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Knock knock…

A knock on the front door.

Eunha quietly got up from the sofa.

The temperature became so cool that it made my body shiver. A smartphone with an indication that it is out of coverage area.

In the living room, where the knocking sound echoed, I looked down at the [Black Book] on the table.

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※Guide to living safely at home※

1. If someone knocks on the front door of your house.

First, check the outside through an endoscope.

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What is written in the black book.

The timing is so good. As soon as I read the ‘Guide’, I heard a knock on the door.

Is it a hidden camera?

If it had been a hidden camera, I would be willing to smile and forgive.

Knock knock.

Meanwhile, ‘something’ outside kept knocking.

He didn’t even ring the doorbell, as if he knew Eunha was at home.

‘Well… let’s think positively. ‘Your neighbor might be doing that because he’s drunk.’

I looked at the [Black Book] with a smile on my face.

So, if you hear a knocking sound, you should check outside with an external scope, right?

… really? Is that correct?

If I ignore it, won’t it leave on its own? Even door-to-door salespeople pretend that you’re not home and they’ll just leave.

I haphazardly headed to the front door, making hopes that would never work out.

While I was walking slowly, keeping my mouth shut so as not to make any footsteps or to avoid hearing my breathing, I suddenly turned to the kitchen and took out a kitchen knife.

just in case.

One would be fine for self-defense.

‘If ‘that’ outside is a normal neighbor, I’d be a crazy person holding a kitchen knife and opening the door… but that’s better.’

Looking at the kitchen knife sparkling under the fluorescent lights gives me courage that I never had before.

okay. I am a crazy person.

If you fail the same test 30 times, that’s crazy.

Eunha, holding courage in her hand, proudly stood in front of the front door.

“……My house. I don’t have a goggles.”

And, right after arriving at the entrance, I ran into another difficulty.

We don’t have an external scope in our house.

Why, isn’t that what an external microscope is? A round lens embedded in the center of the front door.

An object used to check the outside of the house.

But that kind of thing only exists in old apartments. These days, aren’t there just intercoms installed, saying it’s a crime prevention issue or something?

Knock knock. smart. Knock knock.

“Oh, just be quiet for a moment. I have a headache right now.”

Right……

…..

Eunha was troubled.

There is no external scope. However, I am very reluctant to use the intercom. Because it is clearly mentioned in the book as ‘external endoscopy’.

What if you accidentally turn on the intercom and the ‘thing’ on the other side of the door gets angry?

It ended up being Galaxy’s fault for not following the instructions properly.

However, you can’t open the door and check directly…

… … … smart. Knock knock.

After pacing around the front door for a while, Eunha decided to let everything happen as she trotted back to the living room and sat down on the sofa.

I decided to pretend not to know.

[The Black Book] was a mistake in looking for an external scope at home without one.

Thinking like that made me feel a lot more at ease. I should have ignored it a long time ago.

Eunha looked down at the [Black Book] with a lighter heart.

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※Guide to living safely at home※

1. If someone knocks on the front door of your house.

First, check the outside through the intercom .

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If you see a woman in a red dress standing in front of the door,

Please immediately put salt in your mouth and hide in the bathroom.

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The front door will open by itself, and ‘it’ will look everywhere except the bathroom for about 10 minutes before running away quietly.

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The above must be done within 3 minutes.

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what. The external scope has been replaced with an intercom.

Don’t say anything sooner.

Knock knock. Knock knock.

“……Yes, I’m leaving.”

With my heart becoming heavy again, I grabbed the kitchen knife and headed to the front door.

I’m tired. Whether it’s a ghost or a person in front of the door, let’s quickly chase it away and eat something.

Maybe it’s just scary and not a big deal.

With that in mind, I pressed the intercom camera button.

Beep–.

I turned on the intercom.

Then the knocking suddenly stopped, as if I had been waiting.

How did you know and stop?

Feeling a sticky feeling of anxiety that I couldn’t shake off, I checked the intercom screen.

… … The intercom was pitch black.

I can’t see anything.

Is it broken?

No matter how many times I press the camera button, the screen is pitch black, as if it is obscured by something.

Eunha frowned and stared at the intercom.

Again…

And, when Eunha brought her face close to the intercom.

Filled the screen…

The black eyes of ‘that’ began to move eerily.

Flash. Flash.

‘That thing’ clinging to the wall, with its face pressed up against the intercom camera,

I blink and look into the lens.

『… … found.”

‘That’ smiles beyond the camera.

Eyes curved like a crescent moon look at the galaxy.

Eunha, who made eye contact with the thing over the intercom, backed away as if running away, and the entity beyond the front door also quietly backed away from the intercom.

