Chapter 63
63 fury
Ninth Ghost Story - Nooknori (4)
When I came to my senses, I was standing in the club room..
In front of me, Jinhee, Gyeongwon, and Hayun are taking their seats in their respective corners..
“Who puts out the fire?”
“I'm close so I'll drag you.”
The moment Hayun, who was sitting in the corner of the door in response to Gyeongwon's question, was about to put her hand on the switch..
“ Wait aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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“What is it, what is it!”
The members look at me in surprise at my shout..
“Don't turn off the lights.”
Hayoon is quietly looking at me with her hand on the switch..
“Put your hands down. You can't turn off the light.”
“why?”
““Something scary will happen.” Hayun, who was looking at me silently, soon tilts her head..
“You should be respectful, Jun..”
The corners of her mouth gently rise.
My lips twitched as I pointed a finger at Hayun as if I was dumbfounded..
“Please put your hands down.”
“Let's put our hands down and talk, for now……
Instead of answering, Hayoon just smiled..
“I have nothing more to say?”
I swallowed hard and whispered in a voice that was hard for Suna outside to hear..
“Beautiful Hayun, please……
“How beautiful is this place??”
Hayun, with flowing black hair, lightly tapping her fingers on the switch..
I swallowed hard and spoke rapidly..
“Blood, skin... From the first time I saw it... I always thought transparent skin was so pretty..”
“Long eyelashes, thin fingers
go……
Hehe, she laughs.
“Suna is pretty, I am pretty?”
Gyeongwon and Jinhee look at each other with puzzled expressions as to what they are talking about..
Hayun, seeing me momentarily speechless, covers her mouth and laughs..
“Jun is funny.”
With those words, she finally puts her hand down from the switch..
I quickly ran to the door, opened it, and let the light into the hallway come in..
Grumbling-
“Phew.”
Only then do I take a breather.
“Juna?”
Suna and the rest of the team are looking at me with puzzled expressions in the hallway..
“Everyone come in, quickly. We can't do this.”
“what? Ghost? So it's not a good thing? That's what I intended to do from the beginning.!”
Gyeongwon responded to my explanation as if he was shocked..
“Come to think of it, I see..”
When I think about it, that's right.
An act aimed at summoning and eradicating ghost stories from the beginning..
On the contrary, if something really comes out, wouldn't we be in a position to be happy?.
“yes? That was the original purpose, though. What can I say……
Yes.
This ghost story.
It's so scary.
“I'm not doing it because I'm scared! Indeed.”
Gyeongwon shakes his head as if he is dumbfounded..
The rest of the team looked at me as if it was absurd..
“No, listen to me! That's not all. After turning off the lights and going back and forth a few times, you guys were all dead. You have to catch it while looking at the person, and after blinking once, their head is cut.……
“You've done well so far.……
Sunah muttered quietly..
“I'll stay with you, Jun... are you okay.”
Umm!
“Hey, if we're together, something will work out. What are you giving up already?.”
Deokhoon encourages me by saying something like a line from a boy's cartoon..
“···Jun is more scared than I thought. I have all those delusions.”
A teacher looking at me with a sad expression.
“You idiot. What's scary about that?……
Then Jinhee said something and I
I couldn't help but shake my head..
“These bastards. It's because you haven't experienced it. I was really fucking scared.”
···Still, I continued to wander alone, but receiving at least some affectionate criticism from my friends made me feel relieved..
Suddenly I feel like my heart is being touched.
“Let's do it, Jun.……
“I can do it.”
“Don't be scared.”
My hands automatically gain strength..
In the last ghost story, I held onto the phone with the science teacher and overexerted myself..
After revealing his identity to everyone and convincing them of the strange phenomenon, he moved on..
It was also an excellent choice.
Now these guys are my comrades, comrades, colleagues…….
We became friends like nowhere else, sharing experiences that no one could understand and running toward the same goal..
I made up my mind and nodded..
“···okay. Then, let's fight. Let's find a way together.”
“Good, manager! First, try explaining the situation again from the beginning..”
“Let's see. So, when Hayun first turned off the light, she couldn't see anything and it was dark. Time ticked by, and in the silence, the only sound was the sound of socks rubbing against the floor, and after waiting for a while, it was my turn.……
I explained it again, picturing the situation at the time as best I could in my head, and Deokhoon, who was listening quietly, tilted his head and said something..
“Hey, but… Isn’t there a clock in our club room??”
“···clock?”
Everyone looks confused.
“There isn't any. But why is that?”
“But why did the clock sound?.”
