Afternoon, September 6
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[Chat] Just saw something really weird;
Yeon | 20xx. 09. 06. (12:06)
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There’s a really, really handsome Assistant Manager at my company, okay? If he’d been on Produce 101, he’d have been my number-one pick. He’s tall, his proportions are amazing, and honestly he looks more like an actor than an idol lol. I heard when he first joined the company everyone completely lost their minds.
He’s seriously so handsome people keep asking why he’s working here instead of being in the entertainment industry; at first I wondered the same thing, but now I’m glad he’s here. After spending all day listening to the bullshit that comes out of our asshole Team Leader’s mouth while looking at his face that resembles a punched-up dumpling, seeing Assistant Manager’s handsome face and hearing his gentle voice feels like visiting an art museum and going to a concert. It’s honestly an employee benefit. Ah, I was gonna keep this short, but it got long. Anyway, that’s not the important part.
Apparently he went through some pretty awful things last year… I don’t know all the details either; and it’s not really something I should talk about here… But the rumors about him kept getting worse, and the guys who’d always secretly been jealous of him started quietly ostracizing him too.ㅠ He gradually looked worse and worse… He honestly seemed like someone hanging by a thread.
And the day before yesterday, I think? He called in sick, but I can’t say exactly what happened because it’d identify who I am. Anyway, it ended up fueling all those nasty rumors….
When he came to work the next day, he looked absolutely terrible, and those pieces of trash who aren’t even fit for the recycling bin were laughing about our precious Assistant Manager. ㅠㅠㅠㅠ They were saying stuff like, “At this rate he’ll stop coming to work, and when someone goes looking for him they’ll find him hanging dead,” and cackling about it. Assistant Manager unfortunately overheard them, so there was a bit of a commotion….
Today his complexion looked even worse.
ㅠㅠ It kept bothering me, so earlier I went over and asked if he wanted to have lunch together, and, well…
He was just sitting there absentmindedly fiddling with the dark screen of his phone. ㅠㅠ So I asked if he was okay, and he said he was. Then I asked if he wanted to go eat, and after a slight delay he nodded and said okay.
But when he stood up from his chair, he fell over.
He looked like he’d really hurt himself, and I seriously freaked out too, so I instinctively dropped to one knee to check on him, asking, “Are you okay?”
And then…
There was an arm under the desk.
A human arm…
It was deathly pale, and its hand was gripping Assistant Manager’s pant leg tightly.
That arm had grabbed him and made him fall…
Without thinking I screamed, “Aaah!” and fell over too.
So then…ㅠㅠㅠ I could see completely underneath the desk.
You know how office desks have those modesty panels around where your legs go? There’s always that little gap between the desktop and the panel.
The arm was reaching out through that….
That gap was only about… maybe three fingers wide?
There is absolutely no way a human arm could fit through something that narrow…
But only that part of the arm had become as thin as a sheet of paper.
I don’t know. It was like the physics engine had glitched or something. It looked incredibly strange.
And beside the arm…
There was something black.
I was thinking, What is that?
Ah…
I should’ve just looked somewhere else.
I should’ve turned my eyes away immediately.
But then…
It spun around a full 180 degrees in an instant…
And our eyes met.
The black thing I’d seen…
It was someone’s hair.
Well… probably not a person, actually.
The whites of its eyes were completely blood-red, and as its eyes narrowed into crescent shapes, it grinned at me.
At that exact moment, Assistant Manager suddenly shot to his feet and ran out of the office.
There wasn’t even time to call after him.
Startled, I looked toward him, and then when I looked back…
The thing I’d just seen was gone.
But…
That arm…
It had been soaking wet.
When I looked at where the arm had been, the floor was damp like someone had spilled water there, and there was this fishy, watery smell. ㅠ
I checked around Assistant Manager’s desk too, and it was wet as well.
I got so scared that I ran straight out and came to the cafeteria, but I have no idea how I’m supposed to go back in later.
I heard from someone in another department that Assistant Manager didn’t even take the elevator—he ran all the way down the stairs. We’re on a really high floor too.;; It didn’t look like he was running away exactly…
It looked like he had something genuinely serious happening and had to run.
What was it?
Was he possessed?
That can’t be it…
Hmm….
I don’t know how to end this post.
I’m probably either writing this in a dream…
Or maybe I was just exhausted and hallucinated, right??
I should probably go get one of those garlic injections. ㅠ
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Comments
(12:10)
?? Please post this on the Horror/Mystery Board.
Yeon (12:11)
ㅠㅠ But if I post it there, it’ll feel like I’m admitting I really did see something supernatural.
(12:12)
Because you obviously did.
(12:13)
Seriously, that’s exactly what it sounds like.
Yeon (12:14)
Aaaah.
(12:15)
Do ghosts come out during the day too?
(12:16)
Why are you scaring people in broad daylight? ㅠ
(12:20)
Come to think of it, why do they only come out at night?
(12:24)
Trying to earn overtime pay?
(12:29)
Maybe nighttime is just regular office hours for ghosts. They clock out before the rooster crows at dawn.
(12:34)
Meanwhile I can’t even get off work after the rooster crows. lol I’m jealous of ghosts—they actually get to leave work on time~
(12:35)
By the way, just how handsome is this Assistant Manager? You say you saw a ghost, but you spent way more time describing how handsome he is.
Yeon (12:48)
I’m telling you, he’s unbelievably handsome. I honestly thought, So this is what celebrities look like. Of course, Assistant Manager’s just an ordinary person… His face literally saved my life….
