Ch.75075 – Twin Ghosts 2

# 075 – Twin Ghosts # 2

Hong Miri suddenly went crazy and started strangling me.

She was really trying to kill me.

I ran away and dispatched the Mercenary Corps to myself.

It was the “Elevator to the Fourth Floor.”

Someone might ask why I specifically dispatched the elevator. If Yang Juhui were here, she would definitely have asked that.

How could I decisively defeat Ms. Hong Miri?

I racked my brains over this and came to something of a conclusion.

The hellish elevator where I could get information about Ms. Hong Miri.

That death-floor space seemed perfect for confusing Ms. Hong Miri.

On that fourth floor, there was a “Rolling Head” and a “Headless Wandering Body.”

When that head had joined with the body, the head had clearly said:

—This isn’t my body.

Then it went on its way.

In other words, the head was looking for its matching body.

The body also seemed to be looking for its head.

And on Ms. Hong Miri’s neck, there was a mark that looked like it had been cut with something sharp.

A mark as if the neck and head had been separated and then reattached.

There was only one hypothesis I could draw from this.

What if Ms. Hong Miri’s body and neck weren’t actually one set?

What if they were connected like different Lego pieces—a head and body from different people joined together? I had no definitive proof, but there were several suspicious signs.

When we were drinking at the soup restaurant, Ms. Hong Miri’s body turned bright red like a boiled lobster, but her face remained white. As if only her face belonged to someone else.

My conclusion was this:

If we consider Ms. Hong Miri’s head as A1 and her body as B2, and the rolling head in the elevator as B1 and the body as A2, many things would make sense.

What would happen if I helped them find their correct bodies and heads?

“The situation will definitely change!”

I once returned a body to Gu Hyena, who had been a head ghost, and evolved her into the absolute complete form of “High School Girl Ghost.”

There was no guarantee that something similar wouldn’t happen this time.

I hid in the corridor of the orphanage that was thought to have burned down long ago.

Click. Click.

I could hear the sound of high heels on the corridor.

Peeking around the corner to see where the sound was coming from, I saw Ms. Hong Miri walking through the darkness, looking around.

Hong Miri had also entered the 4th floor elevator!

I thought this made sense.

She was wearing high heels, so taking the stairs would have been inconvenient. If there was an elevator, she would naturally have taken it.

Of course, if she had known it was a hellish elevator with only the number “4,” she wouldn’t have gotten on. That’s why I used this glow pen to color over all the buttons.

“Yeongwon’s Glow Pen: A pen that is visible even in darkness. Marks made with this pen cannot be erased unless you use the eraser on the cap.”

It seemed Hong Miri had fallen right into my trap.

Now it was up to me.

Swoosh-

I took out a flashlight, illuminated my surroundings, and walked rather quickly through the corridor.

I was looking for the head and body on this fourth floor.

They had to be here!

The ghost I had wanted so desperately to avoid.

Now I was dying to find it.

Thinking about how ironic life can be, I was walking through the corridor when—

Roll-roll-roll-roll-. Thud, thump, roll-roll-.

I heard something rolling around noisily.

Swoosh-

When I shined my flashlight, I saw a terribly distorted face rolling around like a ball. I was both extremely happy and scared.

“There it is! Hey! Hey! Wak!”

I shouted on purpose.

It was to draw the head’s aggro.

And my provocation worked.

“Hey! Hey! Hey! Wak! There it is! Hey hey! Heyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyheyhey.”

The head ghost started mimicking my voice and rolling toward me.

I ran as fast as I could.

Toward where Hong Miri was!

# # #

‘This place…’

Hong Miri shined her phone light around, examining her surroundings.

She saw a place labeled “A-1.”

There was also a “Principal’s Office.”

It was a moment when Hong Miri’s long-buried memories were awakening.

This was the orphanage where Hong Miri had lived until high school.

An orphanage affiliated with the Yeongji Foundation.

Hong Miri couldn’t understand how this place, which had burned down 10 years ago, could exist on this impossible fourth floor.

‘This is an unpleasant place. Ha Yeongwon. Did you pull some kind of trick? Or is it coincidence?’

Hong Miri suspected that the elevator she had boarded was itself some kind of supernatural phenomenon or mystery.

And there was a high probability that such a phenomenon had appeared because of the escaped “Ha Yeongwon.”

He had very high aptitude as a Watcher.

Hong Miri herself felt jealous.

‘Those who gaze into the abyss will find the abyss gazing back. Being a Watcher means being able to see the supernatural and mysterious, and in turn being seen by them.’

Supernatural and mysterious entities were beings that wanted someone to see them.

To such entities, Watchers who could clearly recognize their existence were as fascinating as a light blooming in darkness.

Like an oasis appearing before vagrants crossing a desert without a drop of water.

