𝓭𝓸 𝓪𝓷𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾 - 𝓵𝓮𝓮 𝓮𝓾𝓷𝓱𝔂𝓾𝓴

𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓹𝓽𝓮𝓻 7

         "Who are you?" the boy questioned. "I am Kim Areum, a resident; we came up here to get residents who have not been able to come down yet since they are most likely scared to leave the house, but I'm here to bring you down the lobby, which is definitely much safer there," I responded. "What do you mean by 'we'? You're here alone..... DON'T TELL ME YOU CAN SEE GHOST!" he exclaimed. "No, don't worry, I am definitely not able to see ghosts, but I said we because my boyfriend came up to bring residents down, but we had split so we could locate people faster," I responded."then aren't you supposed to say I since he is not here with you?" he questioned."uhm right yep my bad." I responded I eventually learned that his name was Cha Hyun-su. "Have we met before? You seem familiar, and I believe I may have heard your name once."Yeah, you saw me on the rooftop, but I'm not sure whether you have heard my name before. I don't remember introducing myself; you were teaching your 'sister' on the rooftop, right? how to dance successfully." "Right, the boy that was so close to jumping off the rooftop." I reflected in my head. "Not my sister, but yeah, that was me. Apologies, I'm forgetful sometimes." I responded. "Oh, it's okay, don't worry," he reassured me. "Uhm, yeah, right, use this to protect you while we find other residents." I handed him a knife, and together we walked out of the apartment.

     Moving on to the next level, we saw 2 men, one with a bruised eye, and a woman together, and it appeared like 1 of the men was cleaning his slasher with a cloth that had several blood stains on it. Perhaps this is why the monster I encountered earlier had his head slashed in half. "Wake up, Areum. This is not the moment to be thinking about that." As I approached them, I noticed that the walkie-talkie that Eun-hyuk had given me earlier started to make noise. I grabbed it up from my pocket and asked him if he was alright. "Yeah, I'm fine. I wanted to check on you since I had just encountered a monster. That was the most disgusting thing that I had ever seen in my whole entire life; it had the head slashed in half." Speaking into the walkie-talkie, he said."Oh, you saw that monster, me too. I'm currently fine; have you found any residents yet? I have found 4; I'm heading to the other 3; now I have 1 beside me." I responded via walkie-talkie. "Yeah, I have found two kids and a woman; the kids are siblings. I will be going down soon. You should too. I don't think there are any more other residents." I was told by Eun-hyuk."Yeah, sure, let me just talk to them first, and I will go down soon." I answered back.

    "Hey, yeah, most of the residents are downstairs. Would you mind following us so we can guarantee that you guys will be saved?" I said to the other three residents. They gave me a nod in return and followed after me down the stairs. But as we were leaving, we noticed the man mumbling to himself while standing at the corner of the wall. I approached him and asked how he was right and if he could come with us to the lobby level. As soon as the guy turned to face us, my face went pale. I was unable to move, but it was getting closer when someone suddenly pulled me back and covered my eyes. After a minute or two of hearing slashing sounds, the person who pulled me back stopped covering my eyes, and I saw what had happened. I turned to thank the person who had saved me after the guy with the slasher slashed the monster, but it was Eun-hyuk that had grabbed me back. Returning to my awareness, I gave him a hug right away, as I was afraid for my life and knew that I would have died soon enough if he reached the same set of stairs as me.

   I released my hug from him, and we headed down together. Eun-hyuk held my hand and questioned about my well-being and the things that had happened. After answering all of his questions, we eventually arrived at the lobby. I went up to the three individuals I had just come across at the staircase and introduced myself, as I hadn't had a chance to do so before. "I'm Kim Areum, and this is Lee Eun-hyuk, my boyfriend." I introduced Eun-hyuk and myself. I nodded in agreement as he said, "Oh, good to know, I'm Jung Jae-heon. This is Choi Yoon-jae, and that is Yoon Ji-soo." He replied to my introduction, "Alright, I will take note of your names; see you guys next time." and walked toward the control room with Eun-hyuk.

     After returning to the control room to build our air mattress, Eun-yu went to bed first, leaving me and Eun-hyuk to continue discussing what we could do. Unaware that I was fast asleep on the desk, Eun-hyuk kept talking to me until I stopped responding. Upon realizing that I was dozing off, he carried me to the air mattress and took a nap next to me. When I woke up early in the morning, around eight, I saw Eun-hyuk at his desk, and Eun-yu had most likely left the control room to find something to do. After staring at Eun-hyuk for a while, I heard him sigh and was about to pull out his hair. I approached him and asked him, barely awake, what was wrong and why he sounded so anxious. He signalled for me to sit on his lap, so I did. He hugged me from behind, snuggled into a cozy spot on my shoulder, and started making kiss spots on my neck. He eventually stopped and responded to my question about the why. I turned to face him and advised him not to put too much pressure on himself, as it would not be good. "But if I don't do all this, how are the residents going to survive? I don't want to lose anyone, although they might not be my family. I don't like to lose people." He responded.

Author note

Hey guys for the ending do you guys want a monsterization ending or a romantic happy ending? Comment down on what you guys want I'm just asking the story is not coming to an end soon just asking so I can start thinking of what the ending could be about. Please comment if not I have to pick one myself and I can't decide.