Superstar From Age 0

Translator: MarcTempest

Editor: AgRoseCrystal

Chapter 562

The last two students assigned to the task opened the door of the mansion with trembling hands. 

At the same time, something fell on their heads with a thud. It was cold and damp. 

They felt a strange sensation as a liquid dripped down from their scalps.

“Aaaah!”

The senior student shook his head in panic, while the junior student from the lighting team shone a flashlight on the floor where the thing had fallen.

“Senior. Calm down. It’s cloth. Wet cloth.”

It was indeed a wet cloth, white and fist-sized. 

The senior student touched his forehead.

“…Wow…I feel like my brain is spinning…”

He had been so scared that his head was spinning.

The junior student supported the senior student as they moved forward. There was a staircase right in front of the living room, and a little further up, there was the second floor master bedroom.

The living room was spacious and open, but they couldn’t let their guard down. They moved cautiously, but strangely enough, nothing else came out after the wet cloth.

“…Is it over?”

“…Senior. That’s a flag, you know.”

The senior student slapped his mouth in regret at the junior student’s words. He chanted cancel, cancel, but he didn’t know how they had installed the speakers, because a crackling sound came from the background music that had been playing from the yard.

“It sounds like something big is coming.”

“…Uhuhuhu…”

The junior student scanned the surroundings with his flashlight. In the dark mansion, the dim light of the flashlight adjusted to the brightness passed by. 

There were the living room wall and the corridor leading to the left, the staircase and the eyes and the staircase, the corridor leading to the right and the living room wall.

‘…?’

“…I think I just saw something that shouldn’t be there.”

“…”

The senior student seemed to have lost his words, and only breathed heavily. 

The junior student swallowed his dry saliva and slowly turned his flashlight back to the staircase.

The faint light shone on the space in the middle of the staircase leading to the second floor.

A hand appeared first. It was touching the floor.

‘…Why was it a hand and not a shoe?’

And then the two students realized that the height they had seen with the flashlight before was where the legs should have been if they were standing normally. It was not the eyes, but the.

Gasp, they gasped as they breathed in, but the flashlight kept moving to the side. They saw the bent elbow and the knee and the shoe, and then.

They saw the face that was upside down. They saw the eyes that were flickering in it.

The face was so pale that it was white, and the eyes and mouth were painted black. 

It would have been a panda face that they would have teased if it was bright daylight, but in the dark, between the faint lights, it was a tremendous horror.

…!

Before the two students could even breathe, it moved. It turned its face upright and changed its posture to lie down.

And then it crawled!

It started to crawl down the stairs at a fast speed.

“Aaaah!!”

With a loud scream, the two students stuck to the living room wall. It didn’t seem to care, and it crawled down the stairs and disappeared into the right corridor. 

They felt relieved and goosebumps at the same time as they heard the sound of the shoes getting farther away.

The senior student collapsed as his legs lost strength. 

The junior student also sighed deeply.

“…Wow…Who was that?”

As the wool on his head subsided a little, the senior student opened his mouth.

“It looked like Hwang Do-yoon senior from his clothes…”

“…How serious is he about courage training? It must have been hard to wait upside down.”

The two students who had been shivering started to climb the second floor stairs again.

They were careful not to encounter anything else. A white cloth flew past their eyes with a cold breeze, but they didn’t get scared much, thanks to their familiarity.

“Wow!”

They didn’t say they weren’t scared.

“Let’s go in.”

They thought it had been too long to get to the master bedroom, which wasn’t that far away, and the junior student opened the door. There was a ‘Good job!’ stamp on the table covered with a tablecloth in the center of the room.

“…But did Seo-jun come out?”

“I don’t think he did.”

“Then he’s either in this room or on his way back.”

The two students looked around carefully as they slowly approached the table.

There was a thud!

There was also a small scream.

The junior student looked at the senior student who had been screaming all the way, and the senior student shook his head quickly. 

The two students’ eyes turned to the table where the sound came from. To be exact, under the table, hidden by the tablecloth. 

