episode_0407

After returning from my grandfather’s house, nothing particularly changed in my daily life.

Although there was the inconvenience of not being able to go on a mission, I wasn’t too dissatisfied since Amy and Shine Lane were also together.

Today, too, I was peacefully walking down the hallway with an ice cream in my mouth.

“Hello.”

I turned my head blankly at the sudden sound of an unfamiliar voice.

The girl standing a little way away from me was waving her hand and smiling slightly.

I took a step back and frowned.

It was definitely the girl who introduced herself as a 70-year-old grandmother.

How did you get here?

My alertness grew even more when I saw the girl suddenly appearing like a ghost without any warning.

“Aren’t you going to say hello?”

Instead of answering, I slurped the ice cream in my mouth.

The girl who had been quietly watching me frowned and crossed her arms, perhaps because she didn’t like my behavior.

“Hmm…”

Really, really, is it true that the girl is my grandfather’s friend like she said?

If what that girl said was true, she might have known Jin.

“Did you happen to come to see Jin?”

“Jin?”

I took two more steps back at the girl’s words.

The way he tilted his head as if he didn’t know the truth while he was here was absolutely not normal.

I chewed and swallowed the ice cream in my mouth.

“I came to find you.”

“Me?”

“Yeah. You said you were 19?”

“Gasp…”

I started getting goosebumps.

I rolled my eyes here and there, looking for an opportunity to escape.

I could tell for sure from that statement.

The girl who knew me well, even though she didn’t know Jin, was definitely the noblewoman that Amy had spoken of.

But there was one thing that was bothering me.

How on earth did this girl end up in this headquarters?

Seeing him walking around alone, it seemed like he hadn’t come as a guest through any formal procedures.

If it were the Jin I know, he wouldn’t have left the guest wandering around alone.

“I, I’m 13 years old…”

When Amy returned home, she said to me,

If anyone asks my age, just tell them I’m 13.

The girl who heard my answer frowned and took a step closer to me.

I stepped back as she approached.

“Will you stay still?”

“I don’t like it.”

“I’m not trying to do anything bad.”

“Don’t lie, you sex offender.”

“Sex…what?”

I immediately turned around and started running.

As he started to run, moving his short legs vigorously, the girl who had been watching him blankly from behind also started to run.

I watched the girl as I ran.

His running form was ordinary, so it didn’t look like he had any special training.

Just, everything was normal.

I immediately raised my abilities.

Phagejik-

The moment the blue lightning enveloped my entire body, my body began to shoot in a straight line.

The scenery stretches on and on until you reach the end of the hallway.

I immediately stopped running and looked back.

Phagejik-

Beyond the blue light scattering in the air, the girl’s figure was nowhere to be found.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

“Sigh…”

“Already finished?”

“Heeek!”

I was startled by the voice right next to me and fell to the floor.

The girl I thought I had left behind was standing right next to me.

My hands start to tremble.

Clearly, I was running faster.

Common sense would suggest that she couldn’t follow me.

But this girl was standing right next to me.

I couldn’t feel anything, so much so that I didn’t notice until she spoke.

It was like a ghost.

It was a sure thing.

This girl was clearly not a noblewoman, but a ghost of an old woman.

“Haa… Don’t be scared. I just wanted to check something for a moment.”

The girl sighed and started to approach me.

It was that very moment.

While I was trembling in fear at the approaching hand, I started hearing a squeaking sound from the other side of the hallway.

Beep beep beep beep-

This was definitely the sound of the squeaky shoes I had given Lane as a gift.

He turned his head and smiled brightly at that sound.

The squeaking sound was getting closer.

I swallowed hard and looked down the hallway, and sure enough, Rain with bright yellow hair appeared at the end of the hallway.

“Rain!”

I was so happy that I raised my hands and shouted.

At that moment, Rain turned his head, noticed me, and started running towards me with a startled expression.

“Jeff!”

Beep beep beep beep-

The squeak squeak sound of Rain’s slippers couldn’t have been more welcome.

I immediately got up from my seat, ran to Lane, and hugged her.

As I roughly rubbed Rain’s small, cute, soft cheeks, Rain groaned as if in pain.

“Ugh… What are you doing here?”

I was startled by Rain’s question and grabbed both of Rain’s cheeks to keep my gaze fixed on her.

“Careful, Rain. There’s a scary old lady ghost over there.”

“Ha, Grandma’s ghost…?”

Rain began to tremble at my words.

As it turns out, I’m not the only one who’s afraid of ghosts.

“Oh, there isn’t any…?”

“No…?”

At Rain’s words, I turned my head and looked at the seat where I had just been sitting.

But there was nothing there.

