Chapter 1085 – [The True Story]

As a result, the director’s movie choice ability was quite good.

First of all, the movie isn’t too brutal. There may be grotesque or scary scenes, but there were no splatter scenes where limbs were cut off.

And movies are boring for kids these days. There is a scary scene in the middle, but if it’s too scary, the kids might get terrified and there might not be any kids who want to train their courage.

Considering that, it was a good choice. After the movie, the children were moderately terrified.

“It’s about time. Guys, go down and get on the bus.”

It’s late at night, right after watching a horror movie, and the tension of going to a training session.

Thanks to this, the children did not make a lot of noise throughout the road to the courage training ground. Quietly talking or spending time on the phone.

It took a while to arrive at the entrance of an unknown mountain by taking a stamp bus.

“Huh? What are you doing here?”

“Aaaaa…”

“Um, I’m scared……”

Even the children who thought they were not afraid changed their attitude when they saw the dark mountain where no light could be seen.

The only lights nearby are those from the town below. If it wasn’t for the lights turned on by the instructors, it would have been dark and I wouldn’t have been able to see anything.

Separately, instructors build a base base near the mountain entrance. It’s not that great, but lighting was placed around it and a mat was laid to create a space where the kids could sit and rest.

And after the ramen and courage training, he puts a pot on the Bursta he brought to eat as a late-night snack. Since children have to eat more than 20, the amount is quite large, so it takes a long time to boil, so you will probably be able to eat it deliciously by the end of your courage training.

“I’m going to start training my courage from now on. Those who want to drop out right now, raise your hands.”

A few people raised their hands. I was terrified when it started right in front of my eyes.

The director took those kids apart. However, since there were still quite a few children left, the courage training was able to proceed without any problems.

However, the pairing does not match as some children are missing. I was thinking of putting 3 people in the same jacket, but the numbers didn’t match, so I changed it to sending them in pairs.

“If you just follow the road, you won’t have to worry about getting lost. Instructors will be placed at each corner of the road. So if you run into problems, you can find the instructors.”

“Yes, manager…”

Children’s voices are low because they are scared. At that, the director smiles lightly and adds more fear to it.

“And… Do you know that there is an abandoned shrine on this mountain? It was built during the Korean War, and it was built to honor those who died at that time. It is in a mess now because it is not maintained. Rumor has it that sometimes you hear strange noises.”

“Hee-i-i-i-i-i-“

The children were frightened by the director’s words. It’s an act of blatant scaring, but the atmosphere itself is gloomy and it seems like something really will come out, so the effect is doubled.

We make partners for children who will soon train their courage. Completely random by drawing lots. But, perhaps through the tricks of someone with an old virgin hysteria, Eden was paired with her familiar face.

“No, why you?!”

“Sunuk, your courage training is ruined!!! I rule this place now!!!!”

“What are you talking about again?!”

Soon-wook and Eden had to train their courage together without fail. It was already too late to quit now.

Besides, if I quit now, wouldn’t I suddenly get scared and look like a missing child? That’s something pride doesn’t allow.

And the courage training begins. The children who are the first batters start, and the remaining children wait for their time.

“…Hey, Eden Choi. Aren’t you scared?”

“I’m more afraid of not having ramen for our late-night snack when I come back after finishing everything”

“Are you not afraid of ghosts?”

“If a ghost comes out, how many do you have to defeat?”

“You’re really…”

Aaaaa!!!

And while we were talking, we heard screams from afar.

The atmosphere, which had been relaxed as we talked, shrank at once. All eyes turned to the source of the scream.

“What, what, you must be scared…”

“Hee-ik…”

The children were frightened, but in the end even such children would have their turn. After the children left one after another, after a while, the children who started first returned to the starting point again.

The children who realized that the courage training was over visibly let out a sigh of relief. The hardened face was also relieved to some extent.

“Hey, how are you? Are you scared?”

“In the middle, Master came out and surprised me!!!”

“Really? It’s good that ghosts didn’t come out.”

“Where are the ghosts in the world? There are no such things as ghosts!!!”

Eden laughed inwardly and listened to their conversation. And before I knew it, it was the turn of Eden and Soon-wook.

“As I said before, you just need to follow the road, so don’t worry and go. It won’t take too long.”

“Yes!!!”

