Chapter 41
Chapter 41
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 41
Chapter Title: Room Number 4
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41.
A man breathing shallowly in the mother's embrace.
She slowly stroked the man's head. As if handling a newborn infant, very softly and carefully.
As if handling a precious child.
As if handling a precious toy.
So it wouldn't break right now.
The man who would soon shatter in her arms—she handled him with utmost devotion for the moment.
【Baby…… my baby.】
【My baby, like a handful of jewels that wouldn't hurt even if placed in my eyes.】
【Make your mother happy.】
【Show your
twisted desires
to this mother without hesitation.】
-So please don't break so easily.
Her touch slowly traced the man's black hair… and slid down his cheek.
【This mother will accept it all.】
【For minutes or hours… as much as you want, as much as you desire……vent it all freely on this mother.】
【Mother loves you.】
-Even that utterly filthy lust.
When her hand paused at a certain spot.
The languid voice seeping into the man's ear lingered for a while, thoroughly staining the surrounding air.
And that stained air melted away the last thread of the man's reason.
【Mother has already…… been at her limit for quite some time.】
The man slowly raised his head and met her gaze.
And once more, he uttered those curse-like words.
“…Mother.”
His unfocused eyes fixed solely on the sparkling red pupils.
The lips of the one man, flushed red, advanced toward her.
【…How cute.】
With a lecherous smile spreading across her pale face. As the lips of the two met.
The sensation conveyed through the lips was like.
Fluffy.
【……Fluffy?】
At the bizarre texture she'd never felt before, she blinked her red eyes once more and checked ahead.
Squeeze!
In the spot where the man's lips should have been, a single cute Bear Doll was desperately blocking her path.
Wiggle wiggle!
Along with the Bear Doll making a 'no way' gesture. Her gaze, whose rising heat had instantly cooled.
【What is the meaning of this……daughter?】
Wearing an expression she'd never shown anyone before, she stared at the Bear Doll's owner.
『Good person! Bad mom! No!』
The interrupter was none other than the one she called her daughter.
『Good person! Save him!』
And she rushed to the man, grabbing his clothes and tugging.
『Mom! No! Good person! Let go!』
She stared blankly at her daughter, who was desperately trying to pry the man away from her.
【………Haa, fine.】
【We'll end it here for today. It's not like there's only today.】
The moment she released the hand clutching the man she'd sought to devour.
『Huh?』
The daughter gripping his clothes couldn't withstand the recoil of her pull and flew backward with him.
Thud crash tumble!
『G-Good person… heavy!』
It was good up to saving him.
But as she watched her own daughter flailing her arms helplessly pinned beneath him.
Pfft.
【Unexpected. The one our daughter takes a liking to first.】
A faint smile crept across her lips as she watched the two, lost in thought.
『Heavy!』
Unable to stand by any longer as her daughter flailed under the man.
She reached out, grabbed the man's nape, and lifted him up. And the daughter cried out loudly.
『Good person! Heavy person!』
*****
Dark.
Could this be my future?
But fortunately, a faint light began filtering into my bleak darkness.
Feeling an instinct that he absolutely couldn't let it slip away, Park Yeon-jeong.
Reached out toward the light.
And what his hand grasped, following the light.
Squish.
The soft texture of the light.
……Squish?
It was a sensation beyond imagination, defying description.
Soon, along with the soft light's texture. A voice began resounding in his head.
【Such intensity……how novel.】
A familiar voice.
After enough time had passed for me to think straight.
When a certain figure gradually came into view.
Silky black hair tickled Park Yeon-jeong's cheek.
【If you want it even now, just say the word. Mother's body is always ready.】
“Huh?”
Park Yeon-jeong suddenly opened his eyes and heard her voice urging him to voice his desire.
And only then did he realize.
What his hand was clutching right now.
'Ah, so that's the soft sensation.'
Squish.
We call this a 'breast.'
!!
The instant I opened my eyes and was about to smash my head against her in front of me and beg forgiveness.
Flash.
Like a life flashing before my eyes, memories of everything she'd just done to me raced through my mind.
Among the torrent of vile words surging up my throat.
Just one slipped out.
“…I'll be taking my leave.”
I chose the option of cutting ties.
【Doesn't this mother disgust you?】
“…….”
【Or was it actually……regrettable?】
Regrettable my ass!
I just crossed the River Jordan!
I nearly shook hands with the ferryman of Samdocheon for real!
I still remember, right before my consciousness blanked out—the reflux of blood, the agony like my breath was about to stop.
The absolute worst experience I never want to relive.
I didn't want to linger in a place like this any longer.
If I could flee this spot even a second faster and erase this nauseating memory, that's how desperately I wanted to forget.
Before repeating that same mistake, I opted to hurry out of here.
Step.
As I quickened my pace, she, watching from afar, spoke again.
【Come to mother's side, baby.】
Here we go again.
