## Chapter 456 – Kim Kat and the Haunted House
“Hehehe, you’re such a dumb barbarian. Pushing the door when it doesn’t open. You have to pull it. Typical savage.”
“Shut up. You were pushing it too, pretending you knew. Hehehe.”
Come to think of it, we pushed to get in, so we had to pull to get out. Meria laughed at our foolishness.
“You guys are such idiots.”
Even though we didn’t get anything, laughter bloomed.
We grabbed the doorknob again, chuckling.
“Alright, let’s try pulling.”
“Understood.”
—Click.
.
—Click, click.
—Click, click, click.
.
—Click, click, click, click.
But the door wouldn’t open.
“Hey, damn it, it still won’t open?”
“Hmm? Could it be locked?”
“Who would lock it?”
Unless someone came, there’s no reason for it to be locked.
“Oppa? The door won’t open?”
“Wait a sec. The door might be old and stuck.”
The inside could be rusted, causing the lock to engage.
—Click, click, click.
Copson and I grabbed the doorknob, pulling and pushing to the side, trying to open the door. But no matter what we did, the door wouldn’t budge.
It didn’t even move a bit.
“What’s wrong with you guys? Can’t you use your strength?”
Unable to watch any longer, Meria stepped up to use her strength, but even Meria, who had fairly thick arms for a woman, couldn’t open the door. Copson, who had been watching the whole time, shouted in horror.
“The, the mansion’s curse! We’re trapped, barbarian!”
“Kyaaa! Oppa! Open it quickly!!!”
“What curse, you crazy bastards. Calm down.”
What’s it gonna do if it doesn’t open?
My body is enhanced with mana.
There’s no way a mere old door can stop me.
“You think I can’t leave just because the door won’t open? Damn it, move.”
“Ooh! Are you going to save us from the mansion’s curse with your barbaric strength!”
“It’s the barbarian power, hyaaa!!!”
Filled with competitive spirit, I immediately drew mana from within my body and grabbed the doorknob. My muscles swelled, and superhuman strength erupted. Mana combined with trained muscles is stronger than anything!
“Dejaaaaaaaat!!!!!”
There’s no way a door like this can stop me!
—…
“Oppa? Are you even using your strength?”
“…Damn it, it really won’t open?”
The door didn’t open.
It won’t open even with all this strength?
“Ha.”
Daring to challenge the Heavenly Demon Kim Kat is foolish.
I immediately retreated a bit from the door.
—Flash!
And at the same time as I sprinted—
“—Kim Kat Drop Kiiiiick!!!!”
—Thwack!
I drop-kicked the door.
Due to the enhanced mana and leg strength, the power of the dropkick was already incomparably stronger than before. There’s no way I can’t break down a mere door. The name of the Heavenly Demon is no joke.
—Gooooo.
But the door was still intact.
“Damn? This doesn’t work either?”
“Hmm… it seems like the lock went down because it’s old. Don’t waste your energy and let’s find another exit before it gets darker.”
“Wait. Hold on.”
I grabbed the sword upside down and repeatedly slammed the pommel into the doorknob like a battering ram. There’s no way a mere old door can withstand this kind of attack.
—Thwack!
—Thwack!
But the door was still fine.
Wait, what? Why is the door so sturdy? It definitely opened smoothly when we came in, didn’t it? There’s no way it shouldn’t open?
I was slightly taken aback.
No matter how hard I hit it, it was like hitting a rock, with no effect. The door felt like an iron wall.
Damn it, it’s not like I’m struggling to open a strawberry jam lid with a weak hand in the morning. There’s no way the durability should be like this, even if the door is old and the lock is down.
“Looks like it’s not working. Let’s just find another exit and leave before it gets darker.”
Meria put her hand on my shoulder as I was bashing the door.
“…Was there another exit?”
“Yeah. Was there? Copson. Did you see any doors on the way here?”
