Episode 252
Even though there were two plaster monsters roaming the third floor and some student monsters, it was easy to go down from the third floor to the second floor thanks to the structure of the school and the elevator and stairs. Just take the elevator down to the 3rd floor and take the stairs right next to it to the 2nd floor.
Because the students were hiding in the hallway from the beginning, they were able to quickly get permission and cross the space.
‘Well, there are no student monsters wandering the hallways here yet.’
To make the student monster, which serves as the eye of the plaster monster, roam the hallways, you had to first push the monster out of the desk chair, but since the students were hiding outside and did not enter the classroom, the student monster had no chance to roam the hallways.
Therefore, the second floor during recess was very peaceful, and it seemed that many students were able to survive without dying thanks to that.
“This is a classroom without school rules. Let’s go in here!”
“But I guess I can last for an hour…”
He took the three students he found to a classroom without school rules that appeared at just the right time, and although he had never done this before, he opened the classroom door and placed a mop over the door to prevent monsters from entering. I even did it. It was fortunate that such a safety zone was created in such a chaotic situation.
Of course, the students’ mentality did not seem to be fortunate.
“Please save me, please save me, please save me….”
“Hey, student Maeng Na-eun.”
“Please, please save me. sorry.”
That wasn’t just a problem for the student I was seeing for the first time today.
“…Uncle….”
“Yes.”
“uncle Uncle. “I was scared… man.”
Jaeheon Lee patted the backs of the two students who were digging into him.
‘If not me, who will take care of these chicks?’
Slowly, he was getting used to the soft-headed chicks of this world.
Thanks to this, neither this nor that works. They are ugly guys who interfere with all of Lee Jae-heon’s plans, but aren’t they the ones that the protagonist decided to embrace anyway? Since the main character seemed to be out of his mind, Lee Jae-heon, who had already reached out to the Park siblings, had no choice but to step forward.
It looked really bad.
“Man… I was scared. mister.”
“Okay, calm down…”
“Mister.”
“Everything is fine.”
Honestly, it hurt a little.
‘If they were in good spirits, they would have fallen on their own, but their condition is still not good.’
Thanks to this, the Park siblings were also turning red. There was nothing they could do as they were tearing at Lee Jae-heon, who was in tatters and bleeding.
I felt like I was dying after dragging my mental and physical exhaustion from reality to the other side of the world, but playing an untimely game of tag with monsters in the school setting was driving me crazy. Jung In-ho and Ha Seong-yoon’s condition is probably worse than that. It was natural since I was taking classes in the classroom the whole time.
“Teacher, teacher. “I scolded the kids…”
“I won’t do that anymore.”
“We were really scared. “I was waiting for you, that’s why.”
“I am here.”
“We won’t abandon you…”
He answered, placing the hand that had been patting their backs on their heads.
“I will never give it up.”
“…Uncle….”
“It’s okay now.”
Even so, I was impressed.
‘Sometimes a teacher monster would come out and check the hallway, but when I see that it doesn’t get caught… should I call this lucky or quick-witted?’
He seemed to be in a bad state of mind, but I thought he had managed to hide in the hallway for over an hour. Since they were hiding not too far away from each other, it was likely that at least one of them would be discovered, but it was surprising that somehow all three of them managed to hide without being noticed by the monster.
“…don’t throw it away.”
“I don’t throw it away.”
“It’s a lie…”
Park Da-young’s arms, which were hugging Lee Jae-heon’s waist as he leaned against the wall, gained strength. With strength that was hard to believe coming from her delicate body, I glanced down at Park Da-young and saw the child staring at Lee Jae-heon with bright red bloodshot eyes.
“…It hurts.”
“They will abandon us. “You’re going to throw it away, right?”
“Isn’t there blood on it too? Please calm down.”
“Please love me uncle. Please protect me. Please save me.”
“I will.”
“We were so scared.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I’m still scared….”
Oh, I think this is going to explode again.
‘Wouldn’t he die from excessive blood loss before being killed by the monster?’