There was something there.

There was a moment of silence.

The junior student made a slight sound with his foot, and a right hand popped out from under the tablecloth and groped the floor as if looking for something.

It seemed like he was flustered by the way his hand moved awkwardly.

The senior student’s expression changed as he made eye contact with the junior student. His face was full of laughter, unlike the horror he had felt before. 

The junior student was the same. 

He couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of his left hand also coming out and groping the floor.

The two students squatted down in front of the table and lifted the tablecloth. And they met eyes with Inyoung, who had been groping the floor hard.

“Ha, ha, ha.”

He had done a great job with his makeup, but he didn’t know why he wasn’t scary.

Puhahaha!

The two students burst into laughter at the awkward laughter.

Seo-jun, who had been watching them, smiled and came out from under the table.

“What happened? Why are you so clumsy?”

“It’s because I’m supposed to be an actor who can’t act as a ghost.”

Seo-jun stamped ‘Good job!’ on the back of the two students’ hands and explained.

“But being a ghost is scary just by walking, so I wondered how to do it and decided to go for the funny side.”

“It was definitely funny.”

The senior student, who had still been startled by the two hands, said.

“Oh, then the sound of bumping earlier was also?”

“Acting.”

It was Seo-jun’s acting that had made them laugh with his awkward laughter.

Oh.

The two students exclaimed in admiration.

***

The last order passed.

Hwang Do-yoon, who had to be upside down several times, stretched. It was Seo-jun’s idea, but it worked well.

“If Seo-jun had done this…would he have crawled down upside down?”

That would have been really scary, he thought as he headed to the second floor.

The master bedroom, in front of the window.

Seo-jun was standing there in a white robe, in front of the curtain that was swaying in the breeze.

“Seo-jun. Let’s go. We’ll clean up tomorrow.”

“Okay.”

Seo-jun nodded. Maybe it was because of the makeup, or the cold night air, but he felt chilly around him. Hwang Do-yoon, who was shivering slightly, took the lead.

“Are you hungry? Let’s have a late-night snack when we get to the dorm.”

“Okay.”

“Everyone was smiling when they left. You did a good job.”

“Okay.”

Hwang Do-yoon, who was excited, kept talking and Seo-jun calmly answered with “Okay, no.”

When they came down to the first floor and were about to leave the mansion, Seo-jun stopped. Hwang Do-yoon asked with a puzzled face.

“What’s wrong? Did you forget something? Your phone?”

“Yes.”

“Then I’ll wait. Go get it.”

“No.”

“Huh? You want me to go ahead? Okay.”

Seo-jun bowed slightly and turned around to walk toward the stairs. Hwang Do-yoon, who was watching him, rubbed his neck.

“Maybe he’s upset about something?”

Scratching his head, Hwang Do-yoon left the mansion and headed toward the street where his teammates were. When he looked back, he saw Seo-jun in a white robe standing at the window on the second floor.

“Hurry up!”

He seemed to nod.

‘I’ll ask him what happened later.’ 

Hwang Do-yoon thought as he moved on.

At the end of the street.

The place where the lights and heaters were on was bright. The members of the [Fire] team were chatting and laughing.

“Do-yoon sunbae!”

“Was that you on the stairs earlier?!”

“That was crazy!”

The team members who had trained their courage greeted Hwang Do-yoon with wide smiles. Hwang Do-yoon also laughed and said that he was waiting upside down until his arms and legs lost strength.

“Shall we go back to the dorm now?”

At Hwang Ji-yoon’s words, Hwang Do-yoon opened his mouth.

“Seo-jun hasn’t come yet? He went to get his phone, but he’s late.”

“…?”

There was a moment of silence at Hwang Do-yoon’s words.

Everyone looked at him with puzzled eyes as if they had made a bet. Hwang Do-yoon rolled his eyes without knowing why. Why, why are they like this?

“Me,”

From a corner.

A familiar voice came.

“I’m here. Do-yoon hyung.”

