Brook X GN Reader || I'm The Grim Reaper

Chapter 10

     The woman's heart rate picked up. Shit. "Why are you using past tense? Isn't he simply... Missing? Unless... You killed him." The woman put her hands together nervously, fidgeting with her fingers. "N-no.."

   Chase slammed his hands on the table. "Then why are you fucking stuttering?!" The woman was silent. "Answer me!!! How did you kill him?! Did you drown him? Toss his body in a river? Praying he rots away before anyone can find his remains?!" The woman was still silent. "You bitch..."

    Chase reached his right hand to his side, and Scarlet heard shuffling. "Chase!!" He looked at Scarlet, seeming to come to his senses. "... This... Seems a little... Unprofessional."

    'Oh my god, he just snapped! He was reaching for his gun, wasn't he?! If this guy actually attacked her and ended up in jail, he'd be totally useless to me!'

   They all sat in silence for a while, before Chase started sitting up. "Let's go." He and Scarlet got up and left the woman sitting on the floor, tears forming in her eyes. As they walked down the hallway, Scarlet called at the back of Chase's head. Her attention was caught off guard by someone coming out of an apartment in front of them as they walked.

   Chase noticed it, too. The person had an odd vibe to them. They wore a simple white shirt and black shorts, they didn't have any shoes on. They wore a dark green scarf with neon green x's around them, and they had short hair that parted in the middle and went to about their cheekbones, and an undercut. Their hair was black with dyed green highlights in it, and they were very vibrant. Scarlet felt weird being around them. Like they were similar in some way, but she couldn't put her finger on it.

    They were wearing a neon green headband, and it had fake deer Antlers on it. They also had a thick green belt on, but their pants didn't have any loops. Scarlet only saw it because it was both bright and unusual.

    Scarlet and the suspicious person made eye contact. She narrowed her eyes at them, and as the person walked past them they gave Scarlet a smile and a small wave, before walking past them. They were really happy, but she still got a weird feeling about them. Scarlet shrugged, continuing to follow Chase.

    Chase stopped in front of a door, and Scarlet stopped behind him. "Scarlet. Do you... Like video games?"

   They went to Chase's apartment and Scarlet found herself sitting in a gaming chair in front of a computer, Chase leaning over her shoulder.

    'I.. I just impulsively told him that I like video games to calm him down but... I don't think I've ever played one...'

    "So this game is called fatecraft! I play it a lot, uh, that's not too important... But, I think it'd be fun if you made a character!" Chase had a smile on his face as he awkwardly tried to make Scarlet forget about what had happened at the woman's apartment.

    The game sar in front of Scarlet. On the side of the screen, there were options, the top one was selected and was marked 'FATECRAFT,' with a red symbol next to it. Below it was one marked 'AKUMA' with a pink symbol next to it, and below that was one marked 'HOMEROCK' with a dark blue symbol next to it. Above those were different things to select, like 'games,' 'friends,' and 'store.' Fatecraft's name was at the top, below it in small letters was 'Options, redeem code, customer service' and each could be clicked on. Below that was a photo of a character, it had three wolf heads on it with red eyes. Strange. Next to that was an option to see the community guidelines, as well as the online friends. There was a loading button at the bottom of the screen that was at 100%, and a green play button next to it. Scarlet was hovering over the play button.

    Scarlet clicked play and it brought her to a place to make her avatar. The avatar she had currently was basic, with pink hair and a brown crop top with brown pants, like they were really dirty. On the side of the screen, she could choose the gender, which was set at female currently, then she could pick different races and class. "So here's the character selection screen! I recommend for beginners to make a warrior human, since they're pretty standard.."

   Scarlet scrolled down to the third option in the race category, which was a zombie. "Oh... You want to be a zombie? Well, that's okay too." The character now had long strings of purple hair, decaying skin, and black clothes. Scarlet went to the class section and scrolled down, choosing the class 'necromancer.' Now the zombie had a purple dress and black cape. "A zombie... Necromancer? Erm, edgy but alright. Well, the last step is to name your character..." Scarlet moved her cursor to the area and started typing.

   GRIMREAPER666_

She chuckles to herself slightly at her name and character. Chase eyes her weirdly. "I... Feel like I just learned a lot about you.." Scarlet spawned into an outside area, and there was her profile and a blue bar and a red bar next to it that was full. There was a character in front of her character, and it seemed like an MPC dwarf. It had a '!' On top of its head. "So you just spawned into the world! Accept the quest from that dwarf." "I don't want to do that. I want to fight someone."

    A character came running to Scarlet in the distance. "...oh no, a high level is coming..." "A what? Can I fight that?

      The player came up to Scarlet and stuck the sword they were carrying into Scarlet's chest, a big '-100' in red appeared above her and the red bar went down and turned grey. "Ah, he killed you." 

     "Wait, what? What?! Whattt?!?!?!?!?!?!" Scarlet turned to Chase. "Why is he allowed to do that?!" Chase looked at her, shocked by her outburst. "Well, you can kill other people in this game, and he's just so lot higher level than you..." "So how can I kill him?" She was lowkey terrifying at this moment. Chase feared for his life more than this morning when he woke up.

    "Uhm... You'll need to play more to level up, so you can enter endgame content and get good equipment..." Chase answered her in a small voice, shrinking into himself. She was scary, could you blame him? Scarlet started aggressively typing on the keyboard. "Teach me." Scarlet looked at her for a second before smiling, feeling a little happy again.

   "S-sure! So, to start off, let's take that quest. You'll need to kill five boars right away."

   "Five boars? What do they need me to kill five boars for?"

   "Boars contain bacon. Delicious bacon."

   "Oh, I understand..."

  Chase kept explaining the game to Scarlet, and after a while, they moved to different topics. "So... Why did you bring me today?" "Ah, yeah, it uh... Didn't go as planned..." Chase said, looking away from her slightly, sort of as an eye roll. "There was a reason I brought you, but... I ended up losing my temper." He seemed slightly salty, before closing his eyes. "... It was just so obvious that she killed her son. And honestly... People like that should be burning in hell." Scarlet looked at him with slightly wide eyes, before smiling. "I see..."

*****

    11:38 P. M. The woman sat cleaning a plate in her sink, in the dark. She walked to her front room by the table to tidy up when there were a few knocks at the door. She looks scared that someone was knowing on her door so late in the night. "....who...."

  

     "I like to play characters that have big swords." - Graveweaver

   (Revised and checked for errors: yes, once)

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