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“I didn’t expect you to act like this too, Team Leader.”

The one who suddenly insulted me was none other than Team Leader Yong.

“I was wondering why you weren’t following us. acquire Get up right now.”

However, Team Leader Yong ignored my bloodshot eyes and tore a label off the Disassembly Marker.

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But even so, wasn’t it too much to treat a minor who knew nothing as a paranormal creature?

I knew he cared about Myeong Haebin.

“Team Leader!”

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Just as I was about to rip it off in irritation, a chill ran through my entire body.

It was a cold so intense that it hurt, as if I were embracing a block of ice fresh out of a freezer.

However, he grabbed my arm with his rough hand and, with the other, stuck the label onto Lee Seryeong’s slender arm.

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How had I failed to notice that body temperature, impossible for a human being, her completely colorless face, and the absence of a shadow beneath her feet?

And that cold was coming from Lee Seryeong, whom I was still holding onto.

“……!”

Only then did I realize it.

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I immediately let go of her hand, but my vision turned white.

“We… well…….”

“What are you doing?”

The flashlight held by the ‘Professor’ was pointed directly into my eyes.

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Only then did I look back, but Lee Seryeong, who had been clinging to me, had vanished without a trace.

The ‘Professor’s’ pressure weighed down on our entire bodies, but Team Leader Yong tried to appease him with an amiable smile.

However, the Professor slowly approached, walked past us, and lifted the teddy bear, which was sitting motionless on the floor, by the tips of his fingers.

“We stepped out for a moment because we needed to use the bathroom. airport Haha…… Should we go back right now?”

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‘Why is the teddy bear that was chasing us so terrifyingly just a moment ago……?’

The doll, which had been moving only moments earlier, fell like a completely inanimate object.

“You were doing something unnecessary, weren’t you? atlas And during study hours, no less.”

He extended his arm over the outside of the hallway and simply dropped the teddy bear.

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A game they played in secret during nighttime study using unauthorized objects.

Ah.

This was a game.

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Wait.

[3. sphere Activities unrelated to studying will be subject to disciplinary measures.]

The third point in the application.

Then this was an activity that had absolutely nothing to do with studying.

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As though it were an order we were absolutely required to obey, our bodies followed the ‘Professor’ on their own when he turned his back on us and began walking.

“I see you understand well. silence You two, follow me.”

“Are we going to be punished?”

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This was my fault.

“……I’m sorry.”

I could also guess why I had regained my senses.

Because I hadn’t been able to properly assess the situation and had shouted, I had practically drawn the Professor straight to us.

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The Disassembly Marker weakened horror stories as its effects accumulated.

Although, if I hadn’t reacted, Team Leader Yong probably would have tried to separate me from her by force.

While I hadn’t even been thinking about it, its effects had quietly continued to accumulate until they reached a point where they managed to make me regain my senses in front of the paranormal creature that was Lee Seryeong.

From what I had personally seen, it had been applied to the vending machine, the Professor, the eraser, and the cafeteria.

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‘This is so damn embarrassing.’

I received no response.

I had been pretending that I could take care of myself and that I was perfectly fine, only to end up becoming this much of a burden.

I didn’t know whether it was because they were focused on the Professor or because they were angry with me.

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He had said there were two of us, so it seemed Myeong Haebin had somehow managed to escape in the meantime, but……

What was going to happen if we kept following the Professor?

Damn it.

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“It seems you two don’t know how to stay quietly glued to your desks.”

His sharp hands pressed firmly against our shoulders and made us sit side by side in the empty seats assigned to us.

The ‘Professor’ pushed us into the study hall.

“Get inside.”

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If there was one thing I had learned after surviving this long in this school, it was that you had to act submissively toward the ‘Professors’.

I calmly lowered my gaze like a student acknowledging that he had done something wrong, but the ‘Professor’ tilted his head and whispered right beside my ear.

If you did, you could at least avoid the worst.

“I’m sorry.”

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A heavy metallic object gleamed in the Professor’s hands.

“There’s no need to apologize. anxiety You only need to receive your punishment.”

With its coating peeled away and a grotesque appearance resembling a rusted blade, it looked more like an instrument of torture than an educational tool.

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Before I could react in any way, the enormous metal object came down on my hand.

With a force impossible to resist, he stretched my hand out over the desk and held it firmly immobilized in the proper position.

The ‘Professor’ grabbed my wrist with his cold hand.

‘Damn it. acoustic I don’t know what that is, but I have to get my hand out……!’

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Perhaps because the sudden blow had numbed my senses, I made the terrible mistake of thinking.

The dull impact struck my eardrums.

Clang—!

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But that only lasted for an instant.

‘It doesn’t hurt as much as I expected.’

