Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 81

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 081

Tattoo sticker.

It was something had given me as a service.

-Is there a symbol related to courage, or the boldness to step forward without fear?

To that question, the tattooist had recommended a tattoo design with a tomato plant drawn on it…

And that was exactly what was captured in this sticker.

This tattoo I’m currently wearing on my neck.

“….”

Actually, it did have roughly the effect I expected.

As if the center that feels fear was paralyzed, these supernatural things no longer seemed scary.

Just like Team D… yes.

…Like Eun Ha-je and Team Leader Park Min-seong from before.

I wanted to explore these terrifying supernatural phenomena with such composure and boldness that it seemed like my liver had jumped out of my body.

But.

“…?”

I blinked inside the locker.

‘It… doesn’t seem to have much effect?’

I thought of the students who had been chasing me.

Damn scary.

I thought of the crazy Rabbit Mascot I met in the Theme Park ghost story.

It gives me goosebumps.

I thought of the ghost from the Chang-gwi ghost story that pretended to be human, sobbing while knocking on the door.

‘…Scary!!’

Everything I thought of was chilling.

‘D-don’t tell me it’s a scam?’

Or maybe I applied the sticker wrong? I’d never actually used tattoo stickers before, so I wouldn’t know.

But either way, it’s not a situation I can verify right now.

“….”

Damn.

Anyway, I have to move according to plan.

Now that the ‘Teacher’ has disappeared from the 4th floor, this is my chance.

‘They must have gone downstairs.’

Eventually, I swallowed and came out of the locker.

…Of course, the area in front would be a horrible sight.

There would be bloodstains and fragments of Team D Leader who had just died scattered around, so I should prepare myself mentally before going out…

….

“…?”

‘Tomato?’

Wait a minute.

I quickly left the Faculty Office and went up to the 5th floor.

There…

The reason I’d been avoiding the 5th floor all this time was laid bare.

Aaaahhh!

The walls of the 5th floor were now covered with pages from old graduation albums stuck all over them.

And the students in the photos were reaching their arms outward with agonized expressions.

Aaaahhh!

Beyond the paper scraps of the graduation album, I could see writhing chunks of flesh.

The factor that causes tremendous mental burden and panic to anyone who enters the 5th floor.

Rather than a school, it blatantly revealed an appearance more like a bizarrely twisted Other Side World.

Red light pulsed where electric lights should have been.

But…

It’s tomatoes.

Ha.

Hahahaha!

‘No way, this is crazy!’

Where human heads should be, there are all tomatoes!

No, it’s not that they don’t look like people.

The figures in the graduation album photos? They all look like people. People with distorted faces screaming in agony!

But I just feel like they’re tomatoes.

The rational voice saying there’s no need to connect that with fear becomes pure emotion.

Yes, that’s exactly how it feels…

It’s nothing at all.

‘Hahaha…’

The further I walked down the corridor, the further back in time the graduation albums went, and the graduates were melted into more horrific, inhuman forms, hardened against the walls.

Strange talismans and chunks of flesh were pulsing on the walls and ceiling.

And voices.

I’m sorry I’m sorry for tearing the talisman we dug up from the school backyard I’m sorry I’m a ■■ school student preparing for graduation ceremony I’m sorry… no no! The graduation ceremony isn’t a ritual it’s not a mountain sacrifice no no!! Please save me please save

Game worldbuilding lore.

Nothing changes just because I’m hearing it now.

I walked down that corridor with a feeling no different from taking a stroll down the street, or maybe even more pleasant than that.

Everything being tomatoes was kind of funny.

And at the end of the corridor, I stopped in front of a massive door on the right side.

A neat teal-colored iron door.

This door, which alone maintained its original form intact in the 5th floor that had become a bizarre den, was.

The door leading to the auditorium.

The place where this game’s final chapter unfolds.

Only graduates may knock and enter.

I read the explanation printed on A4 paper.

I’m set as Class 1-5, so I’m not a graduate, am I?

‘This kind of thing is a gimmick that opens when you have items.’

