Chapter 25 Part 3: Match Girl

Thanks to our first bear doll’s overwhelming physical abilities, I was able to shake off the ash humans…

But I can’t just keep running away from them forever.

The longer the chase with those bastards goes on, the more disadvantageous it becomes for us.

/Ghost Story Log

[Black Ash]

:Identification Code Cd-D-111-1

Another variant observed along with the Match Girl ghost story.

This variant is an anomaly that occurs when two or more sentient beings enter the current ghost story.

It is stated that it was not very difficult to shake them off based on a healthy adult male.

-New characteristics observed in the Black Ash.

Confirmed that the number of individuals continues to increase over time.

*The total number of individuals observed to date is.

-1111.

A thousand bastards, seriously?

That was an absurd number that had gone way too far.

Therefore, Park Yeon-jung focused even more on what he could do right now.

Click.

The item that looked like a revolver that I had been holding since earlier.

The Final Trigger.

My fate depends on this b*tch.

This item is the most expensive item in my possession, purchased for a whopping 26.66 million won.

Of course, the most useful item to use against an enemy employing such a barrage of numbers is, without a doubt.

Thousands of Eyes might be perfect.

But… that item is not an option.

There’s no need for explanation.

It’s just not an option.

If Park Yeon-jung were to use Thousands of Eyes again.

It would be the day all his body parts would be torn off.

I still wonder why those Eyes didn’t kill me back then, but let me live.

Well, isn’t it better to be safe than sorry?

The important thing is that I survived.

My gaze returned to the revolver in my hand.

And.

Begged.

I begged desperately.

Please, please, please, please don’t let it be ‘white’!

I hugged the revolver tightly and prayed earnestly.

/Item List

The Final Trigger.

(Check your fortune for today!)

Aim the gun at your head!

Pull the trigger!

Check your fortune for today with a thrilling sensation!

(Don’t worry, you won’t die ^^.)

What color will be your personal color today?

White?

Red?

Orange?

Yellow?

Green?

Blue?

Indigo?

Purple?

-Or black?

Don’t be too disappointed if you don’t get the color you want.

We have tomorrow!

Usage: Random bullet is provided.

(Can only be used once a day.

Based on midnight.)

*Keep in mind that each bullet has strange powers, but some bullets only activate when they hit the target.

(Everyone was a marksman in the military, right?)

*For reference, white bullets are a ‘dud’.

Anything but white!

It’s a dud!

If at least any color bullet comes out, I can reverse the current situation.

And currently, the color of the bullet I wanted most among those many colored bullets was purple.

/The Final Trigger

:Absolute Obedience.

(It is a shy bullet that gives intense mental charm to the target hit by the bullet.)

*The effect will only be fully activated if the bullet is firmly embedded in the target’s body.

With this bullet, I can instantly subdue the Match Girl.

If that happens, I can also make her withdraw the many black ash bastards that are chasing me.

If the Match Girl becomes obedient, it won’t be difficult to trap her inside the quill.

So please!

Come out, purple!

Ah… no, that’s not it.

I corrected myself again.

Please come out, Mr.

Purple!!!

Park Yeon-jung aimed the gun at his head without hesitation and immediately pulled the trigger of the revolver.

Click.

It wasn’t an ear-splitting firing sound.

It was a rather weak and bland trigger action.

Swish!

From the muzzle where the bullet should have been fired, a small flag fluttered out.

The color of the flag that came out of the muzzle was.

It wasn’t the purple he wanted.

But I’m glad it’s not white.

I was a little relieved when I immediately checked the chamber inside the revolver and saw the yellow bullet in the next chamber.

There is only one yellow bullet.

That means there’s only one chance.

Park Yeon-jung was thinking about the best strategy for the current situation.

…Ah, that’s right.

Come to think of it, I belatedly realized that I didn’t come here alone.

At the same time.

“Bear.”

?

I patted the head of the bear doll I had been wearing until now and asked our bear in a playful tone.

“You’ll have to be bait for me.”

?!?!

Tadak.

[…………Boring.]

The Match Girl’s embers, which had been burning red until just now, subsided a little.

It was because she was bored with the current situation.

[Ah~~~~ I wonder when I’ll catch them.]

After cooling down for a while, when only her black, burnt feet were fidgeting.

The sight of a huge bear doll running away in the opposite direction was visible in the distance.

[…Aren’t those bastards tired?]

A voice laced with boredom.

But since she had caught sight of them, there was no reason not to chase them.

!!!

[Catch them this time.

If you don’t catch them…you know?]

With the movements of the bastards flinching at the girl’s words.

All the black ash that had been standing blankly next to the girl immediately ran in the direction where the bear doll had disappeared.

…….

And the silence returned again.

[…………Boring, boring, boring, boring……………]

Thud.

A black shadow appeared in front of the Match Girl, who was endlessly uttering the word ‘boring’.

