Vote for Your Knight! - Chapter 56

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Vote for your knight!
Episode 56
Unlike David, who showed no particular alarm, Morris clung to his side as they descended.
“Wow, this is really creepy. Aren’t you scared?”
“It’s a bit gloomy, I’ll admit.”
Bang! went the door as it shut, and Morris let out another sharp cry of “Ah!”
David’s brow furrowed slightly.
“You’re not alone, so there’s no need to be so afraid.”
“I know that, but I can’t help being scared. This is my first time doing something like this.”
Morris muttered, still in a state of agitation.
That was when it happened.
Whoosh!
“Aaahhhhh!”
A woman drenched in blood came plummeting from above. Her wild hair streamed down like serpents.
“Aaahhh!”
Morris shrieked and tap-danced in terror. David flinched too—partly from the actress, partly from Morris.
“Morris, really…….”
“That’s seriously frightening. Wait, is this makeup? What is it—paint?”
……
Morris approached the actress with a sudden brightness in his eyes, as if his scare had already evaporated.
The actress was the one who looked flustered now.
She swatted Morris’s hand away curtly and whisked herself upward in a flash.
“Well. I was hoping we might introduce ourselves, what with this being our first meeting.”
“You want to exchange names in the middle of all this?”
“Why not? It’s fate, isn’t it?”
Morris spoke with cheerful optimism.
David stared at him as if he couldn’t comprehend such a being.
Where the actress had vanished, a button remained.
The two of them pressed it without much fuss and moved on.
How much further had they gone?
The ground grew damp beneath their feet.
“This is practically a swamp.”
“Be careful. You could fall.”
David warned Morris to watch his step.
That was when it happened.
Dark hands suddenly erupted from the ground, seizing both men by the legs.
“Aaaahhhhh! Aaahhh! Help!”
Morris tumbled to the ground with a heavy thud and began kicking wildly.
David, who had startled at the sudden appearance, flinched again at Morris’s wild thrashing.
But what came next was even more startling.
Once Morris had screamed himself out, he suddenly came to his senses.
“Wow, your hands are really beautiful. How can a man’s hands be this pretty?”
……
“It must be hard acting from underground like that. Would you mind showing me your face?”
Where does this mad charisma even come from?
David sighed.
“Come over here and say hello too, David!”
“I’m not doing that.”
Honestly, he was a little frightened.
“Forget it. Let’s just complete the Mission.”
“The Mission? Oh, right, there was one!”
‘Oh right, there was one’—as if he’d completely forgotten.
David pressed his hand to his forehead.
Then, with a soft gasp, he jumped, startled.
A hand gently grasped his ankle and then slowly released it.
‘Christ, I thought my heart was going to stop…….’
He hurriedly looked toward Morris.
Fortunately, Morris was so absorbed in conversation with the hand-ghost actress that he hadn’t noticed David’s frightened expression.
‘Thank goodness.’
Then the hand pointed at something.
Written on the wall was: “Find treasure in the mud.”
Finding it wasn’t difficult.
A box the size of two adult hands pressed together sat in plain view.
“Let’s go.”
David nudged Morris, who showed no signs of stopping his chatter.
* * *
“David Bertier and Morris Arno’s Record: 4 minutes and 45 seconds!”
Despite Morris’s endless talking, the two had successfully completed the Courage Training with a respectable time.
Thanks to David keeping his wits about him, they’d cleared all the missions.
Morris, however, was covered head to toe in mud. The other team members looked worried.
“You alright, Morris?”
“David, what happened to Morris in there?”
Morris spoke while trembling slightly.
“It’s seriously terrifying, I’m telling you. Man, I thought I was going to die.”
Was that how someone who’d thought they were dying behaved?
‘If he gets scared one more time, he’ll be friends with every ghost in existence.’
David held back what he wanted to say.
Next up was Team 2: Arsen Tan and Christian Lon. The two completed the mission easily in five minutes.
“Wasn’t scary at all.”
“Not frightening in the slightest.”
They’d wandered a bit and missed the best time, that was all.
Their expressions showed they weren’t surprised in the least.
“Wow, are you robots or something?”
Morris asked, genuinely amazed.
‘And what are you, a chatter machine?’
David watched Morris in silence and thought to himself.
