Mistaken for a Catastrophe-Level Ghost Story Employee 72

Chapter 72

Crackle-

A sharp, irritating noise brushes past my ears.

That noise.

It seemed to make me realize once again clearly where I am now.

Crackle-

The voice coming through the speaker approached me with words so nonchalantly.

[Employee Park Yeon-jeong! Was your meeting with the customer enjoyable?]

‘…You’re asking if it was enjoyable?’

As I quietly listened to the voice of the lively Noise, the emotion I felt first before any other was.

Complete emptiness.

And a sense of futility.

Of course, this doesn’t mean I don’t dislike Noise. It just meant that I was gradually becoming accustomed to this situation.

It’s not like this is the first or second time, right?

Although I disliked myself for calmly accepting this abnormal situation.

Even my emotional fluctuations that had been unstable until now had reached a point where I could maintain some composure.

I hadn’t been in this strange space for very long, but I was now officially a member of this bizarre company.

They say humans are ‘animals of adaptation,’ after all.

My gaze slowly turned toward the speaker, and I sincerely answered the noise’s recent question.

“Yes, thanks to you, I had many conversations.”

And Mr. Noise.

Do you know what?

I’ve been marked, they say.

All the ghosts are targeting me. Now, I’m a famous influencer among ghosts!

Drip-

‘…Huh?’

Somehow, moisture fills my eyes again.

Droplets forming between my moist eyelids obscure my vision.

And right now, I’m.

Crying.

…….

I take back all those words I just said about being able to maintain emotional stability, about being consumed by vanity.

I realize now.

In MBTI, I was extremely ‘F’.

It means I’m an emotional man.

So.

‘It’s okay to be a little emotional.’

Sniff-

While I was drying the moisture in my eyes for a while.

Crackle-

At the dull noise resonating through my skull, my gaze turned back to the speaker.

[You worked really hard today as well. The past week has been filled with many events, so you must be tired.]

[Let’s leave work earlier than usual today.]

“……Yes, understood. Thank you for your hard work as well, Mr. Noise.”

I responded to Noise’s words with a deep voice.

However, in reality, the two words ‘leave work’ traveled through a man’s ear and quickly transmitted to his frontal lobe.

My frontal lobe suppressed my emotions that felt like they were about to explode.

Very much so.

If I hadn’t suppressed them, I would have shouted with joy right here.

‘I’ve been waiting for those words! Mr. Noise!!’

I believed in you!

Just at this moment, I was as happy as if I had gained everything in life.

The fact that the word ‘happiness’ in life was not far away was something I just physically felt with my whole body.

My steps were lighter than ever before, and just as I, Park Yeon-jeong, was ready to run home right now.

Crackle-

Noise conveyed additional information.

[Employee Park Yeon-jeong. And let’s take a day off tomorrow, without coming to work.]

“To-tomorrow… take a day off?”

I confirmed it again.

I doubted those words from Noise.

Until now, after Noise’s sweet words, there was always a strange condition attached.

I thought this was another such pattern.

But the response from Noise to my question was.

Crackle-

A calm tone without any disturbance.

[Yes. Then, I’ll see you again the day after tomorrow, Employee Park Yeon-jeong.]

Mr. Noise…….

‘You are truly the best boss!’

While the praise for Noise was actively continuing in one man’s heart.

[Oh! As promised, I’ll fix your wristwatch.]

After Noise’s words about fixing the wristwatch.

Suddenly!

A white librarian that flew toward Park Yeon-jeong himself showed a hand gesture as if asking for something to be placed on an empty palm.

Without needing to ask, I handed over the worn-out wristwatch I was wearing to the white librarian.

Grasp.

The white librarian who took the broken wristwatch quickly disappeared.

Swoosh-

?

But our other white librarian who appeared again from a different direction.

The second librarian was clenching a fist.

With a ‘surely not, right?’ mindset, I watched the second librarian, and as soon as the second librarian appeared, he opened his palm.

Wide open-

On that open palm.

Splash.

There was a perfectly fine new wristwatch of the same model as the one Park Yeon-jeong himself had just given to the first librarian.

“……”

I stared at the wristwatch on the librarian’s palm for a while.

Kept staring.

Crackle-

Until the disturbing noise of the speaker brushed my ears again.

[They say that the more excellent a boss is, the more they prepare spare items for any emergency. Indeed, I am an excellent boss!]

[I hope you take better care of it this time, Employee Park Yeon-jeong :)]

So, so….

Based on those words from Noise.

This fellow Noise revealed to me himself that he already had not just one, but several of these wristwatches prepared.

Even if not today.

It means he could have given me a new wristwatch at any time.

“……”

Even though I received the item again, why was there this inexplicable sense of betrayal?

…Let’s stop thinking deeply about it.

In the end, the one who gets hurt will be Park Yeon-jeong himself.

Just forget it.

Despite clearly receiving a new wristwatch, I moved forward swaying left and right with a body that became as light as a piece of paper due to an inexplicable bitterness.

It was a strangely exhausting journey home.

*****

In the empty space.

Crackle-

The subtle vibration of the speaker rippled through the space along with the dust floating in the void.

Clearly, it wasn’t a loud noise.

But that gentle static was truly.

Infinitely….

Unpleasant.

Crackle-

[Looking at you two… memories I don’t want to recall keep coming back.]

Moments of that day.

Regrets from that day….

