Ch 0 - Prolouge

In a dark alley, where no light penetrated, the sound of footsteps echoed throughout the place. A man that was engulfed by the darkness quickly turned around. There stood a blonde girl emitting light.

“Finally, I found him.”

The girl, named Rachel, grinned from ear to ear with her blue eyes lit up. She looked rather happy, despite the fact her white ceremonial dress was messy and covered with mud.

She was searching for that black mage. That man started a rebellion, even a war, coloured this land with blood, and tried to summon the Devil.

She spent a very long time getting here.

“So you’re the one who has been interrupting me all this time!”

The black mage yelled with an angry tone. ‘It should be me who said it,’ complained Rachel inside. But she didn’t rattle on longer with her enemy in front of her. While Rachel remained silent, the black mage growled in anger.

“How on earth did you know all about my plans? If not because of you, I could become the ruler of this wo-argh!”

“You talk a lot.”

Then, a tall man standing behind her came forth and kicked the black mage.

“Dana, you aren’t talking?”

“You said you’d give me a title if I caught him. I just want to get it done quickly and go home.”

“I feel the same way. No need to listen to his words, Rachel,” said a silver-haired man who emerged after the tall man with reddish-brown hair that kicked the black mage.

“If you say so. But still, I’ll just say three words since he looks curious. Good, diligent, and striving!”

The black mage in front of her would never understand. How she was able to find him.

“Well, will you surrender obediently? Sir black mage, if you refuse, should I call you by your original name?”

At the mention of his name from Rachel’s lips, the black mage flinched.

Taking the opportunity, the silver-haired man ran forward and swung his sword. However, white bones loomed out from the ground and blocked his sword.

“The time has come! Caccia, Aceves, Abysses, Duro,” the black mage began to recite a spell with those words. Although he didn’t collect enough sacrifices to summon the Devil, the amount of blood he had sprayed over a while it was applicable. It was enough for him to use witchcraft.

“We have to stop him!”

Under the urgency of Rachel’s shriek, the two men rushed toward the black mage.

Alas, the evil energy had swirled and covered the sky.

I’m in a Horror Game

A person goes through many things in life. Among those, there are a lot of things that are barely incomprehensible.

However, if the incomprehensible phenomenon occurs not only once, but several times, then it is no longer special.

“Dead again.”

Here, a beautiful blonde girl sighed on the bed. Her big blue eyes were as clear as the eyes of a cat.

Many would see the image of a good angel the moment they laid eyes on her, but at this moment, curses that begin with ‘fu’ flowed from her mouth.

A curse word that didn’t suit a fifteen-year-old girl at all, but the way she uttered her swears was so natural.

However, she had no other way of venting out these intense feelings except to swear.

It wasn’t surprising, after all, she has died 12 times now, and her 13th life starts on this day.

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Jung Yu-ri was an ordinary live horror game BJ*. Although she wasn’t very famous, her subscribers were gradually increasing, and one day she received an email.

[T/N: Broadcast Jockey in KR]

The email was sent by an indie game maker, and attached to it was a game file asking her to play his horror game.

When she saw the title 『Hello, Dad』, she thought that the theme would be fatherly love, but when she loaded it, the game was about a daughter trying to save her father instead of a father saving his daughter.

The daughter kept dying many times, like a sunfish, because of things that suddenly kept popping out.

And whenever the blonde girl named Rachel died, she vowed that she would definitely reach the ending.

Barely avoiding the knife-throwing dolls and the monsters that followed her like zombies, she collected the hints left in the mansion to determine the cause of everything.

The truth is, her father was an axis of evil, and he was the one who caused all of this by dabbling in black magic. To top it off, he was a mad scientist.

However, such a twist in a horror game no longer surprised her. Yu-ri kept a strong mentality and played, and on the first day of the week after, she cleared the game.

Although she never made it to the hidden ending and only saw one normal ending, she was satisfied that she was able to see Rachel surviving to the end, so she ended the broadcast at that and turned the game off.

But after the end credits, the game wouldn’t close no matter how many times she pressed X. Instead, Rachel in the game suddenly talked about whether she had finally found the one who could save her.

Soon, black hands emerged out of the monitor and grabbed Jung Yu-ri’s ankles, dragging her whole body.

Then when she opened her eyes, she saw that she was now in an unfamiliar place. At the same time, several blue windows appeared in front of her.

[You have possessed Rachel, the 13th witch.]

[Risk rate: 100%]

[For disturbing the causality, you have been inflicted with the curse of death.]

[The witch’s wish amplifies the ability to return for 3 years. If the witch or her family dies, she will return to the checkpoint.]

[The curse will disappear after 3 years. Hope you survive safely.]

She tried to make sense of the situation while several message windows popped up.

However, she was able to grasp the situation in a way she didn’t like.

As she leaned forward out the window and thought about what had happened to her, a servant who was repairing the roof dropped a material that struck her on the head that killed her instantly.

– You are dead. Return to checkpoint.

That was round one.

Waking up with a pain in her neck, she questioned the same situation when she woke up.

