Mistaken for a Catastrophe-Level Ghost Story Employee 45

Chapter 45

The time that has passed since Park Yeon-jeong entered the ghost story is.

Just 3 minutes.

And the number of Black Coins remaining in his possession is.

10 Coin.

In that short time, he lost 90% of all the coins he was given.

The gambling addiction hotline number was 13… something.

‘Just arrest me and take me away.’

Only after witnessing with his own eyes how quickly money disappears in gambling did this man finally realize.

The danger of gambling’s existence…

He felt it deeply in just the short time of 3 minutes.

Park Yeon-jeong stared intently at the black tattoo that had appeared on his forearm.

BlackCoinx10.

A sigh escapes involuntarily.

Now only 10 coins remain in his possession.

At this rate.

Park Yeon-jeong clearly sensed with his own eyes that the day he would have to give up parts of his body was not far off.

In this place, coins equal body parts.

When the money runs out.

You have to sell your body.

———=

/Ghost Story Journal

[Jackpot]

:Identification code Cd-C-4911.

Do you want money!

Do you want something from others!

Do you want to feel endless dopamine, desire, and lust!

Then come to this place!

☆★Black4444★☆

-New customers receive 100 coins.

-Body part donation/loans possible.

-Win everything you want from others through gambling bets!

Achieve it yourself!

You can experience any gambling you want! Any gambling you desire!

We never cheat!

No deception allowed.

Approach gambling with an honest heart.

Physical suppression possible.

No mental damage.

Multiple reports of money won in this ghost story  being converted to real cash after escaping.

It’s also said that many ownership rights acquired there apply in reality as well.

Additional note.

Statement from an employee who spent all their basic funds in this ghost story , exchanged one arm and one leg for coins, and escaped.

The body parts paid did not return even after escaping the ghost story .

———

Human body = Coins.

So if all the coins in Park Yeon-jeong’s possession run out, he’ll have to pay with his body parts one by one to obtain more coins.

The coins given for each body part are respectively.

-Arm 500

-Leg 500

-Eye 300

-Ear 200

-Nose 100

-Liver 10

-Kidney 10

.

.

.

The body parts that fetch the highest price in the ghost story market are not internal organs.

In this place, body parts that form a complete human shape have greater value.

Dark rumors circulate that human trafficking occurs inside the casino, and the items that leave this place are traded again somewhere else.

They’re especially popular among ghost story entities that want to collect and imitate humans.

The only path available to Park Yeon-jeong, who now has barely 10 coins left, is to sell parts of his body—a popular commodity—to secure more coins.

And another problem is.

“Mo, monster…”

People scream and run away whenever Park Yeon-jeong moves around.

“Black flames on the face…!”

There was only one thing people thought of when they saw him.

Black flames.

The people in this place were filled with terror just from Park Yeon-jeong passing by.

Some even fell while trying to flee from the roulette machines and trembled on the ground.

In that short time, rumors about me had already started to spread.

“That guy… he’s a cursed ghost story .”

“They say it’s over if your eyes meet his…”

“I heard you lose your life, not just coins, if you touch him.”

These misconceptions are severe.

The atmosphere inside the gambling hall had completely changed.

Park Yeon-jeong had unintentionally become the center of fear.

But this is completely.

“…Like being ostracized, isn’t it?”

Probably no one will try to bother me now.

That’s actually what I wanted.

I walked to a corner and sat down, exuding a frightening atmosphere.

Crumple.

I just wanted to be alone and quiet right now.

At this rate, I’ll really have to sell a body part to secure coins.

Or there’s another way to break through the current situation.

Here, the other method is.

Flipping the table.

An act that should never be done in a gambling hall and.

The most direct way to summon the main ghost of the current ghost story  at this point.

If this method succeeds, I might be able to end the entire situation at once, definitively, without physical loss.

Yes, if I were an excellent employee possessing overwhelming force and multiple named-grade items.

In other words.

I’m not capable of this.

If the second method had been possible, I wouldn’t have worried in the first place.

The items that Park Yeon-jeong could currently call forceful are.

-Our versatile cute teddy bear.

-A revolver with randomly changing bullets.

-Thousands of eyes are targeting my body.

That’s it.

