Chapter 395:
The final boss was cunning and rarely went near the swimming pool. Perhaps, as Song In-myeong said, it is because it reflects the taste of Seong Dae-young. It was a monster created by the thoughts of a person who hated water, so it was natural for him to avoid swimming pools.
Therefore, the most important thing in dealing with the final boss was how strongly you could attract the monster’s attention. Since we couldn’t physically drag a monster that was harder and stronger than a plaster monster, we literally had no choice but to carry out a decoy operation.
In that sense, it was clear that Lee Jae-heon was an excellent bait.
“What do you think, even after seeing this, you are saying that you will use someone other than me as bait?”
Hong Gyeong-jun gritted his teeth and responded to Lee Jae-heon’s confident remarks.
“Yes, it comes out very well.”
“Why?”
“If this much attention is drawn, it is actually counterproductive.”
Jaeheon Lee, Gyeongjun Hong, Vivian, Inmyeong Song. They were currently trapped in the bathroom thanks to the art teacher loitering in front of the bathroom door in Building B. If you continue like this, nine times out of ten you will be caught by the final boss.
Song In-myeong muttered as if it was absurd.
“Why does that bastard have good eyesight, damn it…”
“Shut up, Inmyeong.”
“Gomtaeng, are you mad?”
“You need to shut up.”
Song In-myeong grumbled at the behavior of the art teacher who was extremely obsessed with Lee Jae-heon, but Vivian quickly blocked him and Song In-myeong eventually kept quiet. He seemed to be holding back his temper quite well, as if he wanted to gain Lee Jae-heon’s favor.
Hong Gyeong-jun, who was blocking the bathroom door just in case, muttered lowly.
“This is why I can’t even go outside the bathroom.”
“Thanks to the fact that 4 people came in, we will be forced out in 15 minutes.”
“Jaeheon Lee, please. In fact, please consider the situation when the time is right.”
“Do you really have to kill me?”
“It was the most unreliable speculation I’ve heard this year.”
“Open your narrowed mind and listen. Isn’t that a self-proclaimed artist like Song In-myeong? It welcomes me like that, but rather than killing me right away, it would be much more mouth-watering to torture me or spend time turning it into a work of art…”
“That’s bullshit.”
“Your credibility just went up.”
I had to move forward a little in time to explain why things turned out this way.
* * *
Lee Jae-heon is a regressor, although it was not announced. Hong Gyeong-jun, who received information from other regressors, and Vivian, who has above-average abilities. Lastly, Song In-myeong, who is hardly under any pressure from the underworld.
On the surface, there were no returnees in the team, but as they attempted to kill the final boss several times, there was no problem in getting them up to the 4th floor. Especially since the 3rd floor search team took on the burden of obtaining the keys to the 3rd floor classroom and an elevator ticket to take them up to the 4th floor.
“We hide too.”
“Do I even have to worry about exhaust fumes?”
“Yoon Garam’s fire produces less smoke.”
“wow.”
“Please stop talking nonsense and go in.”
As soon as the search team went up to the 4th floor, Garam Yoon began arson work, and the flames were so moving and strong that they even reached the 4th floor. The 4th floor search team, two each, hid in the bathroom.
The monsters at Eonhak High School ran wild as if panicked by the sudden fire, but it was only the teacher monsters. Most of the student monsters only went on a rampage inside the class and rarely went outside, so even Yoon Garam, who started a fire in the hallway, was not in great danger.
“…Now that I think about it, Garam Yoon was particularly difficult to attract the attention of monsters. “It’s definitely less dangerous than another exploration team member starting a fire.”
“You’re saying it doesn’t attract the monsters’ attention?”
“This is a story from the exploration of the secret world, but the monsters in the flower shop did not attack Mr. Garam Yoon easily. “I just loitered around… Wasn’t it the same when I came to Eonhak High School?”
“I thought it was because there were so many people. Usually, animals do not attack easily if they are bigger than themselves or if there is a group of people…” “
That may have happened, but I don’t know. “It’s not really certain information.”
