Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 287

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 287

 

My head feels empty.

 

Beyond the corridor-side window of the classroom, there’s a monster. That monster is a miserable, spine-chilling incarnation of horror with all kinds of human bodies jumbled together in chaos, and the gaze from the upper body formed in the center that’s split wide open is directed here.

 

The owner of that gaze.

 

Hyeonmu Team 1 Leader.

 

It’s the Elder’s collapsed upper body.

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

Why here.

 

As if answering that question, I realize.

 

‘It was Segwang Special City.’

 

The ghost story where the Elder lost his upper body was here.

 

Among the agents who took leave and unofficially entered Segwang Special City, Team Manager Park Hong-rim was included.

 

And the one who made talismans using his own dokkaebi fire.

 

‘It was the Team Manager.’

 

Perhaps that upper body was also intentionally ‘lost.’

 

By hastily making talismans using Hanbit Library’s book loan slips and offering his own upper body as the price.

 

‘The teachers lying on the 5th floor too…’

 

Like a kind of defensive formation, perhaps they performed a kind of ritual to protect the students.

 

But a problem occurred.

 

The paper talisman and glass lantern buried in the backyard were damaged…

 

And it became that form.

 

It’s ending now quickly quickly faster

 

Found it there

 

The form of contamination.

 

It’s getting closer.

 

In the corridor, students wearing school uniforms are crushed to death while fleeing. An appearance that doesn’t match the game’s sequence, brought forward.

 

As if the intrusion of evil things can no longer be blocked even by the format of such horror games.

 

The corridor is covered with flesh and twisted.

 

The school loses its form and gets devoured.

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

It’s coming.

 

It’s coming, right now it’s com…

 

Thud.

 

I turned my eyes.

 

In the classroom, Section Chief Lee Ja-heon was killing people.

 

‘!’

 

Already more than half had their necks broken and died.

 

I reflexively got goosebumps, then realized.

 

This is what I asked for.

 

Before dying to the teacher…

 

‘I have to kill them all to end it.’

 

My mind reawakens as if hit by cold water.

 

This is a nightmare. This is inside a dream. If you die, you wake up. Don’t forget. But if you die to that teacher, you’ll be deleted from reality, no! Even the format of that horror game might disappear now…!

 

Quickly.

 

“Agents,”

 

I immediately grabbed the people next to me again and whispered.

 

“Agent Hae-geum, just give me the glass lantern. And everyone, get a name tag, one name tag each and quickly commit suicide…”

 

But at the same time, I realized.

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

These people absolutely cannot do that.

 

If they were the type of people to do that in the first place, they wouldn’t have become agents, and even if they were willing to follow the recent Disaster Management Bureau policy of prioritizing agents’ lives…

 

“Grape.”

 

After seeing that, they can’t do it.

 

“Let me ask you one difficult favor. …Could you get people out of here? It’ll be hard, but I’m asking for just a few people.”

 

Wait.

 

“We’ll just watch Cheongdong-i put the talisman in the glass lantern and then go. Got it? …Sister Hae-geum.”

 

“Here.”

 

Agent Hae-geum lifts the glass lantern and places it on the desk. The dokkaebi fire that escaped from the lantern trembles as if frightened, but soon wraps around Agent Hae-geum’s neck and disappears into her embrace.

 

“Grape, hurry! There’s no time.”

 

I barely managed to hand the broken lantern I brought from the backyard to Bronze Agent.

 

“How about the backyard,”

 

“We’ll handle that ourselves. Go for now!”

 

And the next moment.

 

There is no graduation ceremony

 

…At the corridor window.

 

Coming here coming invading ending can’t stop with games coming here

 

Stuck right there, looking at us.

 

A human face with half its head blown off.

 

The body of Hyeonmu Team 1 Leader with only the upper body remaining sways as it peers at us through the window.

 

“…Hong Unnie.”

 

Who is Hong Unnie?

 

Found you.

 

Who is Hae-geum?

 

“….”

 

Next to me, I could see Agent Hae-geum’s hand gripping her sword tightly…

 

And.

 

Whoosh.

 

Dokkaebi fire flows out from Agent Hae-geum’s body and envelops the classroom.

 

Acrobatic deception created by shadows and blue light.

 

Why did it remain? Why is it still there? Why won’t it break? Why won’t it break? Why won’t it break?

 

Thud. Thud.

 

Circling in front of the classroom, I can see the shadowy figure of something searching for a door in the shadows.

 

“Hey kids. Your Team Manager is doing well as an elder at Blue Hope Hospital.”

 

“….”