“I, I don’t think so…”
There were no windows on the first floor facing the outside.
It didn’t seem like there was another exit… But when I looked around the mansion from the outside earlier, there were windows on the upper floors facing the outside.
If all else fails, we can break them and leave.
This isn’t a prison.
“O, Oppa, I feel a little uneasy… I’m a little scared…”
Lina came back to my side and clung to me.
“What’s there to be scared of? Let’s find a way out first. I think there were windows on the second or third floor, so we can go out there if we have to.”
I can break a glass window even if I can’t break a door.
“But barbarian. If the door won’t open, can’t we just sleep here?”
“You were screaming about a curse, what are you talking about?”
“Hehehe, that was a joke. It seems like the door is firmly fixed. Since there don’t seem to be any windows on the first floor, wouldn’t it be safer to stay inside?”
Is he changing his mind here?
Still, if the door is sealed this tightly, it might be safer than outside. If we go into a room like the ones we searched earlier, it will be warmer. The floor is also flat, so we can sleep well.
“Hmm… that might be a good idea. There wasn’t really anything in the mansion, was there?”
Meria said as I was making a decision.
Certainly, we only searched the first floor, but there was nothing suspicious about the mansion yet. Still, other vagrants might be hiding on the upper floors.
“Wouldn’t it be troublesome if there were other guys upstairs? It’s big, so it wouldn’t be strange if someone was there.”
“Wouldn’t we have noticed if there were, barbarian? If you’re worried, we can go into a room with a window, close the door, and sleep. There was furniture, so it won’t be difficult to block the door.”
“Yeah. I think it’s better to do as Copson says. Look, it looks like the sun has already set. It’ll be completely dark soon.”
Meria pointed to the window facing the inside of the mansion.
—A faint red light was seeping in.
The mansion had a ‘ㅁ’ shape, so the middle was empty.
The empty space could be called a garden inside the mansion, and although it’s hideous now, it must have been quite beautiful in its prime.
Anyway, the sunset would soon fade and night would come.
“Then let’s go up.”
We immediately headed towards the second-floor stairs that we had checked earlier. As we walked, the outside began to darken as if the day had completely set.
“It’s completely dark. Barbarian. Take out the spirit necklace.”
“Okay, just a moment.”
The world was completely engulfed in darkness.
It’s so dark that you can’t even see what’s right in front of you.
Still, it’s kind of scary because it’s so dark. It’s a mansion in name, but it’s a haunted house. Of course, I’m not too afraid because I came with armed warriors.
The three of us can catch a troll if it appears.
“Is there no moonlight today? It’s too dark?”
Meria said, looking at the window. I don’t know if it’s because there are a lot of clouds, but it’s extremely dark. I took out the necklace for now.
“J, just a moment, Oppa… Th, there…!”
“What?”
At that moment, Lina clung to my side and pointed forward.
—Shiver, shiver.
For some reason, Lina was trembling.
Did she find something?
“Do you see something?”
“…”
For now, turning on the light would be like announcing our presence, so I looked in the direction Lina pointed without turning on the light.
—…
The hallway is shrouded in darkness.
It’s so dark that you can’t really see anything. It’s like the building itself is buried in a swamp of darkness. Darkness came quickly as soon as the sun set.
So, the white object in front of us can only be explained by me seeing something wrong.
“…”
Over there.
So, in front of us.
Something white was standing.
“…”
A moment of silence fell.
“Ba, Barbarian.”
It was none other than Copson who broke the silence. His voice was heard faintly in the darkness.
“…Why.”
“Please. I have a favor to ask.”
“What kind of favor, damn it.”
—Thump, thump.
For some reason, my heart seems to be beating faster.
In that atmosphere, Copson said.
“Please, please look behind me for me, please.”
Look behind him?
Suddenly, a terrifying thought began to creep in.
The thing standing in front of us… could it be a ghost? If so, wouldn’t a ghost appear the moment I turned around? Did Copson, that bastard, know that and ask me because he was scared? That son of a bitch?