It takes about 10 minutes for a sprinkler to stop once activated. There were times when it finished in about 8 minutes or a little over 10 minutes depending on some condition, but in the end it took quite a while to run it 30 times. Vivian and Jaeheon Lee spent time in the bathroom chatting.
A whopping 5 hours.
“…I’m starting to feel achy.”
“I’m not that different, student Vivian.”
The total time two people can spend in the bathroom is 30 minutes. After going in and out several times and enduring five hours of hardship, they were able to breathe the outside air. Although it was clearly a clean bathroom, it gave the impression that it was strangely dirty, which made me itchy even more.
Of course, the outside air was not very refreshing.
“Fucking backworld.”
“I admit it.”
“Even if we go back to reality, classes are closed, but this is….”
Vivian grumbled, saying, ‘I think the space called school itself will be traumatized,’ but her expression was quite good, as if her condition was not as bad as she said.
Jaeheon Lee felt a strange discomfort.
“….”
“Do you have something to say?”
“You are healthy.”
“Ah, thank you.”
“Yeah…yes.”
Why do I feel like the reason I am in good condition is because I was with Lee Jae-heon?
‘Ah… no way… Vivian is such a worthy human resource…’
How common are cool-headed, rational survivors who silently do their job without having to say anything? Even ‘Lee Jae-heon’, who prided himself on being a psychological help to the survivors, was used as bait. In the end, for some reason, I met Song In-myeong alone, but still…
“Mr. Lee Jae-heon.”
“ah.”
Lee Jae-heon, shaking off ominous thoughts, welcomed Hong Gyeong-jun and Song In-myeong, who were approaching from Building A, avoiding the monster’s gaze.
“Are you here?”
“Why don’t you stay in the bathroom anymore…”
“It’s okay, class has started.”
Hong Gyeong-jun muttered as if he was fed up with Lee Jae-heon’s words.
“There was a fire, but classes continued in the same place.”
“It is something we are grateful for.”
“I definitely avoided the monsters easily.”
The fire that Garam Yoon started went up not only to the third floor but also to the fourth floor, and considering its impact, it would have easily spread to the second floor as well. Thanks to this, the plaster pieces that turned the teacher monster and the survivors into plaster monsters were also destroyed, which was beneficial to them. Garam Yoon’s fire burned exactly what needed to be burned.
However, based on common sense, it was strange for classes to continue in a school that had just been on fire. As soon as the fire subsided, the monsters stopped their rampage and went back into the classroom. Teacher monsters who went back like that didn’t even come out of the class.
“Of course, it could be because all the plaster pieces that could identify the survivors’ locations have been pulverized…”
“Doesn’t it look like they’re trying to finish their backlog of classes? “Anyway, you’ll have to keep up with the class.”
“I felt that way too.”
Hong Gyeong-jun looked tired of the faint images of monsters visible through the classroom window.
“…It’s a school that I really don’t like in many ways. “It seems to be the same not only in the behind-the-scenes world, but also in reality.”
When the fire broke out, only the teacher monsters came out and the fact that a crazy killer called an art teacher was in power. Hong Gyeong-jun wrinkled his face, saying that there was nothing he liked about this school.
Jaeheon Lee took advantage of that gap and continued the work.
“How about moving our students to another school?”
“Was it really that easy to transfer schools?”
“I guess it won’t be that difficult, at least for me.”
“Oh, well…”
Hong Gyeong-jun lowered his head as if he remembered that Lee Jae-heon was a member of the Lee Dang Group. Jaeheon Lee narrowed his eyes at that.
“…Why are you acting like it just occurred to you?”
“To be honest, Lee Jae-heon doesn’t look like a royal.”
“Is this an insult?”
“It’s a compliment.”
Hong Gyeong-jun shrugged his shoulders.
“I hate chaebols.”
“Who are you speaking to?”
“I wasn’t talking about Lee Jae-heon, but I was talking about ugly people who run amok, believing only in their wealth and background.”
“Isn’t it really different for me too…?”
“Even a joke.”
If a person speaks with sincerity, I hope people will understand it with sincerity.
‘Do police officers all have this single-mindedness?’
