Wizard’s Night (2)
A laboratory where research is ongoing regardless of the festival.
A sharp roar flowed through the tightly closed windows.
Kiyiyiik──────!!
Narsha turned her head and stared out the window. Festival booths still shining brightly. However, the airflow around the area was somehow chaotic. Then, urgent footsteps echoed in the hallway.
-Quickly, quickly!
-Where are you?
-Near the Zenith Hall.
An atmosphere of urgency spreads everywhere.
Intuitively felt ominous.
Narsha then got up from her seat. What really happened? The time when I was snooping out the window.
Knock-!
The door to the lab opened without knocking. It was Catherine, the lord of the Magic Tower. Before Narsha could react, Katherine spoke first.
“Narsha! Come out quickly!”
“····Yes?”
“There was an accident outside! What are you doing without getting your robe?”
An academy operated with economic support from the Empire.
That’s why wizards belonging to the academy, excluding students, had to fulfill their responsibility in case of an emergency.
For example, offensive wizards must annihilate warlocks and witches, defensive wizards must protect citizens, and apothecary and healing wizards must treat the injured.
The magic tower researcher also belonged to the academy.
When there is a casualty in the vicinity, it is essential to be dispatched to the scene. Judging from the sharp roar and Catherine’s reaction, it seemed that something was going on outside.
Please, it shouldn’t be a big accident.
“yes.”
Narsha replied resolutely.
After putting the robe over my shoulder, I hurriedly left the lab. I immediately ran down the stairs and arrived at the first floor of the magic tower. The moment I was about to head towards the Zenith Hall.
“…?”
He witnessed the healing researchers who were put in first returning to the Mage Tower again. They all had dejected faces. Catherine, who ran to Narsha just in time, looked around at the researchers and asked.
“What, what is it? Why are you guys just coming back?”
“The roller coaster derailed, but no one was hurt.”
“There are no minor bruises, and the pharmacy wizards and medical staff around us immediately start treating the body and mind, so we are not needed. What a waste.”
Nothing happened.
I ran up and down the stairs two at a time. I threw everything away and came out.
Narsha looked at Katherine with a puzzled look. Catherine cleared her throat loudly.
“All right, I’m glad. It’s better for us to walk in vain than for people to get hurt. is not it?”
“·····Iknow, right.”
“And, what? You seem to be sluggish these days, but it’s nice to have a sense of tension for the first time in a while. Or not.”
Katherine murmured, averting her gaze. Then, he warmly welcomed the returning researchers.
“Was it hard to walk in vain? come quickly Good work. How can I go to a cafe and buy you something to drink?”
“Really? Then I’m Grapefruit Aid.”
“I have Matcha Frappuccino!”
“Can I have some cake too?”
“Oh, our pretty ones order expensive things without notice. Okay, let’s go.”
Researchers rushing to the cafe.
Narsha remained alone in the lobby and watched. He repeated Catherine’s words to himself.
It looks like there is no Mac.
Well… that wasn’t completely wrong. It wasn’t as good as it looks.
Lately, my motivation has decreased, and my concentration has decreased a lot.
In the past, I only studied for 10 hours in one sitting, but these days, after 5 hours, I started to feel dizzy.
Is it because it is the changing season?
“Hmm······”
Narsha took a deep breath. I stretched out my arms and stretched, then moved on. I was thinking of going for a walk to cool my head.
I want to walk quietly, so go as far as possible with no booths.
jerk- jerk-
I moved away from anyone possible. I only moved to the corner tank. After walking for about 10 minutes, I arrived at a secret place that only I knew.
A quiet vacant lot connected to the back mountain.
A healing place with a strong smell of grass and a clear view of the stars in the night sky.
But in the middle of it, an abandoned building that I couldn’t see was sitting there. At first, I thought it was hallucinatory magic, but it was still clear when I opened my eyes. I didn’t even feel the slightest bit of magic.
Narsha approached slowly.
“What is this…?”
Looks like something out of a horror movie.
It was creepy even to look at.
When I found bloodstains on the walls, I thought about going back. However, I soon realized the identity of the building.
A barricade that droops toward the entrance.
If you look closely, you can see bloodstains that were paint.
Crucially, the ‘Haunted House’ sign stuck in the middle of the building.
It seemed to be one of the booths at the festival. Narsha looked around. Not a single ant was seen nearby. Is it originally run like this? No ticket, no attendant?
Narsha stared blankly at the sign.
“Shall we try this?”
I hate scary things, but how scary would it be if this thing was scary? At most, they’d wear a ghost mask and surprise them.
Although the source is unclear, I have heard that when the brain is surprised, concentration improves instantaneously. What Narsha was aiming for was a kind of doping effect.
