Doubt always exists. This means that the host’s heart will always retain doubts about the current environment.
The Two-headed Man represents fear, while the woman represents doubt.
And the Two-headed Man, not long ago... When Koki looked at his palm, he found that the number between his palm lines had changed from 1 to 2—born out of the fear in his heart.
The Two-headed Man did not realize anything was amiss, he simply sneered and said:
"I don’t care about this or that, the host is getting happier and happier. Next, he just needs to say it a third time..."
"Then everything will be settled. We’ve won."
"As for that intruder, it’s easy to explain. He fears you, he can’t figure out the rules of the Human Cave, he doesn’t know that the rule of the Human Cave is to collect...’something’ that originally doesn’t exist in the Human Cave."
"He just discovered that if he tried to make the host realize the truth, it would attract your hunt. So he got scared. At node 1, he realized that we were invincible. To avoid being hunted by you, he started to continually act the opposite way at node 2, to please the host."
"Isn’t that a good thing?"
Indeed, it is.
Many intruders also do this. There were intruders who knew everything. That intruder killed the host’s closest relative without saying a word.
So not only doubt and fear, but also sadness and anger emerged.
The four of them, with immense power, instantly crippled the intruder. This left the intruder with no choice but to live in disgrace on subsequent nodes, even pleasing the host... to avoid being targeted by doubt, fear, sadness, and anger.
Exerting all efforts to prevent these four kinds of psychological activities from appearing in the host.
But the end of living in disgrace also leads to death.
The host just needs to say "I am so happy" three times in the many upcoming nodes...
Once said three times, the rules will end everything.
"Now, the number in his palm lines has changed to 2."
"In the next nodes, everything will go more smoothly for him, and he will achieve even more success," said the Two-headed Man.
"Although this number aroused his fear... I will soon disappear—"
Before the words fell, a sudden change occurred.
"Here it comes!" Doubt said coldly.
Amid their conversation...
A sudden change occurred inside the youth hostel opposite.
Doubt’s figure instantly disappeared, and in the next moment, she appeared directly inside the youth hostel.
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Inside the youth hostel.
Looking at the barely noticeable number 2 in his palm lines, Koki’s heart was filled with fuzzy fear.
It was as if he saw a giant spider weaving a web, layers upon layers coming towards him.
He suddenly remembered... many things.
At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared beside Koki.
It was a man with a veiled face. The sudden appearance of the man made Yumi, who was on the bed, exclaim instantly, but in the next second, Yumi’s expression became fierce.
"Wen—"
The man wanted to speak.
But in the next second, a flash of a white blade, and the cold gleam of the blade pierced through the man’s neck.
A head flew up, blood splattering!
"Ah!!!!" Yumi’s previously fierce expression turned back to normal fear.
"Forget all this," Doubt said.
This sentence seemed to carry some kind of magic power. The man’s body suddenly disappeared, the head was gone, and the splattered blood was also gone.
Even the woman was gone.
Koki was astonished.
But next, Koki suddenly felt... a certain kind of emotion in him was fading.
Doubt, fear, all were fading.
His emotions calmed down instantly.
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...
In the distant, dark corner.
Doubt pulled out the blade stuck in her flesh, blood trickling from her mouth.
"Never thought it would come to this."
Fear also pulled out the blade from his body, coughing up blood:
"With this, we can eliminate the host’s fear and doubt. Hmph, that intruder still underestimated us. In this world, our eyes are everywhere. As long as he appears, we can immediately reach the intruder."
Doubt said nothing.
The scene that just occurred, she felt something was odd. Perhaps because she embodies doubt, she is always calm and suspicious.
"That intruder didn’t say a single word. We killed him... He must be a sub-personality. Does the intruder have too many personalities, are they having a party with so many personalities?"
She clenched her fist, replaying what had happened.
Because of the change in the number in the palm lines, it triggered the host’s doubt and fear. Doubt became alert, and fear was summoned as well.
In the next second, the intruder arranged for a personality to flash out from the dream.
But it was discovered in time, so in an instant, this sub-personality did not have time to do anything and was killed.
Of course, one person suddenly flashing out, and then being killed by another suddenly flashing woman... This would inevitably cause a surge in the host’s fear and doubt.
If these negative emotions were too high... it would naturally affect the host’s happiness index.
Therefore, Doubt and Fear stabbed themselves, putting themselves into a weakened state, thus...
The host’s fear and doubt would rapidly fade.
Overall, it seemed like the intruder’s last-ditch struggle, but it was quickly resolved by Doubt and Fear.
Doubt felt that she should have won.
But she could not feel happy; the more she suspected...
That the intruder had other personalities, and other methods yet to be used.
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Node 03.
Koki ignored the sexual hints from his female assistant, Hashimoto Lisa.