I suddenly had that thought, but it didn’t seem like I was going to meet such a ridiculous death. After all, this was a secret world, and the amount of bleeding could have been sufficiently controlled by consuming Lee Jae-heon’s mental power. In the first place, my previous life’s body had never died from excessive bleeding. I got that benefit at the park too, but now there was no way I was going to die just because I was shedding a little blood.
Still, because he was afraid of how the Park siblings would react when they came to their senses later and saw Lee Jae-heon’s face, Lee Jae-heon carefully pushed away Park Da-young and Park Da-hoon.
“…Ugh.”
That’s exactly what I was trying to do.
“why?”
“Dayoung.”
Even if Park Da-young hadn’t grabbed both of Lee Jae-heon’s forearms.
“why? Why are you pushing me away? sorry.”
“That’s not it….”
“I’m sorry, mister. sorry.”
“calm down.”
“why? Don’t do that. What’s wrong?”
“Please…”
It was almost healed, but it was where I had cut it with a knife last time.
‘How are you going to recover mentally later?’
Each period lasts 50 minutes, with a 10-minute break. They had to quickly come to their senses in order to somehow sort out the situation and prepare to escape within an hour. Lee Jae-heon looked at the two students with a worried face, and the Park siblings blinked as they looked at him.
And starts crying loudly.
“Ugh man, I’m scared. Uncle…”
“I’m sorry. sorry. I’m reflecting. sorry.”
“Oh kinda.”
Honestly, it reminded me of some of the stupid subordinates from my past life and gave me goosebumps.
Kids, come to your senses. When I return to reality later, this is all black history. Lee Jae-heon, who couldn’t bear to talk like that, turned his head and looked at the three quiet survivors. I could have pushed the Park siblings away with my own strength, but the more Jaeheon Lee pushed me away, the more severe the rejection became, so I thought I would get help from others.
And I immediately withdrew my thoughts.
“Deputy Jeong.”
“yes.”
“What kind of eye is that?”
“Me?”
“No, really…”
He said there was no reaction even though I was bleeding.
‘Those bastards are crazy too.’
After sorting out the situation among themselves, I thought it was quiet because I couldn’t get in between Lee Jae-heon and the Park siblings, but Lee Jae-heon got even more goosebumps when he saw students In-ho Jeong and Na-eun Maeng looking at him with strangely eager eyes.
Ha Seong-yoon even went one step further.
“…As expected, my awareness as a patient….”
“Why are you calling me a patient? Come on now. “Let’s get these guys away.”
“You brought it upon yourself, so I can’t help it.”
Strangely, his glass-like eyes seemed to sparkle.
“Instead, I will treat you properly later.”
“…No…” This
was the most horrifying statement than all the previous ones.
In the end, Jaeheon Lee had to spend 30 minutes trying to bring all of the survivors to their senses, and it was only natural that in the process, he memorized ‘It’s hard to make a living’ as if he were chanting.
* * *
As the survivors gradually regained their senses and calmed down their shock at Jae-heon Lee’s appearance, Jae-heon Lee lifted up the cell phone that In-ho Jeong had given him, and the owner of the cell phone muttered.
“Manager, I’m really sorry….”
“Stop. As you know, in order for us to go down to the first floor, there needs to be someone downstairs. Or get an elevator pass from the teacher monster.”
“…But… there is only one period left until school dismissal, so it would be difficult to hope for a fluke. Wouldn’t it be better to call the survivors outside?”
“He must be worried because he went inside and didn’t hear anything. From the outside, you can’t contact us first, so you’ll just be stamping your feet. “Let’s reassure them, share information, and then call the two survivors who are most available.”
“Then, first of all, would Kang Min-ah and Yoon Garam be the most acceptable? “I hope the situation on standby is okay… but I don’t know how it will be.”
As a result of the call, fortunately, the situation outside was not too bad. I’ll never say it’s good, but I think I settled in more easily because I had experience building a simple shelter and starting a fire in the park. In particular, Kang Min-ah said that it was not difficult for her to find a seat since she knew where the safest place was around the school.
