Ch.92092 – The Drowned High School Girl 2

# 092 – High School Girl Water Ghost # 2

The most frustrating thing about having trouble with ghosts is that there’s nowhere to complain about it.

If I had something stolen or got beaten up by a person, I could at least report them to the police and threaten to have them thrown in handcuffs. But with ghosts, the law doesn’t apply, so there’s no way to get revenge, which makes me angry.

But looking at it from another perspective, that could actually be an advantage. Ghosts have no human rights or legal protections.

“Show me your chest. Then I’ll get in the water too.”

I said this to the water ghost impersonating high school girl Yu Dahui.

My voice trembled slightly from tension, excitement, and anticipation, but there was no need to worry about that.

“What did you just say? I can’t hear you clearly.”

The water ghost smiled sweetly.

As if pretending she hadn’t heard me properly.

“Come a little closer and tell me. What did you just say? Why don’t you whisper it softly in my ear?”

The water ghost showed me her pale ear peeking through her wet hair.

So that’s how you want to play it, huh?

It was truly infuriating.

I shouted even louder so she couldn’t use the excuse of not hearing me.

“I said show me your chest! Your chest!”

Opportunities to see a high school girl’s chest don’t come often.

Although this was a water ghost taking Yu Dahui’s form rather than a real high school girl, the appearance was identical nonetheless.

If I had said something like this to a real high school girl, I would have made the news for “Increasing Sexual Harassment Among Classmates” and become public enemy number one, but this was a ghost.

This meant I could say or do terrible things without fear of being reported to the police or the news. Anyway, I demanded to see her chest.

Making such a rude and potentially fatal request to a ghost was truly a brave act, and I felt both proud and impressed with myself.

Perhaps I was able to be so bold because the water ghost didn’t look like a scary ghost but like Yu Dahui.

“Wow, Yeongwon, you’re really desperate. Did you want to see my chest that badly? I’m so disappointed in you. I didn’t know you were this kind of person.”

The water ghost frowned and put on a genuinely disappointed expression.

An ordinary person might have been discouraged by that contemptuous look, but thanks to my experience of receiving contempt from many people, I had built up immunity.

In situations like this, you need to push harder.

“You don’t want to? If you don’t, I’m just going to go inside and sleep. I’m really tired.”

I deliberately turned my back on her.

Then the water ghost splashed water at my back from behind.

“Ah, that’s cold!”

“Fine. I’ll show you if that’s what you want.”

“Really?”

Honestly, even though it was my suggestion, I was half-doubting it would work.

I had just been focused on messing with the water ghost, but now she was actually going to show her chest?

My heart was pounding for various reasons.

The water ghost Dahui slowly untied the belt around the waist of her silk robe that was clinging to her body.

Did the hearts of new grooms watching their brides untie their clothes in the Joseon era pound and race as wildly as mine was now?

But whether she knew how I felt or not, the high school water ghost tightened her collar again and even tied the knot.

“I’ve decided not to show you after all.”

“Why!”

“If you really want to see, come into the water and untie this knot yourself.”

The water ghost laughed mockingly.

I was furious.

This water ghost was clearly just toying with me.

How could I make the water ghost angry?

At this rate, I would be the loser who fell victim to the water ghost’s teasing.

While I was feeling frustrated with these thoughts…

Splash!

The water ghost quickly disappeared into the water.

I wondered what was happening, and then someone appeared over there.

It was Yu Dahui.

Yu Dahui, wearing a silk robe as pajamas and slippers, was approaching me in the moonlight.

“Yeongwon, what are you doing there? Who were you talking to? I heard someone asking to see breasts.”

“……”

I was in a very awkward situation.

What would happen if Yu Dahui or the other girls found out that I had asked to see the chest of a water ghost that looked like Yu Dahui?

I might face contempt colder than the water ghost’s touch.

I decided this was something I should keep to myself forever.

Still, I looked back at the pond just in case.

The pond was calm without a single ripple, as if there had never been any disturbance.

Yu Dahui asked:

“Did you ask the water ghost to show you her chest?”

“…No, there’s a reason for that. I’m always being harassed and teased by ghosts, so I felt a bit resentful… Dahui, please keep this a secret…”

I pleaded with Yu Dahui.

Even a starving dog in front of a snack couldn’t have been more desperate than I was.

Soon, Yu Dahui nodded with a serious expression.

“Okay. But what did the water ghost look like? I wanted to see it too.”

Yu Dahui seemed interested in ghost stories.

I was afraid of what might happen if I honestly said, “She looked exactly like you.”

Asking to see the chest of a water ghost that looked like Yu Dahui?

That would be grounds for dropping out of school.

Soon Yu Dahui laughed.

“Did she look like this?”

Thud!

Yu Dahui pushed me hard with her hand.

Her hand was very wet, and now that I looked, the ground beneath her feet was damp like a shadow!

“Huh?”

Splash!

My body, which had been briefly suspended in the air, finally fell into the pond.

Water rushed into my nose, ears, and mouth.

“Ack! Blurgh! Aack! Help meee! Aaaaah!”

Splash, splash, splash!

I shouted desperately.

I struggled to escape to dry land, but I felt someone firmly grab my ankle and try to drag me down to the deep bottom.

Oh no, I’m definitely going to die.