 

“Whatever that thing says, it’s a supernatural disaster. Got it?”

 

“….”

 

“I said, got it?”

 

“Yes.”

 

And the Bronze Agent, gritting his teeth, lowered his gaze to the glass lantern and began searching for meaningful strokes in the broken glass lantern.

 

But the dokkaebi trick that Hae-geum Agent had deployed was already flickering.

 

It’s breaking.

 

Against ‘that thing’ which was already accustomed to even more powerful dokkaebi tricks, we couldn’t hold out for long.

 

“Sister, with the signature sword,”

 

“The conditions don’t match. Can’t use it.”

 

And Hae-geum Agent urgently spoke to me and Manager Lee Ja-heon.

 

“It’ll break soon. Stand by at the back door. And you two go out and quickly send the people away!”

 

The next moment.

 

It broke.

 

Darkness encroaches into the shadows of the dokkaebi trick.

 

“….”

 

Thud thud.

 

Footsteps.

 

It’s here now it’s here quickly quickly

 

The front door opens.

 

“Grape, now!”

 

I burst out of the classroom through that door.

 

“…!”

 

Thud. Between the door I slipped out of and the monster, the hand of the ‘Teacher’ with someone’s screaming head attached fell.

 

“You crazy bastard, not there but through the back door….”

 

But I ran while shouting.

 

“Teacher!”

 

“…!”

 

“I’m going to host the graduation ceremony! Try to stop me if you can!”

 

“Hey!”

 

I’m certain.

 

‘He’s determined to die.’

 

Those agents will gladly die if left alone. So….

 

‘I need to lure it away.’

 

I turned and ran. Meanwhile, Manager Lee Ja-heon followed me out, tearing off the ‘Teacher’s’ hand with ridiculous physical strength….

 

‘Crazy!’

 

It doesn’t work.

 

The Teacher’s arm healed back together as if bursting, and instead tried to swallow Manager Lee Ja-heon’s hand.

 

Like the flesh covering the corridor.

 

That means physical attacks are no longer effective hits against it.

 

‘Damn!’

 

I rummaged through my pocket and threw whatever I could grab.

 

Something I brought just in case.

 

‘It’s also something I got back from the Manager originally!’

 

Something that came out like a reward item when I cleared the graduation ceremony last time. One of the glass spheres with (protection) carved on it like a torn talisman.

 

And the moment the glass sphere I threw touched the ‘Teacher’.

 

“…!”

 

Ping.

 

The glass sphere that bounced off after hitting the Teacher flickered slightly blue and cast shadows on the flesh and floor.

 

Between the shadows, the appearance of a normal school corridor seemed to be revealed….

 

But it soon disappeared.

 

“…!”

 

But in that gap, Manager Lee Ja-heon tore away from the Teacher’s flesh and escaped.

 

“Run away!”

 

“Yes.”

 

And he followed in the direction I was going.

 

‘Don’t come here!’

 

But there was no more time to delay, so I just ran upward like crazy.

 

Thud. Thud.

 

‘I need to lure it away.’

 

I can do it.

 

Since I’ve done it once, I can do it.

 

Before this school itself gets devoured by the darkness of Segwang Special City or Hanbit Library.

 

While it’s still proceeding in the form of this horror game.

 

‘Graduation ceremony…!’

 

If I see the ending, the ‘monster’ will be temporarily defeated.

 

‘Then I can at least buy time to make talismans!’

 

Right. Installing it in the backyard, I don’t have to do it myself, I can ask any other student to do it….

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

I threw a glass sphere behind me.

 

Once each time it tried to catch up.

 

When it didn’t seem like it would hit, surprisingly, Manager Lee Ja-heon intercepted the sphere midway and threw it at an incredible speed.

 

But in Manager Lee Ja-heon’s hands, the sphere produced no special effects and only demonstrated crazy physical force like an arrow.

 

‘Why?’

 

Because I’m the one who cleared it?

 

But I didn’t have time to dwell on such questions for long.

 

It’s here.

 

The next moment, I barely set foot on the 5th floor.

 

“Huff.”

 

The moment I was about to catch my breath and rush in…

 

My body freezes at the horror.

 

‘Damn.’

 

5th floor. The straight corridor leading to the auditorium already looked like the inside of something’s entrails.

 

The shape of the talismans that had been attached to the wall had completely disappeared.

 

And in each empty space where the talismans had been, densely packed writing was revealed to be carved…

 

Day of Implementation

 

I found a way to protect the students.

 

One of the supernatural phenomena found at Hanbit Library is set in a school, so let’s use this.

 

With this, we should be able to hold out until rescue arrives.

