I would ask him for necessary information after returning back in time. However, to do that, I had to get out of the current predicament first.
I should try to figure out what occurred that landed me in such a situation.
One of them was when and how the members died.
I couldn't bring myself to wander around in the dark amidst the corpses lying everywhere, but I had to...
Besides the corpse lying in front of me right now, the rest of the members were probably lying dead somewhere in this room.
Gyeongwon, Hayoon, Jinhee, the members who played the Corner Game with me in the clubroom.
And me.
My intuition was telling me that I was the only one alive.
'When, why on earth…'
I slowly began to trace back on the things we did when we first started playing the Corner Game.
Hayoon was probably the one who moved silently at first.
The next careless step seemed to be Jinhee.
The person who hit my shoulder after that was clearly Gyeongwon. As I thought back, thinking how they could be killed.
Everyone should have been alive before it was my turn to change corners.
They could have definitely not died before that.
And after arriving at the last corner, I decided to move to Hayoon's corner to surprise her.
'...Everyone died in that short period of time?'
Beheaded?
It only took me a few seconds to arrive at the corner where Hayoon was staying.
What on earth happened in that short period of time?
Who and how did they cut off the heads of three people in this pitch-black darkness so easily and swiftly, without making a single sound?
"The head of a woman floated in the darkness, giggling at her poor prey. The head of a woman floated in the darkness, giggling at her poor prey."
In the pitch black darkness where nothing could be heard except the beating of my heart, the sound of a little girl's voice rhyming in a sing-song voice was heard all of a sudden.
F*ck, f*ck. What the hell was that?
"Huuuh, huuuh."
Without a second thought, I stood up and began to frantically walk away from the voice, leaning my weight against the wall.
"The head of a woman floated in the darkness, giggling at her poor prey as she chased him around."
"Huuuh, huuuh."
However, the voice, like the call of death, followed me from behind in the darkness.
I was in a state of panic, and all I could think was getting away from that voice anyhow.
However, even after running through the darkness for a long while.
I didn't stumble upon any corners.
No, it wasn't that the corners evaporated in thin air and I couldn't find them.
But rather, I wasn't standing on the ground anymore, leaning against the wall.
Before I could comprehend what was happening, I started losing all feelings below my neck.
My attempt to escape, wanting to run away was merely my illusion and nothing else.
'My head is severed.'
Just as the thought entered my mind, I felt my vision turning fuzzy.
It was because my head, which had been severed from my body, fell from the air where it was hovering and began rolling around on the floor.
Thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud, thud!
At the same time, the sound of someone running around the dark clubroom entered my ears.
While my head bounced around like a rubber ball, that footsteps pounded in the darkness frantically, like a lost person desperately searching for a way out.
"I, Lee Joon, President of the Ghost Story Club, had my head severed by a female head ghost. And my headless body was occupied."
With the woman's head resting on my severed body, it ran around the clubroom frantically. That voice singing the eerie melody was using my own vocal cord and muttering a ghostly message.
And that was the only thing that entered my fuzzy hearing before I lost all consciousness.
[You are dead.]
[You'll start again from the previous checkpoint.]
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Perhaps It was the first and only time when I was so ecstatic hearing the system delivering the message of my death.