Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 179

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 179

Everything is red.

Because of the countless red things pouring in from the gate connected to the forest.

Those who followed Magic Bunny’s parade.

-♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

-Ahahahahahaha!

Snacks made from their own ribs, headbands decorated with their own plucked eyes, balloons made from the organs of what were once family.

Unfortunate people driven mad by the horrific shows in Magic Bunny’s zone and Magic Bunny’s cruel and brutal demands.

Now turned into anomalies inhabiting the Red Zone, they surge chaotically into the Yellow Zone.

And they shout.

“They’re giving mask prizes, they’re giving mask prizes”

“I wish everyone would become like me.”

“Have a fun time at Magic Bunny Zone! Fun! You said it was fun! Please! It’s fun!”

…The most dangerous things we had worked so hard to block from being drawn into the resort.

Dozens, hundreds of entities.

Come surging in.

‘No.’

G o b a c k

I hastily pulled the employees back and had the Standard Mascots rush out near the gate.

‘Block them.’

If I could somehow control them and just proceed with the illumination as planned…

“It’s a Yellow Mascot!”

“That’s it!”

“Ahahahahahaha!! Hahahahahahahahaha”

Visitors with horrific forms rush madly toward the Flower Golden Mascots.

‘…!!’

I looked up.

Beyond the surging crowd of anomalies, the red Magic Bunny at the gate raises a sign.

Prize Event

Tear off Yellow Mascot flesh and bring it!

1st Prize: Great Magic Bunny

2nd Prize: Great Magic Bunny

3rd Prize: Great Magic Bunny

Ah.

“It’s yellow!!”

Red Zone Visitors cling to the Standard Mascots, clawing with bare hands and carving flesh with items bearing Magic Bunny’s logo.

Eyes are plucked from the costume heads.

They get hurt.

Horns are torn off, stuffing bursts, and felt organs inside are ripped apart.

The Yellow Mascots struggle miserably as they’re torn apart. No… I’m being torn apart!!

“I tore it off!”

“Hahahahahaha!”

“Look at this, it’s sparkling?? Kekekekekeke!”

These rude, worthless, vulgar Red Zone penniless trash addicts dare to do this in my zone!

Still thinking they’re in the Red Zone and doing such disgusting things – it was unacceptable! Absolutely!! Absolutely not!

You are.

Whether the Yellow Mascots get torn apart or not, I push them toward the gate.

“Aaaaah!”

When I push them with force, those who weren’t in normal shape to begin with somehow get pushed back to the gate.

Looking at the broken pieces of Yellow Mascots scattered on the floor, Team Leader Lee Seong-hae quietly says.

“Should I chase after them?”

I shook my head.

My heart was pounding loudly, but at the same time it went cold.

‘Just now.’

What was I about to do just now?

‘I’m being assimilated.’

It was dangerous.

Quickly, I need to get out quickly. Quickly.

As soon as I secure the employees’ safety, I need to hurry…

‘The ceremony!’

I had to start the ritual!

I looked at the gate anxiously.

…However, the more horrific thing was after sending those visitors who had surged in back beyond the gate.

“Saaaah…”

Magic Bunny kindly welcomed those returning beyond the gate with open arms.

And.

“Urk.”

Pulls off their heads.

“…!!”

Pulls out their organs, breaks their waists.

As if operating attractions in order, as if playing or putting on a show, the visitors were killed one by one in the order they crossed the gate.

“Uwek!”

“…!”

I heard the voices of Disaster Management Agency Agents taking care of civilians from behind. Horror so terrible that even Daydream Employees, who had become almost immune to horrific sights, were momentarily overwhelmed and frozen.

Even seeing that, they throw themselves at the gate.

“Give me a prize!”

“I tore this off, please give me a prize!”

And a ‘prize’ is given.

Crrrrrack

The empty body of the dead who fell like a toy roughly transforms into a cute animal costume.

Right.

Those who get lost or die in the theme park are recycled as mascot bodies.

So, inevitably, the Red Zone has to have… an insane number of mascots.

‘…Ha.’

A spine-chilling fact.

Though I stopped even driving users with Standard Mascots to that death procession where they die and transform into mascots at Magic Bunny’s playful gestures, the Red Zone visitors already won’t stop.

They clutched Yellow Mascot flesh and continued throwing themselves at the gate.

“Aaaaah!”

The gate had already become something unbearable to look at with open eyes.

And it doesn’t end there.

Magic Bunny is using a long magic wand-like toy merchandise to stab even the customers who haven’t crossed over the gate yet.

“…!”

“Stop it, you disgusting…!”

Thud.

The red customer’s neck snapped and rolled down into the garden.

In the Yellow Zone,

they became a corpse.

But it was Magic Bunny who thoroughly contaminated that customer, and it was also Magic Bunny who killed and disposed of them.

That form becomes twisted.

“…!!”

“Eek, re, Red Mascot…!”

