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To survive, I had to get out of this cafeteria before lunchtime ended.

But I couldn’t just leave.

Let’s organize the situation.

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Though that didn’t mean I intended to eat it.

The Nutritionist was watching the entrance, and the Professor was blocking the exit.

To be able to leave, finishing the entire lunch was mandatory.

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A few tables behind me, Team Leader Yong had an arm around the shoulders of an anomalous student.

— ……

“Hey. orbit Give me your tray.”

‘The achievement didn’t have any warning for failure. atlas I don’t have to do it.’

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I had been wondering what he was doing.

“Don’t fuck with me. aluminum I have to go upstairs right now, so hand it over already.”

It turned out he was threatening the entity.

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If this weren’t a paranormal phenomenon, it would look like a situation that should immediately be reported as school bullying.

No.

‘Does that actually work?’

Rather, someone should report that a grown man was harassing a student.

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But it worked.

The anomalous student, unable to stand up to Team Leader Yong, exchanged trays with him amid metallic clattering.

‘This man isn’t afraid of anything.’

I found it hard to believe.

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I wasn’t even confident that I could naturally imitate those gestures and that attitude.

I don’t think so.

Could I do the same?

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The anomalous student who was eating turned his head toward me, but I simply waved a hand and picked up my utensils.

— ……?

“I’d better do it my way.”

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As if I were gathering the leftovers to throw them away.

Then I began dumping everything on my tray into the soup bowl.

“Eat, eat.”

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The deep-red side dishes and rice mixed with the watery soup until they became a liquid mush.

‘This should be enough.’

As the line slowly moved forward, all my senses were focused on one place.

I picked up the tray and stood at the end of the line of students heading to throw away their leftovers.

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The anomalous student behind me stared at me.

‘Here.’

When I got close enough to the tray return area, I naturally pretended to lose my balance and crouched down.

“What are you looking at?”

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— ……

Maybe there were things only certain people could do.

I raised my head and stared back at him, hardening my expression.

I guess this won’t work either.

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Only then did the anomalous student pass by me and move forward.

The awkward and strange standoff continued for a few moments.

“Sorry. antenna Go ahead.”

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What was I planning to do?

Meanwhile, I lifted the soup bowl.

Splash.

The students behind him mechanically re-formed the line.

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Because of their very structure, many school cafeterias need to clean their floors with water.

In this school, one of those open drains happened to be right on the path toward the tray return area.

And to do that, they need drains.

If I couldn’t throw the leftovers away in the proper place, I would use the drain.

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“……”

Moreover, since lunchtime was coming to an end, they had already started cleaning, and water was flowing through the drain.

It was perfect for discreetly emptying the bowl.

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When the space cleared again.

The smiling face of the Professor, who was looking in my direction, was hidden by the students continuing to move forward.

I think I just made eye contact with the ‘Professor.’

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I tried to convince myself of that.

There was no one there anymore.

‘Maybe it was just my imagination.’

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Even so, no one tried to stop me.

But then, what was that unpleasant feeling twisting my stomach?

So I finished emptying the entire contents of the bowl and naturally joined the line.

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“Ahem.”

Like the other anomalous students, I lifted the tray and tapped it twice against the tray return area.

Finally, it was my turn.

“Wait.”

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The Professor’s voice stopped me.

I forced my racing heart to calm down and asked as calmly as possible.

“Is something wrong?”

The Professor’s hand slowly approached and brushed against my chin.

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“…I did?”

“You got something on yourself.”

Why was that on my chin?

On the tip of that abnormally long finger was a reddish substance.

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With my own hands.

I had definitely thrown it away.

I had thrown it away.

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My uniform was covered in dark-red stains.

As if hypnotized, my gaze followed that hand down toward my clothes.

Just a moment ago.

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And that wasn’t all.

Even the white T-shirt I wore underneath was completely filthy.

My hands were covered in filth too.

My entire body was damp.

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My vision began to flicker.

Every time I breathed, a revolting stench came from inside me.

My stomach felt completely full.

Sticky.

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Fragmented memories stabbed into my mind like shards of glass.

Picking up the chopsticks.

Me, stepping out of the line and crouching down.

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Plunging the chopsticks into the soup bowl.

As if that weren’t enough, I picked up the spoon.

Swallowing.

Bringing them to my mouth.

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Faster and faster.

Like a starving man I shoveled the food into my mouth by the handful lifted the entire bowl and poured its contents directly into my mouth some of the food spilled because it wouldn’t fit but I didn’t care I kept eating and eating I had to finish it all so I ate everything.

Swallowed.

I brought that to my mouth too.

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My vision turned red from the liquid beginning to pool in my eyes.

“Ah.”

Drip.

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No.

More precisely, as though something were devouring my tissues.

It felt as though all my organs were burning.

I opened my mouth from the pain.

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And as if it had been waiting for that exact moment, thick blood began pouring from my nose, mouth, and ears.