“Next, Team 2’s Pierre Simon and Rafael Lorang! Please enter the Secret Passage You Must Not Enter!”
The two seemed far more relaxed, thanks to Arsen and Christian’s composure.
“After our master’s discipline, this is nothing.”
“I feel much better now, Pierre.”
Of course, that reassurance lasted only a moment.
Crack!
“Aaaahhhhh!”
A head covered in blood flew through the air.
“Help! Master! Master! Master! Please help me! Master!”
“P-Pierre. C-calm down!”
Pierre began to convulse.
Rafael dragged the unresponsive Pierre forward with great effort.
As a result, they failed to complete the mission of pressing the button.
To make matters worse, what came next was a muddy field with ghostly hands.
“Aaahhh! Master! I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”
…….
Rafael was also frightened by the hands stretching out from below like spiders.
But Pierre’s hysterical state frightened him more.
‘What on earth did Pierre’s master do to raise him that he startles at everything?’
Rafael sighed deeply and helped Pierre to his feet.
“Pierre, easy! You’re okay! These are just the hands of actors painted black.”
“No, Master! Aahhh!”
“Pierre! Focus!”
Rafael clenched his fist and held it right in front of Pierre’s eyes. Pierre flinched and stopped.
“Look at this. Don’t think about anything else. And take deep breaths. Slowly.”
Exhale…
“That’s it. You’re doing well.”
Inhale…
“Good. You did great, Pierre. There there, you did wonderfully.”
Rafael soothed Pierre as if he were comforting orphans.
It was absurd that this worked on a grown man, but there was no other way at the moment.
“Pierre, we’re almost there. It’s over. Just go up and we’re done.”
Sob, sob… Master…
“Good. Just walk up there like that.”
In the end, the two of them escaped in record time. Of course, without completing a single mission.
The moment they stepped out of the Secret Passage You Must Not Enter, Pierre’s face shifted completely.
He became the stern butler with the whip once more.
“Well, that was rather taxing. I managed it only by remembering the master’s words.”
Rafael found it all utterly absurd.
Part of him wanted to strap Pierre into the Thinking Chair and leave him there.
“How was it?”
Pavel asked the two of them, his face pale with dread.
After all, he and Deni were next in line.
Pierre gazed down at Pavel with a grave expression.
“Not to be taken lightly.”
“Ugh!”
Pavel clutched his Greatsword protectively to his chest, trembling uncontrollably.
“I’m terrified…”
“You do know that has to stay behind, right?”
Deni, Pavel’s partner, spoke with cold practicality.
“Oh, honestly…”
“You weren’t actually planning to take it with you?”
Deni asked in disbelief.
Pavel set down his Greatsword as reluctantly as if parting with a dear friend, then turned toward the Secret Passage You Must Not Enter.
Bang!
“Eek!”
Pavel jumped at the butler closing the door behind him.
“Goodness, that startled me. Do close it more gently, won’t you?”
Deni frowned as well.
At his words, Pavel glanced back.
“So you’re scared too?”
“Well, a little.”
Out of courtesy, Deni offered this concession, and Pavel’s face broke into a smile.
“That’s so much better when you’re honest about it. Is it because we can speak freely to each other like this?”
“What good does that do? I’ve always been straightforward.”
“Anyway, don’t worry too much. We’ve got each other, after all.”
“I’m not particularly worried.”
“Come on, don’t be scared—take my hand!”
Pavel thrust his hand out eagerly.
Deni found it exasperating. But Pavel was trembling so pitifully, hand still extended, that he had no choice but to take it.
At that very moment, an actor drenched in stage blood dropped straight down from above.
“Screeeeeeech!”
“Kyaaaaaaaa!”
The actor flinched at Pavel’s bird-like shriek.
Deni quickly covered Pavel’s mouth.
“Surprised you, didn’t I?”
The actor nodded, then whooshed back up into the darkness above.
That was when it happened.
Pavel wrenched his hand free from Deni’s grasp and bolted forward.
“Pressing this button must be the first mission!”
Pavel pressed the button with confidence, then turned back with a proud smile on his face.
“I did it, Shusu!”
“Well done.”
“With me here, you’ve got nothing to worry about.”
“Yes, I really wish that were true.”
The next section was a mudfield.
Pitch-black hands rose up from below, one after another.

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