Ch.10010 – The Auntie from Hell 3

# 010 – The Auntie from Hell # 3

“So you see. I often have nightmares, so I can’t sleep unless I drink like this. I usually drink alone, but now that you’re here, Yeongwon, it’s nice to have someone to talk to.”

Teacher Kang Haneul continued pouring and drinking liquid from a bottle labeled whiskey.

As she got more drunk, her pajamas kept getting disheveled, so I didn’t know where to put my eyes.

“I used to take sleeping pills, but I think I’ve built up a tolerance from taking too many. Alcohol is the best. Yeongwon, you’re a minor so you shouldn’t drink, right? Have you ever tried alcohol?”

“No. I’ve never tried it.”

“Really? That’s surprising. When I first saw you, Yeongwon, I thought you were a complete troublemaker. Always walking around with bandages on your face. Bad boy style? How many girlfriends have you had? Be honest. You were popular, right?”

“I had a girlfriend, but she dumped me.”

“That’s not good. Yeongwon, you know what? When I see kids wasting their golden time, I honestly want to hit them. I wish I could switch places with them. They don’t know what a good time they’re missing…”

“…Hmm…”

“But these days, with all this talk about student rights, you can’t even properly scold a student. Teachers pressure from above, and below are disobedient students and overzealous parents.”

“……”

“Yeongwon, don’t you have anything you’re curious about? Right now, I feel like I could answer anything… Anything you’re curious about…? Like final exam questions…”

Isn’t giving away final exam questions a crime?

It was clearly a joke, but because of the atmosphere, it didn’t seem like one.

“…You can ask more intimate questions too. Rude and personal questions are fine. Right now, I want to answer anything you ask. I’m completely unguarded today.”

The teacher’s voice was sticky like honey, and somehow the air felt hot.

I decided to joke around to break the increasingly awkward atmosphere.

“Then… what about your first love? Or stories about people you’ve dated…”

“I’ve only studied, so I haven’t had a boyfriend at this age. Now, since I answered one of your questions, I’ll ask one too. Yeongwon, have you ever had sex?”

“……”

Wait, isn’t this sexual harassment?

I was bewildered by what I had been listening to for the past five minutes.

So I just kept sipping the milk the teacher had given me, but even that was almost gone with only a few drops left at the bottom of the cup.

More importantly, why am I so sleepy?

I was extremely drowsy.

“Oh…”

My body felt heavy like wet cotton, and my vision was so blurry that the teacher’s face seemed to blur into multiple images. Her mouth even appeared to be stretched to her ears.

“Yeongwon, are you sleepy? You’re sleepy, right? Fortunately, I had some sleeping pills left.”

In my fading consciousness, I heard Teacher Kang Haneul’s voice.

Did the teacher just drug me?

Rustle, rustle-.

Soon I heard the sound of thin fabric falling to the floor.

And I also heard the sound of someone applying sticky lotion to their smooth skin.

Thud-. Thud thud-.

I was too sleepy to come to my senses and could only bury my head on the table, but somehow my mouth could still move.

“Tea…teacher…what are you…”

I was scared.

I also remembered the story about a female student who went missing at the beginning of the semester, causing a huge commotion at school and in the neighborhood.

The culprit could be someone connected to the school—wasn’t that what they said?

There were no signs of resistance, so it could be someone the victim knew.

No way—.

“Yeongwon, we’re going to become one. You said it yourself. That I could go inside. I’m going to go inside you, Yeongwon. Don’t be tense, just relax. Teacher will take care of everything-.”

It was a sticky voice.

This was the first time I’d heard such a sticky and sultry voice, enough to make the hair on my temples stand on end.

Rustle-.

Soon the teacher flipped my body over and laid me on the floor.

Through her underwear, I could see white skin, and the teacher, who had applied plenty of something like lotion, finally opened my mouth and began to push her hand and arm into my mouth!

Squelch, squelch-.

“Inside Yeongwon is narrow and warm. Doesn’t teacher taste good to you too, Yeongwon?”

“Uuueck-!”

Taste good? I was literally dying!

The teacher was clearly trying to wear me like a doll costume, turning my skin inside out!

“Ueck! Ueeeck!”

