GSC: Chapter 124-Thirteenth Ghost Story – Wiggling Shadow (5)

WARNING: This chapter contains content that some may find disturbing. Readers please be advised.

 

“You want me to go in here?”

“Yes.”

The moment I was about to ask why I should go in there, the attendant suddenly grabbed my arm and pulled me inside.

“Uhhh……”

I was taken aback by the stronger force than I expected, and was dragged awkwardly into the women’s restroom.

The attendant quickly locked the door from the inside with quick movements, as if she was doing what she had to do, then turned around and pushed me firmly against the bathroom wall.

In the cramped space of less than one square meter, a sudden wave of perfume scent filled the air and tickled my nose.

“Look here.”

The flight attendant brought her pretty face close to mine, almost sticking to my nose and stuck her tongue out.

“Look at this tongue carefully.”

The attendant curled her red tongue into a U shape, as if showing it off.

The tongue slowly wiggled and squirmed, then began to dance sinuously between her red lipstick-coated lips.

“Look at this……”

Wiggle, wiggle.

Squirm, squirm.

The red tongue danced hypnotically between her captivating, glossy red lips, as if enchanting me.

Watching that, a sudden dizziness struck my mind, and everything around me began to spin.

“Please, stop……”

I quickly tried to shake her off and turn my head away, but the strange atmosphere made it impossible for me to use my strength.

Unlike me who was resisting weakly, the attendant seemed determined to make me watch.

My back was firmly pushed against the wall by the attendant.

And then she whispered in a friendly voice, as if guiding me.

“Don’t you feel something strange when you watch this?”

She narrowed her eyes and stuck out her tongue again, then started to wiggle and twist it, making it dance like a serpent.

Sometimes it would move up and down as if riding in waves in an ‘S’ shape, and sometimes it would curl into a ‘U’ shape, then it would ripple out again and stretch out like a snake.

As I stared, my gaze was captivated, and I felt my mind sway and dance, moving back and forth, following the movements of the tongue.

Soon, I became dazed and absorbed in the strange movements of the tongue, watching it intently.

‘Wow, what is this?’

I knew what it was.

This is the dominant recessive thing I learned in science class.

‘The ability to curl up your tongue is dominant and not being able to do it is recessive.’

I’m the type of person who can’t roll my tongue, but this person has an incredibly flexible tongue.

My mind was captivated by the movements, and instead of thinking about running away, I became absorbed in pointless questions.

‘How is something like this even possible?’

Wiggle, wiggle.

Squirm, squirm.

Wiggle, wiggle.

Squirm, squirm.

Before I knew it, I was completely entranced by the tongue’s movements, I lost strength in my grip and, with a snap, dropped the money bag from my hand.

Then, the attendant gave a sly smile, as if saying, ‘I knew it’ with a look that seemed almost mocking.

The tongue stretched out even longer, like a snake, dancing over my eyes as it seemed to hypnotize me.

“Wow~ haha… Wow……”

I completely surrendered myself to the tongue’s swaying movements, and even laughed foolishly while muttering meaningless words like, ‘That’s amazing, incredible.’

As my eyes followed the tongue, moving back and forth in all directions, I suddenly came to a realization.

‘This is the true meaning of the wiggle wiggle ghost story, I understand now!’

This is the greatest and most beautiful thing in the world!

“I understand, Sister!”

I cried out in joy, trembling with excitement.

“This is it! If we can spread this, the world can be peaceful again!”

Only then did the mesmerizing movement of her tongue stop, and the attendant smiled gently as she retracted it.

“Get up. We need to go and spread this together.”

Before I knew it, my legs had lost their strength and I was just sitting on the floor and watching it all.

“Yes, yes! I have a plan! Look at this!”

I opened the bag that had fallen on the floor and showed the golden wads of cash inside.

“I have over a billion won! I’m going to throw this around and make them watch us wiggling!”

“Wow.”

With an exclamation, the attendant smiled softly.

“Then let’s go together.”

“Yes, yes!”

I threw open the door to the women’s bathroom excitedly and ran out, then dashed straight into the aisle of the train’s cabin.

“Here, have some money!”

I took out a bundle of bills from my bag and said excitedly.

Then I started handing them out one by one, starting with the people in front of me.

“Here, take it. Take it!”

“……?”

The passengers hesitated and looked confused, but still took the bundles of money I handed them.

Passengers who had been resting with their heads against the window, gazing out at the dark scenery, began to wake up one by one, confused about what was happening, and then stood up.

“Here, here! Take it!”

“Ah, this……”

“What, is this real money?”

The passengers on the night train, bewildered, began to sift through the bundles of money, still unsure if this situation was real.

Behind me, the attendant stood with a smile, as if proud of me, her hand neatly resting on her stomach.

