Chapter 178 – 178. Who Are You?

“Hey, Aim. Wake up This is not the time to sleep.”

“Yes..?”

I barely opened my eyes at Ayla’s call. Ayla, who was still looking down at me with an expressionless face, stepped back from her as if I was barely relieved when I opened my eyes.

“Mirror..?”

The mirror and the soft light shining on me and my companions. The source of the light source is unknown, but it was not a very dark place like the first basement floor. It was a strangely dark and frightening place. A little scary.

“This is the second floor.”

We had fallen in the middle of a mirror maze. Fortunately, it seems that everyone fell in the same place, as if they all fell in the same place.

It would have been very terrifying if everyone had scattered, but fortunately, God helped us and woke up in a place like the countryside.

“Ah, Ms. Aram.. Chureup.. Please wake up. If you keep lying like a corpse like that… You’ll get hungry.. Come on.. Chew…”

“Hey! Toad!! Won’t you stick your tongue out?!”

“Ah!! Cheshire!! Don’t hit me!! Aww!! It hurts!! Master!! Please help!! Aww!!”

When I turned my head, I saw Aram, who hadn’t come to his senses yet, Keker, who was licking his lips at Aram, and Cheshire, who was beating Keker with all his heart.

Meanwhile, Kessia was sitting on one side, scratching her skin, trembling slightly with anxiety. It seemed that Kecher was beginning to feel the urge to eat cannibals, and Kessia was starting to feel the urge to harm herself.

I don’t think you should leave them both as they are. Later, Kessia will satisfy her cravings with her growing flesh, and Kesher will have to feed the frozen pet humans she brought with her.

As she thought about it, her head hurt as if it would break.

“Ugh… The head…”

“Where are you hurt? Doesn’t it look like there’s any trauma?”

“Oh, no. It’s just… My head is ringing a little…”

Ayla looked at me with a worried voice.

I tore my hair out, feeling a throbbing headache.

My head felt dizzy, as if I had been hit by a blunt instrument. It’s like… I feel like something has entered me. Should I say it’s a pain that feels like it’s about to explode because the blood vessels in the brain are clogged?

It is very difficult to explain in words. It just felt like something strange had settled in one side of my head.

Then Cheshire opened her mouth.

“Once everyone wakes up, let’s start moving again. Fortunately, there are no underground guards here, but you shouldn’t stay in one place for too long. Because a mirror ghost appears.”

At Cheshire’s words, we all checked our equipment and started preparing to move to the third floor. My headaches also gradually subsided and soon the pain was gone.

However, I still had the feeling of a foreign body, as if something had entered my head. It’s very embarrassing, but I couldn’t figure out the identity. So I just decided not to care. Because I thought it would be better to just ignore it.

‘Uh..? Where did you go?’

But for some reason, the Guigokdo, which should have been tied around my waist, had disappeared. I must have been wearing it… But it suddenly disappeared. Not only that. The necklace of the husband and wife also disappeared. Where did it all disappear to?

I suddenly became anxious. Since I don’t even remember putting it in a large-capacity magic bag, I asked my companions if they hadn’t seen Guigokdo.

“Hey, everyone… Haven’t you seen my sword?”

“Huh? Knife?”

“What sword?”

“Uh.. That, even the ears of the valley. On the edge of the green sword, Yang Ji-sang dwells.”

“Umm… I don’t know.”

“I didn’t see either.”

When everyone said that they hadn’t seen it, I felt a bit gloomy as I thought that I had lost Yang Ji-sang in a labyrinth whose size was difficult to guess. It wasn’t very useful, but it was quite useful for searching for spiritual bodies…

At that time, Aram, who was rubbing his eyes, spoke to me.

“Uh.. Jun.”

“Huh?”

“Did you drop your necklace?”

“Ah.. Yes. It must have disappeared somewhere along with the sword.”

“Aha…”

The necklace of the husband and wife bed that Aram was holding was pointing in one direction. If you go all the way there, you’ll probably find a necklace. Maybe even Guigokdo is far away from there.

“Aim Joon, shall we go find him?”

I shook my head at Cheshire’s question. No matter how good an item is, you can’t go around looking for an item in a place where you don’t know when you’ll drop out and die. It seemed better to go downstairs quickly now.

“It’s a pity, but… It’s not the situation to go find the sword and necklace right now. Let’s start again.”

More than anything, I felt that I wanted to get out of here as soon as possible. For some reason, I felt that someone was following me. I feel like I shouldn’t catch up with that existence. Should I say it’s anxiety?

Anyway, I followed the party with a sense of incongruity.

******

“Fuck…”

Fell out with friends

I’m walking through a mirror maze by myself right now.

“Where has everyone gone?”

When I woke up, I was already alone.

The bag was also missing…

“Kiaaaaa!!!!”

“Oh no, fuck!!!”

A scream came from behind. At that moment, the mirror suddenly cracked and a woman crawled out with her hair loose.

Even the arms and legs were abnormally long and skinny, and he seemed to be at least two meters tall.

“Kiaaaaa!!!”

“OMG!!! Leeches babies!!!”

I ran in the opposite direction, avoiding the screaming mirror ghost shaking my neck in all directions. Fighting against them won’t kill me, but when they die, they leave a strange stigma on the body of the slain, so you should avoid them.

Yes, the stigma they inscribe is the problem. Once the stigma is engraved, other mirror ghosts quickly find me, as if they are smelling something. Also, as the stigma overlapped, mirror ghosts crawled out without a break.

Even if their limbs are cut off, they attack relentlessly without showing any signs of pain, and suddenly break mirrors to attack, so it’s best to avoid them as much as possible.

All of the clothes I was wearing were torn and stained with blood from their unexpected surprise attack. I really don’t know how many times I almost died alone.

