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Chapter 23

23 fury

fifth ghost story -

4th period never ends (5)

“on the other way?”

Gyeongwon looking at me with a puzzled expression.

“What the opposite……?”

Seon-ah also asks with a puzzled expression..

I cleared my throat and started explaining..

“What is the most common way to wake up from a dream that we know so far??”

“···You're going to die.”

Gyeongwon said it right away as if it wasn’t worth answering..

“that's right. No matter what your dream is, you usually wake up when you die..”

When a death situation arises, people have no choice but to instinctively awaken their nerves..

So, no matter how severe the nightmare, you usually wake up when you die..

“However, in the special situation of ‘a dream within a dream’, that doesn’t work. nerves

Even if you try to awaken, you will only experience a false awakening. I was startled and woke up, and I was in a dream again, and another dream. That's repetition.”

Seon-ah nods as if she understands up to this point..

‘If Suna understood it, then she understood everything.?’

I decided to tell you the conclusion slowly..

“That's what I mean by the opposite. If trying to wake up only causes it to repeat itself, doing the opposite may be the right answer..”

“on the other way?”

“I'm falling asleep in my dream.”

Suna opens the rabbit's eyes.

“The reason why these types of experience stories end with people wandering around and just waking up. Maybe I got tired of wandering around and unconsciously fell asleep again.?”

“I'm falling asleep again……?”

Kyungwon tilts his head as if he doesn’t understand..

“What does that mean... If you sleep again, won't it just reset? for the first time-”

“It's different.”

strongly denied it.

“If this is the starting point where you wake up and return even after waking up. If we fall asleep here, we will go deeper into unconsciousness..”

Gyeongwon looks up in shock, as if lightning had flashed in his head..

“Well, I see… … ! dream within a dream ……

“that's right.”

A dream within a dream that repeats even after waking up and waking up again.

Then, use it in the opposite direction and actually dream deeper in your dreams..

We are entering into a dream in the true sense of the word..

“There's no use waking up, so let's go back to sleep and go deeper ……

«huh ,,

I nodded..

Of course, you will have to go in to find out what you will encounter there..

Rather than continuing to spin around here, that would be a step forward..

“Well, then I guess I can just lay down on the blanket and get ready for bed now?……?”

I stopped Gyeongwon again as he stood up with a happy expression on his face..

“But there's a problem with this too.”

“problem……?”

Only then did he look around with an expression of apocalypse..

I was so absorbed in the conversation that I forgot about it, but now here we are with dozens of students in the class surrounding us and staring at us in silence..

At the same time, outside, the monsters from our nightmares are coming to kill us again..

‘Sleeping in a place like this would be impossible unless you were a Buddha..’

“How about the club room, Jun?……?”

Suna asks me, looking anxious and avoiding the gaze of the students around her..

“I can sleep a little more comfortably there. ”

“I think it will be difficult.”

I just met death while staring at the devil in the club room..

In the first place, this was a dream space.

It is a mental space, not a physical place that actually exists..

It doesn't matter where you hide.

The nightmare will find us and kill us for sure..

“… I see. It would definitely be difficult to lie still and sleep in this situation. It's impossible to get sleeping pills in a dream..”

Kyungwon nods as if he understands..

“that's right. So I think we need to find a way to instantly lose consciousness..”

“which

“For example, knocking each other out.”

Gyeongwon groans and adjusts his glasses..

“What if I faint, is it okay? You lose consciousness right away, regardless of your will..

“Manager, I’m sorry for cutting you off.……

Gyeongwon says he's sorry for interrupting..

“People don't dream when they faint……

“···what‘?”

“Literally.”

A face that says sorry for pointing it out.

“What the manager wants is for us to fall asleep again and go into a deeper dream, right? But people… I'm sorry. I don't dream when I pass out.”

I looked dumbfounded for a moment..

“… That's right?”

“huh ”

“.··why?”

What are you talking about?.

Isn’t it the same thing if you lose consciousness? ··…?

“Fainting and sleeping are different, manager..”

The guy sighed and started giving supplementary explanations..