I could no longer remain standing.

“Cough, urgh, haa…”

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I was scared.

I staggered backward until my back hit the wall.

The ‘Professor’ who asked me that terrified me.

“Are you just going to stand there?”

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I could barely hear.

And my entire body, consumed by pain, screamed at me to run away from there.

I could barely see.

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Out of the cafeteria.

Even breathing was difficult.

Even so, I ran without thinking.

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Anywhere.

I think Myeong Haebin called out to me.

“Bo…!”

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But I couldn’t answer.

Nor could I stop.

I pressed my cheek against the cold wall as I staggered forward.

It felt as though every organ inside my body were melting.

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I wanted to live.

I wanted to live.

At what point had everything gone wrong?

When had I stopped realizing what was happening?

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The phone vibrated inside my pocket.

Bzzz—

But with my brain melting inside my head, it was impossible to think clearly.

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I wasn’t even sure I actually had the phone in my hands.

But with my vision flooded by tears of blood, I couldn’t see anything at all.

I clung to it as though it were my only lifeline.

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It’s the only thing I can rely on…

At that moment, someone calling my name faintly from behind grabbed me tightly in his arms.

“Kim Hanmu!”

I have to see it.

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Team Leader Yong thought the rookie had gone insane.

***

My memories cut off.

“What the hell is he doing over there?”

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He had taken his tray and gotten in line, but suddenly he stepped off to the side and began frantically devouring everything on it.

— ……

“Move already!”

When he stood up, thinking he had to stop him, the line had already become packed, and no one was willing to let him through.

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Then, just like the other students, he began spewing blood from every orifice on his face.

Meanwhile, Kim Hanmu, his mouth and clothes completely covered in blood, stood up and staggered until he was standing in front of the Professor.

Team Leader Yong cursed as he roughly handled his tray.

‘I should’ve kept him by my side. alpha Damn it.’

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When he finally caught up to him, Kim Hanmu, leaning against the wall, was beginning to lose his strength and collapse.

“Mister! abandon What happened in there? atomic What’s wrong with Boss?”

He emptied it in such a hurry that he didn’t even know how he had managed it and ran out.

“Kim Hanmu!”

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The young man, who already seemed to have lost consciousness, was struggling to breathe.

“Ugh…”

“Wake up. attic Hey, wake up!”

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“Move aside.”

Team Leader Yong didn’t like reckless rookies.

His breathing sounded terribly obstructed, as though something were lodged in his throat.

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He pressed his closed fist against the pit of Kim Hanmu’s stomach, placed his other hand over it, and thrust forcefully upward.

He had to do something.

But he didn’t want this one to die.

Once.

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And three times.

Crack.

Twice.

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“The blood…! arctic The bleeding has slowed down a little!”

The unpleasant sound of his ribs shifting could be heard, but he didn’t reduce the force and continued compressing his abdomen.

“Cough! afford Cough…!”

A grotesque mixture of gastric juices, blood, and food spilled onto the floor with a wet sound.

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“Do you think… he’ll survive?”

Team Leader Yong wanted the rookie to survive.

“Let’s move him.”

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The phone screen flickered in Kim Hanmu’s limp hand.

But instead of saying it aloud, he hoisted him onto his back.

He had a superstition that if he said something he desperately wished for out loud, it wouldn’t come true.

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***

But no one saw that notification.

[Notification > ]
! aspect You ate lunch and escaped from the cafeteria. arctic (Completed)

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Was I in the Home Economics Practice Room?

The first thing I noticed when I opened my eyes was the smell of dust-laden air, even with my nose completely congested.

How did I survive?

‘It smells like dust.’

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His touch wasn’t particularly rough.

“How…? altitude Look at me first.”

Team Leader Yong abruptly stood up, approached me, grabbed my chin, and looked directly into my eyes while turning my head from side to side.

“Mister! orbit Boss woke up!”

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“I’m dizzy…”

Even so, I felt a stabbing headache, and my vision shook so badly that I weakly pushed his hand away.

It wasn’t that I had lost the ability to speak, but my throat was so irritated that it felt like it was burning.

I couldn’t finish speaking.

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“…My head and chest hurt… My ears too…”

I had to frown and concentrate to understand him.

His voice reached me muffled and distant, as though my ears were blocked.

“You’re hard to kill. audit As long as you’re alive, that’s enough for me. advance Do you notice anything else?”

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Did they perform CPR on me or something?

Why are my ribs broken?

“It looks like you’ve got some broken ribs too, but the fact that you survived is already a miracle. arena Do you want some water?”

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My throat still burned, but I felt much better.

When I took a sip, I also swallowed the blood pooled in my mouth.

I didn’t even have the strength to answer, so I silently accepted the plastic bottle Myeong Haebin offered me and drank.

Bzzz—

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“I’m going to… use the sink.”

