"Come out. Wherever you are."
He heard the girl's voice.
A guard was chasing him, but he still wanted to check where that girl was. Feeling scared, he lifted his head and peeked out. That's when he spotted the guard. But the sound was coming out from his mouth. The guard was the one mimicking the girl's voice.
"I found you."
They locked eyes. Min Jun was terrified and became teary-eyed.
"We need to play hide-and-seek, so why are you running away?"
He decided to go to his dad. He forced himself to run. His dad's office was in the third floor, so he dashed up the stairs. But the door wasn't opening. No matter how much he pulled, it just wouldn't budge. He kept hearing the footsteps behind him. He was about to go insane. He was panicking.
The moment the footsteps came closer, the door opened. And he fainted.
He finally opened his eyes. He was in the ER.
"Dad."
"What a relief. I am so sorry, it's all my fault."
His dad kept crying and apologizing. He was bawling.
The police checked the CCTV. There was a CCTV camera in front of the women's restroom on the fourth floor. Before Min Jun went to the fourth floor, the guard was seen entering the restroom first. He was also seen chasing Min Jun while carrying the duct tape and the rope. His dad saw everything. He saved Min Jun in the nick of time.
The police went to the guard's house. But he had already committed suicide. After the divorce, it was just him and his beloved daughter. Then one day, she had gotten into a hit and run accident and passed away.
However, there was something even more shocking. It was his death letter.
"I have been seeing my dead daughter a lot lately. My daughter, I'll accompany you. She keeps asking me to play with her since she has no friends where she is."
The last sentence was the creepiest of all.
"I was happy to play hide-and-seek, her favorite game with her for the last time."
But there was still something Min Jun couldn't understand.
'What about the girl? What about that girl in a pink dress?'
But his dad told him that there was no trace of that girl on the CCTV footage. What was even more shocking was that the CCTV recorded Min Jun talking to someone throughout the office. He was playing the game with no one.
Was the girl Min Jun played with at his dad's office ten years ago, the guard's late daughter?