“clock sound?”
I also ask in a slanted tone..
“i said that?”
“I did it.”
“huh. I did it……
Sunah nodded along from the side..
I was embarrassed and started explaining again from the beginning..
“Just a moment, just a moment. So, Hayun turned off the light first? And I couldn't see anything and it was dark. It was so quiet that all I could hear was the sound of socks rubbing against the floor. And time ticks by……
“The expression that time is ticking by. Did you just put it in as a metaphor or did you hear it yourself??”
I stood still for a moment, speechless, and then said:.
“···I heard it directly.”
As soon as Hayun turned off the light, I immediately heard the sound of a clock ticking..
Gyeongwon, who was thinking about something, after a while, his glasses sparkle..
“I don't know what it has to do with the corner game we're about to do, but there's a ghost story that comes to mind, so let's talk about it..”
“Oh, try it!”
Late at night, while trying to sleep in my room, I woke up to the sound of the clock..
While I was tossing and turning in bed, I realized that the sound of the clock ticking, which I normally didn't pay attention to, was particularly annoying..
There is no clock in my room.
As soon as I noticed it and got up from the bed, the second hand stopped sounding..
It is said that ghosts can imitate the sound of a clock ticking..
“clock second hand sound……
It definitely bothers me..
But what does that have to do with corner play and our being decapitated?.
Kyungwon raised his glasses and continued his explanation..
“If you think back from the beginning, this corner game we started with. I think it might be a type of ‘necromancy’..”
“necromancy?”
“okay. A ritual to summon the soul.”
ritual for summoning spirits!
“Take a close look at the story of this corner play from the beginning. As you rotate around the four corners of the dark square room, an unidentified person appears. I remember?”
“huh. I remember it well.”
“So, to put it the other way, don't you mean that if you want to summon an unknown person, you just have to go around the corner of the square room?.”
Yes.
When you hear it from the beginning, it seems like it's just a scary story, but when you turn it upside down, it turns out to be that way..
‘Stories like ‘I did this and a ghost appeared!’ can also be replaced with ‘If you do this and that, you can summon a ghost.’.
This corner play.
Perhaps it contains information about a ritual to summon ghosts or spirits..
“Last time, I cursed… This time, necromancy… … "okay. Rothstein’s Corridor, which we are doing now. It's called a play, but it just doesn't have a magic circle in the middle. What you're doing is like some kind of secret ritual..”
“···It's a bit like that.”
Our picture was of believers spinning around in the dark and performing satanic rituals with just a candle placed in the magic circle in the middle..
“This story. I think it could be seen as a kind of 'necromancy' to summon an unknown person..”
It was a valid opinion.
“Then why did the visit suddenly disappear??”
“I don't know.”
“okay……
Then Deokhoon stepped forward and answered for me..
“In a game sense, when you enter a stage, you usually have to kill all the monsters there to open the next passage..”
“Hmm.”
Lost in thought, I crossed my arms and tapped them with my index fingers, then asked Gyeongwon again..
“But what exactly is necromancy? Because it’s not a word you come across often..”
“Necromancy. This... is just a general term for a ritual that calls out ghosts. To give a famous example:.”
Gyeongwon fiddles with his glasses while thinking about how to explain it..
“Everyone knows about Bunshinsaba.?”
“huh. know.”
Everyone nodded here..
A ritual in which several students summon a ghost by holding a pen in each hand..
It's a famous superstition that you can't help but know..
“Boongsin Shaba?”
Seon-ah, who had no friends because she was bullied in middle school, tilts her head as if she doesn't know..
“hmm. It seems like the name of a spell to summon a ghost. Just know that for now.”
Suna quietly nods her head.
I have summarized the arguments made so far towards Gyeongwon..
“So, it wasn't detailed in the ghost story. If you dig deeper, your opinion is that the corner game we played was a kind of necromancy, a ritual to summon ghosts.?”
“okay. “That’s it.” Gyeongwon nodded and added an explanation..
“However, necromancy literally just calls out a ghost, and no one knows what kind of ghost will come. There are ghosts that normally join in the game and carry on the baton as in the story.……
“···There seems to be a bad quality ghost that cuts off the casters' heads as soon as they are summoned..”
From my experience just now, the guy who mutters.
“···The quality is a bit bad.”
I sighed naturally.
“Then, as soon as I turned off the light, I heard the sound of the clock ticking. What is that? I play a bit separately from the story..”
“.··well.”
Everyone tilted their heads at the questions that came to mind one after another..
