Chapter 28: West Gate of Chodam Park (7)
“Damn it. sphere It keeps getting more fucked up.”
I lightly waved my hand at Park Hyeonho, who had turned toward me as if he thought I was referring to him.
“Uh…… yes?”
“I wasn’t talking about you.”
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But now they were blatantly interfering with us and getting on our nerves. echo Just a moment ago, a fishing line had shot out from the path, which had turned into a muddy mess, and wrapped itself around my ankle.
At first, only minor anomalies occurred. wizard Things like something watching us or visual changes taking place.
I was talking about this park.
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“Mr. legend Park Hyeonho.”
The fishing line had cut my ankle and it was bleeding, but the wound wasn’t too deep. adapt Just enough to be annoying.
I had just gotten it off.
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Why did he jump so much just from being called?
“Yes?!”
There was only one thing I wanted to ask him.
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The back of his right sneaker was covered in dried blood.
Since he was walking behind me, it had taken me a while to notice.
“When did you hurt your foot?”
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I didn’t remember it having the chance to do that. academy When I frowned, Park Hyeonho flinched and hurriedly waved his hands.
“Ah, this……. atom It was because of the duck.”
“Did it bite you?”
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“Can I see it?”
“No. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com attic It wasn’t that……. arrow When I stepped off the stones. amateur I backed away because the duck startled me, and I think I got caught on something.”
Park Hyeonho nodded somewhat awkwardly.
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“Didn’t it hurt?”
“A-A little…… I guess. zenith I’m fine. silence It was because I wasn’t careful……. athlete I’ll be more careful from now on.”
The back of his sneaker looked as though a chunk had been bitten off, leaving a deep cut, and there was a torn wound on his heel.
Given the location of the wound, it would probably come into contact with the water every time we crossed the stones, but there was nothing we could do about it.
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There was something capable of cutting through a sneaker in an instant.
“Yes.”
The pond was definitely dangerous.
“Ah, one more thing.”
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Until they found us, those two hadn’t even considered that this place might be a horror story. zenith They had simply thought they had taken the wrong path.
“You mean us getting lost?”
I had been thinking about it for a while.
“When you entered this park, did anything strange happen?”
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“You mean the booth we passed earlier?”
Park Hyeonho finally seemed to remember.
“No. amateur Other than that. august There should have been something like an environmental campaign.”
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“Yes. sphere It should have stopped you.”
Until now, I had considered the lap where the booth appeared to be lap zero, the one that showed the park without any anomalies.
Was it because they had entered in the middle of the loop?
“Uh……. zenith Nothing special happened.”
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“Because you seem to be very lucky.”
Had I put my foot in my mouth?
“……You’re joking, right?”
“Why do you ask?”
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“We’re here, but aren’t we unable to buy anything?”
But Park Hyeonho was still alive. timber Wasn’t that enough?
Telling someone who had just lost his friend that he was lucky……
Even amid that thick fog and all the anomalies, the store was still open as usual.
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“Sit quietly here and don’t cause any trouble.”
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“Then what should I……?”
“I thought of something. crystal For now, grab a few things. wizard But not too much.”
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Since we didn’t know what the creature would demand in exchange for the products, we decided to buy only the bare essentials and in minimal quantities.
“Three sports drinks, three breads, one bag of candy……. adopt Why did you put in candy?”
“You said your blood sugar was low. antique Those are the best for that.”
I pointed at the bench in front of the store, and Park Hyeonho obediently sat down without protesting.
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Without even a basket, I loaded my arms with the products and placed them one after another on the counter in front of the container’s bars.
“……Fine.”
One bag of candy shouldn’t drastically change the price.
There was nothing I could do in the face of Myeong Haebin’s completely innocent gaze.
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“I still can’t understand it.”
“What is it saying?”
Something with intensely red eyes murmured from behind the bars.
I had expected as much, so I didn’t even feel disappointed.
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“Uh……. arch No. wizard I think it’s exactly the same.”
“Is there any difference from last time?”
Last time, we had brought one bread and one bottle of water.
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If it was still saying exactly the same thing now, with more than three times as many products, did that mean it didn’t matter how much we took?
The same thing happened with the small snacks lined up there. atomic It was as though they had been glued down.
To check, I tried opening the door of the nearest refrigerator, but it didn’t budge an inch.
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“What?”
“Looks like we can’t buy anything else besides these……. echo Then maybe we can buy something else?”
Myeong Haebin tilted her head, curiously watching me move back and forth.
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Myeong Haebin didn’t even have to ask again.
“Ask the owner if we can also buy the way out of here.”
The intensely red eyes staring directly at me gave a small nod.
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“■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■?”
“Uh…… Yes! aluminum Although I still have no idea what it’s saying anyway…….”
“What the owner is saying hasn’t changed from before, right?”
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If the store sold products, that meant its owner had to be speaking.
