Chapter 17 Part 5: And the performance has begun

All the preparations are complete.

But…….

The trembling in my body won’t stop.

It’s not a trembling that comes from fear, it’s a trembling closer to instinct.

My body heats up.

The sound of my heart beating fills my head.

I just hope all this trembling is because of those lights illuminating me.

I can vividly feel the movement of blood cells moving through my blood vessels.

Sensations I never wanted to feel in my life.

Squeeze.

Nevertheless, the man brought the microphone to his lips.

“To the guests who have been waiting until now, I offer an apology for your inconvenience….”

Park Yeon-jung, who was holding the microphone, bowed his head and apologized to the audience.

As if the performance was really over, he blatantly induced the atmosphere.

“I would like everyone to go home today.”

@##!@&$@!@#!

What profanity and curses.

But even if I don’t check it, I can identify whose anger it is, showing such intense anger that I can identify it.

The musical notes that made up the conductor’s face were no longer mixed with his outburst.

Slide.

Park Yeon-jung raised his head again.

Where my gaze was directed…….

A bizarre sight of the musical notes that made up the conductor’s face losing control and scattering in all directions.

Those who watched the whole process without blinking an eye, beyond fear.

Despair, as if they had already accepted death, had already set in on everyone’s faces.

Choi Kang-in was no exception.

Park Yeon-jung checked the faces of these people.

He dropped the microphone he was holding in his hand to the floor.

Screeeeech-!

Along with the momentary cracking sound, everyone who had been losing their minds focused their attention on that one microphone, and when Choi Kang-in also focused his attention on me.

A smile that seemed impossible in the current situation was directed at Choi Kang-in.

“Don’t get caught by them.”

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You really.”

Unfortunately, Choi Kang-in’s next voice was not heard.

Choi Kang-in’s head was confused by the scene he had just seen.

He was definitely.

‘A ghost story.’

Should I believe that guy’s words?

Honestly, I’m still not sure.

A strange aura seeping out from somewhere.

An atmosphere that makes even the surrounding air feel unfamiliar, as if it’s a person who doesn’t belong in reality.

An unknown eerieness always followed where his steps reached.

As if he handles the logic of ghost stories so naturally.

But, strangely enough, to his words.

‘Trust’ followed.

I don’t know the reason.

Just, somehow…it felt like it would really work out with this guy’s words.

That was more unpleasant for Choi Kang-in.

The fact that I believe in a ghost story.

It was disgusting.

The ghost stories he saw always tried to harm humans. Ghost stories are originally beings that humans cannot understand.

But he?

He handles ghost stories so naturally.

As if he were a part of this place.

A ghost story tries to save humans?

This doesn’t make sense logically.

‘Is it a ghost story, pretending to be human logic?’

Choi Kang-in looked at him with complicated feelings.

However, a faint smile spread on the lips of a man, and the artificial eyeball-shaped sculpture made as if by a child was seen in his hand-

I instinctively shouted.

“From this moment on, everyone must not move! No matter what happens, absolutely!!”

His cry spread like a hollow echo.

But an uncontrollable anxiety sprouted in Choi Kang-in’s heart.

A situation where common sense is overturned.

In a reality where all senses are distorted.

His delusion seemed to continue.

A faint smile spread across a man’s lips.

‘I’m really glad it’s you.’

Park Yeon-jung then clenched the artificial sculpture in his hand with all his might.

With all his might.

He struck it on the bare ground.

Crack!

The artificial sculpture shattered so easily.

And soon, all the musical notes that had been roaming the entire space.

They all stopped in their tracks.

Choi Kang-in, after hearing the sound of the sculpture shattering on the floor, Park Yeon-jung also stopped moving.

But.

It’s quiet.

A deathly silence.

There was no immediate change, so everyone felt strange.

Ha! Hahahahahahahahaha!”

A burst of laughter that seemed to ring throughout the space.

“Hahaha! Hahahahahahaha!”

It’s not the conductor guy.

Because the conductor guy can’t express his emotions except through musical notes.

Besides, how many humans here would suddenly burst into laughter with such boisterous laughter.

Probably there is no one here except one person. Choi Kang-in thought so.

Yeah.

Just one person.

