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The woman was gone, but the hallway still had a gloomy vibe.

Now that I’m back in a normal hallway, I think it’s okay to look back, but the reason I don’t want to look back is because I saw that the woman who was chasing me was hit by something.

After taking a deep breath for a moment, I gathered my composure and headed to the nurse’s office in front of me. On the outside, it didn’t look much different from other doors, but I felt a chill, perhaps due to some sense of anxiety.

I carefully opened the door little by little to see if anyone was inside. It looked like there was no one inside through the narrow gap, so I opened the door just enough to get in and quickly went inside and closed the door.

The interior of the nurse’s office was not much different from a typical office, with desks and cabinets filled with various miscellaneous items.

I thought there must be something bizarre, but I was somehow relieved to see a sight that was more ordinary than I expected.

Still, I didn’t completely relax and started rummaging through my desk.

The desk was full of various miscellaneous items. General office supplies such as ballpoint pens, notebooks, tapes, etc. Because these were items that could easily be seen in real life, I felt a sense of security.

While I was searching through the desk, I found a book that caught my attention. The book with the words ‘Patient Needing Caution’ written on it was sitting alone in one of the desk drawers, as if it had been waiting for me to find it.

I picked up the book and tried to carefully open the pages, but the pages were stuck together with something red and it felt like it would tear if I tried to force it open.

There were only three unglued pages. And in Chapter 3, three patients were written down.

‘ O Hayun ‘

A single mother without a husband, hospitalized in the 9th month of pregnancy due to excessive physical condition. Normally, he was a very kind and gentle patient to the people around him, but due to severe depression and excessive stress, he caused serious harm to the nurses and patients around him, so he was moved to a single room.

On the OO day of the O month, my water broke and I was transferred to the delivery room. Giving birth for 18 hours due to extremely difficult labor. The patient fainted from the pain, and the baby was stillborn.

The patient woke up and found the baby, but when it was announced that the baby was stillborn, the patient cried for an hour and then fell asleep. Afterwards, he was transferred back to a single ward.

The next day, when the nurse went to the patient’s room to deliver breakfast, the patient hugged the rabbit doll, thinking it was his child. Refusing to eat. Psychological treatment appears to be necessary to deal with this afterward.

Patient O Hayun has not eaten at all and is only hugging a rabbit doll. A nurse who was close to the patient suggested that he eat somehow, but he refused, asking how a mother could eat when her own child did not eat. Afterwards, it was decided to provide minimal nutrition through IV gel.

O month O day. Patient O Hayun was found dead from excessive bleeding after slitting her wrists. The paper, presumed to be a will, simply says, ‘I found my child.’ Afterwards, abnormal phenomena occurred in the single patient room where the patient was hospitalized, and room 205 was closed.

The record about patient O Hayun was written in a dry manner, but since it described a mother who lost her child and the end, it felt like a pitiful person rather than a patient who needed attention. Wiping away the tears that had welled up in the corners of my eyes, I checked on the next patient.

‘O Arin’

Hospitalized for bruises and fractures. There is also damage to internal organs, so caution is required when eating.

Parents from OO School broke into the patient’s hospital room and started a riot. Parents: “You killed my daughter…! Cursing, he must have cursed!!!” Repeating words with unknown meaning.

After hearing that, the patient left the hospital room and laughed out loud for 10 minutes. Afterwards, the outraged parents were calmed down and the police were called.

On the O day of O month, the police came and interrogated the patient. The reason appears to be that the parent who visited last time died from internal organ damage and fractures of the entire body due to an unknown illness. The patient just smiles.

O month O day. Patient vomits blood. An urgent attempt was made to examine the patient, but the patient vehemently refused, saying he was fine. In the end, only painkillers and sleeping pills were prescribed.

O month O day. The police officer who was interrogating the patient died. While interrogating a patient, he vomited blood from every pore of his body and died. After that, no one came to visit the patient.

O month O day. The patient hanged himself and died. The deceased patient was smiling.

Afterwards, other patients hospitalized in the patient’s room complained of severe hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. All patients who complained of symptoms died laughing by hanging themselves within three days.

All hospital rooms 303, 302, and 304 where the patient was admitted were closed. To prevent accidental opening, the key is kept in the nurse’s office on the first floor.

Cursing a person to death is definitely an occult thing to say, but looking at my current situation and records, there was no room for doubt.

Deciding not to even go to the hospital room on the third floor, I checked the last page.

‘OOO’

Extreme gaze phobia. Be sure to wear an eye patch when visiting a patient’s room.

