episode_0007

As soon as the door opened, I ran outside and took a deep breath. My mind was so worn out in a short period of time that I didn’t even have time to pay attention to the existence of the girl in front of me.

When I finally caught my breath and looked straight ahead, the girl had already disappeared and I was standing inside the elevator, looking at my reflection in the mirror.

I felt like I had been through a painful situation just a moment ago, but I couldn’t remember anything. All I remember is entering the elevator, standing still, and meeting a girl in black.

I could clearly see that I was now caught up in something bad. I don’t even remember how my body moved in the hallway knowing the situation in advance, but I felt like I had a painful and scary experience.

The moment I decided to get out of the third floor as quickly as possible and was about to press the floor number for the elevator, the contents of the rule book came to mind.

“If there is a mirror in the elevator, go outside.”

Now I was looking at myself in the mirror. In the mirror, I was looking at myself and smiling. I carefully looked back and fortunately the elevator door was open.

“Aha, ahahaha!!!”

As soon as I saw myself smiling widely in the mirror, I quickly ran back. The rulebook clearly said to rest for 10 minutes at the nurse’s station, so I opened the door to the nurse’s station and closed it, feeling the pressure of something chasing me.

The nurse’s room on the 3rd floor was different from the nurses’ room on the 1st and 2nd floors, where the desk was damaged and nothing was in good condition except for one cabinet for putting clothes in.

Giggeek .. Giggigeek ..

Obviously, according to the rulebook, I was supposed to take a break, but I heard a sound that sounded like someone was scratching a closed door with their fingernails.

I became impatient because it felt like something that was chasing me would open the door and come in at any moment, so I looked around the nurse’s office to find a place to hide, and then an intact cabinet caught my eye.

If I usually hide in a place like this, wouldn’t they start looking for me from here? That would have been my first thought, but there was no other place to hide, and the sounds coming from behind clouded my judgment.

When I opened the cabinet carefully so as not to make any sound, I found that the cabinet, which could barely fit two people, was empty except for a little dust.

I quietly entered the cabinet, somehow managed to fit my finger into the small gap that allowed me to see the outside, and closed the door.

The moment the cabinet door closed and darkness came, I remembered being locked in the cleaning toolbox just moments ago.

Why did I forget about it until I got in here? As soon as I remembered the memory, the fear I felt at that time began to surround me again.

I tried to open the door to get out of the cabinet as quickly as possible. But the cabinet door did not open.

“Please, please open…!”

I completely forgot about the person who had been chasing me until now and focused only on opening the door. As I was once again in a confined, narrow space, I felt like my mind had reached its limit.

Is that why? I didn’t notice the girl who had suddenly appeared next to me and was looking at me.

“Hey, are you suffering?”

I looked to the side in surprise when I heard a gloomy but alluring voice that I had heard from somewhere next to me. A girl I felt like I had seen somewhere before, but couldn’t remember, was standing next to me.

I thought I was alone in a small, dark space with no one around, but the mere fact that someone was with me somehow made me feel at ease.

“Hey, who are you?”

Long, unkempt black hair and lifeless but beautiful black eyes. If she came out of this hospital so suddenly, there’s a high probability that she wasn’t human, but for some reason, I didn’t feel like there was any danger from the girl.

“Me? My name is OOO. So are you suffering now?”

I’m sure I’ve heard the girl’s name somewhere, but I couldn’t remember. Still, since the question was turned into a question, I felt like I should answer it first.

“I was in pain just now, but I feel a little better now that I’m not alone.”

I never wanted to feel the helplessness I felt when I was trapped alone in a dark space and unable to do anything again.

When I expressed my honest feelings to the girl, she looked at me with her eyes wide open, as if my answer was surprising.

“You are an unusual person. But doesn’t it feel like 10 minutes have passed?”

10 minutes? After hearing the girl’s words, what came to mind was the rule to take a break at the nurse’s station for 10 minutes. Since no one knew about the rules so far, I looked at the girl meaningfully.

“What’s wrong? Shouldn’t we get out soon? The door is open too.”

As soon as the girl spoke, the tightly closed cabinet door opened. My eyes were drawn to the cabinet and I looked forward for a moment, and when I looked to the side again, the girl in black was already gone.

“I don’t know who it is, but thank you.”

It was clear that the girl in black had opened the door. It was clear that it wasn’t a person, but at least it didn’t seem like it was trying to harm me, so I said a simple thank you, even though it might not be heard, and left the nurse’s office.

