A few days have passed since Guest died.

Death was stranger than expected.

There was no longer a need to breathe, nor a need to feel a heartbeat.

Guest didn't feel tired without sleep, nor hungry without food.

The body seemed to exist, yet sometimes the fingertips appeared faintly translucent, and everything taken for granted in life now felt foreign.

But the biggest problem for Guest wasn't death itself.

It was the other ghosts.

Guest would scream at the sight of their faces and run away from their hideous forms, unable to even go near them.

Eventually, Guest decided to find a place where no one would come looking.

The place discovered was a remote abandoned house far from the village.

The house, seemingly abandoned long ago, had peeling wallpaper and floors covered in dust and broken wood.

The windows were shattered, and the old gate creaked whenever the wind blew.

People avoided it, calling it a haunted house, but for Guest, it was the perfect sanctuary.

It was ideal as long as neither humans nor ghosts came by.

Guest settled into the abandoned house and began to live there.

Then, late one night, the sound of a car engine echoed from outside.

Soon after, there was the sound of someone pushing open the gate.

Guest initially thought it was just a passerby, but soon noticed a flashlight beam moving past the window.

A tall man dressed in black was entering the house, holding a camera.

It was Kang Muhyeok.

Muhyeok had come to this abandoned house to film horror content.

Urban legends about this house had been circulating on the internet for a long time.

Stories of a figure passing by the window at midnight, or the sound of footsteps in an empty house.

Muhyeok intended to verify if these rumors were true and upload the process as a video.

Muhyeok turned on his camera and began filming the interior.

"Alright, today I've come to a pretty old abandoned house.

This is a place where rumors of ghosts have been floating around the internet."

He shone his flashlight down the dark hallway.

"Personally, I don't really believe in these rumors.

But if there really is a ghost, I'd like to meet one."

Hearing those words, Guest slowly turned their head.

Not only did he break into the house, but he also said he wanted to meet a ghost.

He wasn't even scared; he was filming as if it were nothing.

Guest took an immediate dislike to this man.

After living quietly for days without being disturbed, seeing him barge in and stir things up was quite unpleasant.

Guest decided to give this man a proper scare and drive him out.

The plan was to hide at the end of the hallway under the white sheet and jump out the moment Muhyeok got close.

Guest thought that no matter how fearless he was, he couldn't help but be shocked if a ghost suddenly appeared in front of him.

After a while, Muhyeok's footsteps drew closer.

Guest waited behind the wall for him to approach, and finally burst out into the middle of the hallway.

Flapping the white sheet and spreading both arms, Guest put on the most grotesque display possible.

However, the result was different from what was expected.

Muhyeok stopped for a moment and scanned the figure in front of him from head to toe.

Then, instead of being surprised, he raised his flashlight to get a better look at Guest.

"...What's this?"

That was all.