Chapter 18: Hwaae High School (14)
Reflexively, I rolled to the side, and the box cutter’s blade stabbed directly into the tiles where I had been just a moment earlier.
“Ugh……!”
My ribs, whose pain I had forgotten for a moment, began tormenting me again, but perhaps thanks to the painkiller, it was bearable.
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You mean dead.
What do you mean, eliminated?
“Eliminated! wizard Eliminated!”
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Team Leader Yong must have sensed something, because he grabbed Myeong Haebin’s head and mine and forced us to duck.
“Duck!”
As if annoyed that it had failed to stab me, the teddy bear began furiously swinging the knife through the air.
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At the same time, the desks and chairs I had worked so hard to stack perfectly began collapsing on top of us as though they intended to bury us alive.
The desks crashed down headfirst and flipped over.
The legs of the chairs struck the tiles.
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Only after a long while did the practice room sink back into a heavy silence.
Clink, clack.
And more chairs came crashing down on top of them.
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“…….”
“Hide well~.”
The shards of glass embedded in the teddy bear’s feet made a sound every time they touched the floor.
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Its black button eyes abruptly lowered to look beneath the counter.
As it struck the knife in its hand here and there, it gradually made its way downward.
“Found you!”
With a voice so excited that it sounded as though it might take flight, it hummed while hopping across the mountain of desks and chairs.
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And those eyes met mine.
“You’re the one who got caught.”
I aimed at the teddy bear and squeezed the plastic bottle I was holding as hard as I could.
I knew it would come.
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The teddy bear began writhing as it let out an agonized scream.
“Aaaaaaagh!!”
The salt water shot out forcefully and completely soaked the teddy bear.
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The teddy bear rubbed its body with its short limbs and against the legs of the desks.
“No! ability No! adopt Again! atlas Let’s do it again!”
The salt water soaking its cotton body now dripped down stained black.
“The game is over.”
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Team Leader Yong, who was beneath the counter on the opposite side, cautiously raised his head.
Before we could catch it, it squeezed through the narrow gaps and ran away.
“It left.”
“What happened?”
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“We don’t usually dismantle horror stories this way, so I don’t know. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com palette Maybe we should’ve stuck a Disassembly Marker on it.”
I thought I knew the reason.
The practice room door through which the teddy bear had escaped was shattered and had fallen out into the hallway.
“Do you think it’s over? abandon That’s strange. alpha We did exactly what the instructions said, so why is it still alive and moving?”
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Where the teddy bear had been completely drenched in salt water, a puddle of black filth resembling soot remained.
The condition for completing this horror story was to clean Hwaae High School’s one-person hide-and-seek game.
Considering how violently it had writhed and how much it had hated it, it was clear that the salt water worked.
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“Then let’s completely submerge it in salt water.”
Clean the teddy bear with salt water.
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If it were up to me, I would have loved to spray it with a pressure washer filled to the brim with salt water, but there was no way equipment like that existed in this place.
‘Wash it.’
Then there was only……
Bzzz—
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The final space that had remained hidden until now was filled in.
The application updated.
[Condition for completion: Wash the one-person hide-and-seek game of the Hwaae High School horror story.]
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As if proving that the answer I had reached was correct.
“Ah! agent Boss, are you thinking of washing it?”
Is it just my imagination?
But this application seems to have slightly more advanced functions than last time.
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“Yes. amateur I’m going to wash it.”
Myeong Haebin understood my intentions a moment later and slapped her palm.
Of course, Team Leader Yong still seemed not to understand and pretended to clean out his ear.
“I think there’s something wrong with my ears.”
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“Geez, I already told you to clean out your earwax.”
Team Leader Yong let out a deep sigh and lifted the empty salt-water bottle.
“That’s not what I meant!”
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“Rookie, I know perfectly well that you’re incredibly good at cleaning. canvas But this is too much.”
Although perhaps he wasn’t worried about me, but about my head.
“You promised me. shadow You said you’d give me a chance.”
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“Do I look like I’m in the mood for jokes?”
“How are we supposed to go to the infirmary? agent They must have finished for the day by now.”
“I think I also told you that if it looked like they’d have to drag you to the infirmary, we’d stop immediately. atom Look at yourself.”
I had lost a kidney, my sense of balance and hearing were both impaired, I had a cracked rib, and I still had staples embedded in both hands.
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“If this doesn’t work either, I’ll withdraw. academy I promise.”
But my goal was to convince him, not provoke him until he became furious.
Team Leader Yong looked genuinely angry.
