The World Mistakes Me for Terminally Ill - Chapter 92

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The World Thinks I’m Terminally Ill Episode 092

Crash-!

Through the sight of the angel statue shattering into pieces, other stone statues could be seen approaching while casting shadows in the darkness.

It was like a disgusting nightmare.

Gurgle gurgle. The broken fountain that had clearly stopped working began spewing red liquid.

Pushed to my limits, I exhaled all the breath and tension I had been holding at once and raised the corners of my mouth.

“Ha, this is really pissing me off.”

Tick. I heard the hallucination of a clock’s second hand moving.

Current time. 11:27 PM.

Only 3 minutes until the second bell.

Just as I was about to aim at the nearest stone statue, Erban nimbly climbed onto the headless swan statue.

Creak. The swan statue that briefly resisted was cut in half by the shadow dagger in one strike and lost its power.

The assassin’s movements, silently moving across the stone statues and bringing down silence, were as light as air.

I felt Shubel’s solid back as he blocked enemies alone behind me and sniped several more.

“Ruone, which way is the exit?”

“Right, turn right and go to the 3rd room at the end of the corridor!”

“Okay, got it.”

As I sniped the last angel statue, a path finally opened.

I comforted the children and shouted.

“Run!”

We ran with all our might.

As soon as we left the room, the gloomy candles flickered as if they would go out at any moment.

We could hear the monsters’ screams behind us, but thanks to Shubel and Erban’s cover, they didn’t reach us.

As Ruone said, we turned the right corner and passed by the rooms.

Tick.

11:28 PM.

I could see the door ahead. Now I just needed to grab and turn the handle.

Just as I felt a slight relief.

“Madam! There you are!”

Damn. I swallowed my curses internally at the sight of the pervert host suddenly popping up in front of me.

It was difficult to respond since he appeared so suddenly, as if he had shot up from beneath our feet.

“I wondered where you had gone since I couldn’t see you anywhere. I was so worried! Were you here alone, swallowing your sorrow? Ah, but you shouldn’t come to this place.”

Just as I thought I would have to feel the disgusting sensation of bumping into that perverted bastard.

“I have no choice! I shall take you into these broad arms-“

“Yaaah!”

Kai, who was holding my hand, bravely flew through the air.

Flew…?

Thud!

“Gaaah!”

Kai kicked the host’s, um, precious place with those short legs.

With a terrible sound of something bursting, the host collapsed.

I hesitated for a moment, then picked up Kai who had rolled around and gotten back up.

“Well done, Kai.”

“Hmph. That was nothing for me.”

After lightly stepping on and passing over the host, we stood in front of the exit.

Tick.

11:29 PM.

“The door…!”

The door’s texture was changing. Like the people who had been painting, it was gradually being dyed with the rough texture of oil paint.

When I grabbed the handle and turned it forcefully, the door that was opening with a creak got blocked from the middle where the texture had changed.

A narrow gap just wide enough for the children to pass through.

For an instant, Kai and I made eye contact. Kai’s clear eyes widened as he sensed something.

“No, I don’t want…!”

“Go, hurry!”

I pushed Kai and Ruone through the door without hesitation.

Kai screamed like a cry.

“No! Mom…!”

Bang! The door closed.

Tick.

11:30 PM.

Dong-

The second bell rang.

“…Ugh!”

Crash!

The children who were ejected through the theater’s back door were thrown into the cold backstreet.

Whoosh-

In the dreary city where night had fallen, rain was already coming down.

“Kai…?”

Ruone rubbed his head and carefully called the name of the boy who was with him.

Then the black-haired boy who had gotten soaked in the rain within a few seconds opened his red eyes.

Kai jumped up from the ground where he had been sitting and clung to the door they had been ejected from.

Bang bang!

“Open it, open it!”

“…”

“Why, why won’t it open…”

Scrape. The boy’s hand roughly scratched over the door.

Even as his fingertips turned red and his panting breath grew louder, the firmly closed door wouldn’t open.

Before long, his small hand slipped down powerlessly.

His eyes filled with desperation became wet with moisture that could have been rain or tears.

“Again, I-“

Was abandoned.

…I was abandoned again.

Kai curled his body into a ball.

And ‘Ruone’ was staring blankly at such a boy.

“…”

A red glint briefly flickered in his once pure eyes.

At that moment, behind the ballroom where the second bell had rung.

After the bell rang, the surroundings changed bizarrely like a smeared abstract painting. It also looked like a lump of paint that children had mixed up as a prank.

The door that had completely transformed into a single ‘surface’ lost its role as an entrance.

From somewhere came the eerie cries of monsters searching for intruders who had glimpsed the world’s secrets.

After sending the children outside, Shubel headed toward the black widow sitting slumped in front of the door.

He knelt on one knee beside the woman and asked.

“Madam.”

At the low voice, my spirit that had been heavily sunken slowly awakened.

“Are you alright.”

I blinked my eyes. Only then did the surrounding situation come into view.

“Ah, yes. My legs just lost strength for a moment.”

I instinctively grabbed and pulled at Shubel’s clothes.

Like a wild animal seeking something familiar to hide its body, I buried myself in that scent of cool winter.

Then the turmoil engraved in my soul slowly settled down.

‘Why was I so flustered?’

The moment I saw Kai’s face brimming with tears, my heart strangely plummeted violently.

‘I only sent him out first for safety….’

That face, desperate like a baby animal that felt abandoned.

I wanted to explain to him. If only I had enough time, I surely would have.

Or I wanted to tease him mischievously, asking if the word ‘mom’ came out naturally when a crisis situation arose.

I wanted to pat his head.

I recalled the baby dragon who would always grumble when I spoke to him, responding with a drowsy, triumphant voice, and sometimes sulkily.

Before I knew it, my hand was fidgeting with my empty left ring finger. The covenant ring, Kai’s trace.

‘Kai.’

I didn’t abandon you.

‘Kai, can you hear me?’

If you’re listening by any chance-

‘Stop crying.’

To become a cool adult, you have to dig your claws into the enemy’s face before crying.

So….

I stood up from my seat with Shubel’s help.

Current time: 11:31 PM.

Only 29 minutes left until midnight when the third bell would ring.

I didn’t know what would happen when the ball ended, but looking at the state of our surroundings now, it was clear it wouldn’t be ordinary at all.

We absolutely had to leave this place before midnight.

“We should hurry and get out of here to join the children.”

“Is there another exit? Even if there is, it would be difficult to find it in time.”

The second bell rang and once again the ballroom’s size expanded.

Strange monsters had even started appearing, so finding a new exit wouldn’t be easy.

I spoke to Erban, who was making an extremely valid concern.

“You know. The place we came in through.”

“Ah?”

It didn’t necessarily have to be an ‘exit.’

The entrance to the ballroom where we first entered this place, the performance hall leading to the theater.

Unlike Ruone, we had entered by formally presenting invitations, so we just needed to leave the same way.

“Uh, but I snuck in and what I gave you was fake? Would that be okay?”

“How was it when you came in? There was no trouble at the box office, right?”

Shubel asked back.

“You mean the box office.”

“Yes, wasn’t there a box office with the lights on by itself? They should give you a mask there.”

“When I came, there was no place with lights on.”

Without realizing it, I whirled around to look at him, and Shubel escorted me while quietly warning.

“Watch your step.”

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