“Fainting or syncope is a phenomenon that occurs when blood flow to the brain momentarily stops. Conversely, sleep is a normal physical activity that involves muscle relaxation..”

“Because dreams are based on brain activity, people do not dream when fainting occurs when blood flow to the brain temporarily stops.……

He looks at me as if he feels sorry for me..

“So if we knock each other out here……?”

“I literally just lose consciousness and nothing happens..”

“okay?”

I looked a little gloomy.

“So what should I do?……?”

“I know……

I can hear my mom looking for me from afar..

“If your mind is rotten, you should give birth to something like yourself.··…·. ”

There is no way I can sleep in this anxious situation..

But that doesn't mean we can knock each other unconscious..

We look at each other with serious expressions.

Even at this moment of worry, time is passing..

It resets when you die, and you don't faint..

But I have to go to sleep.

something…….

there is some way…….

“There is a way.”

A clear voice that instantly resonates in the classroom.

It was Hayun..

“All you have to do is cause hypoxia by causing difficulty in breathing. wake up.”

“What, what……?”

Hayun stands up and strides toward the back of the classroom..

We also worked in our seats without any hesitation.

stood up.

“Well, what are you doing?……?”

“what-”

Hayun walked forward with great strides, opened the cleaning tool box at the back of the classroom, and nodded at us..

“Go in.”

« 2”

Although we were confused, we stood in front of the cleaning tool box..

Soon Gyeongwon slowly nodded..

“Hypoxia due to shortness of breath, that's right..”

“what?”

Gyeongwon hurriedly explained to me and Suna who were looking back..

“You know there are a lot of accidents on the highway due to drowsy driving, manager.?”

“···know.”

It's a famous story.

Traffic accidents caused by drowsy driving.

“The reason for drowsiness at that time is due to lack of oxygen in the closed vehicle..”

···lack of oxygen.

“Losing consciousness due to lack of oxygen... Definitely not fainting, but sleeping.

It's close, manager.!”

As we looked back with wide eyes, Hayun nodded as if asking us what we were doing and telling us to come in quickly..

“I'll seal all the gaps with tape from the outside. Go in quickly.”

While looking at each other, Gyeongwon said 'Eight' and moved to go inside first..

The broom and dustpan are pushed to one side with a crashing sound..

“Haha, haha.”

Gyeongwon barely crouched in a corner.

I think one more person can fit in if the space is cleared..

“Take out all the brooms. create space”

The sound of my mother crying from afar is getting closer..

“I lost my temper while studying without any talent... If you were lucky, you met rich parents.……. ”

“Take it out, everything.”

“here······

We take out all the mops and brooms that were inside. The space created in this way was large enough for a small person, Seona, to fit in..

“Seonya, go in..”

“Joo, Juna……

Suna looks at me with a worried expression..

I nodded..

“are you okay. I'll find another way.”

huh”

She hesitated for a moment, but soon Seon-a pushed herself into the cleaning tool box..

“whine······

Kyungwon and Seonah are completely crouched in a small space..

Gyeongwon twisted his body and barely turned his head to look this way..

“Manager. The important thing is to breathe and continue to breathe in oxygen-poor air. There's a way to do that-”

widely!

Without even having time to say goodbye, Hayun immediately closes the door..

“Find the tape. It's under the lectern.”

“Yeah, yeah……

Suddenly, I nodded my head and said,

I'm running to.

The heads of students sitting in class move to follow me..

‘W, here……?’

I looked under the teacher's table, but there was only an attendance register. the tape was not visible.

“frame. this. print. female. energy.”

At that moment, the class president who had been standing still takes out a tape from his desk and gives it to me..

“my. go. I wrote it all. sleep. city. go. lose. I went. uh.”

A blunt voice without intonation. I took the tape in shock..

“···Yeah, yeah. thank you.”

I immediately run back to the back.

“here!”

When I stretched out my arm and handed it over, Hayun immediately snatched the tape and then ripped it off with a loud sound..

She cut it with her teeth and started sticking it to the crack in the door..

“Haha, haha……

“Joo, Juna……

I hear Suna’s voice calling me from inside the cleaning tool box..

