Horror Game Developer: My games aren't that scary! novel Chapter 59

Chapter 59: Return of the Jester [2]

[Scenario will be starting soon. You have thirty minutes. Please get ready!]

Staring at the floating notification in front of me, I felt at a complete loss.

’Scenario? Why am I suddenly in a scenario? What’s going on??’

The last thing I recalled was standing before the painting. That was when my mind blanked. No, wait...

I suddenly recalled the face of the little girl and the hands that reached out for me.

Hastily, I sat up and looked around me.

Could she be...?

"Huh?"

A dull sound escaped my lips.

Not far from where I sat, a mansion rose tall and pale against the soft blue sky, its white walls gleaming under the midday sun. All around me, lush greenery swayed gently, the rough blades of grass grazing my hands and legs as I rested in its midst.

This place...

It looked extremely familiar. _{freewёbnoνel.com}

"This is the place within the painting, isn’t it?"

I recognized the small pathway that was within the painting. I could even recognize the spot where the little girl had posed.

Then...?

’I’m in the world of the painting?’

This...

I gradually stood up and dusted my clothes, trying my best to gather my bearings. The situation made no sense to me at all, but I had to remain calm.

"A scenario... I am now inside a scenario..."

In other words, a gate?

The thought made me groan. If this were truly a gate, then I was in serious trouble, especially since I didn’t know the level of the gate.

I was currently in the First Order. This meant that I could only realistically handle <F> to <E> ranked gates.

Clearing higher gates was not impossible, but I needed specific items and ample preparations in order to do so.

But I had neither.

I wasn’t prepared, nor did I have items that were specific to clearing the scenario. In other words, I was fucked.

’Shit, what do I do?’

I looked around me to see if there was some sort of exit, but no matter how hard I looked, I couldn’t see anything.

The only thing I could see was the mansion in the distance, but that was the last place I wanted to go.

Then...? What was I supposed to do?

"No, now’s not the time to panic."

I had to take several breaths in order to calm my mind down. There was no use panicking at this point.

Whatever happened had happened.

The only thing I could do now was look forward and find a way out of this situation.

I thought back to the second message I received, and a thought occurred to me.

"It says that I have thirty minutes to prepare. That might just be the thing that I need in order to clear this ridiculous scenario."

Regarding the description of the scenario, I was sure I was going to receive it just before the scenario started.

In that case, the best course of action for me to take was to scout the mansion.

But there was only one problem.

"...I really don’t want to do that."

Just the sight of the distant mansion made my stomach sick. And yet, I knew that going into the mansion was the only way for me to survive.

As such, pushing my cowardly thoughts away, I headed towards the mansion.

’I hope I’m right about this.’

’The scenario hasn’t started yet. In that case, there shouldn’t be any monsters or problems...’

’This should be the main hall.’