Livestreaming: I am retarded, but selected to join the analoghorror game?!
Chapter 200 - 195: His Truth

Chapter 200: Chapter 195: His Truth

Speaking of that past event, Clements still couldn’t contain his emotions, his fists trembling involuntarily.

"I hurried to open the door and saw that girl barely breathing, leaning against my door. One glance, and I knew they were venting their anger on their own daughter, letting her run to my doorstep for help. And yet... they had beaten her to that extent. I felt angry! The idea to help her blossomed in my heart, so, I picked up a knife and walked into the next room."

"But even now, thinking back, I regret it because that impulsive decision was the beginning of all the tragedy..."

What would happen next could more or less be guessed—it was probably the origin of the ogre.

However, Xiao Yi hadn’t considered this aspect at all; he was concerned with other matters.

Clements was about to continue, but suddenly, something occurred to Xiao Yi, and he interrupted:

"Hmm? Wait, did you say... ’save me’?"

Clements’s description gave Xiao Yi a strange, familiar feeling, as if he had experienced it before, something like déjà vu.

"Um, is there a problem?" Clements asked.

"This..." Xiao Yi started to recall the scene of that night.

Suddenly, the vague impression in Xiao Yi’s mind became clear because the reality before him had abruptly changed.

Xiao Yi and Clements were originally standing in a clean kitchen, but now, they stood in a narrow, dark hallway next to a door, with the distant room’s light so bright yet so dim, abnormal.

"This is it!" Xiao Yi then remembered, wasn’t this the situation he encountered the first night? Xiao Yi immediately asked, "What you mentioned, is it like what we’re experiencing now?"

"...Eh?" Clements was stunned.

Everything before them was identical to the scene in his memory!

The memory he thought he had buried once again stung Clements’s nerves; he felt his brain shaking.

Just then...

Thump, thump-thump!

The sound of knocking suddenly rang out, and then, interwoven with that knocking, a faint plea for help also sounded.

"...Save me."

"Ah... ah..." Clements’s pupils shrank to tiny points, and his legs seemed to lose their strength, his whole body collapsing to the floor abruptly.

"What’s going on? What is this?" It was the first time Xiao Yi had seen Clements look so scared.

Moreover, Xiao Yi didn’t understand why the same scene he had once encountered was unfolding before his eyes again.

It was like a drama that had been orchestrated.

Only, unlike the previous time, this time Clements and he saw the same scene.

And Clements’s reaction was very strange, as if...

The audience in the live stream was also baffled, unable to comprehend what was happening, when Xiao Yi’s words suddenly shed light for everyone!

Xiao Yi asked, "Clem, is this... a scene you’ve experienced in your memories?"

Most people finally understood the situation and exclaimed on the spot! Oh no! Their IQ seemed truly crushed by Xiao Yi!

"I... I..." At that moment, Clements simply held his head, without responding to Xiao Yi.

Thump, thump-thump!

The knocking grew more urgent, piercing!

Then, they saw, at the far end of the long, dark hallway, something was present.

That was, the corpses they were all too familiar with.

Thump, thump-thump!

The knocking continued.

She had her back to the brightly lit room, immersed in darkness, yet her face was clearly visible with a vivid red line across her lips, as if a watermelon had been sliced open.

"... That was wrong."

She did not seek help, instead she spoke those words and took a slow step towards the two people.

"Ah... ah ah ah! No, it’s not... forgive me!" Clements suddenly became agitated.

"... What in the world is going on?" Xiao Yi watched this scene, completely baffled.

At that moment, Xiao Yi suddenly remembered something.

After experiencing that event one night, Xiao Yi had an extra page of a book in his hand.

Having read it multiple times, Xiao Yi roughly remembered the content, which was:

"My life is always dark, hence, I never expect to see the sun. I help others merely because I want to survive, so I’m well aware that others help me only because they too want to survive."

Xiao Yi seemed to realize something and looked at Clements, asking,

"Clements, did you... truly want to help that girl when you opened the door?"

"..."

Clements suddenly fell silent at these words.

