Friends (Alliance Leader Bonus Chapter)

Viola has many ideas.

But Lu Xiu left after saying those words, then Open Gate and walked out.

The big bear outside the door has disappeared.

The two returned the way they came, retrieved the severed teddy bear's limbs from the previous workbench, and then passed through several doors to reach the restaurant.

Then, following the connecting door, we entered the kitchen.

An invisible person or ghost is standing in front of the chopping board, chopping something.

Viola glanced at the prompt and instinctively took a step forward. "Um—excuse me, do you need any help—"

Snap!

Before she could finish speaking, Lu Xiu slapped her on the back of the head without any hesitation, interrupting her.

Lu Xiu gave her a look as if she were an idiot, and pulled her back. "They have a sign on the wall saying they need help, are you going to hand over your own hands for them to chop off? Go give them the teddy bear's severed limbs."

Viola covered the back of her head, glanced at Lu Xiu, and obediently did as she was told.

The chef thanked her and, as a token of his gratitude, gave her a silver key.

The two returned to the restaurant and tossed the silver key into the pot of thick soup in the center of the table, which was bubbling with eerie purple bubbles.

With a hissing sound of corrosion, the original silver key turned black.

Immediately afterwards.

With a crisp click, the door leading to the back of the Mansion opened.

"Walk."

Lu Xiu strode forward.

The two walked down the old wooden stairs, one in front of the other.

They had only climbed a few steps when the candlelight around them suddenly flickered violently.

Immediately afterwards, a figure with purple hair flashed by at the corner of the stairs.

Although it was only a fleeting glimpse, it was enough to make it clear that a Black Cat seemed to be following the purple-haired Afterimage.

Viola quickly moved closer to Lu Xiu, grabbing the hem of Lu Xiu's clothes while glancing at her face.

Lu Xiu stopped in her tracks, staring at the corner of the stairs where the Afterimage had disappeared, her brows furrowing deeply. "What was that? What's going on with this house? How can it have everything!"

Seeing Lu Xiu's reaction, Viola's doubts dissipated considerably.

It seems... it's not what I thought.

only.

Viola couldn't think about it any further.

Because Lu Xiu strode forward again.

She never seemed to hesitate.

The subsequent exploration process almost became a tale of Viola's suffering.

Upon reaching the back of the Mansion, the two found a room filled with miscellaneous items. In the corner of the room hung a huge spider web, on which a yellow butterfly was entangled and struggling.

There was also a sign for this room, with the following instructions.

Spiders have very poor eyesight; they can't even distinguish colors.

It's obvious.

The hint is to find a replacement to save the butterfly from the spider web.

Viola was pondering which room contained the prop butterfly.

Lu Xiu suddenly turned her head, her gaze lingering on Viola's dazzling, smooth golden hair.

"What—what do you want to do?" Viola felt a chill run down her spine from her gaze and instinctively took a half-step back.

"Finding a substitute is such a hassle."

Lu Xiu stroked her chin, her eyes gleaming with anticipation. Pointing to the enormous spiderweb, she said, "Look, your hair is golden. In that dim light, it looks like a yellow butterfly. Why don't you put your head right up to it and see? Maybe you can fool the spider!"

Don't worry, I'll come back to save you. That's my promise as a friend!

No! I don't want to!

Viola was terrified and shook her head frantically.

"Why not give it a try? What if you manage to fool them?"

Lu Xiu tilted her head and said, "As a friend—aren't you willing to make a sacrifice?"

"Don't want!"

"Cut."

Lu Xiu didn't insist, but simply pulled her out of the room.

Viola thought that was the end of it.

But little did they know that this was just the beginning.

library.

The two received a book from the invisible man that would kill them if they read it.

Lu Xiu stubbornly refused to believe it and insisted on having Viola read it aloud, making her read it first.

One reads, the other doesn't.

Two girls were pulling and tugging at each other in the hallway; anyone who didn't know better would think they were fighting.

After seeing the transparent man hanging himself in the library.

She also insisted that Viola touch herself to see if she was hanging down somewhere, and to see if she could touch her legs.

Similar situations repeatedly occurred in the cold and terrifying the Witch's House.

When facing Viola, Lu Xiu always wore a domineering and arrogant expression.

