"Did… did you see that?"
"This is the price!"
"That last attack wasn't aimed at me! It was aimed at all of us!"
"But that thing, it looks down on you! It thinks you're trash, insects that it can crush at will!"
"Do you think I wanted this? That I wanted to be burned like this?!"
He pounded his chest violently, producing a dull THUD THUD sound.
"I was kind enough to lead you out of a desperate situation, and in return, I have to suffer like this for you!"
"But the point of all this isn't how badly I was hurt! Nor is it that I blocked that fatal blow!"
"The point is that I'm using my life, using my pain, to teach you cowards a lesson!"
"Why did this happen to me?! It's not because I'm stupid! It's because I knew I couldn't rely on you lot! I knew you would die!"
"I, Dong Changsheng, am suffering in your place!"
...
「Meanwhile, at the haunted house card game.」
"Sigh…"
The scholar sighed in frustration as he watched his character card die.
