"We'd be assigned tasks after entering."
"They were usually survival tasks for first-timers, sending us somewhere and allowing us to leave after surviving for a certain amount of time."
"Usually, it was three days."
"I was assigned to an abandoned Underground Garage."
"That garage..."
"Would have an extra door appear on the wall at night."
"I was relatively lucky."
"Although I stayed there for three days, that door never opened. I could only smell disinfectant and a rotting stench drifting out from it. I suspected it was an underground Corpse Repository."
"Half of the others who joined at the same time as me died."
"Those of us who were lucky enough to survive talked to one another afterward. We discovered that some people encountered Supernatural Phenomena, while others, like me, encountered nothing at all."
"Those who died should have truly provoked a Vicious Ghost."
"The second task."
"I was assigned to a villa."
"To find a Golden Bracelet."
"After I went inside, I found a corpse that had already soaked and rotted away in the bathtub of the bathroom."
"The bracelet was on her hand."
"When I took the bracelet, her eyes suddenly opened."
"It scared the hell out of me."
"I don't know what I was thinking then. I actually reached out and pulled her raised eyelids back down, covering them again."
"Then I ran."
"Looking back on it later, I realized that action had probably saved my life."
"When a Vicious Ghost opened its eyes, it meant it was going to kill someone."
"Before it had fully awakened, my action of closing her eyelids again obstructed her movements. After I ran out of the villa, I looked back and saw her standing by the bathroom window on the second floor."
"She was staring at me."
"Fuck!"
"If I