About ten ot twenty minutes or so later just when Surya started his exploration.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"
At the entrance of the Taekwondo Club, Surya can be seen running for his life, his heart pounding against his ribs like a caged bird trying to escape from this hellish place.
Because behind him, there were six headless female students, and not only that in addition of them there were four headless male students giving chase to him from behind.
"Wuwuwu—"
"Hee-hee-hee—"
This group of headless or we say brainless high school students were either sobbing pitifully or laughing with disturbing glee as they pursued him relentlessly at an unnaturally fast pace, their footsteps creating an eerie rhythm against the concrete pathway.
The whole nightmare had started about ten minutes ago or so, when Surya first stepped into the eastern section of the school grounds.
It quickly became apparent that "Bhoot Katha" was absolutely overflowing with malicious intent toward its players showing zero mercy to them in anyway.
In reality, Delhi Public School was just an ordinary private school with the usual mix of academic pressure and teenage drama.
But in this supernatural game world, the place was absolutely crawling with monsters!
Headless students were everywhere both male and female versions of students were roaming the campus like some twisted parody of normal school life.
They moved around like regular students in many ways, scattered throughout the various buildings and courtyards.
Some sat motionless on benches as if lost in thought, whole others paced back and forth in small, repetitive patterns like broken automatons.
While still some others gathered in groups of three or five, creating an unsettling chorus of crying and laughter that sounded almost like normal teenage conversation if you ignored the complete absence of heads on them.
Fortunately, these monsters seemed to lack brains in every possible sense of the word, and their awareness was frustratingly limited.
As long as Surya didn't venture too close to them, they appeared completely unable to detect his presence, like NPCs with a very short detection radius in them.
This behavior was remarkably similar to the headless student he had encountered in the gulmohar grove yesterday evening.
That creature had only shown aggressive behavior after Surya had wandered deep into its territory and gotten within striking distance.
Based on this observation, Surya had adopted a cautious approach to keep his head down, walking as quietly as possible.
And maintained a respectful distance from the wandering headless students while he carefully explored the eastern section of the school campus.
For a while, this strategy worked perfectly, and he managed to avoid any dangerous encounters.
That's how he eventually made it to the entrance of the Taekwondo Club without incident.
Outside the Taekwondo Club building, there were several headless students wandering around the area like lost souls.
Following his established strategy, Surya had no intention of getting too close to them.
His plan was simple that was to take a wide detour around the decorative flower bed and continue his exploration from a safe distance.
That's where everything went wrong....horribly wrong.
What Surya had not anticipated was that there was a headless male student hiding behind the thick bushes in the flower bed, concealed from view!
He had no idea what this particular monster had been doing back there maybe it was some twisted game of a student who used to skip classes behind the bushes, or perhaps it was just randomly positioned there as a trap for unwary players.
Regardless of the reason, the moment Surya's sneaky path took him within the creature's detection range, all hell broke loose.
"Argh-argh-argh-argh!"
The headless male student burst out from behind the bushes with a guttural roar that sounded like someone trying to scream without vocal cords.
The commotion immediately attracted the attention of every other headless student in the vicinity, like a dinner bell calling hungry predators to feast.
Surya was not stupid, he was quite the opposite, actually.
He had quick reflexes and sharp situational awareness, which meant he immediately understood exactly how screwed he was.
Without hesitation, he spun around and ran as fast as his legs could carry him, leading to the current situation where more than a dozen headless students were chasing him through the school grounds.
The headless students were abnormally strong and fast, just like the one that had killed him the night before.
Surya had already experienced their terrifying physical capabilities firsthand.
He knew he couldn't outrun them indefinitely, and honestly, he had no real intention of trying to escape anyway.
After rounding a corner at the edge of the flower bed, Surya pushed himself to his absolute limit and charged straight toward the entrance of the Taekwondo Club, throwing caution to the wind!
His reasoning was simple enough that if he was going to die anyway, he might as well make it count worth it.
Dying inside the Taekwondo Club after getting a glimpse of what secrets it might hold was infinitely better than dying pointlessly in the courtyard, right?
While running, he activated his incomplete Panchmukhi Art technique regardless of whether it would actually help, surrounding himself with crackling static electricity as he sprinted desperately toward potential salvation.
Cold wind rushed past his back which was probably from a headless student that was already dangerously close to catching him but he didn't turn to look.
But just at the moment when powerful hands were about to grab him and drag him down, Surya reached the entrance of the Taekwondo Club.
Crash!
The door swung open instantly, like a massive dark mouth swallowing him whole, then slammed shut again with finality.
Those frustrated headless students were left standing outside the entrance, unable to follow him in.
"Wuwuwu—"
"Hee-hee-hee—"
They cried, they laughed, they probably clawed at the door too but not a single one of them dared to actually push it open.