The person who dragged us here.

The person who instilled the vain hope of being able to survive.

It was Park Yeon-jung’s burst of laughter.

“You really did as I told you?! Hahaha! You idiots.”

“……”

“This moment is always the most fun! That moment when the face filled with hope turns into despair! This is it, this!!”

“”

“It’s a masterpiece!”

Grind.

It wasn’t Choi Kang-in’s.

Turning my gaze, although I couldn’t, was the sound of someone’s teeth grinding, mixed with despair and anger at Park Yeon-jung’s words.

“…But I’m really disappointed in you. Note-head.”

!?!

A single musical note that had been frozen in the air trembled slightly.

“I didn’t expect you to be so genuinely fooled by my low-level play…………”

With subtle breath control.

“I think you’d be better suited as a variety show panelist than a conductor.”

The slight trembling of the musical notes that had been felt just now disappeared, and in the very quiet scene.

↓ –

A single, long syllable.

And at the same time as raising the baton high into the sky.

The conductor’s performance began.

Whoosh!!

All the musical notes flying in the air began to rush towards Park Yeon-jung.

The musical notes rush in at a fast speed.

Creak.

Creak creak!

As if trying to avoid the musical notes approaching them quickly.

The creaking of numerous people tickles my ears.

But they are also 고민.

Is it really the right choice to move now?

Choi Kang-in was also having dozens, hundreds, and thousands of thoughts intertwined at this moment.

He blinked.

Someone’s gaze was felt on Choi Kang-in’s back.

!!!

『You moved?』

Blink.

The gaze that was felt on my back was soon.

Another eyeball appeared within Choi Kang-in’s field of vision.

A bizarre sight of only one eyeball floating in the air.

The eyeball that appeared in front of everyone uttered a neutral voice as if whispering in my ear.

『A lot, too?』

Dozens, hundreds…or maybe even thousands of musical notes that had been mercilessly flying towards Park Yeon-jung stopped all at once with the single gaze that had just appeared.

To be precise.

『What will you give us?』

It was definitely one gaze.

Blink blink blink blink blink blink.

It began to multiply frighteningly according to the number of musical notes that moved.

『Let’s go. Everyone is waiting.』

Then, teeth sprouted in the place where the eyelids should be.

Those teeth began to set their teeth towards the musical notes that had just moved.

Gulp.

#!!

The dissonance that resonates as if screaming, and soon appeared in front of such a struggling conductor

Another gaze.

Blink.

『You, moved again?』

!!

The conductor’s two legs were swallowed by the gaze.

#!

Next is the left arm holding the baton.

!!

Then the right arm.

Before long. Only the conductor’s torso, lying alone on the floor, remained.

The conductor didn’t move after that.

Or maybe it’s because his arms and legs, which visually showed pain, have disappeared, so he can’t move even if he wants to.

But that’s not really important.

It’s over.’

Everything ended in an instant.

Park Yeon-jung was able to finish things smoothly because the conductor fell for his provocation.

I really thought it was fortunate.

Now one danger has disappeared. Now, the next runner on the baton is.

Sending back these thousands of gazes that Park Yeon-jung just activated.

To some extent, I was prepared and activated them, but.

/Item List

Thousand Eyes.

(If you feel their gaze, give them what they want.)

Everyone has a lack, frustration, greed… that comes from not having what they want. It’s a very unsightly emotion.

Let’s think simply.

If you need it, get it!

Don’t hesitate to use any means!

Take everything that catches your eye!

When used: The embedded ghost story appears. (Shows a strong obsession with the body.)

*Many people who need help are waiting for your helping hand. The first child wants two healthy ‘legs’…..

……….

-[Ideological contamination occurred]-

Access to this data is prohibited.

Position: Restricted to section chief or higher.

Crackle.

A barely visible incense stick, almost burnt to ashes, caught my eye.

In preparation for the current situation. I lit the incense before breaking the artificial sculpture.

But the length of that incense is also running out.

There is only one way to send them back.

Giving them a complete human body.

Of course, I have no intention of giving up my precious body. That’s why I’m burning incense now.

There’s not much time left.

The end is approaching.

Inside, I have to be deprived of my body by those thousands of gazes somehow.

