25 Please let me live again (1/2)
”You should definitely avoid the exorcist.” Go Jae Hee and Nam Ji Won are sort of best buddies. She is about her age and easy to be with. ”The priests. Shamans.”
”Nasty necromancers.” Oh Man Seok, a ghost of a middle-aged man, adds in the list. ”I was almost caught by them in the cemetery. They are bad...really bad. If you are ever caught by them, you can say goodbye to freedom.”
”Necromancers trap a ghost in a dead body to do dark things.” Go Jae Hee takes a deep breath. Her face looks haunted. Nam Ji Won wonders what are necromancers. They can even haunt the ghosts.
”Dark magic practitioners are bad for ghosts. They do horrible things.”
”You should avoid the holy ones.” Oh Man Seok adds another one. ”The people with faith are naturally painful to the ghosts. They don't have to do anything. Being around them can make you feel like you are dying a countless death.”
”But you don't die.” Go Jae Hee pales. ”You remain as a ghost and hope that they leave you alone.”
”The next is otherworldly creatures.” Oh Man Seok wraps his arms around himself. ”The death reapers. Demons. Angels. Gods. The list is long.”
”They aren't humans.” Go Jae Hee eyes her strangely. ”They can wipe your existence in a blink.”
”Scary.” Nam Ji Won mutters. ”I don't think that I want to remain as a ghost.”
”It's not that bad.” Go Jae Hee pats her head. ”You can ride the wind and walk through walls. You don't have to eat or sleep. You can haunt people. You are also immortal.”
”If you can wake up, that's better,” Oh Man Seok says. ”You will forget about us, but you will get a chance to live again.”
”Living is also scary.” Nam Ji Won smiles sadly.
The days turn to months. The months turn to years. Nam Ji Won is an outsider. The living can't see her. The dead doesn't accept her. The reapers wouldn't take her. She avoids the other kind anyway.
She is sitting on the rooftop, quietly watching the bright sky. She can feel the sunlight. She can feel the wind. She doesn't understand how.
”Found you!” The pale and sickly man comes beside her.
”You can see me?” Nam Ji Won isn't surprised. There are humans who can see the other world. She has heard about them. She has even met one before.
”Do you want to wake up?” His tone is light like he is asking if she wants to have some coffee.
”Who are you?” She sat up and asked in a low voice.
”My name is Choi Min Ho,” The man answers her. ”I am a teacher.”
She makes a face. For some reason, he reminds her of a fox. She doesn't want to trust him. Go Jae Hee has warned her about shady people. They are quite scammers. In the other world, there are many who promises things. However, there is always a price.
”Introduce yourself.”
”Nam Ji Won.” She tells him.
”I can help you wake up.”
”How?” She asks. She doesn't have much hope.
”That's a secret.” Choi Minho tries to touch her long hair, but his fingers pass through them. The sunlight is almost passing through her, making her look like a beautiful painting.
”Nam Ji Won, you are beautiful.”