Seo-jun, who was talking with Park Woo-jin, raised his hand with a puzzled expression.

‘…Why are you there?’

Hwang Do-yoon, who had stopped breathing without knowing it, looked at Seo-jun in front of him and the mansion behind him alternately with a stunned face. How come the one who left later than me… is in front of me?

“Se, Seo-jun. When did you come? You came fast.”

“…I came earlier with Woo-jin sunbae?”

“…No, ? Just a while ago…”

‘…You said you left your phone on the second floor.’

As he was about to open his mouth, Hwang Do-yoon saw Park Woo-jin nodding his head. 

The other students also gasped and said that Park Woo-jin and Seo-jun came earlier than Hwang Do-yoon.

“…Then…who did I talk to?”

Along with Hwang Do-yoon’s trembling voice, a chilly silence hung in the air.

***

On the way back to the dorm.

“I opened the door, and there was someone in a white robe standing right in front of the window!”

Hwang Do-yoon passionately explained what had happened. He was scared, but it was the first time he had experienced something like this, so he was more excited. 

The students who had heard about what had happened earlier gasped and listened to his story.

“I knew it… It was weird. And he only answered yes or no.”

“If you knew it, you should have noticed it sooner.”

“But was it really a ghost? Ji-yoon sunbae. Is there any story like that here?”

“No. I’ve never heard of anything like that…”

The students, who were shivering, looked at Seo-jun and Park Woo-jin, who met eyes and smiled. The fourth-year students of the filming team noticed that.

“What? Park Woo-jin. Lee Seo-jun. Why are you smiling?”

“Oh, that’s because…”

‘Should we tell them now?’

Park Woo-jin was about to say that when Seo-jun opened his mouth with a smile.

“That was me.”

…?

The students’ eyes were drawn to Seo-jun.

“Do-yoon hyung didn’t get to train his courage because he was playing the ghost role, right? So I planned it with Woo-jin sunbae.”

…!

The students, who were staring at Seo-jun and Park Woo-jin with wide eyes, burst into laughter.

“No way…really?”

“Yes. I acted it out.”

‘I also used a little bit of my ability.’

As Seo-jun smiled and said that, the students who thought they wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight also started to laugh.

“How could you not recognize him. Sunbae.”

“It’s different when you experience it for real! The atmosphere was really different.”

Hwang Do-yoon, who was teased by his teammates, raised his voice and made a face that he couldn’t believe it himself.

“But how did you get here before me?”

“I met Woo-jin sunbae at the back door after I parted with you and ran here.”

‘Oh, the back door.’

Hwang Do-yoon nodded at Seo-jun’s words.

“But it must have taken some time to go to the second floor and then to the back door… Lee Seo-jun. You’re fast at running too.”

“…Yes?”

“Huh? You and I made eye contact at the window on the second floor. I told you to hurry up and you nodded too. Anyway, I was surprised! I thought I saw a real ghost.”

Hwang Do-yoon, who felt relieved, was teased by his teammates. Among the laughter that became lighter, Park Woo-jin came to Seo-jun’s side and whispered quietly.

“…You didn’t go straight to the back door, did you?”

‘That’s right.’

He ran to the back door where Park Woo-jin was right after he parted with Hwang Do-yoon. He didn’t even step on the second floor. Seo-jun lowered his voice even more.

“…It seems like he really saw it. Do-yoon hyung.”

Seo-jun and Park Woo-jin quietly looked at Hwang Do-yoon.

He was laughing happily, saying that it was fun and that he thought it was real. The team members were also teasing him, relieved that it was nothing.

“…They say it’s a hit if you see a ghost while filming…”

“Let’s talk about it after we finish filming. I don’t think we can film properly if we say it now.”

“Yeah. Let’s do that.”

Park Woo-jin, who was glad that he had a calm personality, thought as Seo-jun recalled the book list in the library of life.

‘I’ll have to check it out tomorrow.’

It didn’t seem like an evil spirit from the flow of mana, but he thought it would be better to look into it.