This Is Not a Game

It’s not that great…

210 rounds.

The rooms are large and there are many places to hide.

Yuseong, who repeated the game of hide and seek with death, thinking that if he kept trying, it might not take more than once, but he realized that hiding was not the answer either.

“Intelligence isn’t the issue. He’s pretty sure I’m in this room.”

At first, I thought I was caught hiding in an easy place, but after repeated deaths, I realized that something was wrong.

Despite hiding in an ingenious place never imagined, or using thorny vines to cling to the ceiling, the monster did not leave, but rather searched the room and finally found itself and took its own life.

-Could that monster come back to the past like us?

“No. For that matter, the reaction under the same conditions is perfectly constant.”

-Well, then what should I do? If you can’t fight or hide, isn’t there no other way?

“It’s not like that.”

If being stuck in a dock is a problem, you can get out.

While looking around the room, Yoosung crouched behind a large statue near the door.

It should be said that it is aiming for a psychological loophole, or it is one of the places where it seems like it will be found out soon, but unexpectedly goes unnoticed for a long time.

After a while, at the same time as the door was broken and the monster entered the room, Meteor was careful not to make a sound, but quickly went out without looking back.

– Yo, you’re brave. I’m afraid I won’t be able to move.

‘If I died over 200 times, I should do this much.’

The pain that I have never felt in my life or the fear of death does not feel much if I repeat it once or twice, over hundreds of times.

‘I guessed from the size and decoration of the room, but it’s no ordinary mansion. Almost like a small castle?’

Endless corridors and numerous tightly closed doors.

I put my hand on a nearby doorknob just in case, but it didn’t even move.

Yuseong, who was walking forward under the judgment that getting away from the room was the top priority, found a large picture frame hanging on one side of the hallway and had no choice but to stop.

“yes?”

-what?

A woman who exudes a mysterious atmosphere that draws attention enough to be clearly understood even in the picture.

The problem was the woman’s appearance.

“How come you look similar to me? Do you think you’ll be just like this when you grow up?”

-Yes, will you?

“Aren’t you your mother?

– It can’t be. I’m an orphan. From the earliest memories to the most recent, I have never met anyone like me, let alone my family.

“Then what is this?”

– I don’t know. I lived alone in the woods unnoticed, and when I came to my senses, I was in that room.

“I don’t know who the woman in this picture is, but it seems certain that she has a relationship with you.

Took!

A cold aura felt at the top of the head.

Yooseong, who raised his head reflexively, froze as it was.

A strange creature that looks like a sea anemone is attached to the ceiling wriggling its tentacles.

As soon as the slime from the tentacles hit my forehead, I threw my body with all my might, as my instinct told me, but as if I had waited, I fell over because the tentacles snatched at my ankles.

“What the fuck! No matter how hard it is, this isn’t it! The genre is… Ugh?!”

Should I say I’m lucky?

Contrary to the bad imagination, the tentacles were very gentlemanly.

Yooseong meekly accepted the 210th death, expressing gratitude in his heart for the tentacles that blocked his mouth and nose and choked his throat, interfering with his breathing.

————

I thought that it would be better to go outside than to repeat a battle with a monster without a chance.

But that was a mistake.

-···Are you okay?

“·······.”

Even when the first escape failed, he was not disappointed.

From the start, from the moment the crazy monster that couldn’t communicate with the language rushed to kill me, I naturally expected that it wouldn’t be safe outside.

But the mansion was large and the opportunities were limitless.

I thought that if I tried dozens or hundreds of times, I would definitely find a route to escape.

. . until just now.

“How many times is this?”

-556th.

“Are you sure?”

– I have a good memory.

The outside was overflowing with more scary and dangerous beings than monsters.

Tentacles that stick to the ceiling and attack, armor that suddenly wields a weapon that you thought was decoration, zombies that are slow but persistent without giving up, and chimeras made of the bodies of various creatures like monsters.

Yooseong, who had experienced death hundreds of times in various ways, was convinced that it was impossible to escape from this mansion in a normal way with Aris’ ability.

After this, there was only one way left.

Clink!

-Well, can I ask why the window is breaking all of a sudden?

“I can’t seem to find an answer with the straight-up method, so I’m going to bet on luck.”

It was an absurd answer, but Aris, who had seen 556 challenges and failures right next to her, was able to see right through what Meteor meant.

-Sir, are you thinking of falling from here?!

“Yeah. More than that, how high is this mansion built? I can’t even see the bottom?”

-for a moment! Think about it again! There’s no way you can survive falling here?! This isn’t escape, it’s just suicide!

“There are people who have survived airplane crashes or fallen from tall buildings, and this is enough. The opportunities are endless. If you keep trying, you will succeed someday.”

– Exactly what is the probability?

“I don’t know about that. But wouldn’t it be at least higher than the probability of surviving in this?”

-for a moment! At least the time to prepare your mind…

“Do it while falling.”

Hearing the sound of glass windows breaking, Yooseong blew his middle finger at the crowd of monsters and threw himself into the darkness without hesitation.

After a short sense of liberation, the body caught in gravity falls at a terrifying speed.

As Yooseong swayed by the strong wind, instead of taking a diving posture to slow down or closing his eyes, he swung his thorny vine toward the protruding bedrock like a spider hero in comics.

