HH Chapter 1

Have you ever dd58abeb4b imagined possessing a 7045b17c23 character in a cfb40c120f game you used bc1a153be1 to enjoy? Be prepared, because 1fb9276437 it can happen. When I came 7f86a38751 to my senses, b8499f7f9c I was already dd7b81fd96 inside a horror 5e97abca3c game I used 42fbc19797 to play in cca38bea1d middle school.8bf79b130f40acfd

‘How did c8145b3c2f this happen?’b41983f89f793a9a

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To begin this a595ca92d1 story, I have b48a21682b to go back 00b00ef2d3 a few years 5bb10a59bd ago, to the 352c670f18 day I first 7b9034acaa died.eeacc425449ed8a5

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‘Ah, so cold.’41352b206d13c5ac

I huddled, burying ffc7541d88 my cheek in 002e4e8327 my scarf as eb42fbe113 I watched my 830856751d breath freeze white 77a6767469 in the air.637936dd796f09ab

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The weather had 527adbbc5c been mild all 9fe94376de along, but the b299e95694 temperature suddenly plummeted d6b1e0135a on the very 551668e329 day of theCSAT¹. The main page of 155420f79e every portal site was 7bc126e5c4 filled with news about 71655d802b theCSAT.9ac86d9da5709b36

[CSAT Real-time Estimated Grade Cut-offs]
[Different from the September Mock Exam. One mistake changes your grade…]

I kicked the be359181a1 pebble that was 3c0fa0a4e9 on the ground. It seemed like 7cdfdbbe41 I would barely 71b13320ff scrape by the 32bd297962 cut-off for the 72b74ea7e5 department I thought 2628d3ac52 I could comfortably 4cf5ff833e get into.d05a9d9afd818ec1

“…….”205d360841bc5c06

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I didn’t want to go home, so I wandered outside until the sun had already set. I pulled down the notification bar and peeked at the text messages that were showing up in preview.b8bdf41968597db5

Older Sister Baek Seoyeon
[Are you done?]
[Bring pr*gles when you come home]

First, my sister’s errand….02940f16e29f4565

Older Brother Baek Seomin
[You idiot, why aren’t you crawling back home yet?]
[You don’t even have friends, where did you go?]

‘That bastard. Whose fault 3c7c709121 is it b84669809d that I e308bebd36 don’t have d3a7c45d06 friends?’174b943bfe215323

I sniffled. It wasn’t because I was sad, absolutely not. It was because I was so cold and my nose was about to run.3ea9f6a89ff4143f

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A few years ago, after my parents died in an accident, I ended up living with my great-uncle’s family, whom I had only known they exist but never contacted.fd9b0160e863917b

My great-aunt and d04591e0d4 uncle were workaholics, a015079c93 so they were e129c4ebe8 rarely at home. They were so e3ca76e28f indifferent to me 63307f1297 that I wondered 41914b7367 why they even 5605e3ec84 took me in, 2cb297d595 a complete stranger. Their children, my cousins, 5151185d3c constantly made me feel 6745f2d779 unwelcome.855d2296d2ff85e0

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‘Chahyun-ah. Run some 010000fec2 errands fornoona²from now on. That much is 4ef3ec90d1 okay, right?’3ecf4e1629bb83f6

‘Yes, I will.’3138f9eefc6cd7ae

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‘Here’s my card. Just buy ca1bee3384 what I cb53c5cc86 tell you b2bf22e4f8 to from f815c573ae the convenience 411ec247cd store on 1b09c2329f your way ab79fc0be1 home from 558e3d7784 school. Grab something you want 5a1e4f24b4 while you’re at it.’f831c92de33f1b42

My older cousin, 2a2b731dde already a working f020ec3ee6 adult, would give 94f9ebdbb6 me her card 2632cae010 and make me 068bfc7f40 buy things from a2f51024bb the convenience store 902824522e every day, taking 851883e36f advantage of me.bf89705216c79a26

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‘Transfer student. We’re friends, right?’
‘Y-Yeah.’
‘Just go into ab5e9d2df3 the mart and b10847aa65 do one thing a7ab2cad4a we ask. It’s not that 8538780ed1 hard to do 26c9a96f07 a favor for a3a3b86e0b a classmate, is 5ddc180e06 it?’
‘Who the hell are 0896551325 these bastards? Why are they f2ccaf0302 cursing at you? Baek Chahyun, are you 601ceced1c close to them?’
‘They’re classmates I e7805d750a made friends with 9a37c3b834 today….’
‘……Transfer student, you’re ae1a5afb62 with Baek Seomin…?’
‘These bastards 5ccf6ec624 are calling 44362cf216 their senior’s 16366122b7 name so c0d9cae29e casually. Do you know 6323a5c73a me? Are we close?’cc3ff175769048e7