The Magic Bunny mascot that shed from the corpse rises up in the Yellow Zone.

And it approaches us employees frantically.

“Aaah!!”

However, mascots cannot cross over to other zones.

Thump.

The approaching Magic Bunny mascot’s steps became wobbly like a balloon gradually losing air, then soon collapsed on the floor and stiffened.

“….”

“It, it stopped….”

However, the Red Mascot doesn’t stop that behavior.

Playful rabbit dolls strike the heads of the unfortunate ones.

“Agh! Aaaagh!”

“Great Magic Bu….”

Those who died caught in the gate transformed into Magic Bunnies and came running, but kept collapsing and stopping.

Overwhelming waste.

Overwhelming cruelty.

…Before long, dozens of Red Mascot mutant corpses were piled up in the resort garden.

The employees watched that scene while frozen, not even daring to breathe….

“….”

“….”

I raised my head and looked at Magic Bunny beyond the gate.

And I realized.

This performance is a threat.

A kind of entertainment to make me angry or scared into overreacting, thereby making the upcoming events more enjoyable.

F u n !

F u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n f u n

Magic Bunnies clap their hands from beyond the gate.

-Kyahahahahaha!

Some customers in my zone laugh along.

…They’re laughing?

They’re laughing at this scene? They might not be able to see the magnificent illumination, yet those laughing ones seem rude too!

Q u i e t

The customers covered their own mouths.

The Magic Bunnies stuck their heads through the gate as if wanting to see that sight in more detail.

‘You shut up too.’

I forcefully threw one of the Magic Bunny mascot corpses sprawled on this side.

Thunk!

The Magic Bunnies hit in the head fall backward.

“Gasp!”

At that moment.

Swoosh.

The Red Mascots who weren’t hit in the head all turn their heads in unison and stare directly at me.

Hahahahahahaha

As if to kill.

Hahahahahahaha

Silently.

…A chilling fear washes over me. Still, I think I can live a little now.

I’ll have to do this every time you try to pull the same stunt….

“Noru.”

Even if I’m not called continuously, I remember that’s my old name.

“Noru.”

I know!

I turned to look at the one who called me.

Manager Lee Ja-heon.

“You look like you need help.”

But who could help me?

…Oh, wait.

….

Perhaps.

-We help.

That button-type item, the emergency escape item that this reptilian alien previously helped me greatly with by controlling my body… are they talking about that?

It was certainly useful. But it’s not something I can use right now. Besides, I couldn’t use the Space Shopping Mall because I had no money….

B u t t o n

N o n e

“I see.”

Manager Lee Ja-heon looks at me without any sign of disturbance.

“Please reconsider this conversation after business hours end.”

….

“When business ends, you should rest too. Have you been resting all this time?”

N o

“Today, take off the mascot mask and rest.”

That won’t do.

I plan to come out and stand guard once today’s ceremony ends safely. The Red Mascot will definitely try some other trick.

‘…I could die if I’m not careful.’

No, it would be a massacre.

This is a mascot that was very clearly depicted in the attraction as having killed other mascots.

It surely knows how to kill mascots and will try to execute that plan.

Can’t take off

“You can take it off.”

Lee Ja-heon’s dry voice can be heard.

“When the theme park’s operation ends, your work hours end too. Then it’s fine to rest with an identity other than a mascot.”

That’s not the problem though….

Wait.

Wait, wait.

Just now… I think I heard something strange.

‘So, after the theme park’s closing hours, I could exist in a non-mascot state….’

…!!

I remembered.

After the theme park’s business ended, the visitors who couldn’t enter the resort and were begging while knocking on the lobby doors.

-Let us in please!

People disappearing as if fleeing in terror. All those people who entered the theme park through the board game and went missing because they couldn’t get out by closing time.

…Unless it was a special case like Team Leader Lee Seong-hae.

‘And Team Leader Lee Seong-hae said it directly too.’

-When business ended, strange sounds came from the theme park, and that crazy rabbit chased me in the forest but was kind of slow too.

If it were sounds that could normally be heard at the theme park, like attraction repair sounds, he wouldn’t have specifically called them ‘strange sounds.’

Those were… sounds that normally couldn’t be heard at the theme park.

So….

Sounds that don’t fit the theme park.

And in the Red Zone where there are no other employees with different selves, only the Magic Bunny mascot exists, so naturally what made that noise after closing was….

‘….’

I looked at the Red Mascot wearing the rabbit mask beyond the gate.

What if.

What if mascots can take off their masks and walk around after business hours?

If Manager Lee Ja-heon’s explanation is correct.

The reason that thing could chase Lee Seong-hae out into the forest wasn’t just because that place wasn’t another mascot’s territory….

What if it was because it wasn’t wearing the mascot costume?

What if it could cross into other zones because it was judged to be in a non-mascot state?

But since one night wasn’t enough time to break through that forest and reach here with sufficient time secured, it specifically expanded its territory that far.

