Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 215

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 215

The Security Team Staff raised their eyes.

The pantry in the darkness.

Seeing them emerge from the shadows through their transport equipment, they made eye contact with the Sales Employee who had fallen to the floor and was holding his breath.

“Children… no.”

The one wearing an animal mask drawn by a child, Badger, calmed his own stimulated contamination.

Soon a calm and businesslike voice emerged.

“Sales Team 4 Employee.”

“Y-yes…”

“Identity verified. We will now begin cost settlement.”

The Sales Employee swallowed.

Wrapped entirely in black specialized uniforms, faces covered and equipped with various strange equipment, they themselves seemed like ghost stories.

Despite being supernatural and clearly assigned special duties that anyone could see, he momentarily felt relieved.

Of course, the next moment fear filled him again at this incomprehensible situation.

“Um, well, what should I…”

Something caught the eye of the Sales Employee who was rolling his eyes, trying to somehow grasp the situation.

The Security Team Employee who came out after had a black transport cage in his hands.

An iron transport cage that appeared to be for capturing animals.

…Wait a minute.

“S-surely you’re not going to put me in there and take me out…”

“No. Of course not.”

Badger gently stroked the transport cage.

It was the moment the Sales Employee felt relieved.

“Someone’s already in there.”

“…What?”

“Don’t think too deeply about it.”

Looking at the Sales Employee who seemed to have lost his mind in this utterly incomprehensible situation, Badger smiled bitterly inwardly.

And…

“It’s cramped…”

J3, who was holding the transport cage with one hand, had no great interest in this situation itself.

Of course, it had been ages since he had come out for ‘work’ wearing something other than a security uniform.

Though to call it ‘coming out’ was questionable given how cramped their current location was.

Meanwhile, Badger displayed an absurd level of kindness for a Security Team Employee and gave a businesslike notice.

“We’ve confirmed all the details you reported. Now we’ll begin…”

“Who is it?”

“Who’s there?”

“…!”

Tap tap tap tap tap.

A sound like raindrops falling came from the door, grating on their nerves.

Fingernails were hitting against it.

Ten fingertips scratched at the door.

“There are more people.”

“There are more.”

They whispered as if gasping for breath.

The sound was too close. Because…

They were pressing their heads against the door gap and whispering.

“It’s all too late.”

“All too late.”

The Married Couple was peering inside.

Into the door they had locked.

Feeling frozen to the tips of his hair, the Sales Employee stiffened.

However…

“Are they human?”

“Well…”

The surprisingly calm conversation of the ‘Security Team’ was heard right beside him.

“In the past… maybe they were?”

J3 habitually tried to adjust the hat of his security uniform, then realized it wasn’t there and touched his mask instead.

Something like faded beast eyes showed above it.

And he carefully set down the transport cage he was holding onto the pantry floor.

Right next to the Sales Employee.

“Um… can you wait here…?”

“Y-yes?”

But those words weren’t directed at the Sales Employee.

“Is it okay…?”

…Tap.

The iron bars of the black transport cage rang slightly.

As if the animal inside was responding.

“I’ll be back soon… So wait…”

Tap.

Another response came back.

J3 lightly touched the transport cage and then stood up.

“Um… if you don’t want to get hurt… stay close to this side…”

This was indeed directed at the Sales Employee.

“And absolutely… don’t treat it carelessly.”

“…”

The Sales Employee swallowed and nodded. Then he stuck close to the black transport cage.

Tactfully realizing this was some kind of protective measure.

…A strange coldness could be felt from the transport cage.

“Then we’ll begin.”

Leaving the Sales Employee behind, the two Security Team Staff moved to the pantry door and forced it open.

“…!!”

Though the outside wasn’t visible as their bodies blocked the view, he could hear the sound of rain intensifying. The Sales Employee curled up as much as possible. The sight of the Security Team Staff going outside flashed in his vision…

The door closed and the sound of rain subsided.

Thud.

…

Screeeech, screeeech, screech.

A loud tearing sound began to echo violently.

The Sales Employee unconsciously gripped the moving cabinet tightly. To avoid imagining what was happening outside.

The cold air kept his mind alert.

Inside the moving cabinet, something like strange smoke seemed to be writhing and rising…

After what felt like an terrifyingly long moment.

Thud.

“…!”

The roar disappeared and the sound of rain stopped.

The door opened.

And there were the two Security Team members, standing casually and checking their equipment…

“Suppression complete.”

“…!”

They’re fine.

