Chapter 59
Bam-pa-ba-bam~♪
Bam-bam-bam~♪
Bam-pa-ba-bam!!!
The brilliant melody of instruments filled the air and echoed all around.
“♥Alright!!”
The love mask approached me and thrust her face close to mine.
This distance.
‘Isn’t this too close?’
…But I couldn’t show such feelings outwardly.
“♥…Good. As I thought, I like you. If you’re okay with it, I’ll ask that idiot to let you skip this performance! How about it! Have you fallen for me?”
“…..”
As if that would happen…
This girl is observing my reaction. If that’s the case, what I need to do is simple.
Pretend to react as this ghost story wants while obtaining the information I need.
I put on the most relaxed smile I could and slowly brought my face closer to the love mask.
Toward the love mask who had shown attraction to me. Thinking of an answer that wouldn’t upset her.
Showing a false smile.
You can do this, Park Yeon-jeong.
‘This should be familiar by now.’
Slightly raising the corners of my mouth despite the spasms, I spoke with a voice tinged with subtle laughter.
“As much as I enjoy watching performances. I also like experiencing them physically. I’ll be looking forward to your next performance as well.”
“♥……”
But there was no response from the love mask.
I had answered as smoothly as possible to her words to avoid standing out in front of Han-sol and the other agency guys.
‘…Was I too presumptuous?’
Since her face is covered with a mask, I can’t tell what expression she’s making.
If the love mask shows any suspicious behavior here, then…
I might have to use the revolver sooner than expected.
If that happens, the entire plan will fall apart.
So please.
‘Please let this work…’
Whoosh-!
!
The love mask, at a speed too fast for the eyes to follow, quickly snatched my right hand.
‘Damn, caught! I’m screwed!’
I’ve been caught!
If I’m touched by this girl … I’ll change.
Just as I was about to quickly pull out the revolver I had placed inside my ID card holder.
“♥I really like you-! Hey!! Stupid brother!!”
A girl’s excited voice echoed throughout the space.
“♦What now?”
“♥Don’t kill this audience member! Really don’t kill him! I want to keep him!!”
…Ah, it seems I’ve succeeded.
‘But I’m not an object?’
And now they’ve started using the expression ‘kill us’ quite openly without hesitation.
“♥Really really really! Don’t kill him!”
“♦…If you don’t like it.”
“♥Aaack!! I said don’t kill him!!”
Setting aside the ongoing quarrel between the two clowns for a moment. My gaze turned to Han-sol, who was standing stiffly like a folding screen.
I hadn’t been able to pay attention because of the love mask in front of me, but this woman…
She’s pushing herself too hard right now.
The slight trembling of both hands and that pale gaze flowing down her cheeks are captured in my eyes.
“…Do you have something to say?”
“!”
Did she somehow sense my gaze?
Unlike her body that had been stiff until just now. Her eyes still seemed not to have lowered the flag of life.
This woman is Han-sol.
I felt it even when she was confidently filling out her job application form.
Among civilians dragged into ghost stories, she’s someone with ‘eyes filled with light’ that are not easily seen.
If such a person entered the agency, perhaps she would have saved many people and debunked many ghost stories.
…No.
Han-sol would certainly have become that level of named employee.
Grin-
It seemed my judgment to save Han-sol wasn’t wrong after all.
Slide.
!
I slightly turned my head toward Han-sol, and drawing out my voice that had been silently submerged, I spoke.
“How interesting… I find myself constantly looking at you.”
“!!”
Han-sol’s startled expression at my softly uttered voice was vividly captured in my sight.
‘…Oops.’
For a moment, I forgot the fact that I appear as a ghost story to her.
There’s nothing good in raising Han-sol’s vigilance right now.
‘With this kind of reaction, maybe I shouldn’t speak at all…’
Crack-
?
And in the brief moment I was having this short conversation with Han-sol.
From inside the mask of the love mask who was watching us both, a sound like something breaking hit my sensitive hearing.
“♥…What?! That bitch is flirting right in front of me?”
“Pardon?”
When Han-sol turned her head after hearing her voice.
Suddenly!
!
The love mask had somehow moved in front of Han-sol and began to exude an ominous atmosphere different from before.
