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Chapter 33 - Yo-han's Bizarre Vacation (1)
Chapter 33: Yo-han’s Bizarre Vacation (1)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
Church camp. Since Ellie was a nun and Catholic, it seemed like it should be called a cathedral camp instead.
But the word “church” itself referred to a place where those who believed in God gathered, and apparently it was used as a broad term.
Anyway, inside the shuttle bus carrying people headed to the campground.
Еn̄ um̄_a
I looked up the campground we were going to.
[God’s Healing Campground]
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“……….”
Every single time I needed Magic energy.
My incantation was, “Oh great Lord, please handle things smoothly for me.”
So I was hardly one to talk, but…
Ŵ ёbn̈ ò_vê ľ Ѐn̊ûmа_
What a half-assed name.
It felt like they were telling anyone who wasn’t Catholic or Protestant not to bother coming.
…Or was it? If someone was brazen enough to name it like that, they must be truly devout. So maybe it was actually a good name?
While I was lost in these thoughts.
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The nun sitting next to me on the bus, a pretty, black-haired woman who was my employer for this job.
Ellie looked at me and spoke in a gentle voice.
Е̊n̆ u ḿ а
Up close, her eyes were a shade of blue.
“Haha… The campground name is a bit blatant, isn’t it? But it’s a nice place.”
I gave a casual reply.
“No, I like the name. It gives off a good vibe for healing.”
And sure enough, looking at the photos posted online, there was a reservoir nearby and the place seemed decent.
Of course, since it was winter, the reservoir wasn’t exactly a selling point this season.
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On the other hand, maybe it was precisely because of the season that the prices were cheap enough to bring the orphanage kids here.
I rose slightly from my seat and looked at the orphans chattering away with the kids next to them.
They appeared to be roughly kindergarten age or early elementary school.
This was probably about giving young orphans without parents a chance to experience camp life.
It was a pretty decent orphanage to organize events like this.
And since the kids they had to look after were orphans.
E ň um̊ а_.і̆ḋ
From the perspective of a Camp Helper, essentially an odd-jobs worker, it was nice that there’d be no phone calls from parents to deal with.
As I was looking around.
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My eyes met with those of a black-haired girl sitting alone on the bus, who looked about high school age.
She had a cute face, but her eyes were fierce.
“……….”
It was just a chance meeting of gazes, so the girl and I both casually looked away.
Ẁ еb̂n̂ о̆v_е̊ l̀ Е̊ ń.ũ mä
There were other passengers on the bus besides the church camp group, so I figured she might be one of them.
But Ellie explained.
“That girl is Soo-ah. Namgung Soo-ah. She comes to our church sometimes. She volunteered to help out this time.”
“I see.”
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Namgung Soo-ah? Her surname is Namgung? That’s a cool surname.
I knew the Namgung surname existed in Korea, but this was the first time I’d actually met one.
Е̊ n ümа
But it wasn’t something worth getting too interested in.
Anyway, the church camp group consisted of six little kids, plus me, Ellie, and Namgung Soo-ah, making three of us.
It was a relief that there were fewer kids than expected.
Just then, one of the orphans sitting across the aisle pointed at me and spoke to Ellie.
“Ellie unnie~ Nun unnie~ Who’s this mister?”
Ellie glanced at me cautiously and was about to answer.
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“Oh, he’s not a mister, he’s…”
“Ah~ It’s fine.”
I put on the smile I’d often worn during my part-time jobs and spoke.
“Mister here is the camp mister who came to help out with camp.”
“If you need help with anything, just let me know anytime.”
The orphans laughed, saying “He said he’s the camp mister~” and went back to their own conversations.
Ӗ ńūm̂а̀ .id
Ellie smiled as if she found something amusing and said.
“So today you’re not a Ghostbuster, but a friendly camp mister.”
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“Haha… That’s right.”
I nearly burst out laughing at Ellie’s words.
Friendly camp mister: concealment of crimes, serial murder, illegal firearm possession.
I could feel the weight of the pistol tucked inside my coat.
Еn̂ûm̊ a
‘…What a joke.’
In any case, “mister” wasn’t an insult. I didn’t particularly care about titles.
