HH Chapter 21

“Would you like 7626efa05b to go for 6584ce05f2 a walk in 942b5f53c9 the garden?”308088d1db7543c6

‘No.’46df8ea4020f2045

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‘Why?’510473e4e5f07b86

‘I don’t want 05c5aa19c1 to walk.’c3dce66872f6ebf7

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‘If you 6cc52373fc don’t want 49eb0ea360 to walk, 9dd38e8ed3 I’ll carry 52c5646c6d you.’36f5f254e35d5cdf

Everyone gasped silently.813f094ae52ba63e

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The servants of 9ed9451df3 this house were 9b44ccbf68 wary of Haylan f5c9d039fa and couldn’t treat ed2b0dd0c3 him so casually. Picking him into their 785e461e53 arms without permission was cd1faaeaab such an impertinent act 03073bd5b5 that would be unthinkable b4dc728e32 for anyone else.3f70992cd059d49d

But perhaps that was 9d83d202ff the difference between them 9d829da8db and him. He had heard from 0cb6ea0909 his grandfather that the 8a35e47754 young Miss had a 9dfcdc5f25 good eye for people, b431a663c3 and it seemed to 71b625ec82 be true.412978c89b5756b2

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The head butler d03097fb51 was rather fond 545174532f of Chahyun’s boldness.f23a38fbcdd24a6a

“…….”2afbc29b697f4531

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“…….”c9463673a5f740d7

All the servants were ac6a0d6a70 glued to the doorway, 8973b3a4cb staring blankly at Haylan, 1a398c64e0 who was acting unusually, 5733b516cd and the man carrying af64964832 him through the rain a97dd67d64 in the garden. It was a a175b7253f rare sight.1bf0105858122b21

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“Yur, were e53a144804 you attending df6d8a70f6 to the 2d6adfa2c0 guest?”0c70ea93f10b8468

“Yes, Head Butler. I am currently 753ac757c9 his designated maid.”fefad8bd36bec348

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“…Then, please take 6128ed3f55 care of him c30b555377 appropriately.”5bec5e6d494a2aeb

The head butler’s words caused the expressions of all the surrounding servants to change subtly.3364af5b8e79bd40

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By speaking 116407a522 to Yur, 6397697dbb the head 1e9ac5f812 butler was 5b2d368428 using her 94c75523a5 as an 624cfee8e6 example to a6c765faaa warn everyone 6207542187 in the cbad999a9d mansion. At least 5288740583 don’t be b16063ca43 rude to 213c934eac the guest. If they 61038266ab deliberately served e922d88f0c him old b90ff9df33 food again 2467ad22a2 like last a4b7ab31a6 time, they ad30908c39 would surely ec92b549d2 face severe 69a4dd8dc6 consequences.b645bda1e6a66c84

Chahyun had managed 93ce512cc0 to get Haylan f918333431 out of his 42533af03e room just one 1eab672d2b day after returning c0050ac390 to the mansion.63f1edb94b1a9e8d

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‘Then what about tomorrow?’7ff419b69249167c

What kind of expression fc362407a4 would the Young Master 4034c85383 have next week…? adcdcf24dcdc70e7

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The head 3d1ac42818 butler looked 276a5a5044 forward to 0ead87b3eb the changes a6e09d8eb3 the guest 9df2fe1ea1 would bring.437c61bb738b5f0e

The day the dd1d3204fd head butler’s wish 1e2a115919 came true wasn’t 796dc553ec far off.  The 49137fd2e7 change happened that 4d343026fe very night.443fdd757bc1aa94

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In the dead 9d5f1274a6 of night, while ce57f18339 everyone was asleep, 8352fae88c a groaning sound 7e53c3438d echoed from a 9fe14916f3 pitch-black room. Haylan sat 09d5af1e8e up from e7d3ff2cdd where he 0536b44e62 was lying c595f94dff in the e0ed41f47c middle of c438ebfdaa the bed.0c8196f8302de67c

‘What’s this?’6721ce33c0a0fa80

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He felt e56e69a787 strangely sluggish 462024e469 and heavy. He couldn’t b0c0bcfac4 even put 112f67f8d3 strength into dfe08cd428 his hands.5cd1e9651f44f45f

