Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 289

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 289

 

The footsteps heading to the library are quick, frequent, and small.

 

The group consisting of two Segwang Technical High School uniforms and four various other high school uniforms moved while holding their breath.

 

With desperate and deep expressions unbelievable for students.

 

They move while avoiding the struggling limbs and breathing sounds of victims attached to the walls and floor.

 

And then…

 

“Floor,”

 

At the Bronze Agent’s words, people’s gazes shift.

 

“Look at the floor.”

 

“…!”

 

The flesh began writhing again.

 

People’s footsteps became even faster.

 

The fortunate thing was that there was no need to go upward.

 

“Here!”

 

The end of the first floor.

 

Following me as I stopped in front of a wooden door that was uniquely sliding-type, we opened the door.

 

The place I had visited with Lee Gyeol when returning to Hanbit Library.

 

[Library]

 

Slide.

 

The interior was revealed with a short sound.

 

A library that was similar to Hanbit Library in that it was a place filled with books on bookshelves, but had the realistic feel of being inside a school structurally.

 

And.

 

“This bookshelf.”

 

I immediately found one bookshelf.

 

The single bookshelf next to the window would slide back when finding a hidden book and become a passage leading to another area of Hanbit Library…

 

“…A passage leading to a supernatural phenomenon with some powerful entity.”

 

However.

 

“Wait, this… it doesn’t seem to open on the new moon.”

 

“…”

 

“Transfer Student, there’s no book.”

 

We couldn’t open the bookshelf’s passage.

 

On this day when the ‘In the Black Shadow’ ghost story was active, the book itself that could lead to Hanbit Library wasn’t on the bookshelf.

 

My heart went cold for a moment, but I immediately pulled myself together.

 

‘Still, the fact that this school is inside Hanbit Library doesn’t change.’

 

And the same goes for the fact that there was a passage leading to Hanbit Library beyond this bookshelf.

 

“It’s okay.”

 

I answered while hastily drawing conclusions in my head.

 

“If the passage doesn’t appear right now… how about this instead? We hide the talisman in the part where the passage should originally appear.”

 

“…! Hide it in the part that overlaps with the passage? Behind the bookshelf.”

 

“Yes.”

 

“That’s good. Grape really has good ideas. Then Agents, please lend us some strength…”

 

“Manager, please move the bookshelf to the side.”

 

“Yes.”

 

And Manager Lee Ja-heon immediately lifted the bookshelf without preparation and placed it to the side.

 

“…Teacher Lizard, you still have no thoughts of changing jobs?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“What a shame.”

 

Even while saying such things as if joking, the agents’ expressions were serious.

 

The Bronze Agent urgently looked at the wall revealed as the bookshelf was moved. I saw the same thing. A rectangular space with a gleaming metallic color, identical to what Go Young-eun had hidden me in at the casino station once…

 

That!

 

“I think we can put it in the fire extinguisher!”

 

“The fire extinguisher… you mean?”

 

“Yes. Then it would be just right…”

 

But I closed my mouth seeing the agents’ expressions.

 

No way.

 

“To me it just looks like white wallpaper.”

 

“…”

 

“I can’t see the fire extinguisher.”

 

Damn.

 

It seems this too is an element not implemented in the game, so it’s not visible to people who entered ‘In the Black Shadow’ as errors.

 

“It’s fine. Like with the backyard, someone who can see it should do it.”

 

I immediately reached out my hand.

 

“Give it to me. I’ll…”

 

Where are you?

 

“…”

 

Kids, where are you?

 

I’m back.

 

The game is over, so why can’t I see you?

 

We moved without even breathing.

 

The glass lantern passes into my hands. I hurriedly embrace it with my hands while opening the fire extinguisher and making space inside.

 

“If there’s dust or soot, it must be wiped clean.”

 

Dust gets on my hands as I urgently rummage inside the fire extinguisher.

 

I could hear the agents moving behind me as if guarding the outside, but I couldn’t even think to look back.

 

I’m coming to find youtoo late

 

Quickly, quickly.

 

“Now wipe everything on your hands with the cleanest surface possible, with your inner sleeve. Hurry. Cleanly.”

 

The whisper was so small it was barely audible. I held my breath and brushed the dust off my hands…

 

[Hint! Good. It’s hint time. Now, let’s think back once more to what Brown said…]

 

-Now if we just finish the last procedure, this high school will be preserved hidden in the library again. It will become a kind of private corner!

 

“…”

 

I looked down at my clothes.

 

Segwang Technical High School Student.

 

This contaminated identity that somehow won’t be lifted.

 

‘Wait a minute.’

 

Then, if the ritual through the talisman is completed like this…

 

I too will be hidden inside Hanbit Library.

