Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work Novel (End Part 1) - Chapter 182

Light bloomed in the Flower Golden Resort’s night garden.

Whoosh.

A streak of light soared into the sky and burst spectacularly, pouring sparkling light down onto the resort building like a waterfall.

Wow!

Colorful flowers of light bloomed throughout the garden, swaying as if dancing, and fully opening at different times. Luminous flowers held up by non-human guests also lit up, eliciting gasps of awe.

The scenery was so enchanting it was eerie.

And then, light also bloomed from the resort building.

The light, forming vine-like shapes and soaring upwards, glittered through windows and terraces, rising to the very top of the resort building and scattering light like pollen.

Letters appeared, cutting through the air.

FLOWER GOLDEN

Finally, he stepped forward.

The owner of this resort.

The yellow mascot walked out to the center of the garden with countless other mascots, performing a rhythmic dance, and with each movement, the light also danced.

The theme song of the cheerful theme park played.

-♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

At the same time, the sound of the same song, varied and echoing from all directions, was faintly heard.

Sounds from afar.

“……”

Hyunmoo Team 3 Leader glanced with her eyes.

Red Zone and Blue Zone.

Their own ceremony events were also underway in other zones.

Fireworks in the blue zone, and….

-Hahahaha!

A parade in the red zone.

The madly painful, cheerful, horrifying, and spectacular procession led by the Magic Bunny started from the Magic Palace in the center of the red zone, leading to noisy music, screams, and cheers.

The distance was quite far, so the detailed scenery couldn’t be known, but the team leader estimated the parade’s route.

And she intuitively knew.

The destination is here.

It definitely wasn’t yesterday. But the route had changed.

The moment this ceremony ends, that parade will also stop at the red gate in front of the garden.

And the moment business closes….

“It’ll probably just come over with the parade.”

“…!”

“Oops, sorry. Did I surprise you?”

Did they make a similar guess?

The team leader quietly watched the dolphin-masked employee bowing to her, then nodded.

She wasn’t at a rank fiery enough to openly express her aversion to a cult-like pharmaceutical company.

Besides, she had just seen a peculiar skirmish.

-I’m

leaving you behind.

-No, I don’t want to.

-It doesn’t seem okay.

Right before the event, the yellow mascot made all the employees retreat from the garden and gather in front of the resort.

As if protecting them from something.

Thanks to this, the employees were watching the illumination from a distance, as far away as the resort building.

Yet, seeing the Hyunmoo team agents almost entranced, she realized the strangeness of the ‘Mascot Ceremony’.

And if her eyes weren’t mistaken….

That dolphin employee tried to help the mascot who was protecting the employees, in reverse.

‘……’

Younger agents often equate the nature of an unethical group with the character of its individual members, but reality is not that simple.

The same goes for creatures in ghost stories.

That’s what makes it even more headache-inducing….

‘Phew.’

She shook off her thoughts.

Because there was work to be done.

And anyway, it was time to put it into action now.

Whoa!

At the climax of the illumination, as the yellow mascot stood in the center, its horns glowed with bright golden light as if burning, and flowers bloomed in full.

Suddenly, the yellow mascot turned this way, and as if staged, raised its paw and waved to them in the distance.

A will conveyed without words.

Go now.

“…Now!”

At that signal, the employees started running like mad.

Their destination was the gate to the blue zone.

And a moment later.

The ground next to the gate began to shake and rise.

The illumination rushed towards its climax.

Light gathered at the feet of the yellow mascot standing in the center of the garden, lifting it into the air.

Drumroll.

Ohhhhh!

Light grew from the yellow mascot’s horns, swaying like a giant tree large enough to cover the resort building.

Breathtakingly blooming flowers.

And the moment the mascot raised its hand to the conclusion of the music.

Aaaaaaah!

Its name burst into light in the air, achieving complete recognition.

Flower Golden.

Owner of the Yellow Zone of the Cheerful Theme Park.

Everyone knew. It was proclaimed to everyone.

Congratulations. He was now the perfect mascot of this place.

And the yellow mascot received an enormous new sensation.

‘…!’

It sensed the entire Yellow Zone.

He could know what was happening in his resort zone, could control all mascots like himself, and understood all the laws and ■■ of this Cheerful Theme Park!

Now he was the complete owner of the zone, the mascot!

Aaaaaah!

An instinctive thrill maximized the splendor of the illumination, and once again, brilliant golden flowers burst throughout the garden, concluding the ceremony.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah!