"You said you didn’t want to keep secrets from me anymore, but in the end, you still have something hidden," Xiao Yi stared at him, "What is the real situation, are you willing to talk about it?"

"I..." Looking at Xiao Yi, Clements finally calmed down, "I’m sorry, I’m utterly foolish, how can a problem be solved if it isn’t addressed?"

Clements finally mustered up the courage.

"Coming here, encountering these incidents, must be fate’s judgement on me. Therefore, I cannot keep hiding anymore, thank you, Xiao Yi, it’s thanks to you that I realized this."

Then, he glanced at the tightly shut door next to him and then at the approaching corpses, slowly revealing his true inner thoughts.

"I... am actually not a good person, I know that better than anyone. So, when I heard her cries for help, I really did not want to save her."

The corpse suddenly stopped in its tracks, as if listening to Clements’s words.

"From childhood, everyone has praised me for being kind, a good person. But I am not kind, I just pretended to be kind to get others’ praise. I am an orphan with no parents and no relatives, living off the sporadic meals provided by the villagers. If I didn’t maintain a likable facade, I would surely starve to death, so I could only use kindness to protect myself."

"I was actually very afraid of that family, afraid they would harm me, so I endured their presence. But their daughter, that girl, she really liked me and always came to see me, and I had to respond with kindness. I hated her! Because by doing so, she undoubtedly put me in a position to confront her parents!"

"Everyone living there disliked that couple but pitied their daughter. Therefore, they often took good care of me and always told me to take good care of that girl, to protect her well."

"In my heart, I cursed them repeatedly, those who only talked but never really helped that child. If they had been willing to help, so much could have been avoided, it was merely trouble they disliked. I also knew their thoughts, if someone had to help, why did it have to be me? So everyone wanted to push someone else to solve the problem, and I was that unlucky person."

"Even though I knew this clearly, I had to agree with a smile on the surface, because it was their help that allowed me to have a stable life in school abroad."

"That girl also grew increasingly close to me, and sure enough, she came to me for help. I didn’t want to respond, so I pretended to be asleep and didn’t hear her, thinking in my heart just go away, I can’t hear you, go find someone else, why come to me? But then, her parents came out and continued to beat her, that piercing cry made me terrified."

"I wasn’t scared for the child, but such loud noise, others would definitely hear it. If I continued pretending not to hear, I would definitely be suspected, and my carefully built facade of kindness would collapse. So, with fear, I grabbed a knife and rushed out the door, threatening the couple not to hit the child anymore, and told the girl not to listen to such parents, they don’t love you."

"Because of this incident, I was heavily praised, which pleased me a lot. At the same time, back then, the hopeful look in that girl’s eyes when she looked at me, I can’t forget to this day. She would never expect that the person who saved her was actually a hypocrite acting out of self-interest."

Clements choked up a bit, then continued: "Then, what I didn’t expect was that my hypocrisy completely destroyed that child."

"After that, I was afraid to confront that family again. I stayed out during the day and only secretly returned home very late at night to avoid them. But I ultimately lived in the house next to theirs, and the walls were thin, I couldn’t avoid their voices, I could only minimize the noise as much as possible and pretend I wasn’t there or was asleep."

"But their voices, unavoidably, I heard them. After that, they became even more ferocious in beating that child, and the reason was me. Because I provoked them, they vented their anger towards me onto that child."

"It was my fault that led to her misery, but in fact, I always knew her situation, yet I didn’t help her like I did before, instead, I chose silence, turning a blind eye, which led to her tragedy."

Clements looked at the corpse and slowly said: "This is my sin, never mentioned in court. I have made my confession, if you wish to judge me, then please begin."

"..." And the corpse said nothing, just disappearing like that.

Seeing this, Xiao Yi slowly nodded, but he still had one unresolved question, and asked, "But what about the ogre?"

"That came after." Clements pushed open the door, outside was an unfamiliar corridor, "Just like in my memory, the outside has also changed. So... Xiao Yi, come, the truth is in the room next to this one."

Clements said this as he was already standing at the door of the room next door, where the truth about why he had become an ogre was revealed.