Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 22

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 022

Four people burst out from the exit of ‘Fantasy Train’ and ran.

“Huff, gasp!”

The distinctive panting sounds of those running for their lives could be heard from both sides.

It couldn’t be helped.

Mascots were pouring out.

D i e

“Aaaahhh!”

“Huff, hufff…”

At every attraction entrance, every shop, every signboard, alien and grotesque bubbles boiled up, spitting out sticky mascots.

And those mascots were chasing us in bizarre forms, their snouts turned inside out, revealing countless teeth embedded in their innards.

Intermittently, their bodies would shake as completely melted tentacle-like things protruded from their drooping ears and arms.

-♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

-Ahahaha! Hahaha! Ahahaha! Hahaha! Ahahaha! Hahaha!

It was noisy everywhere.

The theme park’s musical score and laughter overlapped as if spinning round and round, creating bizarre noise from all directions.

Loud, scary, confusing, and terrible sounds!!

Every element made my head ache and caused me to lose my sense of direction. But…

“This way! This way!”

I gritted my teeth and turned in the direction according to the coordinates I had memorized.

At that moment.

Flick.

Squelch.

The fluid from the tip of a flying tentacle barely grazed my head.

Sizzle.

“…Huff.”

The hair that got splashed with the fluid melted away, and I could smell burning.

‘This is insane.’

Cold sweat ran down.

But my feet didn’t stop. No, they couldn’t stop.

‘The moment I stop, it’s over.’

I’d die. No, my intuition sent chills down my spine that something more terrible than death would happen.

The only fortunate thing was that the destination was very close!

Even the Researcher ran while drooling instead of whining.

B o r i n g

“Get, get away! Get awaaaay!!”

“Shut up!”

Butterfly Mask shouted. Her eyes showed how desperately she wished she could throw the Researcher as bait to buy time.

It couldn’t be helped.

‘Too close.’

The mascots swarming like zombies were multiplying like crazy, and some of them were getting dangerously close.

And they were fast.

Faster than humans!

‘Damn, damn, damn!!’

The moment fear made my back bristle.

“Argh!”

Finally, someone got caught.

“Gah, uweh…”

Cow Mask fell down.

‘Shit.’

Without looking back, I somehow flicked a coin from my pocket and summoned my glove.

Then I threw several 500 won coins like projectiles, creating translucent Shadow Hands in the air.

Whoosh.

The Shadow Hand flying through the air pushed away the disgusting mascot’s head.

“Run!”

Team Y New Employee, who barely escaped death with countless holes in his shoulder, crawled out on all fours and started running.

“Huff, gasp, th, thank…”

“Later!”

There was no time to stop the bleeding. Specialized Equipment or whatever, that wasn’t the concern!

‘Anyway, the Shadow Hand will disappear once it goes beyond a 3-meter radius…’

Insane agony struck my left hand.

“~!!!”

I almost grabbed my hand and rolled around crying.

This feeling of my hand being crushed alive and melting in a sharp compressor…

‘Specialized Equipment!’

I realized it instinctively.

The hand I had just summoned in the air had been destroyed by something terrible, whether it was a mascot’s mouth or tentacle.

It was the first time I realized the weakness of my Specialized Equipment.

When the hand created by the glove gets destroyed, my hand hurts exactly that much!

But there was no time to scream. I ran like crazy.

And I shouted.

“There!”

I could see the target location.

It was a huge gate.

Painted in colorful hues, typical of theme park style…

[Fantasy Land (Westside Gate)]

Decoration.

It was a decorative gate attached to the castle wall surrounding the west side of the theme park.

“It’s blocked!!”

“Get underneath!”

I was the first to step under the decorative gate without hesitation and looked back.

Almost simultaneously, two people tried to step down. Team A Deputy Manager and Team Y New Employee.

The Researcher was behind them, in a somewhat dangerous position…

“Move, damn it!”

“Ugh!”

Thud.

The Researcher pushed Team A Employee with all his might and used that force as momentum to move forward.

“…!”

The slender body that was suddenly flung out collided with the mascot.

D i e

Dark red fluid poured from the eyes of the half-melted mascot crawling up onto the butterfly mask.

“Aaaahhh!”

Sizzle.

The sound of burning rang in my ears.

“Deputy Manager!”

The Team A Employee was pinned under a mascot of indescribably horrific form, limbs trembling.

The face not covered by the butterfly mask was already a mess with bubbles rising.

What I saw were eyes of resignation.

The eyes of someone who had clearly calculated that this was absolutely not a situation where help could be received.

The moment I met those eyes.

“Nail!”

I shouted.

“Deputy Manager, nail here!”

At the same time, I extended my left hand forward. The Team A Deputy Manager’s eyes widened, then he stretched out his right hand and extended his index finger.

Swoosh!

The fired nail pierced right into the center of my palm.

“…!”

But there was no wavering.

‘I was already in crushing pain anyway!’

My grip, ignoring this pain due to the greater agony, firmly grasped the nail without wavering.

And then, I pulled.

Whoosh.

With a short sound, the body wearing the butterfly mask came flying over.

B o r i n g

Just barely, the mascots’ teeth pierced into the empty space and fluid poured down.

“Huff, hufffffff….”

“Wheeze….”

We lay sprawled on the floor below the door, catching our breath.

And right in front of us.

Countless rabbit mascots dripping fluid like bloody tears stood there forcibly stopped with empty pupils.

“Hic!”

It looked as if an invisible wall was blocking them.

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Cheerful Theme Park Usage Guidelines (Applied up to Exploration Record 64)

5. Enjoy various areas!

Did the mascot’s appearance and attraction colors change? You’re standing in a new area.

Unfortunately, mascots from other areas cannot exist in the new area.

