Horror Game Developer: My games aren't that scary! novel Chapter 105

—Seth Thorn

Seeing my name on the list for the expedition, I had to blink several times in order to make sure I was seeing correctly.

However, regardless of how many times I blinked, my name still remained on the paper.

Kyle's voice reached me a moment after.

"What the hell did you do? Don't tell me you asked for this to be the reward for your—"

"No, of course not."

I cut Kyle off before he could finish his sentence.

"I'd rather have some sort of monetary compensation than ask for something like this. Are you crazy?"

In the first place, I was just as lost as him. How in the world did—

"Oh, about that…"

A sheepish voice echoed as both my head and Kyle's head turned towards the source of the voice.

Rowan smiled a little bit while scratching the side of his neck.

"This might actually be my fault... The Team Leader asked me if I wanted to participate, but I'm in no condition to do so, and when asked who could replace me, the conversation headed in a direction where I just ended up recommending you. If you're part of the squad, then—"

"You…"

Kyle cut Rowan off, his fist right in his mouth. It looked like he had many things that he wanted to say.

However, I stopped him before he could.

"So you recommended me in your place?"

"Oh, no."

Rowan shook his head.

"Like I said. The conversation headed in a different direction. You're not on the same level as me. Recommending you would be stupid. I recommended you for the support squad. I feel like you'd do a very good job."

"What? Him…?"

Kyle looked at me with a doubtful look, mouthing things like, 'What the fuck did you do? What drug did you feed him?'

I was a little offended, to be honest.

There was no drug involved. Just a lot of gaslighting and a very powerful recording from a high-class anomaly.

I wouldn't stoop low enough to use drugs.

"Kyle, you should give it a try when you have time. I think it will help you a lot. I know that you go through a lot too, so—"

"Well, maybe some other time."

Though he said this, Kyle didn't look interested at all. That was fair. I didn't really want to do any more therapy for now.

Especially since I was still unsure of whether it would even work on stronger people. It worked on those of the Second Order down, but I wasn't really sure about those of higher order.

I needed to tread cautiously.

"Whatever the case is, you need to reject this. The Guild is quite flexible in these types of things. They won't force you, and we've got plenty of other supporters that can go in your place."

"…Oh."

I was already aware of this.

I knew that I could just reject the call and be done with the situation, but staring at my laptop and looking at the quest, my lips pressed together tightly.

It had been a while since I had found the crack, and yet... nothing came out of it.

The quest had yet to be completed.

What did this mean?

'Could the quest be related to me needing to go into the strange crack?'

A heavy feeling built up in my chest.

I was still unsure of what the crack did, but from speculations, it was some sort of gate.

I'd normally be worried and even terrified, but staring at the quest window and seeing the [Second Order] part on the difficulty section, I started to wonder if perhaps… the crack was a lot easier than people assumed.

Perhaps the anomaly wasn't very strong?

No, maybe it had some sort of weakness that no one was aware of that made it easy to handle?

All sorts of thoughts drifted into my mind at that moment.

There were many voices that told me not to take the mission, but looking at the quest window and seeing the Second Order part, I almost felt certain that my previous thoughts were correct.

Either the anomaly we were handling had a serious weakness, or perhaps… the weird crack was some sort of small trial set up by the anomaly?

Whatever the case was, I needed more time to think about the situation.

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