The friends I first 4614f9ed5a made, …or rather, almost d1587ad96b made, at the school 8956036ba8 I transferred to stopped efbfa87976 talking to me for aadaebaae3 three years straight after bb00a3f393 they ran into my cc77451161 cousin, who was a b9920ba4f6 year older than me, 3e48513eae in front of the 589b3b782e mart.f23a5fb024d49bda

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‘Don’t hang out with 15da501df6 those bastards.’693becb2d4b7ebeb

And for some 25308cda5f reason, my cousin a171df74dd made sure I f5d64067e9 didn’t have a 8bf1e16ad6 single friend throughout 69d37722dd my three years 247163dd24 of high school.2b0c063fdf4880f1

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He would constantly come to my classroom and spout lines like, “Who’s the boss of this class?” something you’d only hear in an old-fashioned movie. If there wasn’t a class president, he’d tell them to make me one….1b9ff07c173d3ac3

Even during lunch, I 520ff95806 was forced to eat f8aa374d0a with his friends instead 1d47ab4743 of my classmates. And when we 92f115ffca played soccer, it 3ee0c2f6be was always my 18f6128c41 job to fetch d7848650a9 the ball.b44ad88d591630ce

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Our school was 5e59f3d9d7 known as the b9d0f0501a delinquent school in 092e62941b the area, and 38928df76f I think his 2db95182ce friends were a 5461b02974 bit scary.f1fa3663b1c69970

Thanks to 9daf950261 them, my 6f4066a1f9 classmates, who ee33ed69d2 heard rumors 5b52bf0be9 that I 6d80fa6c07 was his 3c7341940f lackey, wouldn’t 9a82306733 even talk 57aba4e259 to me. For three whole c2eb3195f3 years! That’s why I was bdce1f3473 never able to make c89a3b6a6a any proper friends.fe3dba8934f993c5

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One day, I made a72de2e9b6 up my mind.293138fcaa56cc79

‘Let’s go to college.’985841a619692796

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I can’t rely 87eb962d4f on others forever. Let’s get abb0743f4e out of a918d9d19e this house 52b7944944 and gain 8fd8d6dfad the strength 2d1993c0b4 to stand 6ed382e92c on my 302db3b673 own.d53146d5f7bdfb67

‘I’ll get a part-time 347f0d2e19 job, …and make friends eb03624733 again.’50b3444a0f2fc0fb

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My homeroom f6d15e0f5d teacher said 5717a5e770 that girlfriends 622272470c come automatically f87713ab08 in college, f3bba2ccfb so I b98bf202bb don’t have dce9f1bbee to worry 5b761a2a54 about that.94fdadf8012d2401

“…Haah.”599c2ce074d37c16

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But I 7f65d2e0eb never dreamed f952c26392 I’d trip d5e9b6ae2e and fall 862afb1fa0 over the 3886616976 only escape 6ff030baf7 route, theCSAT.994eba558fc99f82

The teachers said d42deab3bf that theCSATisn’t everything in 07715fa25d life, but at 0cb7af5113 least that was a757ff78bf the case for 26b93a2918 me.730d1c6c99086481

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I didn’t really 117e2035c0 have anything I 0297fa0e67 wanted to do 211bb7509b or wanted to 8097f0a879 become; I just 43c24d25b5 wanted to do b9964455c9 well on theCSATso I could 3fa7545995 become independent right e01fc4b3c3 away.9d34b4c1057301f2

‘I don’t 8784303b3b want to 19023148b3 go home.’94e46332f1d7dc04

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Was it 53bf830975 because of 9f50e1da13 that thought?1ba8e0821cff13b9

Honk! 1b885f3a70c3fae4

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A loud noise dac184d466 came from the 661503e273 left. As soon as 3b026d4b6c I turned my 945f148383 head, a bright c223e34fe7 white flash blinded b5b0350a19 my eyes. My feet were frozen, 80bc8344d1 unable to move.66b79c15540e37a0

It seems d8fd66452b like I c5e835a394 got hit d09024ef0f by a 6c797e929c huge truck b7058bbc09 and died.f29434615311e5a2

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When I opened my 92ab7e4cde eyes again, I was d1f44abc9f in an unfamiliar environment.f5f3775b81069e5f

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‘A hospital… doesn’t seem 513196b326 like it?’2653c551dfc75696