The view of the maid’s back running out the door and shouting ‘the lady!’ and the family that came running. The same diagnosis of the father who was a doctor, the same worried voice of the mother. It was all the same as before, with the younger brother standing blankly behind the mother.

After that, she stood by the window without sticking her neck out, and saw a board fall.

She heard a scream. Jung Yu-ri peeked out the window. A maid on the first floor had been hit by a wooden plank and her head was crushed to death. The maid’s appearance was identical to the monster with a broken head that appeared in the game.

Only when the accident stopped the maintenance work did Rachel understand the meaning of the text on the blue window in front of her.

But the next day, as she walked down the hallway, she made eye contact with a mouse sticking out of its mouse hole.

“Kyaa!”

Startled, her foot slipped, and her body tilted and collided with a statue standing in the hallway.

The statue wobbled and leaned towards her then fell.

– You are dead. Return to checkpoint.

The guide voice she heard when she died in the first round was heard again. And just like that, she died in the second round.

In the third round, she was looking around the yard and fell into a well then died.

In the fourth round, when she heard that divine power could dispel her curse, she headed for the temple, but the carriage’s wheel broke then fell off a cliff and she died.

In the fifth round, she tripped on the roots of an apple tree in the yard and was stung by a swarm of bees after touching the beehive.

In the sixth round, she succeeded in going to the temple, but on her way back, her younger brother Deino got shot by an arrow which made her return.

In the 7th round, she fell on a rose bush in the garden and died of unknown cause.

On the 8th, she went to inspect the annex warehouse and was struck by a hammer that fell from the shelf and died.

And on the 9th round, she died while going down the stairs to the main basement.

She returned nine times for trivial reasons.

She regressed again, and decided that this was not something she could solve alone, so in round 10, as soon as she woke up, she revealed everything to her family.

However, her father, who was also her doctor, diagnosed her with delirium caused by a concussion, and detained Jung Yu-ri on the second floor. All dangerous items disappeared from the second floor.

Fortunately for her who had become Rachel, Jung Yu-ri could read the language here, so she read Rachel’s diary that she found in her room. She also read books while she was locked in her father’s study on the second floor. Then, about two years later, someone in her family died and she returned again.

Round 11, Jung Yu-ri recalled the previous round and decided to keep everything a secret from her family. Luckily, there had been no accident after avoiding all the dangers she had experienced earlier.

She first tried to figure out why her mother’s death occurred. However, two years later, she returned shortly after her mother left on a carriage.

In the 12th round, she thought that the carriage was the cause, so Jung Yu-ri nagged the coachman to maintain the carriage well.

The experience she gained from the previous rounds let her live without dying for two years, but the day after that, her mother disappeared when members of her maternal family were executed for rebellion. Then she returned.

So, Jung Yu-ri, no, she was Rachel now, has reached Round 13.

In terms of the number of years, she has lived as Rachel for about 6 years and a month and she really wanted to go past three years.

As soon as she woke up, her maid ran out of the room. This was the 13th time she had seen it. Now her family would come.

As Rachel expected, her family came running.

“Rachel!”

A blonde woman resembling Rachel hugged her. Her name is Evelyn, Rachel’s mother.

A person who doesn’t appear in the game, a person who died a year before the original story, and the person who was likely the cause of Rachel return at least three times.

She would always hug Rachel each time she woke up. Jung Yu-ri, an orphan, felt cozy in her arms.

“Are you okay? Does your head hurt?”

Before Jung Yu-ri possessed this body, they said that Rachel fell off a stair railing.

“Yes, I am fine.”

“There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong, so rest for the time being.”

And now, the black-haired man looking at Rachel’s condition. Henry Emporus, Rachel’s father.

As a doctor who only catered to the nobility, he rarely stayed in the capital, so in more than six years, Rachel’s face to face with him was less than a month.

Nevertheless, Henry had a good relationship with her mother, Evelyn. He was cold only to his daughter. He was a blunt but affectionate father to his son, and a good husband to his wife. Rachel never knew why.

‘I acted cute for that.’

He did not fall for the cute act of his lovely daughter.

There was only one time he had acted nice to Rachel. It was in the 6th round when she went to the temple with her family.

He was cold to her while they were in the carriage, but strangely, he tried to get to know her after they came out of the temple. However, she couldn’t say for sure because Deino died after bandits swarmed him and she returned.

Whatever their relationship was, Henry was a figure Rachel had been watching since the beginning.

After Evelyn’s death, he engaged in human body experiments and black magic to save his beloved wife.

Black magic is manifested by borrowing the powers of the devil, and if executed incorrectly, disaster would come.

And those disasters were what took place in the mansion where Rachel lived.

In other words, the monsters, corpses, dolls, statues, etc. that appeared in the game and harmed people were the results of black magic.

That would have also been Rachel’s future had she not returned when her family died.

‘That future can’t be broken if I start from scratch.’

Even if she writes down the original content, all of her notes disappear once she returns. Then that means she has to memorize everything in her head, but it has been over 6 years since she transmigrated. She could only remember the main game content and could no longer recall where the ghosts and monsters will be popping out from.

There was only one conclusion. To prevent Henry from touching black magic. It was essential to save Evelyn here.

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