During the holidays, it's my favorite time Because I will be able to fully play the remaining games. In the morning, I wake up and follow my usual routine before sitting down to play games at my computer desk. Normally, my mom does the housework, but today my parents went out of town for some errands, and my younger sister went out with her friends and won't be back until tomorrow.
While I was playing a game, I suddenly heard the phone ringing. I diverted my gaze from the computer screen to my mobile phone screen and found that the caller was my close friend named Sun, who studies at a different university. We've known each other since high school. We often played games together. Sometimes we even play gaming events together. We were both addicted to video games back then.
I took my hands off the mouse and keyboard, then took off my headphones, picked up my phone, and answered the call, greeting the person on the other end as I always do.
"What's up, man?"
[Ren, are you free?]
"Yeah, I'm free. What's up?"
[Come with me to a friend's house.]
"Which friend?" I asked Sun curiously.
[A friend from middle school. He invited me to his house.]
Upon hearing that, I immediately furrowed my brows. Normally, when we visit a friend's house, do we have to bring along another friend? Besides, I don't even know his old friends.
"Is anyone else going too?"
I asked the person on the other end, hoping there would be others going too because if I went alone, I would be nervous.
[Nope, you go ahead,]
I kind of frowned at that, feeling a bit hesitant hearing Sun's tone. It sounded like he wanted me to go with him. Eventually, I agreed. I wasn't excited about it, but I figured I might as well go out and do something today since I had nothing else going on.
I shut down my computer before changing clothes and waiting for him to come pick me up. It didn't take long before I heard a motorcycle stopping in front of the house. I remembered that it was Sun's motorcycle. I quickly locked the door and made sure everything was in order before heading out.
I finished up and walked straight to the car, grabbing the helmet to put on before stepping onto the motorcycle.
"Finished yet?"
Sun turned to me to check if everything was ready. I replied before it slowly started to move the car.
It takes more than twenty minutes to travel from home. Sun's friend's house is in a suburban neighborhood with no security guards, and the roads in the alley look narrow, allowing only one-way traffic for cars.
Our motorcycle stopped in front of a house at the end of an alley. Let me describe the house first. Sun's friend's house is a two-story house. In front of the house, there are weeds and fallen leaves scattered everywhere, making it seem like nobody has been here for a long time.
As Sun was about to ring the doorbell, I quickly reached out and grabbed its arm before turning to ask for confirmation.
"You, your friend are here, right?"
Sun turned to look and raised his eyebrows as if in doubt.
"Yeah, why?"
"Are you sure? Your friend's house seems deserted for a while."
Because the moment I stepped out of the car, I immediately sensed that there was something not right there. When I say not right, I mean ghosts, but I'm not sure about the percentage. Honestly, I'm someone with senses that are quite strong. Since I was a kid, I've seen a lot of these things, sometimes to the point of encountering them every day.
"Of course. I was still chatting with him just before I left the house."
"Sure?"
As Sun and I were arguing, the front door suddenly opened, and someone slowly peeked out. Normally, when someone checks who's at the door, they lean out fully, showing part of their upper body. But this wasn't normal. The person only peeked half-faced, eyes wide, staring at us. Plus, his neck was twisted into an L shape.
"you're here?"
His voice was drawl, and his expression was terrifying. I turned to look, and so did Sun, before Sun greeted Ball.
"Yeah, I'm coming in…"
"Wait, Sun!!"
I interrupted and grabbed Sun's shoulder, trying to signal to him with my eyes that we should go home immediately.
"Sun, let's go back now!"
I spoke to Sun in a firm voice, signaling him to go back.
"Huh?"
San looked confused, not understanding what I was trying to say, and furrowed his brows in puzzlement as he stared at me.
"Just go back, okay?"
"What the hell is wrong with you?"
Sun turned to speak and made a gesture to open the gate. Seeing that, I quickly held back until Sun turned back, took a breath, and spoke to me with a slightly irritable expression.
"What the fuck is wrong with you, Ren? If you want to go back, you can go back first."
He finished speaking and immediately opened the gate and walked into Ball's house. I let out a big sigh before following along. I confess that I couldn't say that his friend looked abnormal even though my senses told me that Ball was not a person, but even so, I couldn't say it outright. Maybe because there seems to be a certain energy here. If I speak, I'm afraid that something bad will happen. Also, the other party is Sun's friend, I don't want to him cause too much stress.
As soon as I entered the house, something smelled immediately hit my nose. I furrowed my eyebrows. The smell was not of garbage or sewage at all, but it was like the corpse of some living thing that had died a long time ago.
I tried to tolerate the smell and used my eyes to look around. The things inside the house were scattered everywhere as if no one had been there for many days.