“Why are you so stiff? Was there not enough gel? Since it’s come to this, I need to make you wetter. It’s right for adults to teach you about alcohol.”

Glug glug glug glug-.

The teacher poured whiskey into my mouth.

“Ueck! Ueeck! Teacher, teacher stop! Please save me! Teacher, please save me!”

I begged at the threshold of death.

But the more I did, the more excited the teacher seemed, smiling with her mouth corners stretched to her ears.

“You sleep just fine during class, but why won’t you sleep now? Maybe you have a tolerance to sleeping pills too. Wait a moment.”

Rustle-.

The teacher left her seat for a moment.

I thought this was my chance!

If I stay like this, I’ll fall victim to this old maid murderer or ghost or whatever she is! I can’t die like this!

Maybe it was because I was desperately racking my brain in this crisis?

Like the saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day, a bright idea like a light bulb flashed in my head.

“Aaaah! Aaaaaaah!”

I somehow squeezed out all my strength and screamed.

Then, just as I expected, something happened.

Bang bang bang-!

Someone knocked on the apartment’s metal door.

Soon, an elderly woman’s voice was heard.

—What the hell is going on at this late hour! Let me sleep, you crazy woman! Are you in there? Did you bring a man!? I said I’d introduce you to my son! My son works at Oseong Electronics! He’s only forty!

Just as I expected!

The story about the apartment having poor soundproofing was true, and the neighbor came!

“Aah!”

—A scream… is something wrong?

“Aaaah!”

—Should I call 112?

“Aack!”

The police!

At those words, I felt like I had received a lifeline.

The spirit of Korean community was still alive!

The bond of neighborhood cousins still remained! I won’t let anyone who denies this get away with it!

—Hehehe…. Three questions… You answered…?

But-.

A strange sound came from outside the door.

—Let’s switch. Switch with me. Switch with me. Switch with me. Switch with me. Switch with me. Switchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchme-.

Oh shit-.

I was so scared I could pee myself.

But extreme fear sometimes drives away drowsiness!

When I barely managed to get up and sit down, I saw something seeping through the thin gap of the metal door.

“Let’s switch.”

It sometimes looked like my mother, sometimes like Teacher Kang Haneul, and at a glance, it also looked like an unfamiliar middle-aged woman.

“Shit! Auntie ghost!”

“Switchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchme.”

The auntie ghost approached me, waving her arms from side to side.

The auntie ghost emitted a foul smell that was like rotten apples or chicken coop smell!

“Ueck! Chicken coop smell!”

“……”

The auntie ghost stopped.

Could this be effective?

Yes, maybe she hates those kinds of words!

“Chicken coop smell! Old maid! Menopause! Auntie! Auntie! Auntie!”

I wish I had better words!

Still, it wasn’t completely ineffective, as the auntie ghost’s face changed to something more terrifying than I’d ever seen, then she bent her arms and legs backward in a bridge-like posture and scurried away into the house with a shashak-shashak sound.

It was creepy, just like a giant cockroach.

“Ah shit, she hid again…. Wasn’t this supposed to exorcise her…?”

Knock knock knock-.

At that moment, someone knocked on the door.

—Yeongwon, are you okay? Teacher went out to buy milk and came back. I heard some commotion from inside. Why did you lock the door from the inside?

It was Teacher Kang Haneul’s voice!

I felt relief like taking a cold shower in the heat… but suddenly an ominous feeling arose.

—Yeongwon, you’re in there, right?

“……”

—Look at you not answering when teacher is calling. You disrespectful brat who grew up without a father. You have good instincts?

It was truly a moment when tears could flow.

So this time too, it wasn’t the teacher but a ghost!

“The Broken Clock’s advice: Sometimes silence is the answer.”

This advice was for this moment!

The problem was… knock knock knock- the sound of knocking on the walls began to echo from all directions.

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Ceiling.

Door.

Wall.

Floor.

The knocking sound came from everywhere.

Ring ring ring-.

My phone rang too.

—Hey, are you Ha Yeongwon? I’m Jeong Sojin, the class president of Class D, and I like you. Will you go out with me? Answer me. Answermeanswermeanswermeanswermeanswermeanswermeanswermeanswerme-.

“Fuck off! Your voice sounds old!”

