Left in a Horror Game, Adopted by the Boss Chapter 07
Even now, Dad still wasn’t thinking about bringing me home.
He was thinking about how to bury what he’d done.
The official server was about to audit all previous test records.
Anyone who voluntarily abandoned a minor player would lose their first-batch player status. Their property, points, and gear would all be seized.
That was why they had risked coming back to this dungeon.
Taking the Boss’s heart was to awaken Lily’s talent.
Finding me was to force me to admit that I had chosen to stay behind-or to kill me.
Mom dried her tears and pulled a prepared document out of her bag.
“Nora, just sign this.”
“Mom promises we’ll bring you home once everything is settled.”
I stared at the paper and almost laughed.
Three years ago, she also told me to wait in the dungeon.
That wait had lasted three whole years.
Dad saw I wasn’t reacting, and his patience snapped.
“We raised you for ten years. Now the family’s in trouble, and you can’t help us out once?”
“You’re already the Boss’s daughter. You don’t need these rewards.”
“Lily has no talent. She needs them more than you.”
He kept saying “family,” but he had already pushed me out the door.
Lord Corvus raised his hand coldly. He had prepared a document for me too.
Mom’s document was a voluntary stay statement.
Lord Corvus’s was an application to sever my real-world family ties.
“Don’t think about anyone else. Choose what you want.”
My eyes burned.
For the first time in my life, someone was telling me to put myself first.
I picked up the pen and signed the second application.
Mom screamed and rushed toward me.
“You can’t sign that!”
Lord Corvus waved his hand and blocked her.
The contract burst into silver flames. My blood ties to the Hart family were severed.
The system recalculated every reward the Hart family had ever received.
[First Clear Contributor: Nora Hart.]
[Contribution Rate: 97%.]
The Hart family house, their points accounts, their high-tier gear-all of it vanished from Dad’s name and transferred into my inheritance vault.
Dad’s rank dropped from A to F.
Mom’s healing talent was reclaimed by the system.
The black cloak Lily had just put on dissolved into mist and settled back onto my shoulders.
She clawed at the fabric in a panic.
“Mom and Dad gave this to me!”
I pushed her hand away.
“My Daddy gave it to me.”
Dad lost it. He charged at me like a madman.
A monster burst out of the ground and pinned him down.
He was still screaming.
“You ungrateful brat! You’re stealing from your own parents!”
A live feed of the real world appeared in the air.
The Hart family house’s protective barrier vanished on the spot. High-tier items from the yard flew
into the dungeon one by one.
Mom stared at the empty house and sank to the ground.
“We worked so hard for all of this!”
Lord Corvus sneered. “What you call hard work was built on my daughter’s back.”
I looked at the rewards piling up in my vault, but I felt nothing.
Those things should have been proof that I was once excellent. Instead, they had become fuel for their obsession with Lily.
A system warning cut through the air.
[Secondary tampering detected in test data.]
[Player Lily Hart awakened a B-rank talent three years ago: Data Camouflage.]
[Investigating the cause of the test server collapse.]
Lily froze. Then she spun around and bolted for the exit.
Lord Corvus sealed the dungeon doors. Every monster turned to look at her.
“What’s the rush?”
“We haven’t settled your debt yet.”
