Horror Company’s Instant Death Skill

Have you ever thought about what you’d do if you were possessed into a horror game?

If you have, I wish you’d told me sooner.

Because I’ve been possessed into one.

The action-packed horror game .

A game where the protagonist, a rookie exorcist, beats up ghosts.

A mix of horror and action.

was notorious for its high intensity.

Not in a lewd way, but in a brutally violent one.

The problem was, that wasn’t even the worst part.

The real issue was that I’d never properly played the game.

‘Common sense says I wouldn’t play such a scary game in the first place.’

I’m terrified of ghosts.

I can’t even handle gore properly.

Naturally, I never went out of my way to play horror games.

I only learned about through a VTuber.

[Ah, you damn bastards! Why do I have to play this?! If it weren’t for this bet… Kyaaah! Hiii! I’m scared! I can’t do this…!]

The VTuber was playing it as a punishment.

I just trembled and closed my eyes.

Even a quick glance was enough to understand the story and characters.

‘…If I’d known this would happen, I would’ve at least watched it properly.’

Of course, I didn’t know much about the game either.

At best, I remembered the basic plot, the protagonist,

and that one female character was pretty.

And the fact that this world was a hellhole for ordinary people to live in.

‘How am I supposed to survive in a world where you can just run into a ghost and die?!’

I didn’t even get any possession perks or special talents.

What if I’d reincarnated as an executive of some evil organization?

That would’ve been way easier.

A minor villain who gets beaten up by the protagonist in Episode 1?

I’d have cheered “Jackpot!” and befriended the protagonist.

An extra?

At least they’d have made an appearance, right?

‘How the hell do you get possessed into a character who never even shows up? Who even is this guy?’

A male character I’d never seen once in the entire game.

He didn’t even have any proper abilities.

“I’m a nobody?! I’m a nobody?! At least give me a nullification ability in my right arm or something—isn’t that the standard?!”

I screamed at my status screen like a madman on the first day…

Only to realize I was just a generic, nameless background character who’d never become a hero.

“I’m already scared of ghosts. How am I supposed to live like this…?”

In the end, paralyzed by fear, I made the rational(?) choice to hole up in my room and never come out.

To put it bluntly, I became a hikikomori.

‘B-but outside the blanket is dangerous, so it can’t be helped. Tsk, tsk, tsk.’

For reference, my parents in this world had passed away.

The only one living with me was my younger sister.

Thankfully, she was an angel.

She even treated this useless older brother like a human being.

“Oppa, did you clean again? I told you to rest—I’ll handle it.”

“Ah, no. I should at least do this much.”

With no one to nag me, life was comfortable.

Sleeping all day, eating, and rotting in my room.

A full month of living as a hikikomori.

I at least had enough conscience to handle household chores.

‘Honestly, staying still was driving me insane with all the ghost rumors.’

…But as this lifestyle dragged on, a sudden unease crept in.

‘How long can I keep living like this?’

Right now, my sister feeds me and we live together.

But someday, she’ll move out, date, maybe even get married.

Am I supposed to keep living off her allowance even then?

That was realistically impossible.

‘No matter how kind Chaeyoung is, she won’t take care of a jobless bum forever.’

Not even a saint—let alone Chaeyoung—would do that.

In the end… to live safely, I needed money.

And to earn money, I had to work.

‘I need money to live safely at home, but to earn money, I have to go outside…!’

It’s like the chicken-or-egg dilemma!

Anyway, it was clear I couldn’t keep living like this.

-Should I… get a job?