Werewolf Game (7)
Werewolf Game (7)
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"Noooooo!!! It wasn't meeeee!!!"
B-gun jumped up and down, tears streaming down his face.
As if he was truly being wronged.
He began to cling to each person one by one, pleading his case.
First, G-yang.
"That thing isn't mine—!! It's been strangely in my room for the past few days!!"
"Get the hell away from me!"
When G-yang roughly pushed him away, he went to C-gun.
"Believe me!! Someone is trying to frame me as the culprit!! I really didn't kill them!!"
"So that thing was in your room without you knowing?"
"Yes—!!"
"Then you could have killed them without you knowing, right?"
"……!! Aaaah, noooooo—!!!"
When C-gun spoke coldly, he went to E-yang next.
"I'm being framed—!! I didn't do it!! I'm telling you, it really wasn't me!!"
"B-but, there's no one else to suspect but you right now!!"
When E-yang didn't believe him either, this time, he rushed towards Ellie.
I stood in front of Ellie to block him.
At that, B-gun clung to me.
"Believe me—!! Please…!! It wasn't me!! I'm telling you it wasn't me!! It wasn't meeeee!!!"
"……."
Was this an act…?
Or was it sincere…?
B-gun looked like someone who was truly being wronged.
That he really hadn't killed anyone.
That he also didn't know about that blood-stained knife.
'No, but if it's indirect possession…, he could have killed them in the middle of the night without knowing it….'
The important thing was to stop the deaths that were happening every night.
That was what I thought.
"It's alright, sunbae-nim."
"Y-you believe me?!"
"…If you just stay locked up for one night like Aiden-ssi, you'll be able to prove your innocence."
"……."
At my words, B-gun's face turned deathly pale.
And he shook his head and began to mutter.
"No…, I can't…, I can't…, th-that can't happen…, I'll be framed…!!"
"It was proven last night. If someone was going to be framed, Aiden-ssi would have been framed. By stopping the murders."
"Noooooo!!! It really wasn't meeeee!!!"
B-gun began to thrash about.
But C-gun and I held him down, and G-yang ran to report him to the security department.
Our claim might not be credible since we had already reported A-gun.
But since a weapon was found, A-gun would be released and B-gun would be locked up again.
Or, in a way befitting a horror academy, they would lock up B-gun according to the rules of the ghost story without any questions.
"It wasn't meeeee!!!"
"……."
After that,
B-gun was taken away by the security department.
Even as he was being dragged away, B-gun shouted and claimed his innocence.
"…Ares."
"Yeah?"
Just then, Ellie, who was watching B-gun being taken away in front of the boys' dormitory, spoke carefully.
"That person…, is he really the culprit…?"
"……."
Ellie also seemed to be feeling doubtful.
Because for a culprit, he seemed to be feeling truly wronged.
"What do you think, Ellie? Was that person the culprit?"
"Umm…, I don't know."
Ellie shook her head at my question.
But she didn't end it with just saying she didn't know, and continued.
"Still…, this whole thing is really strange, isn't it?"
"……Strange?"
"Yeah, all the people in the movie theater suddenly disappeared."
"Aah…."
"It's like…, we've been caught up in something unreal…, like, we've been possessed by a ghost."
"…That's true."
We were caught up in a ghost story, not a ghost.
No, was that the same thing?
Anyway, as Ellie said, we were not caught up in a murder case, but in a ghost story.
'……Is that why I feel so uneasy?'
B-gun was taken away.
I didn't know if a murder would happen tomorrow.
Because B-gun might not be the culprit.
But…
For some reason, I felt a different kind of uneasiness.
"And also…."
"Yeah?"
Just then, Ellie continued to speak.
"Maybe it's because I'm going through something strange that I feel this way, but…."
"Yeah…."
"I think that movie was also a little strange."
"The movie…?"
"Yeah."
The hotel murder case movie that was the background of this incident we were indirectly possessed by.
It could be felt as strange.
Because it was a horror movie.
But Ellie's expression didn't seem to mean that kind of strangeness.
"What's strange about it?"
"Umm…. I mean…, something was awkward…."
"Awkward…?"
"Yeah, hehe, I'm sorry. I'm making you more confused, aren't I?"
"No…."
The movie was awkward….
Come to think of it, I think I felt that way too….
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: You guys who saw the movie, come here
Did you guys notice anything strange while watching that movie??
Like, any questions
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Comments
[I don't know]
ㄴ[Ah, I did find it strange that the bastard watching it kept staring at the chest of the girl next to him]
ㄴ[RedNightSky: That was worth watching lolololol]
ㄴ[Ares: No, I'm being fucking serious ㅡㅡ]
[StudentCouncilTerrorist: Something did feel a little off]
ㄴ[Ares: What was it?? What part??]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: I don't know exactly]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: I didn't think too deeply about it because it was a horror movie, but now that I see your question, I think it was a little strange]
ㄴ[Hikikomori: Me too, me too]
ㄴ[Hikikomori: But I don't know what it was]
ㄴ[Ares: Haa fuck, what is it really…?]
