The Dating Sim Turned Into a Horror Story

After her boyfriend Gin shoots her in the head, Ikeda Chinatsu binds to a romance game System. She can come back to life if she successfully wins over her targets.

But the moment she opens her eyes, she's held under water and drowned.

System: That's what happens to a hopeless romantic. You die a miserable death.

[The White-Haired Weirdo on the Clock Tower]

Stay at school until midnight, and you'll see the most terrifying of the eight supernatural mysteries.

They say he's sinister and terrifying, with a hideously deformed appearance, and that he'll swallow people alive. He's a vicious, ugly monster.

He's bloodthirsty, cruel, and powerful.

Ikeda Chinatsu forces herself to approach him again and again, only to be killed over and over.

Furious, she grabs a knife to get revenge on the white-haired weirdo. But he takes hold of the blade and points it at his own stomach, his voice tender.

"Do you know what an unrestricted technique is?"

[The Unshakable Nightmare]

Ikeda Chinatsu keeps having the same dream.

In the dream, a man stands atop countless heads, surrounded by blood. He calls himself the King of Curses and cruelly torments her, leaving her exhausted and unable to live normally.

A friend introduces her to a Taoist priest to drive out the evil spirit.

That night, her nightmare grips the priest by the throat and asks,

"You want to kill me? Here, I'll give you the chance."

[The Suicidal Spirit Wandering the River]

Ikeda Chinatsu locks eyes with the vengeful spirit.

His eyes light up as if he's found a new toy, and from then on, she knows no peace.

He has a human side: playful, clingy, and fond of acting cute.

He has a ghostly side: possessive, moody, and... selfish.

When he learns that Ikeda Chinatsu has agreed to date a classmate, the vengeful spirit hugs her tightly. His eyes redden as he strokes her cheek and murmurs obsessively,

"Let's die together."

[...]

After coming back from the dead, the first thing Ikeda Chinatsu does is seek revenge.

But her boyfriend Gin has also become a monster.

His face is cold and vicious, as if Ikeda Chinatsu were the one who killed him, yet he won't let her leave his side for even a moment.

Then the "monsters" begin to cling to her.

*Blurb posted on 2025.1.16

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