Just as I was thinking that, something grabbed my hand firmly and pulled me out onto dry land.

# # #

“Hey, what were you doing in the pond in the middle of the night?”

It was Yang Juhui who pulled me out onto dry land.

I collapsed in Yang Juhui’s arms, coughing and spitting water out of nearly every orifice.

“Cough, cough, urgh, urrrgh!”

“Didn’t you hear the warning not to go near the pond? You would have died if I wasn’t here. Damn, I’m soaking wet. You’re nothing but trouble, seriously.”

I would have died without Yang Juhui. That’s absolutely true.

Who would have thought that even the second Yu Dahui who appeared was also a water ghost?

Could this Yang Juhui be a water ghost too?

I had such suspicions, but Yang Juhui’s hand patting my back was quite firm and warm.

The water ghost’s hand that pushed me earlier felt cold and damp like something that had risen from the deep sea, making even my soul feel wet, completely different from Yang Juhui now.

Suddenly, the lights in the villa came on brightly, as if someone had noticed the commotion, and the aunties, uncles, and children who seemed to have woken up came out.

I was completely soaked like a drowned rat and had swallowed so much water that I felt terrible.

Eventually, morning came after a restless night.

I had calmed down a bit and explained everything that happened last night to everyone.

“A water ghost that looked like Yu Dahui appeared and tried to make me fall into the water! She even pushed me, trying to drag me underwater!”

I left out the part where I asked the water ghost to show me her chest.

Soon, Yu Dahui, who was listening to the story, had a serious look on her face.

“The water ghost imitated me? Why me of all people?”

I couldn’t understand either why the water ghost had imitated Yu Dahui to trick me.

Soon, Jeongseok, who was listening to the story, made a comment.

“Water ghosts lure people into the water, right? It’s like how anglerfish use light to attract deep-sea fish—they’re setting bait. Maybe it thought Yu Dahui’s appearance would be the most effective for seduction?”

That made sense.

If the water ghost had taken the form of Jeongseok or Bong Jiyeon, would I have been interested at all?

I would have just ignored it and gone to sleep.

Or I might have just cursed at it.

Thinking about it that way, I felt newly frightened and angry at how malicious and evil it was for the water ghost to take Yu Dahui’s form to seduce me.

However, Yang Juhui, seemingly disagreeing with Jeongseok’s words, asked bluntly:

“Then why not use my appearance?”

What if the water ghost had appeared in Yang Juhui’s form?

While I was imagining that, Teacher Hong Miri spoke up.

“Anyway, that pond is really dangerous. To think a water ghost actually appears there. I heard people often fall in and get hurt—I’m worried someone might actually die.”

I knew well how dangerous that pond was, having nearly died there myself.

After much deliberation, I came to a conclusion.

“Let’s exorcise the water ghost.”

We could earn points too.

And the method to exorcise the water ghost was simple.

“So, this is how we exorcise the water ghost?”

Yang Juhui, wearing red-coated gardening gloves, frowned while holding a shovel.

I nodded as I took the shovel from her hands.

“We just get rid of the pond. It’s not that big, so if we dig all day, it should be gone. Hey! Jeongseok! Bring those big rocks over here! Throw them all into the pond!”

We decided to eliminate this pond today.

The problem was what if the owner of the villa, the chairman, objected, but the chairman didn’t seem to care much about the villa and told Yu Dahui over the phone to do whatever we wanted.

Crunch! Scrape! Thud!

We diligently shoveled away.

Mainly Jeongseok and I did the shoveling.

“Hey! Bong Jiyeon! Yu Dahui! Why are you only splashing water on me!”

“Dahui! Let’s dunk Yang Juhui! Splash her a lot!”

“Eek!”

The girls were wearing dolphin pants and t-shirts borrowed from the villa, swimming in the pool and looking like they were having a great time.

“Yeongwon! Jeongseok! Let’s swim together when you’re done! The water feels so refreshing!”

A completely soaked Yu Dahui waved at me.

Yu Dahui trying to get me into the water?

Somehow it gave me an eerie sense of déjà vu.

Anyway, after half a day of shoveling, moving rocks, and pouring sand and cement, the pond was completely covered. Actually, the villa caretaker did more than half the work.

“Now you can’t drown even if you want to.”

Soon, welcome text appeared before me.

『Congratulations! You have defeated the ‘Damp Water Ghost’!』

『Beginning calculation for 1 person’s survival.』

『You have earned 100P.』

All this hard work for just 100P.

That’s stingy.

But it was better than nothing.

Serves you right, water ghost.

“Now with these 100 points, I can take on the ghost that dances on graves again.”

Hehehe.

I licked my lips while looking at the mercenary corps list.

Jeongseok looked at me with slightly anxious eyes and asked:

“You’re going to take it on again?”

“Yes.”

The mercenary corps list I currently had was as follows:

Curse of Becoming a Ghost After Answering Three Times

Death Game

Speak of the Devil and He Shall Appear

Electric Fan Ghost Story

The Invisible Hand

Damp Water Ghost

What caught my attention was “Speak of the Devil and He Shall Appear.”

“If I play my cards right, I might be able to summon the Tyrannosaurus ghost again. No matter how powerful an evil spirit is, it can’t beat a dinosaur. They’re all extinct. Hehehe.”