死亡遊戯で飯を食う。4

Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table Light Novel #4

by Yushi Ukai, 鵜飼 有志, Nekometaru (Illustrator)

〈クラウディビーチ〉を乗り越えた私・幽鬼に、同時期に行われたゲームで参加者の大半が殺害される惨事が発生したとの報が舞い込む。
かつて出会ったプレイヤー・毛糸とともに調査へ繰り出し、『殺人鬼』の再来を私は知る。
いずれ訪れる邂逅を覚悟していると、さらなる凶報が訪れる。
それは〈キャンドルウッズ〉で消えない傷を刻まれた右目の動向を伝えるもので……?
おまけに近頃は夜間学校のクラスメイトからも監視されていて心配事は山積み。
そんな中で私が挑むは、生者と死者の行き交う夜〈ハロウィンナイト〉。
ある時は学校帰りに。
ある時はカボチャ畑で。
我らその身が朽ちるまで、死亡遊戯で飯を食う。

264 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2023

Reviews

[Cassie · Rating 2 out of 5]

So much potential, I was so excited for another candle woods, I didn’t even need to see the game, but to meet AND be in the head of someone who plays the game to excessively murder beyond what’s necessary is a great idea, especially following the whole concept of this in candle woods. However, this light novel has failed in every single volume to do characterization well. They just keep referring to shion as a homicidal maniac, and not saying why, or literally telling us anything about her at all. I think I might stop here, it’s entertaining when the death games are cool concepts (sadly Halloween night wasn’t interesting at all to me) but the characters have no depth, only the generic titles they’ve been given. They’ll narrate and say, I am this generic title, and won’t often even act like it. Shion isn’t that violent here, despite a MASS MURDER with 80 people involved and only 3 surviving. She isn’t malicious, she isn’t having fun nor seeming indifferent to violence, she’s just like every other “player” that’s in the generic field, playing because of boredom or whatever, with no real backstory or personality. Disappointed. I’ll read the next one because it’s the last one avalible right now, and see where it goes.

[Egglien]

So we can make people semi-immortal but we can't fix Yuki's eye? yea okay