Even the police officers in my past life were amazing at being stubborn.
Jaeheon Lee, who discovered a commonality that transcended time and space, felt a strange sense of disappointment. He must have been so good at taking medicine so far that it made me feel sad to see him trying to only listen to good things no matter what I said.
“Anyway, I am in favor of students moving schools. “As long as there are no side effects.”
“I can take care of that.”
“okay.”
After finishing their conversation, which was relatively casual for a time before the final boss, they headed straight to the art room.
“If you can afford it, it would be nice if Garam Yoon roasts the final boss at a good time.”
“Let’s look at the situation first.”
Unlike regular classrooms, the art room did not hold classes every hour, so no monsters were seen inside. There was an indescribable chill in the empty art room.
A clean desk without any graffiti or scratches. The air was heavy, as if it had never been ventilated. The teacher’s folder on the podium….
“…Jae-heon Lee should be outside.”
Hong Gyeong-jun, who heard from Jeong In-ho that the art teacher was obsessed with ‘Lee Jae-heon’, kicked him out. Jaeheon Lee also accepted it up to that point. It was the leisure of someone who knew how the situation would turn out anyway.
‘…I guess there was some excitement in the last episode because the situation turned tense? Then this time it might not be as valuable as bait as last time. If you think it’s going to be a problem, try to attract attention somehow…’
Hong Gyeong-jun, who did not know Lee Jae-heon’s true intentions, gave Song In-myeong the key to open the warehouse door. As expected, he was holding Song In-myeong’s neck so that he could draw out any information he heard from the returnee at any time, and Song In-myeong was both puzzled and irritated by his attitude as if he would not let him die.
“Oh what. Is it a leash? “It’s so fucking stuffy.”
“Shut up and open it.”
“Why are you doing something you shouldn’t do?…”
Song In-myeong, who grumbled but steadily opened the door, couldn’t help but be impressed.
“…Oh crazy.”
Lee Jae-heon guessed that Hong Gyeong-jun and Song In-myeong would soon run out of the art room and that he would go into the bathroom of Building A with them. It would have been nice to be able to call her for Yoon Garam’s fire show or go straight down to the third floor, but when I remembered the monster obsessing over me in my lucid dream, I wouldn’t have that much time.
While waiting for the monster to come out, Jaeheon Lee organized his thoughts.
‘…In fact, in a lucid dream, even if he was only dipped in water, he was only slowed down and almost died… There is no need for Yoon Garam to roast the final boss. Baking it once might not be effective, but if that’s the case, I’ll just have to drag the final boss to the swimming pool. There must be that much room.’
And even that was wrong.
“! Jaeheon Lee!”
“…!”
The monster rushed at Lee Jae-heon without giving him any time to spare.
Kwasik—!
“Ugh…!”
Lee Jae-heon, who was standing in the doorway, was grabbed by the shoulder by the art teacher and fell to the floor. Vivian, who was shocked, hit the art teacher with the saw she was holding.
Kang!!
“What the fuck…!”
At the sound of hitting a stone, Vivian immediately started chopping, holding the saw handle tightly. The art teacher got irritated and grabbed Vivian’s saw, as if she was okay with hitting it, but Jae-heon Lee took advantage of the nervous battle between the monster and Vivian to escape.
Song In-myeong went into the bathroom in Building B, supporting Lee Jae-heon, followed by Hong Gyeong-jun and Vivian. Vivian’s saw had been taken away by her art teacher.
“Ugh huh…”
“What the fuck is that…?”
“….”
The art teacher just lingered in front of the bathroom door and did not pass by.
There was a saw in his hand.
top.
“…Are we fucking ruined?”
No one could refute Song In-myeong’s words.
* * *
“So what should we do?”
Returning to the beginning, Jaeheon Lee asked.
“I think it would be a good idea for me to go out and attract attention.”
“Jaeheon Lee.”
“You say I won’t kill you right away?”
Contrary to expectations, the drug was so good that I got into trouble, but there was nothing I couldn’t do to use it.
Because plays always require a lot of props.
(Continued in the next part)