It was only then that Eunha was able to confirm its appearance.

I unconsciously covered my mouth when I saw ‘that’ displayed on the intercom.

I felt like I wouldn’t be able to suppress the scream that was about to escape if I didn’t cover my mouth.

It was a red woman.

A woman covered in blood is smiling at the intercom camera.

The woman’s dress has been dyed so red that it is unclear what color it was originally, and she is holding a bloody jigsaw in one hand.

It was questionable whether the jigsaw, which had so many sharp teeth, could cut properly, and the blood dripping down the jigsaw clearly showed what purpose it was used for.

I don’t know, but I would feel like death if I got cut by something like that.

It’s so rough that it feels like my raw flesh is being torn apart.

“One, two, three…”

‘That’ raised the corners of its mouth like a crescent moon and started counting.

Like a child playing hide and seek, the voice is excited at the thought of playing tag and catching prey.

『Seven… eight… nine…』

The voice of ‘that’ sounds like a whisper in Eunha’s ear.

I turned my head in surprise, but there was nothing around. Even if you cover your ears, you can hear ‘that’ voice clearly.

As if clinging to a lover and whispering love.

‘That’s’ cold breath flows down my cheek.

I was afraid.

『Twenty-one… twenty-two…』

The primal fear caused by the survival instinct constricts my throat.

Eunha, who was out of breath and swallowed hard, ran to the living room where the [Black Book] was placed, clutching the kitchen knife in her hand.

“Huh… Huh…”

It’s definitely true. This is the red woman written in [The Black Book].

It really came out.

What on earth is that book?

Did the book summon a monster?

Or, did he warn you in advance that a monster would come?

Anyway, ‘that’ saw me.

Clearly over the intercom.

Why is the video quality on the intercom so good? The apartment is so luxurious that it brings tears to my eyes.

“It’s okay. Be positive… okay. Just do what it says in the book.”

Eunha hurriedly ran to the living room and picked up the [Black Book].

As written in the book, a red woman appeared over the intercom.

If so, it would mean that if you don’t panic and implement the following countermeasures, you can safely escape from ‘that’.

The only thing that can solve the current situation is the [Black Book].

Eunha read the book again with a glimmer of hope.

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If you see a woman in a red dress standing in front of the door,

Please immediately put salt in your mouth and hide in the bathroom.

​

The front door will open by itself, and ‘it’ will look everywhere except the bathroom for about 10 minutes before running away quietly.

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The above must be completed within 3 minutes.

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The book says, put salt in your mouth and hide in the bathroom.

No, no salt.

It’s going to turn.

『Seventy-five… seventy-six… seventy-seven…』

For a moment, I felt dizzy and grabbed my head.

salt? That salt that you sprinkled on fried eggs because there was only a little bit left?

Eunha threw the black book on the sofa and headed to the kitchen.

You have 3 minutes to hide in the bathroom with salt in your mouth.

But no matter how much I searched through the kitchen cupboards, I couldn’t find even a hint of salt.

‘Since when is it 3 minutes? When did you start knocking? Or since when you saw ‘that’?’

Is the number ‘that’ counting now a 3-minute timer?

ah. I want to cry. I heard that tears have salt in them too. How could that not happen?

Would it be acceptable if I put a fried egg sprinkled with salt in my mouth?

Aside from my urgent mind, useless questions clutter my head.

Eunha rolled her head to the point where steam came out and placed her hand on her throbbing chest.

‘What should I do? You have to think fast. Should I jump out the window? It’s on the 9th floor? What if they still chase me? Jump out the window and get the salt before you get caught… Yes! salt!’

Suddenly, an ingenious idea passed through Eunha’s mind.

salt. Sodium chloride. NaCl.

What are the characteristics of salt? salty.

It’s very salty.

In other words, salty things are mostly salt.

‘soy sauce! You’re actually salt!’

Eunha returned to the living room, opened the soy sauce container on the table and poured it into her mouth.

My face crumpled as I felt my tongue shrinking, but I held on and held on to the soy sauce.

“Ugh…! Ugh…!”

『One hundred and sixty… One hundred and sixty-one… One hundred and sixty-two…』

I feel like throwing up.

But this alone is not enough.

Eunha ran to the kitchen and grabbed the bag of salt that had been thrown in the trash can.

It’s an empty envelope, but it could be used as a talisman.

‘Now let it happen! ‘I’ve done everything!’

And right after Eunha took a shot of soy sauce while suppressing nausea, she threw the empty soy sauce container on the floor and hurried into the bathroom.

『One hundred and seventy-nine… one hundred and eighty.』

Dalkak-.

The front door opened and a red woman came into the house.