In order to refresh, as Catherine said, to give the brain a sense of tension, I should go in quickly and return to the lab.
Narsha cautiously entered the haunted house.
“excuse me? Can I just enter this?”
“·······”
“There is no answer, so I will go in.”
＊＊＊
A sudden call from Yerina.
Inadvertently spit out the answer to this.
“So you can stay.”
I headed back to the haunted house.
I also waited for Yerina to come out. But now was not the time to listen quietly. This is because everyone’s attention was focused on the roller coaster derailment.
The Haunted House Incident will result in a total of 10 casualties.
The black magician inserted a real demon beast between the monster sculptures, and the magic beast that was sealed in magic awakens and harms people.
They die because they misunderstood the witch beast as fake, they die because they mistake the corpse and blood as fake, and they die because they thought the scene was a production that was created and played.
A party where no one cheats, only cheaters.
So, I tried to enter the interior just in time for the witch to wake up. I tried to temporarily suspend operation under the pretext of a safety inspection.
However, when an unexpected roller coaster derailment occurred, people’s attention was drawn. Of course, all booths were temporarily suspended.
There was no need to stop the operation, the opportunity to remove the demon had come.
“Ah, the gyro drop is temporarily suspended.”
“I waited for over an hour, what is this…”
“Hey, are there crowds of people over there?”
“Eh? Are you doing an event?”
I moved on, leaving behind the clamoring crowd. The closer I got to the haunted house, the quieter the surroundings became.
wheeeing-
A cold wind blows from the back mountain.
I could see the haunted house under the gradually turning leaves. Dreary clouds floated above the pale moonlit sky, and the area calmly settled.
The vacant lot, where there were no people, was completely deserted. The waiting customers and booth attendants all moved toward the roller coaster.
I went into the haunted house.
The entrance was sealed with a magic field just in case. Then, he warmed up the magic in one hand.
Geeing-
Ready in an instant.
I walked calmly.
It was dark inside. I could barely see ahead, and there was an unpleasant silence in the shady darkness.
I activated the “sensitive five senses”, especially the sight. Then, as if I had put on night vision goggles, my vision was clear. The terrifying sculptures inside came in at a glance. At the same time, a soft noise was heard.
I’m sorry… I’m sorry…
An armchair that moves alone.
It was a kind of signal flare to announce the start of the ‘show’. If he was an ordinary guest, he would have boiled his heart from now on. However, from my point of view, knowing the future development, I was not particularly afraid.
I moved along the route. Let’s step on the carpet on the floor
─────!!!
Ghosts came out from the ceiling.
The ghost hanging upside down had both ugly gouged out eyes. It was more bizarre than necessary. The work of a horror club where only perverts among perverts gather. If he had polished his magic with such passion, he would have become a wizard who will go down in history.
“·······”
I passed the ghost carelessly. After leaving the entrance, a long hallway appeared. This was the second horror point. I walked regardless.
About half way through the bloody hallway.
“Huuu”
A sad cry lingered in my ears. It was a bitter cry.
The sound came from the back.
just as expected.
“·······”
At the end of the hallway stood a woman in white with her head bowed. It stretched out its arms like a jiangshi, and its claws were long and sharp like those of a raptor.
“Huuu”
A rage that grows more and more intense.
Soon it will run towards me. It’s crazy too.
“Huhhh!!!”
The woman went into a frenzy in an instant. It seemed like it was going to catch it right away. Her long hair fluttered, revealing her red pupils.
······This was a bit scary.
“Haaa!!”
distance getting closer.
If that was a costumed person, it would be polite to pretend to be frightened and run away, but there was no need to do that now. That wasn’t a person. It was just a shell made of magic. As evidence of that…
Tadada dadadat————!!
Footsteps running madly.
When the woman who came running fast touched my body, it was scattered into powder in an instant. The shape disappeared, and only the gloomy wind whirled around.
In this way, all the ghosts placed in the haunted house were nothing more than a mass of magical power.
Even on the club side, it was more convenient to use magic. If you mobilize people, labor costs and makeup costs will go up, and crucially, you will need a great actor like Ha Jung-woo to show that level of acting.
“It’s brutal.”
I walked again Until I reached the place where the monster sculpture was, I met a lot of ghosts out of nowhere.
Climbing out of paintings, popping out of drawers, breaking through floors.
It was prepared very carefully. It’s creepy even if you know, but how surprised you would have been if you didn’t know.
Horror club guys.
As expected, those who like scary things and those who like spicy things are all perverts.
“·······”
The underground warehouse arrived at the end of twists and turns.
There were monster sculptures lined up on the left and right. Even at a rough estimate, it seemed to be over 50. One of them was a real witch. I still have time to spare, so I thought I’d take a look at it slowly.