‘In other words, it wouldn’t be strange if this elevator phenomenon suddenly appeared due to Ha Yeongwon’s aptitude. Ha Yeongwon. Running away like this. Lucky bastard. You must be somewhere around here too.’

Drip-

At that moment, blood flowed from Hong Miri’s neck.

When she touched her neck with her palm, she could feel the scar there throbbing and growing hot.

‘This feels awful. Let me just deal with Ha Yeongwon and get out of here quickly. Come to think of it, I’m lucky too. People who disappear in supernatural realms like this can never be found. Ha Yeongwon. You’re going to die here.’

Hong Miri clutched her neck and slowly moved forward.

Rustle, rustle, rustle.

She heard something that sounded like movement.

It was coming from a place labeled “B-3.”

“Yeongwon. Are you there? Teacher is sorry. Come out now. Teacher suddenly went crazy… and scared you. Let’s make up~.”

Hong Miri was acting like a kind teacher.

As she did so, she slowly opened the door to “B-3.”

“As an apology, teacher will grant you one wish. Any wish. Even an embarrassing one. Even troubles you can’t tell others about. So come out. Teacher is scared here.”

Boys of Ha Yeongwon’s age were no different from monkeys in heat.

And they would certainly harbor some fantasy toward a young female teacher.

Hong Miri planned to lure Ha Yeongwon out this way, and finally shined her phone light toward the source of the rustling.

“Found you!”

“It” was rummaging through lockers in a classroom-like place labeled “B-1.”

And “it” had no head.

“…!”

Hong Miri was greatly startled by the headless entity.

It was clearly something that could be called supernatural or a ghost.

And it didn’t seem like an ordinary ghost.

An enormous pain shot through Hong Miri’s neck, and blood began to spurt out.

“Aaaagh~!”

The pain was so intense she felt dizzy.

The headless body approached Hong Miri.

When she got a closer look at the body, Hong Miri’s hair stood on end.

“Get away!”

Hong Miri decided to run away.

That seemed like the best option.

As she fled, she encountered Ha Yeongwon in the corridor.

“You bastard!”

Ha Yeongwon was running straight toward Hong Miri.

She thought she would bite his neck and kill him, then leave this place—

As Hong Miri was thinking this, the boy lunged at her.

“Yaaak!”

Thud-!

It was a headbutt, body against body.

Since the student was running at full speed, even Hong Miri couldn’t help but fall flat on the floor. It was difficult to maintain balance in heels.

Hong Miri recalled being attacked like this recently. It was when Kwon Suho attacked her in the Nightmare Corridor and she fell.

When that memory surfaced, Hong Miri felt as if blood was spurting throughout her body.

“Ha Yeongwon! You bastard! So you escaped back then!”

“Here! Here! Over here! Here!”

Ha Yeongwon roughly pressed down on Hong Miri’s body from above.

His breathing was very rough, and his bloodshot eyes made him look like a sexual predator. Hong Miri struggled to push the boy off, but he was stronger than she expected.

“You bastard, pretending to be a man!”

“Here! Here!”

Ha Yeongwon’s mouth kept shouting the same thing, as if trying to call something.

What was he calling?

Hong Miri would soon find out.

Roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-roll-.

She could see something rolling toward them from far away.

It was a face with striking eyes that looked like shattered glass. Hong Miri’s eyes met those terrifying eyes, and she could see herself in them.

That was natural.

If someone had looked closely, they would have noticed that the terrifying head’s face greatly resembled Hong Miri’s.

“Mi…Miri.”

Hong Miri said her own name.

Soon the head ghost lunged at the man and woman huddled together.

“Argh!”

The boy screamed as he was attacked by the hair.

But that didn’t last long.

The head that had been attacking the boy suddenly moved toward Hong Miri.

“L-let go! Let me go! You bastard! Let go! I said let go!”

Now Hong Miri’s mind was filled with only one thought: she needed to escape this place.

Her jealousy and murderous intent toward the boy, along with all her other thoughts, had turned pale.

Struggle-struggle-struggle-.

Hong Miri moved her arms and legs desperately, but the boy’s hands were still firmly gripping her arms. His strength was greater than she expected.

“You bastard! You pervert! I’ll let you do it once! Let go! I said let go! Yaaaaaaak! Yaaaaaaaaaak!”

Hong Miri kept screaming.

The hair tightly wrapped around Hong Miri’s limbs.

And the hair crept toward Hong Miri’s hot scar.

“Aak! No! Ha Yeongwon! Yeongwon! Teacher is sorry! Let go! Let go and talk! Ha Yeongwon! Teacher will be nice to you now! Hey! You bastard!”

“……”

“You bastard! I treated you like a person and now you’re trying to match me! You bastard! A dog biting its owner! You bastaaaaard!”

Crack, crack-.

Hong Miri vividly felt her neck separating from her body.

It was like the sensation of something that should never have been joined being forcibly attached and then coming apart again.