 

The agents remaining at the school weren’t enough in number to conduct the ritual, so we received volunteers from the teachers.

 

We decided to fall asleep.

 

Until we can hold out.

 

I barely managed to run down the corridor.

 

Day 1 Progress

 

It was successful.

 

The problem is that my lower body has disappeared.

 

It seems the rescue protocol from headquarters activated and my remaining body was rescued. In that process, the Dokkaebi Fire escaped from this place together with it.

 

I’m glad that thing got out.

 

Only part of my upper body remained here, bound as the price for the ritual protecting the school.

 

In the end, a crack appeared in the center of the talisman.

 

But it should be fine if I hold onto it.

 

Since my upper body remains here.

 

My heart beat unsteadily.

 

Day 12 Progress

 

It’s safe. The children are peaceful.

 

 

 

Day 23 Progress

 

It seems we can hold out for quite a long time.

 

Watching the sleeping people, I find myself falling asleep frequently as well.

 

The words written in neat handwriting continued sporadically like that.

 

Calm and organized language like administrative notes was written incongruously on the contaminated wall, half-buried and worn away.

 

But the moment I entered about halfway through the 5th floor corridor.

 

No

 

The writing changes.

 

They found out no no no

 

They found the backyard no no! Where did they come in from? Why is that thing on a student no from the black shadows they came in they came in no the game is progressing the protection is being undone n

 

Chaotic, jagged handwriting of pain fills an entire surface. All of it remained like a brand, not buried in flesh.

 

And then.

 

It suddenly regains composure.

 

Day ■■■ Progress

 

Using ‘From the Black Shadows’.

 

Until we are all consumed as shields.

 

Until the rescue team arrives.

 

Send signals and hold out.

 

Without fail.

 

But that was the last of the neat handwriting.

 

Now the letters become increasingly twisted and difficult to read.

 

The closer to the auditorium, the more strange phrases mix in, subjects become distorted, and it mutters dampily about how to devour the school, how to unleash the power of the Dokkaebi Fire protecting the school.

 

Waiting for the time. Waiting for the time…

 

And near the entrance to the auditorium, the final wall.

 

It’s all undone

 

Goosebumps rose to the tips of my hair.

 

But I had to move.

 

‘I have to do it.’

 

I grabbed the auditorium door while out of breath. What should have been firmly closed was already completely rusted, the lock brutally torn off and hanging open powerlessly. I urgently grabbed it and opened the door.

 

And I saw.

 

The auditorium had already collapsed.

 

There was no platform, no chairs, no living graduates-to-be.

 

Only ruins eroded by bizarre flesh.

 

“…”

 

“Noru.”

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

The graduation ceremony cannot be held.

 

It’s already all over.

 

“Is euthanasia necessary?”

 

I turned to look at Manager Lee Ja-heon.

 

My former superior, who strangely appeared in the form of a boy wearing a lizard mask.

 

‘Can I escape?’

 

Haven’t I already missed the timing to escape through death?

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

It arrived at the auditorium.

 

The game is over

 

I saw what had been called ‘Teacher’.

 

The upper body of Team Leader Park Hong-rim, finally completely devoured by the evil thing he had been blocking, mixed with the forms of agents and teachers to create.

 

Something that could no longer be called contamination.

 

An indescribable supernatural disaster itself.

 

That existence whose horror game framework was beginning to peel away.

 

Found them all

 

The torn talisman fragments attached to the upper body’s torso were already blackened by erosion, making even the shape of their strokes unrecognizable.

 

Then.

 

Click.

 

Suddenly, with a bursting sound, a slight recoil occurred in part of the monster’s flesh.

 

A bullet.

 

“Grape!”

 

I turned my head.

 

“This crazy bastard.”

 

Agent Choi, who had finally chased up to the 5th floor and shot ‘that thing’ with his Glass Hand Cloth, was looking at me.

 

But he wasn’t getting angry or telling me to run.

 

As if he knew it was already too late.

 

Who is it?

 

The thing hit by the bullet didn’t even flinch for a moment.

 

“This isn’t my organ though.”

 

Agent Choi fired several more shots. However, Team Manager Park Hong-rim’s upper body just turned its head and casually approached Agent Choi.

 

Trampling underfoot the bullets that had hit it and fallen to the floor with a thud.

 

Who is Agent Choi■■?

 

‘It doesn’t work anymore.’

 

I reflexively tried to run in that direction, but soon realized my feet wouldn’t move.

 

“…!”

 

The flesh on the floor had grabbed my feet.

 

No, it hadn’t grabbed them.

