phistopheles: I am not afraid of this wager in the slightest. On the day I achieve my goal. Please allow to shout out loud at the top of my lungs. I will feed that guy garbage. And I’ll make him eat it with relish. Just like the famous serpent of Eden, who was my own flesh and blood.
As the devil taunted, God spoke.
God: If you wish to talk again, co whenever you please. I have never hated your kind. Among all the spirits that practice denial, The least burdenso is a trickster like you. Human activity is too prone to slackness, and they are apt to love unconditional rest. Therefore, I give them a companion, It is the duty of devils to stimulate them and make them co to their senses. You too are true sons of God. Enjoy this beauty!
The devil speaks.
Ha!
Sotis, seeing that old man isn’t so bad.
ㅡ(From the play Faust)ㅡ
…
“In the end, I failed to see that old man’s face.”
phistopheles mutters as he looks at the world that has returned to normal.
“I should have sohow stopped Alice’s children.”
phistopheles was lost in thought for a mont.
“…”
And then he laughed, realizing it was a foolish thought.
If this huge flow was to be swayed by re children, the result would have been the sa no matter what.
If whatever evil he committed was bound to beco a more valuable good, then perhaps this derived world was also under that old man’s influence.
In truth, no one could know.
No one but God.
Part of the Institution also joined phistopheles’ plan to build a nation that would not et the end of a derived world, a nation that would not disappear.
Dorothy also denied reality and spun the Ferris wheel in her illusion.
Alice, too, had her eyes covered and tried to create an ideal heaven where the children’s adventure would continue.
Lewis Carroll too, and all those who harbored desires, reached out towards the original world, but in the end, the brats who insisted they were human chose to live by striving in the mont rather than an eternal future.
phistopheles chuckled on the spot and then disappeared.
The last place he appeared was in front of Lewis Carroll’s grave.
It was a simple whim.
He hadn’t ford any particular bond with Lewis Carroll, and was rather indifferent.
Nevertheless, the reason he bothered to visit this place was because her end, burning her body to block him, had been quite impressive.
He looked at the grave, where white flowers and a broken lantern lay, and was about to turn back.
Then, soone walked up behind him.
“I didn’t know you were smart enough to predict my movents.”
That soone was Alice.
“Unfortunately, it’s a coincidence.”
In Alice’s arms were a handwritten letter and a colorful bouquet of flowers to put on the grave.
This ant that her and his eting was truly a coincidence.
“Since we’ve t, let know. Why did it have to be ?”
This was a question about why all this had happened only to her.
If he had tried, he could have found many others in similar circumstances to hers.
To that, phistopheles replied.
“Such a question is aningless. What would you say if a guy who’s unlucky enough to get hit by a teor asked that question? It was just a coincidence.”
“…Is that really all?”
“…”
She looks at him earnestly.
Even though it was a question not worth answering, he felt strangely reluctant not to answer.
phistopheles recalls his mory of the original world, not his own…
God: If you wish to talk again, co whenever you please. I have never hated your kind.
phistopheles: Sotis, seeing that old man isn’t so bad.
His brief recollection ended.
He muttered that he understood Faust’s despair, and then spoke softly.
“Talking to you wasn’t so bad. That’s all.”
“…Thank you. It won’t justify the evil you’ve committed… but it feels a little better. I’m quite happy. That all the stories so far have led to friendship.”
Alice, who heard the nonsensical answer, smiled in relief as if that was good enough.
phistopheles looked at her and then hid his presence again.
Alice speaks to him as he disappears.
“Then let’s et again. My first friend. It’s because it’s in front of a grave, but if we et again sowhere else, my fist will fly first. Be warned in advance. I’ll lock you in the basent and keep hitting you.”
“Ha! I made one good devil. Farewell, Han Yoo-hee.”
phistopheles disappeared again and did not appear for a while.
…
POV Switch – Ha-rim
This is what happened after the world completely returned.
Our world was quite different from before.
The singularity Alice had held back… No, perhaps because she overca the arrogance of the derived world, it almost lost its power.
As a result, beings with ruler-like power no longer appeared.
However, the number of anomalies increased, so the head of the Institution still leads a busy life.
And a while ago, a scout offer ca to us.
It was said that they wanted to raise us as agents of the Institution, even though we are elentary school students. Wow! I don’t have to worry about employnt!
But it’s quite a dangerous job, so I’ll have to think about it a lot.
If I get married, I’ll have to protect my child rather than working for the Institution…
Is it too early to be thinking about such things? Hehe.
Co to think of it, they say it’s good to find your career path when you’re young, so I should try various activities besides the Institution…
Imdiately after the Alice incident.
Other tale devils also returned, and after hearing the circumstances, they were all surprised.
Dorothy’s reaction was also impressive.
She looked a little sad.
Perhaps because a big incident had occurred, they also enjoyed their own daily lives.
Pinocchio’s precious child.
The child nad Cassie seems to be entering the 5th grade soon.
She complained that her back was bent from earning money and raising a child due to spending a lot of money on private education.
Well, I don’t know about other countries, but private education costs in Korea are expensive.
Maybe she’s half crazy.
Peter Pan is said to be playing the role of diating peace in the Institution.
With force, that is.
He seems to like this role.
He said.
The most fun is peaceful troublemaking… I also haven’t forgotten the thrill of setting fire to Peter Pan’s factory, so I deeply sympathized.