Sun sat down on the sofa in front of the TV with Ball sitting across from him. Ball's condition was now pale and his with vacant eyes. I glanced at Sun who was sitting next to me. He didn't seem to see what I saw. Now all I can do is try to find the right moment to tell Sun and get him out of here.
While Sun was talking with Ball, I noticed that Ball's face had changed from his initial calm expression, now he was smiling until his mouth was almost reaching his ears. Does Sun not know this?
More than ten minutes had passed while the two were talking and the Ball suddenly got up. When he walked, he was hunched over and walked sluggishly, like a person without strength. Seeing that the Ball was out of sight, I immediately took off the amulet necklace that was hanging around my neck and handed it to the person next to me. Sun turned around and looked at him with a frown before speaking...
"What?"
"Put it on."
I said as I stuffed it into my hand. Sun took the necklace and placed it in his hand before putting it on in confusion.
At the same time, we suddenly heard cries coming from above on the second floor. As soon as he heard that sound, Sun immediately ran upstairs. I saw this and ran along.
As soon as we reached the second floor in front of a room, we were halted by a rotten smell emanating outside. And most importantly, it was the same smell as when entering the house. I think this smell is coming from this room.
When Sun opened the door, his expression suddenly changed. I reached out to shake his arm, but my eyes suddenly caught sight of something inside the room. The corpse's head was torn from the body. The area above the corpse's chest was horrifyingly messy as if it had been gnawed on by something. And what was even more shocking was the image of Ball eating the corpse with gusto.
"Y-You..."
Sun said in a trembling voice as the Ball slowly turned. His mouth was full of blood and his hand was holding a piece of flesh that had been ripped out of the corpse. That picture immediately made me want to vomit.
The ghost in the figure of a Ball let out a roar and quickly rushed towards us, sending us bouncing off in different directions.
"Aah!"
I raised my hand to grab the painful shoulder and looked in front of me to see that Sun was being dragged away by that ghost.
"LET ME GO!!"
Sun struggled, but no matter what he couldn't shake it off in the slightest. I hurriedly helped myself up and took another tiny rolled metal amulet inscribed with sacred words necklace and put it on Ball's neck. Ball screamed out in pain and flounced me, causing my body to hit the ground again while shouting for Sun to hurry out of the house immediately.
"Sun went outside and called My Brother to bring Grandma here."
I said as I pressed the Ball's body to the ground. Sun slowly got up and looked at me with an expression that he didn't understand before asking back.
"Are you crazy! You're going to make me leave you. I don't want it."
"Nope! You must leave now."
"But…"
"GO!!"
Sun looked at me carefully before running off immediately. At the same time, the Ball began to escape from his grasp before he slammed me into the balcony, sending the tiny rolled metal amulet inscribed with sacred words necklace dart far away before he immediately rushed forward and choked me.
"Ugh!"
I tried pounding and pushing, but no matter how hard I tried, it couldn't get out. My strength began to deplete, and my breathing became light. Soon the sound of the door opening came along with Sun coming with Grandma. My uncle and brother all came up to the balcony where I was. My grandmother picked up an exorcist's knife and stuck it at his head, causing Ball to scream out in pain before he gradually weakened and finally calmed down. When he saw that the ball had calmed down, he wrapped the ceremonial thread around his head to prevent the evil spirit from possessing him again.
At the same time, Sun and his brother came to help me up before my brother managed to call the police and rescuers to deal with Ball's body and the mysterious woman in the room.
Soon a rescue vehicle and police arrived along with the monk whose brother had asked the police to invite him. The monk began to perform a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits, with Grandma also performing the ceremony, while we waited outside.
Half an hour later, two corpses were taken out of the house. People in the village came out to watch. Not long after, Ball's relatives arrived. As soon as they saw the two corpses, they immediately let out a cry loudly. One of the relatives, probably Ball's cousin, came up to us apologizing for causing such hardship and telling us something.
The real cause, they assumed, was Magic's Cambodian stuff that the Ball's mom brought in because she wanted it to make money. But in the end, Ball's mother didn't take care of him, which resulted in both mother and Ball having to be killed by an evil spirit.
After listening to us, we felt very sorry for Ball because even though he was living a good life at university, he had fulfilled his dream of becoming a doctor in a few years but had to end his life because of it. Greedy for wanting money from her mother's superstition. I think in his heart he was a little disappointed and sad.
After that incident, Sun and I went to the funeral of Ball and Ball's mother. At that time, Sun's mind was so depressed that it was worrying. Both I and others tried to take care of him so that his symptoms didn't get worse. After about a week he started to get better and was back to normal.