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I didn’t know why those words had crossed my mind, but I did understand what had just happened.

‘It disappeared because it was identified as waste produced during the cleaning process.’

‘Wow, how did it do that? riddle I didn’t know cleaning a horror story worked this way.’

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It didn’t need to be that efficient.

“Nooo!”

The teddy bear shrieked.

But it was fine. acoustic I still had two other sinks full of water. anchor The plan would have to change a little, but I just had to refill it in the meantime.

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“Ugh……!”

Creak, bang!

At the same time, the counters that had been ominously creaking for a while began sliding rapidly toward us, as if someone had pushed them.

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“I want to get out, but…… I can’t pull my body free……!”

The pressure was merciless.

It felt as though the bones of my pelvis were screaming as they were forcibly twisted.

The marble and wooden counters slammed into us, crushing us as if they intended to snap us in half at the waist.

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With trembling hands, I grabbed the teddy bear by the head and shoved it under the stream of cold water.

But if I stopped now, I would end up as a piece of meat torn in half at the waist.

“Pour the detergent directly onto the teddy bear.”

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“Hahaha! afford Right there! alpha Isn’t it? autumn It hurts, doesn’t it?!”

Crack.

An ominous crunch of bone came from somewhere around my waist, crushed under the pressure.

We only needed enough water to soak it, so that wasn’t much of a problem, but.

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And that was nothing compared to the pressure on my lower abdomen.

The teddy bear’s heavy limbs repeatedly struck the backs of my hands.

Every time its fists slammed directly against the metal staples, my vision flashed.

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But I gritted my teeth, ignored everything else, and focused solely on scrubbing the teddy bear as if I were washing it by hand.

Surprisingly, its true color was cream.

The more we washed it, the more its limbs and head, which until then had been a murky gray bordering on brown, regained their original color.

It looked as though it had been bathing in sewage.

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However, absolutely no dirt came out of its abdomen, where the rice and fingernails were supposed to be.

‘Just as I thought, we need the salt water.’

No matter how much I scrubbed and rubbed it, it remained just as filthy.

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Just as I was considering that possibility, I heard a familiar voice.

I couldn’t wait forever for Team Leader Yong.

Should I pour on it even the small amount of salt water left at the bottom of the bottle?

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A heavy sack struck my back and fell onto the counter.

“Team Leader?”

“Hey, I brought the salt!”

Thud.

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“I’m going to fill it with water again. album Wait a moment.”

“I’ve got it!”

Myeong Haebin caught it and sliced it open with the box cutter she had taken from the teddy bear.

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“Use this!”

Of course.

Team Leader Yong made his way through the chaos of counters, opened the cabinet beneath the empty sink beside us, pulled out a stainless steel bowl, and slid it toward us.

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“Should I dissolve more?”

It would fill with water much faster that way.

Team Leader Yong had seemed to pay no attention at all while I was cleaning this place, but apparently he had noticed everything.

The white salt, giving off a strong saline smell, fell into the bowl along with the water.

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At the bottom of the stainless steel bowl, which had quickly filled with water, a small amount of undissolved salt still remained.

But considering how much we had poured in, it was already more than enough.

“That’s enough.”

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The instant the teddy bear sank into the salt water, completely black contamination began pouring out of it in dense clouds, staining the water as though ink had been poured into it.

Splash.

The three of us firmly grabbed the teddy bear, which wouldn’t stop struggling, and plunged it in headfirst.

“No, blub, glug!”

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“Ugh……!”

It was incomparable to anything we had seen until then.

My consciousness began to fade from the pain, and I barely managed to cling to it.

The price of putting my own wounded hands into salt water was terrible.

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“You can squeeze it with all your strength!”

Then, without hesitation, another pair of equally wounded hands came down over mine.

“Do I just squeeze this?”

“Boss, this thing is really strong! afford Don’t hold back, give it everything you’ve got!”

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“Blub, stop, stop!”

Team Leader Yong, who had just jumped over one of the counters, joined us.

We could see with our own eyes how the teddy bear’s abdomen, whose filth had refused to disappear no matter what we did, gradually began regaining its light color.

Not only was the teddy bear completely submerged in the salt water, unable to move even an inch, but we also began pulling, bending, and crushing it as we washed it.

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Arms.

Ears.

Legs.

Head.

