Host, Please Be Honest! What Exactly Are You?

~Wheeee~

A sudden draft blew across the dark silent room. And immediately, Donghai felt the presence of another.

Dammit!

Donghai dropped to the ground and reached for his weapon on his waist.

Where? Where?

"Show yourself! I know you're in here! There's no need to hide anymore!"

Like a true officer, Donghai steadied his heart, quickly getting his glow stock out with another hand.

Shake. Shake. Shake.

He didn't see anyone in the dimly green-lit room.

But his intuition has always led him to the right path. So how could he be at ease?

Donghai slowly advanced to the light switch, pointing his weapon and the glow stick in all directions.

So far, so good.

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~Click.

He flickered the switch, returning the room to its very bright appearance.

It was stone to do a proper check.

"Where are you? Come out! I'll find you anyway!"

Donghai checked every possible position in his office, even answering the vents and accessing the system to check for any signs of infiltration.

As a top hacker with high security passes, he could get into the system and check things for himself. However, everything was as it should be.

He then proceeded to take his heat vision goggles in his lower drawer, checking the entire room for himself.

Yet, once more, no intruder was found.

Donghai finally walked towards the clock in his wall, taking it off and looking at it intensely.

Eh?

Could it be that the battery had died and he was just overthinking things?

Donghai began unwinding the hands on the clock in a daze.

However, the moment he heard the click resume its ticking.

~Tick-Tock.

Donghai tilted his head with an unfathomable gaze.

If the battery wasn't the problem, then why did it suddenly stop? Was there a glitch in its matrix?

But that didn't make sense. The interiors of any clock were very mechanical and details designed, structured to move at intended paces.

It wasn't like the interior of a car with parts that one could change and work on once a problem occurred.

For clocks, the batteries were typically what many would worry about.

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Donghai shook his head, placing the ticking clock back in its place.

Now, he turned to his tightly closed window before taking a step towards the temperature controller on the wall.

'Strange...The settings are the same as I always left them. So where did that earlier draft of air come from?'

Donghai felt that today's matters have all been too mysterious and too disturbing.

'Donghai, what are you thinking? How can you let the case get to your mind like this?'

Do this spoke to himself, smiling wryly at his stupidity.

There was nothing in the room, yet he was all jumpy for no reason.

Stepping closer to the mirror in his private office bathroom, he began adjusting his appearance.

It would be bad for his image if he joined his team looking disheveled with drool or discharge handling in the corners of his mouth and eyes.

~Shwahhh~

The tap water ran.

And Donghai was quick to splash some on his face, wiping it off with a white towel.

He was finally refreshed.

Donghai felt better than before.

And after adjusting his attire and hair, he nodded to himself... It was just that the image on the opposite side didn't nod back.

Bam!

Donghai slammed himself on the bathroom stall behind him in horror.

He had only gotten a glimpse. However, it was more than enough to itch fear into him.

Mommy... What did he just see?

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Bubuum. Bubuum.

Donghai's chest grew tight, with clusters of acid welled up inside. His body stood at attention, clenching all his muscles and joints.

That wasn't him!

The thing he saw smiled just like the smile he saw on the couple's face... Only, this time, the smile was replaced on his face instead.

Crazy. Crazy...

,m An oddly primitive warning abounded out at the back of his mind, giving him the sensation of a trapped door opening in his belly.

And for a moment, he found his feet frozen in place, refusing to move.

~Flick. Flick.~

The bathroom lights began to flicker like crazy, followed by a thick noise echoing out across the scene.

~Pow! Pow! Pow!

Donghai placed his hands over his ears, shielding them from the horrors of a thousand screams.

Painful. Painful... His ears were about to pop!

But this was just the beginning.

Instantly, Donghai's face turned paperwhite, feeling a strange force dragging him towards the mirror.

Already, he had a hunch of what was going to happen.

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No! No! No!

Click.

He turned on his walkie-talkie.

"Leah! Leah!!!!~"

Donghai screamed in despair, feeling his entire life flash before his eyes.

"Leah!!!!~"

Donghai was at his limits, the weaker his body grew.

However, things were only going downhill for him.

Bruuuhhhh~

The brutal wind stormed past the scene, pushing him closer and over to the horrifying mirror.

And on the other side in the mirror world, his counterpart was smiling unnaturally, advancing one step at a time.

Its smile turned even more distorted, revealing a disgusting appearance that made Donghai feel like puking.

Was this his end?

Blugh~

Ugly. Ugly. Ugly.

Donghai, though afraid, had more survival instincts than anything else.

If it were an ordinary person, they would have long gotten swallowed in despair, begging for their lives while getting devoured.

He gritted his teeth, taking out his dagger and stabbing into the wooden bathroom stall door.

And the heavy winds lifted his legs, forcefully dragging him towards the mirror.

Son of b**ch!

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Donghai smirked with a hint of victory across his face.

"Hahahahahahahaha... Screw you! If I don't get to the mirror, what can you do to me?"

The image on the other side froze, standing in the same position as Donghai's in the mirror world.

Listening to Donghai, the figure only chuckled, advancing even further towards.

"Hahahah~... What can you... F***!"

Donghai wanted to curse his loud mouth.

This was probably why the protagonists in movies weren't fast to talk smack.

He watched as his counterpart emerged from the mirror, only wanting to slap his big mouth again.

~Pap!

One of the light bulbs finally shattered on the ceiling.

Din. Din. Din.

The heavy footsteps of his hunched and gruesome-looking doppelganger echoed out, only making his heart grow weaker and weaker.

So, this was how he was going to die?

Leah!~ For heaven's sake, woman!... Where the hell are you?

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Bam!

"Leader, I'm here!"