I comforted her..

“are you okay. Everything will be fine.”

« Umm”

If I do this, will I be able to fall asleep instead of fainting?.

There is only one way to find out.

I have no choice but to go in and see..

“···what do we do?”

I look at Hayun and ask.

Then she looks straight into my eyes..

“Only one person needs to go. There has to be someone left to take it out at the end..”

“Yeah, that's right.”

If you stay in a confined space, you will suffocate and die..

Someone needs to stay here to take us out if we lose consciousness..

‘That one… I'll stay here……

It's difficult to do alone.

“···First of all, since there is no proper enclosed space here, we decided to move and look for cleaning the next room.-”

“bow your head.”

“The son of a bitch is like his father. As soon as he gets home, he crawls away again.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

At that moment, my mother passed outside the hallway screaming, and Hayun grabbed my head and bowed me down..

Da da da da da…….

The sound of my mother's footsteps moving away as she frantically runs down the hallway..

But not too far away, I heard a thud, thump, as if they were searching another classroom.

I can hear the ran.

Quiet classroom again, Hayun crouching and me.

The only thing you can hear occasionally is Seon-ah and Gyeong-won's barely breathing breath inside the cleaning box..

“Haha, haha……

“Whoo, whoo……

Leaving here would be suicide..

Hayun, who was crouching down and looking at me, immediately lowered her eyelashes..

“In the end, I will be left behind. get ready.”

“week, preparation……?”

She slightly lifts her legs and goes to her locker crouching..

He opens the locker door and comes towards me holding a pink recorder..

“Hey, are you okay? The last one left here……

The last remaining one must rescue Seon-ah and Gyeong-won before they suffocate to death, and somehow avoid the monster and survive as long as possible..

If you die while you sleep,

Because I don’t know how the sulfur will get tangled up..

“are you okay. sit here.”

Hayun speaks in a casual voice and picks up the recorder, as if she were picking up the pen that fell from the person in front of her..

“Breathe in the breath I blow with this recorder.”

She delicately plugs the holes in the recorder one by one with her slender fingers..

“…There, there.”

He holds the recorder between his light pink lips and points the other side towards me..

I gulped as I saw the pink recorder approaching..

“…Something like this-”

“Take out all the breath in your lungs.”

She is holding out her recorder as if telling her to do it quickly..

I closed my eyes tightly..

Anyway, it was good news that there was someone who volunteered to stay in the end..

Who would want to play hide and seek with monsters alone in a nightmare?.

‘Inhale!’

I asked the end of the recorder.

We sit facing each other and bite both ends of the recorder, as if playing Pepero..

There was an awkward silence..

“···Phew.”

A warm breath flows from the mouth of the recorder Hayun is holding..

I take it as is and swallow my breath.

“···Woo-eup-!”

Then I took off the recorder and exhaled into the air..

“Whoa whoa……

In effect, it's like breathing in carbon dioxide and exhaling carbon dioxide..

I asked for the recorder again..

“···Phew.”

“···Woo-eup,”

Hayoon gives me breath again.

I took that air straight into my lungs..

“Woooooo

I spit it out into the air again.

Hayun and I, kissing our lips again.

“···Phew.”

“··Woo-eup,”

My lungs are getting more and more stuffy.

Is your face turning red because of a strange situation with a pretty girl in your class?

Is it because of lack of oxygen?.

I feel like I'm becoming more and more dizzy..

“Fuuuuuu ”

I let out the breath I had taken from Hayoon into the air, and ended up coughing..

“Cough! call……

“don't breathe.”

A voice as clear as a marble rolling.

I cough and nod as if I understand..

“Cough, Cough……

Even if you spit it out, you should never breathe the fresh air outside..

“continue……

After barely speaking through squeezed air, I put the recorder in my mouth again..

Hayun smiles softly..

« 2”

“···Phew.”

why are you laughing.

But perhaps due to lack of oxygen, it gradually becomes difficult to tell what is what..

Hayun blowing through the recorder again

Lee's breath.