Team Leader Yong bit his lip as though thinking it over, then raised his wrist and tapped his analog watch a couple of times.
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“If you haven’t succeeded by then, we’ll wait quietly until nighttime study ends and go home.”
I immediately nodded.
It was conditional approval, but it was still approval.
“Do you trust me?”
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What a strange man.
“Why the hell would I trust a green rookie like you, idiot?”
Despite his words, Team Leader Yong moved a desk aside and crawled out from beneath the narrow counter.
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Myeong Haebin suddenly raised her hand.
“I’m going to pour all the salt we have left into this sink. audit Then we’ll mix it with water and……”
“And what exactly are you planning to do?”
“There’s a problem!”
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Myeong Haebin pulled the bag of salt out from under a desk and held it up to show us.
“We used all the salt. alpha There’s none left.”
“What is it?”
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“You used all that salt in half a bottle?”
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It really was completely empty and crumpled.
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“Of course not! acid There was barely any left to begin with.”
I vaguely remembered thinking that bag had felt especially light when we cleaned this place.
Now that she mentioned it, I thought that was true.
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“The cafeteria? canvas You almost died there and you can still say that?”
I looked at Team Leader Yong.
“Go to the cafeteria.”
“It’s nighttime. afford There shouldn’t be anyone there.”
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Of course, judging by the appearance of the food they had served, it was difficult to imagine that they had used human seasonings, but it was the last place where there might still be salt left.
“I’ll do whatever you say, Team Leader.”
“What if there isn’t any?”
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There was no Plan B.
I just had to wash the teddy bear with salt water.
One way or another, I could end up dead.
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“What?”
“I’ll go!”
Myeong Haebin was more agile than Team Leader Yong and me.
“Not you, Haebin. beacon There’s something else I need you to do.”
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“Why do both things at the same time? alpha Let’s get the salt first, then lure it here.”
“Because I don’t think I can hold out that long.”
All I had to do was remember how she had managed to evade the Professors’ surveillance on her own.
“The teddy bear must still be hiding somewhere in this school. antique We need to bring it here.”
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The backs of my hands, where the staples were still embedded, were beginning to turn bluish, and because the hands were one of the parts of the body that moved the most, the bleeding wouldn’t stop.
Both Team Leader Yong and I.
We had already lost too much blood.
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I, in particular, was barely managing to remain conscious thanks to the painkiller.
“Ah, shit. crystal I don’t even know anymore. advance Neither of you do anything dangerously stupid.”
I didn’t know how much longer I could hold out.
“You just need to come back quickly.”
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He crossed through the shattered entrance of the practice room and went down the stairs.
“Can you really do it with those hands?”
Team Leader Yong looked like he wanted to punch me in the mouth if he could, but my condition must have been pitiful enough to make him give up on the idea.
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Myeong Haebin could be disturbingly inhuman at times, but there was at least one thing I could trust.
She cared about me.
“I’ll have to try. amateur Besides, you’re going to help me, right? autumn Sorry for not believing you earlier, Haebin.”
“Bah, you weren’t even in your right mind. arch It’s fine.”
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It wasn’t as though I had ever washed a stuffed animal using only salt water.
“I’ll be right back! canvas Start filling the sink with water!”
Although there was a method that used only salt.
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It involved putting the stuffed animal into a bag with coarse salt and shaking it. altitude It was useful for light disinfection and removing dust.
Normally, you don’t use salt water for washing.
Salt can harden the fur and stuffing of a stuffed animal, make the colors fade, and, if done incorrectly, even cause mold to grow.
‘Of course, I don’t think any bag could withstand that teddy bear. adopt And besides, we need salt water, not just salt.’
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“Let’s do this.”
And that was exactly what I had to use.
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I didn’t want the noise to unnecessarily attract a Professor.
I plugged the drains of all three and slightly opened the faucets.
There were three sinks in total inside the practice room.
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Since I didn’t know exactly what effect salt had inside a horror story, I couldn’t risk it.
‘But it probably wouldn’t mix well with salt water. apple It might even neutralize the effect of the salt.’
If it were up to me, I would use sodium percarbonate.
Its strong alkalinity makes it especially effective for disinfecting and bleaching.
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Since it was nonionic, it wouldn’t alter the properties of the sodium either.
A neutral detergent, on the other hand, would be a good option.
It was the type of detergent mainly used for washing wool or as dishwashing liquid.
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It was perfect.
When the water came into contact with my wounds, I felt a terrible burning sensation, but surely that would be nothing compared to what was coming next.