He broke the mirror with his long arm and stabbed at the vital point, so if he hadn’t treated the wound with the rising flesh, he would have died of excessive blood loss right away.

-Wow Chang Chang!!!

– Clink!!!

“Damn it…”

In the meantime, the mirror broke again and something crawled out. It’s obvious if you don’t look. It must be the mirror ghost that smelled it.

“Kyaaaaa!!!!!”

“Keeeee!!!!!”

Five of them have already been twisted. Even in the direction I was running, another crawled out, so I had no choice but to kill another mirror ghost to avoid being surrounded.

– Chii Ik!!

As I burst my limbs with my tentacles and chewed off the mirror ghost’s head with my abyssal mouth, at that moment, I felt a burning pain at the location of my right wing bone, and a brand was engraved. This is the 10th

“Shit!!!!”

The stigma overlaps. Mirror ghosts crawled out from all sides, breaking mirrors. As the number of them increased, the labyrinth made of mirrors became darker and darker, the mirrors became dirty, and the atmosphere became strange. If it wasn’t for me, I’d probably even get a mental attack.

Moreover, since there are 10 overlapping stigmas, at least 10 of them will be chasing me now. I think I’m going to lose my mind. There is absolutely no time to rest. The more I kill, the more they appear. I just have to keep running away from them.

-Bang!!

“Ouch… Like a fucking dog..”

While running, I bumped into a mirror and fell.

His forehead was slightly torn and blood flowed. But there was no time to heal, so I got back up and ran frantically.

Since the mirrors are on all sides and twisted in a complex way, it is really ambiguous and difficult to distinguish the direction. That’s why when I look away just a little bit like this, I get a little dizzy from bumping into a mirror or seeing myself reflected in all directions.

-Kiaaaaa!!!

-Keeeee!!!

“Haha..”

Fortunately, I think they missed me because of my frantic running. If they lose sight of me, they crawl into the mirror and pursue me again. I took a moment to catch my breath before the damn obsessive demons found me.

No matter how much my stamina has improved with all kinds of elixirs, I run out of breath if I run for hours without a break.

“Whoa. Damn it… Where the hell is Aram?”

I picked up the necklace of the couple sleeping together and guessed the direction. Fortunately, judging from the necklace shaking more vigorously, it seems to be getting closer.

‘It’s fortunate that there is a necklace for sleeping together…’

The black shadow that attacked me the moment I fell to the second floor to avoid the underground guards.

Because of that, I was separated from the group from the beginning and came to the second floor, but I’m glad I was able to find the direction where Aram is. If there wasn’t even a necklace for sleeping together, I wouldn’t have a real answer.

Because the honey wine was stored in a large-capacity bag stolen by the black shadow… I had no way to get out of here, so I had to avoid the mirror ghosts indefinitely until the party came to find me, and I had to take a survival picture.

-Yes. Ugh.

At that time, the ear gokdo tied to the waist resonated. Yang Ji-sang communicated to me if he had something to say.

I put my hand on the handle of the gwigokdo. Then Yang Ji-sang spoke in a slightly impatient voice.

[Hey, master?]

“Huh? Why.. It’s hard.. Don’t make me talk unless it’s a big deal.”

[Ah, no.. I feel a little ominous. Dodomeki seems to have seen something.]

“What? What did you see?”

[Now, wait a minute. Dodomeki is telling me something.. Uh.. Yeah. Hmm. Something.. Very ominous.. Something. Black.. Squishy.. Mimicking others.. Like that..]

“What?”

[That, I think it would be better to quickly go to where Miss Aram is. The black figure that attacked the master… Seems to be where Miss Aram is now.]

“Oh shit…”

Yang Ji-sang seemed to sense a spiritual presence.

I ran in the direction the necklace pointed.

It was not the time to give up. I’m going to break the mirror and everything. We must find Aram quickly before it becomes dangerous. I’m relieved of Cheshire and Ayla… But I have to protect Aram.

******

“Hmm…”

“Jun-ah, why did you do that earlier?”

“No… I think something is following us.”

“What?”

At my words, Aram made an anxious expression. At the same time, Chesier, who was walking in the lead, responded to my words.

“Jun, tell me exactly what you feel. Maybe it’s the curse that makes me feel that way. It’s a curse that makes it strangely annoying and drives you mentally, so it’s better to erase it quickly. It’s because Keker can do Haeju.”

At Cheshire’s words, Ayla took something out of her arms and continued.

“If it’s a curse, let’s move it to Keker with this salpuri stone.”

Ayla wants to remove the curse by moving it to Keker. I kept getting chills running down my spine, so I held the white flesh stone in my hand, just as Cheshire and Ayla had said.

If this is the case, the curse will move to the Salpuri Stone and you just need to find someone to overwrite the curse before the Salpuri Stone is broken.

“Oh, the curse must have been right. I feel like my head is clearing up a bit…”

-Break!

“Uh?”

The salpuri stone he was holding turned completely black and melted. As the water became sticky like oil and fell to the floor, smoke rose from the floor as if hydrochloric acid had touched it, and even the floor partially melted.

“Uh…?”

“Why is that melting? It’s not something that melts…”

Embarrassed Cheshire and Ayla, who touches the remnants of the melted Salpuri Stone as if in doubt. Soon Ayla licked the remnants of the salpuri stone with her tongue and looked at me with a strange voice.

“Are you… Aiming right?”

For a moment, Cheshire hid Aram behind him. She then took off her neon mask halfway off and sniffed her nose open.

“Sniff… The smell is strangely different. Who are you. Where did our Jun go?”

Things took a strange twist. Why is everyone talking to me like that…

Just then, the mirror shattered behind my back.

-Kwajangchang!!!!

“Whoa.. Fuck.. We finally arrived. Everyone is safe… Huh?”

I jumped out of the broken mirror.