Transmigrated as the Side Top used as an Emotional Trash Can - Chapter 39.2
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Sweat ran down my body. It was hot.
“…You pressed the emergency bell, right?”
“Let’s wait a little longer, Jihwan-ah.”
We had already been trapped for more than twenty minutes inside the unsettling elevator, where the lights kept flickering. We had boarded it to leave, only to become trapped inside. I had been through so many disasters, yet I had stupidly chosen the elevator again. This was my mistake.
“Gwonhyeok-ah, can you make a call?”
Cha Gwonhyeok had been trying to call somewhere for a while, but except for the first attempt, every call had failed.
“No, it’s not working.”
“Where did you call when it connected the first time? What did they say?”
“The first call was to the hotel concierge. The person who answered said they would send someone soon, then said something strange.”
I had thought that whenever an obsessive main top made a call, everything would be resolved instantly. But perhaps because this was a creepypasta world, he didn’t seem to have much power here.
I focused on the ‘strange thing’ Cha Gwonhyeok had mentioned.
“What strange thing?”
“They told us to come to the room on the first floor.”
“What kind of bullshit is that? There aren’t any guest rooms on the first floor.”
Cha Gwonhyeok answered my question, and Kim Jihwan immediately snapped at him. Kim Jihwan seemed to be growing extremely irritable as the situation dragged on.
“Hey, Baek Hanrim, are you alright?”
Then he suddenly turned and asked me. I tilted my head at Kim Jihwan’s unexpected question.
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“You hate places like this.”
For a moment, I was left speechless. I thought I had hidden it well, so when had he noticed?
“Does Hanrim-ie have claustrophobia?”
“No, I don’t have anything like that.”
I reflexively denied Cha Gwonhyeok’s question. I didn’t have anything as serious as claustrophobia. I simply became somewhat uncomfortable if I stayed in places like this for too long. That was why I avoided them whenever possible.
As proof, hadn’t I been perfectly fine riding the elevator to the hotel cafe?
Clunk! Screeeech-!
Flicker, flicker-.
The elevator jolted as though it might fall at any moment. The lights flickered as though they were about to shatter.
“Ugh, fuck…!”
“Damn.”
CRASH!
The shaking interior sent Kim Jihwan slamming into the wall. Me and Cha Gwonhyeok staggered and soon fell to the floor.
“Haa, tsk….”
Kim Jihwan looked at his palm with a grimace. It seemed to have been scraped.
“Are you hurt? Let me see….”
Rumble- Crash!
“Ugh-.”
As Cha Gwonhyeok tried to examine Kim Jihwan’s wound, a broken piece of the elevator light fell from the ceiling and struck him, making him stagger briefly.
Screeeech-! Scrape!
Clunk!
The shaking of the elevator itself was threatening, as though it might fall at any moment. It felt as though the elevator was suspended by a single thin silk thread. Everything was precarious and abnormal.
And my mental state also began to spiral abnormally. The more the elevator shook, the more violently my heart pounded. Cold sweat ran down my body, and breathing became difficult. My breath caught, and everything felt frightening. I felt guilty, as though everything was going wrong because of me.
The more Kim Jihwan and Cha Gwonhyeok were hurt, the more desperate I became.
Let the innocent ones out.
Bang!
I kicked the elevator door hard.
That was because the fear that they might die tore through my head like an awl. I knew you weren’t supposed to strike things or act violently during an elevator accident, but my anxious delusions made me lose control of my body.
Bang, bang!
“Open the door. Are you watching? We’re trapped.”
Bang, bang, bang!
“They’re the main characters. They’re not supposed to get hurt or die.”
Baaang!
“Get a grip. Look carefully at who you’re allowed to kill.”
I went beyond kicking the door and slammed my head against it with all my strength.
But the timer continued to pass agonizingly slowly, and the elevator’s unstable shaking showed no sign of stopping.
“You crazy bastard!”
“Stop it.”
The others grabbed both my arms and restrained me. I had no intention of resisting, so I obediently stepped away from the door. Then I raised my head and stared at the light that continued flickering.
If this truly fell, and if I didn’t die instantly, Kim Jihwan and Cha Gwonhyeok would die or be severely injured. For me, surviving was a greater problem than dying. As the one holding the reset button, I carried a heavy responsibility. When we fell, I had to make sure I bit through my tongue or did something equally certain to protect Cha Gwonhyeok and Kim Jihwan from suffering.
Clunk-.
Flicker, flicker-.
Time continued to pass that way, but the situation didn’t improve.
The others kept my body restrained, and each of them remained silent, lost in their own complicated thoughts.
Then came a silence without conversation. Within that unnatural stillness, I calmed down again.
My head had overheated so badly that it had become completely empty.
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