A faint hope rose in the Sales Employee’s heart as his legs nearly gave out.

So can we leave now? The Employee got up and cast his gaze outside the door.

And he realized what ‘suppression’ meant.

“Ahh.”

He held back a scream.

The corridor was sticky with moisture.

The wallpaper and floor, soaked with bodily fluids that had splattered like blood, created dark and sticky reflections.

And on the wall directly opposite.

The bizarre bodies of the Married Couple, their limbs broken and fixed in place, were there.

“…!”

Mercilessly, as if to break, crush, and thoroughly prevent every possible way they could move, the two people had been broken joint by joint into grotesque centipede-like forms, fixed at each joint with colorful thumbtack-like objects.

Overwhelming pressure and violence.

And children’s school supplies that didn’t match it.

Bodily fluids were flowing down from every hole in their faces as they hung displayed in the dark corridor…

Like the dead Superior.

More inhumanely than that.

“…”

“Ah… right. It was a collection job.”

Collection?

“Starting with information gathering?”

“Yeah…”

The thin and slow Security Team Employee, who didn’t match his frame, approached the ‘thing that had been a couple’ that he had smashed and fixed in place…

And pulled out the thumbtack stuck in their mouth.

“…!”

“Hey… Is there… a younger child here…?”

One of the things he had said into the pager.

The Sales Employee’s heart grew cold.

What was more horrifying was that the couple’s mouths opened and began to answer.

“Pl, please save us. Please save us… sob,”

“Answer… the question first.”

Suddenly.

Tears streamed down from the couple’s eyes.

“…!”

“That child, that child is in the bathroom.”

“Poor child. Please help.”

“You’re already trapped too. It’s too late… Please help…”

“…”

The Security Team Employee called ‘Security Captain’ was staring at them quietly.

“What’s… on the upper floors?”

“There’s something evil. Don’t go. No, run away from here quickly.”

“Maybe you can still escape somehow. Somehow get outside…”

“Hmm…”

As if contemplating, the Security Team Employee raised his hand toward them.

And the next moment.

“…That’s enough.”

…Crack.

With a sound clear enough to be distinct, the couple’s necks snapped.

The thin-framed Security Team Male had grabbed each of their necks with one hand and twisted them backwards, shattering the bones with bizarre strength.

Casually.

…

He killed them?

“Ah, you’ve confirmed everything necessary.”

“Yeah.”

“Understood. …Caller, it should be fine now. Just give us what you’re holding.”

His hands were shaking.

Something was wrong.

That’s not something a human would do…

“Summoning Employee?”

The Sales Employee forced himself to turn his head and look down at his hands.

He was holding a piece of sketchbook paper.

New writing on it.

Scary

Really.

Monsters

Suddenly.

The Sales Employee turned his head.

The place that had been right next to the pantry.

The answer the paper had kindly told him from the beginning.

…The place the dead couple had also mentioned.

Bathroom bathtub

Bathroom.

The Sales Employee ran…

“That won’t do.”

“…!!”

His head was grabbed.

The Sales Employee gasped for breath as he saw the bizarre and massive form that had covered his vision, gripping his face.

Beast’s front paws with countless claws.

“Stay… still…”

The Sales Employee blinked. The terror of death made everything freeze…

I’m going to die.

“Teacher, relax your hands! Follow the rules your Colleague Teacher is telling you. That’s how you become a perfect teacher!”

The strength left his hands. The sketchbook paper slipped away.

No.

“Should I read it…?”

“No. If I read it, I’ll get contaminated, so later…”

The Sales Employee rolled his eyes, the only part he could move. I need to escape. Somewhere I can escape to, the Front Door, Living Room, Upper Floors, Window…

‘Ah.’

Right.

I can escape through the Window!

Why didn’t I think of this before? Right, if I die trying to go through the Front Door, I can go through the Window. I have to escape, I have to escape… right now!

The Employee struggled and tried to crawl toward the Window. He failed in every attempt to kick or push away the beast’s feet with his Nail, but he couldn’t give up…

“If you go… there, you’ll die.”

…

Huh?

“Stay still…”

“Die, dying, why…”

“Hmm. Because you get… closer to the cause…?”

The cause?

The Employee turned his head.

“Since the Caller said it directly, you should remember.”

What?

“When you reported it, you said that… This House was sometimes strange.”

“…”

The Employee stopped moving his feet.

And he recalled one of the things he had shouted into the radio, the pager, crying for help.

What he had heard from his Superior.

“Rain…”

-On rainy days, that House just doesn’t feel right.