Apart from our teddy bear and the revolver, there are no items that can be practically used here.

If ‘Thousands of Eyes’ were activated recklessly in a place with so many people gathered.

It would literally become a scene of bloody carnage.

And I’m confident I would be ‘Victim 13’ in that situation.

Moreover, before they disappeared last time.

They said to me,

-This is just once.

That eerie voice that seemed to come from a dream still seemed to linger in my ears.

Shudder.

See!

Just thinking about it gave me goosebumps all over my body.

So they are not an option.

Absolutely not…

Absolutely!

Excluding the virtually unusable Thousands of Eyes, the items available here are reduced to just two.

Confronting the [Jackpot] ghost with just these two items is impossible.

So if I recombine all the current elements again.

“It’s ruined.

Now it was really time to worry about which part to cut off first.

Knock, knock!

?

For a moment, Park Yeon-jeong felt something tugging at his pant leg. Soon, as he lowered his gaze, there was—

Whimper!

Our cute teddy bear grabbing his pant leg came into view.

Whimper, whimper!

It looked as if it wanted to take me somewhere.

“Where are you taking me?”

The place I soon followed the little guy to was.

“……a roulette machine?”

Flailing, flailing.

The teddy bear was pointing exactly at the roulette machine.

Was it saying that it wanted to try using this roulette machine too?

‘……Okay.’

Why not let it try.

But I couldn’t give the teddy bear too much of my betting money, which was like my lifeline now.

The betting amount I stated for the roulette was.

“1 coin.”

As soon as Park Yeon-jeong finished saying ‘1 coin,’ the number of coins engraved on his forearm decreased from 10 to 9.

Ugh!

My coin is as precious as blood!

My heart aches.

It was a time when each coin was precious, but.

Flailing, flailing!

Looking at our teddy bear waving its arms in joy in front of me.

I tried to console myself.

I put our teddy bear, which was flailing its stuffed arms left and right on the floor, onto my palm

The teddy bear grabbed the lever of the roulette machine and pulled it down.

Whirr!

With the thought ‘Such strength from such a small body!!’ The roulette machine started spinning busily.

Unlike the excited teddy bear flailing its arms left and right. The man named Park Yeon-jeong, who had already tasted the bitterness of life in the short span of 3 minutes, didn’t expect much.

Just when his hatred for the roulette machine right in front of him was growing more than his expectations.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

The pictures on the roulette slowly stopped.

And the pictures that stopped there were.

<4·4·4·4>

-Victory!!-

-Jackpot! Jackpot! Congratulations!-

……What?

I didn’t hear wrong, did I?

Park Yeon-jeong first doubted his own eyes, and soon doubted his ears.

But.

He saw clearly.

And heard clearly.

Seeing that the two pieces of information clearly in front of my eyes still haven’t changed.

Our teddy bear just hit the jackpot.

No.

Our precious and lovely, one and only attachment teddy bear hit the jackpot.

Flailing, flailing, flailing, flailing!

Whether it recognized that it had accomplished something or not.

The teddy bear, waving its arms left and right more strongly than at any other time, was jumping around excitedly on Park Yeon-jeong’s palm, and soon while moving within that narrow palm area.

Slip!

‘Oh my.’

Splash!

Looking at the teddy bear that fell weakly to the floor again today, I looked at the number of coins that appeared on my forearm.

BlackCoinx109.

A hundred, a hundred times!

‘Damn, damn, damn, daaaamn!!!’

If I had known this would happen, I would have invested all the coins I had, and it would have easily exceeded a thousand coins.

Even though there was no mental damage in this ghost story, Park Yeon-jeong couldn’t escape from an inexplicable sense of emptiness and obsession.

“Wow!”

But at the sound of someone’s cheerful voice behind Park Yeon-jeong, I turned my head.

“A jackpot! Mr. Black Flame, you’re quite something, aren’t you?”

“……You, why are you here!”

The one who suddenly approached Park Yeon-jeong and spoke was none other than.

A woman with distinctive red hair fluttering, spitting out playful words, was standing in front of Park Yeon-jeong himself.

And with two other people from the agency.

!

It’s Jeong Da-ram.

This crazy woman has appeared right in front of my eyes.

