Chapter 39.
I stared blankly at the elevator buttons covered in blood, wishing it was just interior design.
‘It’s just a bit unsettling, that’s all.’
With my eyes tightly shut, I pressed the button for the floor I needed to go to.
Press.
<①>
Having to use an elevator to go up just one floor, could there be a more inefficient hotel?
-Door■closing■■.
“…….”
Along with the garbled elevator announcement.
Clunk!
Crackle-
!!
Feeling with my entire body the condition of the elevator cable that could snap at any moment.
Clunk!
This elevator just stopped while going up.
……It is going up, right?
Park Yeon-jeong just hoped the elevator would safely go up one floor.
*****
Ding!
-■door opening■.
Fortunately, the cable didn’t break in the middle and safely arrived at the first floor.
Worried that getting off might also stress the cables,
I carefully stepped out of the elevator.
Click.
The elevator door closed.
And then what unfolded before Park Yeon-jeong’s eyes was.
A long corridor with no visible end.
Doors lined up between the walls.
Lights barely reveal their existence in the dark corridor.
Flicker… flicker… flicker.
Crack-!
Pop!
One of the lights that had been struggling to flicker finally reached the end of its life.
Looking at this space clearly gives the image of ‘absolutely do not proceed forward.’
My feet wouldn’t move.
Those who could fearlessly advance through such a place surely couldn’t be normal.
I absolutely couldn’t find the courage to move forward.
But at that moment, a sound that seemed out of place in such a location echoed throughout the corridor.
Plop!
The source of the sound was none other than.
Our first teddy bear.
The signature entrance style of a small, cute being falling helplessly to the floor.
Wobble, wobble!
A small teddy bear was cutely waving both arms toward Park Yeon-jeong.
And as if inspired by the actions of one brave teddy bear,
The remaining two teddy bears also jumped out of the employee ID card just like the first one had done.
Plop!
Plop!
An impressive face-first landing.
Pitter, patter!
Following that, our three teddy bear brothers marched proudly somewhere.
As if they had made a pact, they began to move forward confidently.
“W-wait a minute!”
But I was rather confused by their independent action.
When the teddy bear at the very front saw my confused expression,
Tap, tap!
It seemed to lightly tap its chest twice with its arm.
As if it was showing a reliable appearance, saying it would lead the way.
I was impressed by that confident demeanor.
Therefore, I respected their opinion.
It absolutely was not because I was scared that I accepted their proposal.
……Really.
Pitter, patter, patter, patter.
“…….”
Pitter, patter, patter, patter.
“…….”
Pitter, patter, patter…plop!
Hmm, cute.
Still, it felt like the suffocation I had felt until just now was subsiding a little.
Our current position is.
<108>
Passing by the door marked Room 108.
We still haven’t even passed halfway.
The good news was that so far, there didn’t seem to be any traps like something jumping out or the walls suddenly narrowing, which was a huge relief.
And
Pitter, patter, patter, patter!
These little ones really have no fear.
Even though they’re so small, does that mean ghosts are still ghosts?
Although it wasn’t my intention, thanks to the triumphant teddy bear trio, I was able to move forward, and I felt somewhat grateful for their courage.
<116>
By now we had passed more than half the distance to our destination.
Creeeeak.
!
Suddenly, the door of Room 116, which had been still, slowly opened by itself.
Was it because of the wind?
An unexpected situation.
Just as Park Yeon-jeong was about to take out the ‘last trigger’ from his employee ID,
Wobble, wobble!
Wobble, wobble!!
Wobble, wobble!!!
Our teddy bear trio waved both arms quickly left and right toward me.
What does this mean?
Their actions, which I could roughly understand until just now, were now completely incomprehensible.
【I’m, going to hit you¿】
Suddenly!
A voice so garbled it was indescribably grotesque.
Pitter, patter!
The teddy bear that rushed urgently toward me on short legs grabbed my pant leg, looking quite desperate as if trying to convey something, but.
【Shoot me with that gun¿】
My attention was completely captured by the strange presence before my eyes.
The chilling sound coming from beyond the door.
And
Gun?
My gaze fell on the revolver I had taken out from my employee ID.
Grab!
!!
A long arm stretched out from the open doorway.
A hand stretched out like taffy grabbed the door, and once again what was presumed to be a voice flowed into my ears.
【Ki■ㄹ me¿¿¿】
Dragging sound.
As something seemed to be gradually coming out from the room, Park Yeon-jeong belatedly realized.
What the three teddy bears were trying to tell me.
Slip.
Park Yeon-jeong hurriedly put the revolver he was holding back into his employee ID.
Then.
With both hands raised high and with a slight tremor in his voice, he muttered to whatever was trying to come out of the room.
“K-kill you? How could… I do that?”
【……….】
Until just now, the sound of dragging on the floor that was coming from inside the room was no longer heard.
Soon, a strangely long-stretched hand slowly began to close its room door.
