"Let's look around." Moonbyul grabbed Jihyeon's hand excitedly, entering the museum. She seems to be mesmerizes by everything there, gasping in awe. Meanwhile, Jihyeon smiles at her friend's attitude. Moonbyul is always the type that's excited in everything she does and it's quite the opposite for her best friend, Jihyeon. She's rather be calm about everything.
"It's fun, right? Everything in here is interesting." Moonbyul exclaims. "Even the wall is interesting for you, Moonbyul." Jihyeon replied sarcastically. "The ceiling is much more interesting than you." Moonbyul fired back. Jihyeon rolled her eyes. The girl decided to look around, leaving her best friend alone there as her eyes caught something interesting.
A house replica. More like a mansion. 'The household of Kim's family." She muttered. In the moment, she can hear a voice, calling for her softly. 'Jihyeon'. The girl looked around, maybe Moonbyul is playing with her. She wipes all those nonsense thoughts away. "Museum is filled with old stuff, so, it can be haunted." She says to herself.
'Jihyeon'
"Am I being delusional?" she muttered. "No, I'm definitely not." She shook her head.
'Jihyeon'
"Moonbyul! Stop this at once!" she shouts as she looked around, the whole room is completely empty. Yes, there's only a few people there when she and Moonbyul entered the room. Lots of house replicas are shown in the room. She realized that her dearest best friend already leaving her alone there. Jihyeon immediately walked out of the room.
'Jihyeon'
That voice called again. Jihyeon takes a deep breath. "Nothing is going to happen." She calms herself down.
'Jihyeon'
Without her knowing, she followed where the voice, searching for where it come from. Hearing voices and follows it is not the best ideas but of course Jihyeon being Jihyeon, her curiosity dragged her feet to follow that mysterious, anonymous, soft voice. She looks around, and the path where she goes is likely empty. Only a few people passed by.
She followed the voice until she arrived at a room, painted in all white. A few pictures are hanged on the wall with few decorations. There's also the mansion replica that she saw just now also there. She also saw a shovel, being kept in a glass box. 'Why are they putting a shovel here' she asked herself.
Her eyes widened as she sees a boy seemed like in her age is hanged in lay position. "Wait, is he is an actual human?" she questioned herself, approaching him. 'There's no glasses surrounding him if he is a mannequin or something'. She thoughts.
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She held her hand out to reach for him and her movement being stopped, she feels someone gripped their hand on her shoulder. She gasped in shocked. "I've been looking for you everywhere." Moonbyul exclaims as Jihyeon stuttered due to the surprised her friend gave her. "You almost give me a heart attack!" she huffed.
"You know you can't touch the mannequin didn't you?" Moonbyul says. "W-what?" Jihyeon asked. "It's written there, Kim Jihyeon. 'DO NOT TOUCH THE MANNEQUIN'" Moonbyul pointed at a notice board nearby them. "Oh, I didn't see that." She shrugged. "What are you thinking huh? Do you think he's an actual human?" her friend asked.
"Yes, I did." Jihyeon nods, still eyeing the mannequin. "This mannequin has a very intriguing story behind it. All of the stuff in here are all related at how this mannequin was made." Moonbyul explains. "Including the shovel?" Jihyeon pointed at the shovel in the glass box. "Yes." The blonde haired girl nods. "What happened?" Jihyeon furrowed her eyebrows.
"This boy. He was murdered at the age of 18 by his own father. His father is a shoemaker but also an artist. It says that after he killed his son, he sculptured his own son and make this mannequin." Moonbyul pointed at the hanging mannequin. "Then what?" Jihyeon asked.
"They says that his soul is trapped inside of the mannequin. That's what made it scary. Some of the museum worker sometimes heard crying voice of a boy asking for help." Moonbyul tells, making Jihyeon froze. She shuddered in fear when she thinks of that voices who called for her just now. 'Is it him who called for me?'
"W-why did his father murdered him?" her voice faltered, gulping. "He happened to fall in love with a noble girl and his father doesn't like the idea, his father is quiet possessive of him but also a very abusive man. Whenever, he knows there's a girl showing interest at his son, he will abuse his son." Moonbyul states.
"He's mental!" Jihyeon exclaims. "Yes. He is." The girl nods. "What his name anyway?" Jihyeon asked. "Not stated in the diary of his father. Whenever he abused his son, he will write it in a notebook about what he did including making a mannequin out of his son but he never mentioned the son's name." Moonbyul brings Jihyeon to a book that is being put in a glass box.
"The mannequin is a work of art. It says that, his skin felt like the real human skin when it's been touched. He's like a real human but he's a mannequin." The girl crossed her arms. "There's also rumor saying that the mannequin is him, the son. But, it impossible. Because it's been thousands of years. How can he be so mortal? It's nonsense." Moonbyul chuckles.
"What if it's true then?" Jihyeon asked. "Don't believe such nonsense." Moonbyul shook her head. "Why didn't they put glasses to prevent people from touching the mannequin?" the girl asked. "Because, every time they put it there, the glass broke as if he didn't want to be kept in the glass." Moonbyul explains.
"This place is horror." Jihyeon scoffed. "That is the reason why only a few visitors come into this room." her friend replied. "How did you know his story that much?" the girl asked. "I'm interested in everything, remember?" Moonbyul replied sarcastically. "Fine." Jihyeon rolled her eyes.
"Why are you coming here anyway?" Moonbyul asked. "Nothing. I kind of heard voices calling me here." Jihyeon says honestly and nonchalantly. "You hear voices?" Moonbyul looks at her firmly. The girl nods curtly. "What does it says?" her friend asked. "It's kind of calling my name." Jihyeon replied, hearing those makes Moonbyul's eyes widened.