I sucked Hayun’s breath deep into my lungs until my face turned bright red..

Gradually, my head becomes dizzy due to lack of oxygen, and I can't think clearly..

where am i I feel dizzy.

Why is my mom looking for me?.

Why is this girl breathing on me?.

I feel like I'm her balloon.

“··Phew.”

“···Boo.”

I continued to breathe through the recorder..

Maybe it was because I had nowhere else to look, but before I knew it, I was just staring blankly into her eyes..

Inhale and exhale pink. Inhale, exhale.

She smiles at me while I make a stupid expression..

My face is completely open.

She has a charming smile.

Without any time to protest, Hayun’s sigh entered her lungs again..

‘Why do I keep smiling?.’

I think I meant to ask, but maybe I was mistaken, my mouth was still on the recorder..

“Phew.”

“Ugh. Ugh… Boo……

She smiles with a strange aura.

I felt my face turn red as I held the recorder..

Drowsiness creeps in slowly and endlessly.

Before I knew it, I was completely stretched out, my mouth pressed against the recorder, and drool was flowing..

“Phew.”

“Ugh. Ugh……

“Phew.”

Stop blowing, stop…….

Every time Hayun sighs, it feels like my consciousness is flying somewhere..

She suddenly takes off the recorder and smiles at me..

“transformation.”

I'm drooling like an idiot with my mouth on the recorder..

It's hazy. I feel drowsy. I feel like my body is floating..

The whole world started spinning.

The pupils automatically turn upward.

Hayoon's small, mocking laugh echoes dreamily everywhere..

I was swimming and struggling in it..

Phew. Phew. Phew.

transformation.

* * *

“okay? The point is that it's a rumor that hamburgers are bad for your health. oh

It is safe to say that it is a complete food containing an appropriate mixture of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Why are bread, lettuce, tomatoes, and beef bad for you??”

Inside a busy fast food restaurant.

Gyeongwon, a cocky rich boy who claims to be an elite, was boasting about the knowledge he had seen on the Internet with a hamburger in front of him..

“Are dyes and additives added bad for your health? That's really ignorant. Ever since the nonsense about MSG being bad for your health became popular in the past, this country is still swayed by the media's propaganda. How can the lights come on in this store when there is a power outage? Or, apart from French fries and cola, hamburgers are healthy foods. I understand.?”

I mumbled, not listening, and roughly answered that I understood..

I feel like something pleasant happened just a moment ago, but I couldn't remember it, and I could only stare blankly at Suna fixing her makeup next to me..

The sight of a girl in the same class, who only seemed like a friend, putting on makeup seemed quite provocative to an adolescent boy..

I look young and Suna's round face becomes more and more beautiful with makeup.

I ate a hamburger while watching it go in..

“Food is the easiest thing for media to make fun of. How much trouble have the broadcasting media caused so far for reporting on food? But what I think is more pathetic is the foolish public who gets caught up in it.-”

“Sleep aaaaaaaan!”

They were surprised when I stood up and shouted..

“Wow！”

“what! What is it all of a sudden?”

I took a deep breath and said.

“This is a dream, kids. Come to your senses.”

“Oh, that's right!”

Suna holds lipstick in her hand and spreads her red lips in a surprised gesture..

“Ugh! That's right, I remembered it! We were trying to enter a deeper dream

Gyeongwon also looked around hastily..

“Dreams always start from the middle, so I almost got fooled. But where am I??”

“It's a fast food restaurant. In front of Sillim Station

present.”

They both looked around with puzzled expressions at my answer..

“I see. I've never been there before, so why do I have this dream?.”

“me too… First time here.”

I've been vaguely feeling it since before, but these dreams are probably a mixture of the nightmares I had..

Ghost stories that I kept encountering only in my memories..

And my friends have never been to this fast food restaurant and I am the only one who has been there..

‘I don't know why, but here... You're in my nightmare.’

“But hey, why am I wearing makeup or something?……

Suna muttered while looking at the lipstick in her hand..

I had no choice but to remain silent..

That would be a subconscious reflection of my attraction to Suna..

“What should I do? Let's try one more time?”