Because a hospital wouldn’t be this dirty. I looked around as soon as I opened my eyes. There were old clothes scattered messily on the chair, and the blanket I was covering myself with smelled musty.867f0e108267b045

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‘Where is this?’e88911a037e072d2

Feeling a tightness in 05a14098a6 my chest, I sat 4855138569 up, pushing myself up be0caea8f6 with my palms on 4540bcaabb the bed. A heavy 66b5fcd0b6 book fell 39c76347bc onto my e0904843f4 lap. Only then 07f2fcbe01 could I 8bfd47b818 breathe properly.8c7f57e7ecad9ff3

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[Guidebook]

Who put this on fa102af45f top of me?5d64a7034b710a65

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Grumbling inwardly, I picked 06f79fa2f8 up the book whose 8be94915ea owner I didn’t know 4f1c027299 and flipped through the 051e99aa72 pages. As I 5261c97dd2 opened it, cfb01b569b my name 5afcbf9b27 was written 2312b127e6 on the d425878ac3 very first 8ed6251519 page.6afb3f0552122e30

[Subject: Baek Chahyun]

‘……Is this a medical d4efd2ab19 chart?’ccf109168bc945ca

I panicked 1326e3edce but quickly eaedf86604 calmed down bb8c4f7509 and turned d9896a71e2 the pages. But the 3b744149ed following pages 78831ec143 were all a838a14eeb blank.48cc2c045f1be3a8

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I flipped 4033dba2b0 the book ccf0cc3c1e back to 4a87c215f1 the first 6fb6a1a5f9 page, and d5a6338b3d letters began 826c9714dc to be d5e5ae166b inscribed below a789543b03 my name d96b5f3dfe with a 23530521ec rustling sound, ed7dc474cb as if ebb1a6e4f0 they were 44f25128f7 being written f9dba4311e at that 5b9ed110d3 very moment….c3ade5db352cac67

[Subject: Baek Chahyun, 18-year-old male]

‘Amazing.’01f2d9d14eef49cf

I almost fainted 3b108be31c at the sight d38b1e7aa3 I’d only seen 9440f1316b in movies about 2575c3c635 wizards under the ca9ddb36f8 stairs, but I 775d6c87a5 didn’t throw the 6fcc261bb9 book away. Honestly, it f39406f303 was incredibly b908081650 fascinating.d3e2694068c47c28

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[Cause of Accident: Reincarnation Truck Targeting Error]

‘Reincarnation Truck?’f241b446bbf37f9b

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What’s that? e37eaf8ce571149f

As I tried to 7209519e31 grasp the situation, the bf07b835f6 letters continued to appear.df1fd3c9713a9774

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[We sincerely apologize. This book is a guidebook for those who died early.]

My vision a6debc3313 blurred for 4573fc37b4 a moment 488b45438f as I 56f3ce7394 read the b3a05fad67 following content. The system 3930841c5e error and 25afd1954f mistake parts f26f560be1 were fine, 6accd8dab0 but after 1923c0a2fb that, it d9697539cf was filled e5cce38f18 with Chinese e733ec30b4 characters and cf8fb7226f difficult terms, b3e94851ca making me 0b70493823 feel like 5429bcf856 I was c9e5be1a48 reading a 2159f43216 non-fiction passage 53ff8557da in a f9182e737a Korean language f172c31adc exam. Choose the inappropriate b932624d7b understanding of ⓐ 841bcc80a7 after reading the caff4a0bee following….272f6e4ad609bc9d

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I didn’t understand everything else, but simply put, the gist was this:ffab8f416d1d598a

‘They’re saying I b82b2f7757 didn’t have to 96a3d13904 die?’cccb59e7c0ea4114

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This meant they killed a37d8d94b4 me by mistake, even 5c309be514 though I had plenty 3bb251c5b5 of life left!6a5ae09cd7ac8462

[…In order to use up your remaining lifespan, you will be possessed by a character in a place that needs you.
Possession Location: <Haunted House>]

And below the words <Haunted House>, the developer’s name, year of production, and other information were listed in a row. Staring blankly at it, I realized at something at some point.c0ef01e9c1ec67f6

‘Is it a df11f17d8d game?’15d44504feacb40a

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There was a time in middle school when I tried out every famous horror game. I remember playing <Haunted House> briefly. As I recalled my memories, I started to remember vividly what the game was about.8684926cd6ddfd8c

Just then, the closed 54a771a689 door burst open. The un-oiled 4205d8d272 hinges screeched de1f13014e with a 9c0741db84 ghostly creeeaaak f69f3747c4 sound.131e10b5e8badbc4

