[Nighttime Chapter]
[1. Be careful during your nighttime wash-up. Your sister may hide in the bathroom cabinet to scare you. Do not scream. Do not scream.]
[2. If the lights flicker while washing up, do not panic or make a sound. Immediately check your Pocket Watch. If it has stopped, return to your room at once.
If it is ticking normally, do whatever it takes to cover every mirror near you. Absolutely do not let your sister leave the bathroom.]
[3. If the water suddenly changes color during your wash, turn off the water immediately. You'll find hair leaking from the faucet.
Check your Pocket Watch. If it is ticking normally, escape the bathroom as fast as possible. If it has stopped, do not alert anyone.]
[4. If blood overflows from the bathtub when there is clearly no water in it, forcibly stop your Pocket Watch immediately.]
[5. Your house only has one bathroom!!]
[6. In the event of a power outage, do whatever it takes to leave your home!!!]
[7. Good children always go to bed on time. Heeheehee.]
[8. If you see a suspended figure behind the curtains in your room, do not panic. That's your sister. Don't wake her, she likes sleeping with you.]
[9. If your parents suddenly appear at your bedside at night, pretend to be asleep. Do not open your eyes.]
[10. You must retrieve the 1 a.m. delivery!!
Note: Check the peephole before opening the door. The deliveryman will wear a rabbit, puppy, or pig (crossed out) mask.
Never open the door for a bad person!!
Do not open the door! Do not open the door! Do NOT open the door!! (The text below has been aggressively crossed out.)]
[11. If you hear a rooster crow at midnight, find a way to leave the city immediately!!]
[12. If you hear suona or celebratory drums, take your sister and flee the city at once!!]
[13. If you hear breathing under your bed at night, heavy and rough, do not make a sound.]
Terrifying.
These rules were even more terrifying, every line dripped with ghostly dread.
How could the sister possibly hide in that small bathroom cabinet?
Unless she had been dismembered and stuffed inside.
And how could hair leak from the faucet?
Unless the water tank or purifier was hiding a corpse—perhaps even a severed female head.
And what about blood overflowing from a bathtub that's completely empty?
Unless someone had been dismembering a body there, and the blood overflowed from the drain.
"Cabinet."
"Lights."
"Mirror."
"Bathroom."
"Faucet."
"Hair."
"Bathtub."
"Blood."
"All of these are linked to the sister."
"Did she die in the bathroom… or get dismembered there?"
Frowning deeply, Andrew instantly connected the dots about his sister's death.
He couldn't help it, the first five rules were all connected to her.
With a little logical sorting, he could roughly deduce how she died.
"Who could be so cruel to do something like that to a girl barely thirteen or fourteen?!"
A wave of fury surged through Andrew, threatening to drown his reason.
Even he, in that moment, felt a real urge to kill.
It was too cruel.
The people watching the livestream were drenched in cold sweat.
Some even had graphic images forming uncontrollably in their minds.
The girl being discovered, murdered, dismembered...
It was gruesome beyond imagination.
Gag!!!
Those with weaker mental resilience bent over and vomited.
It was too gory.
Too twisted.
Too chilling.
"What kind of monster would do that to a little girl?! Worse than an animal!"
"If I find out who did it, I'll rip them to pieces!"
"You'd better hope you don't find out. Or you'll be the one getting ripped apart."
Emotions were boiling over.
Countless people wanted the killer drawn and quartered.
Tear the flesh, drink the blood.
But it was all just venting.
Everyone knew that Andrew was in a Rule Horror world.
Even if they found the killer, it didn't have much to do with them in the real world.
...
Back to Andrew.
It took him a while to suppress the rising bloodlust before he returned to analyzing the rest of the rules.
Rule 6 was something he had already guessed.
If the power goes out, leave the house immediately.
But now that he had both the [Midday and Afternoon] and [Nighttime] chapters, he could start connecting the clues.
After the power outage, would something come out of the fridge?
Was there actually a body inside the fridge?
Very likely…
A body his mother killed.
And possibly linked to the wedding that happened in the neighborhood.
Rule 5 from the first chapter had said:
[Do not touch your mother's jewelry box; do not touch your father's keys.]
Could the body be connected to those items?
The jewelry box… the keys…
"It's a clue. I need to try opening my mother's jewelry box later and see what's inside."
Andrew made a mental note of it and continued analyzing.
[If you see a suspended figure behind the curtain in your room, do not panic. That's your sister. Don't wake her, she likes sleeping with you.]
"Did my sister hang herself first? Then she get dismembered in the bathtub, and finally have her body parts stuffed in the cabinet?"
"If so…
The reason she hanged herself might be the key to unraveling her death."
Andrew filed this clue away as well.
Rule 9 seemed normal at first glance.
Many parents do check on their kids at night to see if they're asleep or tucked in.
But in a Rule Horror, nothing is that simple.
Especially when paired with Rule 13, the situation became far more sinister.
Why would you hear breathing under your bed at night?
And why couldn't you alert anyone?
Could it be… because the "person" under the bed isn't supposed to be discovered?
Why not?
Was it because it was a corpse?
If the parents suddenly came into the room at night, were they checking whether he was asleep…
Or were they checking whether the corpse was still under the bed?
If we follow this line of thought, could it be that the corpse was murdered by the parents?
Could the dismembered and frozen corpse in the fridge be the same one that had once been hidden beneath his bed?
And if he heard breathing, that must mean the person was alive once.
At least for a while, that person had been alive while hiding right under his bed.
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