episode_0060

‘How should I approach [the black person]…’

10 o’clock at night.

A time when the soft light of streetlights struggles with the darkness covering the sky.

Back at the apartment, Eunha sat down on the soft sofa and thought about this.

How do I get to [the black person]?

So… how should I die?

I just laugh out loud.

It was only a few hours ago that Ban Harin’s co-worker ‘Mouse’ helped him after falling from the roof of a department store.

It’s only been an hour since I returned to Saetbyeol Apartment, with Baeul-i sticking to me like a gumball and the worries of Ban Harin, who quietly stays by my side.

Since they were still anxious, the two people who wanted to spend the night were forced to turn away, and because the sun had set, they returned home safely with the help of an elderly security guard.

And yet, sitting on the sofa in the living room, I thought, ‘How am I going to die?’

If the ‘mice’ that was taken into the ambulance had been next to him, he wouldn’t have collapsed from high blood pressure.

‘I feel sorry for Mr. Mouse… I saved him after a long time.’

Suddenly, a mouse woman wearing a black cap appeared in my mind.

How much thought and effort did it take to catch someone falling from the roof?

For some reason, my heart is pounding.

I put my hand on my pounding chest and looked up at the ceiling.

A life saved by someone else.

If your life has been saved by someone else, you should definitely use that life preciously.

Perhaps, like the loyal knight in the novel, wouldn’t it be fun to swear to live the rest of your life for her?

But unfortunately, Eunha had a slightly different idea.

‘I would have died in the fall anyway… It doesn’t really matter if I die now.’

I made a justification for dying.

Because it would be unfair if I just died.

( “I need help.” )

There is a guy I want to kill.

This is a guy who tried to hurt her in some way by saying something that wasn’t in the guidebook.

Thanks to this, shopping at the department store with Bang was ruined.

A monster that cannot be touched by any means.

Therefore, they are trying to find ‘another monster’ who can step on that monster.

So die.

A means to meet [black people].

That’s it.

To her, her life was something light… easy to pick up and carry.

Have I gone crazy?

I don’t know.

“Haha… I guess I’ll get checked out at a mental hospital later.”

The thought was long.

The worry was short-lived.

Eunha opened the [Black Book] on the table in front of the sofa.

“Then… how should I die this time?”

It’s time to die.

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An unexpected fact.

She can’t commit suicide.

This is something I realized when I was preparing for the promotion exam and cutting out my own internal organs with a kitchen knife.

[Self-recovery] The speed at which the body is restored is unusual.

Even internal organs that do not significantly interfere with immediate life activities are completely regenerated in just a few tens of minutes.

If you stab the heart with a kitchen knife, rather than dying from excessive bleeding, the knife wound heals immediately.

Even if you starve, you will not die, and even if you dip your face in bath water, you will not drown.

Even if I take a sleeping pill like a cookie, I open my eyes as usual when I hear my cell phone alarm.

It’s just painful enough to die.

‘There was someone who didn’t get sick as much as possible and finished as quickly as possible.’

Therefore, in order to meet the [Black Person], she desperately needs the help of ‘those’ who can break through her resilience and definitely defeat her.

Eunha was deep in thought as she looked through the [Black Book].

‘Grandpa in the park won’t be there after dusk, I don’t want to leave the apartment at night in the first place, I’m anxious because I’ve never been killed by an [invisible baby] before, and I don’t think I’ll die if I fall off the veranda…’

Before having LASIK surgery, I feel like looking through other people’s reviews and deciding which eye clinic to get the surgery at.

The difference is that the area being operated on is different.

In order to go to work at the cafe early in the morning again tomorrow, I need to bring along as good a doctor as possible.

“……Okay, I’ll use the one I’m most familiar with.”

After much thought, Eunha found a suitable person, closed [Black Book], and got up from the sofa.

Before performing the funeral, I checked that the veranda window was locked.

After checking to see if the gas fire was properly turned off, I head to the entrance hallway.

As she fumbled with the wall and turned on the light, a brightly lit hallway greeted her.

Clean hallways, bare floors.

But today it is cold and quiet.

Like an herbivore that senses what is going to happen and holds its breath.

“Ha… It’s okay. It’ll be over soon. It’s just one time… It only hurts enough to kill me.”

Eunha tapped the sore back of her neck with her fist, as if confronting the creeping trauma.

From now on, I am going to meet [the black person].

To stop that guy at the department store.

I don’t know if it will work out, but we will negotiate somehow.

Excited. Excited.

Her heart, which started to beat as if it was about to burst, made her realize that she was still alive.

The heart speaks.

What are you doing if you don’t die quickly?

Hurry and stop this loud heartbeat,

He doesn’t even notice her anxious feelings and pushes Eunha’s back.

(『One day I realized. Hesitation is hidden among fears.』)

(『Someone once said that determination is born from countless efforts.』)

This is something I heard one day in a park where the twilight was beautiful.

The thought was long.

The worry was short-lived.

… … The hesitation was long.

A galaxy that reflects on the grains of wisdom that flow as if floating down a river…

I cleared my throat once.

okay. Let’s have fun if we can.

Even if I die, I have to die smiling.

“Ah, ah… It’s stained red, red…”

And towards the tightly closed entrance,

I started singing with a trembling voice.

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4-4. All things exist in this world by being perceived by others.

– Have you ever seen air?

