Chapter 54 – Wish Ticket Bet ③
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“So when will we arrive?”
I think I walked for a while after leaving the house, but I couldn’t see even a corner store nearby, let alone a convenience store.
Looking at Seohyun like that, Lee Seoyoung said, as if telling her to be patient.
“Now we really just have to go a little further.”
“······You already know that it’s the 5th word···?”
“······.”
I’ve been saying that since before, and this time it’s already the 5th.
When I first heard that, I said ‘Oh, that’s right’ and ignored it, but in the end, that choice wasn’t a good choice.
Seohyeon and Lee Da-young, who naturally followed Seo-young Lee, who led the way, had a tremendous experience that their surroundings became darker.
I don’t think it was this dark when I first got out of the house and walked down the street peacefully.
I had a cell phone so I wasn’t really worried. Should I say that there is a sense of fear that comes from the dark?
After a while, Seohyun didn’t even think about seeing the building, only feeling the surroundings getting darker.
“What the hell! Where is this place? Ohhh!!!”
“······.”
Lee Seo-young, who had been silently walking down the street in spite of Seohyun’s scream-like cry, stopped her abruptly and turned behind her to look at the two of them.
Then they slowly opened their mouths, and the two of them listened closely to what they were talking about, and their bodies froze as they felt a sense of excitement at Lee Seo-young’s words.
“Sorry, I think I’m lost.”
“······.”
“······.”
If it’s long, it’s long, if it’s short, it’s a short silence for 10 seconds.
Seohyun slapped her forehead and muttered something as she sat down on the floor.
“Wrong… We will die here like this…”
Surprised by that statement, Lee Da-yeong asked what she was talking about and slapped Seohyun on the back.
However, Seohyun didn’t respond at all, let alone say that he was sick.
“We’re dead now… There’s no chance we’ll be rescued here…”
He just sat still and muttered something like an incantation that made even the listeners feel ominous.
Lee Da-young, who has not yet given up hope for her, opens her mouth by shining the flash of her cell phone behind the gloomy Seo-hyun.
“Well, wouldn’t it be fine if we went back the way we came!!?”
“That’s a great idea!”
Hearing those words, Seohyun jumped up and started walking to where the three of them had walked.
Lee Da-young called Seohyun, who was walking somewhere, and stopped her.
She said to Seohyun, who made a face as if asking what was going on, while Lee Da-yeong pointed at one place with her finger.
“Is this where we came from?”
“What are you talking about? This way.”
“No. It’s here.”
“No, not there, but here?”
While the two were arguing, Lee Seo-young raised her finger and pointed to one side of the darkness.
“Maybe it’s here?”
Then, the two people who were arguing that they were right all turned to Lee Seo-young and shouted.
“Absolutely not!!”
“Not there!!”
Lee Seo-young, slightly sullen at the sudden shouts of the two, answered with her dejected expression.
“······Yea, I got it···.”
After that, the two of them quarreled more for a while, and soon after signing a peace agreement to conserve their strength, they decided to sit down and take a break for a while.
He realized that further arguing would only make things worse, not better.
The three of them taking a break, soon silence began to flow.
“······What now?”
Breaking the silence, Seohyun asked.
Lee Da-young replied as if it were natural.
“What should I do? I have to go back here.”
“No… How do we get back here?”
“That’s… Well?”
“······.”
Still in an atmosphere where there seems to be no solution, Seohyun put her head between his legs and went into melancholy mode.
Lee Da-young also just looked up at the sky with a gloomy face.
“······Over there.”
Lee Seo-young, who was watching the two of them, cautiously opened her mouth.
Lee Seo-young looked at the two gloomy people as if they were about to talk.
“Don’t we… Have cell phones?”
“Yeah, right?”
Lee Da-young asked her question as if she was asking why she said something obvious.
Lee Seo-young scratched her head and continued her words.
“Isn’t it okay to call? Or turn on the map and see where this place is…”
“······Uh?”
“······Ah?”
At those words, the two of them stupidly widened their eyes as if in shock.
But for a while, her expression slowly began to brighten, and she immediately jumped up and shouted.