“Ugh….”146f87e4bd88a6a2

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Haylan clutched his 3d0f72fe51 head with one 4f021b5440 hand and turned 985d26bf5c on the bedside 69be40e490 lamp. A soft 35ee2228df light illuminated ddcb98b4b2 the limited 19c53241ca area.3e896d7c53924aa1

It didn’t 7883e63c83 take long 18c49d7b12 for him 1a276f53f3 to realize dd991cd3b5 the source 2182b89bea of his fb25b58e3b discomfort. Haylan clenched and 560cfa533f unclenched his hand. His short, stubby fingers 9163af160a had become long and 523f998fec slender. His legs, dangling off 1963647adb the edge of the 3483633d24 bed, were stretched out fa59e9b94d straight, reaching the floor… 6132dc4539 and his field of e14fc30ef8 vision was unusually high.fd646083216c1e03

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“What kind of 5ddbdb1dd8 dream is this?”4cf60be6b3b4e020

He couldn’t help but 18215a5595 frown. There was a c8396ce6fd time when Haylan 50b259f731 frequently dreamt of 13c5da7e00 himself growing up.1d42603cdbb896e2

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A long time 0885690017 ago, when he 4cfc7d9603 still held onto 7a9783b8be the hope of 3b57709309 returning to a c6eb7ac597 normal life. But waking 4a8b07a460 up from 7704424241 the illusion 05d0d2cd01 always brought 1ad8624269 him back 90297472c8 to the 1b88e6ec2e harsh reality. His life 829a7b267d was a 7b095c014d curse.1e5368ae86b16215

Haylan irritably threw the 38be13e3d6 lamp on the floor. 2a0d94020ece771f

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Crash! e464457fc0327dd9

The light vanished 240d08fc31 along with the 359eff3ef9 sound of shattering b11ecbc68c glass. Shards of glass scattered ee54a00079 at his feet.f8ffe2f4c914f6df

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“…….”f3b040339f5553b4

It was e1437397ee an excessively 0a18641369 realistic dream. Haylan, with e7b5924f90 only a a6111becf7 thin sheet 7499f02f62 draped over 4956ed467a his shoulders, 742f30aa71 opened the 5ef485228b door and e98a6601da stepped out 522fe429cb of his e0842b218b room. He saw 427287daed his reflection bce97a8df0 in a e33e9470d1 half-length mirror f82a1cb7a0 hanging in dd46c2c648 the hallway. Haylan stared 6477c31f94 blankly at 1162e565e7 his reflection.68ffe8ae3800997d

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Purple eyes b677c54901 shone brightly 9e325b01ee amidst his 5a2b381681 silver hair db81701ea4 that grazed d61dd702fd against the c2a2ac36b2 nape of c84778a3c9 his neck. t was the pale 768f7edcdd face of a young 8f1f38d79f man, devoid of any 5c5487d64a trace of blood. The man 29811859f3 in the d247d3e7af mirror blinked 515b95eaa6 when Haylan 552e92fff5 blinked, and 98264b098b when he 7b195760c4 moved his 0650b60a85 lips, the ed779150dc red lips 13073ddebc in the f36573da8a mirror twitched beaa745bfb as well.8ebfee756a059630

‘It’s a nightmare.’6b61a94a2a05cef6

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Even in a dream, 50cf64472b the sight of his 6b84d70067 true nature, usually hidden, bd5ca9fcf8 was hateful and horrifying. It was 364d0f81d6 time to e41bbe8e2e wake up.8ab535b9ce4c31b6

Just as Haylan 2b1df5687e was about to 0186bdb864 smash the mirror 5742309755 with a candlestick, 4e977a9f60 a scream diverted 8489659dc8 his attention.ab11f76d14ee7b46

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“Aaaaaaaaaah! A ghost!”a41669c6d40a9603

─── ⋆⋅☼⋅⋆ ───b1fabdc6979baa20

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Raising affection 0662cc5cbc points is 1f87e9cf75 to avoid 9f45c81c93 bad endings. That meant 00a704be4b the True ad30bad2d3 Ending was ff8af5385e separate. In other words, raising b7e9f2de54 affection is one thing, 93d6424d83 but I still had 4fff843b5d to progress the main d9a6733a9e story! I couldn’t cf9f17bba1 keep avoiding 4a195ce12c going out 32eace1b51 at night 3b6f44dca9 forever.12d1213d6fd44b15

I took a 89205deedf short nap in 8332f8040e the evening and 258b1745b6 woke up to fa4878641c find that it 1365083fa0 was past midnight.74ce37638c4f430b

