Chapter 10

It made him want to burst out of this space, so small he couldn’t move, and fight that crazy woman to the death!

But… he couldn’t!

He had to endure!

“Hi… it seems he’s not here. I’ll check the other rooms.”

Finally, following Twilight’s somewhat disappointed voice, the sound of the cleaver scraping against the floor grew distant, followed by the sound of a closing door.

“Phew… am I saved?”

Though it felt surreal, Yi Mo felt a sudden surge of relief and muttered in a voice only he could hear.

Then…

Creak…!

“No, you’re not, my first-ever boyfriend who mysteriously became mine… the Boyfriend Player…”

Along with the sound of the cabinet door swinging open, a voice that was both sultry and as cold as the abyss reached Yi Mo’s ears.

The sunset suddenly flooding into the cabinet was a bit blinding, causing Yi Mo to instinctively shield his eyes with his hand.

Looking up, he saw Twilight.

Her body was currently emitting an unnatural black mist, and her red pupils glowed with a crimson, bloodthirsty light.

She was bathed in the sunset filtering into the classroom, appearing as if she were draped in a vivid wedding dress.

Compared to the beautiful sunset, Twilight’s sickly expression made her even more stunning—beautiful like a bride gazing affectionately at her lover.

Only…

That wasn’t a lover, but someone she hated!

Mixed with the joy of impending victory, she couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

To Yi Mo’s ears, however, it was exceptionally piercing.

To him, the person blocking the exit of the storage locker wasn’t some charming bride.

She was simply a mad Killer!

“I’m not your boyfriend. Why not just kill me?”

Yi Mo stopped looking at her and lowered his head, his tone somewhat cold.

Twilight froze for a moment.

She couldn’t understand why a man who had always been crazy about her would refuse to admit he was her boyfriend under the System’s assignment.

She was quite surprised.

“Oh?”

“No, no, no. The System is absolute.”

“For example, you must participate in these ridiculous games, you must kill, and you must die if you fail.”

“And I actually received a System prompt at the start of the game, informing me that you are mine, my exclusive and only boyfriend.”

“Hehehe… it even told me to enjoy the pleasures of love. Isn’t that ridiculous?”

Twilight looked at the countdown, not in a hurry at all.

“There are 6 minutes left, my boyfriend. Why don’t you guess at which second I’ll bring this blade down?”

Twilight turned around, looking at the sunset outside the window.

She savored the joy of victory and the beautiful twilight as her pale pink hair swayed against her shoulders.

Then, feeling it would be a waste not to appreciate her first boyfriend’s death throes at such a sacred moment, she walked back to the cabinet.

She leaned down, her right finger slowly tracing across Yi Mo’s chest as she teased him, “You’re actually quite handsome. Your hair is just a bit long, though.”

“Giggle… what a pity~”

“Tell me, at which second will I strike?”

In truth, Twilight was somewhat influenced by the Killer camp.

Normally, she would have struck long ago instead of taunting her enemy like this.

Perhaps the Killer role truly magnified the desires of the heart to an infinite degree, driving one to madness.

Just as the Killer’s description stated:

[Is the one who picks up the knife to kill a human or a ghost?]

Twilight awaited her boyfriend’s answer.

“If you were my girlfriend, then I guess you wouldn’t kill me,” Yi Mo said, his head lowered.

His eyes were obscured by his messy bangs, and his voice grew colder and colder.

It was as if he didn’t care about death at all.

The moment Yi Mo finished his answer, the red light in Twilight’s eyes intensified to the extreme.

She swung the blade toward Yi Mo inside the locker!

“Wrong! It’s now!”

“Eh?”

However… the scene of blood splashing everywhere did not occur.

Instead, Yi Mo’s loud laughter echoed throughout the beautiful classroom.

“Hahaha… hahahaha…”

“In the end, who is the real Killer?”

That laughter sounded somewhat mad…

***

Yi Mo was still inside the narrow locker.

Unlike before, when he had his head lowered, he now looked up.

From beneath his messy bangs, a pair of brownish eyes finally revealed themselves, shimmering with a dazzling light.

Compared to his previous lifeless state, he was now far more striking.

Before him, less than 30 centimeters away, was Twilight.

At such a close distance, Yi Mo could clearly see her perfect features, even down to each individual long eyelash.

Below those lashes was a pair of eyes glowing with an eerie red light, filled with anger and confusion.

The cleaver that had already claimed several lives was less than 10 centimeters above Yi Mo’s head.

But even across that 10-centimeter distance, Twilight was unable to bring it down.

She could only stare at Yi Mo, frozen in place.