As if it had been like that from the beginning, I couldn’t even see the girl, so I just opened my mouth in a daze.

“Ho, is it hidden? Rain, go over there…”

I pushed Lane’s back and pointed to the corner of the hallway.

“Poem, I hate it!”

Rain was startled by my words and clung to me.

She clung to me so tightly that I couldn’t help but hug her.

While we were hugging each other like that, I was trembling, and eventually I swallowed my saliva and headed to the corner with Rain.

“, we’re going together. Don’t run away just because something comes out… Got it? ”

“Yeah!”

I approached the corner very slowly, with trembling steps.

In the corner, there was a large flower pot, so it seemed like I could easily hide my small body if I crouched down.

“Oh, no…!”

“No!”

Rain and I sat down on the floor, sighing in relief.

What on earth is going on?

Apparently, before Rain came, there was a ghost old lady girl.

“Jeff. Who the hell was here?”

“That’s right. It’s true.”

I answered Lane’s question and checked the cameras in the hallway.

Yeah, it’s a camera.

If you check the cameras lined up in this hallway, you’ll be able to see the ghost of the old girl I was talking about.

I hurriedly ran to Jin with Rain.

Every time she moved her short legs, Rain’s squeaking sound echoed through the hallway.

After running for a long time, I arrived at Jin’s office and opened the door.

bang!

I opened the door forcefully and entered the office, where Jin was holding a rabbit ear headband and had a serious expression on his face.

“Jeff? Lane?”

When he found me and Rain, he got up from his seat and dropped his headband on the floor.

I hurried to Jin’s desk.

“Jin! Jin! Ghost! There’s a ghost!”

“Ghost…?”

“In the hallway! In the hallway!”

I was so excited that I couldn’t speak properly.

In frustration, I pushed Jin aside.

He pushed away as I pushed him away, then sat down on the sofa with a puzzled expression.

As I pushed Jin away and took the desk, Rain came over and sat down next to me.

Jin’s large chair was big enough for Rain and me to sit together.

I quickly operated the computer and accessed the headquarters database.

There’s just one thing I want to confirm.

It was a video file saved directly through the camera.

As I type in the number of the hallway where Rain and I were earlier, videos taken over the past month come flooding back.

I clicked on the most recently registered video among them.

“Here!”

I poked the screen with my hand.

Because the moment I was turning the speed up, I saw myself walking down the hallway.

I lowered the speed to normal and played the video again.

“Hey, is a ghost coming out now?”

“Yeah. Take a good look.”

While I was watching the video again, I discovered something strange.

I was staring into empty space.

It was creepy to see him act and open his mouth as if someone was there.

Rain, sitting next to her, also seemed to sense something strange and began to tremble.

“You, a ghost…?”

The moment Rain asked that, I turned around and started running.

I couldn’t say anything as I watched myself quickly walk away.

Even though there was no one chasing him, he suddenly started running and even used his abilities.

“What are you doing?”

Jin, who got up from his seat, came up behind us and checked the video with us.

As expected, the girl’s appearance was not captured in the video.

In the video, I was startled by the sight of empty space, and then I was seen running towards Lane.

“Oh, it’s a real ghost!”

I pressed my finger on the screen with a sad face.

Clearly, when I saw it myself earlier, there was a ghost in the shape of a girl standing there.

The voice was still vivid.

“A ghost…?”

It seemed like Jin had a hard time believing what I said.

I jumped up from my seat and ran outside.

I had to go to Amy quickly and tell her everything about this situation.

“Let’s go together!”

A squeaking sound was heard from behind, along with Rain’s voice.

So, after running for a while with Rain, I arrived at the room and immediately ran towards Amy.

“Mom!!!”

“Jeff?”

Amy, who was sitting comfortably on the sofa, opened her eyes wide in surprise at my sudden behavior.

I sat on Amy’s lap and began to explain in detail what had happened earlier.

The girl suddenly appeared, and it wasn’t the first time he had met her.

And when Rain came looking for her, she told him everything, including how she disappeared and how she couldn’t be seen on camera.

Amy’s expression hardened as she listened to me quietly.

“Jeff, you’ll never be alone again.”

“Oh, alone…?”

“Yeah.”

“Mom, do you know who that ghost is?”

“Kelly White.”

I swallowed dry saliva.

What Amy knew meant it wasn’t a ghost.

Amy immediately got up from her seat and gave me a hug from Shine, who was sitting next to me.

As I was blankly staring at her back, Rain, who was shivering, came over and sat down next to me.

“Oh, Mom?”

“The three of you stay together here. Never be alone. Got it?”

“Yes, yes!”

Amy left the room, taking out her cell phone and leaving those words behind.