That can never be returned.

[I ended up being mean to her without realizing it. Indeed, I was still clumsy at managing my emotions.]

[But I believe Employee Park Yeon-jeong will do well.]

Therefore,

[I hope you don’t repeat the same mistakes as me.]

*****

The sky is dark.

That doesn’t mean the day has already come to an end.

It was just cloudy weather where it wouldn’t be strange if it rained at any moment.

Was that why?

My steps were particularly fast that day. I increased my pace to avoid the rain that might fall at any moment.

I quickly headed toward home.

Perhaps because of these quick steps, I was able to reach home faster than expected.

Unhesitatingly passing through the dilapidated gate, I moved boldly toward the front door without waiting.

Rummage-

As I took out the front door key I had put in my coat pocket, and immediately inserted the key into the doorknob.

Flash!

Rumble, boom, boom-!

Thunder and lightning greeted me.

!!

‘Goodness!’

I almost dropped the key I was holding in my hand.

My body instinctively shrank from the yellow flash that covered the entire sky in an instant and the thunder that seemed to have fallen quite close.

For a moment, my body froze.

With thunder rumbling this loudly.

I thought I might have nearly been struck by that thunder and lightning.

If…

If ‘Unlucky Day’ had activated at this moment… I surely would have been hit.

‘Park Yeon-jeong, electrically roasted.’

“……”

My lips became completely dry.

With the unsettling sensation of all my hair standing on end, my hand movements quickened.

I didn’t want to become a human roast.

Click.

The front door opened.

As always, I expected the cozy warmth of the interior and bright lighting different from the gloomy outside would be waiting for me.

Naturally, I thought it would be that way.

But,

…?

What I saw before my eyes.

Far from the cozy warmth of the room, the sight of a damp building interior greeted me first.

It was somewhat different from the interior of the house that Park Yeon-jeong had seen until now… no, I thought I was just dreaming.

I thought I had come to the wrong house.

Far from bright light.

Through broken furniture and shattered lights, a space where not even the slightest light entered came into view.

Even the musty smell of mold that brushed my nose. It was an abandoned building with no trace that anyone had ever lived there.

And the moment I saw the shabby space.

I couldn’t help but think, ‘Did I put the key in the wrong lock?’

It was a reasonable doubt.

It was the complete opposite of the scenery I had seen here until now.

Park Yeon-jeong closed the door again.

This time, looking directly and carefully. I inserted the key into the keyhole.

Click-

‘It worked.’

This time I watched the entire process of the door opening with both eyes.

I was certain.

Now when the front door opened, I would once again be greeted by warm heat and bright light.

I thought that Soi would be standing in front of the entrance door as always, welcoming me.

Wide open-

The front door opened again.

The interior scene reflected in the expectant eyes of a man was.

Dark.

“……”

Huh?

The same landscape came to me consecutively.

After that, I tried closing and opening the front door several times.

Nothing changed.

Far from changing.

In that repetitive process, I was gradually coming to terms with the reality before my eyes.

With the reality before my eyes, there was only one assumption I could make.

‘Mr. Noise… the house has abandoned me.’

Soi abandoned me.

Otherwise, this scene made no sense.

Could it be that just because I was away from home for a week, it had so mercilessly and suddenly left?

Not a sudden breakup announcement from a lover.

Park Yeon-jeong, facing a separation from his house, was standing blankly in front of the dark front door, unable to accept the reality of the separation from his house, when.

…Sob.

?

I perked up my ears at the small sob coming from inside the building.

The wind?

‘It must have been the sound of the wind…’

I thought there was no way someone’s sobbing could be heard in a place like this abandoned building.

Unless it was truly a ghost…

…Sob, sob.

!!

‘A g-ghost!’

This time, an obvious sob brushed my ear as if asking me to recognize its presence.

I would have been a fool not to hear it.

The direction of the sound was none other than. Exactly from the bedroom.

…Sob, sob, sob.

“……”

Should I go check?

That ghost who was clearly revealing its presence to anyone.

Actually, wasn’t it a warning sign telling me not to come?

‘What if I go and get possessed by a ghost?’

Like becoming a totem pole. Our Park-totem was standing motionless in front of the entrance, contemplating whether to go in or not, when.

“…ou.”

?

This time, not a sob.

Someone’s voice was heard.

And if I didn’t mishear just now.

That voice just now was…

‘Soi?’

…Step.

Our Park-totem, who had been standing motionless in front of the entrance, carefully took a step into the building.

Step-

The steps that had been hesitant until just now, for some reason, moved toward the bedroom without a moment’s hesitation.

And when the footsteps stopped.

The interior of the bedroom was.

Through tattered furniture and completely broken windows, only the subtle light from outside slightly illuminated the room.

Sob, sob, sob.

The subtle light coming through the broken window illuminated a black figure, and that sobbing also belonged to it.

While the appearance of a figure crouching in the most corner of the room didn’t properly come into view.

For some reason, I uttered someone’s name regarding that figure.

“…Soi?”

“!”

At my whisper, when the figure that had been hanging its head until just now raised its head and looked directly at Park Yeon-jeong.

With black bob hair like ebony.

Tears flowing down reddened eyes came into my view.

“……”

Through my mouth that I hadn’t fully closed, only this one thought quickly flashed through my mind.

Our Soi…

Has become smaller.

No… younger.

“M-mister…”

And significantly so.