I had tried to look at it earlier, but I couldn’t.

The phone inside my pocket made its presence known again.

Right.

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I had to stand up unsteadily because it felt as though the floor were swaying beneath my feet.

“Okay. athlete Clean yourself up a little. adapt Do you want me to help you?”

My body was clearly not in normal condition.

“I’m fine.”

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! antenna You ate lunch and escaped from the cafeteria.

‘After nearly dying, I guess this isn’t that bad.’

I turned my back on the two of them, who were watching me as though they were looking at a newborn fawn trying to walk, and turned on the sink faucet.

[Achievement]

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I remembered the Exploration Team member who had died after eating lunch.

The reward that had previously been hidden could now be seen.

Reward: Improved digestive function +??

Improved digestive function.

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A risk I never wanted to experience again.

High risk, high reward.

I couldn’t shake the thought that, if I hadn’t had this app, I probably would have ended up exactly like him.

‘The question marks still haven’t been unlocked.’

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‘Then I’ll have to check it once I get out of here.’

The water from the sink seemed suspicious too, but I had no other choice.

[Available after completing the cleaning currently in progress.]

When I tapped them, another window appeared.

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After cleaning the blood from my mouth and nose as best I could, I slowly raised my head.

“Quite a while. aspect Eighth period is about to end.”

“How long… was I unconscious?”

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In other words, they had skipped class.

“Ah, that? alien The Professor came by here more often, but it seems that as long as we stay inside, he can’t find us.”

“And… that?”

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Apparently, they hadn’t just sat around doing nothing while I was out cold.

“What is it for?”

Myeong Haebin showed me a small key.

“While you were unconscious, we also found the key!”

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No wonder the route through the window had been so complicated.

“For the lock on the Home Economics Practice Room. acoustic It was stuck to the bottom of one of the counter drawers.”

What else had I been trying to do?

So there really was another way in.

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“Let me see.”

“The scribbles on the counter.”

“We uncovered them completely so you could see them when you woke up!”

Ah.

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I wanted to get out of this damn school as soon as possible.

I had to read what came next.

ㄴ But do you know how to do it? academy I’ve only heard the name.

The scribbles talked about doing something behind the teachers’ backs during night study.

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ㄴ As long as they don’t catch us, they don’t even come in here lol.

ㄴ I had it written down in a notebook. advance But the teacher confiscated it. auction Guess we’ll have to do it by intuition.

ㄴ How reassuring; but can we really keep skipping class like this?

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“In the teachers’ office.”

Where did things confiscated by teachers normally end up?

A notebook.

The last one seemed to confirm that the Home Economics Practice Room was a safe zone for skipping class.

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“How much time do we have left?”

That room was probably packed with those grotesque ‘Professors.’

I had just escaped death, and yet the road ahead of me seemed to be getting longer and longer.

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One phrase immediately lodged itself in my mind.

Cleaning time?

“Next is cleaning time, then the end-of-day homeroom, and after that, night study.”

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“Then, during cleaning time… Ugh.”

Maybe that would be our opportunity.

Something sweet forced its way into my mouth.

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“Eat first. atom Ah, can you swallow?”

It was an energy bar with nuts and cereal, hard but brittle enough to break apart with my teeth.

“Where did you get this?”

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The nuts, packed tightly into the bar to concentrate as many calories as possible, were painful to swallow even after chewing them thoroughly.

“Where do you think I got it? zenith I brought it with me.”

Team Leader Yong had already taken a bite and was chewing like a ruminating cow.

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“No? audit I bought it with my own money. riddle At a convenience store.”

Despite the pain, the sweetness of the chocolate coating eased the tension throughout my body.

Even so, hoping they would help at least a little, I resolutely chewed and swallowed.

“Is this also some kind of company-issued supply?”

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Myeong Haebin nibbled on the energy bar like a squirrel eating an acorn while criticizing Team Leader Yong as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

“People have to eat something. alien How are you supposed to keep going without eating anything?”

But he seemed used to it and simply laughed.

“Our company doesn’t cover food expenses while we’re working. palette Besides, a lot of the time we can’t even eat what we bring inside, so they don’t recommend it. artist Strictly speaking, this also violates the rules.”

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Only after we had completely finished the energy bars did Team Leader Yong ask again.

As I carefully chewed until what was in my mouth had turned into a paste, I found myself nodding without realizing it.

After all, you work so you can live.

“So, what were you saying about cleaning time?”

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We could have barged in during the break with any excuse, like asking about something we didn’t know.

“I’m thinking of going into the teachers’ office during that time.”

And besides, it seemed like a time specifically prepared for me.

But the only time we had left was cleaning time.

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He seemed to be thinking something like that.

Team Leader Yong’s eyes darkened noticeably as he stared at me.

‘This idiot nearly died and still hasn’t learned his lesson.’

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And even if it wasn’t, I didn’t care.

Though that was probably just my imagination.