And the two of them started walking slowly down the mountain path.

I don’t know if it was in the past, but these days kids carry at least one cell phone, so they use their cell phone flash to light the way, but the darkness of the mountain couldn’t be illuminated with just one light.

“Very dark”

“So, is the mountain road at night like this? Still, I don’t think it’s bad to come and take a walk alone once in a while.”

“……Walking in the middle of the night like this? Are you out of your mind?”

“It has a good atmosphere, but what?”

“Is the atmosphere you’re talking about like a ghost?”

“It’s true that you only need to defeat a few demons.”

True fear comes from feeling helpless to do nothing. An opponent who cannot resist even the same unknown being and an opponent who can be killed somehow have different senses.

That was the difference between Sunuk and Eden. Soon-wook thinks that ghosts are untouchable and untouchable, but to Eden, ghosts are something that can be eradicated.

Different senses mean different reactions. Even if something protrudes from the mountain, it will only be a mountain beast, and rather, such a mountain beast is an illusion even in Eden.

“Wow!!!!!”

“Aaaaagh?!?!?!”

Then, in the middle of the road, an instructor hiding behind a tree jumped out and surprised the two of them. Sunwook was startled and involuntarily screamed.

Even if he already knows it’s going to surprise him, he’s just as nervous if he doesn’t know where it’s going to pop up. If so, the response is not significantly different.

Haha, Sunwook, you’re surprisingly timid. Eden doesn’t look like anything.”

“I already know that Master exists.”

“It looks like you heard a rustling sound.

In fact, it wasn’t that, but it was sensed by spiritual power. Thanks to this, Eden was able to roughly guess where the masters would surprise him.

“Anyway, keep going like this. If you keep going, there will be a fork in the middle. There will be a sign there. One side goes up the mountain, so you have to look carefully and come back. Okay?”

“Okay”

The two continued walking up the mountain path. After experiencing it once, I think the next one will be similar, so I feel much better than before. The atmosphere of the eerie mountain road is still there, though.

Still, the two, who were better than before, moved on without hesitation. And we arrived at the fork in the road that the master said.

“I guess this is what the master said.”

“If we want to go back to where we came from, it must be the right path, right? It says the left path goes up the mountain.”

“……You’re not going that way, are you?”

“Is there any reason why I would do that?

Considering what Eden has been through so far, it is not that Eden took care of things himself, but rather that Eden dealt with problems around him. Looking at those things, Eden himself is innocent.

……So this time was the same.

“Let’s go quickly. When the late night snack ramen runs out…… Huh?”

“What, what. What’s wrong?”

“Can’t you hear what?”

“No, don’t scare me!!!”

It was no joke this time. Eden looked not to the right of the fork in the road he had to go to, but to the left.

What is the sound coming from there? The sound of people’s footsteps, and the sound of talking… I wondered if it was a dojang master, but seeing that the footsteps were about two feet, it wasn’t at all. If that’s the case, it means that all but one of the instructors other than the one we met earlier are gathered over there.

Eventually, the sound became so loud that even Sunwook could hear it. However, when I got that close, I could see that the other person was not a ghost, but a human.

“Hey, who’s there!!!”

But sometimes people are even scarier. When I looked under the bed, I wondered if it was a ghost or a person. If I had to choose between the two, it would be difficult to choose one.

The people who came down from the mountain road on the left were two men. The steps itself staggered a little, and her face was red like a drunk, so Eden took a step back with Sunuk.

“Who’s there… Oh, that’s fucking hot”

“What? Oh…!!!!”

When they reach a distance where they can check each other’s faces, they check each other’s faces with the flash of their cell phones. And the men saw Eden’s face and exclaimed.

It’s not that I’m saying that I’m pretty, it’s a compliment that doesn’t feel too good mixed with cursing. But Eden hid her feelings. No matter what the opponent has, it is because he has brought something more terrifying than his intention.

“Hey, are you here to play? Courage training? The older brothers are playing at a villa nearby. Do you want to play together?”

“I’m underage”

“Oh, um…”

“What if you’re a minor? Can’t minors play together?

“Are you going to die?”

“Are you interested? It’s really cool to do it once? Huh? Huh?”

Eden’s eyes narrowed. From what they said, she wasn’t talking about alcohol or anything like that.

