Chapter 22
22fury
fifth ghost story -
4th period never ends (4)
“and! Those Japanese bastards have driven stakes all over our land and blocked all vital energy! You're playing No Japan these days! Let's not spend money on Japan, please! Take a good look……
While the Korean history teacher spat and spat, I was quietly lost in thought..
‘This time I thought of it
‘I thought, ‘What can I do?’.
I was the one who forced it on him in the first place..
‘ Phew.’
I crossed my arms over my head and sighed, whether the teacher was watching or not..
optician.
If I get the chance, I'll hit you..
‘But what should I do right now? I don't know anything about ghost stories or anything like that..’
Kyungwon, who has been watching from the side until now, will know better than that..
Nevertheless, to test me, what does it mean to ask me to think about it?.
Are you saying that this is a situation that can be figured out with just common sense?.
and.
‘I was wrong? entire?’
All my guesses so far about this bizarre situation have been wrong..
I began to think again carefully about what argument I had made..
First the clock stopped.
And all the students disappeared.
Ghost stories come in a mixed order, and every time we die, we keep going back in time..
If you think about it the other way around,?
the clock didn't stop.
Former students did not disappear.
We're not going back in time.?
‘How can that be?’
It makes no sense at all.
No, this is the only thing that doesn't make sense
Not only.
The devil should have appeared 3 years later.
If I had sat in the classroom even after hearing the announcement during the power outage, I should have survived..
Where did the smiling woman come from?.
And why are the four of us returning together instead of alone?…….
‘No, it's not a regression..’
I remembered Gyeongwon’s words and changed my mind..
Yes.
I don't understand, but we are not going back now..
And what did I say?.
I grabbed the guy by the collar and.
‘ no way.’
I jumped up from my seat..
“Let's destroy Nintendo... huh? what's going on?”
“···student?”
The teacher was embarrassed when he saw me standing up suddenly during an impassioned speech..
The attention of the students in the class was also focused on me..
What is he??
Is your name Lee Jun??
Why did you suddenly stand up??
I don't know.
Whispering.
Jeez. Jeopuk.
Without paying attention, I crossed the desks of the whispering students and went to Gyeongwon in the front row..
“Hey, student? student?”
He ignored the teacher and stopped behind Gyeongwon..
And I said to his back.
“This isn't reality.”
“···Kukkuk.”
Gyeongwon smiles slightly and asks with his back still turned..
“then? Unless it's reality?”
I took a breath and answered..
“This is a dream. Teacher here too. School too. Even the kids in the class..”
“Kukkuk.”
“You and me and Suna and Hayun. Everyone but the four of us are characters in a dream..”
“I can prove it?”
huh
A guy with a small smile.
Still speaking with your back turned.
“Try it.”
I will prove it in a way that he has no choice but to admit..
Even if you ignore the experience group and all that, I have a different talent than you..
A type like you who honestly competes only with the amount of knowledge can never imitate..
“···Hey, student?”
The kids in my class looked at me and shouted
all.
“student? It's not a dream. Take a seat, ugh.”
The teacher looked embarrassed..
“No matter how much I hate studying, it's a dream. Hehe, really… huh? Please sit down.”
Murmur.
The students in my class looked at me in bewilderment..
Suna also looks surprised, and Hayun next to her seems to be concentrating on me as well..
“Don't stand there like that and go back. Calm down. We even have to talk about Japan
Because.”
“No, this is a dream. Why should I go back? Since it's a dream, I'll do whatever I want..”
“Well, it's not a dream so I'm telling you to go back and sit down..”
A teacher who gently advises.
I ask with a look of confusion..
“Is that so? Wasn't it??”
“Yeah, no. I don't know if I'm mistaken, but please take a seat first..”
“It's really not a dream?”
“Hey, that's because I said no. Hehe, really.”
The students in my class also whisper or giggle while looking at me..
Look at him.
What's strange?.
“Really? It's not a dream?”
“Embarrassing people! It’s not a dream, it’s reality, yes, reality! please!”
“But what if it’s a dream! Even in my dreams, I don’t want to study.!”
“Boy! So what if it is reality? Because it’s reality, go back to your seat and sit down.!”
“You're saying that because the teacher is a person in a dream.!!”
“Hey you guy! I’m saying this because I’m a real person! Go back quickly!”
“I hate it, I hate it! I'm going to believe it's just a dream!”
“Go back to your seat! What is a 17 year old guy doing?!”
“It's really not a dream, it's reality?”
“Yessssssss! It's reality ahhh!”
“You can bet?”
“I can assure you.”
“Really?”
“Don't put the groceries in my hands! It's not a dream, it's reality, it's a manifestation!”
“So what time is it now??”
“Of course it's 36,580 o'clock, isn't it?!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
“What time is it??”
“Twenty-eight thousand nine hundred thirty-six o'clock! I can tell you this again and again!”
“okay. Then, can you tell me what year, month, and day it is? Because I have a bad memory.”
“That's of course!”
The teacher's face turns bright red and he shouts..