Yi Mo didn’t come out; he just sat in the locker.

After his wild laughter, he suddenly covered his forehead and whispered, ‘What a crazy game.’

‘Even I’ve been influenced by you all to become a bit abnormal…’

Then, he shook his head.

‘No.’

‘Perhaps I was the most abnormal one from the very beginning.’

In the void before Yi Mo, the page for his SSR+ Card, Inner Personality Girlfriend, had appeared.

However, unlike before, the mosaic on the card had completely vanished.

The words “Unreleased” that had been on the back of the card were also gone.

On the card’s introduction page, the most eye-catching thing was a candid photo of Twilight.

She didn’t look frantic like she did now; wearing the same JK school uniform, her expression was a bit cold.

She carried the distant, icy aura of a mature woman that warned others not to approach.

Calling her a goddess wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

Next to the photo was a set of data.

Age, birthday, weight, measurements…

Everything was there.

The fluctuating Inner Personality Value had now reached over 80%.

Below the Inner Personality Value was the ability of this card.

[Boyfriend Privilege: Absolute Obedience]

Behind it was a parenthesis (2/3), along with a note stating that activation required the card to be released.

Yi Mo had used it once—just now when Twilight tried to strike.

He had activated the card, rendering Twilight’s body unable to move for 10 minutes!

“Twilight, actually, when it was just the two of us left, I knew I had already won.”

“The ability of the SSR+ Card I drew activated once we were the only ones left.”

“Just as I thought initially, it likely required you to acknowledge being my girlfriend for it to work…”

“I was watching you before because I wanted to confirm if I could activate it, but unfortunately, I never had the chance to be alone with you.”

Yi Mo had tried to make contact with Twilight three times.

When they exchanged looks after entering the game, they were interrupted by Solo Stan.

When he ran out of the room to try and find which way Twilight went, he was interrupted by Solo Stan.

When there were only three people left, he was still interrupted by Solo Stan.

Although those attempts failed, by coincidence, Twilight had acknowledged it herself in a teasing tone.

“Solo Stan…”

“He had bad intentions from the start. I knew that.”

Thinking of Solo Stan, Yi Mo’s mood dipped slightly.

He looked at the Jade Pendant he was still clutching tightly and put it in his pocket.

“But that didn’t stop me from learning about this game bit by bit in a completely foreign environment.”

“Actually… I really did get along with him.”

“It’s just that his acting was too clumsy; his true emotions always leaked through.”

“When he asked for the Exorcism Talisman, I guessed his card would probably need one, so I went to him on purpose to confirm.”

“That kind of acting… can’t fool anyone…”

As he spoke, Yi Mo closed his eyes and laughed bitterly.

“I can understand that he wanted to live…”

“But only I knew that in that round, I was the only one who absolutely wouldn’t die…”

“In fact, I would have preferred for him to die instead of you.”

“That way, it might have been possible for me to win against you in the end.”

“Heh… even though you’re the one who killed him, I played a part in it.”

“The Exorcism Talisman was completely useless. I clearly guessed that, but I didn’t tell him.”

“Just as he didn’t tell me that he actually had an SR Card…”

Having said all this, Yi Mo looked up and stared expressionlessly at Twilight.

“Humans can’t leave this game alive.”

“The only one who can leave alive is a ghost.”

“The ghost who kills everyone!”

His eyes showed no sign of frenzy or madness; there was only a cold, numb lack of emotion.

Despite this, it felt as though he could see right through a person’s heart.

He looked at the countdown in the upper right corner, thought for a moment, and activated the Boyfriend Privilege again to allow Twilight to speak.

“Why didn’t you use your card to command me from the start!”

“Were you… playing with me?”

Compared to before, Twilight was unexpectedly calm.

She was so calm that Yi Mo actually admired the girl before him.

Hearing her question, Yi Mo felt the girl’s gaze was too bright for him to meet, so he lowered his head.

“No, I just didn’t want to kill you with my own hands.”

“Instead of facing you like this and ending the game by forcing you to be unable to move…”

“I just wanted to hide in a corner and scrape by.”

“I don’t know how many games you’ve participated in to be able to swing a blade so skillfully.”

“But as for me, I’m not ready to do that yet.”

Twilight let out a cold laugh.

“Heh… how hypocritical…”

“Then you might as well leave. In less than 3 minutes, I’ll be killed by the game rules.”

Yi Mo shook his head.

“I can imagine that in the final 3 minutes, even for someone like you, facing death alone must be agonizing.”

“So I’ll stay here and accompany you.”

“Until this game ends.”