Kang Min-ah responded after hearing an explanation of the school and information about the current situation over the phone.
―Then…is it okay if I go to the first floor on time? There is no problem with me or Mr. Garam.
“I would appreciate it if you could do that. And Kang Min-ah.”
-Please speak.
“Kim Yeon-woo and Hong Gyeong-jun have turned into monsters. “There was no other way to stop it.”
―….
Kang Min-ah, who had been silent for a while, soon answered in a calm voice.
―Shall we talk about it?
“It’s okay if we go out and explain.”
-No, you must be tired. I can do that much. Do not worry.
“…thank you.”
-See you later.
The good news was that I had more with me than the last trip to the other side, where I started by running away, leaving my luggage alone. Although cell phone batteries drain exceptionally quickly, checking the time shouldn’t be difficult.
By the time we were all ready to leave school.
“…Class is over.”
It was time to leave the classroom without school rules.
This time, everyone decided to wait and take classes in the classroom. The students, who had lost all the adults who had been protecting them, did not want to be separated from Lee Jae-heon and his group, and the monsters of so many students who had pushed them out of their seats were scheduled to roam the hallways to keep watch, as only a few remained to wait outside.
In such a situation, it was better to stay safe by sitting at a desk in the classroom than to have anyone left in the hallway.
“The second search team will arrive soon anyway. “If Garam Yoon guards the first floor and Minah Kang walks up and down the second floor hallway to avoid the monster’s eyes, we won’t become plaster monsters even if we are all in the classroom.”
“As long as someone is in the connected space, the number doesn’t appear on your wrist.”
“Common sense tells us that we took classes on the 3rd and 4th floors, and we never once turned into monsters. “If Minah comes and opens the door, I don’t have to worry about turning into a monster.”
The classroom they chose this time was the 1st grade class closest to the stairs. All of the student monsters were clinging to their desks, as if no one had been dragged along with them, so the survivors had no choice but to push the six student monsters into the hallway in an instant.
Ha Seong-yoon and Jeong In-ho, who had had a painful experience on the 4th floor, rummaged through their desk drawers.
“Check if there is an unknown cell phone inside. If possible, we disconnect the battery from our cell phones. “For now, I’ll just turn on mine and store it in another desk drawer.”
“I don’t know who called the unclaimed cell phone, but I had a strong feeling that it was a trap for a teacher monster. “If the alarm is unlucky enough to go off, anyone sitting there will die instantly.”
Some drawers were full of books, while others were empty. There was even an unknown cell phone that Jeong In-ho and Ha Seong-yoon had warned about in the seat where Park Da-hoon was about to sit.
Park Da-hoon said with a straight face.
“I throw it away.”
“Throw it away immediately.”
When the class started like that, Lee Jae-heon, who entered the classroom for the first time, couldn’t help but be a little embarrassed.
“….”
A simplified test paper was placed in front of his desk. They said they often take paper tests, but I had no idea something like this would happen now that there was so little time left until school.
Lee Jae-heon, who was staring at the test paper, quietly read the letters.
‘…I think I can solve it. Let’s try.’
The teacher monster was so kind that he even gave out pens to students who did not have pens. Due to the setting of this school, if he stayed still, his mental strength, which had already been crawling on the floor, would plummet to hell, so Jaeheon Lee grabbed a pen to focus on something.
He shook his head, remembering how he had just been torn apart in a classroom without school rules.
‘The reason the chicks couldn’t come to their senses in the first place was because they were taking classes. ‘Everyone else is going crazy, so I need to come to my senses so I can send out a few people.’
Not everything can go out anyway. After all, the school bell rang and the break lasted for 60 minutes, so the survivors were thinking, ‘We can escape within 60 minutes!’ In fact, if I knew that I only had one minute to leave school, what little sanity I had left would have been blown away.
Lee Jae-heon, who was the only one who was able to maintain his senses, had no choice but to come to his senses.
