My Cell Prison

Chapter 96: Another Branch Event

Incandescent lights that flicker erratically.

TV is covered in static due to no signal.

Sitting on the couch are motionless parents.

As well as a gift box with a spooky clown image on it.

All of these are scenes that were not in the original movie, and more importantly, the only people who can see the scary clowns in the town of Derry in the original movie are teenagers and children.

To adults it is invisible.

Now, in the fateful world where Han Dong is located, his parents are severely affected.

As a result, Han Dong has completely discarded the original plot all together, emptying the brain recycle bin and treating it as an unknown event.

To ensure that nothing went wrong, Han Dong also quickly sent the information about the current encounter to Cass and the others via the Clockwork Device, only, there was no reply.

It seemed that Cass and his group were also in a 'predicament'.

"Dragging it out is not an option, solve it on my own."

Han Dong instructed Chen Li to just guard the stairway, with Han Dong going down to snoop around first and Chen Li ready to back up.

Just as Han Dong stepped down the last level of stairs.

The familiar system voice once again echoed in his mind.

『The branching event has been activated: [Frightened Laughing Parents]

Requirement: dealing with household chores?!

Reward: mini-clue (Surprise Gift Box), a very small increase in the probability of obtaining a "Destiny Card" in the final reward.

"Hmph!!! That's a branch line too!

However, compared to the school's branching event, the event was significantly smaller in scale and thus corresponded to small clues.

Moreover, this time the branch line is directly related to [Joker-Pennywise], and even the description of the 'request' has become strange.

Is this time's Destiny World mainly focused on various branching quests?"

It was during Han Dong's thoughts.

The parents who were supposed to be sitting on the couch watching the TV, deflected their heads in a rather stiff manner.

The body remained seated, with only the head on the neck twisting mechanically.

Just rotated 90°, looking straight at Han Dong.

Completely different from the impression of the amiable parents.

Both were wearing exaggerated bright red lipstick and extremely exaggerated smiles (reaching the stretching limit of their cheek muscles (facial muscles)).

Staring eyes that felt like they might 'pop' out of their sockets at any moment.

"Nicholas, why are you still up?" The same voice as before came out of my mother's mouth.

"Came down to have a glass of water." josei

Han Dong faced such a horrifying scene, with a normal face, he turned to the kitchen to pour water.

However, just as Han Dong walked towards the kitchen while turning his back to his 'parents'.

Ka!

Cut!

The first sound is the sound of the TV turning off.

The second sound is the sound of the lights turning off.

It means that all the light sources in the house are turned off and only a faint ray of moonlight is coming in through the window.

Click-click-click~ (nail scraping sound)

Something seemed to be crawling quickly in the darkness.

When Han Dong turned around.

His parents were standing straight in front of him, always keeping a 'smile'.

Han Dong, who had psychological preparation in advance, was indifferent, completely suppressing the fear in his body, and slightly stretched out his hand to let Chen Li, who was hidden in the dark, do it.

During this time, Han Dong kept a smile on his face with his parents the entire time.

At this moment, a red shadow flashed.

The kitchen knife surrounded by evil Qi instantly sliced through the parents' necks.

Arteries were broken and blood gushed into the column.

The parents' heads landed just inside the sink on the side, still maintaining their 'smiles' and staring at Han Dong the entire time without deviating in any way.

The body with the missing head fell heavily.

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Bizarre!

The body that fell to the ground was actually like a balloon, pop! A blast!

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Snap!

The balloon exploded!

Han Dong's consciousness wobbled for a moment.

In the blink of an eye, he was in a brightly lit second floor bedroom window.

The red balloon outside the window had just exploded, Han Dong once again saw the clown jumping away from the street, cold sweat running down his temples.

"Turning back time? No way!?"

The first time Han Dong turned his head to look at the clock in the room.

Compared to Han Dong's previous departure from the room, ten minutes had passed.

In addition, the specimen of the parasite had been received in the bookcase.

Both of these circumstances were sufficient to show that time had not been turned back.

When Han Dong quietly left his dorm room and looked through the gap in the stairwell into the living room, he found that the two parents were sitting unharmed on the couch, exactly the same as before.

This meant that it wasn't a time warp, but a 'scene reset' in the simple sense of the word.

Due to the death of the parents, it would all start all over again.

"How does a scene reset like that work? Mind influence?"

Just as Han Dong was deep in thought, the system prompt came on.

『Household affairs are to be handled by the members of the family themselves, no outsiders are allowed to interfere, and if you deliberately violate the rules to reset the scene, you will be severely punished』.

"In other words, must I complete this matter by myself? Even Chen Li, with whom I have established a 'master-servant relationship', is not allowed to interfere?

That's what [Domestic Affairs] originally meant."

As such, Han Dong immediately took Chen Li back to prison.

Having had a previous experience, Han Dong could determine that even the parents affected by the clown weren't particularly strong.

At least Chen Li's use of sneak attacks could be dealt with a single slash.

The two fate items were activated throughout.

The ghoul arm was also in a semi-activated state, with the size remaining the same while the nails extended to around 10cm.

Against a normal mutated enemy, Han Dong still had to keep a hand out, after all, it could all be seen by the Joker, and Han Dong didn't want to throw out all his cards right from the start.

Crunch~.

When Han Dong pushed open his dorm room door again, the situation at home became different.

Only the TV was still on, and his parents who were sitting on the couch had disappeared.

Triggering the raven mark on the back of his hand.

A beak mask with night vision formed, and the darkness no longer had any effect on Han Dong.

Han Dong conducted a search of his home first and found no trace of his parents.

Since the search was fruitless.

He could only return to the living room area.

Staring at the opened Joker gift box on the table, with a note left inside.

Making sure that no one was around, Han Dong quickly pulled out the note and checked the information on it.

『[Housekeeping]: dispose of the family members who are not right

(Reminder: those who are normal are the ones who are wrong in the eyes of the wrong people, oh!?)

That's when.

The glass door leading from the kitchen to the backyard opened.

The parents, with their weird smiling faces, entered the house from the backyard.

The reason why Han Dong searched the home to no avail was precisely because both parents had gone to the backyard to 'get equipment'.

The mother was carrying a long-barreled shotgun in her hand, loaded.

The father was carrying a diesel chainsaw in his hand, boom! The saw chain was already spinning wildly as it tugged on the engine's pull cord.