Ch.156156 – Your Name 5

# 156 – What’s Your Name? # 5

“I’ll go in.”

Yang Juhui bravely stepped forward.

She was truly amazing.

Even Bong Jiyeon, who usually bickered with Yang Juhui, seemed impressed.

“Oh, as expected from Juam Middle School’s pride, Yang Juhui. Juam Juhui.”

“Bong Jiyeon, I swear I’ll kill you.”

Yang Juhui exploded in anger.

I wondered why she was getting so upset about her middle school’s name.

“Juam Juhui.”

I thought it had a nice ring to it, but Yang Juhui smacked my shoulder hard.

“Hey! Stop that!”

It wasn’t a playful hit but a real one, and it really hurt.

“Owww~”

Why am I suddenly getting hit?

It was so unfair that tears almost welled up in my eyes, but then Dahui poked me in the side.

“Pervert.”

Dahui too? Why?

What’s going on?

I felt genuinely wronged.

With a swish, Yang Juhui, her face flushed red, knelt down and looked at the dog hole.

“…Oh, I can’t get through this.”

Why not?

“The dog hole is too narrow. I think things inside must have fallen over because of the earthquake.”

Indeed, that was the case.

The dog hole was too narrow for a person to crawl through.

If that’s the situation, there’s only one option.

“Why… why are you all looking at me?!”

Kwon Sua trembled violently.

Truly, everything about her was trembling.

Kwon Sua had a talent.

The talent that if her head could fit through, the rest of her body could follow.

It was truly octopus-like flexibility.

“I’m scared! I don’t want to!”

Kwon Sua reacted with horror as if going into the science lab was the last thing she wanted to do.

But among us, only Kwon Sua could fit through that hole.

“Sua, please!”

“……”

Kwon Sua frowned her big eyes and puffed her cheeks.

The aegyo of a girl who knows she’s cute and deliberately acts even cuter is truly a lethal weapon.

Both Jeongseok and I were speechless in the face of Kwon Sua’s desperate pouting.

That’s when Teacher Hong Miri chuckled.

“If Sua goes inside and clears away the things properly, Yeongwon will grant her one wish. Can you do it with that condition?”

“With that condition…”

Kwon Sua seemed to accept it, gathering her courage.

I nodded too.

Finally, Kwon Sua lay down on the floor.

And she began to squeeze her body into the hole.

Shhwoop-

Watching this surreal sight, Yang Juhui was shocked.

“Wow, what the hell is that? How can she fit through there? Is that even possible with her size?”

Yang Juhui placed her hands on her own chest and pressed down repeatedly.

She seemed curious about how Kwon Sua’s size could be compressed enough to fit through there.

I was also curious about what principle made this possible.

The possibilities of the human body are truly limitless.

“I’m scared!”

Kwon Sua had somehow made it completely into the science lab.

I knocked on the wall and said:

“Please clear away the things inside. Then we’ll use this hammer to hit and widen the dog hole.”

“Wait!”

Clatter, clatter-

Thud-! Bang-!

The sounds of things being moved around could be heard.

It must have been quite strenuous work, as Kwon Sua was breathing heavily.

“Haah, haa…”

It felt a bit awkward just hearing her breathing.

I wasn’t really interested in idols and such, but watching Kwon Sua, I could understand why people spend so much money on idols and get so heartbroken when dating rumors surface.

“It’s done now!”

“Everyone, step back.”

Yang Juhui, holding a sledgehammer in both hands, made everyone move away.

Then, like a baseball player, she swung the hammer and struck the wall with great force.

Crash-! Crumble-

The science lab wall collapsed easily.

It was wide enough for a person to enter if they bent at the waist.

“Guys, let’s go in.”

Creepy-

As we entered the science lab, we were surrounded by strange sights. The lab was full of mirrors, making it look extremely eerie.

Is this the nest of the mirror ghost?

Teacher Hong Miri said:

“There used to be rumors about a man-eating mirror. They said a hand would reach out from the mirror and drag people into the mirror world. One of these mirrors might be that one. I heard they paid a lot of money for it.”

Why would anyone buy such a cursed object?

I couldn’t understand the chairman’s hobby at all.

Is that what happens when you become rich?

Maybe because they’re rich and do all sorts of fun things, their dopamine levels become abnormal, and they can’t feel pleasure from ordinary entertainment.

So they look for more stimulating things and end up getting their hands on strange objects.

If I ever become rich, I’ll live a wholesome life.

Swish-

Just then, Dahui grabbed my side.

“What?”

“When you place mirrors facing each other, they reflect each other endlessly. Does this have an end? Or is it infinite?”

I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it.

Dahui must have suddenly become curious about such things.

“Probably infinite, I guess.”

Just as I was nodding appropriately-

Jeongseok, who had been pointing a metal detector around various parts of the science lab, seemed to have discovered something.

“The old school building is mostly made of stone and cement. Why is only the science lab floor made of wood? Maybe this… this… guys, let’s break the floor together!”

Is he serious?

What if the building collapses or something?

I was suddenly afraid, but Jeongseok was already striking the floor with a sledgehammer.