I poured a small amount of neutral detergent into the water that had already filled half of the first sink and stirred it.
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Then I would completely submerge it in the salt water in the second sink to draw out all that black filth.
I had to endure it.
Finally, I would rinse it in the third sink.
First, I would wash the teddy bear in sink number one with water and neutral detergent.
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Even so, I couldn’t stop myself from peeking into the hallway again and again.
For now, the plan was perfect.
I knew I had to be careful, since the entrance was completely open and a Professor could come in at any moment.
‘Why are those two taking so long?’
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Or perhaps the two of them had been caught on the way and taken back to the study hall.
Perhaps the teddy bear had decided to hide forever.
Absolutely nothing was certain.
Maybe there was no salt in the cafeteria.
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One drop.
The blood seeping from my tightly clenched fist fell to the floor.
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A single minute felt like an eternity.
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Then another.
Until it formed a large stain.
I would have to go out, even if it was just to look for Myeong Haebin.
I couldn’t keep waiting.
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“Boss!”
Of course not.
Was it a hallucination caused by losing too much blood?
Just as I thought that, she came running through the front door of the practice room.
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“Then where is it?”
Her bangs were completely soaked with sweat and stuck to her forehead, but it was definitely Myeong Haebin.
“I took a little while, didn’t I? beacon Whew, you have no idea how well this guy had hidden himself. abandon I stabbed him with the knife and told him it was his turn to seek, and only then…”
“Right behind me!”
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My body reacted before my mind did, and I threw myself toward her.
The teddy bear had leaped toward Myeong Haebin with the sharp blade of the box cutter aimed directly at her.
Behind her?
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“Weren’t you the one who ran away? audit We meet again, huh?”
I caught it in midair and, because of the powerful impact, ended up rolling once across the floor.
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But the force with which this thing struggled was no joke.
If we’re talking about that, I already won when I sprayed you with salt water.
“Eliminated! beacon I won this time!”
“You stubborn little bastard.”
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As if it had realized I could barely keep it away from my body, it began indiscriminately slashing my arm with the box cutter.
“Ugh……!”
Every time it thrashed with strength greater than that of an adult man, my entire body shook.
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“It’s completely tangled up……! altitude Boss, I don’t think I can get the knife away from it right away. attic Can we put it in first?”
The thick blade pierced my skin, cut through the muscles, and came back out.
Myeong Haebin joined the struggle to help me and managed to pull away the arm holding the box cutter.
Blood gushed from the severed blood vessels.
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“No…… Blub!”
We plunged the entire teddy bear into the ice-cold water.
“Good idea.”
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As the stuffing absorbed water, the blows from its arms became heavier, but I didn’t give an inch.
The detergent water began turning red as it mixed with my blood.
‘Tsk.’
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Without the slightest consideration, I scrubbed its face with one hand while pressing down on its abdomen with the other, forcing the detergent water to penetrate inside.
“……!……!!”
Even so, I put even more strength into my arms.
The detergent seeped into the countless wounds on my arms, causing a stabbing pain that pierced even through the effects of the painkiller and went straight to my head.
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The counters in the practice room, which had remained motionless until then, began shaking as though they were trying to move.
Creak……
Feeling threatened, the teddy bear began struggling even more violently.
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The amount coming out was far smaller than when we had soaked it with salt water.
Little by little, a black substance resembling soot began mixing with the water.
I squeezed and scrubbed its ears, face, and arms hard so the detergent would penetrate every last corner.
But it meant we really were washing it.
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Myeong Haebin had finally managed to wrench away the box cutter, which had practically been attached to its hand because of the red thread wrapped around it.
“Yes! amateur I have the knife here! adopt And I left the brush to the side!”
“Haebin, I’m taking it out.”
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Using the soft-bristled brush Myeong Haebin had prepared, I began vigorously scrubbing the soles of its feet, which were especially dirty, until they foamed.
“No!”
I pulled the teddy bear out of the soapy water, placed it on the counter, and pressed my elbow firmly against its abdomen to immobilize it.
She proudly showed it to me and then put it into her own pocket to make sure the teddy bear couldn’t reach it again.
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Now this thing was nothing more than a conscious teddy bear with slightly more strength than normal.
I also removed the shards of glass embedded in them.
Now I only had to submerge it once more in the detergent water and……
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“Huh……? atlas Me? amber Of course not!”
The sink I was about to submerge the teddy bear in again was completely empty.
“Haebin, did you happen to drain the water?”
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All the water that had filled it to the brim had disappeared without a trace.
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If_ I do not exist?
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