The Sales Employee looked at the Window.

Outside, rain was falling steadily…

…

“On rainy days… that’s right…”

The slow, listless voice pierced eerily into his ears.

“If you spread a black umbrella wet inside the House, something comes in… If you place wet shoes upside down, Ghost wear them…”

“Security Captain, really?”

“No…”

The Security Chief looked at Badger with eyes that had no reflection, then continued slowly.

“Most of it is just… rumors…”

“Ah.”

“But… sometimes… they say it happens because of such rumors…”

Darkness.

The Employee, who had once been a Field Investigation Team leader, read that word the Security Chief didn’t bother to add.

The Security Chief’s explanation wasn’t finished.

“And… there’s also a story like this…”

“…”

“On rainy days when you’re holding an umbrella, if you hear mysterious whispers from beyond… voices talking to you… don’t answer…”

…

“Because it’s not human…”

The Sales Employee made eye contact with the Security Chief.

“Um, didn’t someone keep talking to us…?”

At that moment.

“Lee (Team Leader)?”

The Sales Employee froze.

“Lee (Team Leader), are you there?”

A familiar voice coming from the Front Door.

Knock knock knock.

Someone was knocking on the Door.

“Lee (Team Leader). Open the Door for me. What the hell happened?”

It was…

“Why won’t you come out?”

The voice of his dead Superior.

Knock knock knock knock.

The Superior’s corpse with the broken neck that had been collapsed at the Front Door had disappeared at some point.

Instead, only the sound of someone knocking on the Door could be heard from behind the Front Door, beyond the sound of rain…

Along with the Superior’s voice.

“Open this up. You need to come out too.”

All strength drained from the Sales Employee’s body.

The Security Chief released the grip he had on his head. With a thud, the Sales Employee sat down on the Floor with a confused expression.

‘Wow…’

Badger, who had been watching, was inwardly impressed.

Because he realized the Darkness Investigation expertise hidden behind the Security Chief’s listless tone.

It was like what the Witty New Junior from Team D would have possessed if he had worked a few more years in the Field Investigation Team…

…No. Since both were already Security Team members, it was a meaningless thought. Almost thinking something rude, Badger swallowed his thoughts.

Meanwhile, the sounds multiplied.

“People! There were people here. Are you okay?”

“Oh my, this old woman fell down… could you help me?”

“…Wait, the Grandmother of this House passed away years ago…, don’t listen. Something’s strange!

From the Upper Floors, Master Bedroom, to beyond the Kitchen Side Door. Sounds were coming from everywhere. As if everyone who had been in this House was now coming to their senses after the blackout.

Getting closer and closer.

Along with the sound of rain.

“Where are you?”

“…! Don’t answer the sounds from upstairs. There’s no one up there right now…!”

“Be careful. There seems to be something strange Here…”

Footstep sounds.

And.

“Ah, the Door opened.”

….

“I’ll go now. Where are you?”

Even the dead Superior.

“…sob.”

What is it? What’s right?

Which one among them is actually the monster?

The Sales Employee tried to review what he had heard to somehow distinguish between them, but was caught by Badger.

“Ah!”

“Calm down. It’s okay… Security Chief?”

In a situation where his heart should be pounding with fear, the Security Chief calmly knelt down and put his head against the transport cage.

He speaks into the iron bars.

“What do you… think? Does it seem right…?”

Tap.

“Mm. Then… should I do it….”

Tap tap.

“…Still.”

Tap tap.

“….”

The Security Chief touched his mask and reluctantly stepped aside slowly.

One tap means yes, two taps means no.

Seeing that promised expression, Badger smiled bitterly again behind his covered face.

Really hasn’t changed.

“…Then I’ll open it.”

Badger approached the transport cage and unlocked it.

Clank.

The iron bars lowered and the transport cage door opened….

Smoke spreads across the floor.

And from the empty darkness of the transport cage, intact legs emerged.

“…!”

Black legs wearing black walker boots.

Though he knew it was the same uniform as the other Security Teams, what emerged from the transport cage with thick black smoke as if walking out was a strange being with horns.

A tall man, impossible to believe had been crammed into the transport cage.

“Uh, uhhhhh….”

He meets eyes with the Sales Employee whose mouth was trembling.

Recommendation: Do not stare

▶ Lower your head

▶ Close your eyes

The Employee hastily looked down.

Instinct above panic.

‘I shouldn’t keep looking.’

Cold sweat soaks the back of his neck.

However, the smoke text continues to follow.