This auntie ghost was desperately trying to get me to answer her questions.

“Do I… have to live like this forever?”

Should I never answer the phone from now on?

My life suddenly started to become arduous.

But when a person is cornered and under extreme stress, sometimes a moment of defiance arises.

Even a cornered rat will bite a cat. Right now, I was definitely a rat.

“Fuck it, alright. Let’s see who wins. Auntie! Come out! You want to take my body, right? That’s why you keep asking me questions?”

With a mindset of confronting head-on, I called out to the auntie ghost.

Then, with a crack, crack- sound of joints breaking, Teacher Kang Haneul appeared from the dark bathroom. It was still terrifyingly unfamiliar.

To shake off the fear, I closed my eyes tightly and opened them, and Teacher Kang Haneul spoke.

“That’s right. I like younger men. The more you answer my questions, the more thrilling it gets…. After I take your body, I’ll take your life too. If you don’t give me your body, I’ll take this woman’s body instead!”

Reflecting on what had happened so far, I realized this strange auntie ghost asked questions and also answered mine.

And her recent answer was more than enough for me to make a decision. She said if she fails to take my body, she’ll take Teacher Kang Haneul’s body.

What an inconvenience!

This happened because of me.

Like a man, I should end this!

I spread my arms toward the auntie ghost.

“Not anyone else! Use my body! Come inside me!”

“Good. Then teacher will really go in? Relax~.”

Shurururu-.

Teacher Kang Haneul’s body seemed to turn into powder and began to enter through my nose and mouth.

It pushed out all the air in my lungs and took its place, causing my breath to choke.

If I hadn’t acquired the Holding Breath trait from the shop, I would have passed out from suffocation right now!

Nothing in this world is useless—thinking that, I recalled The Broken Clock’s advice.

“The Broken Clock’s advice: Quirk is the weirdness that dwells in the flesh, soul, and mind. If you possess more than two Quirks, you will die. Quirks can be treated by unlocking the Clinic item in the shop and spending 100P.”

Quirk is the weirdness that dwells in the flesh, soul, and mind.

Just like the auntie ghost trying to take my body!

“…Huk…Status Window.”

I squeezed breath from my increased lung capacity to call the status window.

“Name: Ha Yeongwon Lv.1

Traits: The Broken Clock, Holding Breath

Quirk: Possession

Funds: 110 Points

Description: Once promising, you’ve been spending meaningless days killing time. But even a broken clock shows the right time twice a day.”

“Quirk Possession – switchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchmeswitchme”

Fuck off! You bitch!

“Clinic ◀ Click to open”

“Spend 100P to treat Quirk.”

“Quirk Possession has been treated.”

“…It worked! I won!”

Saving my remaining points just in case was the right answer.

If I hadn’t opened the Clinic, I would have been screwed.

Beep beep beep beep-.

At that moment, I heard the sound of someone unlocking the front door.

Teacher Kang Haneul was coming in with a convenience store bag full of things.

Looking closely, I could see milk and snacks among the bags.

“Yeongwon, what happened? What on earth happened! Why is the house such a mess? I just went to buy milk at the convenience store and ran into the English teacher on the way back!”

“Teacher… do you like younger men?”

“W-what are you suddenly talking about?”

I collapsed to the floor.

“Congratulations! You have won against the ‘Curse of Becoming a Ghost After Answering Three Times’!”

“Beginning settlement for 1 survivor.”

Clink-.

100 points came in.

It was like getting back exactly what I spent to treat the Quirk, but after all that trouble and commotion, breaking even felt like a loss.

I guess I should be satisfied with surviving.

What on earth was that? Nightmares aren’t just in that corridor.

To think I’d meet ghosts in reality too.

“Your experience has exceeded the threshold and your level has increased.”

“Some traits change according to level.”

“The probability of being tracked by weirdness and Watchers increases.”

Oh-.

My level is rising?

I was wondering what the level in my status window was for, and it turns out it does increase!

It was also interesting that traits change according to level.

However, what concerned me more were the words that appeared next.

Weirdness and Watchers…?

As I was wondering what this meant, I heard sirens—wee-woo wee-woo.

“Is anyone there? We received a report that a student might have been kidnapped.”