Ch.144144 – Gun 4

# Chapter 144 – Gun #4

Kang Bada realized that Yu Inna’s death wasn’t a simple suicide.

Facing this realization, Hospital Director Kim San rummaged through his drawer and handed Bada a document.

The date on the envelope was even older than seventeen years ago.

“The answer you want is inside this document.”

Kang Bada opened the document without hesitation.

It contained the story of a 14-year-old girl, filled with medical terminology.

Barely recognizing a few words, Kang Bada felt the back of his head freeze.

If this document wasn’t false, she had been unable to bear blood-related children since she was 14.

It was a moment when everything became clear.

“I need to… tell him.”

There was something he absolutely needed to tell Ha Yeongwon.

As he was trying to leave the hospital, he heard footsteps from behind.

A rather large shadow fell across Kang Bada’s face.

“What are you doing alone in a collapsed building? This is private property. I even put a lock on it so no one could enter.”

He was the owner of this building.

He even had a small piece of metal in his hand.

Kang Bada looked at Director Kim San.

The obstetrics director was still sitting in her chair.

She was now silent.

Swish-

The man who owned the building took the document from Kang Bada’s hand.

Creating deep wrinkles around his eyes as he read the document’s contents, he spoke.

“I met that child during volunteer work at the orphanage.”

The man pulled out a lighter from his pocket and set fire to the document.

In the blazing light, the man’s face was clearly revealed.

“She was a cheerful child. She said her dream was to create a family. A real family connected by blood. But providence is cruel. At 14, it became impossible for her to create her own family.”

“……”

Kang Bada picked up a rusty scalpel lying nearby.

However, the man before him didn’t even blink, just staring at the burning paper.

“No one can achieve what they desire too intensely. Because you want it so badly, it becomes impossible to attain. You should understand what I mean, right?”

Kang Bada now understood everything.

‘This man shouldn’t know about Ha Yeongwon and the children.’

But he thought it might be too late already.

It was because Kang Bada himself had wasted time running from the past.

Bang-!

At that moment, there was a flash and Kang Bada’s ears went numb.

Kang Bada saw a red flower blooming on his stomach like blood.

“…ugh…”

Collapsed on the floor, Kang Bada met the eyes of Director Kim San, who was silently watching him.

Now he noticed that her red gown also had the same red flower blooming on it as the one on his stomach.

As compassion filled the director’s eyes while looking at Kang Bada, the man turned his head.

“What are you looking at? Is there something there?”

“……”

Kang Bada couldn’t help but laugh.

Of course, this man couldn’t see her.

“No one can achieve what they desire too intensely” – indeed, it was true.

‘This fucking hurts.’

Shot to death.

Thinking it was quite a dramatic ending for an ordinary person like himself, Kang Bada suddenly remembered the “gun” he had forgotten about.

‘I wonder if they acquired it well.’

Whatever the case, Kang Bada was now exhausted.

Tired, he let go of his consciousness like a raindrop that had become too heavy for the sky and fallen.

His spirit, falling endlessly downward, seeped into the sea, just like his name.

What lurked beneath people’s feet was a sea both cold and warm.

# # #

“Over here!”

I quickly hid in the shop.

It was the only place on this third floor that could be called a safe zone.

“Isn’t she chasing us?”

The Spider Woman who had been stabbed by Yang Juhui was nowhere to be seen.

The bell sound that had been ringing painfully in our ears had also quieted down.

But we couldn’t let our guard down.

The Spider Woman still had seven arms left, and there was also the mysterious “Onmyoji” on this third floor.

However, having reached this shop meant we could breathe a little easier.

“Wow. This is cool.”

Yang Juhui exclaimed while looking at an antique box.

Despite our situation, there was something in the box that made my mouth water.

It was a “gun.”

“Sturdy Case: Locked with a lock decorated with a spiral pattern. If you can find a key with a spiral shape, you might be able to open it.”

I inserted the “Spiral Key” I had received from Mr. Kang Bada into the lock.

Click-

The lock opened and finally the box was revealed.

I took out the gun from inside.

It was colder than I expected and also heavier, which surprised me.

“It looks antique. Seems like the kind of gun Ahn Jung-geun might have used to shoot Hirobumi.”

Teacher Hong Miri took the gun from me and examined it thoroughly.

“This seems to be the safety, there are bullets in the chamber, and seven rounds in the magazine.”

Teacher Hong Miri seemed to know more about guns than I did, despite me being male.

Come to think of it, Chairman Cheon Daegon’s storage room was full of hunting rifles, and I remembered the housekeepers including Ms. Danvers firing those guns freely.

Perhaps you need to know how to shoot if you live in a mansion.

We decided that Teacher Hong Miri, who knew the most about guns among us, would carry it.

Yang Juhui smacked her lips slightly as if disappointed, but she didn’t argue since it was a rational choice.

However, Dahui’s expression didn’t look good.

“What’s wrong?”

Does Dahui also want the gun?

To be honest, I was tempted too.

