Tep, tep.
Claret slowly made her way her ‘home.’
Looking at the familiar building from the distance, a strange feeling welled up inside Claret’s heart.
She knew very well that this was the mansion that her grandparents from her mother’s side left behind for their daughter.
Unfortunately, their daughter died young and the two old people thought that she died of illness.
Claret hadn’t seen her maternal grandparents for a long time.
And with the Survival Game coming, Claret knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for her to find them.
The relationship between them had long deteriorated.
She was not close to her grandparents and Claret didn’t know how to repair it either.
Or rather…
Should she try to repair it?
Claret pursed her lips as she looked at the eye catching red sports car that was parked in front of the house.
‘Red sports car, license number XXXXX, yes, this is my stepbrother’s car.’
Her stepbrother, Bran, was also the apple of the eye for her father and stepmother.
He was currently 18 years old and currently on the peak of rebellious streak.
This sport car was the result of their pampering, which was given to him when he was 18 years old.
The 28 years old Claret definitely couldn’t compare to Bran.
On the other hand, she was like a nonexistent person in the entire family.
‘You love him so much, right?
Then I’ll make sure you experience the pain of loss even more deeply,’ Claret thought to herself as she passed by the car.
And at the most suitable moment, Claret calmly pushed the long rusted nail into the wheel and planted it deeply through a cross angle.
With her step brother’s habit of speeding without care, Claret knew very well that a not well maintained car will break down quickly.
Besides, that brat just liked to speed up without caring for his own safety.
In her previous life, he also got into trouble because of speeding.
Now, she will just hasten it.
Claret lowered her eyes slightly as she walked to her so called home without changing her expression in the slightest bit.
“Oh, you’re finally back from your overtime?
Going back home late at night every single day, those who didn’t know will think that you’re busy playing around out there!” Sharp female voice came from inside the house.
A very familiar voice.
A voice that Claret hadn’t heard for a long time yet couldn’t be forgotten rang in her ear.
She glanced over and saw her stepmother on the sofa, looking in her direction with mockery.
In front of her father, her stepmother will portray the image of a caring and good mother but when he was not present, that’s when she showed her real face.
“The company is busy lately, so I have to spend more time to finish my work,” Claret replied indifferently as she made her way to her room to put her bag.
“You!
Unfilial daughter!
Come back here!” Her stepmother, Mrs.
Walker, shouted in anger.
“Mom, you’re so noisy!” Bran, who was watching the television, complained in annoyance.
It was now his favorite show and he didn’t want to listen to his mother’s nagging at this time.
“Alright, alright.”
Seeing her beloved son complaining, Mrs.
Walker immediately shut up and coaxed him.
Claret could no longer hear their conversation as she reached the second floor and walked towards her room.
Her room was practically the smallest in the entire house, but it was neat and tidy.
Since she graduated and started working, she managed to save up enough money to rent a cheap apartment.
Most of her things have been moved there and she would only come back to this residence from time to time.
After all, with such stepmother guarding the house all the time, why would Claret be willing to stay here?
She would rather stay in her cheap apartment.
‘If it’s not because I would rather take things fast, why would I come back here?’ Claret chuckled to herself and she picked her clothing to take a bath first.
She walked out and saw the maidservant was still busy cleaning up after washing the bathroom.
While their family was not the richest, but hiring a maidservant was still manageable for the family.
After all, Mrs.
Walker couldn’t cook and couldn’t take care of the household.
Without someone to help her, she would have long been overwhelmed and unable to maintain the facade of gentle stepmother.
“Ah, Miss, are you going to take a bath?
I have just cleaned up the bathroom…” The maidservant frowned and complained.
“If the bathroom is dirty, you just have to clean it up again,” Claret said coldly as she pushed the maidservant out before taking a bath.
She would not compromise so easily.
“Ahhh…”
The maidservant was greatly annoyed, but she also knew that while Claret is not favored by the stepmother, her own father would definitely not favor a maidservant.
After all, she was paid to work here and didn’t have high status.
Splash!
Splash!
After having a comfortable bath, Claret felt her mind was clearer.
‘It has been a long time and I have forgotten many things from the early stage of the Survival Game…’
The world suddenly digitalized.
It meant literally.
The entire world turned into a game where they could mine resources, face monster, and so on.
As for the time when it started…
Claret thought about the date she saw when she checked her phone and pursed her lips.
‘It’s around 3 weeks ago.
Some people had already started seeing it and undergone the transformation to digitalized their bodies, but continuous resources only started appearing on the 16th day, which is 5 days ago.
From the nature areas to the residential areas, everything appeared slowly in the beginning until… those monsters started to appear suddenly.’
Claret’s eyes darkened slightly.
The appearance of the inexhaustible monsters that refreshed every single day caused great turmoil.
Countless people died and were forced to adapt.
That was the real apocalypse.
But before that time, Claret knew that she would still need to live a ‘normal life’ on the surface.
Ah…
She had long forgotten many things.
As she cleaned up her clothes, Claret’s eyes landed on the cleaning chemical that the maidservant had forgotten to take out.
Her eyes flickered slightly as she nudged the bottle from the side, instantly pouring out the entire content on the bathroom floor.
She also started the vent, allowing air circulation in the bathroom at the slowest speed possible.
Once she was done, Claret walked out of the bathroom as if nothing was wrong.
She completely ignored the malicious gaze that the maidservant gave to her when she passed by and the latter had to go clean up the bathroom.
This note is made because Claret’s future behavior will definitely break the laws for most countries (I’m not familiar with laws of all countries and only look up a few of them)