Chapter 31
I thought if I sent Kim Ha-eun back, there wouldn’t be anyone left to bother me. Certainly.
That’s how it should have been.
“……”
Rumble, Rumble.
The chair hasn’t stopped trembling since earlier.
It wasn’t the bus trembling.
Nor was I shaking my legs.
The trembling was only felt from the seat where Park Yeon-jeong was sitting.
Rumble, Rumble, Rumble.
“…You dislike me, don’t you?”
“Wh-what?!”
Otherwise, there’s no reason to torment me so blatantly.
But the blonde ghost started getting angry, asking what I was talking about.
“Wh-what are you suddenly saying?”
“You’ve been shaking your leg constantly since earlier.”
“Th-this is… tremor!”
“……”
…That’s for hands, though?
I desperately wanted to point this out, but I barely suppressed that emotion and just did what I needed to do.
Soon we would be arriving at the next stop, the ‘Gluttony Stop.’
I pointed the barrel of the revolver I had drawn at my temple, and the blonde ghost, who belatedly discovered this, shouted with a pale face.
“Hey! Are you crazy!”
A natural reaction.
Before the blonde ghost could stop me from making this extreme choice, the trigger was pulled.
Click!
There was a weak firing sound as only air escaped from the barrel.
And soon, a flag popped out from the barrel.
The blonde ghost muttered in disbelief.
“…A white flag?”
“……”
…White is.
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/Item List The Final Trigger.
(Check today’s fortune!)
. . .
Note that the white bullet is a ‘dud.’
It’s a dud.
I guess I was lucky during the Match Girl incident.
The color of the bullet I was hoping for was the one that had shown a spectacular debut in the previous stage.
The yellow bullet.
A bullet with overwhelming destructive power that engulfs all targets within its radius when fired.
If I had drawn that bullet, even if several people boarded at the next Gluttony Stop, I could have ended everything with just that one shot.
The color of the bullets that came into Park Yeon-jeong’s view as he checked the chamber of the revolver was none other than.
White.
Unlike the yellow bullet,
six white bullets filled all six chambers of the revolver.
Certainly, the white that Park Yeon-jeong just drew was the color corresponding to a dud.
And the description of the white bullet is as follows.
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/The Final Trigger
<White Bullet>
:Unlucky day.
(A normal bullet that inflicts a slightly larger wound on the target it hits.)
A slightly stronger version than the ordinary bullet we generally know.
(Naturally, one headshot can subdue a normal human.)
It can be seen as a slightly enhanced version of the bullet power we know.
But in reality, a version that’s just a little stronger than a regular bullet would be practically meaningless in this kind of ghost story.
If this white bullet had appeared in the Match Girl ghost story. I would have been frustrated.
Unable to use all six bullets against the Match Girl’s overwhelming numbers.
I too would have become black ashes.
But now it is different.
‘Please less than six people… please!’
The Gluttony passengers boarding this time are creatures with a strong obsession for food.
And what they like most is.
Human flesh.
Especially young and sturdy men.
They’ll probably rush to tear off my flesh as a living human the moment they board the bus.
It’s obvious without even seeing it.
But if there’s a difference between them and the Match Girl ghost story.
Their physical abilities are not much different from those of an ordinary adult male. Their weaknesses are not much different from humans like us.
It means they can be subdued by putting a bullet in the heart or head.
【The next stop is ‘Gluttony’.】
Not much time left.
It begins the moment the front door of the bus opens.
Grip.
A slight trembling is felt in the hand holding the revolver.
I’m nervous.
My heartbeat pounds like thunder in my ears.
The cold sweat flowing from my palms doesn’t stop.
Was it because of that tension?
Numerous worst-case scenarios quickly flash through my mind.
What if the number of people boarding the bus exceeds six?
What if I can’t subdue all the passengers rushing at me within six shots?
Then they would chew, tear, taste, and enjoy me thoroughly…
Why is it always at times like this?
