‘If you don’t want to walk, I’ll carry you.’
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Everyone gasped silently.
The servants of this house were wary of Haylan and couldn’t treat him so casually. Picking him into their arms without permission was such an impertinent act that would be unthinkable for anyone else.
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But perhaps that was the difference between them and him. He had heard from his grandfather that the young Miss had a good eye for people, and it seemed to be true.
The head butler was rather fond of Chahyun’s boldness.
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“…….”
“…….”
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All the servants were glued to the doorway, staring blankly at Haylan, who was acting unusually, and the man carrying him through the rain in the garden. It was a rare sight.
“Yur, were you attending to the guest?”
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“Yes, Head Butler. I am currently his designated maid.”
“…Then, please take care of him appropriately.”
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The head butler’s words caused the expressions of all the surrounding servants to change subtly.
By speaking to Yur, the head butler was using her as an example to warn everyone in the mansion. At least don’t be rude to the guest. If they deliberately served him old food again like last time, they would surely face severe consequences.
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Chahyun had managed to get Haylan out of his room just one day after returning to the mansion.
‘Then what about tomorrow?’
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What kind of expression would the Young Master have next week…?
The head butler looked forward to the changes the guest would bring.
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The day the head butler’s wish came true wasn’t far off. The change happened that very night.
In the dead of night, while everyone was asleep, a groaning sound echoed from a pitch-black room. Haylan sat up from where he was lying in the middle of the bed.
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‘What’s this?’
He felt strangely sluggish and heavy. He couldn’t even put strength into his hands.
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“Ugh….”
Haylan clutched his head with one hand and turned on the bedside lamp. A soft light illuminated the limited area.
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It didn’t take long for him to realize the source of his discomfort. Haylan clenched and unclenched his hand. His short, stubby fingers had become long and slender. His legs, dangling off the edge of the bed, were stretched out straight, reaching the floor… and his field of vision was unusually high.
“What kind of dream is this?”
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He couldn’t help but frown. There was a time when Haylan frequently dreamt of himself growing up.
A long time ago, when he still held onto the hope of returning to a normal life. But waking up from the illusion always brought him back to the harsh reality. His life was a curse.
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Haylan irritably threw the lamp on the floor.
Crash!
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The light vanished along with the sound of shattering glass. Shards of glass scattered at his feet.
“…….”
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It was an excessively realistic dream. Haylan, with only a thin sheet draped over his shoulders, opened the door and stepped out of his room. He saw his reflection in a half-length mirror hanging in the hallway. Haylan stared blankly at his reflection.
Purple eyes shone brightly amidst his silver hair that grazed against the nape of his neck. t was the pale face of a young man, devoid of any trace of blood. The man in the mirror blinked when Haylan blinked, and when he moved his lips, the red lips in the mirror twitched as well.
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‘It’s a nightmare.’
Even in a dream, the sight of his true nature, usually hidden, was hateful and horrifying. It was time to wake up.
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Just as Haylan was about to smash the mirror with a candlestick, a scream diverted his attention.
“Aaaaaaaaaah! A ghost!”
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Raising affection points is to avoid bad endings. That meant the True Ending was separate. In other words, raising affection is one thing, but I still had to progress the main story! I couldn’t keep avoiding going out at night forever.
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I took a short nap in the evening and woke up to find that it was past midnight.
‘Do I really have to go?’
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I don’t waaaaaant to….
I rolled around on the bed, flailing my arms and legs. Just thinking about ghosts made me feel like the surrounding temperature had dropped 5 degrees.
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Why do they stick around scaring people when they’re supposed to be dead and in the afterlife?
‘But I have to go.’
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Sigh….
I reluctantly got up, fully armed, and took a deep breath in front of the door. After hesitating for what felt like ten times, I turned the doorknob, and a silent, empty hallway greeted me.
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The first night. I had already planned what I would do tonight.
‘Let’s not get too greedy. Just find the key and then go back inside.’
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Something easily accessible and beneficial to unlock early on. That was the library. The door was locked now, but I knew where the library key was!
‘Behind the mirror in the second-floor hallway.’
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The library key was attached and hidden to the back of a mirror hanging on the wall. Putting aside its original purpose, unlocking the library early on provided an advantage during chase sequences later.
The library in this house was enormous, spanning three floors with the ceilings removed. But it had only two entrances. Moreover, the door on the first floor was blocked by furniture, making it only accessible from the second floor.
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Ghosts get lost in the library. There are blind spots where the player can hide. And….
‘The books were clues too, right?’
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Among the books in the library, there were several that could help the player figure out Haylan’s true nature. Titles like <Vampire Legends> and <How to Survive a Vampire>.
‘Well, I don’t need those.’
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I was in an incredibly advantageous position. As an n-th playthrough player, I had a general grasp of the game’s flow, I knew Haylan’s identity, and the Suspicion Gauge hadn’t even appeared yet.
If I could collect only the necessary evidence without touching unnecessary clues….
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‘Huh?’
I realized that the situation was currently reversed.
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‘Isn’t the goal a bit different?’
In the game, the player had only one objective: to escape this haunted house.
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The reason for investigating each trap-laden room was also for escape. All clues were gathered with escape in mind.
But in this game with a 100% death rate, the player never escapes the house and and always met their demise in every ending, even the Fake True Ending.
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‘I don’t plan to leave.’
On the other hand, my current short-term goal was very different from the player’s. I had no intention of leaving this house for the time being and I aimed to raise Haylan’s affection to 100 within the next month to eliminate as many bad ending routes as possible.
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‘And the situation has already changed. It’s a little different from what I knew.’
This was the first time I’d attended Christine’s funeral. I’d never even spoken directly to Odin in the game before….
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‘The strangest thing is that I can see the affection system.’
The system didn’t give me the objective of escaping this house. The disappearance of the “escape” objective in an escape game meant…
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‘Did the genre change?’
Perhaps this game was different from when I played it in middle school. I suddenly had that hunch.
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Back then, <Haunted House> was a newly released game. It was highly likely that it had received continuous updates since I quit.
“……Is Haylan the key to the True Ending?”
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I murmured to myself, puzzled, recalling about the new affection system. A game’s system doesn’t exist without meaning.
Haylan was both the protagonist of this game and the antagonist the player had to confront. It always bothered me that despite being the antagonist, he had a compelling backstory.
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The original story emphasizes Haylan’s victimhood from the moment his identity begins to be revealed. The residents of this house weren’t here by choice; rather, the vampires, who don’t even appear in the game, were closer to pure evil.
Then let’s think about it the other way around. The way for the player to escape this house might not be to confront Haylan.
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‘Perhaps getting close to Haylan is the real key to clearing this game?’
So that’s why the affection system is more concrete now, unlike before, right? The existence of an affection system means the game is the system’s way of kindly informing the player which characters are beneficial to befriend.
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And the purpose of the system, or rather, the guidebook, that only I can see, is even clearer.
‘The True Ending.’
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Anyway, everything the guidebook suggested ultimately leads to the main quest, ‘Achieve the True Ending.’ It offered me temporary cleaning tools when I needed to clean the player’s room and it even let me out of the house for a while, albeit for the funeral.
I can’t deviate from the original story. The quests given before the original story began were, in a way, meant to help me acclimate to this world, so it’s hard to say they’re completely unrelated.
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And as always, the guidebook would occasionally offer me assistance.
‘Just blindly searching the house might not be the way to clear an escape game!’
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It might be self-justification, but the hallway was too dark and cold, so I decided I could just go back to sleep tonight.
And I stayed up all night yesterday.
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I’m so sleepy…. I’ll work hard starting tomorrow.