.Sigh.

Even though I know I won’t die, the aversion continues to linger in my body.

But I have to.

“I know what you want…”

Blink.

『You moved?』

The gaze is watching me.

My throat was parched.

“If you wish, you can take it all.”

Anyway, while the incense is burning, I am denied any death.

…Even if the pain doesn’t disappear.’

Let’s endure.

It’s a ghost story. I was prepared for this much.

Before the incense burns out quickly.

[ · · · · · · . ]

Please hurry.

.?

What? These guys.

The gaze looks at me.

It just looks.

When Park Yeon-jung couldn’t figure out what the situation was, suddenly.

『Not much left?』

For some reason, my gaze slowly fell.

Crackle.

The incense I was holding in my right hand caught my attention.

Blink.

Gaze.

Another gaze is staring at the incense in my right hand.

…….

As if waiting for that incense to burn out.

『Not much left?』

Chilling!!

‘This guy!’

I was caught.

I was completely caught by them.

I never thought they would realize the current situation.

No, more than that.

It can’t be.

If the incense burns out in this state.

I die.

I really die.

Like that conductor lying on the floor.

With both arms and legs torn off.

I will meet a miserable death.

‘Almost made it!’

I can’t die like this.

I have to survive even if I’m humiliated.

I still have one incense stick left.

I can do it.

I have to believe in myself if I don’t believe in myself.

Let’s light the remaining incense and think about the next best thing.

It’s not too late yet.

Park Yeon-jung’s left hand passed through the employee ID card and immediately took out the last remaining incense.

‘Now, just light the fire-‘

『Can you escape?』

Freeze.

A gaze I’ve never seen before is looking at me.

As if it would swallow my whole body in an instant.

I was overwhelmed.

Thanks to the top student glasses, my mind didn’t collapse, but.

Crackle.

The last gray ash falls powerlessly.

The incense has burned out.

It’s over.

『It’s over?』

A slight laugh slips into the neutral voice that tickles my ears.

Dozens…hundreds…………

No, thousands of gazes gather towards me, and those gathered gazes reveal their ugly teeth and whisper to me.

『IwantlegsIwantarmsIwantheartIwantheadIwantbrainIwantpancreasIwantkidneysIwant…………………』

Whispering disguised.

The voices of thousands of people, each wanting a different body part.

At that moment, the glasses were constantly blocking their mental damage.

Drip.

A hot sensation flowing from deep inside my nose.

When my hand went up and wiped under my nose.

Red blood was묻어.

『Next is the ears.』

『Next is the eyes.』

『Next is the mouth.』

Bloodshot eyes collided with thousands of gazes.

I instinctively realized that my body had exceeded its limit.

But it starts now.

The stage of pain has only just begun.

『What will you give us-

!!!!

Freeze.

The gazes that seemed to will swallow Park Yeon-jung whole stopped all at once.

At first, I thought it might be their bad taste.

I thought so.

『You…………You have that person’s item?』

TH?

『That person? Why? I can’t understand?』

Their sudden abnormal behavior.

The guys who were just muttering incomprehensible words, but.

I instinctively thought that this moment was my last chance, and I immediately moved my body.

Click.

I quickly took out the lighter from my pocket and lit it.

I brought the lighter fire to the incense stained with red blood.

When the gaze was focused on the burning incense.

‘…It, it worked!’

White smoke rose.

The incense began to burn.

[ · · · · · · · ]

And the thousands of gazes that were revealing their teeth to me until just now.

Before I knew it, only one gaze was staring at Park Yeon-jung. It was as if a hunter had given up hunting.

The last remaining eyelid slowly closed, and a low, eerie voice penetrated my ears.

『This is the last time.』

Along with that one word.

Park Yeon-jung’s dazed gaze, still looking at the burning incense.

Did it, go away?’

Whether they really disappeared.

When I still couldn’t figure it out.

A strong hand emerged from the black sleeve beyond the red gaze.

“…It’s over.”

In my fading voice.

“…Yes, it’s over.”

The faint smile of Section Chief Choi Kang-in, who had approached me before I knew it, made me sigh deeply as if the tension was released.

I lay down on the floor.

I almost died!!!’


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pe551
14 days ago

Nice