Ch.90090 – Confucian Ghost 3

# 090 – Confucian Ghost # 3

Deongsil-deongsil.

The girls started dancing.

With their arms spread like wings and one leg bent upward, they looked exactly like cranes.

Bong Jiyeon was completely immersed.

“Increase love fortune! Love fortune!”

She seemed to want to enhance her romantic luck by receiving the energy of the queen who seduced the king and committed atrocities at will.

Honestly, I didn’t believe in such things, but Bong Jiyeon looked very serious.

Perhaps because she was originally a track athlete, she seemed accustomed to using her body and danced the crane dance very well.

“Haak! Haak!”

And she made funny crane sounds too.

Do cranes actually sound like that?

Heuheu-.

When I laughed, Bong Jiyeon glared at me.

I turned my head away, thinking that if I laughed any more here, I might get beaten to death by angry girls rather than ghosts.

Bong Jiyeon was truly a girl who knew how to beat up guys. Better not provoke her.

Now my eyes fell on Yu Dahui.

Yu Dahui was fluttering her hands left and right to mimic wings, and her hand and foot movements were as soft as feathers.

Even to someone like me who had no interest or knowledge in dance or ballet, it looked elegant.

“Dahui, you dance really well.”

When I remarked in admiration, Dahui chuckled.

“I learned traditional dance when I was young.”

Traditional dance!

Yu Dahui, who grew up in a prestigious family, learned such refined things from childhood.

Deongsil-deongsil, watching Yu Dahui dance made her look like a celestial maiden descending from heaven.

People around us also admired Yu Dahui and her friends.

“Look at them.”

“Are they filming some MiTube video?”

“They’re pretty. Like a girl group. Girl group trainees come here often.”

Perhaps because all the female students were above average in looks, people seemed to think this was some kind of happening where entertainment trainees came to dance at a tomb.

But the women watching us were quite pretty too.

Their skin was white as snow, and their features were very distinct.

“I think that boy is cuter.”

“Which boy?”

Kyaruru, kyaruru-.

I felt their gazes and my face flushed.

Jeongseok also pretended not to notice and focused on filming.

There was one friend who seemed quite displeased with the situation.

Especially Yang Juhui.

“What am I doing right now.”

Do women experience post-nut clarity too?

Fluttering her arms like wings and dancing deongsil-deongsil looked quite funny and cute, but she seemed to dislike it.

I decided to say anything to praise and encourage the girls.

“Wow, you’re totally like idols. With Yang Juhui dancing better than Dorangmul Girlz, even ghosts would be moved.”

“……”

Yang Juhui looked at me with an “oh really?” expression.

Was my obvious flattery too transparent?

However, regardless of whether my intention was exposed, it seemed effective as Yang Juhui’s dance moves became more elaborate and earnest as she swayed her hips side to side mimicking a crane.

The saying that praise makes even whales dance was true!

Anyway, after about 10 minutes of three cranes dancing in front of the tomb…

Palang-palang, the girls’ skirts fluttered like wings, revealing white legs that went up and down, and their tiptoes moved lightly across the grass.

Then Bong Jiyeon, exhausted first, sat down.

“Whew, I’m too tired to continue. Let’s rest a bit!”

Hot weather before summer vacation.

A season when cicadas cling to nearby trees and buzz.

It was natural for sweat to form on their foreheads after dancing the crane dance under the scorching sun.

Yang Juhui also stopped dancing and sat down.

“I feel totally deceived. Is this really right?”

She must be tired from dancing hard without seeing results.

Yu Dahui was still quite energetic.

“I had fun though.”

Now that I looked, Yu Dahui hadn’t shed a single drop of sweat despite dancing so much in this hot weather.

Is she the type who doesn’t feel heat?

It was quite impressive.

We sat in the shade of a tree said to have grown through rock.

The drinks we bought at the rest area were quickly gone, and our sweat dried quickly.

Seuseuseeu-.

It felt rather eerie.

And my nape was extremely itchy.

“Yeongwon, there’s a caterpillar on your neck.”

“Ubakaak!”

I panicked at Yu Dahui’s words and shook my body spasmodically.

Soon something fell to the ground with a thud—it was a real caterpillar!

“Aaaaak!”

“Actually, it’s just foxtail grass.”

Seuk-seuk-.

Yu Dahui waved her hand holding foxtail grass.

She seemed to have played a prank on me.

I’d noticed before that Dahui liked playing pranks.

“Actually, I knew all along. I was just pretending to be surprised.”

I pretended to be nonchalant because I was embarrassed about the commotion I’d just caused.

Of course, no one believed me.

After that 10-minute break, Teacher Hong Miri clapped her hands.

“Break time’s over! Girls, dance again!”

“Shouldn’t you dance too, teacher? You’re an unmarried woman. Wouldn’t the chances increase with more people dancing?”

Bong Jiyeon suggested that Teacher Hong Miri should dance too.

It sounded reasonable to me as well.

But Teacher Hong Miri shook her head.

“I need to conserve my energy because I have to drive later. Besides, don’t you think it would be difficult to dance the crane dance in heels?”

Teacher Hong Miri slightly extended her pink high heels.

Hong Yeri’s red shoes always stood out, but pink was quite impressive too.

Just as I was thinking this…

“What are you all doing there! You shouldn’t be dancing carelessly at this tomb!”

Someone approached us and made us stop dancing.

It was a man wearing a bluish shirt and a dark navy hat.

# # #

The management office was freezing with air conditioning.

It was cold enough to make us shiver.

“Last time, some girls came to film videos or whatever, dancing, and there was a big accident.”

Tsk, tsk-.

Sitting in the management office, we were scolded by the man.