He looks around Kyungwon and asks..

“There doesn't seem to be anything special here either.……

“huh. Let's try one more time.”

I nodded..

“I have no choice but to go deeper and go all the way to the end..”

“Umm… also.”

Kyungwon sighed and crossed his arms..

This is truly a dream within a dream.

If I wake up here, I'll probably go back to the classroom I was in with Hayoon..

There, even after waking up, the classroom was the starting point again, and we came further back than that starting point..

If I fall asleep here one more time and go further back?

What else is waiting there??

“This time, I’ll stay behind, get the manager and Suna ready..”

UI 99

Gyeongwon rolled up his arms and stood up..

“why? Since you know more, all I have left is……

Seon-ah looked embarrassed and asked Gyeong-won, but he just smiled..

“Hehe, not really. Maybe after this

Even if I go there, there won't be much I can find out..”

A guy confidently heading to the kitchen of a fast food restaurant..

We hurriedly followed suit..

“I'm not the type to solve problems by confronting them on the spot. My role is over now that I have poured out the knowledge from the previous explanation. So the two of you head to the next.”

“Above all, manager. Don’t you think Suna wouldn’t be able to do something that hurts others? Here, I have no choice but to use my strength..”

“That's accurate. I agree with that.”

Suna puffed out her cheeks and looked at us..

“Suna... You're so kind. haha.”

“Correct answer. ha ha ha.”

“joy.”

Suna snorts playfully.

“Hehehe, anyway. Then, if it is still a dream, then Yoon Seon-ah, you should send the manager away. Please take care of me.”

Suna nods with a smug look on her face, telling me to leave it to him..

Now that I think about it, I almost never see these two talking to each other..

“Now, here. If you cut this gas pipe, drink the air that leaks out. Then you could lose consciousness right away due to carbon monoxide poisoning. I'll move it outside right after..”

“okay……

Fortunately, because it was a dream, there were no employees..

“Here we go! Manager! Go solve the case and come back.!”

Gyeongwon is cutting a gas pipe with scissors in a tone as if he is letting out a Pokemon..

“i get it! Eating French fries

wait for me！”

“That's right!”

I faced Gyeongwon, nodded, and stuck out my neck..

It was a moment that felt like a strange friendship between men..

“Huuuuuuup!”

“Pfft! Ugh……

* * *

When I opened my eyes, I found myself in a school playground where students were standing in a tight line..

“Ugh, here.”

I saw Sun-ah stand up right next to me, clutching her head..

The students around us glanced at us..

I helped Suna up and looked around..

“This is... the school playground... Why are you doing it all? ”

It was then.

“Ah, dear new students of Nakseong High School, it is truly a pleasure to meet you. First of all, I would like to sincerely welcome you to our school. I am this school

serves as the principal of……

this! It's an entrance ceremony.!

“Seonya! jump!”

“Ugh, yeah?”

I quickly grabbed Suna’s hand and ran..

The students' screams were heard along with the sound of something exploding behind them..

“gasp, gasp!”

“Hehe, hehe.”

We started running first.

As we kept pace and ran together, we were soon overtaken by students on the sports team.

rolled up.

To the side, I see a girl with yellow dyed hair and a bad-looking personality overtaking us and taking the lead..

‘Lee Jin-hee, who was unexpectedly taken into our club... He overtook me every time. I didn't know your face well, so now I know.’

As I approached the main gate with those feelings in mind again, I saw a security guard blocking the students and shouting loudly..

‘It's time to agitate.!’

I shouted so that all the students running around could hear..

“The front door is closed!!”

Make your voice hoarse, whale whale, shout out again.

“The front door is closed! The guard has the key.!”

“Aaaaaaaaaaa!”

“mister! Please open the door! hurry!”

“Open the door quickly! Ahhhhh!”

With heads exploding everywhere, the students running for their lives have already lost their senses..

The security guard, like a retired soldier, still had enough strength to beat up and yell at the students who were running towards them..

“What are you doing, you crazy bastards? hey! Aren’t you still? Stay still!”

“It's a guard, it's going to open the door!”