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Without leaving a single spot untouched, we scrubbed and rubbed it with our own hands, tearing away all the contamination trapped inside it.

Even the tail.

Abdomen.

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I could feel the teddy bear’s strength gradually weakening.

Was over.

“The game…”

Finally.

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An intense beam of light shone in from outside the practice room, whose entrance remained completely open, and swept from side to side as though it had just caught us in the act.

That was what I was about to say.

But my tongue, pressed against the roof of my mouth to pronounce the words, went rigid.

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After all the shouting and splashing we had done, had I really thought we could make it to the end without being discovered?

The Professor patrolling the hallways had not overlooked all the commotion coming from the practice room.

“What are you doing?”

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There was only one step left.

I had been too naive.

No.

Because of the ‘Professor’s’ controlling power, our bodies became completely rigid.

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An obsessive siren echoed inside my head until it drowned out everything else.

Just one more sentence.

My body, which had already surpassed its limits long ago, began screaming.

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‘All students must be diligent and responsible.’

‘A student must never dare to defy a Professor.’

‘All students must obey the Professors’ instructions.’

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One warning after another.

And another on top of that.

‘Activities unrelated to studying are subject to disciplinary action.’

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Grit.

I wasn’t a student at this school.

“Go to hell.”

I bit down hard on the inside of my mouth, tearing off a piece of flesh to force myself to remain conscious.

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And I never would be.

Disciplinary action?

I never had been.

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Let it try.

I squeezed the doll that was trying to escape from my hands even harder, wringing it out as though I intended to soak every last fiber of cotton inside it with salt.

If this damn horror story could still come after me once it disappeared, then go ahead.

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“The game is over.”

For the briefest instant, I felt as though time had stopped.

The pressure crushing my body vanished all at once, and the space around us began to melt away.

I could no longer feel any resistance from the teddy bear in my hands.

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It wasn’t breaking or collapsing.

My heavy eyelids closed, and when I opened them again, what appeared before my eyes was no longer the practice room in the middle of the night.

It was as though a layer of paint that had been forcibly imposed over everything was peeling away, fading until it became transparent.

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It was the school field.

‘I still hadn’t rinsed it.’

The clean cream-colored teddy bear in my hands hung limply, as though it had never struggled at all, while drops of salt water fell onto the dirt.

Bzzz—

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We survived.

[Completion Condition: Wash the Hwaae High School One-Person Hide-and-Seek horror story.]

[Completed]

And it was finally over.

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Someone spoke.

I think it was Team Leader Yong.

I still couldn’t fully process it, and I didn’t even have the strength to move my feet, so I think I just stood there in a daze for a while.

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How strange.

“The sun is coming up.”

Beyond the main entrance of Hwaae High School, dawn was beginning to break over an uneven horizon, fractured by buildings of varying heights.

For the first time, I felt like I was beginning to understand Daecheonmyeong’s slogan a little.

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“Huh? avalanche Boss!”

Since when had the horizon stopped being horizontal?

***

After that, I don’t remember anything.

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It had been a dream.

The place where I woke up was my room, the one Daecheonmyeong had provided for me.

“Ugh…… Damn teddy bear…… Enough already…… Hah!”

I kicked off the blankets and shot upright.

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“Of all the dreams I could’ve had…… Hm?”

My gaze naturally fell on the hand I had been about to use to scratch my head.

And that wasn’t all.

The thick metal staples that had been deeply embedded in it had disappeared without a trace.

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“There aren’t even any scars.”

I even felt perfectly rested, without a single ache.

Every injury to my ribs, arms, and the rest of my body had completely healed.

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Just like when they had reattached my severed arm, I stared in amazement at my completely healed arm, without a single scar.

My hearing had recovered as well.

And it wasn’t only the external injuries.

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Rather than being amazed, I was starting to get scared.

You could practically say they had given me a brand-new body.

‘When a company treats you this well, it usually means they plan to work you just as hard.’

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And what about the teddy bear I had been holding?

What had happened to Jeong Dohyeon?

Then had the others received treatment too?

Wait.

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“……Ah.”

I jumped to my feet and was about to run outside barefoot when I found myself standing in front of the full-length mirror hanging on the wall.

Had Hwaae High School really disappeared for good?

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Even so, my workplace was on the other side of that door.