And I already have it.

Something that normally could only be obtained in the final chapter after playing through the entire game.

Would you like to use the ‘Name Tag Decoration’?

Of course.

Knock knock.

I attached the Name Tag Decoration to my chest and knocked on the Auditorium door.

Then the massive door in front of me smoothly slid open.

“….”

Hundreds of Third-year Students sitting in hundreds of seats turned to look at me.

This year’s Graduates.

They were half-melted and fused with their chairs so they couldn’t leave their seats, with black ink-like tears pouring from their eyeless sockets.

But….

No emotion beyond pity rose within me.

Actually, feeling only pity in this situation was the right response.

‘They can’t even harm me.’

Irrational fear had been replaced with tomatoes, and I walked along the path between the chairs.

Toward the massive Stage on the opposite side, where a graduation ceremony Banner hung.

Step by step.

The Graduates turned their heads to stare expressionlessly at my back as I walked….

I climbed onto the Auditorium Stage.

And grabbing the Standing Microphone installed in the center of the Stage, I shouted.

“We will now begin the graduation ceremony.”

[Ding- dong- dang- dong]

As if it had been waiting, bright and majestic ceremonial background music began to flow in sync with my declaration.

Graduation ceremony music is playing….

At that moment.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Screams swept through the Auditorium.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Like skin being peeled away, the normal appearance of the Auditorium was stripped off, revealing a grotesque, aberrant form.

The horrific scenes I had seen in the 5th Floor Corridor appeared.

As if making a final desperate struggle, as if wanting to punish the one who would ruin everything, those images rushed toward me.

But I’m completely fine.

They’re all tomatoes.

And the real danger was just beginning.

‘It’s coming.’

To seat the Student who had started the graduation ceremony on his own back in his place below the Stage.

Thud thud thud

Footsteps climbing up frantically from below.

‘Teacher is coming.’

It’s fine.

‘I’ll finish everything I need to do before it arrives.’

I took out a stick-type Auto-Injector from my Pocket and stuck it into my forearm.

Happy Maker.

That ultra-powerful disposable Painkiller made an artificial and cute “beep-boop” sound effect as it injected the fluorescent liquid from the container into my bloodstream.

A comfortable, refreshing, and incredibly light vitality flowed through my entire body via my blood vessels.

Like magic.

‘Good.’

At the same time, I also put two Nostalgia Candies in my mouth at once.

Don’t take more than three Can-dies at once!

The nostalgia might get too deep and you could fall right in!

Right. Following those usage instructions too.

I was now in an incredibly comfortable and perfect state.

‘Phew.’

Then it’s time now.

Thud

Something squeezed through the gap in the Auditorium door.

‘Teacher’ inserted its aberrant hand with a Blackboard attached and tore the door itself apart, warping the metal.

Crrrrrack

The door fell away, crumpled.

And the form that was revealed.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

A massive human shape.

But only a silhouette.

It was as if multiple teachers had been crumpled up and stitched together, then forcibly shoved back into a human mold.

A flesh monster with arms on its head, heads on its shoulders, and shoulders on its knees.

It entered the Auditorium making bizarrely neat footstep sounds….

Thud thud thud

Blackboards, Textbooks, Student Rosters, Chalk, Glasses and such were attached haphazardly to various parts, swaying inappropriately.

Standing on the opposite Stage, watching this grotesqueness that should send chills down one’s spine….

“….”

Only competitive spirit bubbled up within me.

I have to break through that to get back to my house and fill my collector too…

‘Right.’

This situation requires not fear, but tenacity!

The tattoo on my neck burns hot, making my stomach, heart, and even my head boil.

‘Ah.’

Now I understand.

The effect of this tattoo sticker is…

‘Euphoria.’

Overflowing adrenaline.

When I want to do something, when I have a goal, this euphoria makes me flip out and charge forward!

And supporting that, even the sensation that makes me feel everything like tomatoes!

‘I can do it.’

I boldly grabbed the auditorium microphone and glared ahead.

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