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‘Do I really 11b8611328 have to go?’5344374692e185d7

I don’t c31c03ce62 waaaaaant to…. cbb02a4a846096eb

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I rolled around 5db56b28a0 on the bed, 6fd98c1db1 flailing my arms 718d587417 and legs. Just thinking about ghosts af6d3c9b80 made me feel like f01f8873ff the surrounding temperature had d2874e4420 dropped 5 degrees. d6b4d3b6e8c529f8

Why do they 4897f94f04 stick around scaring d594f3c4b7 people when they’re 19a18f15f5 supposed to be 622dc288f8 dead and in 3f8ee3c427 the afterlife?1dcf84989fddec70

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‘But I have to 52d4f1c3c5 go.’61471b7052f4c997

Sigh…. 6b690d7e18dfe4bf

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I reluctantly 02e8134444 got up, 166912d795 fully armed, d8eeec8222 and took 10069f6f80 a deep 6b9ca8e2a0 breath in a6f3361bdc front of 2d69438de5 the door. After hesitating for 713e9d47f6 what felt like d4cdaeba27 ten times, I e92614e990 turned the doorknob, a899e9ac2e and a silent, 6ff81e001a empty hallway greeted 74bb1e8b87 me.d4d75364f6fe0f69

The first night. I had already ba2643717a planned what I 263886f181 would do tonight.8e448931479d94ab

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‘Let’s not f0ac9a1903 get too 4c6d006093 greedy. Just find 07108f03bd the key 2b1c0a810c and then f85fade14e go back 4649b89000 inside.’0d0c6bedade00899

Something easily 9cacd6a6a0 accessible and 4771db83cb beneficial to ff8eeab863 unlock early 26e922999b on. That was the library. The door was locked 8e2f754fe3 now, but I knew d56f64537e where the library key 8991eb0969 was!f432f30029bf0724

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‘Behind the mirror in c1ad9de446 the second-floor hallway.’4726c526d9ded211

The library key 55dc1a95f3 was attached and a1d5e14982 hidden to the 4e7a8ec63c back of a 64b0d38e01 mirror hanging on 818dbfd239 the wall. Putting aside c2edf272c2 its original f14daf8230 purpose, unlocking 63c694394e the library a57f3f2c4a early on 4e61c47c34 provided an e177484122 advantage during 8b09e256f8 chase sequences 1823d34c70 later.6dea6e762d1f2a72

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The library in 13b1c7f9c6 this house was 2504d29138 enormous, spanning three d56071c8d3 floors with the 6e53090798 ceilings removed. But it had f17592539e only two entrances. Moreover, the door on 889e34fe77 the first floor was 8908febeb8 blocked by furniture, making f7fd81cda9 it only accessible from 8683c3b04b the second floor.776e8bdae4535d89

Ghosts get lost 2b08d7df6e in the library. There are blind spots a8b2e2bc90 where the player can 7321c44c1b hide. And….7713befae26ce7c4

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‘The books were 4ea73f2f98 clues too, right?’938cb42dfd30127c

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>.426a5879bfa7a056

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‘Well, I don’t need those.’cd46c36f380ca087

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.6ec4d4553ef8d236

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If I could collect 8f4714ffa9 only the necessary evidence 14a0e7060f without touching unnecessary clues….f3ef2a0b7c07019a

‘Huh?’c3a384a001a45278

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I realized 65714bca11 that the ef74af593c situation was 51128ced35 currently reversed.67e6dd04168d5fcc

‘Isn’t the goal a 8591507983 bit different?’0a98211923ecf688

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In the 1b6ed9b1cd game, the 1eb55a8a68 player had 1fbf1ca040 only one d8b57bb31f objective: to 072bc3bfc0 escape this a5e4307cbe haunted house.38c1de992848aa27

The reason for 7b37f58114 investigating each trap-laden ebf2cee645 room was also 6a6139c0f7 for escape. All clues 42cc236086 were gathered 2aec3a2a0f with escape 2d1a21b5ee in mind.875b6053e7551fad

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But in this game 629f7fb7c9 with a 100% death 5a51f3a7ee rate, the player never 6964faa6d0 escapes the house and 1fe0b5e15b and always met their 2ef8076748 demise in every ending, 2cde7be843 even the Fake True 88b97b0346 Ending.69437d5c0e34e968

