Chapter 65 : Chapter 65
Chapter 65: Test of Courage Explosion (1)
A long cave with no end in sight.
Screams rang out from various places inside the cave shrouded in long darkness.
"Aaaah!"
"Don't let go!"
"Ugh!"
"Let's go together!"
Students' tearful voices continued.
Behind the voices, urgent footsteps trying to escape the spot rang out everywhere.
And in the places where screams and footsteps disappeared, those dressed as ghosts remained.
The twins sitting in midair clutched their stomachs and laughed.
"This is fun?"
"Right? Scaring other kids is this fun, so how fun would it be to scare that jerk Kang Tae-wook?"
The twins, wearing black clothes with only their faces painted white.
Just that alone looked like ghost heads floating in the dark cave, but here, they even used their unique skill to float higher in the air.
The twins riding on top of flying swords covered with black cloth.
Because of that, to the kids doing the Test of Courage, it looked like ghosts with only faces were freely flying through the air.
Due to that.
"Is it that scary?"
"Since not a single team has run away yet, the preparation is perfect."
About ten teams had passed, but there hasn't been a single team of students who weren't scared so far.
100 out of 100 points.
The corners of the mouths of the twins, who had painted their faces pure white, soared as if piercing the ceiling.
"Good, now it's almost our class's turn."
"Kang Tae-wook, we'll take revenge for the pillow fight."
"Hehe."
"Hahahaha!"
Leaving behind grotesque laughter, the Egg Ghosts disappeared into the darkness.
***
"There it is!"
"Finally, it's the last part!"
The first group, who had shed tears and snot because of the ghosts, finally discovered the destination, the end of the Test of Courage.
The deepest part of the cave.
A single desk placed lonely in the clearing.
On that desk, an ink pad and a stamp were placed.
At that sight which made the welling tears disappear completely.
The male and female students who were the first participants ran quickly to that place.
And then they took out a sheet of paper from their pockets.
The paper they received when departing.
They were told that the Test of Courage ends if they stamp this paper.
The students who hurriedly stamped the paper cheered as if they had cleared an A-Rank dungeon.
"We did it!"
"Finally, it's over! Let's get out quickly!"
"But…… how?"
The students' eyes met.
Stamping was definitely the end of the Test of Courage, but what's next?
No one explained it to them.
"Do we go back?"
"We were only told that it ends if we stamp……."
The kids standing blankly in front of the lonely desk.
Was it because only the way out remained?
They were most relaxed since entering this cave.
It was inevitable.
They already stamped it.
And thought the Test of Courage was over.
So, in other words.
This moment right now.
Is the moment the students who entered this cave have let their guard down the most.
Rustle.
Rustle.
The sound of clothes brushing was heard.
The brow of the female student standing blankly in front of the desk crumpled.
"What! Where are you touching!"
"W, what are you talking about! Touching what!"
"You touched my shoulder!"
"What are you saying, touching what! You're the one, everything scary is over so take your hand off my shoulder!"
"What are you saying, when did I ever put my hand on your shoulder……."
In an instant.
The male and female students' expressions sank.
Between the faces that turned pale white, gazes intersected.
In the middle of the gaze facing each other.
Pop.
Something caught their vision.
"Do you want to go home?"
A ghost with its entire face dyed in blood appeared.
"Aaaah!!"
"Uaaa!!"
The screaming kids closed their eyes and started running blindly.
Into the darkness.
So, to be exact, toward the blocked wall ahead.
Toward the end of the cave.
"Uaaaaaa!!"
Because it was fear that entered amidst the relief that it was over.
The kids became senseless.
The kids running without discovering the wall.
It was an urgent situation, but the ghost merely watched that scene blankly.
The kids who were running while screaming.
Shoo-ook!
Passed through the wall just like that.
Like that, the first team finished the Test of Courage.
The ghost watching that scene.
To be precise, Ye-na, who was dressed as a ghost, muttered while looking at the wall.
