Dear Eddert - Chapter 10 - Belle Reservoir

Chapter 10
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“Excuse me. I’m sorry, but I don’t know what you’re talking about. Am… I… Am I dead?”

Hyemi was actually confused. Perhaps she really had drowned in the Han River earlier. Then she might have been able to comprehend all this. The silver-haired handsome man could be a grim reaper who came to pick her up.

“It would be good to hear the explanation from your loyal subordinate.”

“Subordinate? Who are you talking about?”

It was becoming more and more difficult. The grim reaper, who was speaking increasingly strange words, tilted his head towards her.

“You don’t have to rush.”

A breath like the cold winter wind touched her delicate cheeks. Hyemi froze as she couldn’t even blink her eyes as she looked into his pale blue eyes that she was about to be sucked into.

“My name is Benedict. When you need help, come find me.”

A cold snowflake-like touch touched Hyemi’s cheek.

“I will be waiting for you in the brightest place.”

She couldn’t move her body. A bright light was emanating from his body.

“I’ll give you a present to commemorate finding you.”

A cold, icy, soft voice reverberated in her mind. Hyemi just had her eyes wide open and couldn’t move on the spot.

“I apologize for interrupting your fun time.”

After the light that pierced her pupils so brightly that she couldn’t open her eyes disappeared, Hyemi barely opened her eyes. The silver-haired grim reaper was gone. The mobile phone loaded with the webtoon she was watching was quietly lying on the messy bed linen.

It was a dream.

“…Oh. Of course.”

A sigh escaped from her lips, which was then relaxed. Hyemi checked her room, tying her untangled hair again.

Her room was neither big nor small. From the time she entered elementary school until now, nothing had changed in the room she occupied.

A rustic patterned pink wallpaper that her mother picked up when they moved in. A square yellow wall clock she couldn’t remember when exactly it was hung there. A small desk that she used to sit and study at, and a full-length mirror hanging next to the door.

“……”

Her gaze stopped in the mirror as she twisted her hair into the rubber band. There was a large man looking at her in the mirror, with black hooded cloak wrapped around his body.

The dream wasn’t over. And the grim reaper was different.

“Eden, can you see me?”

As big as a black rock, the ghastly man had a complicated look on his face as he looked at her in the mirror.

“You can see me.”

Hyemi didn’t say anything, she just opened her eyes. She trembled as her dry, dehydrated lips opened silently.

“Wake up. Come on, wake up.”

Hyemi muttered to herself and grabbed the thin blanket with her sweat-soaked hands. Her thumping, racing heart showed no sign of calming down, but it wasn’t enough that she’d faint.

“It’s you, so I believed you could come back.”

In the shocking scene that followed, Hyemi froze in that state. A shrouded man was coming out of the mirror. The mirror, which should have been flat, stretched forward and bulged. The man was slowly pushing his body out of it, as if he had torn off a transparent wallpaper.

The silver-haired man smiling on the phone was a nobleman. She stuttered her words to the vivid scene more vivid than any horror movie she had ever seen.

“Ah, aahh… no…”

As if sitting down under the threatening feeling, Hyemi crawled behind. Her back touched the headboard of the bed, and she couldn’t go any further.

“I waited a long time, Eden. I knew you would wake up.”

“Do, don’t come…”

Hyemi muttered with terrified eyes, but it was to no avail. The man was now approaching her in the bed, after pulling himself completely out of the mirror.

“Ha…. Ah…!”

It’s not too late now. Would she die if she jumped from the window on the third floor of this apartment building? If she’s lucky, she might end up with a broken leg. Anything would be better than jumping off a bridge over the Han River. Feeling the fear of death in front of her, Hyemi got up and tried to run away, but she couldn’t move as if her body had been tied with a rope.

“Heuk…! Uuhhh…!

With her eyes closed tight, a faint scream escaped Hyemi’s mouth. Even with her eyes closed, she could feel it. The fact that the shrouded man was now completely out of the mirror and inside her room.

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