Ch.135135 – Long Night 1

# 135 – The Long Night # 1

“Aaah! There’s a spider crawling on my body! On my body!”

Yang Juhui was having a fit.

It had been like this for two hours since she acquired the trait «Virgin Sacrifice».

Riiip, riiip-

Now she was tearing at her own clothes as she struggled.

She claimed there were spiders crawling all over her body.

“Juhui, there are no spiders! You shouldn’t tear your clothes like that!”

I tried to stop Yang Juhui, but I was helpless against her strength.

Thankfully, Kwon Sua had a spare t-shirt, otherwise Yang Juhui would have had to walk around in her underwear.

The problem was that Yang Juhui also refused to get into the car.

“If I get trapped, I won’t be able to get out! If I’m trapped! Heee!”

Perhaps it was because of her terrifying experience of being trapped in a small box.

Yang Juhui absolutely hated entering enclosed spaces or places cut off from the outside.

What exactly did she experience and see inside that black box?

To think that the once brave Yang Juhui had become so frightened and broken.

Even Bong Jiyeon, who usually gritted her teeth at Yang Juhui, was now giving her worried looks, saying, “Will she ever return to normal…?”

I was worried too.

Would she ever return to normal?

«Virgin Sacrifice: A virgin offered as a sacrifice to lure dark spirits. Will not be attacked by dark spirits. The price is horrific.»

This wasn’t a quirk but a trait, so it couldn’t even be treated at the infirmary.

I began to think that she might never return to normal.

“Get away!”

Now Yang Juhui was swinging her fists at Jeongseok.

She looked absolutely terrified, causing Bong Jiyeon, Jeongseok, Kwon Sua, Teacher Hong Miri, and Yu Dahui to back away from her aggressive behavior.

“There are ghosts everywhere! Ghosts!”

Swoosh-

Now she was hiding behind me, trembling violently.

The sight was both pitiful and weighed heavily on my shoulders.

I bore much of the responsibility for Yang Juhui’s condition.

I had essentially been using her under the pretext that she wanted to find her sister.

If she hadn’t gotten involved with me, she wouldn’t have ended up like this.

“Teacher, I’ll take responsibility for Juhui today.”

“I’ll lend you the key to my office. Stay there tonight.”

Since Yang Juhui was afraid of people but also extremely disliked being left alone, I ended up staying in Teacher Hong Miri’s office for the day to look after her.

Before we parted, Jeongseok patted my shoulder.

“Call me if anything happens. I’ll come right away.”

“Okay.”

I hoped nothing would happen…

Tremble, tremble-

Yang Juhui’s condition, shaking like an abandoned dog, gave me an ominous feeling.

“Toothbrush and toothpaste are here…”

Teacher Hong Miri’s office was where Hong Yeri had previously stayed.

Teacher Hong Miri had found a separate place to live now, but she had stayed here until just a few days ago.

That meant the place was furnished well enough for an overnight stay.

The folding bed was only for one person, but-

There was also a sofa, a refrigerator, and everything else we needed.

“Don’t close the door! Don’t close the door! Door!”

The problem was that Yang Juhui wouldn’t let me close the office door.

If I tried to close it, she would foam at the mouth and have a seizure, so I had to leave it open.

But honestly, I was more scared with the door open.

The corridor beyond the office looked particularly empty after everyone had left for the night.

Whoosh-. Clatter, clatter-.

The wind, unusually strong for summer, rattled the office windows violently.

Feeling a bit creeped out, I felt the need to use the bathroom, but Yang Juhui had another fit.

“Aaaah! Don’t leave me alone! Don’t leave me alone!”

“Hey! I’m just going to the bathroom! Wait just one minute! Just one minute!”

“Nooooo!”

…This is driving me crazy.

Am I supposed to use the bathroom with the door open?

It was very awkward and embarrassing, but Yang Juhui was even shedding tears.

Having no choice, I decided to use the bathroom with the door open.

Yang Juhui followed right behind me.

“……”

Even though she wasn’t in her right mind, urinating in front of a girl was a strange experience.

I was extremely embarrassed, my face burning hot, and my skin tingling as if ants were crawling on my back.

Is this what people with exhibitionism get excited about?

I couldn’t understand how anyone could enjoy something so embarrassing.

Click-

After leaving the bathroom, I turned off the light.

Yang Juhui jumped into the air in shock.

“Hak!”

She jumped so high she nearly touched the ceiling, just like a startled cat.

A cat with raised fur and extended claws.

“Aaah! It hurts! Nails! Nails!”

Yang Juhui grabbed my shoulder with her nails extended, pulling at me so hard that I screamed.

When I screamed, she screamed even louder.

“Don’t turn off the lights! I hate the dark! Don’t turn off the lights! You can’t turn them off! Heek!”

The problem seemed to be that I had turned off the bathroom light.

I had no choice but to leave the bathroom door open and the light on.

Every part of the office was now illuminated with light.

The problem was that Yang Juhui’s clothes were now wet.

It seemed she had wet herself when she jumped like a cat earlier.

…This was really awkward and troublesome.

“This… this isn’t…!”

Even in a situation where she couldn’t maintain her sanity, Yang Juhui was still a young girl.