That only the worst situations come to mind?
For now, I could only desperately hope that the number of boarding passengers would not exceed six.
【This stop is ‘Gluttony’.】
【Passengers wishing to disembark should check their roster and exit at this stop.】
Screech.
The bus stops, and the rear door opens first.
And as the front door of the bus opens consecutively.
“Smell! Delicious human smell!!!”
Three shadows board the bus.
They’re coming!
They look exactly like humans, but they’re foaming at the mouth like rabid dogs, three inhuman beings.
They started charging fiercely toward Park Yeon-jeong, putting both arms on the ground.
The moment I recognized them as clearly non-human entities.
Snap!
The revolver’s barrel pointed toward them without the slightest hesitation.-
1 bullet loaded.
-Today’s personal color: ‘White.’ –
An unlucky day. (omitted below)
Bang!
Thud!
“!!”
The bullet fired from the barrel smashed the head of the creature that was just fiercely charging toward Park Yeon-jeong.
‘It worked!’
As expected, they can be subdued.
Now there are two left.
Swoosh!
The moment they saw their comrade fall from the gunshot,
They instinctively split to both sides and began to act.
-1 bullet loaded.
(omitted below)
Bang!
Thud.
This time too, the second bullet fired by Park Yeon-jeong lodged precisely in the head of another creature.
But the next problem is.
“Fresh meat!!”
The creature that just split away and wasn’t in Park Yeon-jeong’s firing range is rushing straight toward me.
-1 bullet loaded.
Bang!
Ping!
The bullet missed its target.
The moment the third bullet, which should have hit, missed due to a targeting error.
Grip!
“Aaargh!”
The consequence of missing the bullet was entirely returned to Park Yeon-jeong.
It hurts!
It’s hot!
A fierce pain, as if my forearm was burning, surged through me.
The creature’s sharp awl digs deep into my skin.
“Meat meat meat meat meat meat!!”
An excruciating pain like I’ve never experienced in my life.
I opened my bloodshot eyes wide.
Click.
-1 bullet loaded.
With trembling hands, I aimed at the creature’s head in front of me.
And, without hesitation, I pulled the trigger.
0
Bang!
……Slump.
The strength of the cannibal’s jaw, which had been gnawing on Park Yeon-jeong’s forearm, weakened.
Thud.
Fortunately, the fourth bullet I fired penetrated its head, and the body of the creature tumbled toward me, in stark contrast to its previous frenzy.
Throb!
Indeed, I couldn’t avoid injury at this stop.
And how heavy was the corpse of the creature that had just breathed its last on top of me.
Just as Park Yeon-jeong, who couldn’t muster proper strength due to an injured arm, was about to be crushed.
Whoosh!
Huh?
The creature’s weight, which had been heavy until just now, became lighter.
I took the opportunity to immediately throw it to the floor, and as I was catching my breath, my eyes caught sight of blonde hair falling in front of me.
“Are you okay?!”
“……Yes, I guess.”
I found myself answering the urgent question before I knew it.
Drop. ?
But what was most perplexing was the sight of the blonde ghost bursting into tears.
“Thank goodness. Thank goodness……really, thank goodness.”
“……..”
Perhaps…
I implicitly thought she was shedding tears for Park Yeon-jeong himself.
The sight of her crying so sorrowfully for me made me think a lot.
……Why are you suddenly crying?
Were we that close?
Moreover, someone who had been cursing me to die until just now is crying at the fact that I survived.
Could it be tears of disappointment that I didn’t die?
From a single incident, various strange misunderstandings continued to pile up.
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“……”
Squeeze!
“Aah, it hurts!”
“Stay still! What kind of man can’t endure this much.”
Currently, the blonde ghost was stopping the bleeding on my arm, which had been injured in the recent battle with the passenger.
With no proper cloth nearby, the blonde ghost tore the hem of her shroud and used that cloth to stop my bleeding.
“…Is it okay to use a shroud like that?”
