4: Disappear of Master

I'm here again because I can't sleep.

I'm still gonna write several stories about Master but I could be tired with writing or take a beating and feel down then eventually stop writing. So just in case, I'm gonna write this episode that is the ending of a series of the events. When I was a third year student (who only had 27 credits. Lol), Master worked as a librarian at the university. He was mentally exhausted at that time and often said things like "There is a woman!", pointing  a blank space. I didn't feel anything but knowing his sixth sense was greater than mine, I thought Master could see something. I was scared  as he did.

It was in autamn of the year that I realized something was going wrong.  I hadn't met him so often compared to before.  One day, we sat in the same table at the cafeteria by chance. He said, "How many people do you see in the table behind you?"

It was just before 9 p.m. and the cafeteria was almost empty. There was no one in the table behind me also. "What do you see?"  As I asked, he began to shake and said, "There are people, right? How many?"  I had neither a ringing in my ears nor distinctive chill of when ghosts appear. So, I thought that he might assume that he was possessed. "No, there aren't, " I said. "There's nothing wrong."

"Yeah... Yeah, right." He assured and seemed to be releaved.  I was sure that there weren't ghosts there. They were in Master's mind. The word 'insanity' came into my head and It made me want to cry so bad. We  had done round of ghost stories and visited many haunted places. We had done lots of cursed things or even tried to summon ghosts. No wonder he got possessed. But I supposed they weren't the reason for his insanity.

Three days later, Master disappeared. I couldn't do anything because he left a message saying 'Don't seek me'. The university contacted his aunt and she came to his apartment to clear his belongings away. His family circumstance seemed to be complicated. She was so rude that I was swept away from the room despite saying I was his bestfriend. I haven't heard from him since then eventually. But I've got this idea. When I was a freshman, there was this rumor about him talked among the older students.

"He's a murderer."

Eventhough everyone said it as a joke, it might be true, I guess.

"The place to bury a body. That's everything."

That's what Master used to say  when he got drunk. There was an unspoken agreement between us that I couldn't ask more about that kind of jokes. However,  his eyes looked bloodcurdling when the topic went. Moreover, there's a thing I can't help but feel creepy about while remembering even now.  It was when we went to a famouse haunted place called 'A house of extermination'.

"When unspecified large number of people secretly take action in the midnight and there is a mysterious rumor, no one can be specified unless there is a grudge," He said. I couldn't understand what he was saying at that time. But now, I guess he was looking for a place to bury while we visited haunted places. What if there was a body in the trunk of the car I usually got in the passenger seat...? That's the scarest thing. He was too mysterious to understand.

One thing certain, however, is that dark part of human's mind is unbeatable even for a person who has a strong sixth sense.  I guess since that 'fine noodle incident' which had changed Master's character, he gradually went crazy. I still can't forget this word Master said to me.

"Why are you so scared of  this stupid darkness? Close your eyes. Now you are facing the darkest darkness in this world."