I Wanted a 2D Harem Isekai, Got a Rule-Horror Game

Crossing into the 2D world, with both parents dead, money in my pocket, and a place to live.

Even if the universe’s ‘no-imouto clause’ is in effect, this still looks like the classic daily-life harem-protagonist trajectory in a 2D world, right?

Surely next comes the otaku-bait development, a wonderful story of being surrounded by girls, yes?

[Welcome to the “Sacrifice Game.” We wish you the chance to witness the end within true fear.]

Wait a sec—

This script isn’t right, is it?

Corpses whispering, shadowed pits creeping, paper effigies asking for directions, a cursed village’s night patrol, an eye peering from under the bed…

Grotesque rules weave a blood-stained net; there is no escape. Only by facing the endless nightmare head-on can one fight for a sliver of life.

So, since I’m being entangled by all these horrors, can I get a system? Preferably the kind that becomes overpowered just by checking in!

While I was thinking that, I realized I’d gotten the ability to roll back after death.

It sure is a cheat—but doesn’t that mean I have to keep betting my life on trial and error? I refuse! I don’t want to be a Subaru-style, die-and-retry protagonist! Someone save me, please!

Then I turned around and saw the girls trapped with me: Shinomiya Kaguya, Fujiwara Chika, Gotō Hitori, Yotsuya Miko, and others.

Damn it, then bring it on! How could I let beautiful girls be sacrificed in a place like this? I’ll create a happy world—no Urobuchi-style tragedy and no grimdark despair!

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