But something was squirming inside the cheeks with make-up on. I imagined her red tongue constantly performing an alluring dance in the mouth.

‘Once you figure it out, you can’t stop it either.’

Before long, I handed out a bundle of cash to each of the 20 or so passengers in the cabin.

Then I moved to the front of the seat and shouted at everyone proudly.

“That’s real money, so feel free to check it out!”

“Wow, what is this……”

“What the hell? What is happening? Is there a hidden camera or something?”

The attendant, with a gentle smile, began giving instructions to the passengers as if to calm them down.

“Excuse me for a moment. This passenger is going to show you something important, so please pay attention.”

The passengers were confused, but since the attendant, who was an employee, was with me, their gazes focused on me with a look of cooperation.

“Watch closely, everyone! Once this is over, I’ll give each of you another bundle of money, but you must not take your eyes off it, not even for a moment!”

The passengers murmured as if they agreed.

The attendant sister smiled as if she was proud of me and whispered close to my ear.

“Let’s get started, fighting.”

I patted my chest as if telling her to leave it to me, then stood in the middle of the aisle and slowly began to wiggle my body.

Wiggle~ Squirm. Wiggle~ Squirm.

“Is he like a YouTuber? Looks like they’re just filming.”

“Shhh! Focus!”

As the young man sitting in the couple seat looked around to find the camera, the woman slapped his knee.

“They said they’ll pay, so just focus!”

“Okay, fine……”

Like that, the eyes of the passengers in the 12th cabin of the night train were focused solely on my wiggling body.

The flow started from the tips of my right fingers and spiraled across to my opposite hand, as if riding the wave.

I bent over to my waist, slouching and swaying my hips, desperately showing the essence of my wiggling movements to the passengers, oblivious to everything else.

Before long, I could feel some passengers’ eyes turning blank.

‘It’s amazing, right?’

I gradually increased my speed, wriggling and dithering more passionately, dancing weirdly as the hair on top of my head scattered and bounced wildly.

Before I knew it, my body was reminiscent of a molluscan creature that was wiggling wildly without any care.

Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle.

Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm, Squirm.

Some passengers, with dazed expressions, let out exclamations of awe, and soon an elderly man jumped up from his seat.

“Young man! Are you talking about this? This!”

The elderly man grabbed his cane with both hands and started spinning around, as if performing a bong dance.

[T/N: The “bong dance” (봉춤) is a traditional Korean dance, often associated with Buddhist rituals. It involves the use of a long, ceremonial staff or a cane (called a “bong”), which the dancer swings or twirls in a graceful, flowing motion.]

Soon, a woman with permed hair suddenly stood up and lifted the magazine she was reading.

“Young man! Look at this! This can also wiggle!”

The lady, holding the magazine with both hands, fluttered it, making the book wiggle.

Soon, the couple who couldn’t concentrate earlier looked at each other with a somewhat excited expression and quickly exchanged opinions.

“Honey, don’t you think we can do this better if we do it together?”

“Hurry up, hurry up!”

The couple got up from their seats and came out to the aisle, holding each other’s waists as if they were playing a train game.

The attendant clapped her hands as if praising them and smiled happily, then grabbed me who was still dancing and wiggling wildly and shook me.

“That’s it! We can wiggle together now!”

Only then did I stop dancing wildly, and nodded my head in agreement while panting.

Soon, the attendant with an excited expression, gathered everyone into the aisle.

“Everyone, gather here! Let’s stand in a line and play the train game together and wiggle around! We can wiggle wiggle together now!”

The passengers, who seemed eager to immediately apply what they had just learned, trembled in excitement with their hands and feet itching to move. They immediately jumped up from their seats and joined us in the aisle.

The attendant kindly directed the passengers as if simulating an evacuation procedure, and guided them through the entire process.

“Place your hand on the shoulder of the person in front of you! Now, one, two! One, two!”

“Squat down~! Straighten up~! Squat down~! Straighten up~!”

“All together~! Let’s go~~~!

“Let’s go!!!!!!”

“Eeee! Let’s goooo!”

Like students in a sports day team-building event, the passengers lined up in a row, and started moving to the next cabin like this while shouting lively chants.

Our train game unfolding inside the night train.

We were all strangers, not knowing each other’s names, faces, or ages.

At this moment, all we knew was to wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle as we moved forward, from one cabin to the next, chanting wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wildly.

“Wiggle~! Wiggle~! Wiggle~! Wiggle~!”

We move forward to the next cabin with a loud roar of energy.

The passengers in the next cabin, who had been peeking around wondering what the commotion was about, looked at us in surprise and began murmuring.

Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle.

“Hey, what the hell……”

Other passengers, who were about to say something with confused expressions on their faces, closed their mouths as soon as they saw the neat-looking attendant leading the way.

The passengers looked at us with an expression of curiosity, as if wondering whether it was some kind of event as the staff was involved and stared at us blankly.

