"So you mean, whoever dies, lives the moment of their death continuously for two hours?" I asked in surprise.
"Exactly, I died previously by getting my throat slashed... A-and I kept on living that m-moment repeatedly... The pains..." Audrey shuddered nonstop as she explained her experience in the purgatory.
"Woah, that must have been horrific... Accept my sincere condolences" I said, while crossing my arm round her neck from behind and patting her shoulder.
"You'll protect me right?" She asked and placed her head on my shoulder.
*Cough*
"Depends..." I replied shamelessly.
"On what?" She asked, and wrapped her hands round my waist.
We were both sitting on her bed.
"What are your abilities?" I asked.
"I can shapeshift, copy a person's ability for a limited amount of time, and summon a haunted mirror" she said.
My jaw almost dropped, she's an OP player too? The night when I heard a child sobbing, and had a vision when I traced the sound and saw a large floating mirror with my faceless reflection, it was her doing.
I gotta keep her.
"That's cool, I think we would make a pretty good team" I said casually, trying to hide the excitement in my voice.
"I think so too..." She looked up to me with a puppy eye.
*Bang*
We both shuddered as something banged the blue door in my room from outside. I stood up and walked over to my room with my pistol pointed at the blue door.
"Help! Please help me!" A shrill scream came from outside.
*Bang*
*Bang*
The door shook violently as something banged on it violently from the other side.
[Pack up and wait in other room.]
I quickly ran to my closet and began stuffing everything into the camping backpack I came with.
"What's going on?" Audrey asked in panic.
"How fast are you at running?" I asked, without pausing what I was doing.
"I'm not sure..." She replied, while biting down at her lower lip nervously.
I was done packing and quickly hanged the now bulging backpack on my back, then I ran to my bed and quickly took out the iron case below my pillow and stuffed it into one of the multiple pockets on my pants.
"Well then imagine getting torn apart by whatever is behind that door and living that exact moment for two hours while running..." I said and walked into her room with her following closely behind.
I closed the small brown door and dragged the small bed to barricade it.
[Once a red door appears, run for it.]
I quickly positioned the small bed in front the small brown door and stepped away from it. Then I began pacing around the room nervously as the banging was getting more intense with the shrill screams of help.
This felt like a f*cking horror movie.
'Spirit vision' I muttered with Lilith in mind.
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A girl who had long black hair with red streaks all over, and had a glowing red pupil could be see running in a thick dark forest, with another girl who had black hair which was as smooth as silk, running alongside her.
"How did you get there?" I asked in surprise.
"Leo? You have to find a way to get out of the house now!" Lilith said, without pausing her steps.
"I know but... How did you get out?" I asked again.
"My new roommate has the ability to open spatial rifts, that how we got here" she said in a hurried tone.
Screech!!
I heard a loud horrifying screech coming from behind her, then I saw her turn around and quickly fire multiple bullet's from the customized red rifle she was carrying, which I hadn't noticed earlier.
She then turned around and kept running as fast as she could. I quickly deactivated the skill and looked at Audrey who was also staring at me weirdly.
"W-who were you talking with?" She asked with a shaky voice.
"The empress..." I simply replied, I wasn't in the mood to explain anything.
[The door is in the other room.]
I quickly flipped the small bed which I had used to barricade the small door to the side and kicked the small brown door open.
I saw the red door just beside the blue door, but when I was about to rush over, the blue door suddenly creaked open slowly and everywhere turned eerily silent immediately.
*Silence*
White skinny long fingers suddenly wrapped themselves around the blue doorsill from outside, they were stained with what looked like rotten blood.
"Help me" a raspy voice whispered from outside the blue door.
[I'm really sorry...]
"Whatever..." I whispered, and slowly took a step back.
"Are you coming out?... Or should I come in?" The raspy voice whispered again.
I almost fell on my knees when I heard what the 'unknown' whispered, whichever god is behind this particular scene, must have watched all the horror documentary there ever was.
"W-why are you doing this?" I heard Audrey ask from behind me.
"What kind of f*cking stupid question is that?" I turned and angrily glared at her.
Then a head suddenly peeked in from outside, and what I saw almost knocked me unconscious.
It was mostly bald with streaks of long gray hair, it had three pitch black eyes which were vertical on it's face and were squirming with maggots, and it's nose looked to be chewed off and bloody, with it's lips torn up to where it's ears were supposed to be.
*Thud*
I looked behind me to see Audrey sprawled on the floor... Yeah, she passed out.
"Look into my eyes..." The creature whispered and smiled creepily, to reveal sharp rows of bloody teeth.
"... And do as I say" I said and looked it in it's disgusting eyes while activating my 'Manipulator' skill.
The creatures creepy smile suddenly froze on it's face and it slowly bowed it's head before me.
"Where do I go from here, to be safe?" I asked with a smirk.
*Giggles*
I suddenly heard giggles from behind the creature, which sent chills down my spine. The creature then turned it's head one eighty degree, to reveal a familiar face.
I quickly looked behind me and saw that Audrey's body was gone, then I looked back to the creature which now had Audrey's face behind It's head.
"How do I look... Leonardo Garcia" the creature said in Audrey's voice.