・Oh?

No!

Who is this?!

The Match Girl, who had been spewing boredom out of her mouth along with small embers until just now.

When she found a man dressed in a black suit, flames blazed from her whole body and her body began to heat up again.

Tadadadak!

Powerful heat that momentarily disappeared the surrounding cold.

Anyone who wasn’t an idiot could tell what kind of emotions the Match Girl was currently exuding.

It was joy.

[So, was that bear doll a diversionary tactic?

Something like that?]

[But why did you suddenly appear in front of me?

Surrender?

Begging?

Or…did you belatedly awaken to strange s*xual desires?

But that’s troublesome.

I don’t have the kind of reproductive organs you guys are thinking about……………]

“Let’s end this now.”

Before the Match Girl could finish her words, I aimed the gun at her.

And the reaction of the b*tch who saw that sight was.

……

Whirr!

・Pfft!

Puhahahaha!

Are you serious…………!

Good!

It’s fun!

This development is so fun!!]

The bastards emotions intensified.

The bastards flames began to burn even more fiercely.

[Then let’s make a bet!

Let’s bet on who will win!

Let’s make a bet!]

[The content of the bet is, the one who dies first.]

Tadadadak.

The Match Girl began to scatter a large amount of black ash with an absurd betting condition.

And the black ash, which was quickly taking shape, began to rush towards Park Yeon-jung at a furious speed.

[Can you hit me?!

How many bullets are in that gun!]

[Make me have more fun!!!]

As if to protect the Match Girl.

The black ash bastards were running in a straight line.

Now, due to the heat emanating from the bastards, I no longer felt the cold.

The trembling of my hands subsided.

Click.

Along with the sound of pulling the trigger from somewhere.

One voice that was clearly heard only in Park Yeon-jung’s ear echoed in his head.

-1 bullet loaded.

-Today’s personal color is ‘yellow’.

-A hungry day.

Today is a day when you feel like you can swallow everything in front of you.

Bang!

The sound of a gunshot reverberated throughout the vast cityscape.

Was it because it was a place with only empty buildings?

For some reason, the gunshot that reverberated throughout the city just now was louder than any other sound.

It was like a huge reverberation as if a thunderbolt had directly struck the city in a clear sky.

Crack.

Crackle.

The black ash bastards who had been running towards Park Yeon-jung himself until just now stopped walking all at once.

To be exact.

Everything in the straight trajectory of the fired gun.

An absurd sight as if everything had been blown away by a huge blow.

Crackle.

And the Match Girl, who was on the straight trajectory of that tremendous destructive power.

Crackles.

With half of her body blown away, she was spewing embers out of her mouth.

[…Huh…………Oh, really?]

Thud.

Na

As if tilting to the side.

Without strength

The Match Girl collapsed powerlessly to the floor as it was.

Perhaps the b*tch didn’t even have the strength left to maintain the black ash that she had created so many times until now.

Crack.

The black ash lost its form and returned to ordinary ash as it was.

Leaving behind the absurd sight that all of these situations were resolved with a single shot he fired.

While staring blankly at the hand holding the revolver, I thought.

Awesome!

This!

This is the power of capital!

Do you understand!

You Match brat!

He was excited like a child.

I didn’t really expect that everything would be resolved with just one shot.

Of course, Park Yeon-jung already knew how to use the yellow bullet he had drawn.

/The Final Trigger

:Unending Hunger.

(It is a hungry bullet that devours everything in the radius where the bullet is fired.)

*Don’t do foolish things like shooting yourself.

========

Even though I knew the explanation that it was a bullet that devours everything, I didn’t expect it to be this powerful.

Almost similar to the tremendous destructive power that can only come from firing an anti-tank gun in a straight line.

In the midst of a sense of security that there would be nothing to fear as long as I had this Final Trigger item from now on.

Shiver, shiver, shiver, shiver, shiver.

C, cold!

I started shivering from the cold like an aspen tree.

Bear, save me!!!

The powerful cold wave that I had forgotten due to the powerful Match Girl’s heat until just now, once again penetrates Park Yeon-jung’s body.

When there were only a few seconds left until all the functions of my body stop.

Cute footsteps were heard in the distance.

Thump!

One of the bear dolls that had run like an arrow grabbed me, who had become frozen, lifted me up and swallowed me without any hesitation.

…Ah.”

Warm.

I’m finally going to live.

Leaving behind the dizzying moment when I was almost turned into an ice statue, my steps stopped in front of a black, burnt charcoal lump.

Ta…tadak.

A charcoal lump that very small remained to reveal its presence.

On the outside, it looked like there was really no more miserable sight.

Ta…tadak.

But I wanted to applaud that strong will to stubbornly survive.

“Thank you for being alive.

Really.”

This was sincere.

In order not to repeat the same mistake as before with the revolver, I took out the quill in advance.

