Surviving in a School of Ghost Stories-Chapter 104

If I don’t figure out the real rules of hide-and-seek, this hide-and-seek game will never end.

Maybe I’ll be trapped in a game of hide-and-seek with evil spirits, repeating this game forever. Above all, my holy water was almost empty.

Let’s think about it.

Let’s think about a method, Melody.

Where did it go wrong?

I quietly looked down at the doll in my arms. The black one was still next to me.

Why did the rules say that you must have a companion?

Why did they say that people without companions should go inside with a doll?

“When you encounter a ghost story and it feels like it’s not the world that Mr. Hastings lived in, remember two things.”

“One is, don’t be fooled. The other is, follow your intuition. Don’t think. You’ll be fooled the moment you do that. Just follow Mr. Hastings’ intuition. This applies only to you. Because only you can do it.”

Suddenly, I remembered what the student council president said in 903.

It seems like there is a trap in the rules.

Now that I think about it, I heard from Senior Oliver that there was a trap in the guidelines for the F class courage test.

I quietly looked down at the doll in my hand.

He told me not to think and to follow my feelings.

The stuffed doll in the shape of a person looked like new. I looked at the doll and thought,

‘There is something strange about this doll.’

It had the shape of a person, but it was missing a finger, its nose was slightly crooked, and the corners of its mouth were torn, as if it were a defective product.

It was as if someone had intentionally touched the doll.

That was when red blood began to flow from the doll’s eyes.

Then blood flowed from the corners of its torn mouth.

Soon, the doll snickered.

I got caught.

The holy water in its mouth was empty. I had to refill it.

I took out a vial of holy water from my pocket. There wasn’t much left. I put a little bit of holy water in my mouth, then sprinkled it on the doll’s face and pressed the cross to annihilate it.

Chi-chik-

The thing fell to the floor and turned into ashes and disappeared. A number was engraved where it disappeared.

1.

Crack. I raised my head, blocking the flowing nosebleed with my hand. The place I was standing happened to be Zone 1.

I realized now. The dead I had to find were not the evil spirits I had annihilated so far, but evil spirits hiding somewhere.

And it seems that they had a medium like a doll just now, and that they had caused the victims /N_o_v_e_l_i_g_h_t/ through that medium.

I had forgotten about the ‘medium’ for a moment because I was concentrating on the rules of use.

This hide-and-seek ghost story was a game where the victim would be released if you found the medium and eliminated it.

It seems that if you eliminate all of them, you will be able to open the door and escape to reality.

‘Now that I know, that’s fine. Now, let’s find the other six... ...!’

Dang-

Dang-

But before I could move, a grandfather clock rang out somewhere. It was a sound coming from the first floor.

20 minutes had passed. Time out. Time out. Time out.

Giggle giggle.

From now on, we’re the ones who are ... Cold sweat ran down my face.

I had to hide quickly. The hide-and-seek game was really starting now.

“Melody.”

I opened the last door on the second floor to find a place to hide, and someone called me.

“This way.”

The low, whispering voice sounded quite familiar. It was Noah-senpai’s voice.

I turned my head in the direction of the voice and saw that the fourth door at the end of the second floor was tightly shut. It was a red door.

“This way.”

The voice was coming from there.

I was able to speak because I had just used up the small amount of holy water I had in my mouth to extinguish the doll demon.

“Are you Noah-senpai?”

I quietly approached the door and asked.

“It’s me. Come in this way.”

“Prove it.”

“......Prove what?”

“Prove that you’re not a ghost.”

Meow.

Next to me, the black one cried as if agreeing with what I said. I said this because I thought that if it was Noah-senpai, he might possess the black one’s body.

The other person on the other side of the door was silent for a moment.

But in fact, I had a reasonable guess that this man might be Noah-senpai.

There were clearly only three rooms on the second floor, and the rules of use said to come down the stairs immediately when you see the fourth red door.

Everything written in the rules of use up until now was wrong. If the rules of use were all tricks made by ghosts, I thought this would be the same.

Hide tight. Your hair will show. Hide tight. If you get caught, you die.

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

The evil spirits started counting.

Now, I really have to move!

As I anxiously tried to turn around to find a place to hide, the red door opened and grabbed my hand from inside.

In an instant, I was dragged into the door, and I blinked my eyes in the wide man’s arms.

I raised my head slightly, and Noah’s face was right in front of my nose.

“Shh. Quiet.”

The senior put his index finger on the corner of his mouth and said.

The problem was that this wasn’t a room, but a narrow warehouse.

Following the coffin, this time I was trapped in the narrow warehouse with him.

Three.

Two.

One.

The ghosts’ count was finally over.

I held my breath.

“They can’t see this door. It’s painted red.”

Noah, who noticed that I was nervous, whispered in a low voice.

“However, I’m sensitive to noise, so you should be careful.”

“Senior, what happened? I clearly saw you lose consciousness and collapse and get taken to the hospital.”

“Wait, shh.”

Noah covered my mouth with his big hand. He bent down and looked outside.

There was a ventilation hole in the red door of the warehouse where we were hiding, about my height.

The ventilation hole was diagonally cut to allow air to flow between the inside and outside of the warehouse, so I could dimly see outside through the gaps in the diagonal lines.

It was right at my eye level, so Noah had to lean toward me.

Hide tight. Your hair is showing.

I could hear them looking for me from afar.

Bang bang.

It seemed like they were breaking something and digging it up.

They seemed to be still on the first floor.

‘Didn’t you see me when I went through the red door on the second floor?’

The rule of hide-and-seek is that when the tagger shouts the hide-and-seek song, the participants cannot see them hiding.

I didn’t know that the evil spirits would honestly follow that rule.

You use the rules to confuse the participants and honestly follow these rules.

‘Or maybe even evil spirits can’t break the rules of ghost stories.’

Ghost stories always have different rules and different reasons for their occurrence, so it was quite difficult to guess anything properly.

‘But there is one rule that never changes.’

Finding a medium that connects the ‘other world’ and the real world and closing the ‘open door.’

“It seems like no one has made it to the second floor yet. But just in case, it would be better to keep your voice down.”

Senior Noah, who was carefully looking outside the door, said. I raised my head again and looked up at him.

When I realized that the man in front of me was really Senior Noah, I felt all the tension in my body relax.

Feeling the strength leave my shoulders, I asked Senior Noah.

“Senior, you haven’t answered my question yet.”

Aside from the relief I felt upon seeing him, I had to get an answer to this questionable situation.

The red door that evil spirits couldn’t see.

I don’t think Senior Noah, who was inside that door, could possibly be an evil spirit.

However, I had to consider the small possibility that he might not be Senior Noah.

Don’t evil spirits in ghost stories use all sorts of tricks to hit the back of the head of people who get caught up in ghost stories?

“My body is probably in the hospital right now.”

“Huh? That means.......”

“This body right now isn’t the main body.”