The Arch Fiends Long Lost Bride
Language: en
I was the one who played the villain. Five years ago, in a high-stakes survival horror game known as The Gloom, I targeted a background character—a literal "nobody" NPC. I used my status as a seasoned player to seduce him, toyed with his heart and his body, and then I vanished, deleting my account without a second thought. Returning to the game now, five years later, the streetscape is the same—a perpetual, rain-slicked neon noir. But standing under a flickering streetlight is a child who shouldn't exist. A translucent floating screen—the global spectator feed—scrolled frantically in my…