episode_0002

My eyes still saw a pitch-black figure standing by the window of our class.

The pitch black figure seemed to be looking in our direction.

It sent a chill down my spine, but I couldn’t reveal the identity of the mystery if I was scared of the eerie feeling.

If you saw an unidentified silhouette, you had to confirm it with your own eyes.

I thought I should go to the classroom myself.

I started running from the playground towards school.

━━Tap, thump, thud.

The moment I started running without saying a word, Sarah called me in a loud voice from behind.

“Hey!! Where are you going?!”

“Classroom!”

After that, I entered the school building and went up to the third floor within a month.

A darkly shaded hallway after school.

Perhaps because some time had passed, neither the children nor the teacher were visible in the hallway. As the sun began to set, there was a dark and dark atmosphere in the school.

Every time I ran, a loud thumping sound echoed from the floor. The sound of footsteps echoed louder in the quiet hallway.

After running like that, I arrived in front of the classroom door.

After catching my breath for a moment, I opened the sliding door.

━━Drurrr!!

The door opened violently, and the classroom was clearly visible.

I entered the classroom nervous.

However, the tension only lasted for a moment.

The moment I went inside, I couldn’t help but feel puzzled.

“Huh?”

does not exist.

It doesn’t exist.

The pitch-black figure that had been standing at the window looking down at us was nowhere to be found. The classroom is just empty when it is dismissal time. I walked around the classroom, looking for a pitch black shape. I looked carefully behind the table and under the desk, but I couldn’t see the pitch-black shape.

‘Could it be that I saw something wrong?’

I had a moment of doubt, but I guess not. Because Sarah, who was standing on the playground, also saw what I saw. There are two witnesses to say that they saw something in vain.

I stood silently in the empty classroom for a while.

Maybe the pitch black figure has gone somewhere else.

I was thinking about whether I should search the entire school.

━━Drurrr!! thud!!

The classroom’s sliding door closed with a loud noise.

The door was suddenly closed.

I turned my head and looked at the door.

There was a small glass window in the middle of the sliding door, and no one could be seen in the hallway beyond the window.

If someone closed the door, it would be natural for at least some hair to be visible… .

“Who is it?”

I made a noise and walked towards the classroom door. However, even when I asked who it was, there was no answer from the hallway.

“Who are you?”

I asked again and grabbed the handle of the dented sliding door. I tried to open it with light force, but the door wouldn’t open. The door was shaking as if someone was holding it from the other side.

‘no way… .’

For a moment, a thought passed through my head.

What if the thing holding the door in the hallway is the ghost we saw earlier?

What if a ghost carelessly enters the classroom and prevents me from leaving?

“Open the door!”

I put more strength into the hand holding the door. As I tried to force it open, the heaving door began to move little by little.

At some point, the force pulling the door to close disappeared.

I had no choice but to force the door open with force.

━━Drurrr!!!

The moment the door opened, a pure white figure screamed at me from outside.

“Kyaaa!!!”

My ears hurt when I suddenly heard a scream. I could have listened to the screams of a ghost, but this was a human scream.

I felt embarrassed when I confirmed the identity of what was outside the door.

“… What are you doing?”

“Kya.”

Pure white shape.

Because it was Sarah. Sarah was crouching outside the classroom door and screaming at me.

“… … What are you doing? You surprised me.”

There was a playful smile on Sarah’s lips.

Looking at this girl, I could understand why something strange had been happening at the classroom door.

Suddenly closing the classroom door and holding it so it wouldn’t open were all Sarah’s pranks.

“Ha.”

A sigh naturally flowed from my mouth.

“Was it you who was holding the door?”

“Of course it’s me. Did you think it was a ghost? It was funny when I asked you who you were earlier. Your voice is very serious. Ugh.”

Sarah, who was crouching outside the door, smiled and stood up.

It was natural that Sarah could not be seen through the glass window of the sliding door earlier.

This girl had cleverly leaned down and held on to the door. I think he was trying to surprise me by making himself invisible through the window.

“Ha… .”

What I thought was a ghost turns out to be a person.

I sat down at a nearby desk.

Sarah came into the classroom and spoke to me.

“Are you surprised?”

“I was a little surprised.”

“Honestly, I was surprised to see you earlier too. I didn’t know that just because I saw something in the window, I would run straight to the classroom.”

“Then what did you think you would do?”

“I thought I would go home like a coward and sleep with my mom.”

It seems that my actions were beyond Sarah’s prediction.