Although the patient suffers from extreme gaze phobia, he also has a desire to show himself to others. If the patient tries to remove the eye patch, shake it off and run away immediately.

All mirrors on the 4th floor were removed. When going to the 4th floor, leave reflective items such as cell phones and hand mirrors somewhere else for a while.

The 4th floor was closed. When going to the 5th floor and rooftop, use the 3rd floor elevator.

Removed elevator mirrors. You can’t see outside through the elevator door. If you can check, get off the elevator and get back on.

The record ended like this. The record that did not even include the patient’s name was completely different from the others… It was not a record about the patient, but seemed like a rule to escape from the patient.

I didn’t even think about going to the 4th floor, but after thinking about it, I realized a huge contradiction.

If you don’t want to go to the 4th floor, you have to go to the 3rd floor, but the 3rd floor is also where there is a dangerous patient who curses people and kills people… Is there an elevator on the 2nd floor too, or is there a rule I don’t know about?

I checked all the records and checked the notebooks I had, but there were no new rules.

I’m sure there’s some information about these patients, but is it because it’s not a rule I’m going to experience right now, or is it just me being overly worried?

After searching the desk with a distraught mind, I was finally able to find the key. There was only one problem: there were five keys, all of the same shape.

They all look the same, so why isn’t there a note on where the key is and affixed it? Or did you do this on purpose to screw people like me?

I had no choice but to put all five keys in my pocket and leave the nurse’s office. No, I was going to leave.

Ttogak.. Ttogak..

The door to the nurse’s office opened before I could open it, along with the sound of footsteps that continued to torment me. When I looked up and checked who the visitor was – it was, of course, the nurse I kept seeing.

“…Patient, what brings you here?”

The nurse’s pretty face was slightly frowning, as if she was angry that I, a patient, had freely entered the nurse’s office. Still, it was fortunate that it was not the grotesquely transformed shape I had seen in the physical therapy room.

“Ah..I am a patient who decided to be hospitalized on the 3rd floor.”

When I ran into the nurse, I thought about the rules and said I decided to be admitted on the 3rd floor – but I just remembered the previous record. Still, it’s a lie, I didn’t really decide to be hospitalized, so will it be okay?

“3rd floor…? Ah…you…then let me guide you.”

“No…I decided to get guidance from the doctor on the second floor. Thank you, but it’s okay.”

“…This is my first time hearing this. We will check for a moment, so please wait.”

“Yes, I understand.”

As I really followed the rules, things were working out smoothly. As soon as the nurse left and the sound of screaming became distant, I went out into the hallway and ran towards the stairs as quietly as possible.

“Please…please!”

I inserted my key into the security door blocking the stairs to the second floor. The first and second keys did not fit.

I heard the sound of a door opening and closing at the end of the hallway, and the sound of footsteps approaching in my direction.

As I was taking out the third key, I ended up dropping it because I was so anxious. As I lowered my head to pick up the keys – I looked down the hallway – I saw a nurse approaching me, looking like she was in the physical therapy room.

The approaching speed was faster than I thought, so it seemed like I wouldn’t have time to escape if I got the key wrong this time.

“Please..get it right..!”

While praying to God, I inserted the third key into the door and the door opened with a clanging sound. I quickly opened the security door and headed up the stairs.

As I breathlessly climbed the stairs and reached the second floor entrance, I could no longer hear the footsteps that had been bothering me. If it’s on the 1st floor, can’t it get to the 2nd floor?

With a sigh of relief, I looked down the second floor hallway. Unlike the first floor, the second floor, which only had five hospital rooms, a nurse’s office, and a delivery room, seemed to show that the records I had read earlier were true.

Is the key in the nurse’s office again this time? When I opened the notebook and tried to check the rules, there was a new rule that I had not seen.

4. If you hear the baby crying in the delivery room on the second floor, cover your ears, close your eyes, and lie down on the floor. No matter what the stimulus, the child should not wake up until the crying has subsided.

5. The door to room 205 must be closed. If the door to room 205 is open, find the rabbit doll in rooms 201 to 204, throw it and wait for the door to close.

5-1. If it gets dangerous, come into room 205…

After reading the last rule, I was momentarily troubled. Other rules and the records I read clearly say not to enter room 205, but this rule says to go in. Moreover, there was a clear sense of difference from other rules.

…After thinking about it for a moment, I decided that if such a situation came up, I would follow the rules…and trust Mr. Hayun in room 205. It was also written that he was kind, unlike other patients… There was no other reason, but I just wanted to believe him.

