Mistaken for a Catastrophe-Level Ghost Story Employee 71

Chapter 71

‘That white skull, this bastard….’

This guy is definitely a sentient being.

Otherwise, this couldn’t happen.

At such a ridiculous timing, ‘Unlucky Day’ gets activated?

Does this make any sense!

Anyone can see this is deliberately trying to mess with me!

Grind-

With the sound of a man’s teeth grinding.

My gaze fell towards my right wrist.

Grip-

Currently, my right wrist is being held by the queen.

A being who could easily turn a human like me into a human doll is standing right in front of me now.

I cry out ‘Please save me!’ internally.

But unless there’s a ghost story about reading other’s minds, who could hear my inner thoughts?

Even the princess who had been praising me as a prince until just now was merely observing the current situation.

There was no sign at all that she would help.

Far from helping….

Smile-

‘That, that person!’

Look at that bright smile spreading across their face! That person right now!

Is enjoying this situation.

More than anyone else, enjoying the current situation.

In the end, that person is also a ghost.

The kind that enjoys the process of human suffering more than anyone.

Even now, if I could just take out the quill pen with my left hand…

〖Ex-Excuse me!〗

!

The queen’s thin cry brushed past my ears as she held my wrist.

But….

‘What was that just now… Your Majesty?’

For a moment, I thought I had misheard.

Until our first meeting with the queen, her voice had been full of stubbornness like a lone wolf, but now.

It tickled my eardrums.

It was a dissonant tone that I could hardly believe was the queen’s voice.

I doubted my ears.

It was truly hard to believe it was the same person; the voice just now was small and delicate, like the chirping of a baby bird.

A fleeting and fragile voice that seemed about to disappear with the wind.

‘This is the same person, right?’

Grip-

The strength with which the queen gripped my wrist wasn’t that powerful.

It was tolerable.

But I was perplexed.

Wondering if the queen before my eyes was really the one I knew.

I doubted it.

Grip-

With the grip tightening around my right wrist once more.

The chirping of a small bird tickled a man’s ear once again.

〖Do you… truly think I am… beautiful?〗

“……”

Pardon?

‘…Your Majesty. What you’re asking me, who was trembling in fear of death until just now.’

Is merely….

-How do I look today, Oppa?

Please ask those kinds of questions from a distance!

I, who had been prepared to give up my right arm until just now, vented my frustration internally.

But,

Of course, on the other hand, I was relieved.

I thought it was somewhat fortunate.

The queen didn’t seem hostile yet. She just wanted to hear compliments about her appearance from me.

If she wanted compliments about her appearance that badly.

‘…I’ll give them to you.’

Truly, if that’s what she wants.

I composed my expression.

With a smile that blatantly conveyed the word ‘innocence’ on my lips.

My gaze really looked at the queen with clear, sparkling eyes like those of a benevolent saint.

“What reason would I have to lie to Your Majesty.”

Tick-

…….

Lie detection wristwatch.

This wristwatch, like the white skull, seems to function only at such strange timing.

‘They’re really causing trouble together.’

I composed my voice once again. With a smile that showed no sign of disturbance.

When I felt the grip on my right wrist gradually weakening.

‘Now’s the time!’

Slip-

I pulled my wrist out of the queen’s grasp as naturally as possible.

But, I couldn’t move away from the queen yet.

I couldn’t give the impression that I was trying to escape.

Slide-

I naturally wrapped both my hands around hers in return.

Even if I don’t like it right now.

I had to do it.

If I didn’t want to become a stuffed doll….

〖….〗

I didn’t feel any resistance from the queen.

In that case.

Park Yeon-jeong’s shower of compliments continued.

“Your Majesty is sufficiently beautiful. Even now, when I think of the first time I faced Your Majesty… the wild beating of my heart that day is still vividly remembered.”

Truly, the day I first saw Your Majesty’s bare face.

I thought my heart would stop.

〖….〗

To my flattery, there was no response from the queen.

Was this level of compliment insufficient?

‘…How annoying! This ghost queen!!’

But if I back down here, I’m straight off to becoming a stuffed doll.

“When I see Your Majesty’s crescent moon-like smile, it feels like all the distracting thoughts in my head fly away.”

〖……〗

Again, there was no response from the queen.

There was no response, but….

The trembling transmitted through the queen’s hands that I was holding with both of mine was clearly conveyed to me.

And I thought.

‘…Did she see through me?’

Had my insincere, sugar-coated compliments offended the queen?

…This won’t do.

This won’t do at all.

If this continues, the situation will spiral out of control.

This place will soon become a scene of slaughter.

I will end up becoming a human stuffed doll.

‘Perhaps I should escape now….’

When I was looking at the exit door from the corner of my eye.

〖Tha, That’s enough!〗

Startled!

At the sudden loud shout from the queen, I almost fell backward. Fortunately, I barely managed to maintain my posture.

And when I faced the queen again, who was wearing a black veil, her voice remained very faint.

It was trembling.

〖I, I understand… how you think of me.〗

“…”

As I slowly released the strength with which I was holding the queen’s hand.