Poof!

‘Sheesh, as expected, imagination and reality are different.’

There is no adhesion to thorny vines, and an ordinary girl cannot have the eyesight to find a point to hang a vine accurately while falling from a cliff, and the precision to accurately throw a vine at that point while falling.

In the end, several attempts all ended in failure, and the moment I thought about how high this cliff was and why it kept falling, I could see the ground right in front of my nose.

‘Ah, this is going to die.’

Kwajik!

A death that is incomparable to any death that has been met so far.

However, it was a very satisfying death for Yooseong in that he could meet his end in an instant without even feeling pain.

———————

Round 774.

I realized that falling is not the answer either.

– It’s too late to realize! Yoosung is an idiot? Usually, it’s normal to try this once and know!

“I’m not stupid either? I realized from the very first time I died that I had no chance of surviving from falling from this height.”

-Then why did you keep trying?

“I thought it would work out somehow if it got caught on a thorny vine.”

It was an acrobatic act to accurately hang a thorny vine on a protruding bedrock while falling due to a strong wind, but Meteor had infinite opportunities, and while repeating repeated falls and deaths, he managed to cling to the cliff by luck.

However, it wasn’t long before Yooseong realized that he had taken Mother Nature too lightly.

The descent itself was not difficult.

The girl’s body was light, and the vines that she could control while growing freely were the best tools for rock climbing.

The problem was Mother Nature’s harshness.

‘It’s cold!’

It is said that the temperature drops by 1 degree for every 100 m increase in altitude.

I didn’t know if the physical laws of this world would be the same as Earth’s or how high this cliff would be, but at least one thing was certain.

The fact that there is a very good chance that he will freeze to death before he descends this cliff.

‘···Sleep for a while.’

– Oh no! If you sleep now, you’ll freeze to death!

‘Wait, it only takes a very short time…’

I pushed myself into the gap between the cliffs, took out an old sweats from my inventory, covered it with a blanket, and closed my eyes.

And when I opened my eyes…

“I’m really going crazy. Do you have any good ideas?”

– If there was such a thing, I wouldn’t have prayed for help.

“ha.”

Yoosung let out a long sigh, closed his eyes and fell into thought.

The meteor, lost in thought, didn’t even move until the moment the door broke down and the monster came nearby and swung its arm.

Kwajik!

‘The opportunities are endless. However, even if I make the optimal choice every moment and have successive luck, my body’s absolute ability is too low to escape from this situation.’

Neither common sense nor nonsensical methods work.

The only things that are increasing are the various causes of death, the tolerance for pain, and the fear of death that is gradually getting duller. There was no

‘If there’s one thing I’ve found out…’

Kwajik!

‘…at least this guy is the most easy opponent.’

Unlike tentacles, golems, and undead, which cannot be harmed by thorny vines, monsters do get hurt from attacks from this side.

‘It’s a return to origin. In the end, whether we live or die, we must end up with this guy. But there is no win frontally. If it had been the body of an adult man, there might have been some possibility, but with this body, even if you attack not 200 times, but 2,000 times, it’s like hitting a rock with an egg.’

The thorny vines do not inflict the fatal wounds that will drive the monster to its death.

Let’s use another weapon, there is nothing like a weapon in this room.

There were times when I tried resisting by using the remains of broken furniture or pieces of glass as weapons, but none of them were satisfactory.

‘It’s not enough to simply hold and wield it. A whip, I need more than that. There is no way to kill the other person with a rope…’

At that moment, an idea popped into Yoosung’s head.

Rather than an idea, it was a kind of inspiration. In order not to miss that inspiration, Yoosung desperately thought through thoughts.

‘If you use this body’s abilities, size, skills, monster strength, physical characteristics, level of intelligence, and structure of this room…’

Kwajik!

[‘Anyone is welcome, please help me!’ Failed to meet clear conditions]

[Retry 0 times. Failed to solve the quest]

[Introductory privileges apply]

[The number of retry attempts is not deducted]

[begins ‘Anyone is welcome, please help me!’]

A sight that makes me sick of being used to it.

However, for the first time since starting this game, Yooseong was able to smile sincerely.

– Black! Yoosung. please answer me! Please don’t leave me! I mean, being alone is lonely!

“…why are you doing this again?”

-Yoo, Yoosung? You said that right? You are here right? Do you know how surprised I was that he didn’t move all of a sudden? I thought you had gone somewhere, leaving me alone!

“If that was possible, I would have run away a long time ago.”

– Do it too!

“It’s too much, I’m dragged to an unknown place and dial 774…”

-It’s number 777.

“Yeah. Anyway, I’ve died 777 times and I don’t know how many more I’ll die in the future.”

– Whoa. I’m sorry.

“So you don’t have to apologize. You didn’t do anything wrong, did you?”

-Still, I’m so sorry that you’re having a hard time because of me…

“You don’t have to be sorry. I’ve found a breakthrough.”

-Breakthrough? What kind of crazy or ingenious way is this time?

The expression “insane” took a little bit, but Yuseong, remembering the free fall over 200 times while ignoring Aris’ pleas, cleared his throat and opened his mouth.

“It’s not that great…”

“Keeg

“…I’ll tell you in the next episode.”

Kwajik!

this is not a game