"Really, how sincere is Teacher Yoo jin about the kids' Test of Courage?"
She knew that Yoo jin dug even this cave.
Even that was amazing.
The last place she was guarding.
To be exact, that wall she was looking at.
She heard he even set up spatial magic by borrowing the power of Hunter Lee Si-wang and other teachers.
To the naked eye, it's just a dead-end wall, but she knew that if one passes through that wall, it connects to the starting point.
"Truly amazing, amazing……."
Ye-na shook her head like that and moved her gaze to the phone she was holding in her hand.
"Did it capture well? Running like that, how was I supposed to take a picture……."
Tap.
At that moment, someone placed a hand on Ye-na's shoulder.
Ye-na's head turned quickly.
"You shouldn't badmouth someone just because they're not in front of you. I'm a teacher."
"It wasn't badmouthing. Rather, it's a compliment."
"Where exactly."
"This cave too. And telling us to take pictures of students shedding tears and snot like this for their memories too."
At Yoo jin's appearance who appeared suddenly, Ye-na smiled with her eyes without being surprised.
"Hah, you've become quite the sly snake, this one."
Although she said that, a smile was built on Yoo jin's lips looking down at Ye-na.
It wasn't just Jin-ho who changed from when they first met.
Ye-na also came to laugh much more than before, and could joke with him without hesitation like just now.
Three months.
Short if short, long if long time.
Clearly, the changes in the students were being captured in Yoo jin's eyes little by little.
Of course, in a good way.
As Yoo jin closed his eyes gently and smiled for a long time.
"But, Teacher. I mentioned it earlier too, but is it okay for the kids' school trip Test of Courage to be this grand?"
"Of course. It's the school trip of their school days that will be remembered for a lifetime even when they become adults. And this much doesn't satisfy me. If only I had more time, I wanted to make a whole dungeon into a Haunted House, not a cave like this!"
Yoo jin's sincerity echoing loudly in the cave.
"Ah, yes……."
Ye-na couldn't say anything more and just nodded her head.
"And I have to do at least this much for that guy to make a surprised expression."
Even without calling the name, Ye-na could tell who that guy was.
"Will that guy be surprised?"
"You saw it just now too, how the students from other classes were. They rush in surprise whether the wall is blocked or not. This moment of letting their guard down thinking it's the last is the climax."
"That is true but……."
"Don't worry. I attached a proper spy next to that guy."
At Yoo jin's voice, Jin-ho's face came to Ye-na's mind.
The zombie-like appearance back then, surrounded and brainwashed by not only the teacher but also the twins and Seong-hyeon.
"That's why I'm more worried……."
Even at Ye-na's anxious voice, the laughter did not leave Yoo jin's face.
"Well, maybe? So I prepared it. A killer move that even that guy Kang Tae-wook won't be able to imagine."
"Yes?"
Yoo jin passing by Ye-na whose eyes became rabbit eyes.
Yoo jin, who was taking confident steps thud thud, moved away from where the desk was.
And then.
He gestured toward Ye-na.
Beckon beckon.
As if to say come here instead of speaking.
Ye-na, who felt something as soon as she discovered that hand, quickly kicked off the ground and left that spot.
Then.
Ziiing―.
The ground where Yoo jin and Ye-na were standing just before disappeared.
"Hehe."
Behind Yoo jin's laughter, Ye-na, who discovered the bottomless pit, couldn't close her mouth.
When on earth did he prepare this.
The cave was amazing too, but even such a tremendous device…….
If it's this much, she thought even that Ice Prince guy could make a surprised expression.
However.
"……."
The biggest reason Ye-na couldn't close her mouth was…….
Just because he froze one bed.
And didn't let them play.
'You're going this far……?'
Yoo jin's eerie laughter filled the cave.
***
― Krrrz.
This is Alpha.
Target broke through Section A.
Entering Section B.
― Please avenge us, over.
