Episode 237
[You have entered the portal.]
Saaa –
Let the blue light particles scatter in front of your eyes. Kim Eun-ah quickly looked around to see if there was an enemy.
But all he could see was the scene of a dark room.
‘No, this is… a guest room?’
[Starting place-Ghost Cruise]
[Information-This is a huge cruise that was wrecked near land. Could it be a psychic phenomenon? There are reports that sometimes strange noises are heard.]
Kim Eun-ah was right.
This is the cruise’s room, and it was a very suspicious starting place with ‘ghost’ attached to the name.
‘I don’t think there are any enemies around.’
Silence the sound as much as possible and let Kim Eun-ah move quietly.
Creeping!
There was a cracking sound from under something.
“…Ugh?”
flinch.
Kim Eun-ah, who shuddered, lowered her gaze. What Kim Eun-ah stepped on was an unidentified doll.
“This is far away…”
As if picking up something dirty, Eunah Kim carefully lifted the doll with her fingertips.
Did the power even turn on thanks to that?
Crackle crackle-
The doll with the broken head made a strange sound like a radio.
“Ah, on the spit…”
But that was only for a moment.
“A-ah- ah- ah- ah- ah…”
The doll repeatedly made a strange sound close to a mechanical sound, as if it was out of order.
Took!
Kim Eun-ah did not scream, but dropped the doll.
“Ah- ah- ah- uh–….”
The doll stopped making sounds as if it had run out of batteries.
“Ha, what are you really doing here…?”
Eunah Kim said calmly, looking around again. Is this a very strange place? He also made a leeway. However, Kim Eun-ah’s eyes were redder than usual.
‘What is G really?… I just came to fight…’
Kim Eun-ah has hated the house of horror since childhood. Even at the amusement park, I didn’t ride a roller coaster or a viking. It’s only natural that I became more fearful after falling into the water.
“And… is the set time night? Why is it so dark?”
Kim Eun-ah, who had been talking to herself a lot, went to the window muttering for nothing. However, due to the nature of the cruise, there were no windows in the room where Kim Eun-ah was.
‘I have to get out of here at once.’
Kim Eun-ah carefully exits the room, as if she doesn’t want to step on the doll anymore.
Sururu- nodding-
Kim turned her head at the strange sound she heard when she was submerged in a swimming pool. And then the unpleasant scenery you see.
‘This is…’
The deep sea.
pitch black vision.
The light of the land seeps in little by little through the cracks.
The floor of the room where Kim Eun-ah is.
‘Isn’t it under the sea?’
Ghost Cruise’s hull was partially submerged in the sea.
[Guide-The hull of the Ghost Cruise is protected by a barrier to prevent water from entering. Destroy the barrier to get out of the hull.]
‘Barrier?’
However, to break the barrier recklessly, Kim Eun-ah can sense mana like Shin Yoo-seong. He didn’t even have the skills to break the barrier.
That time when it was just dull.
Awesome! Smack!
The manual fell in front of Kim Eun-ah as if to show off.
[Ghost Cruise provides safety rules and how to break barriers for passengers.]
The manual, which I don’t know who gave it to me, was wet, but thanks to the coating, I could read the text.
[One. If you accidentally entered the barrier, find the captain’s office.]
[This is an internal map.]
[Be careful not to get lost.]
“You mean you can go up to the captain’s office after seeing this?”
Even the internal map is attached to the manual, so it wasn’t difficult. But the manual didn’t end there.
[2. There are no rooms with number 4 on our cruise.]
Number 4?
Why are these safety rules included in the manual? Kim Eun-ah felt chills and checked the number of the room she was in.
[No. 102]
Fortunately, the number 4 was not written as written in the manual.
‘But what about the room next to me?’
Kim Eun-ah swallowed a gulp and cautiously turned her head.
[Room 103]
As expected, the number of rooms was increasing one by one. Then, what is the room next to Room 103?
Bubbly.
Kim Eun-ah cautiously approached the room. The jet-black sea swaying beyond the window. Kim Eun-ah checked the room, feeling as if she was suffocating just by looking at it.
[No. 104]
“Uh uh uh…”
Evil.
Eunah Kim turned to the next page of the manual with tears in her eyes.
[3. In particular, if you find room number 104, please do not enter it.]
Slow down.
Instinctively sensing the danger, Kim Eun-ah took a step back.
[4. If you still find Room 104, do not open the door.]
Kim Eun-ah did not come to feel this kind of fear. The fear of wanting to give up right now.
profit.
Less greased hinges screamed as the cabin door opened. The only thing Eunah Kim could rely on now was this manual.
Sarak.
[5. Never check inside room 104 if the door is open.]
Jerk.
that buck
Room 104? Or room 103?