Please say goodbye. Warmly!

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I looked at the floor.

‘…The brick color was different.’

Like a lie, whitish bricks were laid exactly two rows under the decoration designed like a main gate.

The mascots were standing there, unable to cross beyond that onto the red brick floor.

B o r i n g

I looked down at the admission ticket.

[(Cheerful) Fantasy Land Boarding Pass ■□□]

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Re

The voice disappeared.

The mascots clustered right in front of us also stood motionless, then eventually, the moment I blinked….

They vanished.

“….”

“….”

The sound of panting flowed through the quieted air.

I swallowed.

“…Magic Bunny’s Fantasy Land seems to end here.”

We survived.

“The escape was successful.”

“Ahh…!”

“Huuuu….”

The Team Y New Employee collapsed clutching his shoulder, letting out groans of relief and pain.

I also leaned my head against the wall and caught my breath while looking up at the sky.

‘I thought I was going to die….’

My heart was beating too fast.

I’m alive.

The Team A Deputy Manager glared terrifyingly coldly at the researcher who had pushed him, but after glancing at my palm where flesh was gouged in the shape of the nail equipment, he became calm again.

He seemed to have judged that anyway we were alive, and now wasn’t the time to make a fuss about killing the researcher.

It was impressive how calm he remained despite probably having tremendous pain from having something like acid poured over his head.

“First of all.”

“Yes?”

The Team A Deputy Manager took a deep breath.

“Thanks. I survived because of you.”

“….”

That was unexpected.

“No. Thanks to your Specialized Equipment, Deputy Manager….”

“Being modest here is meaningless, right? Just say you got it. You made a good choice just now.”

Ah, yes.

“Unlike a certain idiot.”

“….”

The researcher desperately avoided eye contact.

The Team A Deputy Manager looked at him for a moment, then turned the topic back to work.

“This seems like some kind of leftover space, was this what you were aiming for? But just standing here it’s cramped… what are you planning to do?”

“This isn’t the destination.”

“Hm?”

After catching my breath completely, I turned around fully to face the decorative door head-on.

“Do you know this? Large theme parks usually have other things besides the amusement park.”

“…Something else?”

“Yes.”

Strictly speaking, beneath this door is an empty space that belongs neither to Magic Bunny’s territory nor to any other mascot’s territory.

It’s a kind of blank space within the theme park, so they probably won’t chase us to kill us for property damage.

I knocked on the door-shaped wall with my hand.

Thunk.

It made a hollow sound.

“Deputy Manager. Could we tear this open with specialized equipment?”

“….”

The Deputy Manager silently raised his hand and pulled out his index finger’s nail again.

Then he wedged it into the wall crack and yanked it.

“Gasp!”

Thud thud.

A brick-shaped panel came loose with a grinding sound, and wind rushed in.

What came with it was… the smell of water.

-Ahahaha!

“…!!”

The sound of water splashing refreshingly, boat horns, seagull cries, and a cheerful march playing together.

Through the gap between the bricks, I could see sunlight streaming down from an open space.

Giant cylindrical slides spiraling down through the air were all various shades of blue, spewing water and tubes.

[Blue Dream Waterland]

“This place is…!”

A water park.

A summer space that forms one axis of a large-scale theme park.

“It’s the blue zone.”

The Team Y new employee turned his neck as if it might break and looked at me with a shocked expression.

“H-how?!”

“In the Fantasy Land color map we saw earlier, there wasn’t a single attraction that used water.”

“…!”

“So I interpreted that there might be a large section somewhere else separately.”

I took a deep breath.

“I also deduced that it would normally be difficult to access. Usually they sell admission tickets separately for these.”

“…So you tore down the wall?”

“Yes.”

I recalled the phone conversation with Team Leader Lee Ja-heon from earlier.

-West entran….

West.

Of course, what the Team Leader mentioned was the west side within that Waterland.

But fortunately, since we were at the western edge of ‘Magic Bunny Fantasy Land’, I was able to deduce that there was a separate blue zone.

‘The east was blocked by forest, the north had the entrance, and the south was a cliff….’

The only place where there could be space beyond ‘Magic Bunny Fantasy Land’ was the west.

That’s how I interpreted it….

‘I was right.’

“The blue mascot that was driven out of Fantasy Land must have created a new zone here.”

“Ah….”

“For now, let’s hurry and cross over.”

“Y-yes, let’s!”

Hands busily worked to tear away the remaining panels. Even the Team Y new employee with a shoulder injury tried to help with one hand somehow.

Meanwhile, the researcher stood in the corner rolling his eyes, but a sly look had returned to his face.

He seemed to have noticed that things were going well.

And a few seconds later.

“It’s, it’s done!”

Finally, people began squeezing through the wall panel that had been torn to a size large enough for a person to pass through.

As the last one out, I stood with both feet in Waterland and looked at the blue pool and blue sky.

Whoosh, a moist breeze blew.

‘The sunlight….’

It’s amazingly nice.

Just as I was feeling a strange sense of liberation,

I saw people in the distance who spotted me, waving their hands and running over.

“Noru!!”

“…!”

It’s the Team D members.

“Are you okay?!”

“Deputy Manager!”

The Team D members, each carrying bulky luggage as if they were holding tubes, came rushing over.

The month we’d spent working together definitely had an impact, as relief washed over me.

“Have you been well?!”

I also approached them with a cheerful greeting.

And I wondered if I should take over the Team Leader’s shoulder luggage to be quick as a new employee….

Wait.

‘That’s a human body.’

It wasn’t luggage.

On Lizard’s shoulder hung a limp human body.

‘…Hunting?’

Looking closely, it was wearing a mallard duck mask.

It’s the Team A Leader.

“….”

No.

No!!

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