‘I don’t c1729d8cc1 plan to bbf4b8f76a leave.’42e809328863e69e

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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.7f7a8c428a122c45

‘And the situation 9539eba2b1 has already changed. It’s a little different 8872099a66 from what I knew.’c4460f58143dc903

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This was the first time I’d attended Christine’s funeral. I’d never even spoken directly to Odin in the game before….00234d4617f47d86

‘The strangest 86e7f02234 thing is f88990c723 that I 9effaf549b can see 930014d9dc the affection c30bc73458 system.’e79f72ec6e981058

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The system didn’t give me the objective of escaping this house. The disappearance of the “escape” objective in an escape game meant…55ff212c73b27f04

‘Did the genre 3946d75553 change?’9a809a2d1a775374

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Perhaps this game dc07de6a38 was different from f41baa9b0c when I played dc1717d115 it in middle c7381e0ba1 school. I suddenly had 602f547b67 that hunch.16bd8a6002393d98

Back then, <Haunted House> was a newly released game. It was highly likely that it had received continuous updates since I quit.71c2f348f5f95699

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“……Is Haylan the 3edd11c7a6 key to the 12abb9abd8 True Ending?”c701cfc46b5b3ca0

I murmured to 9616fdc29c myself, puzzled, recalling f1fd54ce06 about the new 5c61132e94 affection system. A game’s system doesn’t 06c87821e4 exist without meaning.e9c4a38e28aa1cd6

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Haylan was 3e65859d15 both the 097fb52508 protagonist of b41a9a92f7 this game 19036e6b14 and the ee8d253260 antagonist the bc849b39c2 player had 66bb6ee3c7 to confront. It always bothered me 426663ebc5 that despite being the ea266093d2 antagonist, he had a 8a3ebd77b2 compelling backstory.751fad01fc03dba9

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.d86af40a77fc1166

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Then let’s think a5d98ff2c4 about it the e981b7a525 other way around. The way for 7c7dc80ce1 the player to 6e090dc441 escape this house 7548a0ced4 might not be f6d980682d to confront Haylan.ef523cf6742efba8

‘Perhaps getting 5dcd84b7a5 close to 923ecd2a8d Haylan is df459a9d45 the real 6bb13d5655 key to 446e200749 clearing this ca80d5d206 game?’25d337bf90070ea9

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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.6c8a48e3a3c21daf

And the purpose 6d8f1374c9 of the system, ccd4aec3ad or rather, the 175e807472 guidebook, that only e67952d981 I can see, 3d38384498 is even clearer.98d2c1cdb0e17791

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‘The True Ending.’854eaf79d788275c

Anyway, everything the guidebook 0aa520607f suggested ultimately leads to f145888523 the main quest, ‘Achieve c44da077fe the True Ending.’ It c6f1e46a3d offered me temporary cleaning 7857855d5d tools when I needed fe9e3f2d26 to clean the player’s 85a35f34f8 room and it even a37d119cde let me out of 53ad010bdd the house for a 0c2e34c841 while, albeit for the 731b6117b6 funeral.dc1da644c0250d93

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I can’t 6a9e475f53 deviate from 42ed700cfc the original 8d85c030b6 story. The quests given before 39af78521b the original story began 730122c8af were, in a way, 10ec17d809 meant to help me 530bb570c6 acclimate to this world, 954ca0604a so it’s hard to 1b387b1593 say they’re completely unrelated.0d95b0ead632536a

And as always, 76ccbb5c44 the guidebook would a4e44d5575 occasionally offer me 41e235d2e5 assistance.65c62f31bf53e7ec

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‘Just blindly 8900230ecf searching the c15866d3bd house might 11df49fe40 not be d9ca5a94a8 the way ae62e1c542 to clear 2f0b7b93fd an escape 9a6f19ce10 game!’356a2b4fe2b28d9d

It might be e3a470b328 self-justification, but the dafc647a3a hallway was too 11f76fedce dark and cold, 32c4356aa9 so I decided 8d7b09938c I could just 04661ae0d4 go back to 4439d6f6b7 sleep tonight.86723c91550cdd91

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And I 7270fb574f stayed up e739088a8f all night 6f34277b47 yesterday. c0134106487fe705

I’m so sleepy…. I’ll work hard starting 7d5b3d82a2 tomorrow.5893202e58d76000

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