However, in the meantime.

Something also appeared beyond the red gate.

The Parade of Madness.

The end of the Magic Bunny’s grotesque, overwhelming, and spectacular procession.

[Great Magic Bunny!]

The red rabbit and carriage, the gigantic face-shaped balloon, and all sorts of mobile parade floats, having finished their final sacrificial event, stopped in front of the gate.

And as if confronting the illumination, their lights flickered crazily… then went out.

At the same time, the illumination’s spectacular wave of light also calmed down to its final ecstasy.

The End.

What flowed was….

-♩♪♬♬~♩♬♬~♩♪♪

The ending song.

A warmly varied version of the theme song began to play.

Closing time was near.

-Announcement: Our theme park will close in 10 minutes….

The quiet garden.

Guests who had enjoyed the illumination began to disperse. They busily moved towards the exit gate.

In an instant, the zone regained a bustling tranquility.

End of business hours.

The yellow mascots tidied up the night garden, kindly guided guests, and managed the resort facilities.

No movement was observed beyond the dark red gate.

The yellow mascots lightly celebrated today’s event, checking if there were any remaining guests in the lobby.

No movement was observed beyond the dark red gate.

The quiet resort building, where only a soft, bright light faintly shone through the lobby’s glass windows. Inside, the yellow mascots waved to guests exiting through the departure gate.

No movement was observed beyond the dark red gate.

And the lobby door closed.

Thud.

-See you next time~

…….

…….

…….

Beyond the dark red gate.

Countless red eyes began to emerge.

The Magic Bunny parade cluster passed directly through the gate.

Thump-thump-thump.

The sound of guests’ corpses and living things, used as mats so the carriage wouldn’t get stuck in the gate, being crushed. The gate turned red.

The carriage rolled. A quaint melody chimed from the music box attached to its wheels. To that sound, things wearing Magic Bunny masks staggered and marched into the resort.

The masked figures melted oozily.

In a time no longer meant for mascots, the red mascots shed their forms to cross into another zone.

Things that transcended the rules and regulations that no longer needed to be kept now that business hours were over.

Aaaaaah!

The bipedal red masses connected to each other like veins, and the parade’s exterior transformed into something bizarre that could no longer be concealed by the theme park’s illusion.

Still, the parade continued.

With the sound of the music box, they trampled into the yellow zone’s garden and encircled the resort building with the parade cluster.

And drawing strange, increasingly tighter circles, they slowly approached the resort.

Closer.

Even closer.

As if pressing in.

The yellow mascots watching from inside the lobby took a defensive stance and looked at them.

Getting closer.

3.

2.

1.

Aaaaaah!

The lobby’s glass window shattered, and the parade poured into the resort building.

Chaos.

Killing intent and destructive urges erupted without the mascots’ filter, and dozens of yellow mascots were captured and massacred.

Occasionally, one or two yellow mascots resisted or tried to retaliate, clinging en masse to an attacker, but only for a moment.

Soon they were torn in two as if in jest, scattering cotton and ceasing to function.

Mascots falling from the resort building’s roof, mascots with their heads bursting, mascots nailed into the freezer.

A brutal, horrifying, and breathtaking sight.

Magic Bunny’s occupation!

Magic Bunny’s great power!

Thump-thump-thump!

From that scene, one yellow mascot frantically fled.

The mascot with the flamboyant horns.

The very same entity that had conducted the illumination today.

The main body.

Hahahaha!

Magic Bunny’s decorative fireworks exploded with laughter. The bursting sparks burned the fleeing mascot’s leg.

Finally, the leading parade carriage rushed down the narrow path, chasing after the fallen mascot crawling away, leaving cotton behind.

To the facility office.

Click!

The yellow mascot, having entered the space for yellow zone personnel only, barely managed to lock the door before the carriage could enter.

Boom!!

The enormous front decoration of the carriage tore through the door and burst in.

The colorful, light-bulb-decorated carriage that had led the parade.

The iconic Magic Bunny’s vehicle.

The giant, smiling red face decoration attached to its front split open.

Thump-thump-thump!

The decoration’s eyes were pierced, its mouth burst open, and from within the scattering dust, a presence finally flowed out.

Aaaaaah!

Magic Bunny’s main body.

Something that had been digested by the red mascot.

A strange mass, having lost all vestiges of its former non-mascot form, spilled out of the carriage.

Like trophies, various body parts, attached as if substitutes, were scattered here and there.