To begin with, for kids that age, words like hyung, oppa, noona, and unnie.
Those were titles reserved for teenagers around their own age or people they were close to.
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Back in my orphanage days, I’d gone through a phase of not knowing whether to call the charity workers who occasionally came for volunteer activities hyung and noona, or mister and ma’am.
And after I called one woman “ma’am” and ended up being the only kid who didn’t get a snack, I just standardized everything to noona from then on.
W ё b̌n̄ о̊v èľ Ėn̂ u m̊ а
I gazed out the bus window with wistful eyes.
‘…I wonder what that red bean bread I never got to eat tasted like?’
Well, obviously it would have tasted like red bean bread.
I chuckled to myself.
With fourteen years of experience at an orphanage, I scanned the orphans.
There weren’t any troublemakers acting up enough to get sent back.
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Once the kids fell asleep while I was working.
I could just relax like I was on a nighttime camp vacation.
Clunk, clunk.
And so the shuttle bus pressed onward toward the campground, where a thick fog was creeping in.
***
Campgrounds. They were places where youthful events happened in romantic comedy genres.
W еb̌.n о̌v_еl Ё ǹ u m̀ а̃
They were also places where one could feel leisurely healing away from the city, but they were frequently used as settings for horror movies too.
Like when a serial killer in a hockey mask or some unidentified monster would suddenly appear, and it’d turn out the campground was actually run by psychotic cult devil-worshippers, that kind of thing.
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And right now, in a way that made the name “God’s Healing Campground” seem hollow.
The atmosphere of this fog-shrouded campground was exactly like that.
It was anything but “healing”.
And above all, the surroundings were unnervingly quiet.
E n ú mа̄
Cars were visible parked in the lot. But the absence of any people made it all the more unsettling.
Given the foggy weather, they could just be inside the buildings, but…
I stepped off the bus, surveyed the surroundings, and quickly made up my mind.
I immediately turned to Ellie, who was standing beside me.
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“Let’s get back on the bus and head back.”
“Huh? Wha?”
Е̇ n ǔm̌ à
Ellie was startled, but she seemed to sense something off herself and spoke cautiously.
“The forecast definitely said clear skies today, so this is strange… Just a moment.”
“The camp manager was supposed to come greet us. Let me try calling.”
But Ellie looked at her phone screen and panicked.
“Huh? The phone isn’t working?”
At her words, I checked my own phone. Mine had no signal either.
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No phone calls? Cut off from the outside? Perfect.
My gaze half-turned. I spoke again.
“Let’s get back on the bus.”
But of course, this wasn’t a private car.
It was a camp shuttle bus, so making a U-turn and heading back on a whim wasn’t possible.
The bus driver spoke with an annoyed expression.
Е̂n̂_u̇ mа̄ .їd
“The signal? That’s probably just the weather messing with it for a bit. It was fine on the way here.”
“The fog’s completely rolled in now, so it’s too hard to drive in this weather.”
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After saying that, the bus driver gave everyone the hint to hurry up and get the kids off the bus, then left to go smoke.
“……….”
Well, sure. I knew about the existence of the paranormal, so of course it bothered me more.
The orphans who got kicked off the bus walked up to Ellie.
Eń ũ m̃ а̄ .ї d̆
“Ellie unnie… Are we not doing camp?”
“Hmm~ We can still do camp. I’m just thinking about maybe changing the location. A place with sunshine is better, right?”
Ellie soothed the children in a gentle voice while assessing the situation.
“…Yo-han ssi, what do you think we should do?”
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Whether this was a paranormal incident or not, it wasn’t a good environment for camping.
“Let’s start by looking for the camp manager. And as for the kids…”
Ё num̂a
I looked at the orphans. It wasn’t confirmed yet that this was a paranormal incident, but…
If we had to run, small children would be a hindrance. They were slow on their feet.
I pointed toward the nearby campground Auditorium and spoke to Namgung Soo-ah, the high school girl who’d come as a volunteer.
“Soo-ah, could you take the kids and wait over by that Auditorium for a bit?”
“Huh? Why should I?”