“It’s what I’m wearing, so it doesn’t matter, right?”
“……”
Let’s not talk about it.
“There, done.”
“Thank you.”
I expressed my gratitude to the blonde ghost, and after receiving my thanks, the ghost lady.
“…Excuse me.”
She seemed to have something else to say.
“Why are you……so normal? Usually, other people either have seizures or faint as soon as they see me.”
To her question, I didn’t say, ‘Ah! It’s because of these glasses!’
If this blonde ghost suddenly learned that fact and tried to take my glasses, I would not only be in trouble, but I would never be able to escape from this place.
“I just have a unique constitution.”
“…Really?”
I dismissed it with a plausible explanation.
The blonde ghost, seeing me readily answer her question, seemed to have flipped some strange switch.
She began to rapidly fire a barrage of questions.
“Then, who was that woman next to you just now? A crush? Girlfriend? Or……sex, a friend with benefits or something?”
“……We’re not in any kind of relationship.”
“It doesn’t seem that way; the woman seemed to like you.”
“…I’d like to ask you something about that in return.”
“Oh? What is it?”
“If someone you like tells you they want to break up, would you kill them?”
“What?! Are you crazy? Why would you suddenly kill someone? What are you, a psycho?”
“That’s what I think too.”
“…..Don’t tell me, that woman?”
“……..”
I didn’t say anything.
So I didn’t talk behind your back…
Kim Ha-eun.
But the blonde ghost, who seemed to be thinking a lot after hearing my words, put her finger to her lips and pondered.
“Then, what you said at first was right?”
“What did I say?”
“That you haven’t dated not because you couldn’t, but because ‘you’re a loner virgin by choice.'”
There seems to be quite a lot of… actually, a substantial amount of distortion in her words.
I refrained from getting angry here, fearing it might appear as if I’m acknowledging her statement.
“…You mean you’ve never even had a girlfriend. What a total loser.”
“……”
“Your silence means agreement, right?”
Just as Park Yeon-jeong was about to pull out his revolver, with the genuinely pure curiosity of whether bullets would work on ghosts as well.
【The next stop is ‘Sloth’.】
The announcement that we were arriving at the Sloth stop, which would be my final trial.
Suddenly, the blonde ghost abruptly brought her face close to mine.
“…Haa, what should I do with this pitiful loser? I wonder if he’ll die without ever dating anyone.”
“……”
Should I really shoot?
This is truly self-defense, right?
I was just about to point the gun barrel at the forehead of the blonde ghost in front of me.
Screech.
The bus stopped.
And amidst my squabble with this ghost woman, I noticed the passenger at this Sloth stop.
The boarding of an old man with a cane.
This stop, like the previous Envy and Lust stops, primarily involved mental damage.
The type of mental damage was ‘sleep’, something that anyone who has frequently used public transportation might have empathized with at least once.
-…Ah! I fell asleep for a moment and missed my stop!
But this would never happen to Park Yeon-jeong, who had the mental damage immunity glasses.
So.
It’s over.
There is nothing left to threaten me now.
If I had to pick the worst disadvantage of this stop, it would be:
Until this passenger, the old man, sits down, this bus will absolutely not depart.
And
Slowly……slowly.
That old man’s steps are really extremely slow.
His steps are so slow that he hasn’t even moved away from the front door of the bus yet.
In a situation that seemed likely to be prolonged, I had no choice but to wait for the bus to depart, then.
A smirk.
“Then………”
The voice of a woman reached my right ear.
The words she uttered, with a smile in her eyes that she had never shown me before and a coquettish tone in her voice, were:
“I’ll date you.”
“…………..Pardon?”
“Don’t worry. I’ll never leave your side for the rest of your life until you die……How does that feel? The feeling of being confessed to for the first time……excited?”
…How do I feel, you ask?
The fact that the one confessing their love for me is not an ordinary human but an unusual being like you.
Brings tears to my eyes.
Of course, in a bad way.
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