Through the last closing gap of the door.
【Ah, it hurts… It hurts… It hurts… don’t hit m.】
Click.
The door closed.
A faintly trembling breath flowed out of Park Yeon-jeong’s mouth.
But he didn’t collapse on the spot.
Thanks to the glasses that prevented mental damage, he didn’t seem to have received much psychological damage.
Tremble, tremble, tremble.
The trembling that his body remembered was conveyed intact outside his body.
If there hadn’t been a warning from the three teddy bear musketeers in front of me… I might have pulled out the revolver and shot the ghost story right in front of me.
I didn’t even want to think about what would happen after that.
Maybe I was too complacent.
Under the name of an E-grade ghost story.
I had forgotten what kind of place this was currently being used as.
This is a place frequently visited by humans like Park Yeon-jeong himself, as well as those ghost story guys.
If you underestimate it because it’s an E-grade.
You will become a target for other ghost story guys.
I thought it was time to be more alert about the current situation.
And what I should do first now is.
Express gratitude.
It was to convey words of thanks to the three teddy bear musketeers.
“Thank you for protecting me.”
Flap, flap, flap!
I lightly patted the head of the teddy bear that was grabbing my pants leg.
And the other two teddy bears watching that scene from not too far away.
!!
Pitter, patter, pitter, patter!
They immediately ran toward Park Yeon-jeong and made a gesture as if pointing to their heads with their stuffed arms.
“…You want me to do it for you too?”
Nod!
Nod!
Looking at the two little ones moving their heads up and down very intensely.
A smile formed naturally.
Pat, pat.
I lightly touched the heads of the remaining ones as well.
Even after that, threatening moments continued to find Park Yeon-jeong several times.
Creak.
At the gaze felt through the slightly opened door gap.
Park Yeon-jeong just stuck flat against the wall and ignored that gaze.
【…Tsk.】
And now, sound from inside the room began to leak out without hesitation with the door wide open.
It was a woman’s voice.
【……………Ahnn♥】
…That’s a nuisance.
This time, Park Yeon-jeong covered both ears with his hands, closed his eyes tightly, and moved forward.
-A room where a child’s scream is heard.
-A room where a man’s rough moan is heard.
-Even a sound like sawing something sticky.
But
But you know.
Didn’t they say this accommodation had good soundproofing?
If everyone was going to leave their room doors wide open when doing their business, he wondered why they bothered to come to a place like this.
As Park Yeon-jeong’s doubts about the users of this accommodation grew.
<130>
he arrived.
Park Yeon-jeong, who finally reached his destination after much hardship.
…Whew.
When he exhaled a short breath and took another.
Knock knock knock.
He lightly knocked on the door.
……….
But only quiet stillness returned from inside.
Knock, knock, knock.
I knocked on the door once more.
……….
Again, only silence greeted me.
No response like this means.
‘…Should I come in?’
I took out the small key I had put in my pocket.
My gaze turned to our three teddy bear musketeers looking up at me from the floor.
They’re quiet.
The fact that these guys don’t have any particular reaction means.
It’s safe here.
As I pushed the key into the groove of the doorknob.
Click.
Then Park Yeon-jeong’s hand naturally wrapped around the doorknob and slowly turned it.
The door opened and.
Pop!
!!
Something that jumped out from inside the room immediately nestled into Park Yeon-jeong’s arms.
My gaze immediately went down, and there the familiar ears of a stuffed doll caught Park Yeon-jeong’s eye.
Is surprising others like this the trend these days?
『Good person!』
It was the resonance of a voice I heard after a long time. And then the three teddy bear musketeers who had been looking up at us from the floor.
Hop!
They immediately rushed to the little ghost who had run to Park Yeon-jeong.
『Kids! Did you do well?』
The ghost child showed a bright smile as he hugged the three teddy bear musketeers attached to his clothes.
Fortunately, the ghost child didn’t give off any threatening atmosphere to me.
And honestly, the real problem isn’t this ghost child.
It’s someone else in this room.
『Come in! Wait for you!』
“……Yes.”
Click.
The door closes.
At the voice of the ghost child waiting for me inside, I slowly entered the room.
Step.
A space divided by an inner door.
If I open that door.
There is the one called this ghost child’s ‘birth mother’.
Park Yeon-jeong’s footsteps were more careful than ever.
But regardless of that, the ghost child who ran to the inner door before me.
Fling!
Upon opening the door first, he informed whoever was inside about my arrival.
『He’s here! The good person!』
The person caught in Park Yeon-jeong’s gaze through the gap of the opened door-
……She’s big.
Extremely so.
That being was a tall woman wearing an antique white one-piece dress and a wide-brimmed white Victorian-style hat.
She was at least twice the size of an adult male.
[Warm Memories of That Day]
:Identification code Cd-B-1750.
【I’ve been wanting to meet you.】
It’s not me.
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