『The quill specifies the raw material to be used for the ink.』

The same phrase as with the Conductor.

『Valid raw material specification completed.』

『Refilling the ink.』

At the same time as those words ended, the black ink falling on the tip of the quill instantly swallowed the Match Girl.

『Ink has been replenished.』

At the same time as the phrase that it had been replenished, the shape of the feather, which had been in the shape of a musical note when it was the Conductor b*tch.

Tadak.

Now it was in the shape of a black, scorched feather.

Shake.

The same shaking of the ground that started just like before.

This was also the same as with the Conductor b*tch.

The collapse of the space where the ghost story owner disappeared.

The ghost story area that the Match Girl managed began to collapse.

But Park Yeon-jung wasn’t particularly worried.

Nya

Date.

Rock

Because I won’t let you die like this.

Ttat!

Along with the sound of familiar lights turning on.

The tremors of the ground subsided.

To be exact, I am currently in a di

Standing in a different place.

Chijik-

[I see that your second mission ended sooner than expected.]

Noise’s voice strikes the eardrums.

And the story that Noise’s voice strikes the eardrums.

The place is the same library main building as usual.

It seemed that Noise had moved me to the library again this time.

[It seems that there are already many customers looking for the tomboyish girl.]

[I don’t know why you’re looking for this thing so much.]

I handed the quill to the white librarian who appeared in front of me as before.

Scribble, scribble, scribble.

This time again, I opened an empty book.

This time again, I heard the sound of something being written down.

[This is the bonus for this mission.

Employee Park Yeon-jung.]

Zing-

The smartphone rang.

When I checked, this bonus was…

-30,000,000

It was the same amount as with the Conductor.

“…Mr.

Noise.”

[Yes?

What’s wrong?]

“What is the criteria for this bonus?”

It wasn’t a complaint in the tone that the amount of money was disappointing.

It was a really pure question.

[Ah.

Haven’t I explained the bonus criteria yet?]

[I’m sorry.]

As soon as Noise’s words ended, the white librarian flew towards me.

The b*tch was holding a small piece of paper in his hand, and I took the paper and checked the contents written on it.

F-10,000,000

E-20,000,000

D-30,000,000

C-50,000,000

B-70,000,000

A-100,000,000 / (Good)

S-(Even better.)

What caught my eye in the simply organized table was.

A-100,000,000 / (Good).

100 million won?

Even if I only looked at it as a number consisting of ‘0’ and ‘1’, the majesty of its existence was tremendous.

While the thought that I could touch 100 million won if I captured an A-class ghost story dominated my mind.

Suddenly, I remembered the amount I received for catching the Conductor b*tch, which was only E-class.

-30,000,000

Clearly the amount I received was 30 million won.

There’s no way Noise b*tch made a mistake.

“That…I think the amount I received before was a little wrong?

Clearly the ghost story I captured was E-class.”

I told the truth.

Ha

But the word is

But the answer that came back from Noise was.

[No.

That is the correct amount.

When employee Park Yeon-jung captured that ghost story.

The measured value of that ghost story was D-class.]

[We sometimes have them among our ghost stories.]

[Those who try to increase their size…]

I was somewhat convinced by Noise’s words.

There was also a report from the agency that the Conductor’s ghost story could receive up to B-class in the future.

And if the time when I first entered was the starting point for the Conductor b*tch to increase its size.

It couldn’t be said that Noise was wrong to measure him as D-class instead of E-class.

Chijik-

[More than that, employee Park Yeon-jung.]

“Yes?”

[Since you finished work early today, let’s go home early.]

[I think there should be days like this too.]

[Thank you for your hard work today.]

I checked the time at his words that I should go home early today.

PM.14:43

It was really earlier than I thought to go home.

“Yes, I understand.”

But I didn’t refuse.

When I was excited at the thought that I could rest more comfortably than usual today.

[Oh, right!]

Noise’s urgent voice came to me.

[She said she has prepared a lot for you today.

I hope you go home early today.]

Home?

I don’t have a home… Oh.

Have.

The home that Noise just mentioned is not an ordinary home that we know.

A house where ghost stories live.

Are you telling me to go back there again?

To that paper terrorist’s house that kept me up all night?

[I really didn’t expect her to even ask me for such a request.]

[When I first heard the story…it was amazing.

I think she likes employee Park Yeon-jung.

Congratulations.]

A man popular with ghost stories.

That name is ‘Park Yeon-jung’.

Park Yeon-jung hated himself, who was popular with ghost stories.

[Oh, and!]

What is it again!

Mr.

Noise!

[It may be cute in my eyes, but it would be better to take off the bear doll costume.

For humans like you, that look may be seen as quite ridiculous.]

Thank you for reminding me, I forgot.

Park Yeon-jung, who was almost made a laughing stock, took off the bear doll costume and was able to leave work safely in an ordinary suit.