The girl who could see ghosts and caused a stir at school was showing interest in me. I decided to take Sarah’s interest in a positive direction. At least it’s better than indifference.

“But it’s Jinwoo. There’s nothing good about seeing a lot of ghosts. It’s better to do it in moderation.”

“Why?”

“You know the saying that if you talk about ghosts, ghosts will come out? Likewise, the more you see ghosts, the more you see them. There is a door in the human body through which ghosts enter and exit. Every time you see a ghost, the door opens a little bit, and eventually it opens wide.”

A door through which ghosts enter and exit.

Sarah explained it in an easy-to-understand way, but I had also heard of that door. From the beginning, it was a famous story among those interested in mysteries or among shamans.

Ghost Gate.

It was a passage through which ghosts passed. In terms of feng shui, it refers to the northeast direction where ghosts come and go.

Likewise, humans also have a ghost gate, and people who have an open ear gate often see ghosts.

“Do you know what happens when the ear gate opens? Horrible things continue to become visible. Imagine that you suddenly see someone bleeding. I feel bad.”

“Even if I feel bad, that’s what I want.”

“Are you hoping for it?”

Sarah, who was trying to persuade me, narrowed her eyes.

“I want to open the door through which ghosts come and go. So I’m trying to see a ghost. If your ear gates open, you will be able to see ghosts more clearly.”

“You… .”

A vaguely visible pitch-black shape, something passing through the blind spot of vision.

I wasn’t satisfied with just seeing part of the ghost.

I wanted to capture the ghost’s complete appearance with my eyes.

So I’m trying to see a ghost.

Even if I can’t see it, I keep trying to see it.

“… … You are really strange.”

Persuasion became useless. However, Sarah did not look particularly disappointed when she saw me.

He cleared his frowning eyes and smiled as if he was okay with it.

I asked Sarah something I was curious about.

“So what was that thing you showed me earlier? A pitch-black thing that looks like a human.”

“Ghost.”

“Yes, that. Wasn’t it by the window in the classroom earlier? But when I came to the classroom, I couldn’t see it. Did you go somewhere else?”

Did a pitch-black figure move out of the classroom?

Sarah heard my question and shook her head.

“No.”

“Then where is it?”

“I’m still here now. It’s just not visible to your eyes.”

A pitch-black figure is still in the classroom?

“Really?”

“Yes.”

Sarah looked at the back of the classroom. What she was looking at was an empty desk in the back, near the window.

Since no one in my class was sitting at the desk, it was also an unoccupied desk.

Although she was looking at an empty desk, Sarah felt like she was looking at something sitting there. The direction of gaze is fixed.

‘Are you saying there’s a ghost on that desk?’

I also stared at the desk near the window, hoping to see something. However, even if you look intently, you cannot see anything. Unfortunately, for me now, that desk was just a desk.

In the end, even as time passed, I did not see the ghost.

“Let’s go home now. You’re not going to stay up all night at school just to see a ghost, are you?”

“Okay.”

I nodded obediently at Sarah’s call.

There is no need to rush anyway. If there really is a ghost in the classroom, we will see it again someday. This is the classroom we will be staying in for the next year. There would have been many opportunities to see ghosts.

“Goodbye.”

“Goodbye to you too.”

Just like that, I broke up with Sarah and went home.

A few days have passed since then.

As I went to school every day, I began to believe Sarah when she said there was a ghost in the classroom.

Because strange things slowly started happening in our class.

It was one morning.

It was during assembly time when the teacher called attendance.

There were a total of 24 people in our class, and it didn’t take long to call everyone to attend.

This happened while the elderly female teacher was calling the children’s names one by one.

“Strong Sera.”

“Yes.”

“Jinwoo Kim.”

“Yes.”

“Na Gi-cheol.”

“Yes.”

After a while, the teacher called the name of the twenty-fourth student.

“Jinsu Seo.”

“Yes.”

“Park Eun-seo.”

And then the name of the twenty-fifth student was called.

“… … .”

No answer came back.

“Yes… ?”

The teacher, who had been calling attendance out of inertia, looked up with a puzzled expression.

The kids in my class also looked puzzled at the same time.

There must be a total of 24 people in our class?

Why is the twenty-fifth student’s name called?

“Park Eun-seo? Who is that?”

“Are you in our class?”

The children started talking among themselves.

The teacher was looking at the attendance sheet with puzzled eyes.

Until yesterday, Park Eun-seo was not on our class attendance list.