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Bloodlust was merciless, cold, and cruel. One strike, then another, cleaved Little Flower in two. Her face, initially incredulous, was gradually hacked into a distorted mess, unrecognizable, a bloody pancake, a pool of gore, yet the strikes continued.

A full eight strikes!

Chopping until not even ashes remained.

The entire audience in the live stream watched this scene in stunned disbelief, erupting in a frenzy!

"??????????"

"Holy crap holy crap holy crap!"

"So terrifying!"

"What happened?"

On the screen, all was black, save for a human figure with a cute smile, clad in green stripes: "Hello."

Umbrella Man: "??? Who are you?"

I am Little Umbrella.

"Little Umbrella? Isn't that the name of my character?"

BGM began to play—no, it couldn't be called BGM, just a cacophony of grating, chaotic noise, occasionally punctuated by dull, heartbeat-like drumbeats, making one's skin crawl, stirring unease, and sending chills down the spine.

And the ruddy smile on the little figure's face, so utterly adorable, seemed bizarrely eerie against the pitch-black backdrop and coupled with the sinister, unnerving noise, especially after the scene of him slaying Goat Dad and turning Little Flower into mincemeat.

Umbrella Man and Sans had endured a lengthy battle, stretching into the late hours, yet the viewers of the live stream remained, none having left. Now, they were all terrified, spamming the chat to alleviate their fear.

"Is this really the protagonist???"

"So scary, the protagonist is out of control..."

"Protective barrier of comments, protective barrier of comments!"

"How did this game suddenly turn into a horror game?"

"I had already turned off the lights and crawled into bed late at night, but I was so scared that I quickly turned the lights back on."

Your power awakened me from death.

Umbrella Man speculated: "Does this mean, I'm the one controlling him, but because of the slaughter, his level increased, and now he's awakened on his own?"

Small words appeared line by line.

I possess a 'human soul.' I possess 'determination.'

They were never mine to begin with; they belong to you.

At first, I was very confused. Our plan had failed, hadn't it?

Why was I resurrected?

It was you.

Through your guidance, I realized the purpose of my rebirth.

Power.

Together, we eliminate enemies and grow stronger.

Life. Attack. Defense. Money. EXP. LV.

Each time the numbers increase, that feeling. I become myself again.

In the live stream, a helpful explainer enlightened the later arrivals: "Yesterday, Umbrella Man played the neutral route of the game. In the Judgment Hall, Sans tells the player to be judged for every EXP they gain.

EXP is short for Execution Point, a way to quantify the pain you inflict on others. Killing monsters grants EXP, and LOVE also increases. LOVE is short for Level Of Violence, which measures a person's capacity to harm others.

The more you kill, the easier it is to stray from your true heart, the less vulnerable you become, and the easier it is to hurt others."

"Holy crap, suddenly this game feels so profound!"

"This is actually a philosophical game, isn't it?"

Lin Fan, seeing this explanatory comment, couldn't help but be shocked: "They can even explain it like that? So cool."

At first, he wondered why merciful combat victories didn't grant EXP or increase LV. So that was it.

He suddenly felt a stirring, wanting to play through the entire game himself.

Little Umbrella.

Now, we have become absolute beings.

For us, there is nothing left here now.

Let us erase this meaningless world and move on to the next.

Two options appeared at the bottom of the screen.

Erase / Do Not Erase.

Umbrella Man said strangely: "What the heck? I painstakingly achieved this ending. Why should I erase it? I'm not erasing it!"

Don't want to?

Hmm...

How strange.

The little figure's tone seemed to have changed subtly, and his eyes suddenly widened, his expression changing from ·· to ■■

Looking inexplicably terrifying, giving one a very ominous premonition.

When did it become your decision?

"Ugh, what's with those eyes? So scary!" Umbrella Man was startled by the bizarre change, his voice trembling slightly, talking incoherently to embolden himself. "Hey, what do you want? Come out of the screen if you dare! I'm not afraid of you!"

However, in the next moment, terrifying bloody tears suddenly streamed from the soulless eye sockets of the pixelated figure, and his mouth opened grotesquely like a zombie!

The sound effect changed from chaotic noise to a shrill roar, as if a vengeful ghost was screaming!

Crimson and glaring scarlet flashed at a high frequency, the background shaking violently, the pixelated figure's image growing larger and larger, his face stretching longer and longer, becoming as large as the screen, as if he was about to walk out of the screen, blood tears constantly flowing, looking increasingly terrifying!!!

"Aaaaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaah! Mommy!" Umbrella Man didn't have his camera on, but his voice was distorted by fear, coarse and panicked. One could hear his shouts rapidly receding from the computer, along with the loud crash of the chair falling over.

"Aaaaaaaaaah! Protective barrier of comments, protective barrier of comments!"

"So scary so scary!"

"Damn it, don't come over here!"

"Crap crap crap, scared the crap out of me!"

Lin Fan in front of the computer was startled, jolting backward in his chair, the hairs on the back of his neck standing on end, his heart instantly pounding wildly.

The screen instantly turned black, a flash of blood sweeping down from the top of the screen, mercilessly slicing through.

It was the attack effect that usually appeared when attacking monsters, but at this moment it felt like it was slashing at the player outside the screen.

Instantly, the blood-red number "99999999" overflowed the screen, flowing rapidly.

Then the screen crashed directly, returning to the desktop.

Umbrella Man returned to the computer, still shaken: "What the heck was that just now? Scared the crap out of me."

Suddenly a little puzzled: "Huh, why is the game gone?"

Restarting 'Undertale'.

The screen was pitch black, the start interface disappeared, and the background sound was only the lonely sound of wind, as if in a barren, empty wasteland where nothing existed.

Umbrella Man said, perplexed: "This... the game can't be entered at all? Maybe something will change after a while, let's play a round of Minesweeper first."

"Okay, okay."

"This game is so amazing, the characters in the game actually awakened consciousness? And rebelled against the player?"

"I was really scared just now, I thought he was going to come out of the game."

"It's chilling to think about it, maybe this world is a real world?"

"How is that possible... but it does give a very different feeling."

The audience discussed what had just happened with great enthusiasm.

Ten minutes later, new words finally appeared on the pitch-black screen.

Interesting.

You want to go back. Back to the world you destroyed with your own hands.

You pushed everything to the brink of despair.

You led this world to destruction.

You think you don't have to bear the consequences. Yes/No.

Umbrella Man decisively chose No: "I think this responsibility is half and half, okay?"

Then what do you expect?

Perhaps we can reach a compromise. You still possess something I want.

Give it to me, and I will return this world. Yes/No.

You will give me your soul. Yes/No.

Umbrella Man was a little annoyed: "Fine, fine, take whatever you want, okay? Does it even matter?"

This time when it was restarted, it was completely the scene at the beginning of the game, needing to name the character, the previous save was completely gone.

Umbrella Man was also a little sleepy: "Yawn, although I don't really understand the final plot, it seems like he didn't have a soul at first and could only act using my soul, and in the end he awakened consciousness because of the slaughter. I lost my soul, and that person returned the world to me, that's probably the meaning.

What impact it will have, and what the identity of that person is, maybe I need to play the game again, or maybe I need to finish the pacifist route to know more. It's quite late now, everyone go to sleep!"