“…?”
However, the problem was solved so well that I was a little surprised.
‘Why…? ‘I don’t understand.’
It’s not that it’s not, but buildings in the other world inevitably impose a mental burden associated with them. Didn’t even the park feel fear of the wild? School is also supposed to have a psychological impact by reflecting the individual survivor’s school days, but the problem is that even when Lee Jae-heon was young, he was not a very conscientious student.
Lee Jae-heon, who was wondering where on earth the image was reflected, was soon able to answer his question.
‘It’s a past life.’
Even in my past life, well. Honestly, I don’t know if it should be called a school, but I received this kind of public education. It wasn’t like they were given food just because they went there to receive education, but at least it was safer than wandering around outside. It was the best option that Lee Jae-heon, a weak and unsightly young man from his previous life, could choose.
At that time, Lee Jae-heon was not as carefree as he is now, but he knew firsthand that instructors would like him if he studied hard. He was isolated from his parents and needed protection and knowledge, so he did his best with the education he was given. Even though the current Jaeheon Lee was a disloyal student, I wondered if it was because of him that he was able to solve the test papers so easily.
“….”
I felt like I was thinking about it at that time.
‘…If you do well on a test, they sometimes give you candy or something.’
For an orphan who always lacked food, such sweet snacks were the best gift. Lee Jae-heon quietly unwrapped the test paper, remembering the white, translucent candies that the instructors often gave him while he desperately pretended to be a model student. Since it was an English test, it wasn’t that difficult.
Park Da-young, who was looking at him quietly, also grabbed a pen and began to open the test paper, but Lee Jae-heon did not notice. This meant that even though he was not aware of it, he was also greatly influenced by the other side of the world.
Just 10 minutes before class ended.
“…Ugh.”
Lee Jae-heon’s body stiffened at the sight of the teacher’s monster
suddenly approaching his eyes.
‘…I’m so fucking surprised.’
As it happened, this teacher monster was wearing a dark blue suit that cut off the angles.
The sight of him looking down at Lee Jae-heon with his back turned and his head tilted reminded him of the instructor he had grown tired of in his past life, so Lee Jae-heon’s hand holding the pen gradually became stronger. Even though the eyes are still glued to the mannequin.
The monster that snatched the pen from his hand checked Jaeheon Lee’s test papers one by one.
“….”
“….”
Evil, evil, evil –
‘What are you doing…?’
The monster, who drew circles of the same size at a constant speed, circled all the questions and straightened his slightly bent back. The monster put down the pen on the desk, stretched out both hands that were behind it, and leisurely stroked Lee Jae-heon’s head.
It’s like treating a dog.
“…Uh….”
It felt
‘too’
like a memory.
‘…No, wait a minute. I was too distracted. are you okay.’
Lee Jae-heon took another look at the teacher monster slowly removing his hand and slowly exhaled. It seems that he was so immersed in the test that he was distracted.
The hidden world reflects the past and images of the individual survivors and drives them crazy. The monster in front of him was just imitating the educators in Lee Jae-heon’s memories, and there was no need for Lee Jae-heon to be shaken by that. I don’t understand why he’s acting like this, but…
“…”
“…Ah.”
Seeing that there was a check mark on Park Da-young’s test paper, it seemed like it went to Park Da-young first and then to Lee Jae-heon. At least it came to the survivors who solved the exam? Jaeheon Lee looked at the others, but they were just looking at the mannequin monster and Jaeheon Lee with white faces.
When I look at those faces, I know that I am the only survivor who was treated like a dog.
“…What…”
The teacher monster took out a white piece of paper. The shiny, pure white paper, from which I couldn’t even tell where it came from, seemed thicker and harder than regular A4 paper. The teacher monster picked up the pen that had been left on the desk and wrote two letters and a symbol on the paper.
[Class leader: ]
This is crazy.
“…?really?”
Nod –
“No, why?”
I made the class president say I did something wrong, you bastard.