[NightRat: So what happened to B-gun?]
ㄴ[Ares: They found the machete used in the crime in his room]
ㄴ[Ares: So he was taken to the security department]
ㄴ[NightRat: Did you check the diary??]
ㄴ[Ares: I'm going to check it during the next break]
Right, rather than the questions about the movie, the priority was to check if the murders would stop.
'I was originally going to check it during the break….'
It was class time now.
But the teacher was just in the middle of a chat.
If I checked it now, I could quickly check it without missing the class.
'Where….'
I checked Ellie's future diary, which I had secretly brought in my bag.
And I hid it behind the back of the student in front of me and checked the contents of the diary.
The result….
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Is this B-gun bastard really the culprit??
[Photo]
No murder case the next day
Peaceful content
Of course, no murder case for the next 5 days
It's been confirmed that the anomaly bastard won't stop just to frame someone
So it's better to assume that B-gun is the culprit, right?
• • •
Comments
[NightRat: If nothing happens for 5 days, it seems like he's the culprit]
ㄴ[Ares: I thought so too, right?]
ㄴ[Ares: Or, are there any cases of ghost stories that hit you from behind after some time has passed?]
ㄴ[NightRat: There are]
ㄴ[NightRat: But that's in cases where the ghost story itself isn't over, but you just avoided death]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: In his case, the murder case has been solved, so isn't this ghost story solved too?]
'Is that really so…?'
After B-gun was taken away during lunch time.
Even after confirming that the murder case had been solved through the diary, my head was still full of questions.
'Just like in the movie…, since we caught the culprit….'
That continued until school was over and it was time to go home.
"Bye, see you tomorrow, Ares."
"Yeah, get home safe."
"Yeah!"
I walked Ellie, who I had gone home with, to the front of the girls' dormitory and then headed to the boys' dormitory again.
The case was solved, but still, you never knew.
'Am I being too sensitive…?'
On the way back, I thought as I looked at the sky that was turning orange.
It could be that I had become sensitive after being hit by so many ghost stories.
Or maybe it was because it ended so anticlimactically.
'In a game where you're supposed to end a murder case, the murder case is over…, what more could there be….'
Even the movie we were indirectly possessed by ended with the murderer Jack being caught.
…And the fact that the movie felt awkward.
Well, it was a horror movie, and the movie itself was an anomaly, so maybe that was why it felt that way.
"Hey, Ares. What are you thinking about?"
"Huh…, just something…."
"By any chance …about me?"
"No, that's not it—aaaaak?!"
At the voice of Lana, who had approached me at some point, I let out a stupid scream and stepped back.
At that, Lana, who was next to me, giggled and approached me again.
"Puhuhup, what's wrong, were you that surprised? You're so silly."
"Don't just appear out of nowhere! I thought my heart was going to drop!"
"Aah! You thought I was that ghost you saw at school before?"
"……."
Well, that was also true.
But I was also surprised because you yourself were an anomaly.
No, more than that, anyone would be surprised if someone just appeared out of nowhere, even if they weren't an anomaly.
When I looked at Lana with an aggrieved expression, she smiled playfully and stuck to my side.
I felt a warm heat and her scent, which felt like it had been a long time.
"You've been so mean lately."
"……What."
"Lately, you've been hanging out with only Ellie and not with me, haven't you?"
"……."
"By any chance…, is there something going on between you two…?"
"……."
Lana asked with an expression as if she was trying to sound out the heart of her unrequited love.
Even though I knew it wasn't true, I got the illusion that this girl really liked me, and my heart fluttered.
I was an idiot….
"It's not like that…, it's just…."
"Just…?"
Should I be honest…?
I thought about it for a moment.
The decision was quick.
Because I wanted to resolve this uneasy feeling in my heart somehow.
And for some reason, I felt that Lana would help me with that.
"Students have been dying lately."
"Aah, yeah."
"…The truth is, those people, …they saw the same movie on the same day as Ellie and I."
"Eek, really? Isn't that like being possessed by a ghost or something?"
"……."
She herself was an anomaly, so she should know that this was a ghost story.
It was subtly annoying that she was pretending not to know.
"Anyway…, I think the culprit of that murder case has been caught."
"Uh-huh."
"I think the murders will probably stop from now on…."
"You think?"
"…Something feels off. I wonder if this is really…, the end."
"……."
Lana looked at me silently for a moment at my question.
Was she thinking, 'So what do you want me to do about it.'?
'Why am I even saying this to this girl….'
I was also a fool.
This girl was an anomaly trying to kill me…, there was no way she would give me an answer just because I asked….
"Ah, but hearing that story reminds me of that ghost I saw at school before."
"What…?"
Just then, Lana spoke with a smile as if she had remembered something.
And she gently held my arm and spoke with a seductive gaze.
Squish~
"Ut…!"
