Chapter 271 (2/2)

'Hah… Hah… What the! A dream, again? A dream within a dream? Hah…' I walked out onto the veranda as I muttered to myself. The winter air was cold, but it allowed me to dig my way out of the nightmare. 'I wonder what that dream was supposed to be… It doesn't really make me feel good…' I felt a little scared, so I called a friend. Thankfully, she answered the call despite the late hour.

Thanks to her sense of humor, I was able to calm down quickly and go back to bed. I let out a sigh as I covered my head with my blanket. Doing this was a habit of mine from my childhood. ”Isn't it stuffy inside?” other people constantly asked me, but sleeping like this felt irresistibly warm to me.

However, right before I got to close my eyes, I felt something move under the blankets, and I lifted the blanket immediately.

”Kyaaaah!!!”

I screamed. The black cat from my dreams was glaring at me. I fell down from my bed and screamed without stopping.

”Kyaaah! Ahhh!!”

12:00A.M. The clock was pointing at exactly 12.

A police car and an ambulance arrived at a hospital nearby.

”Detective Park! Did you get into touch with the patient's guardian?! How is she doing?”

”That's… The woman had pa.s.sed away by the time we arrived. She died at 12:00A.M. She didn't bleed much, but her limbs were twisted to the point where she couldn't even use her hands. We're still trying to figure out which car hit her.”

”d.a.m.n… How cruel… Secure the area immediately and try to find witnesses. Detective Park, let's go back, then.”

– I'm living in a dream. I'm not alive, and I'm not dead. It's not yesterday, and it's not tomorrow. It's 12:00A.M. I am stuck at the hour called 12. Somebody… Save me… Help… Someone… Find me…

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