Thud, thud-. Thud, crash-. Crack-! Crackle-!

The hammering began.

Since the sledgehammer was so heavy, we all had to take turns hitting the floor.

Fortunately, the wooden floor already had cracks and was half-collapsed.

Eventually, the science lab floor was reduced to tatters.

It was a terrible sight, but what was beneath the wooden boards was even more terrible.

“Gasp.”

I was startled.

When we cleared away the boards, something extremely rusty and bright red appeared.

It was shaped like a rectangular coffin, but I couldn’t imagine such an ominous coffin existing in the world.

It looked like something that shouldn’t be touched.

“This is it. This is the one.”

Jeongseok was overjoyed as he shone his phone light on it.

But his joy didn’t last long.

“It’s in really bad condition. I can’t even tell what’s what. I can’t even read what’s written on it. There should be a name written somewhere, but it’s too rusty…”

Maybe because it was such an old object.

Or maybe because it wasn’t stored properly, the condition of this iron coffin was not good.

It also looked like something that could give you tetanus if you touched it wrong.

“…Where’s the lid?”

Kwon Sua trembled.

Come to think of it, it did look like something that should have a lid.

And the contents were empty too.

Jeongseok scratched his head vigorously.

“This place… is like a mirror world. Yeongwon, there might be an identical coffin in the Nightmare Corridor. The onmyoji only exists on that side anyway. The real one might actually be over there.”

“I think there might be an identical coffin in the corridor too. But that means we have to explore the second floor where the really terrifying ghosts appear. It’s not an easy task. You know that.”

“We need to eliminate the onmyoji anyway if we want to conquer the third floor.”

The cooldown for entering the Nightmare Corridor ends today.

It seems we have no choice but to face the evil spirits rather than avoid them.

# # #

“Oh shit.”

When I returned home, I was startled to see Kim Geonho standing in front of my house.

It was as frightening as having a school bully ghost with blood dripping from his neck standing in front of my door.

It was as scary as a real-life bully saying, “Ha Yeongwon, let’s go to your house.”

If bullies came to my house, they’d rummage through the refrigerator and enter the password as they pleased, coming and going as if it were their own home.

Yang Juhui was actually doing that.

Whenever Yang Juhui came to our house, she would open the refrigerator and drink yogurt. She even found and ate the pudding I had hidden in a corner to save for later.

I’m suddenly getting angry.

Do you think I’ll just let bullies have their way?

“Hey. If we’re being honest, you’re more at fault. You bullied and tormented me. If you hadn’t done that, man, I might never have opened the Nightmare Corridor! You bastard!”

The day I opened the Nightmare Corridor.

If the world had been a little kinder, no one could guarantee whether I would have made such an extreme choice.

But the world was harsh to me, and I opened the corridor for a major change.

“If it had been someone else, they might have really made an extreme choice! It’s only because it was me that I somehow managed to endure and survive! You have no right to blame me!”

━…….

Kim Geonho remained silent.

His silence made him even more frightening.

“Hey! Fine! I was wrong! Please just move on to the afterlife! Just let yourself be exorcised quietly! What do you want from me, appearing in front of me like this all the time!”

If I were to become a ghost… if I were to become invisible, I’d want to go watch the girls I had crushes on. Any red-blooded man would want that, right?

But Kim Geonho appeared to me, not to Gong Yerin or Lim Huiyeon who directly caused his death.

Why!

“Gasp!”

Suddenly, I started to feel scared.

My spine tingled, my nape prickled, and my butt felt strangely sore.

“You bastard, don’t tell me…”

Kim Geonho, this guy, did he like men?

Did he bully me because he liked me?

…A bully gay ghost?

I wasn’t prepared to accept such a thing.

In some ways, it was as frightening as the evil spirits that appear on the second floor.

Psychological and instinctive fear dominated my mind.

I need to exorcise him.

That thought filled my head.

But how do I exorcise this guy?

Suddenly, I remembered the glove in my bag.

It was a glove I received from Kim Geonho’s father, Mr. Kim Cheolyong.

“Take this and move on!”

Whoosh-!

I held out the glove to Kim Geonho.

Swish-

Kim Geonho took it and finally disappeared like dust.

“Congratulations! You have defeated the ‘Bully Ghost’!”

“Beginning to calculate the reward for 1 survivor.”

Clink-

100 points were added.

My whole body tingled as if blocked blood was flowing again.

“Well, strange things do happen.”

I thought I was confident enough not to be surprised by much after experiencing so many things.

It was surprising that there were still things that could surprise me.

“Son, what are you doing there? Were you waiting for Mom?”

My mom approached me as I was standing blankly in front of the villa.

She seems to have returned from shopping.

“You haven’t been coming home lately! Tonight I’m making your favorite pork cutlet, so even if you go out, eat before you leave!”

I felt like I hadn’t seen my mom in a long time too.

Today, before entering the Nightmare Corridor, I should talk with my mom a bit.

They say my mom is the only one who has seen the 4th floor of the corridor.

I wonder what she saw there and what wish she made.