“Yes! We had cell phones, the newest civilization!”
The two hugged each other, cheering with joy, like a caveman discovering fire for the first time.
I forgot about it for a while because of the fear that comes from the dark, but cell phones don’t just have a flashlight function.
The flashlight is just an additional feature. There were various functions, starting with simple calls, text messages, games, and so on.
And there are apps for survival like the map that Lee Seo-young mentioned.
I knew she had a cell phone in her hand, but she just turned on the flashlight to illuminate the area. I hadn’t even thought about killing a map-like location application, let alone a phone call.
“What have we been up to…?”
“So. What do you do if you live in the modern age, your brain is stupid.”
“I’ll have to look at the map first.”
Seohyun lifted her phone to open the map app.
“Ah!!”
“What, what. What’s wrong?”
As soon as she picked up her cell phone, she suddenly heard a scream, so Seohyun took the cell phone down.
The identity of the scream was none other than Lee Da-young, who was in front of Seohyun.
“Oh, my eyes…”
Lee Da-yeong, who said that, was rubbing her eyes as if her eyes were still hurting.
“Oh right.”
It was only then that Seohyun realized that the flashlight function was activated on her cell phone.
She seemed to have been blinded by the light of the flashlight because she had lifted her cell phone.
Seohyun, who hurriedly turned off the flashlight, apologized for being sorry, launched the map app, and looked at the screen to find where it was.
“······Huh?”
I was touching and moving the screen to see how far it was from her grandfather’s house, but suddenly I saw something strange.
“What’s wrong, is there a problem?”
Lee Da-young, who was next to her, asked as if what had happened.
Lee Seo-young also quietly stood next to Seo-hyun as if she was curious.
Seohyun showed the screen of her cell phone to the two and started explaining.
“Look, is this where we are now?”
“Huh.”
“However?”
Seohyun manipulated the screen to show the location of her grandfather’s house.
“This is the location of my grandfather’s house. Did you notice anything strange?”
“Is that weird?”
“What is that?”
The two urged them to speak quickly.
Seohyun sighed and manipulated the screen again.
This time it wasn’t Grandpa’s house, and it wasn’t where we were.
“This is where the convenience store we originally wanted to go to is.”
Then we returned to our positions and continued talking.
“This is where we are now.”
“···!!”
“······.”
What this meant was that the place we are now is the complete opposite of our original destination.
Not even slightly out of line, just. Completely. Contrary.
Lee Seo-young, taken aback by Seohyun’s words, secretly looked away from her.
However, Seohyun did not leave Lee Seoyoung alone.
“I don’t know who it is, but thanks to walking all the way in the opposite direction, now I know perfectly where we need to go.”
Looking at Lee Seo-young, who was still looking away, Seo-hyeon finished her off with a finishing touch.
“I don’t know who it is, but I came to the opposite place because of someone… Well, that’s good. It’s really good.”
“······.”
He still didn’t say anything, just turned his head and looked somewhere.
* * *
With ice cream in her mouth, Seohyun made a happy expression as she felt the ice cream go down her throat.
“Ha… I think I’ll live a bit…”
“Ughhhhh! Me too.”
Lee Da-young, who was eating ice cream next to her, stretched her and greeted her.
“It took two hours, but well, it’s okay.”
It was quite a long time after I came to the convenience store in a completely opposite place.
Maybe if I hadn’t shouted there, it would have gone deeper and increased the time.
“Fuhaha, stop it now. If you do more, Seoyoung will get angry.”
“Okay okay.”
The three of them were returning to their grandfather’s house, having bought a lot of ice cream from the convenience store, which was their original purpose.
Of course, Seohyun, who opened the map app, took the lead.
‘Originally, Seoyoung noona was going to lead the way, but…’
This time, he asked me to trust him and only follow him, so I gave permission even though I put on an expression of disbelief.
Seeing this, the two vowed that they would never go down the path Lee Seo-young took.
Huge gimmick.
Everything looks perfect, but since she was a child, she often got lost and was nicknamed Gilchi.
‘How could I forget this?’
I have something else to eat.
Never. Never. I’m not going to take the lead.