“Isn't it 31,195,23 years, one, two, four months, six, seventy-nine hundred days?!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A moment of silence flowing through the classroom.
Hayun slowly raised her hand and pointed out in a clear voice..
“Teacher, the numbers are strange..”
Then the national history teacher looked blankly into space and said:.
“Is that so? I got caught.”
Jump and run-
Grumbling-
The teacher gathered up her textbooks and luggage with a deadpan expression and stormed out of the classroom..
Suna looks at the open classroom door as if she is dumbfounded..
“after.”
I sighed and walked around the altar to the seat next to Gyeongwon..
And I spoke to the class president, a handsome man with broad shoulders, who is Gyeongwon’s partner..
“Hey, get out of my way.”
“uh.”
The class president answered with a blank expression and quickly stood up..
I sat there and said.
“I'm satisfied?”
“···manager.”
Gyeongwon smiled and answered with a satisfied expression..
“You're shaking your head a bit..”
Seona and Hayun also stood up and came towards us..
When Hayun motioned for the two students behind us to come out, they also left in a daze..
The four of us turned our chairs around and sat facing each other..
The other students just stared at us with expressionless expressions..
“Hey, what happened? I understand well……
Suna sweats profusely as she looks at the students' looks..
I explained it step by step as if asking Suna to think about it..
“When did we first notice something strange??”
“That's right... I was talking about something scary in the club room, and when I looked at the clock, it had stopped.……
I nodded.
“How did we get to that club room??”
Suna tilts her head as if my question is strange..
“After eating, it’s CA time… It didn't go up?”
“no.”
“If it was uploaded because it was CA time, there is one strange thing..”
Seon-a thought for a moment, but then showed a curious expression as if she didn't know..
“What's strange? What is it?”
“other members.”
“Another... member? ...ah!
Sunah opened her eyes wide as if she noticed something..
“Jinhee!”
“that's right.”
I nodded and added.
“And teacher Jang Hwa-eun, who is in charge of our club,.”
Yes.
I haven't met him yet, but he is the teacher officially named in our club..
If it was the first club activity time, of course he should have come and provided guidance..
And Jinhee.
No matter how many people were secretly taken away, during CA time, unless there are special circumstances like Hayun, everyone has to go to their own club..
But those two people aren't there..
The three of us hung out often this week and didn't feel out of place, but in fact, if it was really CA time, it was definitely strange that Jinhee and Hwaeun were not there..
“It's a dream within a dream.”
I summarized it briefly..
“Have you seen the movie Inception??”
“no.”
“It's a movie about the theme of dreaming within a dream. You didn't see it. Then have you ever tried using scissors??”
“Yes, how many times did you use the scissors?……
“Then I thought I had woken up from a dream, but it turns out I was only dreaming.?”
“dream… inside.”
Seon-ah looked upward, thought deeply, and answered..
“How many times… No, often. I definitely wake up in the morning, wash my face… I even brushed my teeth, but it was a dream... But work
I woke up and got ready, and it was just a dream again.……
Seon-ah blushes before speaking..
It must have been a common occurrence for Suna, who was often late in the morning because her sleeping pattern was messed up..
“That's exactly what we're experiencing right now. Every time I wake up, I'm back to the beginning of the dream. And the easiest way to wake up from a dream is to die..”
“How many times have we thought that time had turned back when we died, but in fact
I'm just waking up from a dream within a dream and dreaming the same dream over and over again..”
Sunah opens her mouth with a surprised expression..
That's right. we are not going back.
The representative clue is.
[Restart from checkpoint.]
[Loading…….]
Whenever my consciousness faded as I faced death, that phrase came to mind over and over again before coming back to me..
But this time I didn't see that phrase at all..
No matter how many times I died.
“dream? All together? How could that happen?……
“sorry. I don't know that much.”
I lifted my shoulders and looked at Kyungwon..
Kyungwon nods his head as if satisfied..
“Hehehe, manager. Well explained.”
He then took up the baton and raised his glasses as if to explain the rest..
“The clock seemed to have stopped and the teacher's strange reaction just now. It's called an RC check.”
“RC check?”
“‘It stands for Reality Check'll. Translated, it means reality testing..”
Gyeongwon's glasses shine as his explanation-loving instincts are slowly being activated..
“While the brain sleeps, various functions rest, and in particular, cognitive abilities become extremely inaccurate. No matter how much in a dream
Even if you seem to be making clear judgments and speaking, when you wake up and think about it again, you can see that it is not a normal flow of logic..”
“···so?”
“The most extreme manifestation of this is numbers. Through numbers, you can check whether this is a dream or reality..”
Kyungwon took out his cell phone from his pocket..
“Now, what time is it??”
The cell phone clock said 11:35..
“1135 o’clock… After all, it’s stopped.”
“It didn't stop. Check it again in succession this time..”
Gyeongwon gently covered the numbers and took his hand away again after a while..
The numbers on the clock changed to 12:28..
That wasn't all.
0573 minutes.
1324 o'clock.
7552 hours.
Every time I turned my head and looked at the clock again, the numbers had changed..