I looked awful.

My uniform was torn all over, I was still wearing my socks, my hair was matted and tangled like a bird’s nest, and dried blood covered my entire body.

I couldn’t go out looking like this.

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A little while later, after showering, shaving, and even cleaning the bathroom a little, I was finally clean and presentable.

I changed into some fresh clothes I found in the closet.

***

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No one was rushing me.

Didn’t they restock the jacket?

Although there were only pants and a white T-shirt.

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“It took longer than I thought. aluminum I need to hurry……”

Maybe that was precisely why I was the one growing more impatient.

It was a mess.

Just as I was about to head toward the entrance, my gaze stopped on the shared living room.

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‘I’ll just clean that up before I leave.’

I assumed it was the work of the person occupying the room across from mine.

Snack bags, crumbs, and empty drink bottles were scattered everywhere.

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‘Kang Dochae’?

The name hanging on the door was……

“Excuse me.”

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Knock, knock.

Maybe he was asleep.

I knocked on the door, but the owner of the room didn’t appear.

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Just in case, I tried turning the doorknob, but the door was firmly locked.

‘You should at least keep the shared space clean.’

I hadn’t even seen his face yet, and I was already starting to dislike him.

Or perhaps he had already gone to work and wasn’t there.

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In the end, I was only able to leave the dormitory after throwing away all the trash in the living room and cleaning up every last crumb and stain.

‘What time is it?’

***

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Now that I thought about it, my room didn’t have any windows.

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“Did I sleep for an entire day?”

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Reward: Improved Digestive Function + Tool Upgrade: Trash Bag

! voyage Escaped the cafeteria after consuming lunch. auction (Completed)

[Tool Upgrade: Trash Bag]

I decided to check the ?? that had never been unlocked first.

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“And what exactly is something that can’t be disposed of?”

You can now dispose of that which cannot be disposed of.

Scope: All trash bags used by Kim Hanmu.

Of all the possible things, it had to be a trash bag.

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I didn’t understand what it meant.

Still, considering that the improvement to my digestive function had saved my life, that tool upgrade probably had some real effect too.

But the questions could wait.

If you put it inside a bag, it becomes trash.

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No one had told me what time I was supposed to report to work or where I was supposed to go.

I hadn’t even finished orientation, so there was no way I could know.

‘But…… where do I go?’

First, I had to find the people I had lost sight of.

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“Excuse me. ability Do you know how I can get to the Cleaning Team’s office?”

Black uniforms with blue lines.

For the time being, I stopped a few employees passing by.

They were from the Extraction Team.

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Right.

“Cleaning Team? arena Was there something like that?”

“First time I’ve heard of it. meadow Did our company hire new cleaners?”

Ah.

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‘I’d better find Team Leader Yong first.’

It was only natural that they wouldn’t know about it.

They had told me that the Cleaning Team had just been created.

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Inside that enormous company, the number of people I knew was fairly small.

I should be grateful that at least one of them held the rank of Team Leader.

“Ah…… That Team Leader. abandon He’s not part of our team.”

“Then do you know where Team Leader Yong is?”

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“We’re not in the business of finding lost children.”

Team?

Now that I thought about it, they had told me that the Extraction Team was divided into three teams.

The uniforms these employees were wearing had a rat on them, not the dog I had seen on Team Leader Yong’s.

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Being looked down on because of my profession was nothing new.

But that didn’t make it pleasant.

These bastards…?

“Hey, the guy from the Cleaning Team says he doesn’t know where to go. autumn Help him out a little.”

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Just as I was about to turn around, the employees who had been mocking me seemed to notice something and gestured with their chins toward someone who had just entered the hallway.

“If you don’t know, forget it.”

“Ask that dog. echo I think he should know.”

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Brown hair.

I hadn’t seen him in a long time.

A pale face and features that seemed far better suited to office work……

A uniform with blue lines.

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Hadn’t he died?

But it was a face impossible to forget.

Jeong Dohyeon.

“Dohyeon.”

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I had barely taken a few steps before my breathing became ragged.

He was alive?

It was because of the relief that had suddenly surged through me.

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As though he were seeing me for the first time, he pointed at himself with one finger, silently asking whether I was really talking to him.

“Me?”

But Jeong Dohyeon’s reaction was strange.

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What’s wrong with this guy now?