Surviving in a School of Ghost Stories-Chapter 60

Huff. Huff.

I wonder if other students are in the same situation. Will anyone come to help us?

Or are we the only ones experiencing this?

The end of the hallway was still out of sight.

I recalled the safety manual again.

When you arrive on the first basement floor, the creatures there have poor vision. However, their hearing is extremely developed, so you must not make any noise. If you accidentally make a sound, run. Do not stop or slow down.

Then, a sudden curiosity struck me.

“Who wrote this safety manual?”

“Huff. Huff. You’re really asking that now? I’m more curious about what those bastards actually are.”

Leonard, who was breathing heavily, responded as if he could barely catch his breath.

It was understandable, considering we had been running down the same hallway without rest.

“I don’t know who wrote it. I just know it’s something passed down from the seniors of seniors.”

Dante answered.

Despite all the running, Dante seemed perfectly fine. Being a sports talent, his stamina must be exceptional.

“Hey, was the courage test always this dangerous? How did it go last year?”

“Not sure about that!”

I listened to the exchange between Dante and Leonard, growing more confused.

Though Dante said it was passed down from senior to senior, there was no specific name of the person who actually wrote the safety rules.

Who are we really following in these guidelines?

But no matter how much I speculated, I couldn’t find an answer right now.

Perhaps Diana Lovett, the fourth-year student, might know something.

‘If we keep running like this, someone’s going to get tired and stop eventually.’

In any case, there would be stragglers.

‘Think, Melody.’

I wasn’t just running to escape; I needed to find a more fundamental way to banish these things. In other words, I needed to find a medium.

But I had no idea what the medium was. There were too many students involved and too many evil spirits wandering around.

It didn’t seem possible to pinpoint just one medium.

‘Maybe the gateway Diana mentioned is a clue?’

That was the only possibility left.

With that thought in mind, we continued running down the hallway.

As we rounded the corner at the end of the hallway, we were met with a dead-end. The wall in front of us was a full-length mirror.

We had no idea there was a mirror, and when we turned the corner at full speed, we crashed straight into it.

But something incredible happened.

Leonard, Dante, and Fanny, who were running just a step ahead of me, were sucked into the mirror.

More precisely, all my teammates except me had passed through the mirror.

I couldn’t follow them and ended up crashing against the mirror, falling to the ground.

In that moment, I remembered the advice given by the student council president in 903.

“Always be careful with mirrors and doors, Melody. Mirrors and doors are the connections between the ‘other world’ and this world.”

Had the 903 student council president predicted such a moment? At that point, I desperately wished to meet him again.

“Hastings!”

My shocked teammates were ➤ NоvеⅠight ➤ (Read more on our source) banging on the mirror, looking at me.

If the student council president’s words were correct, we had unknowingly entered the world beyond the mirror.

Leonard, Dante, and Fanny must have safely returned to our original world.

‘Come to think of it, the banquet hall was the mirror room.’

Thinking about the banquet hall surrounded entirely by mirrors, it seemed plausible.

In fact, the reason I was left behind in the mirror made sense.

According to Father Miella, I could relatively easily travel between the ‘other world’ and this world compared to others. So, perhaps I appeared as an easy target for the evil spirits?

I exhaled heavily, still winded from the long run, and spoke to my teammates.

“Go ahead, guys. Don’t look back.”

Dante, with a serious expression, asked.

“You want us to leave you behind?”

“Someone who needs to live should live.”

Then I untied the rope that connected us.

Dante, Leonard, and Fanny shouted something in my direction, but I closed my ears and turned around.

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The creatures were getting closer.

I could see them, and I was the one able to open and close doors.

No matter how much I thought about it, it seemed one of us had to sacrifice themselves for the others to survive.

And it seemed that the bait should be me.

If I drew their attention, my teammates would be safe.

Tap, tap, tap, tap

The sound of something walking at a steady pace came closer with each step.

Ten steps ahead, seven steps ahead, five steps ahead, three steps ahead,

And then, right in front of me.

The creatures surrounded me, and they poured onto me.

As those above me fell onto the floor, I struggled to breathe.

Crunch.

Someone bit my leg.

Crunch, crunch.

Someone bit my arm.

As I was devoured by them, I thought.

‘Do I really have to survive like this?’

No. I had to pull myself together.

I came here to save Raven, who would die a year from now.

Right, Raven. Other than Raven, I have no reason to live. I’m a person who exists only for sacrifice, aren’t I?

Perhaps due to the strain on my body, I started bleeding from my nose again.

I had lost too much blood and eventually lost consciousness.

At that moment, in the banquet hall on the first floor of Johannes Castle.

The others had sent off Melody Hastings’ team and were now waiting for the first team to return.

They had limited the number of teams to avoid confusion, as too many teams roaming the castle would cause chaos.

However, none of the teams that had left had returned yet.

Something felt off.

At this point, one of the teams should have definitely returned by now.

Diana reexamined the Johannes Castle Student Safety Manual. As she read, another question came to mind.

‘Why does this manual have such content?’

No, to begin with, who wrote this manual? Why was it written? What was the process?

Most F-class students thought this safety manual was just a concept for the courage test.

It was passed down from the seniors of seniors, and the courage test was known as a tradition of the F-class.

But no one truly understood what the content of this manual meant.

Moreover, no one had questioned this until now.

“Senior, the 5th team has returned.”

Diana looked up at the noise coming from the entrance of the banquet hall.

The 5th team, who had left before Melody Hastings’ team, had returned.

It was strange that the 5th team had arrived first when no team had returned yet.

The 5th team entered the banquet hall, their faces pale, and collapsed to the floor.

Diana approached them with a confused expression and asked.

“What happened? What’s going on?”

At her question, the 5th team’s expressions grew even more distressed.

Diana changed her question.

“Did you see the other teams? You’re the first to come back.”

The leader of the 5th team looked at Diana with a face full of fear and asked.

“Is that really true? No one else has come back?”

Noticing the unusual reaction, Diana furrowed her brow.

“What happened? What’s going on?”

“It’s....”

The 5th team said they had gone to the 10th basement floor.

Johannes Castle didn’t have a 10th basement floor.