I sharpened my sense of touch among the five sensitive senses. With her eyes closed, she gently caressed the monster sculpture placed in front of her. The extreme senses judged the authenticity of the sculpture. The talent characteristic “aesthetic sense” also played a role. It was an unexpected synergy.
Four trilogy- Four trilogy-
It’s too artificial to feel like it’s from a real creature.
Stiff, inelastic hair.
It was fake.
Well, there’s no way they’d deployed real demons from the start. I would have put it somewhere in the middle.
He moved his hand to the sculpture next to it. The skin was hard and smooth like plastic. It was fake this time too.
The next one, the next one, and the next one were fake. At this rate, all 50 would have to be inspected. That time when I inadvertently reached out to the next sculpture.
“…?”
It felt completely different from before.
The skin was tight. It was an elasticity that is not common even for humans. It stretched softly, as if touching glutinous rice cakes.
His nose was also so tall that he almost cut himself. Is it a rhino type monster?
I continued testing.
This time I touched his hair. I made a trident out of my hand and ran it through my hair, but nothing caught. It passed smoothly as if it had been treated. I tried swirling it like when eating spaghetti, but it didn’t get tangled at all.
Is this guy suspicious?
Are you a witch?
Finally, he gripped his hair tightly as if plucking grass. The moment you try to pull with force on your forearm muscles
“…what are you doing?”
Suddenly, a woman’s voice was heard. The Horror Point, which I had no memory of, had been activated.
However, it was a familiar tone. Would you say it’s like Narsha?
“·······”
I slowly opened my eyes. And then I was startled.
The sculpture I was holding by my hair, no, the object I thought was a sculpture was none other than Narsha.
Narsha looked up at me with bewildered eyes.
“…?”
I was curious as well.
I’m sure all the guests have been sent out, and even the entrance has been sealed. how is he here
I asked softly.
“Why are you here?”
“Hey… do you want to talk about this first?”
Narsha pointed at my hand. Too embarrassed, I was still holding her hair. I hurriedly let go of my hand.
When Narsha shook her head, her messy hair style was restored.
“Why is there You’re here to experience a haunted house.”
“When did you come in?”
“Han… 10 minutes ago?”
It was ten minutes ago when I had just taken care of a rollercoaster derailment. Narsha came in while me and the members were away.
But there was one thing I didn’t understand.
Haunted House is a 5-minute course. Time to make two round trips in 10 minutes. However, Narsha was still staying in the basement.
If I had to deduce the reason… it would probably be because I was scared.
Although she looks strong on the outside, Narsha is a character who is soft on the inside.
He had all sorts of phobias, such as fear of heights, fear of deep sea, and fear of clowns. I was afraid of everything.
It must have been because a ghost chased him from behind, and he couldn’t move anymore because he was afraid.
“······under.”
I laughed involuntarily. The more I looked at it, the cuter it was. I reached out to Narsha.
“Let’s go out. I’ll take you to the exit.”
“uh······?”
For an instant, Narsha’s pupils shook. At the same time, her cheeks turned red.
After staring at her for two or three seconds, she quickly turned her head.
“My, why am I going out with you?”
It looked embarrassing.
Pretending to be strong means pretending to be strong, so it was worth it.
“Stop worrying and go first.”
“Won’t you regret it?”
“Why do I have regrets? What are you sorry about?”
Narsha pursed her lips. Then, he glanced at my eyes.
I said nonchalantly.
“I don’t know what I regret, and from now on I’m going to be really scared.”
The last consideration that was given quietly.
However, Narsha built up her pride to the end. He had a blood clot in his neck and was hot.
“What, what? You’re not here because you’re afraid of me? I’m resting because my leg hurts. So don’t bother and go first.”
He waved his hand as if to go away.
Jung If that’s the case, I have no choice but to present you with extreme fear.
“okay.”
I answered briefly. Then, he leisurely headed out of the basement warehouse. I stepped on the stairs leading to the ground.
Geeing-
The subtle magic power felt at the tips of the toes.
A groaning sound followed immediately.
“Huuu”
The horror point of the underground warehouse.
I can assure you, the scariest ghost in the haunted house.
Chuck- Chuck- Chuck-
I leaned against the stairs and looked at the basement.
Far away, on the other side, a woman with a strangely twisted body appeared like an exorcist. The woman, who was moving on four legs, rushed to the nearest human according to the entered magic value.
To Narsha, who is hiding among the monster sculptures.
Tadadadadat-
Just hearing the creepy footsteps.
Soon, a piercing scream hit my eardrums.
“Kyaaa!!”
Narsha, who said she wasn’t scared at all, started sprinting as if she had never done that.
In an instant, he ran ahead of me.
“Bounce, bounce, bounce !!!”