Countless eyes and ears, and limbs.

Aaaaaah!

It trembled with joy and approached the yellow mascot.

Slowly, slowly.

Joyful!

Raw hunt. Raw joy!

Revenge and liberation!

The fun of usurpation!

The yellow mascot, its leg ruined and spilling cotton, could not escape.

It just looked up at the terrifying and overwhelming thing, then….

Opened its mouth.

Idiot.

At that moment.

Boom!!

With a tremendous roar, the ceiling of the facility office collapsed.

The unmasked red mascot tried to swallow the yellow mascot’s head regardless, but it wasn’t just the ceiling that collapsed.

Bang! Crash-crash-crash-crash!

With a bursting sound, the resort was smashed to pieces.

Heavy construction materials impaled the parade cluster that was hunting the yellow mascot.

Aaaaaah!

Indiscriminate destruction of a different kind.

But the bursting sounds did not stop there.

The resort was collapsing downwards, shattering its first floor under the force of gravity and weight.

Countless Magic Bunny contents were crushed and died beneath it.

Along with the yellow mascots’ corpses.

Crash-boom-boom-boom!

Even in the facility office where the largest Magic Bunny contents were.

Heavy masses like concrete and metal pipes fiercely impaled the documents on the facility office desk.

The document that had originally been on that desk read….

I decided to demolish the resort today.

Why?

It’s my will. Someone advised me that this resort is too modest. I guess the predecessor’s taste wasn’t that great after all.

It would be better to explode it and build a new, grander resort, wouldn’t it?

It’s a pity, but guests who were scheduled to stay today have been given refunds and guided to the gate with our apologies.

And I installed explosives during the mascot ceremony.

It might be fun to blow it up tomorrow morning to create buzz… but I don’t know. I might just suddenly blow it up tonight.

It doesn’t matter though.

Because I am the owner of this yellow zone.

And.

I should also demolish everything that was in the resort at that time.

In response to that will.

The resort was completely shattered and burning.

Along with everything inside it.

“M-My goodness.”

The employees watched the resort building collapse and break apart in the distance, groaning.

They were safe from business closure for now.

<Shelter>

The third facility was hastily created by the yellow mascot near the blue zone gate, simultaneously with the end of the mascot ceremony.

Of course, it was more like a temporary safety facility than a formal service facility, and it was empty inside, but that was its advantage.

Employees could freely enter and use it without any cost.

It had no side effects, making it safe for humans.

Thanks to it, they were safe in the cheerful theme park after business hours, without having to enter the resort, which was a lodging facility….

Watching their workplace being shattered and their employer being killed countless times through a small glass window near the ceiling.

“Wait a minute! Surely that mascot isn’t trying to commit a double suicide…”

“T-There! It’s still there!”

“Damn it.”

From one side of the collapsed resort, a red mass soared up.

Aaaaaah!

The red mass spat out what it had been chewing.

Golden fur.

The yellow mascot’s head rolled on the ground, faintly illuminated by the burning light of the resort.

“Ah…”

The slow movement indicated it had taken a hit, but it hadn’t completely stopped.

And that alone gave the yellow zone employees an eerie premonition.

Lost.

It will be integrated into the red zone.

But then.

“T-Team Leader!”

“Just a moment, please.”

The Disaster Management Agency Hyunmoo Team 3 Leader opened the shelter door and came out.

The Magic Bunnies had gathered at the resort building to find and tear apart all the yellow mascots, so they hadn’t yet reached this place where there were no mascot forms.

Thanks to this, the team leader could briefly leave the shelter to perform her employer’s ‘special request.’

The yellow mascot’s request.

-Use

-that.

How it knew this and calculated it was beyond all guess, but it was a reasonable request, so.

“Phew.”

She drew the sword from within her grasp.

A weapon that contains the energy of pure yang, dispelling ghosts and driving away evil, cutting down disaster.

Demon-Slaying Sword.

An issued item, whose forging is only permitted to the team leaders of the Disaster Management Agency’s Hyunmoo Team.

The blade, contained in a short glass scabbard, pulled out endlessly long, revealing itself.

A scroll of 28 constellations and a scroll of sword techniques.

All of them….

She raised it.

The heavens bestow essence, and the earth

aids the spirits.

The sun and moon take shape, and mountains and water

form.

And.

Thunder and lightning rage.

She swung.

The collapsing resort.

Lightning struck the head of the trapped evil thing.