"You know~, the day we spent the night together in the cabinet♡"
"Th-that's not what I was asking about…. So what about the ghost?"
"Yeah, that, when that ghost first imitated my voice. …You got the right answer, Ares, but it wasn't the right answer."
"……It wasn't the right answer?"
At Lana's words, I felt something click in my mind for a moment.
"Yeah, guessing me was the right answer —but it wasn't the right answer to deal with that ghost."
"……."
"You know, that night duty manual. It's not written exactly there, but just looking at the content, shouldn't we have run to the duty room instead of choosing someone there?"
"……."
"In the end, we chose one person, so the ghost chased us."
"……."
"Hehe, it's just my thought, but. Maybe finding me was the right answer?"
I got the right answer, but it wasn't the right answer.
"……."
At Lana's words, I was lost in thought blankly.
• • •
Author: Ares
Title: Hey, is this really a mafia game?
The ghost story I'm caught up in
Is this really a mafia game?
The rules are the same as a mafia game
And the way it was solved was also according to the mafia game
But is this the ghost story itself?
• • •
Comments
[ForGlory: Are you saying there's something more to the ghost story itself?]
ㄴ[Ares: It just doesn't feel like the whole ghost story is about being indirectly possessed by a movie and finding the culprit of a murder case]
ㄴ[ForGlory: Usually, indirect possession types follow the original, so I think that's right]
ㄴ[NightRat: But considering that he said the original movie was also a bit strange, there might be something more]
ㄴ[ForGlory: Haa fuck, I don't know]
ㄴ[ForGlory: I'm going to watch the movie one more time]
ㄴ[NightRat: I should watch it one more time too]
ㄴ[Hikikomori: I've already seen it 3 times and I still don't know]
ㄴ[If it's a movie possession, isn't it solved by catching the culprit like in the movie??]
After parting with Lana and returning to the dormitory.
I opened Ellie's diary and placed it on the corner of the desk, then started watching the movie video I had uploaded to the gallery again.
Something still felt off.
Right, just like when I faced the ghost story of Ellie's diary.
Just like how the identity of the anomaly back then was not Ellie's mother but the diary itself.
This ghost story too …I thought the murderer himself was the anomaly.
So I thought it would be solved if I caught the murderer.
'You got the right answer, but it wasn't the right answer.'
I had a feeling that wasn't it.
It was just a hunch.
Was the anomaly of this ghost story really the murderer Jack?
If the movie itself was the anomaly, could there be something else?
[Didn't you kill him?! You were cooped up in your room all night!!]
[Th-that's….]
While rewatching the movie, I also recalled the conversation I had with Ellie.
'I think that movie was also a little strange.'
'Umm…. I mean…, something was awkward….'
Awkwardness.
What was awkward?
The setting? The ending? The culprit?
I focused on the content of the movie.
The setting was a hotel.
The protagonist was an elementary school student.
The twist was that he was a ghost.
There were a total of nine people involved.
A lesbian couple.
A male reporter.
A female detective.
An intellectually disabled man and his old father.
A young couple who looked like newlyweds but were having an affair.
A man who was traveling alone.
"……."
Someone died.
The father of the intellectually disabled man.
Next was the male reporter.
After that, one of the lesbian couple.
One of the adulterous couple too.
They died one by one.
"……."
……Huh?
I felt a sense of awkwardness.
What was it?
Where and what was awkward?
I rewinded the movie again.
From the characters again.
The observer protagonist, the elementary school student ghost.
A lesbian couple.
A male reporter.
A female detective.
An intellectually disabled man and his father.
A young couple who looked like newlyweds but were having an affair.
A man who was traveling alone.
"……Huh?"
What was it?
What was strange?
And just then.
Slide~
A comment was posted on the post.
[NightRat: I'm rewatching the movie]
ㄴ[NightRat: If it were me, I'd probably kill the person who would be least suspected first]
ㄴ[NightRat: But why didn't he kill the intellectually disabled man?]
"……."
Slide~
Another comment was posted.
[ForGlory: That's true too]
ㄴ[ForGlory: And Jack, isn't it just fucking suspicious from the start that the guy is alone??]
ㄴ[ForGlory: Why are there so few people who suspect that bastard?]
"……."
It seemed everyone was rewatching the movie like me right now.
Each was writing down the parts they found questionable.
And then.
Slide~
One more comment was added.
[StudentCouncilTerrorist: But the movie characters are so fucking diverse lolol]
ㄴ[StudentCouncilTerrorist: I don't think even a PC-filled movie these days would be this much]
"……."
Seeing that comment, I felt what was awkward.
"……Ah."
I rewinded the movie to the beginning again.
The characters.
An elementary school boy.
A lesbian couple.
A male reporter.
A female detective.
An intellectually disabled man.
An old father.
A young adulterous couple.
A man who was traveling alone.
And I realized.
"The roles and the actors, they've been switched…."
—That the characters had been mixed up.