I Became a Stalker in a Yandere Dating Sim

76 – 76. I Have No One on My Side

Is it an old saying that nothing changes even if you sigh?

“Ugh…”

“Did you sigh because you did something well?”

As if being interrogated every minute like in a public trial, Rockser sighed, feeling pressured, as Rica’s eerie voice tightened his ears.

Should we call the main title of the original work a tsundere heroine?

The casually spoken words and the innocent gesture of holding Rockser’s hand were fatal.

Like a ripe poisonous apple, full of deadly poison but seemingly good to eat.

It was so deadly to the point of killing a person’s heart.

With one hand discreetly intertwining fingers with Rockser’s hand, sitting side by side.

The gauge of Rockser’s heartbeat had been broken for a long time.

“Rica… Aren’t you too close?”

Jane, who was irritated for the first time today, threw the first tackle filled with emotions.

While Camila swallowed the complex emotions she wanted to spit out about Rockser dating.

Rica, who had always kept her distance from Rockser while being wary of her, casually reached out to Rockser without hesitation.

“If you’re jealous, you can be childhood friends too.”

Upon hearing that, Rica, as if waiting for this moment, smirked coldly and chuckled lightly.

That light chuckle lightly pierced Jane’s heart in an amusing way.

Feeling an unexpectedly heavy impact, Jane subconsciously grabbed a handful of Rockser’s clothes.

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Strangely, Erin couldn’t take her eyes off the two people involved with Rockser.

Even though she had declared she wasn’t interested in Rockser.

Strangely, she was drawn to them more than ever these days.

Sielle’s eyes sparkled between her white-like silver hair as she read the emotions. She could see how Rockser’s emotions were tilting towards a subtle direction, like a leaning ship.

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No matter how strong a team might be in terms of personnel, what would happen if they couldn’t coordinate properly?

Those five, risking their parents’ survival in a virtual space, knew the answer.

“Hey!! What are you doing interrupting there, you idiot!!!”

“If you’re a mage, act like one and stay at the back!!”

“I’m not a mage, I’m a vision alchemist, you know!?”

It was as if a demon, newly possessing a human body and unaware of the manipulation techniques, was unintentionally invoking an exorcist by mistakenly pressing various control keys.

Due to the mismatch in unintended directions, the training session turned into a mess.

Thanks to that, a tall man and a woman, with a significant height difference between them, found themselves pinching each other’s cheeks in a cave with a bluish hue, displaying a rather awkward scene.

“Let’s take a break, the stalactite mushrooms aren’t coming out anymore.”

Seeing this, Madeleine, who was about to intervene directly, hesitated and instead whispered to Erin with an odd sense of distance, urging her.

If it weren’t for the previous incidents, she would have clung to Rockser with such a strange sense of distance, not Erin.

‘She hasn’t clung to me like that since then. Well, it’s not hostile, so it’s fine, but…’

Rockser’s expression subtly hinted at a slight sense of unease, almost as if he felt a vague emptiness and unwillingly acknowledged a misconception.

Since receiving an unintended fatal blow from Camilla, Jane had been keeping her distance from Rockser.

Feeling slightly unsettled by the growing distance, Rockser wondered.

However, Jane’s thoughts and feelings were more intricate than Rockser’s.

“Even though he already has a girlfriend, why does he keep saying I’m pretty and buying me clothes?”

Unable to shake off the doubts about Rockser’s behavior, Camilla, who was trying to reconcile but ended up impulsively siding with Rockser, comforted Erin, who was grumbling, lost in thought once again.

Unaware that Camilla was more concerned about the complicated dynamics between Rockser, the increasingly sensitive Lika, and Jane, Rockser sensed this peculiar undercurrent.

“Ugh, you, as a close-range dealer, should be careful, you blockhead.”

With a calm expression but a twisted lip, Lika grabbed Rockser’s ear.

“Eek! Erin is slow, that’s why!!”

“What!? You keep coming right where I’m about to go!!”

Despite Rockser’s protest and Erin’s pouting.

The words and actions of the two, especially their sense and positioning in combat, were so similar that it proved their connection.

“Ugh, so noisy.”

Already feeling uncomfortable due to Camilla and Jane, Lika seemed to be in a worse mood.