Recommendation: Do not stare

▶ Lower your head ⋁ : Correct

▶ Close your eyes

As if praising him.

And.

From all directions, tearing sounds like what he heard earlier begin to echo.

Riiiiiiip!

Sounds of slime bursting, crying sounds….

The Security Teams are ‘suppressing’ the approaching things.

“How are they distinguishing…?”

Between people and monsters.

Or….

‘Are they not distinguishing at all.’

The Sales Employee crouched down. His heart was beating so hard it felt like it would burst out. He felt like he was going to die….

Then, the text in the smoke changes.

As if responding to his muttering.

Choose the dangerous one from the following.

▶ Married Couple

▶ Sketchbook Paper

You want me to distinguish?

The Employee reflexively opened his mouth.

“Ma, Married Couple!”

Look at these things that are crazily talking and approaching now, whether they’re ghosts or whatever. That married couple must have been ghosts too. Definitely!

▶ Married Couple ⋁ : Correct

As expected.

Ah, maybe anything that talks with human voices was all dangerous? Was that it?

‘The, the married couple was dangerous, so don’t be afraid of us who are suppressing them….’

Is that what they want to say?

If so, that’s reasonable logic. The Sales Employee regained some rationality and composure from this realistic logic, and recalled what he needed to do.

‘I, fell into panic so they’re trying to calm me down… probably.’

Anyway, these are beings he can have rational conversations with.

If this ‘Security Team’ really came to rescue him, if there really is another being trapped in this house… he should speak more specifically about the ‘Younger Child’. Since it was already mentioned, he can do it.

Properly about the text in the paper that was giving advice.

The Employee swallowed saliva in his dry mouth and opened it.

“The, sketchbook paper….”

At that moment.

▶ Sketchbook Paper ⋁ : Correct

“….”

Huh?

But even looking again, it hadn’t changed.

Choose the dangerous one from the following.

▶ Married Couple ⋁ : Correct Answer

▶ Sketchbook Paper ⋁ : Correct Answer

So, what this means is….

“Dangerous….”

Both are dangerous.

“…Why?”

Same thing

The Sales Employee’s mouth unconsciously fell open as he blankly pondered the meaning.

“Then what was I supposed to believe? So, so… what I should have believed was,”

Nothing.

“….”

On rainy days

To strange approaches

Do not respond carelessly

Ah.

Recommendation : Do not stare Terminated

The Sales Employee raised his head.

However, the Black Man was no longer in front of him.

“….”

Only a single strand of black smoke he had left behind was having a conversation with him.

Like drawing a child’s attention before giving an injection, to divert attention elsewhere.

To cut off impulsive actions.

“….”

Now the tearing sounds had ended, and all around were bodies ‘fixed’ like the Married Couple by the Security Team.

The only consolation was that it was too dark to see properly.

And… the black smoke.

The Sales Employee blankly watched as the black smoke that had been conversing with him disappeared as if being sucked away….

The smoke was flowing through the corridor to a place next to the pantry where they had been trapped….

Now from there alone came the only noise.

The bathroom.

From inside, terrible screams were bursting out in succession.

I looked at the bathtub before my eyes.

Inside it was filled with echoing rainwater.

A transparent and deep puddle to swallow and absorb victims lured by responding to its words.

Text scratches up in my mind….

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[Rainwater Echo]

: A Mumyeong Chanran Temple divine authority that modernly refined the superstition that whispers heard on rainy days are calls from ghosts. The affiliated religious order is Story Thief.

It targets sacrificial victims who approach near the rainwater puddle on rainy days, and in this process mimics the appearance and voices of those previously sacrificed to bewitch people.

Furthermore, it eerily uses the meaning of ‘speaking to someone‘ in various forms such as letters, notes, or paintings in a chillingly broad way.

It follows the format of binary choice ghost stories that make you agonize over which of the two to believe, but in reality it’s hell no matter what you choose, toying with the sacrificial victims.

A twist that exploits human psychology of thinking you can survive if you choose the right person.

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However….

This ghost story has been deleted as unsuitable for wiki registration standards due to the following reasons.

1. Insufficient connection with affiliated organization (Mumyeong Chanran Temple).

2. Similar ghost story confirmed among disasters registered with the Supernatural Disaster Management Bureau.

A Mumyeong Chanran Temple ghost story that failed to be officially registered in the wiki and was discarded.

And my job is… to register this with Baekillmong Corporation.

I looked down at the rainwater in the bathtub.

….

Is that okay?

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