“…Lina, let’s work.”
I immediately grabbed Lina’s shoulders and said.
“I, I don’t want to! I’m scared! Oppa! What is that! An evil spirit! It’s an evil spirit!!”
“Hey, hey, don’t be scared, you idiot. An evil spirit, what…”
—Rustle.
The white thing moved the moment I tried to react nonchalantly.
Then it slowly approached us.
“Oh my god.”
I’m quite afraid of ghosts.
When I saw a ghost in the army a long time ago, I was so scared that I thought I was going crazy. But I’m not who I was back then. To the Heavenly Demon Kim Kat, who has been honed by repeated battles and killings, ghosts are by no means scary.
But the ghosts of this world are different.
—Tsupat.
I drew my sword at the same time and turned on the light from Latras’s necklace. The moment the bright light shone, I saw a bizarrely shaped white female ghost flying at high speed.
It opened its mouth inhumanly and screamed as it flew towards us.
—Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!!!
“Uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!”
“Oppaat!”
“Teeeeeeeeeeeng!”
Damn ghost!!!!!!
The four of us screamed and immediately turned around and ran away!!
“O, Oppaaaat!! Behind you! There! There’s one there toooo!!”
“Barbariiaaaaaaaan!!!! It’s an evil spirit!!!!!”
—Rustle.
A white ghost was standing at the end of the back!
It also suddenly flew towards us!
—Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!
“Damn it!! Evil spirit! It’s an evil spirit!!!”
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!”
“Oppaat!!! Let’s go together, please!!!”
Damn it!!!!
“Hey, hey, damn it, turn around the corner up ahead!!!!”
We ran like crazy and turned the corner before the ghost could touch us.
Ghost!
An unrealistic killing monster that can’t be attacked without Holy Enchant! The name of a D-class adventurer was meaningless against those monsters that couldn’t be attacked with physical attacks!
Monsters that can’t be cut with a sword are fatal just by their existence!
“The mansion of evil spirits! That’s right, barbarian! This was a cursed mansion!!!!”
“Kyaaaaak!!! Run away! If you get caught by an evil spirit, you’ll become an evil spirit!”
“Oppa please match my speed please!!!!!!!!”
“Damn it!!! Lina, come here! Take my hand!”
We ran away while talking about evil spirits. There was something in the mansion after all! The reason why there were no problems during the day was because this was a cursed mansion!
—Papat!
As if it was time for the ghosts to wake up, we could find ghosts standing still in various places as we ran.
Every time we did, we changed direction and ran through the inside of the mansion, which was like a maze.
“Exit! Barbarian! Where is the exit!”
“I don’t know, damn it!!!”
“Oppa! It feels like the hallway keeps repeating!!!”
As Lina said, it felt like the hallway had been repeating since a while ago. If even Lina felt it… could it be a similar sorcery to when I got lost in the jungle!
“What does that mean! Miss Meria! Is it true!”
“I, I don’t know!”
I turned around while running.
Many ghosts were chasing us!
I currently have two bottles of holy water.
If I use them, I should be able to repel those ghosts. But even though there are two bottles, that’s all there is in small bottles.
I can handle a few, but I judged that it would be impossible to kill them all…! I don’t know how many more ghosts will come out, so if I use them carelessly, I’ll be screwed!
But for now!
—Fumble, fumble.
I immediately carefully took out the holy water from the pouch and shouted like lightning while holding it high.
“You damn bastards who died after your parents! Surrender before holiness!!!!”
—Hwaak!
—Kiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!!!!!!!
The moment the holy water emitted light, the ghosts that were chasing us screamed eerily and scattered throughout the mansion.
“Haa… damn it. I almost had a heart attack. Hey, Copson. Huh?”
But.
“Huh?”
Wasn’t there anyone around me?
“Huh! Where did those damn bastards go!!!!!”