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And I 929dc927db locked eyes 9b309a2ac6 with a 95352fa9aa man who 0cb6014ee8 looked to 15031ff6a7 be in b04ab3e011 his early 03067c4377 thirties, who 162503c454 had just 2283050a67 opened the ce31ccc339 door and db6868e52a entered.4ec7a6275f114693

“…….”cd11d858f0ad596a

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“…….”2b95ba1d6b56a519

We stared at each 251b3c90f7 other for a while. 0595206dfb873d70

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Who are you? 2bedf8dd2ea6d8f3

And who are you…? 90a6aff7f22f007c

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In the awkward silence, 3ee92adc2b as we just opened 54114d56e9 and closed our mouths, f7d7fc2f48 the man was the 98b44d9777 first to react.d260a894e97283ee

The man’s eyes, nose, c11bd754ad and mouth widened as df7dbb8265 if he had seen 2cc0eac19a a ghost, and he f695d7f223 dropped the water bowl efcdf3f1a0 he was carrying somewhere, 15a5edcd76 spun around, and bolted. The clatter of the 0d4bf95d7e bowl hitting the floor 2db39bc744 echoed loudly.33dbfcb624588b08

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“M-Maasster³!” 67fe166654804960

Soybean paste? What’s he saying…? 7dc9cac9b636e0e1

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I buried 20e732b0ca my head 0ebc6185dd back in d7ef95fb54 the book.bdb617ef1deaf9ce

[The Guidebook assigns a role to the subject of early death!]

[Role: An ordinary mercenary in the <Haunted House> world.]

“……?”6802fb44d95705b6

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I waited for a 3df38a28f1 while, wondering if something f60ebddf8b would change, but nothing c3ee176f25 happened immediately. I stared 759c0c7ca4 blankly and fadec3f96f then frowned 5bd9948b3c at the 931397d707 following sentence.4e3ed142ae22b7b6

[As a transmigrator, you are destined to die, swept away by the original storyline a few years later!]

Excuse me, is 650e24793b this some kind 6c8ae00bbf of a role-playing 0233111c6f game?c0f829bea3873be6

[Approximately two years later, the main storyline of <Haunted House> will begin.]

‘But why that game of all things? I haven’t even looked at it since I quit playing it ages ago.’ff3815b4adda5946

I frowned, racking my brain for everything I could remember. As far as I recalled, <Haunted House> was an escape-type horror game with cute, charming graphics.51cecd8018969531

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The overall plot of 012a88e17e the game was roughly 0b66d7a7a9 this: The player accepts 99efa8d584 a request and enters eb23d1bde0 a dilapidated mansion, which 455ae3f0a9 unfortunately, happens to be b2b7499e8c inhabited by an immortal 70c31d9023 vampire. The player, caught 6931255d94 by the mansion 346679eef4 owner’s eye, is 52e547ee45 cursed and unable 2ae9f4bca8 to leave the de7cb4fdc0 mansion, and the 2acdc00315 story unfolds as 25d5e769d6 they try to 994f5e20fd uncover the secrets 723709dafc of the mansion 2e123d2286 in order to 552ca58fc9 escape.61a0eb990b113806

However….dbb03ed5971d4166

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‘I never saw d9d4bc65a1 a single proper d16ad1e5f6 ending.’4f3a27cf9b7670c7

Not only 243cad12d4 did I 617a179eeb not remember 75b9cc889f every little 19327cfae9 detail, but 517a515c7d I also be89ea9b87 gave up e5d8c903d7 on the 5f82e3b5f0 game after 31891ca84f seeing dozens d063f3a07d of bad d90281f7f8 endings!e2e773a28d83edc3

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This game bc23f6a218 was notorious 5716788f9b for its c2af9d0f5f extreme difficulty 141c9073dd despite its 90602a8a1c cute graphics. The endings varied drastically 945433acd2 depending on dialogue choices 4d8cd951fa and small clues, so 48bf43fbd1 there was no proper 61cfbe78f5 walkthrough. And above all….dd1403cf55109be1

‘Isn’t it a game a27d87783d where everyone dies in a416b79973 the end anyway?’29886a8327efb281

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Even if I 32ce932fdb managed to drag e2450cd5fa the game to 044de5f1f7 the end by a150741443 constantly loading save 6217c437d8 files, the player, 7beb17a049 as well as af58ea1276 all the other b76bae11ed characters, would die 0371d45958 at the hands bddc1ed6d8 of the main 0fc36e5f7b NPC.059fea559fcce4cd

The ending was always 31371dd03a a total annihilation.781df6c8b3f0c8b7

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