Why do ghost stories never stray from this script.
【That one isn't someone you can handle.】
Ignore it.
Just another sly ghost story ploy to bewitch me.
The moment Park Yeon-jeong passed through the double doors, hand on the doorknob about to turn it.
【I'll grant the wish you desire.】
Flinch.
Confirming my halted step—she continued.
【So return to this mother's side. Return to the embrace you've missed, baby.】
“…….”
A faint tremble ran through my gaze fixed on the doorknob.
Park Yeon-jeong was, of course, torn. Whether that single phrase she uttered like a lie.
Was truth.
Or falsehood.
“…You're lying, right.”
【Would any mother lie to her child?】
Lying is your specialty.
Even knowing it was bold, I couldn't claim I wasn't curious.
Noticing my hesitation, she kept spinning tempting tales.
【To be precise, among these countless rooms, there's one that fulfills the target's wish.】
“…….”
【Come back to me, and mother will help you find that room.】
【Intrigued?】
“…….”
My reaction to her words was this.
Bow.
【…Our baby must be. Hitting puberty already.】
With a final bow to her, I exited the room.
The Bear Dolls, spotting Park Yeon-jeong belatedly.
Patter patter!!
Came rushing over.
『See you! Good person!』
With the ghost story kid's farewell last.
Click.
The door shut, and I stood frozen in place, holding my breath for a while.
Then regulated my breathing.
And repeated deep exhales.
In a quiet voice, I spoke into the void.
“Noise. Transaction with the customer is complete.”
…No response.
“Noise?”
I called Noise again, but his reply was.
Nothing but profound silence.
Call it a hunch, but the vibe was utterly different from when he'd yanked me out of ghost stories before.
No reaction from him now means.
Noise currently.
Isn't watching me.
“…….”
Step step.
Park Yeon-jeong's steps hastened.
The path he'd followed under the Bear Doll Trio's guidance until now quickened this time by his own volition.
The Bear Doll Trio clung desperately to his clothes, refusing to be shaken off.
Splatter!
“Ah.”
They couldn't beat the wind and tumbled to the floor.
“Stay put for a bit.”
Park Yeon-jeong tucked the remaining Bear Doll Trio back into his employee ID.
Step step step!
His steps grew frantic once more.
The sole reason Park Yeon-jeong moved so urgently.
I'd forgotten.
Stupidly failed to register.
In that brief span, too many events piled up—I'd forgotten what this ghost story really was.
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This lodging facility prepared rooms of all varieties. Among them circulated rumors of one that granted any wish the target desired.
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No way to confirm for certain, obviously.
So to verify that very fact, Park Yeon-jeong pressed on.
‘Phone… if I find the phone, I can confirm it.’
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/Ghost Story Log
[Check-in at 666 O'Clock]
:Identification code Cd-E-666
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If you need any items during your stay or have inquiries, please contact via the phone on floor ■■.
Inquiry number: 666-6666.
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I need to find the phone.
But I don't know its location.
I even know its position shifts randomly.
So right now……
Blind search is all I can do.
Before Noise summons me back to that space.
……Ring.
?
A faint noise in this space empty save for me.
……Rrring.
!!
This sound!
Park Yeon-jeong's pace quickened.
A sluggish crawl of steps, but I headed toward the sound with everything I had.
…Rrrrring.
The volume swelled.
Meaning it's drawing nearer.
Upon reaching the source.
Haa… haa… haa….
Park Yeon-jeong panted roughly, though he'd run mere minutes. Yet without pause to breathe, he fixed on the small phone before him.
Rrrrring—
A phone definitely not there when he'd passed this hall earlier now sat before Park Yeon-jeong.
Gazing at the phone, he clenched his fist slightly.
Hoo.
With a brief deep breath.
Click.
I lifted the receiver and slowly pressed it to my right ear.
【Please enter the phone number.】
Park Yeon-jeong's fingers tapped only one sequence, ignoring all else.
666-6666
【Hello. Customer Service SRA. Please select your desired service.】
【For improved service, all call contents
will be fully discarded
.】
An artificial AI voice emanated from the receiver.
-1: Checkout service info.
-2: Room cleaning and rescue request.
-3: Facility guide.
-0:■■■ connection.
The service I wanted.
“3.”
【Please specify the facility desired.】
“…A room that grants wishes—does it exist?”
【…….】
Tension mounted.
Truth be told, I didn't even know the exact name of that wish room.
So half in doubt, I voiced something plausible—and soon the receiver replied.
【I'll provide the room number.】
!!
It exists!
If so, I can escape!
Finally out of this hellhole.
My lips quivered, and soon the receiver continued.
【Room number 4….】
Hope surged within him that he could truly escape this place.
“4!”
Faster faster faster faster faster…….
Click!
Along with the familiar sound of lights flickering on.
Park Yeon-jeong swallowed his tears.