"This plot seemed a little troubling..."
As Russell muttered to himself, a seagull flapped down and landed on the railing of the upper deck. In its watchful eyes, two figures were reflected.
Russell narrowed his eyes, releasing a trace of killing intent that startled off the curious seagull, along with the other seagulls feeding on the female corpse on the deck.
Wings flapped overhead and birds cried out, as if voicing their displeasure.
Just then, a wrecked yacht appeared along the cruise ship's route. The five survivors aboard waved their arms and shouted, hoping to be rescued.
Russell looked over. Of the five survivors, there were three men and two women. He ignored the men for the moment; he had seen both women before.
The blonde had just finished fighting the masked man, while the redhead was lying at Russell's feet, scattered all over the ground.
There was no mistake. This was the plot of the horror film Terror Cruise.
Russell knew something about the movie. He had originally watched it because of the word "terror," but after finishing it, he found it not scary at all and only half understood it.
Because he had not understood it, he looked into it afterward.
Since ancient times, the internet had produced experts. Discussions of Terror Cruise were generally divided into two camps: science and mysticism. The scientific camp supported the theory of overlapping time and space, while the mystical camp believed it was a ghost's illusory journey, a hellish world after death.
In truth, these two explanations did not conflict. First, both camps agreed that time looped. Second, the female lead, Jessie—the highly skilled blonde girl—had already died before boarding the ship.
Russell sorted through the plot. The missing cruise ship beneath his feet, called either the Wind God or the