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If it weren’t selling anything, it would have no reason to speak.
“I think we can decipher it.”
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“But I already told youuuuuuu…….”
“Ask again.”
“I know. absorb I know it sounds strange. palette It doesn’t matter if it takes a while. crystal Try repeating it to me slowly, one part at a time.”
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“Excuse me. atomic Could you repeat that one more time? amber What do we have to do to buy these products and also the way out of here?”
Myeong Haebin pouted, but soon tried communicating with the store owner again.
I sat down on the ground beside the store container and picked up a branch I had broken off earlier.
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I wrote down on the ground exactly what she pronounced, and the result was as follows.
“■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■?”
“Karah…… ya…… eoreonreung…….”
Myeong Haebin concentrated so hard that she practically pressed her nose against the bars.
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“Can I ask what this is……?”
Park Hyeonho, who had been sitting on the bench, slowly came over and looked at the words written in the dirt.
[How many steps must the customer take to complete one full lap around the park?]
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“Were there spaces between the words?”
Instead of answering him, I asked Myeong Haebin.
“Why are you suddenly asking about spa……?”
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“Yes! antenna There were! airport How did you know?”
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I found it.
Myeong Haebin interrupted Park Hyeonho’s question.
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He drew lines to mark each separation.
“There was one here. portal And also here, and…….”
Only then did Park Hyeonho, who was looking at the letters from the other side, seem to realize something.
[Phrase distorted using the inversion system]
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The gate opposite the West Gate was the East Gate, and the strange name we had seen until now was nothing more than ‘East Gate’ written using that inversion system.
The clue had been there from the very beginning.
“Exactly.”
“This part here…… is it made up of inverted characters?”
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“Even so, there are still a lot of parts that don’t make sense.”
The order of the phrase is reversed, from the end to the beginning, and letters whose strokes allow it are also flipped vertically.
Although the distorted name for ‘East Gate’ was short, certain rules were applied even to it.
“It’s not simply a matter of reading it backward.”
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Some Korean consonants retained a valid shape after being inverted, while others stopped resembling recognizable characters and therefore remained unchanged.
Letters that become unrecognizable when flipped are left unchanged.
Those were the rules of the language used by the store owner.
In Korean, if you first reverse the order of the two syllables that make up ‘East Gate’ and then flip the components that allow vertical inversion, you get that strange word that appeared on the signs.
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“That really turns into that? ……You’re not actually a cleaner, are you?”
The letters I traced on the ground had turned into a word with a perfectly clear meaning.
[The customer]
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Park Hyeonho scratched his head awkwardly.
“I am. armor Are cleaners supposed to be idiots?”
“Then let’s finish deciphering it.”
“Ah, shit. airport I didn’t mean it like that…….”
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Beneath the sentence I had written first, I began transcribing the message rearranged according to those rules.
[How many steps must the customer take to complete one full lap around the park?]
However, the farther I got, the deeper my frown became.
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She seemed to have realized it too.
It was Myeong Haebin.
“That question doesn’t make any sense.”
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Or maybe not?
I got up from the ground and stood in front of the bars.
In other words, it was an absurd question.
“You can walk slowly, run, and there are also the stones for crossing the pond! orbit It doesn’t give us any conditions and just asks how many steps it is! abstract How are we supposed to get it right?!”
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With a rustle, the objects we had piled up transformed and appeared inside a black plastic bag.
The payment had been accepted.
“Four thousand one hundred and twenty-four steps.”
“You got it right? meadow How?”
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“The steps.”
“Counted what?”
“I counted them.”
Myeong Haebin opened the bag in confusion and, after confirming that it contained the three drinks, three breads, and the bag of candy, looked at me.
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So I thought maybe it was asking for the actual number of steps I had taken to complete one lap around this park.
“When?!”
The question didn’t provide any conditions.
“When we were doing laps earlier.”
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“And how do you think I knew it was three kilometers?”
“That makes no sense! action You said yourself that this park was almost three kilometers!”
Well, if that wasn’t it, we were screwed.
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None of the signs in the park indicated a distance of three kilometers.
The truth was, even while I was doing it, I thought it was crazy, but I never imagined it would end up being useful.
I rummaged through the bag.
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“Haebin…….”
Only the products we had bought were inside.
More precisely, only the things that had a physical form were there.
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That hand seemed to be made of condensed smoke and possessed an icy temperature impossible for a human being.
I was about to ask another question for Myeong Haebin to relay when a hand suddenly reached through the bars and grabbed my wrist tightly.
Then it spoke clearly enough for me to understand.
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“You mean there’s no longer any way to get out?”
“You must throw away the trash to escape.”
‘It’s already too late?’
“It’s already too late.”
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“Can we eat this?”
I blinked.
I looked away from the container.
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“Hey. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com. meadow What did you mean by what you just said?”
