Ch 3: The Endless Corridor

The ghost lady continued smashing the door for a long time with her all might. Yet the weak door was still standing mightily. It's worth pondering how it could endure all battering till the end and didn't shatter into pieces.

After a long time, suddenly, the crazy attacks on the door stopped, and everything became peaceful. Only Azalias's heart-pounding sound was floating in the air.

A few minutes later, he turned back, leaned on the door, sat on the floor. His body became limp. He was already exhausted, and now this drained out every ounce of stamina he had left.

Slowly, his eyes became drowsy. He could see with the fuzzy sight that the opposite wall of the bathroom was expanding backward. The sturdy, tiled floor was turning into a bloody pool, and he was drowning deep.

He woke up from drowning suffocations and began searching for a way out. The previous tiny bathroom had already turned into an endless corridor with numerous red doors on its two walls. Among those, a few were leaking blood.

As he was closing a nearby red door, the ghost lady appeared behind him with blood-curdling laughter. Her sinister loud laughter shook the corridor, and the bloody pool was giving chill like ice.

Seeing the re-emergence of the ghost lady, Azalias swam frenziedly toward nearby the door. But alas! The door would not open how much he tried. It could only open with a specific key, and the most horrid part was that the ghost lady was wearing a necklace of countless keys.

Soon the ghost lady caught up to him, clutched his legs with her claw-like fingers, and was dragging him under the blood pool.

Azalias panicked and was throwing, hitting his hands and legs to and fro, sometimes hitting the ghost lady's face. Somehow he succeeded in freeing himself from her clutch. And while he was hitting her to and fro, he somehow managed to snatch away the key to door no 3.

Seeing him was approaching door no 3, the ghost lady chased after him giving an ear-piercing scream. The moment he opened the door, the ghost lady's fatal claw attack reached his back and tore the flesh of his back. But the impact of this attack helped him to quicken his entry into space behind the door. He collapsed unconscious on the ground behind the door, being oblivious of his surrounding.

As he was lying on the ground, his injuries were healing at an incredible rate. His body was becoming transparent as time passed.

When he opened his eyes, he discovered himself lying on the ground of a busy park. People were stepping through his body, and no one could see or feel him. He stood up and was bewildered seeing, that he was in an astral form, where anyone could pass through him.

He dumbfoundedly observed his surroundings, tried to communicate with people. But everything was futile, and no one interacts with him. He was becoming desperate, thinking that he died and became a ghost!

Just as he was giving in despair, a little three or four years chubby toddler ran toward him, and shouted looking at his eyes, "Weird uncle! Please stepped aside."

Azalias became dumbfounded again. There was someone who could see him! Was he alive, or the toddler could see the ghosts?

He didn't step away, and the little toddler almost tripped off to the ground while trying to dodge him.

The little toddler stopped after passing him and shouted, pointing his finger to him, "Ah! You weird uncle! Because of you, I almost broke my precious nose. You have to buy me five candies now."

Before he could answer, the toddler gave a frustrated shout, "Ah! Baddie daddy found out." And he ran again while a young man around his mid-twenties was shouting, "Brat, you have to bath today no matter what."

Oh yeah, the toddler's upper part was bare naked and was wearing only a diaper. His chubby chest was jiggling while he was running. He looked pretty cute in this state of his.

While he was running away from his father giggling, many visitors to the park were trying to catch him too. They were cheerful like they were playing with the toddler. It seemed he was very popular among the visitors. A beautiful lady gave an elegant smile, "Mr. Manager, what this cutie has done today?"

"Ah... Miss Jenny, this kid is very naughty. He won't bathe no matter how I try. And his mom gave me an ultimatum to bathe him before she came home." The Manager of the park heaved a heavy sigh.

"Hahaha, it's that so? Then let me try." Miss Jenny turned toward the naughty toddler, "Little darling Kiyan if you bathe today, I will give you dozens of candy."

The naughty toddler pealed heartfelt laughter and said cheekily, "First candy, and then bath." He didn't stop and ran to the horse riding amusement stand and rode on a wooden horse giving puppy eyes to the man on the charge, "Uncle goatee beard, Can you please start the horse?"

The white-bearded old man chuckled at the toddler, addressing him as goatee beard uncle, "Hahaha, you like it? You can have one too when you grow up."

"Really? Then I want two 'goatee beards'." The toddler seemed excited when he heard he could also have a goatee beard.

Miss Jenny and his father shook their head and went away to buy candies from the nearby shop.

Azalias took an interest in the little kid who could see him. The more he observed the kid, the more familiar he felt with the kid. But he could not pinpoint what was familiar about the kid with him.

Soon Miss Jenny and Mr. Manager came back with lots of candies and waited for the ride to stop. Azalias also approached them and stood silently behind them, a bit away.

After five minutes, the riding wheel stopped, and the kid stood upon the horse. He jumped from the horseback spreading his two hands like wings, and shouted, "Papa, Fly!"

But suddenly, the toddler looked at Azalias, and his body structure changed. The toddler changed into a green hideous creature. In fantasy stories or movies, we saw them as goblins. Though his body was not as hideous as in the stories or movies was described.

The goblin toddler looked at his eyes and told in a stern voice, "You don't belong here. Go away."

The moment the goblin kid spoke, Azalias felt an enormous force struck his body. He flew away through the red door and crashed into the corridor wall.