She always comes up with all sorts of crazy ideas, making Viola explore dark places, making Viola do inexplicable things, she even makes Viola act as bait to attract monsters.

He pushed Viola to the brink of collapse every time.

And occasionally—she would suddenly disappear, and no one knew where she went.

They simply left Viola standing there.

She doesn't like reading! Aside from the prompts, she makes Viola read everything herself.

Let alone offering protection or assistance.

Viola is practically a little maid now.

But.

Viola looked at Lu Xiu, who was squatting down and observing the frogs in the center of the pond, and then looked at her own wrist, which was red from being roughly pulled by Lu Xiu.

Every single time.

Just as the Grim Reaper's scythe was about to descend, this rough and domineering girl would pull her away, using extremely brutal methods to forcibly drag her back from the Abyss of death.

Whether it was being chased by a skull after returning a book that would kill you if you read it, or passing through a corridor of flying knives.

Lu Xiu would help her whenever they were in danger.

To prevent her from failing at the last hurdle—that is, from actually dying.

Although Lu Xiu always looked disgusted, although Lu Xiu always shirked all responsibility, and although Lu Xiu's insults were more offensive than anyone else's.

But when they were truly in danger, she never let go of his hand.

Slowly.

Viola even thought it was nice to have such a friend.

Sharp tongue, soft heart.

Viola watched Lu Xiu's retreating figure as she walked ahead, and the vicious killing intent deep in her eyes dissipated slightly.

Is this the kind of love Viola can get?

That's great!

that's all.

Amidst Lu Xiu's chaotic and hilarious puzzle-solving journey, the two delve deeper into the Mansion.

And the Black Cat followed them all the way.

Every time it sees the two of them, it seems to get startled and let out a cry.

But Lu Xiu didn't seem interested in it, and it would disappear every time Viola talked to the Black Cat.

And the time each disappearance lasts is getting longer and longer.

The Black Cat licked its forelegs, and the emotion in its vertical pupil grew increasingly strange.

A symmetrical room with a cake on the table.

A giant venomous snake was lurking in the only road ahead.

The Music Box room.

Trees and flowers that can talk.

First floor, second floor, third floor, fourth floor----

The further you go in the Mansion, the stranger it becomes.

Each time, Viola was terrified by Lu Xiu's ruthless actions, but each time she managed to escape unscathed.

No matter how vicious the design, Lu Xiu always managed to dodge it at the last second.

Lu Xiu showed no fear or remorse throughout the entire process.

Even if it means stuffing the frog that helped them into the room for the snake to eat.

She remained unfazed and even urged Viola to hurry up.

It looks so much like it!

The coldness and murderous intent that were originally in Viola's eyes gradually diminished amidst the chaos of their journey, while her morbid possessiveness grew stronger.

Finally, the two arrived at the courtyard on the fifth floor.

Lu Xiu has disappeared again.

When Viola found Lu Xiu again, Lu Xiu seemed to be looking at something.

"Why did you run away again!"

"----Who told you to waste your time with that cat?"

Lu Xiu put away the paper in her hand and stuffed it into her backpack.

The blood-red words on it were particularly chilling.

A girl came here to play.

[A cute girl with blonde hair styled in three braids.]

Viola, probably used to being scolded, stopped arguing and simply went to Lu Xiu's side, taking her hand. "I want to go home."

"As if anyone doesn't want to."

Lu Xiu walked straight outside.

Decryption begins.

The puzzle on the fifth floor was actually quite complicated, but Lu Xiu still managed to find the prop on this floor quickly and forcefully: a purple doll and its corresponding head.

She even had time to collect another diary during her spare moments.

I won't kill her, because she will save me from my pain.

[She and I are friends.]

Friends should help each other.

After the two obtained the purple doll and its head, the once bright courtyard suddenly turned blood red.

It was extremely strange.

Viola seemed very frightened and, unusually for her, kept urging Lu Xiu on.

The two quickly returned to the room where the dolls had been placed at the beginning.

The other three platforms already had dolls placed on them.

Lu Xiu placed the last doll and head on the empty platform. The pink doll on her left suddenly moved, and then a hole appeared.

Lu Xiu took the lead and jumped down.

Viola saw this and followed closely behind.

The two fell freely for a moment, then seemed to land on a soft mat.

But below was pitch black.