The twins' voices flowed out through the radio.
"Haa, is it finally the main game……?"
Lee Si-wang, who was already exhausted, sighed looking at the radio.
It has been about an hour since the Test of Courage started.
Just the kids he scared while dressed as a ghost amounted to a truckload.
Finally, the reason he did this makeup for a long time.
Kang Tae-wook will come here soon.
― Krrrz.
He-hey, can you hear me?
At that time, another voice rang from the radio.
The man who turned him into a Virgin Ghost, and the one who planned all this operation.
Returnee.
It was Teacher Yoo jin.
"Hah. Where were you and only appearing now? While I was suffering like a dog like this, you weren't slacking off somewhere, were you?"
Lee Si-wang complained without pressing the radio button.
― Why aren't you answering.
Hey, you're badmouthing me, right?
Flinch.
Lee Si-wang's body flinched.
Urgently, he pressed the button on the radio.
"Ah, no. The kids passed by just now so I didn't speak."
It's a lie, but if I said I was badmouthing him truthfully here, I felt like I would become a real ghost.
― Anyway, the target will go to where you are now, so do well as prepared.
Since I entrusted the last section to Ye-na and moved to the middle too.
"Don't worry. The kids who passed in front of me were all crying and screaming in chaos."
― You sure talk well.
Anyway, don't forget the photo, and properly scare…….
At that moment.
Thud thud.
Footsteps were heard and.
It was clearly visible to Lee Si-wang's gaze hiding his body.
Two students walking this way.
Jin-ho and the target.
The figure of Kang Tae-wook.
Lee Si-wang, pressing the radio quickly, whispered quietly.
"Target arrived. Turning off radio."
Lee Si-wang, who quickly put the radio in his pocket, sighed lightly and started touching up his appearance.
Touching up for a Virgin Ghost meant.
Messing up the hair more.
And dabbing one more bloodstain on the lips.
Preparation complete.
"Phew…… Then…… whether you're the greatest talent or Ice Prince or whatever, come. This body has been a genius since opening his eyes to the world."
A-Rank No. 1.
Former genius, current Virgin Ghost Lee Si-wang showed a chilling smile.
***
Two men who just passed the Twin Egg Ghosts.
Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook were walking in the cave.
"Ugh……. Just how sincere are they……. My heart almost dropped."
Jin-ho, walking in the dark, clutched his heart.
He already knew that Teacher Yoo jin and friends set Kang Tae-wook as the target and dressed up as ghosts to scare him.
However, even knowing beforehand didn't mean the ghosts appearing before his eyes weren't scary.
Even if they were fake.
Kang Tae-wook got annoyed pushing away Jin-ho who kept sticking to his side.
"Stop sticking to me."
Jin-ho widened the distance from Kang Tae-wook.
Although it was a small movement of about an arm's span, it felt like there was a large invisible space between them.
Startled by Kang Tae-wook's annoyance, Jin-ho followed behind Kang Tae-wook with his head bowed.
Thud thud.
Only the footsteps of the two people echoed in the dark space.
How long did they walk like that?
Kang Tae-wook started to get bothered by Jin-ho following behind continuously dejected.
His lips started to twist.
"……."
His chest felt frustratingly tight, and he felt strange because Jin-ho following him like a sick chicken bothered him so much.
It was even more so because.
The incident at the beach last night lingered in his mind, so he couldn't sleep a wink either.
'Annoying.'
The human heart is truly.
He didn't know when he got annoyed at him sticking close, but seeing him drop his head like a sick chicken like that…….
"Hah……."
Kang Tae-wook, stopping his steps, turned his body.
To say a word to Jin-ho.
"Hey, just because a man heard a single word like that, getting discoura……."
Kang Tae-wook's words stopped at the end.
Because in the view where Jin-ho should have been captured.
A Virgin Ghost's face was filling it up.
"Hello, Sydney."
A scream resonated throughout the cave.
It was summer.