She seemed extremely embarrassed, and I decided to pretend I hadn’t noticed.

“Juhui, I think you need to go in and wash up first.”

I could clean up afterward.

So I guided Yang Juhui to the small shower booth attached to the office.

The shower booth was just the right size for one person, with glass walls and drainage installed on the floor.

The glass walls were slightly opaque, so you could only tell that someone was inside.

But Yang Juhui didn’t want to enter the shower booth either.

“No…”

Yang Juhui looked sad.

I was very curious about what she had experienced inside that box.

But I couldn’t just ask her about it.

“Should I turn back time? Should I just make it like it never happened?”

I hadn’t expected Yang Juhui to struggle this much.

I thought about using 100P, but Yang Juhui grabbed my arm.

“No…!”

After saying that, Yang Juhui mumbled something.

Was she trying to say she could endure it?

“Ueek.”

No-

She just wanted to throw up.

I cleaned the office thoroughly.

Yang Juhui stood in front of the shower booth with a flushed face.

“I… I can’t go in alone…”

“……”

# # #

Shhhhh-

When I turned on the water, it was extremely cold.

Yang Juhui screamed as if having a fit.

“…It’s cold!”

“Ah, sorry. I’ll change it to warm water.”

I couldn’t tell if the water was cold or hot because I had my eyes covered.

Right now, I was in the shower booth with Yang Juhui, covering my eyes.

The space was already slightly cramped for one person, so it was completely tight with two of us.

Our skin inevitably touched.

‘…What am I doing right now?’

I had no choice.

Yang Juhui absolutely couldn’t shower alone.

But she was embarrassed about me joining her.

In the end, we compromised with me covering my eyes and entering the shower booth together.

Shhhhh-

I turned on moderately warm water, and we both stood under the same stream.

Rustle, rustle-

The sound of Yang Juhui lathering soap and washing her body seemed unusually loud to me with my eyes covered.

That wasn’t all.

The sensation of wet hair touching my chest and the occasional smooth things touching my thighs felt even more intense on my skin, which had become more sensitive because my eyes were covered.

“…Something got bigger! I’m scared! Heek!”

“…Hey! This is unavoidable!”

What was I really doing?

How did it come to this?

I tried to think about when things started going wrong, but I couldn’t figure it out.

“…Uuu, sorry.”

Was it because I shouted?

Yang Juhui sniffled under the shower.

I felt my mind calm down as I realized I had done something very embarrassing.

“Juhui. You don’t need to apologize. It’s all my fault.”

“…That’s right! It’s all your fault! Ha Yeongwon, you’re the bad one!”

“No, even so, immediately agreeing like that is a bit…”

“Then it’s my fault! I… I fought with my sister! I bullied you, Yeongwon! I didn’t listen to my mom!”

Struggle, struggle-

Yang Juhui was panicking in the shower.

I thought we should finish washing quickly and get out, but Yang Juhui’s body was still covered in soap.

If we stayed like this, we might have to be in the shower all day.

We might both end up as bloated drowning victims.

“Juhui, let me wash your hair.”

Scrub, scrub, scrub-

I moved my hands to wash Yang Juhui’s hair and rinsed off the soap with the shower.

I came out and changed my clothes.

I also helped Yang Juhui change.

Since Yang Juhui and Teacher Hong Miri had similar builds, I borrowed underwear from the teacher.

“Teacher, I’m sorry, but I’m going to open your underwear drawer and borrow something…”

I also borrowed a thin shirt and shorts.

By now, it was around 4 AM.

I thought it would be good to close the office door, but Yang Juhui still protested.

“…No!”

“Okay. Then let’s sleep with the door open. Keeping the door open with the air conditioner on will use a lot of electricity.”

I laid Yang Juhui on the folding bed.

But Yang Juhui refused to lie on the bed alone.

“Don’t leave me alone!”

“Hmm, that bed isn’t designed for two people.”

I had no choice but to lay a blanket on the floor.

The blanket was a bit thick, but I could still feel the cold seeping up from the office’s stone floor.

The problem was that whenever I tried to cover us with a blanket, Yang Juhui would kick it away.

“Inside the blanket…”

“You mean there might be ghosts inside the blanket?”

Nod, nod-

The current Yang Juhui was a coward.

And I understood the mind of a coward well.

Having no choice, we had to endure the cold air conditioning without a blanket.

We couldn’t turn off the air conditioner because it would be too hot.

Rustle-

Yang Juhui, who had kicked away the blanket, must have been cold because she started burrowing her face into my side and armpit. It was ticklish and made me laugh, but it was also strangely poignant.

“Who would have thought, half a year ago, that something like this would happen to us?”

I remembered the entrance ceremony day.

I was startled when text suddenly appeared in front of me.

Could the me from back then have even imagined the me now?

With each passing day, my life was changing in surprising ways.

What would it be like when vacation ended and the second semester began? When the second semester passed and we became second-year students?

“We’ll probably be in different classes when we become second-years, right?”

“Uuu… I don’t want that. I’m scared to be alone…!”

“Ow! Don’t bite my side! Okay! I won’t talk about that!”

It looks like it’s going to be a long night.