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