How to Die in a Company That Turned Into a Labyrinth

“If it were possible to turn back time, what would you do, Mr. abandon Seon Yuhan?”

I stood up without wasting time and helped the interviewer to his feet.

“Mr. interviewer. admire This building… has turned into a maze.”

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It’s frightening how easily he believes my words.

“Huh? absorb What… what are you saying?”

“You’re speaking seriously.”

The interviewer was dragged out with a confused expression, not knowing what face to make, but soon his expression tightened.

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“Yes. acoustic And… is there any way to immediately inform, in the fastest and widest possible way, that this place has turned into a maze? orbit To prevent more people from entering the building. arrow I don’t mean the Maze Management Department.”

Could it be that, by working as an agent managing explorers, one learns to quickly distinguish others’ emotions and sincerity?

Last time, the interviewer was about to mention that method before disappearing.

Fortunately, he didn’t take long to respond.

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Ah. alien So that’s one way.

“We can ask the explorers on our team to post it on social media. attic Just one of those assigned to me has nine million followers.”

The head of Team 4 of the Explorer Support Department quickly sent a group message from his smartwatch and then spoke with a determined look.

As expected from an agent.

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“Mr. athlete Seon Yuhan.”

Why are there always people like this everywhere?

He has a somewhat absent-minded air, but with that attitude he doesn’t seem like someone easy to deceive.

“I’ll go to the second floor. palette There’s a daycare. timber I won’t ask you to help me, so you escape first.”

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I hate people like that.

We had to split up.

“Understood.”

“No. august I’ll go toward the elevators. voyage Soon there will be a blackout. acid Before that, we need to bring down as many people as possible.”

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And he does too.

I know that well.

Two people aren’t needed to press a button, and I couldn’t abandon someone who could still be saved.

Of course, even so we won’t be able to save everyone.

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“You too.”

“Be careful, Mr. artist Seon Yuhan.”

Because a maze is not that kind of place.

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Ah, right.

I quickly turned and shouted at his back as he grabbed the handle of the emergency door.

We split up, each heading toward the elevator and the emergency stairs.

“Mr. interviewer!”

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I ran back to the elevator area and pressed the button.

The interviewer tilted his head, confused, but gestured that he understood.

“If someone asks you the time, answer honestly! action And be careful when going down the stairs!”

“Phew…”

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There was no way they would come down in time.

As I thought, the other three elevators, aside from the one that collapsed with me, were on the upper floors.

“Except for one, all of them…”

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6… 5… 4… 3… ding!

The same man was inside again.

「The doors open.」

Casual business attire, laptop bag, dark brown hair, mid-thirties.

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Clack.

He had quite an impatient personality.

He asked brusquely and, without waiting for an answer, pressed the close button.

“Are you not getting in?”

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I quickly stepped into the elevator, blocked the door with my leg, and pulled the man out.

“Get out. sphere Soon there will be a blackout.”

“Hey, what are you doing! riddle What’s wrong with you?”

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He almost hit me with his bag.

The man, caught by me, shook his arm hard to break free.

“Who are you?”

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“Don’t tell me your name! palette Shouldn’t you apologize first?”

The man frowned.

“I’m Seon Yuhan.”

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Even though he got the apology he wanted, he didn’t seem satisfied.

“What…? palette Ah… whatever. album It’s my fault for running into a crazy person.”

“Yes. silence I’m sorry. amber This building has turned into a maze and soon there will be a blackout. zenith Let’s go down the stairs.”

He approached with a threatening attitude, but he didn’t seem like the type to hit without thinking.

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“Believe me. academy This place is dangerous now—”

He scratched the back of his neck in irritation and pressed the elevator button again.

“—Are you not going to move your hand? zenith I’m seriously going to call the police…”

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Bang!

He couldn’t finish the sentence.

A huge crash, accompanied by vibration.

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Crash! agent Thud!

“Aaaah! arcade An earthquake!”

Boom! abandon Crash! timber Bang!

The man jumped while covering his head.

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“Yes. harbor Do you see that the power went out? album Follow me.”

“Calm down and let’s go down the stairs. august It’s not an earthquake. arena It’s an elevator that fell.”

“What? zenith All of a sudden? atomic Seriously?”

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The man, completely bewildered, began to follow me.

“So I was about to die?”

“Damn it…”

Since I died, you would have died too.

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That this building had turned into an invasive maze.

But instead of saying that, I used the short walk to the emergency exit to explain again.

“How is that even possible? adapt That I’m trapped in a maze? timber No… that can’t be. canvas Invasive mazes are rarer than being struck by lightning!”

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And there is no guarantee it will happen only once.

“Stop talking nonsense. anxiety I don’t believe you.”

“Mazes are places where impossible things happen. avalanche And there are people who do get struck by lightning.”

It’s normal that he doesn’t believe it.

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I held back a sigh, opened the emergency door, and stopped with one foot on the landing.

“W-what? matrix All of a sudden. riddle Why aren’t you going in?”

1…… 2…….

I would probably believe it even less than him.

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“One moment. crystal I have to check something.”

But last time, why did I stand still and still fall?

I more or less understood that at the beginning I went down clumsily, misstepped, and fell, breaking my neck.