Seeing him every day made my ex start looking like a squid every time he smirked, so I dumped him. When we were dating, I squeezed every last drop convincing myself he was pretty handsome, but looking back, he was just kind of… average-looking. And then during the breakup I found out he was a complete garbage boyfriend too. If we hadn’t broken up, we would’ve probably started talking about marriage. I seriously would’ve cried tears of blood.
(12:52)
Assistant Manager saved a life.
(12:55)
See? A man has to be handsome.
Ugly men are good for nothing.
(13:00)
You were terrified a minute ago and now you’ve recovered already? LMAOOOOOOOOO
Yeon (13:05)
I called my mom right before lunch break ended. I told her I thought I’d seen a hallucination, and she said she’d send me some herbal medicine.
Yeon (13:12)
But Assistant Manager still hasn’t come back. Where did he go…;;
(14:22)
Looks like he’s mixed up in something dangerous. Why are you going out of your way to be nice to him?
Just leave him alone. He’s better off if nobody gets involved.
Yeon (18:11)
What the hell is wrong with you. ㅗ
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— September 6 —
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—What are you doing?
—You can’t even keep track of a single ordinary person? (13:12)
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I’m sorry.
From what I’ve heard, once he realized he was about to be caught, he pushed himself recklessly—jumping down from the second floor and doing all sorts of dangerous things. (13:14)
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—I told you to be prepared for unexpected situations.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Ah, I just saw something really weird;
There’s a reservoir in my neighborhood…
About 15 years ago, I think?
When I was little, a high school boy committed suicide there, and it caused a huge uproar.
Ever since then, nobody really goes there anymore.
Even though people stopped going there… (continued in thread)
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
There’ve been a lot of traffic accidents around there, and even a murder happened nearby.
My grandpa said it was already considered an ominous place back when he was young.
That’s why people don’t really come here, but I don’t believe in superstitions, so I ride my bike there and use it as a resting spot.
It’s quiet, comfortable, and there aren’t any people around. Of course, if someone else shows up, it feels suspicious, so I just hop back on my bike and leave.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
So today I rode my bike there like usual and was taking a break.
Then all of a sudden, about five black cars drove in.
The road’s really narrow too. I was like, What’s going on? Then a whole bunch of men in suits got out.;
One of them came over and kept asking if I was planning to stay there.
LOL. Basically telling me to leave. LOL.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Like they’d rented out the whole place or something? I was so dumbfounded that I said I wasn’t leaving.
But there were several grown men, so I started feeling uneasy.
Something about the whole situation gave me a really bad feeling, so I was just about to get up.
Then suddenly another car came tearing in, driving like an absolute maniac.;
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
I was thinking, What kind of lunatic drives like that?
Then a guy got out.
I was watching, thinking, This is why men shouldn’t be allowed behind the wheel. ㅠ
But then…
He was ridiculously handsome.
I froze for a second from how surprised I was.
Then, as soon as he got out of the car…
He dove straight into the reservoir.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
I was shocked, and so were all those huge guys in suits.;
I have no idea why he jumped into the reservoir.
It didn’t feel like he was trying to kill himself.
He looked more like someone who was being chased.;
The big guys must’ve been there looking for him, because they immediately pulled him out and tried to help him.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
But the guy…
He was only tall—he was actually pretty skinny—but I have no idea where all that strength came from.
He shoved the big guys away and tried to jump back into the water again.
The whole place was complete chaos, and I was standing there holding my phone, wondering if I should call the police….
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Then after about five minutes?
Another imported car pulled in, and another man got out.
That man walked over to the guy who’d been struggling…
And hugged him tightly.
The guy who’d been thrashing around calmed down almost miraculously as soon as that happened.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Then the two of them got into a car and drove away…
Everything had been so chaotic that I guess they’d completely forgotten about me.
So I got back on my bike and went home too.
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Both of them were insanely handsome, but the guy who showed up later was kind of… ㅠ
He had a huge tattoo covering his arm, and he was just wearing a plain T-shirt, but he was really built.;
I wondered if he might’ve been a gangster…
Or maybe he’d come to catch the other guy after he escaped.
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Gugu
Gugu @99sla**
So… which one’s the seme??
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
LOL I’m serious, though. LOLLLLLLLLLL
I never said it was a made-up story. ㅠ
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Gugu
Gugu Meme @99sla**
ㅠㅠ But, Black Sugar, you never call real-life men handsome…..
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
I don’t know.
Maybe I dreamed the whole thing.
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Sero
[R19] Sero / Advance Payment Until 9.10
I know exactly what this is.
The guy who jumped into the lake is an Esper, and the guy who arrived in the car is his Guide. LOL
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
LOL Okay, that’s actually pretty convincing??
Please draw this Guideverse AU for me. ㅠ
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Sero
[R19] Sero / Advance Payment Until 9.10
I’m busy working on a manuscript. ㅠ I’ll miss my deadline…
But look at this instead.
(Link.)
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Aaaah, put away my fanwork!!
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Sero
[R19] Sero / Advance Payment Until 9.10
LOL Honestly, after seeing that, I was even more convinced your post was just a story.
I thought you’d written a continuation….
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Black Sugar
Black Sugar Shabu-Shabu @BSooo**
Holy shit, LOL. Now that you mention it, you’re right.
But I’m seriously telling the truth. ㅠ
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