The sound of footsteps coming from nowhere.
[6. If a woman comes out of Room 104, never make eye contact. ]
Kim Eun-ah shuddered at the instructions in the manual and turned her head.
‘What is this… what is going on?’
Actually, it wasn’t a virtual portal that he entered. Could it be the wrong space? If all of this is an error on the part of the organizers, wouldn’t it be right to shout abstention and escape now?
It was strange to have a place like this in a competition unless someone forced it.
However, what dominates Kim Eun-ah’s body now is the ‘fear of stories’.
“Kkeugggh-”
Someone was walking through the door with a strange moan.
Sareuk.
[7. If a woman appears in Room 104, never move and wait there. She will give you advice so that you can survive in this place.]
Kim Eun-ah froze in her seat as she read the safety rules number 7 written in the manual. does a woman come out? Are you waiting quietly?
And what the hell is this line drawn through?
“Ah ah ah ah ah- in the morning-”
The unknown voice was getting closer. Kim Eun-ah’s body trembles even though she wants to follow the rule to stay still.
Sareuk.
“Heeep…”
Eunah Kim turned the pages of the manual with a whining sound.
[7. If you find a suspicious woman wandering on the cruise, run away.]
Did I not turn the page properly? Clearly, number 7 was the rule I had just read. Even the content was different.
‘I’m sure the moment before was still…’
Kim Eun-ah checked the contents while wiping away tears.
[Stories conflicting with this are false. If she found you… ]
Rumble.
Unidentified liquid flowed out of the manual and stained Kim Eun-ah’s hand.
“Ah uh uh uh…”
Kim Eun-ah could tell thanks to the fishy smell of the vibrating iron. That the liquid flowing out of the manual is none other than someone else’s blood.
Running away
, that blood created a three-letter message.
Dada da da da da-!
The moment you know the truth.
“Ah-da-da-da-da-!”
A woman in a bridge position made a strange sound and came running in a quadrupedal position.
“Yoosung ah-! Mama-!”
Kim Eun-ah runs away screaming for Cruise to leave.
“Ah-dah-dah-!”
A woman with a great speed in a bridge position like a spider.
“Do not come! Do not come! Do not come!”
Let’s run away while crying, Kim Eun-ah stretches out her hand here and there.
Flash! Quaang!
Lightning of tremendous destructive power shattered the surroundings.
Flash! bang! blah blah blah!
However, the terrified Kim Eun-ah’s hit rate was too low, even if low.
“Oh no!”
Let the confident woman chase after you at breakneck speed with a grotesque sound. The right arm of the weeping Kim Eun-ah shone.
“Porridge! Dying ahhhhh-!”
Flash-!
Fortunately, this time it hit.
Kim Eun-ah’s blue lightning strikes the woman’s body with a direct hit.
“Gya gyakya kyam-!”
A woman struck by lightning stopped moving. but.
Beog beok beok beok beok.
I heard the footsteps of many people in the cruise room.
profit.
All closed doors were opened.
“Oh no!”
“Greuk greuk….”
This is just the ‘beginning of the story’
* * *
‘Constraint pen.’
and
‘The Notebook of Stories.’
It wasn’t until the age of seven that Sophia found this ability useful.
Sophia, who read books, studied, and wanted her own space, wrote in a notebook of stories with a pen of constraint in her room.
[Restrictions and rewards]
[In a quiet place, understanding and achievement increase.]
The power of attributes and skills is proportional to the caster’s mana and understanding. Thanks to this, the only thing Sophia, who was still young, could use as a pen of constraint was this level of restriction and compensation.
Sophia then wrote this plausible story in her notebook.
[Story: The family was uncomfortable and reluctant to find the quiet Sophia. Thanks to this, Sophia could always focus on her studies quietly in her room.]
The power of the pen of the constraint and the notebook of the story was great. It wasn’t absolute and I couldn’t write anything great, but should I say that the story flows like that?
You cannot create something out of nothing.
You can’t make a river where there is nothing, but you can decide the direction in which the river flows.
‘For example.’
[Restrictions and rewards]
[The stronger Kim Eun-ah’s fear, the stronger Sophia’s power.]
This kind of setting is also possible.
The more direct the target, the stronger the pen of constraint.
[Story: Kim Eun-ah goes through strange things in the scariest place. The mysterious manual she obtained was a kind of ghost story.]
So making up a story like this wasn’t difficult for Sophia, a bookworm. Even Sophia had an innate analytical ability and the ability to get information from sources.
‘…the result of putting together the information obtained so far. 99.73% chance that Kim Eun-ah is a coward.’
Based on that, Sophia thinks her win rate is 90%. There was nothing easier than beating a coward with a ghost story.