“okay? It is said that the brain becomes very sensitive to numbers while sleeping. Emotional flow may flow the same as in reality, but mathematical thinking becomes inaccurate..”
“oh my god how……
Suna blinked, looking at the clock as if she still couldn't believe it..
“1135 o'clock is probably the last time any of us checked before dreaming. I remember that
Ah, even in dreams, that number appears first, and if you look at it continuously like this, you can see that it keeps changing..”
“It's amazing.”
“So, in my dreams, I can't remember my family's cell phone number and feel embarrassed, forget the password for the front door, or keep dialing the wrong account number..”
“Wow.”
Seonah is listening to the explanation with interest..
“The reason the manager was able to kick out the teacher just now was because he changed his thinking and took advantage of the RC check. Excellent. This is
I have no choice but to admit it..”
“Jun knew.……
As Gyeongwon spoke happily, Suna looked at me with amazing eyes..
Hayun also put her hand on her chin and turned her gaze towards me..
I answered shyly.
“Well, it's no big deal. What matters is what you do from now on..”
“Yeah, that's the problem..”
Gyeongwon sighs..
“What would you like me to do, manager??”
“what?”
At Gyeongwon’s words, everyone’s eyes turned to me..
what.
why are you asking me.
“Why me? You knew it was a dream long ago. He asked me to guess. Don’t you know the way out??”
“That's it.”
Gyeongwon sighs again..
“All of the dream-within-a-dream ghost stories I know just end up with someone waking up by chance..”
“huh?”
When we asked in surprise, Gyeongwon adjusted his glasses..
“It's just that I was lost in a nightmare and I woke up, and that's how it all ends..”
“Man, you……
Slowly the fever began to spread..
You were testing me without even knowing it.!
“He was so arrogant that he asked me to guess..”
“…I apologize, Manager. My pride took precedence.”
“That's not what an apology does.”
I rolled up my sleeves..
“Take off your glasses and bite your molars hard.”
U | 99
The guy obediently took off his glasses and closed his eyes tightly, as if he had made up his mind for something..
“Going.”
“Juna······!”
Before Suna had time to stop me, I swung my arm wide and hit the guy's forehead..
Boom-
Takkong-!
“Wow!”
He flinched and rubbed his forehead.
Gyeongwon with a perplexed expression.
I guess he thought I was going to hit him hard..
“Let’s stop judging each other and be friendly, Kyungwon..”
A rich boy quietly looking at me..
There's no way I'm going to lose because I'm more likely to be a lazy nerd than a self-centered nerd, but there's no way the organization will work properly if we keep fighting like this..
Let's end this here.
“Let's shake hands and end it..”
“ruler.”
When I held out my hand, the guy looked at me quietly, then slowly extended his right hand to shake my hand..
“end. it's okay.”
uy〉
“Continue your explanation. Why do you think I know the answer?”
“okay. That's it……
The guy was dazed for a moment, but when it came time to explain, he adjusted his glasses to see if he came to his senses..
“···The manager would know what to do
The reason I thought so. That's because of the question the manager has been asking me and that way of thinking..”
question? Is it possible?.
Even when there are ghost stories on announcements and when there are ghost stories about mom’s ghost..
And I don't remember it, but in the manual The Ghost Story of the Woman Who Laughs.
There have been quite a few times where I have asked Kyungwon a few vague questions..
Because I am a person who has almost no understanding of horror..
“Types like me are just given information
They accept things as they are and are busy cramming in knowledge. So, I couldn't help but be very embarrassed every time the manager asked me questions about the empty parts of the story..”
“I think the manager has his own unique perspective that a type like me who just sticks it in his head would never come up with it. I want you to demonstrate that.”
As he regained his composure and adjusted his glasses, the sunlight coming through the window reflected and shone through..
He has high pride, but he is quick to admit it when he needs to admit it..
“All the ingredients are available. The identity of the ghost story, the story, the situation, everything. Now I want you to mix these ingredients and come up with a solution..”
“It may be confusing, but think about it carefully..”
“I?”
“Somehow I feel like I can do it. I have a feeling like that.”
Is that the conclusion he reached based on the information he analyzed?.
‘I can do it……
I swallowed my sleep and put my head back
flipped over.
Suna looks at me with an excited expression..
Hayun also looks at me as if she is interested..
The point of view that he is claiming is probably a reference to my natural ingenuity..
I'm embarrassed to be recognized all of a sudden, but.
It's not wrong..
In a situation where everything has been so clearly revealed, rather than spewing out more knowledge, we just look at the clues we have here and there.
We need someone who knows how to mix things up..
‘And am I the right person for the role?.’
hmm.
What should I do?.
repeating dream.
How do I wake up.
Dying is not the answer.
Even if you do, you will only experience a false awakening again..
But no matter how hard I try here, there is no answer..
We're already running until we run out of breath
I saw things, was shocked, and had limbs cut off, but I didn't wake up from the dream..
then.
Is that the only way?.
“There is one thing that comes to mind.”
“something?”
Suna asks curiously..
three people looking back at me.
“I think we should think about it again..”
ghost story club
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