Chapter 51.
A woman was wearing a black veil.
Her face underneath was indiscernible, with only an eerie aura emanating from it.
The distinctive silver hair flowing through the veil seemed to represent the invisible beauty of the woman.
Swoosh!
The woman covered her mouth with a black fan.
The distance between Park Yeon-jeong and the woman was considerable, but the contours of her black dress revealing her skin were clearly visible.
Soon after.
Perhaps the woman felt Park Yeon-jeong’s gaze.
She opened her mouth again.
“I will ask once more.”
The woman’s voice filled the space and spread, and the space itself seemed to tremble at its resonance.
The woman who had been sitting seductively on the throne slowly adjusted her posture and asked.
“Do I appear beautiful?”
‘Can I even see from this distance!’
While inwardly expressing his frustration, Park Yeon-jeong absolutely refused to open his mouth in response to her question.
Not right now.
Not until that woman reveals her true appearance to me.
Absolutely.
No matter what happens.
Even if my arms were to fall off… ah, no, that’s not it.
Anyway!
I absolutely must not open my mouth.
A hasty answer would be like offering my skin to her.
———=
/Ghost Story Journal
[Am I pretty?]
:Identification code Cd-C-12
Pursuing beauty is a natural thing.
If there is anyone who wants to live an ugly life, they may throw stones at me.
But.
Do you want to be pretty?
Do you want to monopolize love?
Do you want everyone to look only at you?
Then run to a mirror right now and shout like this.
Bloody Queen.
Bloody Queen.
Bloody Queen.
‘Please give me beauty like yours!’
Then I will ask you.
“Do I appear beautiful?”
Then you…
‘…Yes, you are truly beautiful. More than anything else…’
Pursuing beauty is a natural thing.
Everyone was satisfied with her procedure.
Physically restrainable.
Very high mental damage.
Additional note.
When encountering the Bloody Queen.
1. When she is smiling with a beautiful face. (Say ‘You are truly beautiful.’)
2. When she has a haughty, expressionless face. (Never answer her words.)
3. When her face is made of ■■■■■, run away. (You can only survive by running with all your might to a place where mirrors do not exist.)
———=
If my first encounter with the Bloody Queen had started from a mirror, I could have responded appropriately to the situation.
But now the situation is different.
If I’m in the space ruled by that queen, things change.
The fact that I’ve now entered the Bloody Queen’s space.
There’s a high probability that she’s making ‘that face.’
The ‘face’ that must never be confronted.
Plop!
I bowed my head deeply as if paying respect to a king.
In truth, I lowered my head to avoid making eye contact with the queen. Even deeper… as if digging into the stone floor.
I pressed my forehead against the floor with all my might.
Snap!
The sound of folding a fan that pierced my hearing.
“I will ask once more.”
Click, click.
The queen rose from her throne.
Click, click.
The Bloody Queen is walking toward me.
“Not many have made me this impatient.”
Click.
“If you so desperately want to see my face up close, I will especially grant you that.”
Click.
The vibration of footsteps draws closer.
Click.
“Raise your head.”
“……”
“I said raise your head.”
“……”
I don’t want to lift it.
Can’t I just stay like this?
Honestly, I just wished the queen would give up on me and simply send me back outside.
I really wished she would.
Grab!
!
The queen immediately grabbed my chin, who was bowing my head and pulled it toward her face.
“Don’t worry. It’s a beauty you’ll hardly ever see again.”
“……”
My mouth sealed shut automatically.
And I prayed.
Like when the purple bullet came out, I prayed for the black skull mark on my forearm to respond.
Please, Mr. Skull Mark, just like that time!
‘Please, Lucky Day Park Chum-ji!’
I desperately hoped.
Slip.
At least until the queen first lifted the veil covering her face.
“How is it?”
I saw… it.
I saw her face revealed beyond the veil.
Drop.
My gaze naturally turned to something flowing down from beyond the veil.
In the place where my gaze fell.
There was something that should never fall from a face.
Red-stained human flesh.
I hastily swallowed a breath.
But the queen’s low voice continued to tickle my ear.
“Does my beauty take your breath away with its brilliance?”
Park Yeon-jeong’s head slowly rose to the sky and directly faced the queen who was speaking to him.