Shooting a gun – it’s something everyone dreams of trying at least once.

But Dahui shook her head.

“I just feel strange.”

Come to think of it, Dahui had been quiet for a while.

To be precise, she had become less talkative since we were being chased by the Spider Woman.

Is she afraid of this third floor?

No, Dahui had a strong personality, even finding this shop by herself during our previous third floor challenge. It didn’t seem likely that she would be scared now.

As if understanding my concern, Dahui shook her head vigorously.

“I’m fine now! So what should we do next?”

Since we had finally reached the shop, I thought we might do some shopping.

But there didn’t seem to be any useful items, and every point was precious to me, so I couldn’t help but hesitate.

If there’s nothing to buy, should I sell something I have?

Then a good idea occurred to me.

“By the way, Juhui, you said that uniform you have would show us the way.”

“Bloodstained Uniform: A uniform that’s been reduced to almost bursting. Someone’s blood is on it. If you carry it, a special path might be visible.”

That was the uniform worn by Yang Juhui’s sister.

It says that if you carry it, a special path might be visible, but honestly, I couldn’t understand how it would show the way. I couldn’t get a feel for it.

Whatever the case, now that we had a “gun,” I was thinking we could be a bit more aggressive when Yang Juhui made a curious sound, “Huh?”

“Juhui, what’s wrong?”

“There’s something like a red thread floating in the air? Can’t you guys see it?”

A thread.

I couldn’t see anything.

Seeing Teacher Hong Miri and Dahui shake their heads, it seemed the thread was only visible to Yang Juhui.

Yang Juhui looked back and forth between the uniform in her hand and the thread.

“Now I see that this uniform and the thread are connected. It’s so thin that I couldn’t see it until now. This thread connects to… it connects to this wall here…”

Yang Juhui touched the wall of the shop.

Soon she found something like a door handle on the wall.

What we thought was a wall turned out to be a door.

There were squiggly letters written on the door.

They didn’t look like Korean, and they were really squiggly. Like someone had scribbled with earthworms and ramen noodles.

It might not even be letters but just doodles, but fortunately, readable text appeared before me.

“If you want to open this door, put money in this hole!”

“Not responsible for damage or unauthorized entry!”

“100 coins!”

Hole?

Looking carefully, there was a hole in the wall just big enough for a human hand to fit through.

“So we need to put in 100 coins to get out?”

One coin equals 1 point, right?

100 coins means 100 points?

As I was wondering if points could be used for calculation, my status window responded.

“Would you like to pay 100P?”

“Yes / No”

Yes.

I selected yes with my hand.

Then, as my 100P was deducted, coins clinked down from thin air and landed in front of the hole.

Swish-

Soon, something invisible took the coins from in front of the hole.

Seeing that, I was startled.

“There’s something in that hole! Something’s in there!”

Is it the owner of this shop?

Whatever it was, it was definitely an incredibly terrifying entity.

After all, it’s a being that operates a shop on this third floor where monsters roam.

It must certainly be a horrible monster.

“What’s in there?”

But Yang Juhui couldn’t contain her curiosity.

Whoosh-!

Yang Juhui lit her lighter and peered into the hole.

Suddenly, she began to wriggle her limbs like an octopus.

“Hey! What’s wrong?”

“Huh, I don’t know. Just something in there… a tail? Like? It? Wiggly? Wigglywigglywiggly…”

What is she saying?

Soon Dahui spoke up.

“Come to think of it, there were three ghosts on each floor. On the first floor, there were the Bell Maiden, the Woman in Red, and the Head Ghost. On the second floor, there were the Rhythm Ghost, the Mirror Ghost, and the Dancing Ghost. Maybe there are three ghosts on this third floor too?”

There’s another ghost on this third floor besides the Onmyoji and the Spider Woman?

And one of them is this ‘tail-like thing that’s wiggly wiggly’ in there?

Whatever the case, what was important now was that Yang Juhui’s condition was strange.

“Wigglywigglywiggly-wigglywiggly-agheuheuheuk-.”

Yang Juhui lay on the floor like an octopus that had surfaced on land, twisting her hands and feet in all directions.

It was as if she was trying to express the concept of “wiggly” with her body.

“She’s acting weird.”

When Teacher Hong Miri opened Juhui’s mouth, her tongue was also wriggling in an indescribable way. If her throat gets blocked by her tongue, it could be serious!

“Status window!”

I opened the status window and examined Yang Juhui.

Now I saw that Yang Juhui had developed a new quirk.

“‘Wiggly’: A symptom experienced by someone who has discovered ‘wiggly’ somewhere in the world. Everything becomes wiggly. No known treatment method.”

This is crazy-

Who knew a quirk could develop in the shop.

I spent 100P to remove Yang Juhui’s quirk.

“Hey, why did you look into that hole?”

“……”

Yang Juhui glared at me. There was resentment in that gaze.

She seemed to have a lot to say, but my words were too factual, so she appeared to be letting it go.