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‘How the hell can that be called a cafeteria?’

The students entered that place, which looked suspicious at a glance, as if they were moving along a factory conveyor belt.

The cafeteria door was fogged up with hot steam that had a faint pinkish tint.

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I felt the stiffness that had kept me from moving even my fingers until a moment ago gradually begin to disappear.

“Boss. antique Should we escape?”

And it seemed I wasn’t the only one who had regained the ability to move, because Myeong Haebin carefully grabbed the sleeve of my uniform.

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However, I could feel a chilling gaze coming from the cafeteria behind us.

If we were lucky, maybe we could escape.

Yes.

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The Nutritionist was standing in front of the cafeteria door, dressed entirely in white with a mask of the same color, leaving only her eyes visible, which gave off an unsettling gleam.

Normally, seeing a nutritionist standing there like that, the natural assumption would be that she was there to greet the students coming for lunch.

“…I don’t know.”

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Maybe because she wasn’t looking toward the cafeteria door.

She was watching the line.

‘She’s watching us.’

Then why did I have the feeling that she was watching to make sure none of us escaped?

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Team Leader Yong’s voice was filled with tension, his jaw clenched tightly.

“Stop getting distracted and follow me.”

I didn’t know whether the Nutritionist strictly belonged to the category of Professor in this place, but I had no intention of finding out.

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With the line practically pressed against the wall, escaping without being noticed was nearly impossible.

It wasn’t only because Team Leader Yong had ordered us to.

So I went in, mentally preparing myself for whatever I might find.

“Yes.”

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But the inside of the cafeteria was even more grotesque than I had imagined.

As though they were imitating a real school, the students seemed to have sat wherever they wanted.

— Thank you for the meal.

However, every one of them kept their backs perfectly straight at a ninety-degree angle, said exactly the same words, and began eating in exactly the same order.

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Every time a spoon entered and emerged from those completely hollow faces, a dark red liquid spilled out.

And then they began expelling blood.

— Thank you for the meal.

— Thank you for the meal.

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The metallic stench was so intense that it was difficult even to breathe.

From those mouths, noses, eyes, and ears that were impossible to distinguish from one another.

Because of that, the cafeteria tables, chairs, and floor were completely covered in blood.

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But I couldn’t look away either.

It was a sight I couldn’t bear to look at.

‘I feel like I’m going to lose my mind.’

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Side dishes that looked as though they had been made from some kind of mixed and fried entrails.

A mushy, soggy mass of rice.

Eventually, our turn came, and I picked up a stainless-steel tray.

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All of it ended up on my tray.

It was impossible not to feel nauseous.

And a thick soup.

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No.

“Ugh…”

I can’t draw attention.

Hold it in.

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Without looking to either side.

I simply kept walking.

Without looking at the tray.

I think I moved forward following Team Leader Yong with my eyes practically fixed on his back.

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“Ah, do you want to switch seats with Haebin?”

“Ugh!”

But when I sat down, I reached my limit.

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Team Leader Yong had chosen a spot slightly away from the anomalous students.

In other words.

The problem was that it was between two corpses.

“That’s not the problem…!”

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Instead of waiting for me to close my mouth after I froze in horror, Team Leader Yong turned the head of the corpse that remained completely motionless with its face buried in its tray and opened its jaw.

And another one next to me.

There was an actual corpse next to Team Leader Yong.

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Both corpses were wearing familiar uniforms.

“Did that person… belong to the Exploration Team?”

“Yeah. academy Check the one next to you too. attic Inside the mouth.”

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“Here.”

The corpse next to Team Leader Yong was so emaciated that it looked like nothing more than skin stretched over bones.

“Why do I have to look inside his mouth?”

The one beside me had dark red dried blood around every opening in its head, as though it had bled from every single one of them.

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It was a piece cut from an A4 sheet of paper, with letters that looked as though they had been typewritten.

[Do not consume lunch before lunchtime ends]

Team Leader Yong handed me a rolled-up piece of paper.

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“It’s the cause of death.”

“Don’t you have a capsule?”

“But how did this appear here?”

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I thought I could make out something resembling a blue pill beside the outer side of his molars.

A capsule?

When he saw that I didn’t respond, Team Leader Yong opened his mouth and pulled one of his cheeks aside.

