Zero: This is my first time making a story like this, I'm just an amateur author whose English is not good, please bare with me, this is horror but not pure horror? Something like that, anyway hope you enjoy my first horror story!

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I stretch my arm and heave a sigh of relief.

I just finish my work and the time is already 1:10 am.

I work overtime again without my knowledge.

But I have to.

Being an office worker sometimes is a pain in the butt.

Well, I grew used to it, if I don't work, I'll have no home to live, and if I don't have a home, I'll become homeless.

That's the same as needing food.

If you want money then you need to work.

That's life.

A cycle.

But sometimes, you need something to relax.

....

Once I got home, I quickly open my phone to watch something on youtube.

N**es T** 5

A channel where a collective of ghosts caught on camera was compiled in one video, it's either true or not but I still enjoy it.

And I don't think it is weird when someone like me watches it at night, alone in this place.

I probably am not the only one.

After finishing watching, I open my computer planning to play that game.

I don't have to worry about later for work since it is my day off.

So, I can do something like this.

Not unless my superior calls for me and ask me to go to work because of some emergency.

I hope not.

Once I finish setting up my computer, I quickly open the application.

A horror game.

It is an online world where the capacity of players who can join in one world is 50 max.

In this game, you can farm by killing some monsters, and there is also a raid boss.

However, your character is only a normal human without power or anything.

It is not easy where you can do some combo.

To defeat the boss enemy, you must collect some items that will drop on defeated low-level monsters.

Combine them until they turn into artifacts.

Also, if your character died, they are dead for good and you have to create another one.

[Hehehehe, what do we have here? Want to play a game with marie? ]

There is also a story where four elementary graduating students are trapped in this world and their first encounter is this bitch.

Blonde messy hair, and red reptilian eyes, she was like a person on an art came to life, a beautiful girl, wearing a red and white western suspender skirt with a red hat, a girl whose age is around 12.

Despite her pretty face and smile, an innocent appearance hid her psychotic tendency.

Marie the painter

This bitch will make you frustrated and hate her.

I also hate her for acting like that.

I don't know why but I get angry every time I see her face, whether in some fanart or anything like some doujin where ehem.

...

Anyway, as a tutorial boss, she is the first boss you must defeat, while making a way to defeat her the screen will stop and an instruction will appear, whether a place where you can hide, or grab this and that, anything that will help you in the future as you progress.

And since it is a tutorial, there was no way you will die.

Oh how wrong that was.

I died multiple times in that tutorial.

Because I lack some items that need to collect inside that mansion without her seeing me.

Yes, HER seeing me.

Marie is a painting.

And the mansion is full of paintings, small to large canvasses, and some walls with paintings, and drawings.

She is everywhere and in that mansion was a large portrait of her.

You might think that, if you destroy her main portrait, you can kill her.

No, even if you destroy it.

She will still be there as long as there is a painting, canvas, portrait, or even a drawing made out of chalk.

"Sigh... I really do enjoy killing her but I feel bad for the kid Jason... "

There are four characters, three extras, and one protagonist.

Jason is the first person to die, he dies in the hands of Marie by getting his throat sliced like paper and turn into an art.

After you defeat Marie, three of them survive, but three bosses must be defeated so they can go home.

In the end, only one survives and that is the protagonist, with her friend's sacrifice, she manages to escape from the supernatural world.

And live a life full of PTSD.

there is also an IF story, a story where when the protagonist escapes from that supernatural world.

What greeted her is the destruction of her home world and a gigantic figure with Ox's head laughing evilly.

"Yeah Marie, let me play with you and kill that last boss of a clown. "

After I manage to beat Marie, I proceed to continue the game towards its end.

I look at the time and was surprised.

5:47 in the morning.

"holy... "

I quickly turn off my computer and rest myself in the bed.

Quickly, I slowly close my eyes, and comfort soon engulfs me.

"Oh? How did you suddenly appear here Mister? "

So, what kind of ridiculous dream is this?

"hehe, it doesn't matter, you see, Marie is bored... Marie doesn't know for how long she's been wanted for a playmate but did her wish come true? "

She smile innocently at me but her movement in her large portrait betrayed that expression.

She was holding a kitchen knife as she lay resting it on her cheek with a crazy eye pointing at me.

"Hey Mister, Play with Marie Kay? I will be the seeker and you must hide, No Cheating! Marie hates cheating... "

She frowns but soon changes into a smile.

"This is a dream, this is a dream... "

Marie blinked her eyes in wonder and then smile mischievously.

"Mister is not dreaming, don't make Marie sad, here to make you believe that this is not a dream. "

Suddenly, a burning pain came into my shoulder, I look at it and saw there was a lot of blood, I turn pale as I scream in pain.

"Agh!!! "

"hehe! Mister is surprised! But that can't do, you are going to play hide and seek with Marie, so you must keep quiet and find a hiding spot! Don't let Marie find you! If she finds you, Marie would have no choice but to kill you! "

Marie clapped her hands in joy and said.

"Let's start the game! If Marie can't find you in an hour it is your win and Marie will let go of you! Then, Marie will count to 10!... 1.... 2.... 3..... 4... 5..... "

I quickly find a hiding spot in panic.

There is no thought of wondering why I'm here, what I need right now is to survive.