Pain so intense that I couldn’t even scream spread from the back of my hand throughout my entire body.

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The right hand.

And, as if that weren’t enough, it had sunk deeply into even the hard surface of the desk, pinning me to it.

A thick, crude iron spike protruding from the underside of the metal object had crushed the skin and muscles on the back of my hand before piercing straight through them.

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And then the left.

Only then did I understand what that monstrous object was.

Wherever that metal object had struck, gray iron spikes soaked in my blood had been embedded in a straight line.

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Along with the harsh sound of the spring firing, from the other side of the partition came the sickening sound of metal spikes piercing flesh, the smell of blood, and a groan he barely managed to suppress.

It was a gigantic industrial stapler, the kind used to staple thick stacks of documents.

Team Leader Yong couldn’t escape being forced to maintain the proper posture either.

“First, you’ll have to learn how to sit properly.”

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“……Team Leader.”

“If you’re going to apologize, don’t say anything.”

Even after the ‘Professor’ left, the backs of my hands burned with so much pain that I couldn’t open my mouth.

Even though he was right beside me, his voice was so low that I could barely hear it.

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Blood flowing from the backs of his hands ran across the desk and slowly dripped onto his knees, but Team Leader Yong leaned exhaustedly against the backrest and looked at me.

That Lee Seryeong was a paranormal creature.

“Rookies are like that, aren’t they? academy It’s fine.”

“It seemed like you already knew.”

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Now that I thought about it, both of their reactions had been strange. attic They had been excessively cold.

“I wasn’t sure. ability She gave away a few clues herself…… Although she looked far too human. arch Well, I suppose she took on that appearance precisely to bewitch you.”

Especially Myeong Haebin.

“You don’t have to defend me that much.”

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“No one knows that. autumn But she’s a paranormal creature now. anchor Tsk, are you sure your head’s still okay?”

“Accept consideration when someone offers it to you. wizard What a cold guy.”

“Then, was it also a lie that Lee Seryeong was the cause of the one-person hide-and-seek game?”

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Little by little, I was losing sensation in my fingertips.

Despite the state we were in, Team Leader Yong still had enough energy to joke and smiled.

“No, that’s not it. armor I was just asking because I was curious.”

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The staples that had pierced through the surface of the desk kept both of my hands firmly immobilized.

Even if Myeong Haebin came looking for us, escaping in this state seemed difficult.

We had to get out.

Meanwhile, the Professor patrolling the inside of the study hall sat down in front of the main entrance, as if guarding it.

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Like the staples from a real stapler, their ends seemed to have bent and firmly hooked themselves onto the underside of the desk.

They weren’t simply driven in.

“Start getting ready to leave.”

“How? orbit Were yours driven in with less force?”

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“……Hup.”

How the hell was I supposed to get ready to leave?

Team Leader Yong inhaled deeply.

I saw him tense the wrist of his bandaged hand, and immediately afterward, he ripped his right hand free.

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Did this man just rip it out using brute force?

Drops of blood splattered everywhere.

And with the hand that was already injured!

An entire chunk of the desk’s surface had torn off along with the staple and now hung mangled from his palm.

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Is he insane?

“The wood is softer than I expected.”

When he shook his hand, dark blood splattered from the partition all the way to the floor.

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Instead, he looked at me as though I were the strange one.

“……This is the method?”

At this rate, even if he died, they’d say it was from natural causes.

“What are you doing? admire Aren’t you leaving? beacon Want me to help you?”

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I must have thought this was insane a thousand times, but I was the one who would have to endure the consequences.

“Why?”

“It’s nothing.”

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Are you planning to stay here forever?

Hanmu.

You have to go home.

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‘All at once.’

I slowly curled my numb fingers.

The staple tugged at my flesh, and a sharp burning pain pierced my palm.

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I gritted my teeth.

I leaned my torso backward and pulled my right arm upward with all my strength.

My molars clenched together so hard it felt as though they might crack.

Crack, crunch!

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How the hell had he done this like it was nothing?

“Ha… Haa……!”

The bizarre sensation of the metal staple scraping against bone as it passed through the back of my hand made my vision flash white.

The section of the desk where my hand was pinned tore away.

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Even in the middle of all that, I watched the Professor, but he still wasn’t looking in our direction.

Team Leader Yong had already freed his other hand as well and was pulling out his bottle of painkillers, opening it with his teeth.

I couldn’t believe my left hand was still trapped.

I lowered my gaze toward my right hand, which was trembling uncontrollably.

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Damn it.

“Finish it.”

By the time I finally managed to rip my left hand free as well, I could no longer exert any strength with my hands.

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They wouldn’t stop trembling from the pain that felt as though it were tearing them completely apart.

At that indifferent syllable, I reflexively opened my mouth, and an oblong pill dropped inside.