Ariel, while enjoying the boredom of a relatively peaceful world, was also bored, or perhaps chasing her dream again, she was earning money by streaming on the internet.
She changed her appearance to be ordinary, but she sotis srizes viewers with her songs, so the Institution doesn’t seem to like it very much.
She seems to have beco half a ghost story on the internet, so I wanted to try exorcising her.
Jack seems to be doing volunteer work by finding fertile lands with his fruit-bearing power, harvesting the fruits, and then delivering them to countries suffering from famine.
Contrary to Ariel, who beca an internet ghost story, Jack seems to have beco sothing like a land fairy in that country.
He rather liked it.
He seems to be satisfied, saying that he is living a fulfilling life just by alleviating his past guilt.
Dorothy still misses her real ho, but she seems to have accepted her new ho with a bittersweet smile.
Still, her frequency of playing with us has decreased.
Currently, she spends her ti annihilating anomalous entities with the Institution.
She occasionally sends pictures, saying she did sothing aningful, but her smiling face in the always blood-soaked appearance was creepy.
“Haa…”
Snow falls from the sky.
Winter has already passed… White breath appears in the air and then disappears.
Going to school on a day like this.
I wonder if I can take a break.
It hasn’t been long since I entered middle school, and eting new friends is fun, but the cold weather is really not good.
Suho, Eun-jeong, and Kyeong-min, who coincidentally ended up in the sa class, also seed to hate the cold weather, as they bought a lot of hot packs and shook them around.
It seems a bit excessive… Anyway, at school, we discussed whether to create an occult club here too while thinking about our future careers.
Our country, crazy about education, probably won’t allow it like in elentary school.
I’m thinking of disguising it as a study club.
After school, we headed to my house.
Until the club-related matters are resolved, it was judged more reasonable to et at my always empty house.
Opening the door.
Alice welcod us.
“Nya nya… Are you back?”
Wearing cat gloves on her hands, she was imitating a cat.
“Hey, kids. How long do I have to do this imitation…?”
“Alice is a cat, so you have to add nya at the end of every sentence!”
Alice had to be punished for a while.
Just like when she tried to erase our mories during the Neverland incident.
She swore she wouldn’t do anything like leaving us, but even if she was caught in a trap, she committed the sa mistake twice, so the price was severe.
“Ha-rim… Please help . Eun-jeong is forcing to wear a swimsuit! And then she asks to go outside!”
Alice, on the verge of tears, clings to .
I smiled brightly at Alice’s feelings.
“Yes, I see. Alice, you hate that?”
“Of course!”
Alice shrugged her shoulders as if asking why I was asking such an obvious thing.
I asked Alice that.
“If you don’t like it, are you going to leave us and disappear again?”
“Huh?”
“Why? Alice likes to disappear.”
“That’s… not true…”
“Even if not, you’re still being punished. Just shut up and make cat noises.”
“…Nya nya~”
Alice trembled and tried to appease by doing things she would never normally do, like rubbing against .
Actually, I wasn’t that angry.
Still, I feel like she won’t leave us on her own if I punish her like this.
We’ll eventually forgive , but it’ll take a little longer to clear the karma.
Still, Alice only has to imitate a cat for 2 hours a day.
She can regain her dignity for the rest of the ti.
“Really…”
Alice, who had finished her punishnt ti and changed her clothes, stood beside us who were chatting with tired faces.
“It’s all over.”
That’s right.
The big incidents are all over now.
It’s true that the story has ended, and we’re just living a peaceful daily life like an epilogue.
Suddenly, Alice’s blonde hair turned black.
Alice said that it happens sotis because she’s no longer afraid of waking up from a dream.
Alice changed her hair back to blonde and acted nonchalantly.
I told her.
“Hmm, a black cat wouldn’t be bad either.”
“…Just don’t put a leash on .”
“Just kidding! The punishnt ti is two hours a day!”
“I wish you’d say you wouldn’t do it at all…”
A comfortable and peaceful conversation with Alice.
An epilogue after everything is over.
Oh, maybe this is the end of the story?
It should be fine.
It doesn’t an our misfortune, and even if the story ends, we will continue to live.
Alice, who remained not as a god but as our own mirror ghost… This ideal ending will lead to another beginning.
I recalled the adventures so far.
And I decided to record them in my diary since I rembered.
Recalling what I couldn’t write in my diary so far, I started writing.
Alice who fell for phistopheles’ trick, Mister Jack O’Lantern who guided us, and sister Lewis Carroll who helped us… Eventually, even saving Alice.
And I have to write about today’s events too… Since there’s a lot of content, I could barely fit in saving Alice and the world returning to normal on the last page.
I inserted a sentence to indicate a break in the middle and decided to take out a new diary.
I pondered what to write as the last sentence of the first diary.
I soon decided and started writing.
[Alice was saved, and our world returned to normal. The last page of the diary has ended, but our adventure continued…]
Arrow pointing, continued in the next diary!
I inserted a photo and closed the diary.
I Beca a Ghost in a Horror Ga. (Complete)
Finally, I Beca a Ghost in a Horror Ga is complete!
I’ll see you in the afterword.
Were there any morable chapters or characters?
I hope there were!
As always, if you spot any mistakes, feel free to let know—and I hope you enjoyed the read!
—Chi
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