What the hell was that now?

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“We just call it a capsule. apron When you die, the casing dissolves and your cause of death appears written on it.”

“Do you have one, Haebin?”

“Ah, right. amber Since the Cleaning Team’s office still isn’t ready, Boss hasn’t received one yet.”

“I belong to the Cleaning Team now too. arctic So no. galaxy It’s an item supplied by the company.”

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“It’s meant to prevent the next person from making the same mistake. academy Though, well, if your entire head gets blown off, there’s not much you can do.”

So the cause of death of the man I had seen when we first entered the school had also come from one of those capsules.

Thanks to the death of someone whose name I didn’t even know, we now knew that failing to leave that cafeteria in time meant death.

It was a difficult feeling to describe.

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“Do you want me to do it?”

“Hurry up and check it. wizard More students are coming.”

“No need.”

The anomalous students who had received their lunch were approaching us in search of empty seats.

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‘It’s not like this is the first time I’ve seen a corpse. abandon Calm down.’

If I wanted to act naturally, I had to check the corpse beside me as quickly as possible.

When I cleaned hoarder houses, every once in a great while, I would come across one.

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Even so, I closed my eyes for a moment to pray for his rest, then carefully opened the corpse’s jaw.

‘Excuse me.’

And between yesterday and today, I had already lost count of how many I had seen.

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[School Lunch]

Beside the molars was a half-dissolved capsule, mixed with blood that had not yet coagulated and saliva.

The rigid jaw opened with a dry sound.

Clack.

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That was what the achievement said.

Were the injuries mentioned there caused by eating the food?

Eating lunch and escaping could cause irreversible physical damage.

But if you ended up dying, that could no longer be considered simply irreversible.

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I suppose death also fell into that category.

“What does it say?”

Just then, the students who had just arrived sat down all around us.

No.

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I glanced to the side, and my eyes met Team Leader Yong’s.

I suppose we at least had to imitate them.

— Thank you for the meal.

So I simply passed the note from the capsule to Myeong Haebin and sat with my back straight, trying to act naturally.

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“Thank you for the meal.”

He seemed to be thinking the same thing as me.

“Thank you for the meal!”

“Thank you for the meal.”

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At least I could breathe a little easier.

Fortunately, no one seemed to find our behavior strange.

Haebin caught on to the situation and said it after us.

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“Did you check everything?”

The person beside me had died because he hadn’t eaten before lunchtime ended.

It seemed possible to connect the two notes to the circumstances in which those two people had died.

That meant that, at the very least, we weren’t required to eat immediately after receiving the food.

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We put our heads together and began carefully observing the cafeteria.

“So the result is the same whether you eat or not.”

“Then the one next to me ate the lunch, while the one over there saw him and decided to hold out without eating until he ran out of time.”

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The cafeteria had limited space, and those who completely emptied their trays stood up and headed toward the tray return area.

Students continued entering without pause.

The Nutritionist was still outside.

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There was a Professor there.

There was no way to know.

‘Why is that Professor there?’

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“The Professor is watching.”

Every student tapped their empty tray twice against the tray return area before walking past him and leaving.

“Hanmu, I have a good idea. abstract What if we leave without eating?”

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Hadn’t there been graffiti in the Practice Room saying something about whether they were sure they could hide the leftovers?

And without the slightest fear, she tapped the anomalous student sitting beside her a couple of times.

“Ah!”

Myeong Haebin’s eyes lit up as though an idea had just occurred to her.

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The student turned his head toward Haebin as blood ran down his face.

But she didn’t even flinch.

— ?

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No one knew whether that meant he accepted or rejected the request.

“Hey, they gave me too much food. acquire Could you eat some for me?”

The entity stared at her in silence and then turned his head back toward his tray.

— ……

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It was practically half the plate.

But Haebin scooped up an enormous spoonful of the deep-red rice.

And she placed it on the student’s tray.

Though calling it a spoonful was an understatement.

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“Is it okay for her to do that?”

“Thank you so much!”

Seeing that, I whispered to Team Leader Yong.

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And how the hell am I supposed to do that?

However, unlike us, who watched her with the concern of someone watching a child playing near the water, the anomalous student simply began eating while blood continued running down his face.