And at Soo-ah’s utterly brazen response, I blinked.
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‘What? Did this kid never learn any manners?’
Soo-ah squinted and said.
“I only came because they said I’d get volunteer hours just for being here. Don’t even think about making me do work.”
“S-Soo-ah!?”
Ellie spoke in a flustered tone, and Soo-ah clicked her tongue as if she had no choice and herded the orphans along.
“Tch. Orphans, gather up.”
Ê n̆_ü m ǎ .і d̀
One of the little kids pouted and muttered.
“I don’t like that unnie.”
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“I don’t like you guys either.”
Soo-ah didn’t yield a single word even against little children and headed toward the Auditorium.
Watching her go, Ellie fidgeted and said.
“…She’s not a bad kid.”
Еn ǔ mа̀
“Oh, yeah, I don’t think she’s bad at all. Let’s just go find the manager.”
And shortly after, Soo-ah came back.
“Unnie, the kids are crying and asking for you.”
“…Let’s just find the manager quickly and all go together.”
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In the end, the three of us, me, Ellie, and Soo-ah, ended up looking into the situation together.
The area would normally have been a wide-open clearing, but the fog reduced visibility to only a few meters around us.
Е n̄ üm а̀
Tents were set up at the campground, but there was no one around.
Gradually, the other people seemed to sense that something was off as well.
“…Something’s not right.”
“Is there no one here besides us?”
They were huddled together, whispering among themselves, when.
The bus driver, who’d wandered off to smoke, spotted something and shouted as he approached it.
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It was the silhouette of a person visible through the fog.
“Hey, hey you!”
The problem, of course, was that it wasn’t a person.
“Ahhh….”
“Huh? Wait, what! Ahhhhh!”
A corpse, already dead, walked out of the fog and bit into the throat of the defenseless bus driver, bringing him down.
Èńů_mа.і d
Crack! Crunch!
“Ahhhhhhh!”
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Just like the opening of a horror movie in earnest.
That scream marked the shift in the campground’s atmosphere.
This was no longer a safe place.
A horde of Zombies that had been hidden in the fog came charging out.
Е́ ǹ u m̃ а̀ . і́ d
“Ahhhhh…!”
To be precise, it had been like this from the start; we simply hadn’t noticed.
“Kyahhhhh!”
“Wh-what is this!?”
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In any case, there was no time to scream or hesitate like the others.
The bus driver was dead.
Ёnu ṁ а̂
‘Now who’s going to drive the bus….’
Obviously I didn’t have a bus driver’s license or a Class 1 heavy vehicle license.
Escape by shuttle bus was impossible.
So for now.
I spoke to Ellie and Soo-ah.
“Run toward the campground Auditorium.”
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Get inside a building, find a reasonably safe location, and hunker down. The basics of any zombie scenario.
Just as we were about to run toward the Auditorium.
“Huh?”
Soo-ah’s feet got tangled and she fell.
Crash!
“Ow!? Help me! Unnie! Camp mister!”
W.е̇ b̈n̄о̌vе̊ l .Ė n ŭ mа̇
“S-Soo-ah fell!”
I made a quick judgment call.
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“Too late! Leave her!”
“No! She’s right behind us! We can’t just leave her!”
Ellie immediately turned back and propped Soo-ah up, helping her to her feet.
“Soo-ah, are you okay?”
Е́ṅ úmâ
‘Damn it… I knew this would happen.’
I sighed internally and spun around, putting my momentum into a kick.
I drove my foot into the stomach of the Zombie that had been closing in on Ellie as she supported Soo-ah, sending it stumbling backward.
“Ahhh…!”
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Crash!
I wasn’t sure if fighting off a horde of Zombies that had attacked the campground was part of a Camp Helper’s job description, but.
Е̇ n ǔ m̌ ǎ.i̇d̆
I was hired by Ellie. I’d do the work I was paid for.
Such was the sorrow of a freelancer.
I spoke quickly to Soo-ah.
“Get up. Run.”
“…I think I sprained my leg.”
I couldn’t help myself and blurted out, while Ellie chided me from the side.
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“You’ve got to be kidding me.”
“…Yo-han ssi.”
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