 

As a student of this high school.

 

…!!

 

“That,”

 

But I stopped as I was about to open my mouth.

 

So what was I supposed to do? If the contamination couldn’t be undone anyway, I had to go on like this.

 

It wasn’t like I was going to die.

 

‘If I wait until rescue comes….’

 

No, even if not that, I could look for other methods after this was over.

 

‘I can do this.’

 

It’s okay. It’s okay….

 

And.

 

“The light is coming on.”

 

I saw the strokes of the talisman finally beginning to glow inside the fire extinguisher.

 

Blue light spread slowly from the center, completing itself.

 

My heart calmed down.

 

‘Good.’

 

If there was no immediate solution, I wouldn’t make pointless noise.

 

Instead, I spoke to my classmate.

 

“With this, the students will be safe. Don’t worry.”

 

Lee Gyeol looked at me.

 

“Are you included among those students?”

 

“…That’s right.”

 

My classmate, who had been looking back and forth between the talisman and me, shook his head.

 

“No, you’re not.”

 

“…!”

 

“You’re not really a transfer student, are you. Kim Sol-eum.”

 

My classmate reached out and grabbed the glass lantern inside the fire extinguisher. And.

 

“You’re a student from another school who borrowed my uniform.”

 

Whoosh.

 

I was suddenly pushed away from the fire extinguisher.

 

From the hand of the Sekwang Technical High School student who simultaneously pushed me away with his other hand, the glass lantern glowed along the strokes without breaking.

 

“Grape!”

 

“Wait,”

 

I grabbed my companion and looked back at Lee Gyeol.

 

My classmate said calmly.

 

“I’ll consider the uniform returned to me now. It was a lie from the beginning anyway.”

 

“…!”

 

He declared.

 

“You’re not a student of this school.”

 

….

 

I lowered my head.

 

The Sekwang Technical High School uniform wasn’t there.

 

Instead, I saw the familiar uniform of my old school.

 

‘Ah.’

 

I hurriedly raised my head again.

 

The fire extinguisher that had been on the wall wasn’t there.

 

Now that I was no longer a student of this school, I couldn’t see it.

 

And….

 

“Thanks. For taking me to the infirmary.”

 

Lee Gyeol, who had his hand inserted somewhere invisible on the wall, looked at me while wearing his own uniform and grinned.

 

“…See you again.”

 

Dokkaebi fire burst into flames.

 

Aaaaaaaaaaaa…

 

Blue flames covered and burned everything.

 

The ominous game beat-like twisted sound disappeared, erasing the classrooms and corridors covered in flesh, enveloping the entire school and placing it within the shadow of flames.

 

My entire vision turned white.

 

 

I opened my eyes.

 

Light tickled my eyes, and the midday school grounds spread out in my vision.

 

And I heard a musical performance.

 

Piano.

 

Chopin’s Nocturne.

 

In time with that sweet and slow piano sound flowing gently, I could see the view of the first floor corridor.

 

Students were lying on the floor.

 

Just like the school I had visited through Hanbit Library, not on a new moon day.

 

But there was a crucial difference.

 

They were sleeping peacefully.

 

Daytime.

 

Early May. On a day when warm sunlight shone, quiet greenery cast shadows from outside the windows, illuminating the corridor.

 

Comfortable places had been prepared.

 

Mattresses used for PE class, blankets, gym clothes and keychain dolls, even slippers—all sorts of soft and nice things could be seen at each spot where students lay in the corridor.

 

I could see students sleeping while holding hands with friends or wearing comfortable gym clothes. Sometimes they were sleeping with earphones still in.

 

A nap time enjoyed by everyone together.

 

….

 

The spots that had been empty in between were also filled.

 

Students from other schools were lying in those places.

 

Those who had been struggling with their limbs after being devoured by the flesh covering the school, those who had become one with the school, had become part of the high school.

 

But now they were gently accepted into the gaps between students.

 

‘Ah.’

 

My vision rose upward as if someone was showing me.

 

Going up the stairs, showing the scene of students lying comfortably taking naps, rising to the topmost floor.

 

5th floor.

 

Students were also lying in the corridor in front of the auditorium where the teachers and some organs had been placed.

 

But I recognize them from their appearance and a few belongings.

 

Metal badges.

 

They’re agents.

 

I recognize the face of Agent Go Myeong, who’s taking a nap in the sunlight near the auditorium door.

 

My vision rises up…

 

It shows the tightly closed, intact auditorium door.

 

There’s no one there.

 

Only a broken glass lantern and a talisman with torn marks in the middle hang on the door handle, sparkling in the sunlight.

 

As if they had fulfilled their assigned duty.

 

 

Credits roll.

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