When I arrived at the elevator again and looked around, this time I couldn’t see any mirrors or anything. After confirming that there were no windows facing outside, I carefully pressed the elevator button to the rooftop.

“Hey, kid. If I’m honest, everything gets easier?”

In front of the girl lying in the hospital room, an overbearing police officer was speaking threateningly. No matter how much he said, the girl didn’t even respond, so the police officer sighed in frustration.

“Over there. Even when I asked all the other kids and the teacher, they said there was no such thing as bullying. But such an honor student suddenly commits suicide saying he feels sorry for you? Then you’re the one who’s suspicious right now, right?”

The girl remained silent, but the policeman sat down on the bed, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and lit it.

Even though it was a wrong action at first glance, no one in the hospital room could say anything due to the feeling of intimidation.

“Yes, yes. It doesn’t matter if you don’t say that. Anyway, the parents of the girl who died this time were somewhat high-ranking people. Moreover, the incident got bigger because his wife was also strangely found dead in a cleaning tool box at home?”

“Hehehe, uhuhuhuh…”

“Huh, indeed. Look at how this guy reacts when he says his wife is dead. What a creepy brat.”

The police officer looked at the girl who was laughing quietly and shook her head as if she was fed up. Soon, I smoked all my cigarettes and looked for a new cigarette in my pocket, but it was the last cigarette.

Nothing works. The police officer muttered and stood up to buy cigarettes.

“Well, whether you say something or not, you are determined to be the culprit. That’s all I know. I’m going. If other people here don’t want to get into trouble, just keep your mouth shut. As I said before, the dead girl’s parents are quite high-ranking people to ordinary people like us.”

After speaking as if to notify the girl, the police officer walked away, the sound of his shoes echoing in the quiet hospital room.

The girl’s voice was heard softly in the ears of the police officer who was walking.

“You are the same person.”

“True. I know how to speak.”

After leaving the hospital, I walked to a convenience store to buy cigarettes. A thought crossed my mind that I felt a little sorry for the girl I was interrogating just moments ago, but it was quickly forgotten by the thought that what was more important was my food bowl.

The elevator door opened and the third floor hallway unfolded before my eyes again. I definitely got on the elevator, but I didn’t have time to think about why it was on the 3rd floor. Because there was a passenger who got off before me.

Wearing a police uniform, he walked with unsteady steps to room 303 and entered.

As things progressed to this point, I realized that if I wanted to leave the third floor, I had to go into room 303.

Nothing happened until I slowly walked to room 303. When I arrived at the door of room 303, the police entered and the tightly closed door opened with a squeak, as if waiting for me.

“Good.”

After gathering myself, I walked into room 303.

Room 303 had only one bed. As I got closer to the bed, I saw the police and the girl who had not been seen until then.

“I’m sorry…I’m sorry…”

For some reason, the police officer was crying and apologizing in front of the girl. But the girl receiving the apology was looking straight at me as if she had no interest.

“Please, forgive me…”

As the man continued to apologize, the girl finally seemed motivated and looked at the police officer and asked a question.

“Hey, were you in pain?”

“Yeah, right! Don’t suffer! Every night, I was locked in a toolbox, beaten by a group, and had my arms burned with cigarettes! I realized for myself how vicious the guys who bullied you were!”

“Hmm. So?”

“My, I will throw them all in jail! I will try to clear all of your charges! So please…make my nightmares stop.”

“It’s already too late.”

As soon as those words were said, blood leaked from the mouths of me and the police officer. Soon, his vision turns red and blood begins to pour out of his eyes and ears.

A strong pain struck my brain, making it difficult to even stand properly. The police officer, who was sitting down and apologizing to the girl, tried to continue speaking, but the blood pouring from his mouth prevented him from saying any more and collapsed.

“Hey, how are you feeling right now?”

A girl spoke to me as I was crouching in pain, my vision blurred with fatigue.

“It’s painful, it hurts.”

“So? Should I finish it?”

“You’ve been through all of this..”

I knew it now. All the hallucinations and auditory hallucinations I have seen and heard on the third floor so far are the pain and suffering that the girl experienced and heard.

“I’m sorry, I can’t help you..”

When I was trapped alone in a dark, narrow cleaning supply closet, when I was surrounded and beaten to the point where blood poured from my entire body. When the scary adult threatened her – the girl was all alone.

With a sincere apology – my mind was fading away.