It’s dangerous.

Especially meeting this Jeong Da-ram is the worst.

If she recognizes me here, my rumors will spread 100 percent throughout the agency.

Agency surveillance? It would be fortunate if it ends there. Isolation, experiments, becoming a target for elimination in an instant.

I’ll be designated as a top-class test subject in a moment.

As numerous worst-case scenarios quickly flashed before my eyes.

“Huh? Do I know you?”

“?!”

Wait, just now.

Jeong Da-ram…… didn’t recognize me.

It wasn’t the look of someone lying.

She was looking at me as if she was really curious about the meaning of my words, with those bright eyes of that crazy leftist.

-There’s a black flame on your face!

Flash-!

I see.

Right now, in their eyes, I was being recognized as a ghost with a black flame around my face.

If that’s the case, I shouldn’t act so bewildered.

I should act like when I met Department Head Choi Kang-in.

And to act quite like a ghost, there was only one comparison I could think of here.

“……Oh! You’re people from the agency.”

“Oh! A ghost who knows us?”

“It’s an honor to meet you like this.”

“……Oh! How interesting!”

Is this how I should do it, Mr. Noise?

Currently, the only ghost I could imitate was that Noise guy with whom I had the most conversations.

Gentlemanly tone.

Quite restrained body movements.

And mentioning the two characters ‘agency’ stimulated Jeong Da-ram’s curiosity.

Jeong Da-ram looked me over here and there.

“……Interesting! It’s really rare to find a ghost that can have a conversation like this.”

“I’m quite interested in the people from the agency.”

Let’s be brazen.

Let’s keep pushing this concept.

Fortunately, it seems that Jeong Da-ram hasn’t discovered the fact that I’m Park Yeon-jeong right now.

“Deputy Jeong, Jeong Da-ram, it’s dangerous!”

“Th, that’s right! If it’s an intelligent ghost story capable of human conversation, it’s at l-least… a C-grade!”

Unlike Jeong Da-ram who was looking at me with curiosity, the two male employees standing behind seemed to have some wariness about me.

Yes, that’s the normal reaction.

It means this crazy woman’s reaction is abnormal.

But Jeong Da-ram really couldn’t contain her excitement, as if she were looking at a fascinating animal.

“Why? It’s interesting. And opportunities like this don’t come often, Oppa-s.”

“O-oppa….”

Those, those guys.

They blushed at the two syllables ‘oppa’ from Jeong Da-ram.

Especially that small guy with glasses.

Look at that lecherous smile at Jeong Da-ram’s ‘Oppa.’

‘Don’t be fooled! It’s just the tongue play of a cunning woman, you male bastards!!’

Although I desperately wanted to tell them the truth.

Suddenly!

!

Jeong Da-ram stretched her head out in front of me and showed her characteristic lecherous smile.

“You said earlier that you were interested in our agency, ghost Oppa.”

“……Yes. That’s what I said.”

Jeong Da-ram is really a crazy woman.

Surely I must appear as a ghost in front of her eyes too, yet she acts so boldly?

Moreover, ghost Oppa?

Having experienced Jeong Da-ram, whom Park Yeon-jeong had only encountered in writing, directly in person like this.

He was now convinced.

Kim Ha-eun? That was nothing. This woman was truly insane.

“Aren’t you interested in human women?”

“……..”

No, this woman is just crazy.

A super crazy one at that.

Jeong Da-ram started spinning around me, humming a tune, and confidently dragging me here and there.

And the faces of the two male employees watching such a scene had turned pale.

“Hey, is this right? That woman… seems like something’s really wrong with her head.”

The employee wearing glasses was the first to detect the danger of the current situation.

The fact that the woman they were trying to deal with seemed somehow ominous.

“……Let’s, let’s just watch for now.”

The blonde man said to just watch the situation a little more.

Whether they said that or not, Jeong Da-ram’s face was wearing a quite happy expression, as if handling a lover she met after a long time.

“Does ghost story oppa like human women?”

“……”

“I asked if you like women?”

“……”

“I’m interested in ghost Oppa. Want to date? Having a ghost boyfriend has been my dream!”

“………..”

Park Yeon-jeong seriously wondered if his judgment had been correct.”