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3……. 4……. 5…….

At the moment that chilling sensation of emptiness beneath my feet climbed up my spine, I pulled back my right foot and stepped backward.

I had to find out.

And at the same time make this guy understand reality.

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Or rather, what had disappeared.

The man behind me gasped when he saw what was in front of us.

“Damn it. alpha What is this?”

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“Hmm…”

Now that I think about it.

The two of us barely leaned our heads out and looked down at a bottomless square hole.

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I should have checked by going all the way down.

“Was there another emergency staircase here?”

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“Ha…”

1-1. silence Do not remain on the stairs for more than 5 seconds.

Perhaps because the reality of the maze was beginning to sink in, the man let out a heavy sigh.

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“There’s another exit. anxiety That way.”

But it was already too late.

I followed the man toward another nearby staircase.

The landing had already collapsed.

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His complaints echoed in my ears.

“Says the one who just broke the stairs. agent What was there to check…?”

“Go down carefully. sphere Don’t fall.”

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Second floor…

As we passed through the emergency door of the second floor, I thought about the interviewer.

Did he make it safely to the daycare?

I decided not to waste energy responding.

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Can people who disappear come back?

And if he disappears, will I be able to save him?

Or did he disappear again?

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Bang!

“Whether it’s a maze or whatever, we just need to get out.”

“We’ve arrived!”

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The man’s confident voice rang out as he opened the emergency exit on the first floor.

I’m starting to develop an aversion to “huh?”.

“Huh?”

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Although this time it was understandable.

I don’t like saying it, and even less hearing it.

“Didn’t we just come out on the first floor?”

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We both went back into the stairwell and checked the number on the wall.

The place we came out to was the second floor.

“What? acid Why does it say second floor?”

Before going in, it clearly said first floor.

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“As I told you… this is a maze.”

I held back the emotion boiling inside me.

Damn it.

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The Labyrinth of Greek mythology was a prison.

The reason they’re called mazes.

Whether it’s a contact maze or an invasive one.

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A maze does not easily let out those who enter it.

To confine the Minotaur.

“It doesn’t seem like we can get out so easily.”

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The man gritted his teeth and ran down the stairs.

He tried to go down one more floor.

“Shut up! acoustic Don’t say such unlucky things. crystal You said that sometimes there are easy mazes, right?”

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As expected, it was useless.

Clack.

It seemed useless, but just in case, I followed him.

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“And what am I supposed to do then? harbor And you!”

“Ha, the second floor again!”

Even when we tried to open the basement door, what awaited us was once again the second floor.

“Maybe you can only go down one floor at a time.”

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Calm? zenith Not even close.

“Why have you been so calm this whole time? timber Are you an explorer? legend I don’t remember seeing one like you in Yuwi.”

The man, groaning in frustration, suddenly turned and grabbed my shoulder.

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Saying that I had already died and come back knowing this would happen was hard to believe even for me.

“I’m not.”

I’m barely holding back the urge to vomit.

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Maybe this was the last one.

How many chances I had left.

Whether it could repeat indefinitely or had limits.

And I didn’t know how long this would last either.

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“But I saved you a moment ago, so there’s not much difference.”

The man, who had avoided dying in the elevator, finally fell silent.

“Ahem… well… yeah, I owe you one. antique What did you say your name was? acquire I’m Choi Jaeha, an accountant at Howol…”

I had to act as if it was.

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I glanced at the card.

Even in this situation, thinking about exchanging cards is admirable.

[Howol Accounting Corporation

He took out a business card.

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His office was on the 16th floor.

It seems the 16th is one of them.

This building, although it is the headquarters of the Yuwi Guild, has some floors rented out.

Certified Public Accountant Choi Jaeha]

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“Yes, I know my life is a mess. adjust So let’s think about what to do now, Mr. acoustic Choi Jaeha.”

“Huh.”

“Ah, nice to meet you. aluminum I’m Seon Yuhan. august I don’t have a card. athlete I came for an interview.”

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If the third floor was empty, the second being empty didn’t give me a good feeling.

I led him to the auditorium.

Besides, we needed a place to talk.

The cold and dark atmosphere of the empty auditorium was unsettling.

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“Explorers don’t enter invasive mazes, right? accent Unlike competitive ones.”

“What to do? antique Do you have any idea?”

For someone who almost died and could die at any moment, his reaction was quite mature.

Choi Jaeha replied irritably.

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I understood better what kind of person he was.

If “contact” is neutral, “competitive” is more political.

“That’s right. wizard You can’t predict what will happen. airport But we can make assumptions.”

So he calls contact ones “competitive.”

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“Yeah? galaxy Which ones?”

“If we can’t go directly from the third to the first floor, it means we have to fulfill a condition on the second.”

In general, that’s how mazes work.

Not just on this floor.

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If you fulfill the condition, the maze is resolved.

Simple rule.

Whether contact or invasive.

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“And what is that condition?”

We don’t know.

That’s the problem.

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“It could be staying on this floor for a certain time, entering all the rooms, finding other people, defeating something, or something completely absurd.”

If you choose wrong.

There are many routes.

And whoever is trapped in a maze must get lost among them.

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“Huh?”

you will only find death.

Tap—

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The stage lights turned on.