“Fuck you! Open the door! Open the door, you crazy bastard.!”

Just as I was getting past the security safely this time, Seon-ah suddenly slipped past me and ran to the security guard..

“Seonya!”

Suna's eyes were burning brightly..

The security guard desperately hid his pockets with both hands and took the keys away from the students.

I was guarding it, but Seon-ah mixed in with the crowd..

He took something out of his pocket and started stabbing the guard's hand..

“Kkoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

The security guard screamed and had no choice but to let go, and Suna quickly snatched the key from her pocket and ran towards me..

“Huh, huh, here.”

“Seo, Seonaya.”

Sun-a is breathing hard and holds out the blood-stained key..

I did it on purpose to incite the students.

That's what I said, but you believed it and went to take it away! And just what······.

There was a lot I wanted to say, but first I took the key and said it..

“Well done, Seonya. thank you.”

“Hehe, hehe... hehe

Even though Suna was struggling and out of breath, she burst out laughing as if she was happy to be recognized by me..

I quickly went to the front door, unlocked it with the blood-stained key, and started pushing the front door..

“Wow!”

“What the fuck!”

Several students who were on top of the main gate screamed and moved with the gate..

There was also a handsome man with broad shoulders who was Gyeongwon's partner, as well as the gangly man in the fourth compartment whom I had seen before in the bathroom ghost story..

‘Now I see a familiar face.’

With that sentiment in mind, I opened the door and started running again, holding Suna's hand..

“Huh, huh, huh.”

“Heh, heh.”

How long did it run?.

I passed the main street and a few buildings and came to near the subway station where people were walking..

Only then was I able to let go of Suna's hand, which I was holding while holding my breath..

“gasp, gasp, gasp.”

“Hehe, hehe.”

We bowed down there and took a long time to catch our breath before finally speaking..

“Here, here, it'll be alright, ah ma.”

“Ugh, yeah, heh, heh……

In my last life, I came this far

I screwed up and was able to survive..

This may be different because it's a dream, but seeing as he's fine, you can think of him as taking a breather..

I can feel passers-by glancing at us, drenched in sweat..

“Hehe, hehe... Wow, here.”

Sunah wipes her sweat, raises her head, and mutters..

“Oh, now that I think about it.”

I also agreed.

The place where we were standing happened to be a fast food restaurant near Sillim Station..

rattle~ ♬

As I entered the store, I saw customers buzzing and clerks moving around busily..

Of course, there was no Gyeongwon..

“As expected, there is none.……

“huh. Because I left it there.”

This is a deeper unconscious space, one step further from the world where Gyeongwon lives..

It's the same place, but it's natural that it's not there..

“Phew, let's sit down first..”

We went to the second floor, took out chairs from an empty table, and sat down..

“Hey, Jun.……

“huh?”

“ You know,……

Seona hesitated and said.

“When everything is over... Let's all come here and eat burgers……

I couldn't help but laugh.

“Haha! I'll definitely do it, promise!”

When I playfully stick out my ring finger, Suna blushes and smiles..

Now that I think about it, in my dream, I've already come here for the third time with the members, but in real life, we've never been here together before..

“promise! please!”

“huh. promise.”

I suddenly felt quite happy..

Okay, after-party..

Club activities also require something like that..

“It's amazing.”

“what?”

“Having a friend to laugh with in such a strange situation.”

Suna's face turned red..

Late morning sunlight comes through the window

coming.

119You can also see them rushing to the school after receiving reports from citizens..

“I lived a normal life.”

“There wasn't much I liked.”

“It's too much. Continuing to be given opportunities.”

“Juna……

Did you understand what those words meant?.

Suna just muttered my name softly..

I put my hand out on the table..

Seon-a looks at that hand..

And after hesitating, we finally reach out our hands together on the table and hold them together carefully..

“Let's go back to reality. together.”

Suna's soft hand twitches..

From now on, Suna has to make me lose consciousness..

I held our joined hands tightly..

“I'm begging you, Seon-ya..”

Seon-ah trembled, but then nodded as if she had made up her mind..

“huh!”

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