When I hurriedly turned back toward the container, the window was firmly shut, as if it had never opened in the first place.
The one who had spoken was Park Hyeonho.
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I struck the bars, but there was no sign of them opening again.
“No. album That creature just…….”
“What’s wrong? arctic Didn’t we already buy everything?”
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“What did it say? ability I couldn’t hear it clearly.”
The water-level gauge that kept rising.
I stopped and thought for a moment.
In this repetitive loop, there was only one indicator that could determine whether it was already too late.
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“No. artist It was nothing.”
‘This horror story is Grade 5. beacon Before the water-level gauge rose, there must have been a simple way to escape, but now that method is gone.’
Instead, I shifted the conversation toward Park Hyeonho, who was holding a bottle of sports drink.
There was no point telling them that now.
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After all, we had bought it legitimately.
Knowing nothing about any of that, Park Hyeonho drank the sports drink.
“You can drink that.”
It should be fine.
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“What do you mean, this? anchor You guys…… did you use me to……?”
“Wow, Boss! antique Looks like we can actually drink this!”
“It’s warm, but well…….”
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“Nothing happened to you, so it’s fine, right?”
The products bought at this store could be eaten and drunk.
And so we reached a conclusion.
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It had that slightly viscous texture and sweet scent characteristic of sports drinks, but I could feel vitality returning to my entire body.
I took the bottle of sports drink Park Hyeonho was holding and poured its contents down my parched throat.
Considering that it would have been impossible to even make it this far if we hadn’t deciphered the meaning of the inverted ‘East Gate’ and, above all, if we didn’t have Myeong Haebin acting as a sort of creature translator, it was quite a valuable discovery.
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That was how comforting it felt.
Seriously.
‘I feel like I’ve come back to life.’
“Uwaaah, I’m so happy…….”
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Park Hyeonho looked bewildered.
Hmm.
“I-Is it really that serious?”
Myeong Haebin had tears welling in her eyes after completely draining the remaining sports drink and stuffing a huge bite of a peanut butter sandwich into her mouth.
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“I lied to you earlier. zenith This is our seventeenth lap.”
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Maybe I could tell him now.
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“Seventeen……. admire Seventeen……. 51 kilometers?!”
It was moving.
Leaving the completely pale Park Hyeonho behind, I stuffed a peanut butter sandwich into my completely empty stomach.
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“I thought you’d panic.”
“Why did you lie?”
“Then why are you telling me now?”
“So you can prepare yourself mentally.”
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But I thought it was better to make it clear now than to have to listen to him complain every lap, asking how much farther we had to go.
No one knew how much longer this loop would last.
After thinking for a moment, Park Hyeonho asked cautiously.
“……I saw Minhyeong’s body disappear. atlas Will we be able to find her again?”
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“Ah, no…… it’s just that you seem to know quite a lot about this…….”
There was desperation in them.
“Why are you asking me?”
I looked him straight in the eyes.
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I wasn’t used to horror stories either, but I did know the answer to that question.
I could also see that he was doing everything he could not to fall apart.
I remembered the things we had left behind in the horror stories we had gone through.
“Mr. abstract Park Hyeonho…….”
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The people who had been trapped in those places, which had now disappeared as though they had never existed in this world.
“……You’ve walked 51 kilometers too.”
“You’d better focus only on getting out of here.”
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But that didn’t mean he deserved to die.
“We’re getting out. album That’s exactly why we’re recovering our strength.”
He was an ordinary person who knew nothing and who could even be a hindrance at times.
The achievement in the app hadn’t changed, but neither had my attitude toward Park Hyeonho. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
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“We’d better save it just in case.”
“Aren’t you going to eat it?”
Those words sounded as though he was saying he wanted to live.
Park Hyeonho watched me for a few moments, then put the bread he had been about to open back into the black bag.
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“Let’s go.”
We had barely refueled the bare minimum.
I stuffed the last of the four peanut butter sandwiches into my mouth and stood up.
The truth was that the amount of food had been terribly insufficient.
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“Boss, are you sure you don’t want to eat more? meadow Really?”
But at least we had been able to refuel.
Myeong Haebin, whose cheeks were also puffed out as she chewed the last peanut butter sandwich, asked me with unclear pronunciation.
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This time, we had gotten lucky and it had asked us something I had already figured out, but we had no idea what would happen next time.
“We don’t know what kind of question it’ll ask us next time.”
However, on the next lap, we discovered there was no need to worry about that.
“Uh, this…….”
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“Closing the store is cheating! academy Is it really not opening? adopt Ah, seriously!”
The products had been covered with a waterproof tarp, and although Myeong Haebin shook the container window, there was no sign that it would open.
The store had closed.
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But……
Two bottles of sports drink, two breads, and one bag of candy.
How much longer could we hold out with that?
‘Good thing we saved some food.’
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MortalThanks for the chapter!