The two walked forward through the dark tunnel----

The final prompt appeared.

Come to my room.

Keep going.

Suddenly, the view in front of me opened up.

What appeared before them was a corridor completely different from the style of the Mansion.

The place is clean and bright, with a warm color palette, as if you've returned from hell to the human world in an instant.

At the end of the corridor was a room.

Without hesitation, Lu Xiu stepped forward and pushed open the door.

However, the scene inside the door contrasted sharply with the bright and warm atmosphere of the corridor.

A large, soft bed sat in the center of the room, but it was hardly a place for restful sleep.

The pure white sheets, blankets, and even the surrounding curtains were all splattered with shocking patches of blood.

On the floor beside the bed, a spilled glass lay quietly, with traces of some unknown purple liquid remaining on its rim.

The room was empty.

Lu Xiu frowned, completely ignoring the horrifying blood-soaked bed.

Instead, they went directly to the huge bookshelf next to them, as if they knew the way well.

Look at the magic book above.

Viola, who was following behind her, simply tugged at her sleeve and kept up with her, but said nothing more.

They seem to have gotten used to this pattern.

Lu Xiu didn't seem to pay him any attention and strolled over to the desk in the corner.

On the desk, an old diary page lay quietly open.

Lu Xiu lowered her head.

The handwriting in the diary was extremely distorted, and the words exuded a chillingly intense malice and morbidity.

I will die from illness.

[To get her body, to live with her body, is that alright?]

[Because we're friends, give me your body.]

[So, hey, Viola- chan----]

"Because we're friends—so give me your body—my name—"

Viola murmured the words under her breath, seemingly terrified, her body trembling.

Their gazes swept over the final, unfinished period.

Without any warning, the light in the room was swallowed up and suddenly disappeared.

The surroundings instantly fell into a deathly silence and oppressive darkness, with only the faint light coming in from the window barely outlining the room's shape.

Immediately afterwards.

A chilling sound suddenly rang out from Lu Xiu's left side.

Thud----Thud----

It was the sound of some soft flesh struggling to drag along the rough wooden floor.

Accompanied by a muffled roar, the sound gradually approached from the other side of the room.

By the faint light.

Lu Xiu turned her head and saw a girl with long purple hair and empty eyes crawling out of the shadows, gripping the floor with both hands.

"Run!"

Viola suddenly screamed.

Before she could even shout, Lu Xiu had already smashed open the half-closed door like a black lightning bolt.

Her movements were fluid and effortless, without the slightest hesitation or doubt, as if she had already rehearsed the entire Outlast route in her mind the moment she Open Gate.

Still so fast.

Viola: "----"

Without thinking twice, she quickly followed.

The two rushed out of the eerie room, one after the other.

Behind them, the purple-haired girl's crawling suddenly became more rapid, as if she had suddenly sped up, and she was also making indistinct roars.

Just as she reached the fork in the corridor, Lu Xiu's steps abruptly stopped without warning. Then, she made an extremely strange right-angle turn and, without looking back, crashed into the dark storage room on the left!

"What are you doing?! That's a dead end!"

Viola exclaimed in shock.

However, Lu Xiu completely ignored her.

Viola glanced at Lu Xiu's retreating figure as she disappeared into the darkness, hesitated for a second, and then continued running wildly along the main road on the right.

The purple-haired girl kept whimpering hoarsely, completely ignoring Lu Xiu who had disappeared on her left. She simply turned her head and chased after Viola, who was running away, with even more frantic speed.

"Hoo----uh----give it to me----"

The monster uttered incomplete syllables, as if trying to say something.

Viola glanced back at the purple-haired girl who was hot on her heels—finally dropping the pretense, she looked back.

"How inconsiderate! He's already disabled; he should just stay under the bed and rot. Why does he have to crawl out and get in the way?"

Viola looked at the body behind her that once belonged to her, but was now a broken and tattered shell.

Despite possessing an angelic appearance, his words sent chills down one's spine. "What a pity, back then, to sever your legs and blind you, I left that ' Soul-Severing Blade ' in that room. If only I had that blade—"

Speaking of which...

Her voice suddenly stopped.

etc.

knife?

Viola's running pace suddenly stopped, and she abruptly turned her head, her gaze piercing through the dimly lit corridor to the direction where Lu Xiu had just disappeared.