Grabbing Rockser by the ear like a calf being led to the slaughterhouse, she dragged him to a corner.

Contrary to the rough dragging, her touch gently embraced Rockser.

“Sigh… How long do I have to endure this.”

With a strained voice, Lika half-whispered to Rockser, seemingly audible yet vague.

However, with Rockser’s senses reaching a level well over 300, her grumbling was crystal clear in his ears.

‘If I respond here, it’ll only lead to another explosion, right?’

He couldn’t pretend to know.

Starting from misunderstandings about why Camilla was angry or why she continued to make mistakes, to the endless jealousy-driven probing from Lika.

Having experienced it once was hard enough, but Rockser, having gone through it three times, could do nothing but embrace and comfort her to prevent Lika from exploding, especially to keep her yandere tendencies at bay.

‘Really… Why do I have to go along with whatever mess Camilla creates…’.

Camila reluctantly played along as a fake lover to make Jane give up on Roxer.

Rica, who couldn’t stick close as usual, let out a deep sigh.

In her heart, she wanted to just turn things around and monopolize Roxer. But she knew Jane, who was already falling for Camila’s fake lover act, would cling even more if she did.

Perhaps it would be better to just turn things around, have Rica confess to Roxer first, and secure her place.

“Huh? Why is Rica suddenly acting all flustered?? Did she accidentally use some weird debuff when she was catching the limestone mushrooms earlier?”

Rica, with a strong sense of pride and embarrassment, found it impossible to take the first step towards Roxer.

“Where does it hurt?”

As if to check on her teeth, Roxer cautiously asked Rica, who was already heated up just by thinking about it.

In response, Rica pushed Roxer’s embrace away firmly.

“…It’s nothing.”

Rica, who turned away coldly, cooled her face.

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The space was too narrow to be called a cave.

In games, passing through a cramped space into a wider area usually meant it was a safe zone or a boss room.

“Is this the boss room?”

As Roxer, leading the way, approached, as he had discovered, it was indeed either a boss room or a mid-boss room.

On the narrow ceiling, a large branch of a tree, serving as the source of light, cast shadows resembling the touch of a devil.

The more contrasting light and shadow were, the more they stood out.

The light, close to white, seemed to breathe life, covering everything brightly.

The deep shadow, abyssal and endless, seemed eerily lifeless, even void.

Just by looking at it, even a newbie would think a hellish boss battle was about to unfold, but ironically, the tree creating the shadows and light seemed exceptionally ordinary.

However, perhaps the light emitted by the tree and the shadows it cast were not ordinary.

“Hmm, did you expect us to come to a cave full of grotesque and strange monsters?”

“Wow… I’ve never seen such light before. How is this possible in a place like this?”

Rica and Jane, who were following closely, expressed their interest with sparkling eyes like women who had found luxury bags.

Thanks to them, the atmosphere, which had been subtly pushing for Roxer, eased slightly.

Roxer had come here after reading information from the Black Web that special dungeons randomly generated inside gates.

“What is that…? I’ve never seen it in the original work, is it added as the difficulty increases?”

Even if Rica and Jane asked questions beside him, as if grumbling, it was hard to focus on anything other than the tree occupying the center of the unusually large space.

An ordinary tree that could produce such bizarre light and shadows was unheard of.

There were only a few artifacts that had reached the Ex grade in the original work and displayed such effects, and among veterans, he was undoubtedly one of the most knowledgeable about such items.

However.

“What the…!? That tree, could it be!!?”

“No way, Mistletoe…!? It can’t be??”

Camila and Erin were taken aback, wondering if the tree resembled something described in legends or myths.

Soon, they fell silent, startled by the unfamiliar and alien shadows that seemed to stop their breath.

Mistletoe, the material of the metal that killed the god of light in the myth, was said to sparkle strangely, as if swallowing all the light in the world, making it unmistakable upon sight.

That’s why the moment I saw the tree that was the source of that strange light, I was instantly convinced.

Something was off.

Especially the endlessly deep shadow lurking like the devil’s grip in the background felt alien.

Just by looking at the light that seemed to swallow everything because of that shadow, it felt like my eyes would go blind.

It was a moment when even their consciousness seemed to be consumed by the white light.

“…Could it be that there’s a rare species like Mysteltainn here?”

Sielle spoke up.