‘….’

No way.

I realized.

How exactly the Magic Bunny was able to kill other mascots.

-It comes to kill after the theme park closes.

Then, today when a gate to the Red Zone is installed right in front of the resort….

‘…!!’

“Mascot?”

I started frantically organizing the garden.

‘I need to do the ceremony right now.’

I had to open the third zone now and escape before the theme park closed.

To day

“Yes?”

To day when

I pointed beyond the gate.

Clo ses

Will cross over

“…!!”

It will attack the moment we close.

Instead of asking how that was possible, the employees’ faces turned pale.

They had already seen the Magic Bunny’s crazy behavior.

“Th, then….”

“Wait, we just need to quickly do that ceremony thing, right? Then we can escape?”

I nodded.

The Disaster Management Agency agents rushed over to help organize the garden together.

I assigned tasks to the other employees as well.

I was so anxious I felt like my mind would go crazy.

It felt like hearing a countdown to a nuclear explosion.

‘This won’t do.’

Other information… Right. I might be able to hear something that could be helpful.

I sent one Standard Mascot to the gate in the direction where Blue Dragon was, just in case.

Since it made such bold promises, it will surely help.

But….

‘…Is Good Friend finished?’

I don’t have the luxury to save that.

If I successfully escape today, I essentially won’t achieve my purpose for coming here.

And… I won’t be able to learn more about methods to extract employees who died and were revived from ghost stories while still alive.

….

N e e d . . .

“Need what?”

…!

I turned my head. Team Leader Lee Seong-hae was busily cleaning while also carefully observing beyond the Magic Bunny gate that I had been staring at, then stroked his chin and said.

“Do you need something from that Red Zone over there? You keep looking at it!”

!

“Oh, I guessed right. Then…”

Team Leader Lee Seong-hae whispered.

“Should I go get it for you?”

What?

“Quickly while you’re doing the ceremony! There’s no one here faster than me with working legs! I may not be as strong as Manager Lizard, but I’m smarter!”

And he glanced at the gate.

“It seems like that crazy mascot learned how to come here because of me…”

…

I opened my mouth.

I t ‘ s f i n e

I couldn’t send him to a place where he’d die horribly based on slim odds.

L e t ‘ s c l e a n u p

Let’s just proceed with the ritual according to plan as quickly as possible.

“…Yes sir.”

I began organizing the already devastated garden again.

‘There’s no time.’

Quickly, even faster.

The ceremony was an event right before closing, and naturally we had prepared according to that schedule, so there wasn’t much time left until closing.

It felt like the announcement broadcast would come any moment.

-♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

-Hahahaha!

The employees and I frantically cleaned up the surroundings.

Dozens of Magic Bunnies were staring intently at us from beyond the gate, but they weren’t doing crazy things like before.

Still, the eerie tension remained.

I sent the employees to give gifts to guests, and personally used Standard Mascots to clean up the chaos near the gate.

…

The Magic Bunnies stared at me cleaning from just beyond the gate.

‘I can’t show weakness.’

If I looked easy, they seemed like the type to enjoy it even more. I quickly cleaned up all the horrible blood and flesh and retreated.

‘Is there still enough time?’

-♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

-Hahahaha!

This area’s fine, that area’s fine.

It’s in a state where we can do the illumination.

I anxiously scanned the garden. All that remained were the Magic Bunny mascots that had lost function like kites with broken strings.

Let’s clean them up quickly.

The Standard Mascots grabbed those rabbit masks and moved them.

‘It would be nice if I could replace them with my mascots.’

But that didn’t seem possible.

Apparently this was recognized as something unique originating from Magic Bunny, from the Red Zone.

‘Like souvenirs.’

Disgusting as it was, it seemed that way.

‘…’

No, wait a minute.

Wait!

I stopped walking.

And looked down at the Magic Bunny mascot mask I was holding.

‘Souvenirs.’

Made using visitors’ corpses and having the appearance of a mascot. Stuffed dolls filled with fluffy fur and cotton, with cute appearances, commemorative items that could only be found at the theme park.

There was one more item that matched this description exactly.

‘…Good Friend!’

♩-♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

Then, could mascots that had stopped functioning be treated essentially the same as Good Friend…?

-Announcement! Our theme park will be closing soon~

…!!

“Mascot!”

I had to decide.

If the ceremony somehow couldn’t proceed successfully and we reached closing time, it would be the end.

And just in case, we needed… a trump card right now.

If that was someone who knew well about the nature of ghost stories, had various abilities, and was friendly to me.

‘…’

-We hope all visitors in the park will enjoy our Cheerful Theme Park until the very end!

I gritted my teeth and decided.

“Mascot…?”

I immediately grabbed one Magic Bunny mascot and frantically ran into the resort carrying it. And…

-One hour until closing!

I began drawing a Good Friend Summoning Circle.

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