Slip-

〖….〗

The queen gently brought her hand to her bosom.

…Rub.

For a while, she caressed the back of her hand.

And when I felt her gaze again.

I realized that the queen’s gaze felt through the black veil was fixed on me without the slightest wavering.

〖…Back then.〗

〖I’m sorry.〗

“……Pardon?”

‘Sorry for what?’

Please specify the subject.

Park Yeon-jeong couldn’t immediately understand what she was apologizing for….

‘Nevertheless, I’ll accept the apology.’

Though I didn’t know what she was apologizing for right now, receiving a sincere apology from the perpetrator felt good.

With those final words, the queen returned to the princess’s side.

〖See you next time.〗

“……”

As the conversation with the queen ended that way, I quickly examined the expression of another being I had momentarily forgotten.

And that being was….

Smiling.

Brightly, looking at the two of us, with a smile frozen stiffly without the slightest change.

I was watching.

Even until the moment I left this room, the smile did not leave the princess’s face.

The meaning of that smile.

What was it?

Anger?

Jealousy?

Or… was it just an ordinary smile without any particular thought?

There was no way to know right away.

Nor did I want to approach the princess and ask a stupid question like, ‘Are you perhaps angry?’ or even try to do so.

Right now, all I could do was.

Silently accept the current situation.

Getting out of this room as soon as possible was the top priority.

There was indeed a small commotion due to Mr. White Skull’s surprise event for a moment.

But after that, I was able to safely bid my final farewell to the two ghost women.

And leave that suffocating room.

Finally, I could escape from those ghosts.

Creeak-

Opening the door.

What I encountered outside was.

【Left arm… really gone?】

“……”

It was the Orange Knight.

Ignoring the Orange Knight who was still standing in the hallway going on about my left arm.

Clatter-

I stepped into the dark corridor.

Clatter-

Clatter-

【…Really? Gone?】

‘Oh come on!’

Only after finally shaking off the persistently clingy Orange Knight.

Park Yeon-jeong was at last truly free from them.

****

The woman who had been able to fill her empty heart with the meeting with the prince.

Soon closed her eyes gently.

And held a warm smile on her lips.

【Your Majesty.】

〖!!〗

At the princess’s voice, the Queen’s tense face hidden behind the veil quickly flashed by.

Smiiiirk-

The princess’s following voice was.

Warm like an early spring breeze, and its end was as cold as ice.

【How fortunate. That the Prince still ‘loves’ Your Majesty. I’m truly… glad that you’re not only my Queen anymore.】

【It seems Your Majesty’s heart still has some ‘value’ left in it.】

The princess, with her characteristic red gleaming eyes, gently placed.

As if handling a precious object.

Her elegant palm near the Queen’s chest.

Swoosh-

Flinch!

And slowly, she caressed the Queen’s body along its curves.

【A heart that is not loved by anyone has no reason to exist.】

〖……〗

【So let’s hang in there together, Your Majesty. So that you won’t be forgotten in the Prince’s memory. So that you won’t be taken away by someone else.】

The elegant touch stopped at the Queen’s lips hidden behind the black veil.

The more intensely red gleaming eyes were shining beautifully enough to devour the heart symbol contained within.

【Prince… Prince… Prince… Prince… please satisfy me.】

Throughout the quiet room.

Only one woman’s repeated murmurings could be heard continuously.

【Prince… I’m content with just you.】

Continuously.

Endlessly.

*****

Achoo!

‘Who’s talking about me?’

But….

Realizing once again.

In truth, I no longer felt much about it.

Honestly, since hearing that my existence had spread among the ghosts, I had let go of quite a lot.

Let go of what, you ask?

What else?

-Stay out of sight, quietly live like a dead mouse only watching others’ reactions, and quietly leave this world.

There was a time when I had such a dream.

That dream….

I never thought it would shatter within such a short period of just a few weeks.

But now it can’t be helped.

Now, whether it turns out well or not, my ultimate goal is escape.

Let’s not be picky about the means and methods.

I decided to make escape the absolute priority.

…Wasn’t that the ultimate goal from the beginning?

Of course, the essence is the same.

Just changing the process a bit to reach that destination.

In a situation where numerous ghosts have marked my coordinates, the old way won’t work.

Since I’ve made up my mind to act as ‘Little Noise’ anyway.

Let whatever happens happen.

From now on, it’s a head-on battle.

‘Come at me, all you ghost bastards!’

Just a few minutes ago.

After hearing the shocking truth from the ghost princess, a man named Park Yeon-jeong was in a state where adrenaline was being secreted in a strange way.

Trudge-

The man who was strongly releasing that vigorous adrenaline was currently.

Step-

Walking through the dark corridor, before the head-on battle with the ghosts.

‘So please…’

He was searching for the last spark of hope.

‘Please just this once!’

Let me just touch the phone once!

Walking through the dark corridor, the self-proclaimed ‘pacifist’ Park Yeon-jeong who actually wanted to sincerely avoid all-out war with the ghosts.

Click-!

“……”

With the familiar sound of the light turning on.

Just now.

He had taken a step away from the title of pacifist.

‘Noise… I dislike you.’