My Iyashikei Game Chapter 179: Director, When is it Our Turn?

Han Fei’s understanding of fear was far better than anyone present. He had lived through the deepest despair, his experience was branded inside his mind. In this story, he was the victim and the murderer. He needed to manifest two types of fear. The first was the fear of the killer; and the second of the fear of death, the respect a killer would have towards the enveloping darkness. He was familiar with all the personas, their strengths and weaknesses. He needed to outsmart and out-manoeuvre 8 individuals inside this apartment so that he would be the last one standing.

Cattle Alley was his worldview and the House of the Butcher deep inside the alley was his mind brought to life. All his 9 personas lived there. They had gotten used to one another but one day, the peace was shattered when one of them was murdered.

Opening his eyes, Han Fei turned to the male actor before him. He placed himself back inside the haunted apartment, playing a game that he could not afford to lose. Toeing the line between life and death, he danced at the edge of the abyss. He placed himself fully into the mindset of the main persona, he needed to pick up the blade and murder the 8 different versions of himself. He needed to kill to save himself. Each meticulously-planned death was the swan song for each persona.

Just with 2 readings, Han Fei memorized all the lines. The male actor on the stage with him started to pour with cold sweat. Han Fei’s presence overshadowed him. This scene was meant to be one where the main male character started to question the intention of Han Fei’s character. Through indirect questioning, he planned to draw information out from Han Fei but gradually he realized his lines appeared so weak and powerless before Han Fei. He involuntarily moved his eyes away. His brain warned him that the man standing before him was going to kill him but the scariest thing was, he had no evidence to prove that!

Originally, the reading was supposed to last only for 5 minutes but no one dared to stop the scene until it was over. The t

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