“Yes, open your eyes wide and look. Am I… beautiful?”
‘Ah, I’m screwed.’
The face of this Bloody Queen before my eyes was like…
A poorly made doll.
The skin was unnaturally stretched tight, and my gaze focused on the bits of flesh slightly visible at each boundary line where stitches were sewn.
If I hadn’t been wearing glasses, I might have fainted beyond screaming at the situation.
Zzzzz-!
As the queen’s mouth moved once more.
Her lips slowly, too slowly parted, and a red tongue slipped out through the gap pulled along the stitches to greet me.
“……I will ask once more.”
Click click click click!
As the stitches fixing her lips came undone, a disgustingly excessive tongue dripped dark mucus and protruded mockingly.
“Is this queen’s face… beautiful?”
The queen whispered once more.
I barely opened my mouth.
“Your Majesty, you are… truly beautiful. To the extent that all women could be jealous of you, to the extent that only you could be called the standard of beauty…”
The queen stopped her hand and slowly murmured.
In my heart, inaudible to the queen, I said this.
‘…I feel sick.’
The worst appearance of a woman that should never be encountered in current ghost stories was unfolding before my eyes.
Not a face with a beautiful smile.
Not a haughty face filled with cold chill.
As if someone’s flesh had been sewn with thread.
Park Yeon-jeong had engraved in his own eyes the worst appearance that he never wanted to face again with his two eyes.
And what was most striking about the current queen’s face was.
Creeak-!
The sound of fixed stitches that seemed about to break whenever she spoke.
It makes me nauseated.
Without realizing it, my hand instinctively went up around my mouth.
To think I would face this queen at such a worst moment… this was nothing short of true misfortune.
-A day of terrible luck.
You’re certainly performing well.
Our Mr. Skull Mark.
“I like this man.”
Swoosh.
Soon after, the woman’s hand that was holding my chin gently traced my cheek and endlessly caressed my thick lips.
Along with that striking smile.
“Even bringing a gift for me. Well done… well done. You might be the first one to be this proactive.”
‘If I don’t do this, you’ll kill me, won’t you!’
Swish!
Soon after, the queen removed her hand that was touching my lips and once again opened the fan she was holding.
“Good. You’re a suitable man to be my 211th groom.”
“…Thank you.”
I knew this would happen!
———=
The Bloody Queen took all men who complimented her appearance without screaming at her hideous figure as her grooms. (In the case of women, she killed them mercilessly.)
———=
But if I were to refuse her groom position here.
Then there would be nothing but death afterward.
Click.
The queen moved first, and with a smile spreading across her mouth, began guiding me somewhere.
“Leave that ugly princess on that cold floor. My grooms will take good care of that girl.”
“Yes, I understand.”
I followed the queen’s words.
But thinking that I needed to keep our teddy bear even if I didn’t take the doll pile, I moved my steps.
“Stay in the ID card for a moment.”
Swinging!
Only waving the arms attached to the upper body, I could find some comfort whenever I saw that appearance.
Our teddy bear, who sometimes helps my mental care even more than these mental damage immunity glasses I’m currently wearing.
Soon I put the teddy bear with only the upper body left into the ID card.
Swish!
The queen’s fanning urging my steps was heard.
“I don’t look favorably upon a groom with sluggish movements. Make sure to move diligently.”
“I will keep that in mind.”
Following the queen’s hasty steps, I followed her.
*****
Step.
The elegant flowing gait and the woman’s figure seen from behind truly possessed the dignity of a queen.
Except for that hideous face.
How far had we walked?
Seeing the two black figures that caught my eye, this thought crossed my mind.
“…People?”
I couldn’t help but think so.
Foolishly… in a place like this.
There’s no way there could be human beings.
Two men wearing black uniforms were waiting for us in front of the long corridor we were walking.
The queen showed a faint smile through her veil as she looked at the two men.
“You have excellent appearances today as well.”
“……”
“……”
The queen spoke to the two men in a very friendly voice.
《Exchange greetings. This is my 211th groom.》
“……”
“……”
As soon as the queen finished speaking, I politely bowed to the two men and greeted them.
“It is an honor to meet you like this.”
“……”
“……”
But again, there was no answer this time.
‘…There’s no way there would be.’
Creeeeeak-.
