A Peaceful Death

"At the end... the father should take them away from here."

"But Sansa, that father seems to have already lost his mind."

Galolie could hear the discussion between the two behind her.

The best ending Galolie could imagine for this film was for the father to escape this place with his wife and son.

But merely from the suggestive shots and hints in the plot, Galolie had already guessed what would happen next.

The father had long since been bewitched by the ghosts, causing his behavior to become increasingly deranged!

When the camera turned to the little boy lying blankly on the bed, the background music became shrill and oppressive once more. The word "MURDER" was written in scarlet on the door, and surging blood swept through the corridor again.

At that instant, the discussions around them stopped once more.

The audience had mentally prepared themselves for something terrifying to suddenly leap out at any moment.

Galolie faintly heard someone holding their breath. In fact... she was holding hers too.

But nothing happened... no more horrifying shots appeared afterward.

It was only that the increasingly volatile father and his wife disagreed over whether to leave the manor or remain there, and began arguing fiercely.

"I won't let you ruin my life again!"

After shouting those words at her, the father on the screen strode out of the room, passed through the basement, and violently knocked everything to the floor.

This scene would have been equally suited for all manner of ghosts and specters to appear, but the camera shifted again in the next second. The father arrived in a lavishly decorated corridor.

Was something about to emerge?

Galolie's nerves tightened as she began imagining the horrifying scene to come.

A ghost? A rotten corpse? Or perhaps a skeleton?

But there