– Do you know how the concept of time came about?

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– There are things that cannot be seen with the naked eye, but are perceived by others.

– There are things that do not exist but are named by others.

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– So do we.

– Cognition is the passage to the mind, and it is also the passage through which we enter your world.

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Not long ago, when I was attacked by the Black Bung Sect,

Eunha had that thought while using the blood donation bus summoning technique.

Can’t you call ‘it’ yourself?

Wherever you want, whenever you want.

Of course, it is a suicide attack that she will have to suffer as well, but it will serve as insurance against the worst-case scenario.

And a rule from the guidebook suddenly occurred to me.

Cognition is the passage of the mind.

So, if Eunha is strongly aware of some strange thing…

Like the blood donation bus last time, won’t other monsters appear before our eyes?

“It’s stained red…”

“Everyone is dyed red…”

Singing in the entrance hallway.

A song that repeats a certain melody like a children’s song.

I know the lyrics by heart.

It’s a children’s song that [Red Woman] always sings whenever she comes to visit. Even if you don’t like it, you will memorize it.

Singing alone at home at 10pm was more embarrassing and embarrassing than expected, so Eunha continued singing with her cheeks blushing.

“We are lost forever…”

I felt arrogant.

Will they really come like this? Could it be a futile effort?

Should I have jumped off the veranda?

A song mixed with idle thoughts flows down my throat.

“Towards you who is hiding so tightly…”

Sing a nursery rhyme.

At home alone.

In a quiet hallway.

“Even if we hide, even if we hide, we…”

like that,

How many children’s songs did they sing?

“Forever and forever towards you…”

『Forever and forever towards you~』

At some point,

A familiar voice,

“Color it red, everyone together…”

『Color it red~ Everyone~』

The sounds started to overlap.

『Color it red~ Bright red~』

A familiar voice.

A voice that vomits sticky blood down its throat.

A voice comes from beyond the front door.

Eunha closed her mouth to keep from screaming and walked towards the front door, clutching the bag of salt she had prepared in advance.

Grabbing my heart that was pounding so hard that it threatened to melt, I turned on the intercom camera with trembling fingers.

『I found it~.』

And the galaxy,

Wearing a dress covered in blood, holding an old toothless jigsaw in her hand,

Everything made eye contact with the red woman.

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

Kkeikikㅡ.

3 minutes later,

[Red Woman] opened the front door of Eunha’s house and came inside.

He enters the entrance, leaving red footprints on the floor.

‘It’, which was manipulating the jigsaw in its hand with a joyful gesture, carefully looked around the entrance hallway like a child playing hide and seek.

A hallway with lights on.

Quiet living room.

And… a tightly closed bathroom.

The [Red Woman] with a smirk on her lips entered the entrance hallway.

『It’s dyed red~』

『Everyone is dyed red~』

[The Red Woman] sings an eerie nursery rhyme.

Clap. Crunch… He walks slowly, making the sound of drenched footsteps.

“…….”

Beyond the closed bathroom, I can feel people shaking in fear.

The doorknob is shaking, as if the woman is holding the bathroom door tightly to prevent her from entering.

The corner of the woman’s mouth rises as if it is about to tear.

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『We are lost forever~』

『Toward the hidden you~』

[Red Woman] deliberately lingering in front of a tightly closed bathroom, watching a soul struggling with trauma.

Soon after, as if he felt he had sufficiently tormented the poor child hiding in the bathroom, he quietly turned around and headed toward the living room.

Search the house for 10 minutes.

Because that is the ‘rule’.

… … Shake!

“Wow!!!”

And, at that moment,

The moment [Red Woman] turned her back to head to the living room,

The bathroom door burst open, and Eunha jumped out and screamed as loud as she could.

Paang!

By setting off firecrackers.

These are the firecrackers that came with a cake I bought to commemorate my promotion exam a few days ago.

『… … !』

The [Red Woman], who was heading to the living room, trembled in shock at the sudden noise.

When the woman, whose eyes are wide open in surprise, looks back… She sees Eunha pointing in this direction with a grinning face, while trembling with fear that she cannot hide.

What is this year doing?

“Whoa…! Whoa…! Huh, hehehe… I was so surprised! Even if I die, I won’t die gracefully!”

『… … .』

Eunha’s fingertips as she points a finger at the woman tremble to the point of pitifulness.

Eyes filled with evil look straight at the [Red Woman].

“Okay! Done! Kill me quickly!”

Was it enough to startle the [Red Woman]?

Eunha threw the remaining firecracker shell at the woman with all her might, and then lay down on the bathroom floor with a liberated face.

Have you already decided to die? Eunha was naked without a single cloth on, and the walls and floor of the bathroom were covered with pure white vinyl for easy cleaning.

“Quick! You got the cake! Take me to [the black person]!”

『… … Tsk.』

[Red Woman] looked at the wide open bathroom with a complicated gaze.

She came into the bathroom looking at Eunha, who was lying on the floor, as if she were a monster.

Dalkak-.

The bathroom door was closed.

A pathetic voice leaks through the crack in the door, asking for help.

And, for a very long time…

Someone’s desperate scream rang out.

… …

… … .

… … .

“No, how on earth do you manage it!”

『Calm down.』

After a while,

At a fortune telling shop she once saw, Eunha faced the [black person] and growled fiercely like a Chihuahua.

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