Eden, feeling the need to avoid her seat, sneaked behind her. However, the two insane people had no intention of letting Eden go.

He strides forward and grabs Eden’s wrist. Whether Eden was a minor or not, it was irrelevant to men who acted faithfully to their desires. If that were the case, there would be no crimes related to child sexual assault in the world.

“Hey, let’s go? The oppas will do something nice for you. Don’t you need pocket money by any chance? Do the oppas have a lot of money?”

“Yeah, how nice it is to hang out together and get some pocket money. Huh?”

At that point, Eden’s expression cooled. She felt that she would have to deal with it by using her own strength or by calling her bodyguards or adults.

But then, Shun Wook, who had been quiet, rushed at her.

“Tae!!! Kwon!!!!”

Wooooo!!!!!

On the surface, it was a fight between two adult men and one elementary school student, but upon closer inspection, it was a fight between two men who stumbled because they couldn’t even control their bodies well, and a child who had the size and skills of an elementary school student or more.

Soon-wook’s kicks and fists landed on the men, and they rolled on the floor without maintaining their center of gravity properly. And taking advantage of that gap, Soon-wook grabbed Eden’s wrist and started running.

“Run!!! Eden!!!!!”

“Oh, did you see it again Kwon Soon-wook?”

“Are you going to be carefree at a time like this?! Run quickly!!!!!”

The two ran I heard the angry voices of men behind them, and the sound of running after them to catch them.

“Hey!!!! I’m not standing there!!!! These bastards know who I am!!!!”

“This fuck cub !!!!

For ordinary elementary school students to hear, the attitude of the men who spoke harsh and eerie words was at a level that would leave them traumatized. If the two kids weren’t strong kids, it would have been a problem even if things ended well.

However, it would be difficult to catch up even in a normal state, but in the current situation, it was impossible for them to catch up with Eden and Sunuk. A child who trains at a taekwondo gym every day and a child who can use this ability were enough to repel the pursuit of an insane adult man.

As the distance widened, the two let out a sigh of relief. But it can’t stay that way.

“Hey, Eden Choi. Let’s go back and tell the director. Those guys are weird.”

“Probably there won’t be any problems”

“What? Hey, how could you be so indifferent when you almost did something like that?”

“Because I was confident enough to get out of here. And… Those old men will pay the price for their rudeness.”

“What are you talking about?”

If it was usual, people like that would have been dealt with no matter who used their hands. Talk to the members of the Utopia organization secretly guarding Eden, tell the director to call the police, or worst of all, talk to Shion to eliminate the existence itself.

And there were also things that Eden solved on his own. There was a price to pay, but a single curse would put the two of them in a state where they couldn’t even live.

But the reason Eden didn’t do that was because they had already been cursed.

“Do you remember the story the director told you? I heard there’s an abandoned shrine here?”

“Uh, what about it?”

“What did those guys come here for? They must have come to train their courage like us. And unlike us, they probably went to that abandoned shrine.”

The spooky abandoned house is a great courage training ground. Even though it was privately owned, Eden knew very well that there were people who stopped by without even knowing it, because he had experienced it before.

It’s better if you’ve been to such a place and the ghosts have been attached to it. At least ghosts are objects no matter how strong they are.

“They said it was a shrine to honor those who died in the 6.25 War.

“Uh… I don’t know.”

“There was a reason why it had to be that way. For example, the grudges of the dead gathered and became a curse.”

A curse is not something that can only be used by individuals. If a large number of people emit negative thoughts for a single purpose, they become entangled and become a curse.

The abandoned shrine the director said was probably a shrine to seal the curse. And the two unknowing men must have gone all the way to the shrine as a training for courage.

If I touched something wrong… Who would the curse really cling to?

At least, if it was the ghost of a person who died in the Korean War, Ardolpina would have collected it while touring the earth, but something like a curse is out of the question. It was as if they had entered the tiger’s den on their own.

“A curse made from the grudges accumulated by countless people who died in war.

“Hey, why are you suddenly saying that? There are no such things as ghosts!”

“Yes, yes, there are no ghosts. But there are curses.”

Seeing Eden grinning, Soonwook somehow felt a sense of deja vu. As if her nightmares in the lunchroom where she and her first fight are relived.

Her expression was the kind of laugh she laughed at when her opponent fell into the abyss, just like that time.