Surviving as a Maid in a Horror Game - Chapter 18

Even if I just continued shouting into the void, my anger would not subside, so I started punching the bed. Did I commit a terrible sin? What did I ever do to deserve going through something like this? I just—!

“I just played a horror game while I was drunk…!”

It was so ridiculous just saying it out loud, so it was both funny and sad. My emotions had been bottled up lately, and the destroyed pillow became the trigger.

Tears trickled down my cheeks, but dejected laughter slipped out my lips at the same time. And as I was smiling and crying because I couldn’t handle my emotions any longer, those detestable white letters appeared once again.

「 Damages have been incurred from lowering the pillow’s durability. 」

「 Your gold is insufficient. The payment has not been processed. 」

My fist stopped in its tracks, merely one millimeter away from the bed. If even the wind that would blow towards the bed would count as touching, I slowly loosened my fist.

That decrepit yellow pillow cost me 50 gold. I couldn’t imagine just how much I’d be charged for the bed.

I was angry at the game system, but I was more overcome with the sorrow of losing my gold.

Okay. Let’s sleep. Let’s just think about it tomorrow after waking up. If I just get angry at the system, I wouldn’t be able to hold back and let out my screams at the wall. Let’s calm down and just lie down…

「 You cannot lie down because there is no pillow. 」

“UUUUGH! THIS CRAZY LITTLE—!”

I was about to lie down on the bed, but I suddenly got pushed away by an invisible hand. After stumbling a few steps away from the bed, I tried to come closer again.

「 You cannot lie down because there is no pillow. 」

“This is crazy! Crazy! Are you really crazy?!”

「 Damages have been incurred from lowering the bed’s durability. 」

「 Your gold is insufficient. The payment has not been processed. 」

「 Damages have been incurred from lowering the bed’s durability. 」

「 Your gold is insufficient. The payment has not been processed. 」

I got robbed. I couldn’t lie down. Naturally, anger soared through the roof.

What kind of rule was that? I can’t lie down because there’s no pillow? There’s so many people in the world who live without pillows!

I tried to calm myself down and stop the leg that was kicking the bed recklessly. If the durability of the bed would get any lower, I might really have to pay more. All my thoughts were now dedicated to officially protesting against this shitty rule.

I don’t know who I’m protesting against, but in any case, I approached the bed again and opened my lips.

“I can sleep without a pillow. Let me lie down.”

「 You cannot lie down because there is no pillow. 」

“If you let me lie down on the bed, I’ll figure out the rest! Just let me lie down!”

I kept trying to lie down, but after being pushed back about five times, I collapsed to the floor. A mistake. The system wasn’t something that could be persuaded. This is why nobody plays this game—it has absurd settings that only stress out the players…

Slumping down against the cabinet, I stared blankly at the torn pillow and dilapidated bed.

I should have just had it repaired when I was asked if I wanted to repair it. I had two choices: let myself get robbed, or let myself get robbed while being able to rest. I’d rather be a well-rested beggar rather than an exhausted beggar…

As the night deepened to the tune of regrets and all curse words in the world being muttered under my breath, I couldn’t overcome the drowsiness that gradually rushed in.

I didn’t have it in me anymore to stay annoyed, so I pulled my knees close and rested my forehead there, dozing off. When I fell into a deeper slumber, my head would hit the cabinet so I woke up. I fell asleep once more, stumbled, woke up again.

I really just wanted to sleep, so I tried to use my arm as a pillow, or I rolled up a few of my clothes and tried to use them as a replacement for my pillow, but I kept being stubbornly disturbed by the system, telling me that it was, in fact, not a pillow. Whenever I would get startled awake a few times, the system notification was right there in front of my nose, shamelessly making itself known.

「 Your fatigue is rapidly increasing. 」

「 Your stamina is decreasing. 」

「 Caution! If you fail to sleep at the right time, you will not be able to work the next day. The daily salary will not be given. 」

The system nagged at me and kept telling me to sleep, all kinds of notification messages popping up one after another. As though I had gained an anger management disorder, I teared up again. Do you think I’m not sleeping because I enjoy staying awake?

“You said I can’t lie down because there’s no pillow!”

Tears of resentment came out. Do you want me to sleep on the floor without a blanket?!

Still, the messages about me not being able to get my salary urged me to move, so I tried to get up and force my way to the bed again.

But as if laughing at my efforts, that invisible hand continued to push me away and the notification window popped up once again, telling me that I can’t lie down because I don’t have a pillow.

Freaking pillow, pillow, pillow! Goddamn, goddamn it…

I cried tears of sorrow and frustration at the same time, going back to crouch against the cabinet and trying to sleep. My butt soon became sore because of the cold, hard wooden floor.

As I grumbled for a very long time, ‘It hurts, what kind of damn game is this,’ I soon fell asleep.

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