The Boy’s Abyss (5)
The head ghost said,
“We’re right in front of it, but it’s just staying still. But I have a good idea, Geonho. Here’s what we should do─”
“This is the head ghost…!?”
It was a hideously formed head with hair growing wildly all over it.
Looking closely, its forehead seemed torn by something sharp, with blood dripping down. It looked so damn scary I felt like I might shed a tear.
“Wow, fuck, that visual is brutal. But how can it talk without vocal cords?”
“Ah ah ah…no! Why here, of all places! Why in front of the faculty office!”
Jeong Sojin clutched her face as if wailing.
As if the information about the head ghost not reacting to sound and sight was true, the head ghost just stayed still despite Jeong Sojin’s wailing.
I pondered a little on how to get rid of this ghost.
Actually, since hearing about the head ghost’s characteristics from Jeong Sojin, I had been thinking of ways to lure it somewhere else.
Should I try throwing a stone or something as bait?
I was about to put that into action.
“Fuck, Ah Geonho! Fuck you, Jeong Sojin, you fucking asshole! How could you fucking do this to me? Let’s get the hell out of here, Geonho! We need to fucking run! You should have gone to Yang Juhui earlier, not fucking now! Now, Geonho, let’s fucking escape! Hurry the fuck up, Geonho! We’re getting the fuck out, just the two of us, while that slutty bitch is knocked out! Fuck, the door’s locked. We need that goddamn key, right fucking now!─”
“……”
Maybe because of the head ghost’s unpleasant muttering, a certain scene was drawn in my head.
The scene is of class president Jeong Sojin pushing Yang Juhui down, and Jeong Sojin and Kim Geonho take advantage of that moment to approach the multipurpose room door.
“Jeong Sojin, you couldn’t have….”
When I looked at Jeong Sojin,
“Youngwon, I’m sorry!!!”
*Smack!*
At that moment, something powerfully shoved my shoulder.
The two outstretched palms contained the weight of one person, full of malice and selfishness.
“Ahh!”
Although I’m weak at sports, I’m not weaker than Jeong Sojin, who seems to only sit and study. Thanks to that, I didn’t fall down and ended up in a posture as if embracing Jeong Sojin.
“Hey, Jeong Sojin!!! You bitch!!! What the hell are you doing all of a sudden!!!”
“Don’t curse at me! It’s Yang Juhui’s fault! Does it make sense that I, who only studies every day, have lower grades than Yang Juhui who smokes and fools around with guys? I did nothing wrong! I did nothing wrong!”
“What? So you pushed Yang Juhui to the ghost? You pushed me too out of jealousy? This is totally psychopathic, you crazy bitch! It gives me chills that someone like you is our class president, fuck!”
“Shut up! You loser bastard! Let go of me!”
Maybe caught off guard from being hit where it hurts, Jeong Sojin struggled to push me away.
“Let go, you bastard! Fuck, let go! Where are you touching! It’s creepy! You loser bastard!”
“Where am I touching! I found it strange when Yang Juhui said she gave you a lighter! Yang Juhui hates you!”
Feeling something off about Jeong Sojin’s story about the lighter, I was wary that Jeong Sojin might act out.
Thanks to that, I was able to not fall over even from the earlier blow.
“I already knew you were someone whose inside doesn’t match their outside! You liar bitch! Was it also a lie that you went to the old school building with Kim Geonho and the others to crack down on their smoking?”
“What!?”
I had been going back and forth between the school store and behind the old school building running errands for Kim Geonho.
One time, I saw Kim Geonho and Jeong Sojin together in a place with few people near the old school building.
At first, I thought the class president was warning the delinquent, but then I saw them kissing.
I hurriedly left, thinking I shouldn’t see the scenes that would follow.
After some time passed, when Jeong Sojin, who was loitering behind the old school building, made eye contact with me, she was startled and asked, “Youngwon, why are you here? Did you see anything?”
I said, “No. I didn’t see anything.”
However, after that, Kim Geonho’s bullying got worse, and I found out from Yang Juhui that it was at Jeong Sojin’s instigation.
