‘……Ha.’
This was the chilling truth.
At Magic Bunny’s playful gestures, they die and turn into mascots in that death march. Even when I stopped pushing visitors out with the standard mascots, the red zone visitors did not stop.
They continued to grip at the yellow mascot’s flesh and fling themselves at the gate.
“AAAHHHHHH!”
The gate had become a sight no one should ever have to see.
And it doesn’t end there.
Magic Bunny, using a long magic wand-like toy merchandise, was even stabbing visitors who hadn’t yet crossed the gate.
“…!”
“Stop it, you disgusting…!”Thunk.
A red visitor’s neck is snapped and they roll onto the garden.
In the yellow zone…
…they became a corpse.
But the one who thoroughly corrupted that visitor was the Magic Bunny, and the one who killed and disposed of them was also the Magic Bunny.
Their form twists and distorts.
“…!!”
“Eek, r-red mascot…!”
The Magic Bunny mascot, having shed its corpse, rises up in the yellow zone.
And, drawing terrifyingly close, it rushes madly toward the staff and me.
“Aaaack!!”
But mascots cannot cross into another zone.
Thunk.
The advancing Magic Bunny mascot, like a balloon slowly losing air, staggers and then collapses, stiff on the ground.
“……”
“I-It stopped…”
But the red mascots don’t stop their actions.
Playful bunny dolls bash the heads of the unfortunate.
“Ack! Aaaah!”
“The Great Magic Bu—”
Those who died caught in the gate transform into Magic Bunnies and, as they rush forward, they keep collapsing and stopping in place.
Overwhelming waste.
Overwhelming brutality.
…Before long, dozens of corpses—red mascot mutants—piled up in the resort garden.
The staff watched, frozen in place, not even daring to breathe…
“……”
“……”
I lifted my head and looked at Magic Bunny beyond the gate.
And I realized it.
This performance is a threat.
It’s meant to make me get angry or scared and overreact, so that what happens next will be even more fun for them—a kind of prelude to their amusement.
F u n !
Fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun fun
On the other side of the gate, the Magic Bunnies clap their hands.
– Kyaahahahahaha!
Some guests from my zone laugh along with them.
…Laugh?
They’re laughing after seeing this scene? Even though they might miss the dazzling illumination, even those people laughing seem to have no manners!
Q u i e t
The guests hurriedly covered their mouths.
The Magic Bunnies poked their heads through the gate, as if wanting to get a better look at the scene.
‘You too, shut up.’
I grabbed one of the Magic Bunny mascot suits lying around on this side and hurled it hard.
Thunk!
The Magic Bunnies that got hit in the head toppled backward.
“Huuk!”
At that moment.
Whip.
The red mascots who hadn’t been hit all turned their heads at once and stared right at me.
Hahahahahahahaha
As if to kill.
Hahahahahahahaha
Silently.
…A chilling terror swept over me. Still, I felt like I could breathe again, just a bit.
Whenever you try to pull something like you did earlier, I’ll just have to do this—
“Mr. Roe Deer.”
Even if you don’t keep calling me, I remember that was my old name.
“Mr. Roe Deer.”
I know!
I turned to the one who called me.
Section Chief Lee Jaheon.
“It looks like you need help.”
But who could possibly help me now?
…Ah, wait.
……
Maybe.
– We Can Help.
That button item, the emergency escape tool, the one that reptilian alien used to control my body before. Is he talking about that?
It was certainly useful. But I can’t use it now. Besides, I don’t have any money to use the Space Shopping Mall…
N o B u t t o n
“I see.”
Lee Jaheon replied, looking at me without a hint of agitation.
“Please reconsider this conversation after business hours are over.”
……
“When business hours end, you need to rest as well. Have you gotten any rest lately?”
N o
“Tonight, take off your mascot suit and rest.”
C a n ’ t
If tonight’s ceremony ends safely, I’ll come out and stand guard. The red mascot will definitely try something else.
‘…If I’m careless, I’ll die.’
No, it’ll be a massacre.
This mascot was very clearly depicted as killing other mascots in the attractions.
He definitely knows how to kill mascots and will try to do it.
C a n ’ t T a k e O f f
“You can take it off.”
Lee Jaheon’s voice was utterly flat.
“When the theme park’s operations end, your shift ends as well. That means you can rest as yourself, not as a mascot.”
That’s not the problem, though…
Wait.
Wait, wait.
Just now… I feel like I heard something strange.
‘So, after the theme park closes for the day, I can exist in a state other than the mascot…’
……!!
I remembered.
After the theme park’s operating hours ended, the guests who couldn’t get back into the resort, begging and pounding on the lobby door.
– Let us innnnnnn!
People vanishing in terror as they ran away. All those people who entered the theme park via the board game and never made it out before closing time, eventually going missing.
…Unless they were a special case like Supervisor Lee Seonghae.
‘And Supervisor Lee even said it herself.’
– Once business hours end, there were weird noises from the theme park, but even if that crazy rabbit chased me into the forest, it was a bit slower there.
If it was just normal sounds you’d expect from the theme park—like attraction repairs—she wouldn’t have called them ‘weird noises’.
That means… they were sounds that should never be heard in the theme park.
So…
Noises that don’t belong in the theme park.
And, with no other employees possessing separate selves, only the Magic Bunny mascot exists in the red zone after closing hours, so it’s only natural that it would be the one making those noises…
‘……’
I looked at the red mascot in the rabbit costume on the other side of the gate.
Then.
Then maybe, after operating hours, a mascot can take off their suit and walk around.
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