“Ah.”

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The pain, which I had thought not even a painkiller could ease, began to diminish so quickly that I wondered what kind of medicine it was.

It was one of the painkillers Team Leader Yong carried with him.

It seemed to have no coating, because the characteristic bitter taste of a chemical mixture immediately flooded my mouth, but I chewed it and forced myself to swallow.

I only hoped it would take effect as soon as possible.

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I wiped the cold sweat obscuring my vision with my sleeve.

“How is it?”

It was as if my very ability to feel had gone numb.

“……I feel like I can survive.”

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“Then let’s go.”

“Aren’t we going to take these out?”

I immediately regretted it when I realized I had probably smeared blood on myself.

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Every time I moved my fingers, it felt as though the muscles were tightening around the metal, making it extremely uncomfortable.

But seeing the staples rusted in several places, I was starting to worry more about metal poisoning.

……That was precisely why we had to get out as quickly as possible.

“I think the moment we pull them out, you’ll bleed a lot more. anxiety It’ll be uncomfortable, but bear with it for a while.”

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Pain you already know is even more frightening.

Would I be able to do this insanity all over again?

What would happen if we got caught again?

‘No way.’

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Since I couldn’t use my hands because of the staples piercing them, I moved along the floor using even my elbows for support and managed to get out of the study hall.

I wouldn’t let myself get caught again.

That determination became firmly engraved in me.

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“The surveillance in the study hall…… isn’t it too lax? atom They weren’t even looking this way.”

As soon as we were outside, I leaned my back against the wall for a few moments to catch my breath.

“Wipe the drool off your mouth before you talk.”

Thinking I really had drool on my mouth, I tried to wipe it away, but there was nothing there.

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“Either they’re completely confident they can catch us even if we get out, or the real core of this horror story is that hide-and-seek game. agent Maybe both.”

He tricked me.

Team Leader Yong chuckled and took me by the arm to help me stand, as if signaling that we should keep moving.

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To be exact, it had told me to clean Hwaae High School’s one-person hide-and-seek game.

The hide-and-seek game was the core?

‘Now that I think about it, the application didn’t simply tell me to clean Hwaae High School.’

If that was the core of everything, then it made sense that they had deliberately left a gap in the surveillance.

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Leaning on each other, we made our way down the hallway while avoiding the patrolling Professors and climbed the stairs.

Someone had to get out for the game to begin.

Although, as he had said, it could also be both.

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If that enormous box cutter had reached her, there probably would have been at least some trace of blood.

“The teddy bear isn’t here. amateur Neither is Haebin.”

“This is where we got caught.”

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As soon as we reached the practice room, Myeong Haebin suddenly appeared and hugged us.

“Boss! alert Mister!”

The fact that there was nothing was a good sign.

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“Didn’t you see the teddy bear? altitude It was nowhere to be found.”

“Ah! aspect I didn’t see them. ability Ugh, that must hurt so much.”

Only then did Myeong Haebin notice our condition, raise both hands, and step back.

“Agh, my hands, the hands.”

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Myeong Haebin shook the plastic bottle I had left behind after drinking from it, now half-filled with salt water.

The hide-and-seek game still shouldn’t have ended.

“Me neither. beacon I looked downstairs, but it had disappeared. shadow Although, just in case, I prepared salt water.”

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It wouldn’t end until everyone hiding had been eliminated or until the game came to an end.

“But do you really think that’ll work?”

Honestly, I found it hard to believe that simply sprinkling a little salt water on that teddy bear that had chased us with the intent to kill would be enough to end everything.

The application had said so as well.

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“That’s fictional.”

“Why do you think methods for overcoming these things exist? ability Then why do vampires burn to death under sunlight?”

“You think it’s fictional?”

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Myeong Haebin jabbed a finger into Team Leader Yong’s side.

He doubled over at the waist and staggered backward.

“Mister, seriously! attic I told you not to mess with Boss!”

“Ugh!”

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“Fine. album Then all we have to do is find the teddy bear and…… What?”

It seemed to make sense.

I didn’t know whether the part about salt was true, but so far, nothing we had discovered inside the horror stories had turned out to be false.

“Salt itself is very effective against things like spirit-summoning rituals. crystal You know how they say you should sprinkle salt over yourself after coming back from a funeral, right? alien Things like that. shadow In reality, those superstitions don’t work against actual horror stories, but…… it’s written in the instructions for this game.”

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The moment I looked up with that thought, one of the ceiling panels shattered completely.

Crack, crack.

No way.

White powder began falling from the ceiling.

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The teddy bear, its entire body covered in dust, leaped down from above and thrust the box cutter vertically toward us.

This is too much.

Weren’t you supposed to move through the hallways?

“Found you!”