BATON

The Ghost walks out of the patient's room with the face of the murdered male nurse. With only a face mask to hide his exterior, he strides unhurriedly towards the elevator.

The door opens with its screeching metal sound. He immediately notices the phone haphazardly left on the bottom but chooses to ignore his curiosity and step inside the enclosed room to click on the floor button. 

After a few seconds of descending, the lights suddenly flicker and the elevator stops. The steel compartment's temperature drops and the grave coldness fills the air. The entity sees his breath turn into an icy mist whenever he exhales.

"You want me to pick up the phone???" The ghost asks, staring at the ghastly reflection on the steel doors.

He isn't the only mirage riding the elevator. A woman clad in her white nightdress stands beside him a foot away beside the phone. Silently waiting for him to do her bidding while the steel enclosure where they exist is halted in its position. 

The entity puffs out loudly and rolls his eyes. He doesn't like to fulfill undertakings for other ghosts but he understands the conditions the spirit set up to make him accomplish the task.

"The elevator will remain suspended until I pick up the phone, am I right???" The ghost hiding behind a face mask annoyingly retorts.

A quick step and a bending knee away, he picks up the object from the floor and sees the frail feet of the ghost floating from the bottom. Standing back up, Lee Yejoon's illusion slides his finger on the screen and a face of the beautiful woman shows up to welcome him.

"Han Soojin???" His brows furrowed from mystery.

The floating mirage widens his withered edges to smile as it did before when it first showed up to the apparition in the parking lot. The female ghost disappears like thin air and the warm environment continues when the elevator begins to descend. The lighted button of its designated floor flickers and changes to brighten alarmingly at the basement area.

"For someone who died a long time ago, you are not only demanding, but persistent as well." The entity mutters while waiting for the enclosed room to reach the lowest level of the hospital.

The sliding door opens to a darkened space. The humming sound of the machines placed somewhere in the vast area welcomes his presence.

"Seems to be the right place I should be." The entity warns himself.

There is no sign of the therapist anywhere across his sight, but he can feel a living soul with watchful eyes waiting for him to move, questionable to his sight.

He begins to take a step slowly towards the electrical room. The hinges bring a creaky sound when he opens the door.

Inside he quickly sees the therapist leaning on electrical machinery with closed eyes and smeared blood on her forehead. He recklessly moves to reach the woman but a baton surprisingly hits him in the face before he could touch her.

The entity falls on his back from the unexpected hard knock on his nose. He gradually sits up and takes his bloody mask off his face.

"SHIT!!!" He exclaims as he smears the ruddy liquid off.

The attacker enlarges his eyes at the sight of the man slouching at the floor with blood on his nose.

"N-No… T-That…T-That… C-Can't be…"

Mok Chulmoo glares at every inch of the man fighting his stare. When Lee Yejoon stands up from the floor with a mocking gleam on his face. His fear shifts to intense outrage.

"YOU DAMN FUCKER!!!" The man shouts and whacks his baton at the man.

Yejoon catches the weapon with his hand and punches the supervisor in the face.

Chulmoo steps back feeling the pain in his jaw. Still gripping the weapon in his palm. He tries to beat the man again with his rigid timber weapon.

Evading every hit was easy for the entity. He has fought better fighters than this. A jesting laugh comes out of his edges.

'This becomes ridiculous when you encounter it a hundred times over,' He tells himself.

He turns to the side with electrical machinery behind him. When Chulmoo strikes again, Yejoon trudges on the other side to evade the supervisor's baton and it smashes at the equipment, making a loud thud at the steel that bends from the heavy knock from the attack.

The lights begin to flicker.

Soojin slowly opens her eyes hearing the clanging sound of metal that reverberates in the dim room. The area reeks of burning plastic and rubber from a machine emitting black smoke.

The therapist stands up sluggishly from the twinge she feels on her skull. She gently strokes his head with her hand and a clammy red fluid wets the tip of her palms.

"B-Blood… " Soojin mumbles.

She scans the room and notices the two men fighting each other or as she sees it, the man in white taunts the man with a baton. The quick movements of the man wearing a white coat like a doctor are nothing compared to the slow hits of the old one. It doesn't matter if he has a weapon. He was no match to the youthful energy of his opponent.

Soojin closes her eyes feeling her vision spin. She knows who these men are but cannot fathom how. Opening her sights once more and glaring at the young man clad in a white coat. She murmurs a word.

"E-Eun… E-Eunhee… "

The entity's eyes broaden hearing the name. He distractingly turns his focus on the woman standing near the electrical device and the supervisor lands a hard punch on his face.

Another punch and Yejoon falls on the floor. A kick on his stomach and a stomp on his back made him groan.

"N-No…S-Stop it..." Soojin cries out pleading

"I DON'T CARE HOW YOU ESCAPED YOUR DEATH!!!"

Chulmoo smashes the hard lumber on the man's back.

"THIS TIME, I'LL MAKE SURE YOU DIE!!!"

The supervisor swings his arm high.

"NO!!! STOP IT!!!"

Soojin yells out crying and hastily steps between them. She covers the man helplessly laying on the floor brutally knocked down by the assaulter.

She tightly closes her eyes and welcomes the incoming pain. But the baton hits Yejoon in the arm to protect her before it smashes into her body. Soojin turns and opens her eyes to see the man defend her from the killer.

A wide grin arches on the man's lips, "You like me too much, don't you?"

Chulmoo didn't stop and didn't care watching the nurse blanket his body to safeguard the therapist. His plans to kill him first then the woman.

!!!BANG!!!

The sound of the gun echoes throughout the area. It made everyone stare in the direction where it came from.