“♥This is exactly why I hate fox-like bitches! If I take my eyes off for even a moment, they try to covet my possession like this… And you!!”
Soon, the love mask’s finger extended toward me standing beside her.
“♥I liked your looks so I was hoping you wouldn’t die this time, but you take your eyes off me for another woman?… I’m angry!!”
Liking alone.
Getting angry alone.
This is that, right?
‘The monologue type of romance style.’
That’s exactly the category.
“♥Ha! I won’t help you anymore. Good luck figuring it out yourself!”
After the love mask showed a very girlish appearance and suddenly left our side.
It was quiet and nice.
And soon, the angry mask displayed a gesture of suppressing his anger by pressing down on the mask he was wearing.
“♦Haah… She’s really annoyingly troublesome.”
Snap!
The angry mask extended his right hand toward the ceiling.
Boom!
The ground that had been fine began to shake.
Boom, boom, boom, boom!
As the shaking of the ground gradually increased, and at the moment when Han-sol lost her balance instantaneously and was about to fall.
Grab.
“Be careful.”
“…Thank you.”
I caught Han-sol, and her thanks came back.
However,
During that brief moment, the details of the incident were…
‘I almost fell too. No, I practically did fall!’
When I nearly fell due to the tremor, I unconsciously grabbed Han-sol’s arm that came into my view.
Though I was screaming inside while barely regaining my balance, I smiled as calmly as possible at Han-sol’s surprised face and said.
“…Be careful.”
I had told such a blatant lie.
……
As the tremors subsided.
When I looked around again,
The numerous obstacles and the group of clowns that had been standing on what was a flat stage center until just moments ago had disappeared.
Wobble-wobble.
My gaze naturally turned to the ceiling, where I noticed clowns looking down at us, sitting on trapeze equipment that had been installed without my knowledge.
The Angry Mask held a microphone and immediately began explaining.
【◆This performance is simple. Eliminate our members and survive as the last person standing. Easy, right?】
Easy?
Do you think we’re Ghost stories like you? And unlike what was clearly described as a participatory performance. Isn’t this just a slaughter battle that borrowed the Colosseum system?
Just as my anger was growing and I wanted to say something brave to that muscle-headed fellow.
Snap!
The Love Mask snatched the microphone and continued with the performance.
【♥Now I’ll introduce the first performance that many audience members have been waiting for! I’ll introduce my cute♪ members!】
No sooner had those words about introducing the members ended.
Whoosh!
Two black figures jumped in from outside the stage.
Thud!
With a single leap, the so-called members revealed themselves before Han-sol and me, and their appearance was true.
Splat!
The very embodiment of hideousness.
The appearance of rather grotesque beings who looked like men with grotesquely stretched human flesh.
They must have been human once.
But now they had become beings that could no longer be called human.
When these two so-called members came onto the stage, the Love Mask grabbed the microphone with both hands and shouted.
【♥How cute!!】
Cute, she says.
Pop!
With yellow pus bursting and dripping from their abdomens.
‘Cute?’
The Love Mask continued to adore those flesh lumps with an excited voice.
【♥How can they be so cute! I want to make you into my cute members too…】
【◆You shut up! You’re driving me crazy!】
The Angry Mask immediately snatched the Love Mask’s microphone.
‘Well done this time, Mr. Angry Mask. We’re on the same page.’
The Angry Mask quickly continued with the performance.
【◆There’s no time limit. The one who turns the opponent into mush first by any means necessary wins. That’s it!】
With those words, the Angry Mask gave us a brief piece of advice.
【◆In any case, if you don’t want to become this crazy woman’s boyfriend, you’d better struggle hard… Now, countdown begins!】
The Angry Mask shouted loudly and passed the microphone to the Tearful Mask.
And.
【◆Start the countdown.】
【♣Always making me do these things… 10.】
The countdown began.
Without delay, I took out another teddy bear from my ID card holder and abruptly handed it to Han-sol.
“Wear this.”
“…What?”
I know.
It’s confusing, isn’t it, Han-sol?
If someone suddenly presented you with a small keyring-sized teddy bear and told you to wear it.
That realistic expression and reaction might be natural.
But I answered smugly.
“You lack imagination.”
Snap!