“I know. We can play separately. In the story about a ghost imitating the ticks of a clock, wasn't there something about it going around cutting off people's heads?.”
Gyeongwon with a quiet, pensive expression.
It is a face that is worried about how to tie together various scattered logics..
“There is definitely no such story. But it was so unexpected... How to sort out this confusing situation.”
“hmm. Let’s try writing it down on the whiteboard first..”
At the top of the whiteboard, I wrote down three strange phenomena that just occurred to us..
1. Nook play (Rohstein's corridor)）
2. A ghost story about a ghost that imitates the sound of a clock ticking.
3. A ghost with just a floating head
(???)
I pointed to the third item and asked the members.
“Does anyone know what kind of ghost story this is? In the dark, a girl's voice suddenly told me that a woman's head was floating in the air.……
“Ugh ”
Jinhee and the teacher shake as if they are scared..
“It's scary, Jun..”
“···I'm talking about something that actually happened. I was scared too.”
By the way, you probably don't know anything about strange phenomena..
Since I am someone who is often mentioned in ghost stories, I decided that it would be dangerous if the secret about my return was revealed, so I didn't tell anyone anything..
And yet, before we know it, Teacher Jang Hwa-eun is secretly hanging out with us..
I was worried that someone might think this story was strange, such as someone dying by cutting off their head, so I secretly laid out the groundwork..
“···teacher. We're all doing this like role play. You know? Depending on the situation, role play.”
“what? Ghosts don't really appear?”
Teacher jumping up and down.
Are you seriously following our story?.
“…No, whatever. You can accept it however you like. I'll just continue for now..”
I looked around at the members and asked again..
“how is it? A ghost with only its head floating around, cutting off its neck and stealing its body. “Do you have any guesses on any ghost stories?” Suddenly Deokhoon stood up and came towards me..
“I don't know what the manager just asked, but this is what was written on the whiteboard. if… Isn’t it like this??”
He snatches the marker pen from my hand with his thick hand and corrects the items again..
1. Nook Play (Rostein's Corridor) - Necromancy
2. A ghost imitating the sound of a clock's second hand - imitating the sound of a second hand
3. Little girl ghost - relaying the situation
4. A ghost with only a floating head - cuts off the head and steals the body
I was speechless for a moment.
“I wonder if that head ghost took over the manager's body and stole his vocal cords before using his voice to speak. So, my guess is that the voice that warned me about my head being blown off was another ghost..”
“···That's right.”
Looking at it this way, I think I can see a little of the whole picture..
‘If we reconstruct the situation, is this what happens?.’
The lights in the club room turn off and corner play begins..
While I was getting ready, a ghost had already appeared and imitated the sound of a clock ticking..
The game starts and as the turns pass, Kyungwon taps my shoulder..
And after I moved to the last corner and confirmed that it was empty, I moved to the next corner to catch Hayun and while I was messing around, my friends were decapitated in the dark without a sound..
And the girl says.
［A female ghost with her head cut off is floating in the air, smiling. A female ghost with her head cut off is smiling and floating in the air..］
And I run away. The girl continues to relay the situation in real time..
［A female ghost with her head cut off laughs and chases through the air. They said his head was cut off..］
And finally, I too hear a voice with my throat cut..
［I had my body stolen by being decapitated by a female ghost given to me by the head of a ghost story club. I had my body stolen by being decapitated by a female ghost given to me by the head of a ghost story club..]
The line that resonates in my voice at the end is not that girl's voice, but the line spoken by the head-only female ghost that took over my body using my vocal cords..
“I see There are three ghosts in total.……
1. Nook Play (Rostein's Corridor) - Necromancy
2. A ghost imitating the sound of a clock's second hand - imitating the sound of a second hand
3. Little girl ghost - relaying the situation
4. A ghost with only a floating head - cuts off the head and steals the body
In that short period of time, we summoned as many as three ghosts through necromancy..
“It's my first time doing it, but I sang it a lot..”
“I know.”
It was the first time a scrappy high school student tried necromancy, and three people responded to it..
‘Is this world full of ghosts?.’
Once again, I quietly look at the characteristics of the three ghosts..
“···But when I look closely, the only thing I have to watch out for is the head ghost.?”
Gyeongwon also looked at it carefully and said, ‘What is this?’ I lifted my chin with a look in my eyes..
“It's true, manager. The other kids just imitated the sound of a clock or randomly relayed the situation, and they didn't attack or anything..”
I quietly looked through the list and quietly called the members..
“ Guys.”
Get ready.
“It's an experience party..”
ghost story club
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