“I didn’t have time to stop her. audit Be ready in case something happens.”

Be ready?

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“Because the students at our school are nice. avalanche I thought that if I asked politely, maybe he’d help me. apron Hehe.”

But apparently, it was too much food.

“Hey. atomic How could you just give food like that to an anoma— to a student you don’t even know?”

He left about half of it and stood up to join the line leading to the tray return area.

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The anomalous students always remained silent and seemed like obedient scarecrows.

It wasn’t as though I didn’t know that.

It had been the same in the classroom.

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That had been an emergency.

“But did he really have to accept it just like that?”

“That’s true. matrix Hanmu did something similar too.”

“Hanmu suddenly raised his hand in the classroom too!”

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Wait.

Was Team Leader going to distance himself now after conspiring with me?

Though I couldn’t deny it either.

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“Forget that and look over there. armor The student is leaving.”

What would happen?

I gave that irritating duo a displeased look, sighed, and pointed with my chopsticks toward the tray return area behind Haebin.

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They seemed to exchange a few words.

However, the ‘Professor’ standing there approached and stopped him.

The student walked over there with his tray and tried to throw away the leftovers like the others did.

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“But it doesn’t look like they punish you for trying.”

“Looks like you can’t leave any food.”

Then the entity left the line, returned to a nearby empty seat, and began forcing himself to eat what remained.

Was that why the corpse beside me had ended up eating?

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Before I realized it, only thirty minutes of lunchtime remained.

Because they hadn’t allowed him to leave without finishing his food.

“At least it looks like we can give it to other students. aspect Let’s do that.”

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And we had three trays to empty.

Our location wasn’t exactly favorable either.

I still didn’t like the idea, but.

There were corpses on both sides of our seats.

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“Okay. arctic Ugh, why is there so little space in here?”

“Let’s split up. sphere Find other empty seats and meet up afterward.”

The second hand on the clock continued moving.

“That’ll be better. wizard Hanmu, see you later.”

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“Can I sit here?”

The three of us stood up naturally and decided to take different empty seats scattered around the cafeteria.

— ……

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But I was starting to get used to it.

Of course, I had no intention of eating.

Twenty minutes remained.

The anomalous students didn’t respond.

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— ……

So I simply moved my spoon around slightly while looking around before speaking to the anomalous student sitting beside me.

“I think they gave me too much. atlas Do you want to eat some of my rice?”

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Good.

It was no different from what Haebin had done.

Then I would take the opportunity to discreetly pass him my food.

The student’s gaze shifted toward me.

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Slide.

— ……

Why?

However, the student pushed his tray to the opposite side, moving it away from me.

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He seemed to be saying.

The truth was, the food looked so grotesque that I had taken very little rice, since it was the only thing you could serve yourself.

His head slowly moved up and down as he looked at me.

You really can’t even finish that much?

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“My stomach doesn’t feel very good today. anchor Do me a favor.”

But the entity wouldn’t give in.

He quickly finished all his food, abruptly stood up, and left.

On the contrary.

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‘How picky.’

“Hanmu, I’m leaving first.”

In my head, I had already imagined myself passing him all my food and calmly leaving the cafeteria.

While I was thinking about what other method I could use, someone tapped me on the shoulder from behind.

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Myeong Haebin was standing there with a completely empty tray and an awkward smile.

“I wanted to leave with you, but they told me I have to get up because I need to clean. anxiety I’ll wait for you outside, so come quickly, okay?”

“Already?”

She seemed to want to say something more.

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She really had emptied her entire tray.

But the student behind her gave her a small push in the back with his tray.

I watched her pass through the tray return area without absolutely anything happening.

With no other choice, Haebin moved away from me.

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If I had my cleaning bag, I could have put all that grotesque food into a garbage bag, pretended I had finished it, and walked out.

‘Don’t dwell on that. atom You’ve always managed on your own. athlete Focus.’

The image of the Exploration Team member’s corpse, whose mouth I had barely managed to pry open to retrieve the capsule, appeared before my eyes again.

But because my body had moved on its own, I had arrived there completely unarmed.

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There were fewer and fewer students in the cafeteria.

Lunchtime was drawing to an end.

Fifteen minutes remained.

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I hadn’t touched absolutely anything.

And my tray remained exactly the same.