Jeong Sojin never believed what I said from the beginning, either.
This was also the reason I threw Jeong Sojin as a player into the nightmare corridor.
“Still, I really tried to help you, but you backstab me like this? You’re the one fooling around with guys!”
“Fuck! I feel gross! You pervert! You fucking bastard! Why am I a slut! You dog! Why am I a slut!”
No, I didn’t call you a slut, though?
Jeong Sojin hit and bit me like a crazy person.
She seemed almost insane, and this was an ordeal for me because of my weak stamina.
The more she did that, the more tightly I held Jeong Sojin.
“Just stay still for a bit! Stay still and look!”
“What are you trying to do to me, you motherfucker! Let go!”
The smell of cosmetics wafted strongly from Jeong Sojin, and the sensation of something soft pressing against and getting crushed by my body became more vivid.
A woman’s body is small, slender, and fragile. In contrast, how sad is a man’s body that it reacts in many ways regardless of one’s will, even in this situation?
“You perverted bastard!!! You fucking loser bastard!!!! Fatherless bastard!!!”
It’s not that I’m doing this because I’m a pervert, like Jeong Sojin says. I’m protecting Jeong Sojin for her own good, in a way.
Ghost’s hair was spread out like a spider web all around, so if she moved her feet wrong, it would be big trouble.
“Let go, I said!”
But Jeong Sojin was almost crazy and eventually broke free from my arms-.
“Ah-.”
*Thud.*
And fell.
Jeong Sojin was sitting among the hair spread out on the floor like a flower blooming in a spider web.
“Let go, you bastard fuck let go. Where are you touching, you motherfucker? What are you trying to do to me? Let go, ahhhhhh, why am I a slut ehhhh blegh.”
The head ghost pounced on Jeong Sojin, who struggled like a butterfly caught in a spider web.
“Kyaaaaaaa!!!! Save me! Youngwon, save me! I was wrong! Save me! Ugh, uuugh, uwek─.”
Jeong Sojin kept retching as hair penetrated holes like her eyes, ears, and nose, and it looked really terrible. She says to save her, but it’s already past the point where I can do anything.
“I, I’ll date you! Youngwon, you like me, right? We made eye contact every break, right? Save me! Save me! Sa─”
Jeong Sojin’s body seemed to float in the air for a moment, then moved like an awkward puppet show, bending her joints with *crack crack* sounds.
“You…like me right…mom…I… don’t want to study…I don’t want to be a doctor…Geonho…before anyone sees…hurry…ah…aah…aah……”
Maybe the hair invading her brain touched a nerve. Jeong Sojin listed incomprehensible words and then could only say aah—.
*Drip.*
Smelling the liquid dripping from Jeong Sojin’s motionless uniform skirt to her thighs, I came to my senses with a start.
“The key.”
I have to find the key to the multipurpose room in the faculty office.
With that thought, I moved my legs and entered the faculty office.
“Bitch. And to think I had a crush on you at the beginning of the semester.”
*Clink*
Separate from my bitter and complicated feelings, I dutifully retrieved the Multipurpose Room Key from the key box.
But the unfortunate thing is that I don’t know where the multipurpose room is in this strange corridor.
Come to think of it, Jeong Sojin didn’t tell me the location of the multipurpose room.
She said she knew.
Considering Jeong Sojin’s cunning, maybe she was trying to gain the upper hand in our relationship by knowing the multipurpose room’s location.
She may have been thinking of using me as bait for the head ghost if things went south.
And in reality, she died trying to do just that.
“Is this karma?”
Glancing outside, the head ghost had disappeared somewhere along with Jeong Sojin.
Unlike spiders that spin webs and live in one spot, does the head ghost move locations once it succeeds in hunting?
It seemed like a rather reasonable opinion.
When Jeong Sojin pushed Yang Juhui, the head ghost seemed to be in front of the multipurpose room.
Yang Juhui suddenly came to mind.
If she had been caught by the head ghost, would Yang Juhui have suffered the same fate as Jeong Sojin? And wet herself in the end?
“Hey…! You’re Ha Youngwon, right?”
“Eek, fuck!”
