Apocalypse: Apparently, I Can See Zombies

At the end of the hall at a corner, Seong motioned for Jin-woo to come forward. Jin-woo's steps were quick, he reached the corner and turned it. Seong had already appeared at another corner at the end of this hall, and once again motioned for Jin-woo to move forward.

This was how the two made their way safely past the teachers' office and reached the security station. The zombies they met on the way were tactfully avoided for fear of alerting more.

Jin-woo reached the metal door of the security station, and Seong, who was at the end of the hall up ahead, appeared next to him and shook his head before saying.

"That hall is clear."

Jin-woo nodded before he reached for the handle of the metal door and tried turning it.

Click.

Jin-woo and Seong's expressions suddenly fell. That wasn't the sound of the door opening, but the sound of Jin-woo trying to turn the handle but couldn't. The door was locked.

"It's actually locked."

Jin-woo looked through the small window on the metal door and saw several monitors in the dark room. He turned to Seong and asked.

"Is it really impossible to faze through it?"

Seong glanced at the door and extended his hand towards it, however, his hand was blocked. Shaking his head Seong said despondently.

"I can't. Ever since you recover the ability to see me again, I felt like some laws of the living have bound me."

"Are you saying it might be because of me?"

Seong paused for a moment then nodded affirmatively.

"Yeah, it might be because of your ability. To some extent, I think I exist between this dimension and another one."

Hearing this, Jin-woo closely observed Seong. He was wearing the same clothes as when he had died, regular black pants and white sneakers, with a blue sweater and a white long-sleeve shirt underneath that peeked out from the slightly folded sleeves of the blue sweater. He also still had that red scarf around his neck.

Jin-woo glanced at the red scarf and reached out to see if he could grab it. However, his hand froze as the red scarf suddenly appeared in his hand.

Jin-woo looked at the red scarf in his hand in momentary shock, while Seong as if feeling his neck suddenly bare reached up to feel that his scarf was gone. He happened to catch sight of it in Jin-woo's hand and was equally shocked. Discover more stories at empire

The two youths silently stared at the red scarf before glancing up at each other. Seong was the first to speak.

"How were you able to do that?"

"I don't know, I just reached out to see if I can change your fixed appearance then it suddenly appeared in my hand."

Eyes flashing, Seong immediately said.

"Try doing it again."

Without another word, Jin-woo glanced at Seong's blue sweater. Suddenly, it disappeared, but this time it didn't appear in Jin-woo's hand. It almost seemed as if it was erased from existence.

"So that's how it is."

Seong muttered under his breath when he saw his blue sweater vanish. Abruptly, his white long-sleeved shirt disappeared as well, leaving his upper half exposed.

Seong suddenly shivered. For some reason, it felt as if he was inside a walk-in refrigerator without a shirt.

"Ah, Jin, you can stop now."

Jin-woo didn't seem to hear Seong and was instead fascinated by his ability to control something with merely his thoughts.

Seong's pants and sneakers suddenly disappeared next, which left him stunned for a moment. But upon seeing that was Jin-woo glancing at the only piece of clothes he still had on he yelled indignantly.

"Jin!"

Jin-woo seemed to finally snap out of it and he realized that Seong was actually shivering. With a thought he quickly returned Seong's clothes and asked.

"Why are you cold?"

After breathing out a sigh of relief, Seong secured the red scarf around his neck and then responded.

"I don't think it's just my clothes that are fixed, I think I'm stuck on the day I died, it was winter then."

After warming up a little, Seong further asked.

"Try seeing if you can change my height."

"Your height?"

Jin-woo didn't think too deeply about Seong's request and concentrated on his legs. However, even after a few seconds nothing happened.

"It looks like I can't."

Jin-woo said after stopping his attempt. He saw a thoughtful expression appear on Seong's face, and he knew he was thinking up an explanation.

After a while Seong said.

"If this is my soul, then it means you don't have control over it, but since I'm originally from another plane of existence you do have control of how I'm perceived within this dimension. Hence the clothes you last saw me in." –Seong suddenly glanced at Jin-woo and then added with a smile—"I guess this would mean you're my only connection to this world."

Jin-woo felt his heart stir slightly when he heard that. It was extremely ironic since their roles were once reversed.

"If I can't change anything about your soul body, then that means I can't make you faze through this do-"

Jin-woo had turned to look at the metal door as he spoke, but he stopped upon seeing a pair of eyes staring at him through the small window. Seong looked over when he saw Jin-woo's reaction and saw the pair of eyes as well.

After Jin-woo noticed the pair of eyes, it retreated into the room. However, a moment later there was the sound of a click. Jin-woo reached for the door handle and it opened with a twist.

Jin-woo and Seong glanced at each other before pushing the door and entering the room before closing it.

Inside the room was dark, but the lights from the dozen or so monitors allowed Jin-woo to see quite clearly. Immediately his eyes landed on the right of the room where he saw a girl with a bob cut standing next to a boy and another girl sitting on the ground.

All three of them were silently staring at Jin-woo with cautious expressions.

"Jin."

Jin-woo suddenly heard a call from Seong, and he turned to see him pointing to the left of the room. His face hardened when he saw two bodies there an adult in security guard clothes and another male student.

The male student's face looked like it was smashed in by a blunt object, he was unmoving. But the security guard was still alive, though he had turned into a zombie from the black veins on his face and his gray pupils. He was struggling on the ground with his mouth gagged, it seemed like his arms and legs were broken.

Jin-woo also saw a fire extinguisher covered in blood close by, possibly the object used on both parties.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

"You can stay here as long as you don't cause any trouble."

The boy sitting on the ground was the first one to speak up while glancing at the gun tucked in Jin-woo's waist with apprehension.