Seeing our group moving in a wriggling, squirming way while playing the train game, the passengers who watched us soon followed with blank expressions.

“Huh, how do they do that…..”

“Honey… isn’t this…. so weird to watch? Why do you think they’re all wiggling like that…?”

“What are you doing! Come to your senses!”

The husband grabbed his wife from behind, who was following behind us as if possessed, twisting her waist.

“You come to your senses and start wiggling quickly! Why are you just chasing after me! Like this!”

Wiggle~ Squirm. Wiggle~ Squirm.

Our train game, which started with 20 people, gradually began to grow to 40, then 60 people as enthusiastic passengers joined in each cabin.

“Everyone! Let’s try a little harder and wriggle some more!”

“Twist your waist a bit more! We were all flexible when we were young!”

Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle.

Like this, our train game, taking over one cabin after another, had eventually reached right in front of the engine room at the very front.

The attendant, who was leading the people at the front, knocked on the engine room door before opening it.

“Operator~ I’m coming in. People are acting strangely~”

[Okay! Come in quickly! What’s with all the noise!]

As the attendant entered the engine room, the door quickly closed and soon a brief sound of commotion was heard inside.

Soon, the door opened again with the attendant standing there and waving at us, and the elderly operator stood behind, his whole face covered in lipstick marks as he wiggled weakly.

“Spreading something like this while going around, you all must have had a hard time.”

“No way~! Shouldn’t wiggling should be shared with everyone!”

“I agree. However, I have some unfortunate news to share.”

The elderly operator wiggled forward with a pitiful expression as he said.

“I can’t operate the train in this condition. But I don’t want to stop wiggling either.”

“That’s right!”

“That’s right! We can’t give up on wiggling!”

The passengers, standing in a line in the passageway shouted loudly as if in agreement.

“Yeah! This is the right thing! Even if the train stops, we shouldn’t stop wiggling! You should know what to do next!”

“Thank you for understanding.”

The operator, who had been smiling with an awkward expression, suddenly made a serious face.

“It seems like the train might stop in the middle, so I ask that everyone please be careful not to stop wiggling in response to the break.”

“It has to spread throughout the world!”

A nun shouted, crying out in frustration.

“If the train stops in the middle, let’s walk through the mountains and share it with everyone!”

“I agree!”

“Hahaha… Let’s all do it together!”

“Of course!”

Passengers fill the passageway, laughing and wiggling together.

“Then, just in case there are any people left, let’s start the train game on the other side this time!”

“Alright~ buckle on, buckle on everyone!”

“We’re starting again! Stand in a line! In a line!”

We begin marching in a single line again, with our hands placed on each other’s shoulders.

Before we started, an old lady put her hand on my shoulder, wiggling her waist with tears in her eyes.

“Student, you’ve really done something great. What would we have done if we hadn’t known about this?”

“What’re you saying? I just did what I was supposed to do.”

I also shook my waist and answered.

Then, every passenger who followed behind me offered kind words of compliment with a pleased expression.

“Hey, young man. Once everything is over, come to Gangnam. I own a corporate building, so I’ll buy you a meal.”

“Haha, thank you.”

“I wish my son would wriggle around like a young man, but he’s always just playing games… haa.”

“Haha, well… it’s like that at my age too.”

A girl who looked like a middle school student followed behind, twisting her legs and waving her hands.

“Senior, let’s meet later and wiggle together! Everyone will be proud of what you’ve done!”

“Thank you, let’s go now.”

A rough-looking man with bulging shoulders shook and twisted his shoulders and nodded at me.

“Hey, if you ever come to Busan, look for me at Gwangalli. I’ll make sure to treat you to the best service.”

“I’ll remember that.”

[T/N: Gwangalli is a popular beach located in Busan, South Korea. It is known for its beautiful views, especially the Gwangalli Bridge, which is beautifully lit up at night.]

The attendant and the operator, who had been watching and listening to our conversation, patted my head once and followed behind while wiggling their limbs wildly.

“I’m proud of you.”

“You did a good job.”

I just nodded with an embarrassed expression, still wiggling my body.

“I just did what I had to do.”

“What a humble gentleman you are……”

“Haha, let’s all start together!”

“Let’s go, let’s go! Let’s all follow each other!”

“Let’s go~ Get going already! Let’s try to wiggle all the way to the end of the universe!”

“Wahahahahahaha.”

That crazy night in the KTX train

Inside, we have again started to

Wiggle wiggle.

Wiggle wiggle.

Wiggle wiggle.

Hehehe, this is the best, it’s amazing.

 

T/N: All the text with larger font, I hope the readers can imagine them wiggling. Because that’s how they were in the original text and I didn’t know how to make them wiggle here….. So I just made them look bigger. Apologies 💔