I was really startled by the voice coming from a place I never expected. Not even a cat suddenly seeing a cucumber while eating would be as surprised as I was.
I was really surprised, and my heart was pounding, but something soft firmly covered my mouth.
“Shh, be quiet…!”
*Sniff.*
I smelled cosmetics.
And a sweet smell.
I knew this smell well.
“Yang Juhui…!?”
Even with eyes accustomed to the dark, Yang Juhui’s yellow hair was clearly visible.
Yang Juhui is alive.
How is this even possible?
Wasn’t Yang Juhui killed by the head ghost?
“When the ghost attacked, I took out a box cutter and stabbed it. Thanks to that, I was able to escape somehow. And then I hid in this faculty office. I think the head ghost chased me and came to the front of the faculty office.”
The head ghost couldn’t enter the faculty office.
Looking closely, the faculty office also had talismans plastered all over it like the classroom 1-4.
“I see. So you attacked it with a box cutter….”
The blood steadily dripping from the head ghost’s forehead wasn’t decoration for horror but traces of Yang Juhui’s violence.
The head ghost takes damage from physical attacks. That might be useful information.
She’s got guts, wielding a knife against a ghost.
“The box cutter? The one you took from my desk? Where did that go?”
“I don’t know. I lost it after stabbing the head ghost. That’s why I was trapped in this faculty office. I found this flashlight while rummaging through the faculty office. I was looking for any useful weapons.”
“Aha.”
“Anyway, that bitch Jeong Sojin is dead? I always hated her. Pretending to be a fox. Acting like she’s not a thot when she totally is! Wagging her tail at the boys so much!”
Yang Juhui cursed out Jeong Sojin for almost a full minute.
To Yang Juhui, Jeong Sojin was someone who tried to use her as bait.
“Ah, right. Our Youngwon had a crush on Jeong Sojin, didn’t you? Huh? You didn’t even know Jeong Sojin was dating Kim Geonho. Did you know Jeong Sojin, the one you liked, was dating Kim Geonho?”
“What are you talking about? I never liked Jeong Sojin. I don’t like girls with glasses.”
“Really? Well… I’ll take your word for it. More importantly, what the hell is going on…”
Yang Juhui plopped down.
She didn’t show it, but she must feel relieved meeting me after being tense for so long.
She was stuck so close to me that I could smell her sweet scent.
When I inadvertently licked my lips, Yang Juhui asked,
“What’s wrong? Are you eating something, Youngwon?”
“Eating what.”
“Yeah? Suspicious. Do you really not have anything to eat?”
“No, I really don’t. If I did, I would’ve eaten it already. I want to drink a cold cola.”
“Oh shit, I’ve been trapped in this faculty office for two days now and I’m hungry. When you mentioned cola, it made me thirsty too. Take responsibility. Youngwon, go buy me a cola at the school store.”
Take responsibility… Those words reminded me of a dream I had a while ago.
However, there was a more important keyword in what Yang Juhui just said.
“Two days? You were trapped here for two days?”
Isn’t that strange?
If my calculations are correct, it hasn’t even been 24 hours since kids like Yang Juhui and Jeong Sojin have been wandering this corridor.
It was somewhat suspicious yet a bit convincing.
“Could it be that this place is….”
*Jingle, jingle.*
When I heard the sound of a bell approaching, both Yang Juhui and I shut our mouths.
*Jingle, jingle, jingle.*
The sound of the bell got louder and louder, and finally passed by the faculty office.
This place is safe—
With that thought, the tension drained from my body.
The drowsiness I had been forgetting also came over me.
To be honest, it’s ridiculous even to myself, but I was really sleepy.
I had woken up in the middle of the night and was doing this shit after all!
“Juhui, do you know where the multipurpose room is?”
“Maybe? I’m not sure. I was just running around frantically to avoid the head ghost.”
Great.
Still, it’s better to have Yang Juhui with me. I don’t know the location of the multipurpose room at all.
But I kept feeling like I was “missing something.”
Just in case, it’s good to get insurance.
“Juhui.”
“What.”
“I have a favor to ask.”
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