Especially Teacher Hong Miri got scolded more.

“You call yourself a teacher? You’re making the kids do such things. How could you make them dance at a place known for ghosts? I had blocked entry today, but you went in and danced!”

“We just went in because it was open. There were other people besides us too.”

Teacher Hong Miri frowned and retorted sharply.

The management office man responded with surprise.

“What other people? The cemetery was closed today. Only you and your students were there. How could you have seen anyone else?”

Woooooong-.

The air conditioner started working again with a loud noise.

Whether because of that breeze or because there was foxtail grass on my neck again, I felt the blood drain from my body and freeze as if turning to ice.

“…There were some women there.”

I recalled the women who had been giggling and chattering while watching our friends dance.

And reaching a certain conclusion, I couldn’t help but press Jeongseok.

“Hey! Check your phone! The video you took! Are there other people in it?”

When Jeongseok turned his phone and played the crane dance video, all our attention focused on the small, square screen.

And we were speechless at the shocking sight on Jeongseok’s phone.

No one except us was captured on Jeongseok’s phone.

Then what were those pretty women who had been giggling at us?

Soon the management office man clicked his tongue.

“I’ve experienced many things working at this cemetery that others wouldn’t believe. It seems you students were bewitched. There are many ghosts here because it’s a cemetery.”

“Aaaak!”

That’s when it happened.

Suddenly Yang Juhui had a fit, grabbed a nearby chair, and started swinging it at the management office man.

Yang Juhui, the granddaughter of a Japanese shaman, must have been possessed!

“Die! Die! Dieee!”

“Hey! Stop Yang Juhui! Stop her!”

I had no choice but to cling to Yang Juhui’s body to stop her.

I tightly hugged her slender waist and pulled her away from the man, but she was as strong as a bull, and I couldn’t handle her.

It reminded me of the saying that possessed people become so strong that even several strong men can’t restrain them.

But Yang Juhui shouted as if she were the wronged party.

“It’s not me! It’s not me! That man! That bastard! Look at that bastard! Didn’t you see? That bastard had no back of his head!”

Yang Juhui pointed at the management man.

But the management man who had just been hit by Yang Juhui and fallen down was nowhere to be seen.

What on earth was going on?

“Hey! Jeongseok! Where did the management man go!”

I asked Jeongseok, the most level-headed among us.

But Jeongseok, who was watching the video on his phone, was greatly shocked.

“The playback time is… 2 hours…”

“What are you saying! Hey! Snap out of it!”

“I only filmed for about 5 minutes… but the video is 2 hours long… No matter where I skip to, we’re dancing like crazy for 2 hours… What time was it when we entered this office…?”

…I don’t know.

We thought we danced for 5 minutes, but we actually danced for 2 hours?

It felt completely like being bewitched by ghosts.

As I was confused, one of the girls screamed.

“Kyaaaaaaak!”

It was Bong Jiyeon.

Bong Jiyeon was sitting on the floor, almost having a seizure and about to faint.

“Out… outside! Look outside! Outside!”

Bong Jiyeon pointed outside the management office.

Following Bong Jiyeon’s hand to look out the window, I could see something standing still under the bright midday sun.

They were women in white mourning clothes.

Countless women with sack-like coverings over their faces and ropes tied tightly around their necks like nooses—clearly not human actions.

They all just stood there.

Over a hundred women with sacks over their faces, just standing still.

I sensed we were fucked.

This… these weren’t ghosts we could handle.

I shouldn’t have been so poor in points that I couldn’t even hire the mercenary corps!

“Let’s run! Let’s run! Guys, let’s run!”

I shouted to my friends.

Everyone seemed to come to their senses and started moving, running between the standing women.

I was worried they might attack us, but fortunately, that didn’t happen.

“Ow!”

That’s when it happened.

Perhaps because her ankle injury from the Gaeryong Mountain Cabin hadn’t fully healed, Bong Jiyeon fell.

Bong Jiyeon cried in panic.

“Don’t leave me! Don’t leave me! Guys, don’t leave meeeee!”

Bong Jiyeon was almost screaming, standing among the ghosts with sacks over their heads.

Seeing that, Jeongseok turned back.

“Wait!”

Jeongseok, who was usually weak, struggled to carry Bong Jiyeon on his back.

“Hey! Put some strength into it!”

“You’re… you’re too heavy…! Bong Jiyeon, why are you so heavy!”

“Yaak!”

In this desperate situation, I realized we were near the evil woman’s tomb.

Soon Yang Juhui said,

“Hey, doesn’t it feel like we’ve been going in circles around the same spot…!?”

I don’t know!

Somehow, I also felt like we were circling around the tomb.

Unconsciously, I turned my head to look at the tomb.

“Heok!”

Then I made eye contact with a white-faced woman who was dancing crazily and smiling with her mouth torn wide.

“Hihihihihihi! Hihihihihihihihi!”

Her laughter was like a sharp awl.

She was mocking me.

It was the same sneer as the ghosts I’d encountered on the second floor corridor.

Deongsil-deongsil-.

Her skirt lifted, revealing white legs that appeared and disappeared, and this too seemed like she was taunting and mocking me.

I was afraid, but I also became very angry at the thought of having to flee helplessly again.

“You bitch!”

“…Yeongwon. Let’s go! Stop it and let’s go! We need to escape!”

Yu Dahui pulled my arm.

“Let go! Let go! We’ll just keep circling this place even if we run!”

But I couldn’t contain the indignation bursting from within me, as if possessed.

Even a cornered rat will bite a snake’s neck.

And right now, I was completely a rat.

“You Joseon wench! You couldn’t even recognize a heaven-sent man! You take men too lightly! Am I a joke to you? Do I look that easy to you?”