The skin attached to one man’s facial area began to split.
And seeing that sight, the queen’s hand slowly caressed that falling skin.
With a wistful voice, she said.
“Don’t worry. My love for you all will not change.”
This queen… is truly severe.
If we were to measure the degree of delusion, this woman would clearly correspond to the worst severity.
I gave a formal greeting to the two men to please the queen.
But no matter how I looked at it, these two men were already.
Dead.
Moreover, in a state where the original form was not left at all, with body parts that seemed to be patched together from others, in a terrible appearance.
Probably… this appearance would be my future appearance as well.
Swish.
Park Yeon-jeong’s gaze turned back to the faces of the two men.
Plop.
Rolling down.
Ah… this is.
Seeing one man’s eyeball coming out so easily as if it were a toy eye, Park Yeon-jeong felt an even greater desperate desire to leave this place.
But the queen didn’t seem to mind that sight.
“The food will get cold. Let’s go quickly.”
After those words, the queen’s steps quickened a bit.
I also followed her steps, and when we arrived at the place she mentioned.
“It seems we’ve arrived without being late.”
What entered my vision as soon as her words about arriving without being late ended was.
The unbelievable size of the room, and the queen’s grooms already sitting in numerous chairs waiting for me.
This place was truly.
The worst dining room that I didn’t even want to describe with the fitting word “hell.”
Ugh!
Instinctively, I covered my nose with one hand.
I covered my mouth.
Due to the disgusting smell that stung my nostrils, vomit almost spewed out of my mouth for a moment.
No matter how much mental damage was prevented.
It doesn’t block the stench coming through the nostrils.
“Sit down. I personally called everyone here because you were coming.”
In the midst of the queen’s tone saying she had prepared my seat and the scene of stench that would never come in a lifetime.
The only empty seat caught my eye.
I sat down immediately at that obviously empty seat.
The queen began to explain to them one by one who were sitting at that long table.
First, my first husband is…
It began.
The introduction of skin toy puppets in detail.
As it continued, Park Yeon-jeong didn’t focus on the queen’s words.
The reason was.
Because of the bowl placed in front.
The food that was presumably a fancy steak was currently.
Dried up without any trace of blood, and numerous flying fruit flies and fresh maggots around it caught my eye first.
This is no longer a fancy steak.
It’s a fresh maggot steak.
So.
I mean I absolutely don’t want to eat it.
I didn’t even want to think about what would happen to my body the moment I put that maggot steak in my mouth.
“Oh my.”
Startled!
For a moment, the queen’s voice brushed my ear and my gaze turned toward the queen.
“I didn’t give you time to eat. Since my chef prepared this food with care, please taste it first.”
…Excuse me?
The moment I put this maggot steak in my mouth, countless maggots seem like they’ll swarm inside my body too?
“Don’t be reserved, try it.”
I will decline!
I firmly decline!!
This really won’t do.
To avoid eating this food, I hurriedly changed the subject.
Before pushing that maggot steak into my mouth.
“…By the way, Your Majesty! You said you were taking me as your 211th consort… how do you plan to hold the wedding?”
!
The queen was startled by my words.
“…You’ve already deeply engraved our future in your heart. I’m starting to like you even more.”
Did I say something wrong?
But soon after, the queen opened her mouth after hearing my words.
“This time, I’m planning to prepare a somewhat special wedding.”
“A special wedding meaning…?”
Why do I feel so uneasy?
“Until now, my husbands have become too reticent after marriage. I don’t dislike that aspect either… but I’m also a lady who feels lonely sometimes.”
Please don’t try to cover it with the word ‘reticent.‘
They’re not ‘reticent,’ they’re now entities that should be considered corpses.
“So this time, I want to proceed in a slightly different way.”
Swish.
The queen folded her fan and pointed it at me.
“Fortunately, your face pleases me. Let’s replace that inadequate body.”
“With that skinny body, you’d be far too insufficient to satisfy me tonight.”
“……”
Excuse me?
I’m surely going to die during that body replacement process.
Why do these ghost stories perceive my body as some easily replaceable toy?
“I’m looking forward to it. Our first night… and, you can look forward to it too.”
Hehene-
Time remaining until Park Yeon-jeong’s body modification.
1 hour.
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