 

Flesh was growing from my feet, connecting to the floor.

 

Thud.

 

Something comes out of my eyes and mouth.

 

Pouring out.

 

Being devoured.

 

‘In the Black Shadow’ is over.

 

Thud.

 

We couldn’t even become pixel fragments, being completely devoured by that wicked something that had taken over the school, ending…

 

Jingle.

 

“Let’s have a fireworks display.”

 

I raised my head.

 

Once again, from beyond that auditorium, Agent Hae-geum was using Dokkaebi Fire…

 

Jingle.

 

Agent Choi shakes the bell that was attached to the end of his cleaver.

 

Wait. Everything becomes very long.

 

As if feeling an instant.

 

We are hidden in the shadow of Dokkaebi Fire and the sound of bells, gaining a very brief respite.

 

An instant’s deception.

 

Jingle.

 

Where the Dokkaebi Fire burns.

 

Agent Hae-geum’s empty right sleeve is visible.

 

“Agent…”

 

“Now.”

 

The agent who sacrificed her hand for an instant speaks quietly.

 

“Bronze is drawing strokes.”

 

“…”

 

“Let’s think about what we can do. Quickly.”

 

What we can do.

 

To buy time.

 

‘The thing that worked somewhat…!’

 

I grabbed the ‘Doul Lake’ glass bead that came out as a clear reward from my pocket.

 

“It only worked for a really brief moment, but this…”

 

…

 

Wait a minute.

 

Use ‘In the Black Shadow’.

 

Until we are all consumed.

 

Until the rescue team comes.

 

Send a signal and hold out.

 

If this was a signal for the rescue team.

 

‘Team Manager Park Hong-rim believed that rescue… was possible.’

 

He thought there was some way to reverse the situation.

 

And the fact that he sent a signal.

 

‘In that signal… there must be hints for the rescue method hidden.’

 

I looked down at the glass bead again.

 

It definitely had an effect.

 

If this is a hint for rescue.

 

The proper way to use it is…

 

“Agent.”

 

I raised my head.

 

“This is a Glass Hand Cloth bullet.”

 

-It was a transparent bead that looked like it could be loaded into a Glass Hand Cloth.

 

If it was an item for the rescue team agents.

 

Surely the most suitable method of use would be prepared.

 

“A bullet?”

 

Agent Choi’s expression changed. I immediately threw the remaining glass beads to him. The moment the agent caught the beads and began loading them into his Glass Hand Cloth…

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

 

The moment ended.

 

The hand with Teacher’s face protruding from it fell from above Agent Choi’s head. The agent barely dodged and….

 

“Then it’s here.”

 

I shot bullets at the auditorium floor.

 

With explosive sounds, several ” bullets fired from the hand cannon dug into flesh and embedded in the floor as if they were meant to, emitting auspicious light.

 

Those embedded in exquisite positions connected with each other and changed the space, just as they had in Jisan Village.

 

According to Xuanwu Team’s sealing procedure.

 

First. Purification of ritual space.

 

Drive out the environment where evil things like to dwell.

 

The auditorium revealed its form through bullets that received proper purification blessings.

 

The intact appearance of this school’s original auditorium.

 

“…!”

 

Since there are no students, we still can’t hold a graduation ceremony. But we can trap that thing as an entity within a horror game.

 

In a state where ‘exorcism’ works.

 

‘But how do we proceed from here?’

 

The next step is binding and sealing but….

 

“Grape Agent!”

 

“…!!”

 

I turned my head.

 

A dazzling silver object traced a parabola toward me and was given to me in an instant. I reflexively caught it.

 

A sword without a blade.

 

“Catch it!”

 

A signature sword.

 

Hae-geum Agent’s weapon.

 

“I’ll bet on you truly being an agent. Hold it with both hands, raise it as if straightening your mind and body!”

 

Why?

 

But at the same time, I realize the answer as if struck by a blow.

 

The conditions for using a signature sword.

 

-A situation where evil and wicked things in the form of disasters or ghosts directly invade.

 

That thing is a wicked entity that invaded the school.

 

And I am.

 

Currently a student of this school.

 

“Recite the sword strike! Follow along!”

 

Heaven bestows essence and earth

 

assists the spirit

 

I raised the sword.

 

Things I cannot bear are being erected.

 

Sun and moon take shape and mountains and water

 

form their structure

 

Thunder and lightning surge forth

 

“Endure it!”

 

The world’s order

 

I govern within myself

 

My palms feel like they’re burning up. Something unbearable burns my hands. My index and ring fingers shattered.

 

But raise it up.

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