I flicked my finger.
At the same time, I made eye contact with the teddy bear in Han-sol’s hand and signaled with my eyes.
‘Teddy!’
!
The teddy bear seemed to notice my hidden intention.
Pop!
In an instant, it changed its size, startling Han-sol.
‘Well done! My second teddy!’
Inside, I wanted to bow to the teddy bear, but outwardly I nodded calmly.
“How… it was definitely keyring-sized.”
“Your reaction… is amusing.”
Maintaining a character is indeed difficult.
But the amazement at what happened before his eyes was brief. Han-sol’s curiosity intensified again.
“But how am I supposed to wear this?”
Simultaneously, the countdown struck our ears.
【3…】
From now on, rather than explaining with words.
It might be better to show them with actions.
Pop!
The first teddy bear with a heart embroidery on its chest also enlarged itself.
Then the first teddy bear lifted me up.
I calmly said aloud.
“Just leave it to the teddy bear.”
Leaving only those words.
Grab-!
Gulp.
I was swallowed by the first teddy bear.
!
Flash!
The second teddy bear also didn’t wait, immediately lifting Han-sol.
“W-wait! I’m not ready yet…”
Gulp.
Han-sol was also swallowed by the giant teddy bear, and the clowns watching from above.
【♣…Is this already over, bro?】
【◆…】
While the clowns couldn’t properly comprehend the current situation.
Pop!
Soon the faces of the two people swallowed by the teddy bears appeared near the teddy bears’ mouths.
?!?!
Han-sol still seemed unable to keep up with the rapid pace.
But the same seemed true for the clowns.
The proof was that the voice of the Tearful Mask who had been shouting the countdown had stopped.
“It seems the countdown has stopped? When can we start? Please proceed quickly, Mr. Host☺.”
My smug voice did not elicit any reaction from the Tearful Mask and Love Mask.
Well, I hadn’t expected a response from those two.
Crack-
The only one I hoped would respond to my complaint was just one person.
Cra-ack-
The hot-tempered Angry Mask.
【◆…Look at this bastard? Seems like he wants to die quickly?】
His voice filled with killing intent was soon.
Snatch!
【♣Hey! There’s still 2 seconds left.】
He immediately grabbed the microphone the Tearful Mask was holding and shouted.
【◆It begins! You son of a bitch!!!】
Screeeech-
It started with the microphone’s severe noise. Along with the microphone sound signaling the start.
Crack-!
The grotesque bodies of the two strange members soon began to bounce like bouncing balls.
The sight was truly bizarre, and the places where those giant flesh bouncing balls passed.
Crunch-!
The ground’s cracks revealed that being crushed beneath them would mean certain death.
“What do you plan to do now!”
Han-sol’s urgent voice was.
Cru-unch-!
“Hey!”
As those giant flesh lumps approached them, the anxiety only grew.
I also had no intention of standing there like an idiot.
I didn’t come down to this stage to get crushed by those flesh lumps without doing anything.
I uttered just one sentence to the anxious Han-sol.
“What did I say earlier?”
“…What?”
Han-sol sent me a look full of discontent for asking such a strange question in this dire situation, but she remembered what I had told her.
“…Leave it to the teddy bear…”
“Indeed, your memory is good.”
‘Yes, Han-sol. We just need to trust our bodies to them.’
The teddy bears we’re currently wearing aren’t just cute ordinary teddy bear costumes…
That’s why.
Cru-unch-!!
With a sound piercing the ears.
As the dark shadow falling on Park Yeon-jeong’s crown descended.
Thud-!
Park Yeon-jeong was crushed beneath the giant flesh lump.
Without any chance to resist, he disappeared without a trace.
The first to react was.
【◆…Pfft! He was just all talk! Hahahahaha!!】
The Angry Mask burst into laughter. He was certain of Park Yeon-jeong’s death.
…Bulge!
【◆…Huh?】
But.
Suddenly, the body of the flesh lump sitting on Park Yeon-jeong began to swell gradually.
Then.
Bulge–BOOM!!!
With a loud explosion.
A man covered in red blood and flesh pieces showed a rigid smile on his face, and in his heart, where no one could hear, he said:
‘…I think I’m going to throw up.’
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