I don’t know if I can trust my intuition, but… in situations like this, shouldn’t I trust my intuition even more?

After making up my mind through self-suggestion, I quietly headed to the nurse’s office on the second floor. Judging by the fact that there is no separate mention about the key, the key will be in the nurse’s office as per the first rule.

I headed to the nurse’s office without any problems, and for some reason things were going well. I opened the door with that in mind. And—I barely held back the scream that rose up to my chin by chewing my tongue.

Along with the strong smell of blood, the inside of the nurse’s office was covered in blood and scattered organs.

The long limbs of what appeared to be a woman’s body were scattered all over the room, and it was a horrible sight to even look at… it was nauseating.

When I turned my attention to the desk – in the end, I couldn’t hold back the nausea that was building up and I ended up vomiting it out. The head of the woman who had been chasing me through the endless hallways on the first floor was lying on the desk with her eyes gouged out.

“Huh…Huh…”

Even though the woman’s head and body were separated and her internal organs and limbs were scattered throughout the room, she was still moaning in pain as if she were not dead. She was a woman who had been tormenting me, but seeing her in such pain was so emotionally painful.

After spitting out everything I had heard in my stomach, I walked towards the woman’s head with unsteady steps. The closer you get, the stronger the fishy and blood smell becomes.

The woman couldn’t see, but she could hear the sound of blood splattering as she walked, so she cried louder and started shedding bloody tears from her empty eye sockets.

When I finally reached the woman’s head, I hugged her bloody head tightly and closed my eyes.

“…It was painful.”

“There is nothing I can do for you…but please, please sleep comfortably…”

I am helpless. Although it was a monster that chased me and tormented me, there was nothing I could do for this human-shaped being that was in so much pain.

And when I looked back, the woman’s appearance was a reflection of my future – and it was even more painful. Because it felt like I did it.

“……”

Suddenly, the woman’s head stopped crying and became still. Drop – drop, I heard the sound of water drops and before I knew it, I was shedding tears.

“…Thank you.”

A woman’s voice was heard in a thin, sweet voice. When I opened my eyes, the head I was holding had suddenly returned to its original, pretty girl appearance.

“And… run away…”

The woman left those words and closed her eyes. At the same time – a large shadow appeared behind me.

I couldn’t say anything. I couldn’t even breathe. A stench so strong that it rotted my nose and the smell of blood and pus emanated from right behind me.

A long, skinny arm came next to me. The arm fumbled around the desk, and then took the woman’s head.

Kwajik – A sound was heard and the skinny arm covered in blood came out again and started searching the desk. But–the arm that was rummaging around in an empty space as if it was invisible soon disappeared again.

‘Let’s go out as carefully as possible…’

It was clearly the patient whose name was not written down earlier. I don’t know why he left me alone… but I have to leave when he is as uninterested in me as possible.

As I carefully took a step to the side, I heard footsteps twice. As I took a step to the side again, I heard it again.

Ta…it’s following…it’s…

Obviously, if you turn around now, you’ll get hit. Die – as cruelly as the corpses lying around in the nurse’s office.

I closed my eyes and walked, thinking as much as I could about the layout of the room I entered. The sound of walking along with me drove me crazy every time I walked, but I somehow ignored it and walked.

While I was walking slowly, I felt a normal smell and air, not the bloody air. Came outside ㅡ. With that feeling of relief, I opened my eyes.

Do you know about wasp bugs? It looked like an insect, with tangled hair that had grown down to its legs all over its body, and only bloodshot eyes were clearly visible through it.

Something that made eye contact with me immediately started screaming and I immediately ran. Without knowing where to run away.

As I was running with all my might, I found an open hospital room. Despite the smell of death coming from behind – the open hospital room looked so cozy and warm.

Without hesitation, I rushed into the open hospital room. As soon as I came in, the door to the hospital room closed and locked with a loud bang.

Why can’t the monster that was chasing me come in here? A scratching sound on the door from outside was heard for a moment, and then it quieted down.

After confirming that the monster had left, I relaxed and fell to the floor, unable to do anything, and just shed tears. Can I get out of a place like this alive? Will I be able to see my senior again?

As I was shaking and crying quietly, someone gently hugged me. When I raised my head and looked through tears and blurred vision, there was an angel looking at me with a kind smile.

“Baby…my baby…don’t cry…”

He hugged me as if I were his own child and guided me into his big, soft chest. Feeling the comfort and warmth I felt for the first time since entering this hospital, I hugged the angel like a child and sobbed.