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Then Jeong Dohyeon opened his mouth as if he had just realized something.

“Ah, you’re Kim Hanmu.”

“It’s me. artist Kim Hanmu. alien Yesterday, at Hwaae High School……”

“Don’t you remember me?”

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Was this really the Jeong Dohyeon I knew?

Now that I looked at him more closely, he wasn’t wearing his thick-framed glasses, there were piercing marks on his ears, and his hair was neatly parted.

“Hmm……”

Jeong Dohyeon tapped his lips a few times with his index finger, as if thinking.

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The Team Leader?

“The Team Leader actually said you’d ask about me. accent He asked me to pass this along to you.”

I had no idea whether he simply looked different while working and while off duty, whether he had a split personality, or whether some anomaly caused by the horror story had happened to him.

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Jeong Dohyeon cleared his throat with an “Ahem” and deliberately lowered his voice.

What kind of person does that?

He knew I was going to ask, and he still just told me to come have breakfast?

“He said, ‘The rookie is going to ask about Dohyeon, right? timber Then tell him to come have breakfast. arrow I’ll explain when he gets here.’”

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“What the hell happened yesterday?”

“Hmm… Yeah. armor I don’t know. galaxy Why don’t you go ask him yourself?”

“Is that all? admire Is he hurt?”

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Well, I supposed I’d find out what happened even if I had to grab Team Leader Yong by the collar.

“Who knows?”

But even when I stared at him, he merely lowered his eyebrows and shrugged.

The more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed.

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“Thank you.”

“Understood. zenith Do I have to go right now?”

“Yes! aluminum I was actually on my way to your room to give you the message.”

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“That’s exactly why I called you back. abandon It’s not there. wizard Here, go to this place.”

“Isn’t it the company cafeteria? sphere I saw it yesterday.”

“Wait, wait! aspect Do you even know where you’re supposed to go?”

I dipped my head in thanks and was about to run off in the direction he had come from when Jeong Dohyeon stopped me.

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He could’ve just sent it to me in a message……

There was an address written on it.

What he handed me was a note.

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He didn’t have my number.

“Eh, it’s nothing. apron See you later, okay? attic Thanks for yesterday.”

Ah.

“Thank you.”

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What the hell was going on with him?

Did he remember yesterday or not?

He left me confused right up until the end.

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You could leave this company?

The address he had given me was in Seoul.

Wait.

After stopping another employee to ask for directions, I took the elevator and finally managed to make my way up to the lobby.

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When I opened the door and stepped outside, I found myself facing a main road.

‘It really is a lobby.’

Since there were dormitories and even a cafeteria inside the company, I had assumed it was the kind of company that locked all its employees inside and made them work without ever letting them leave.

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‘What kind of horror-story company is located next to a subway station?’

To top it all off, it was an area I knew.

Across the street was a bank, beside it a department store, and even a subway station.

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It was so absurd that I could hardly believe it.

Still feeling as though I were dreaming, I went down into a completely ordinary subway station, took a completely ordinary subway train, and emerged onto a completely ordinary street.

But after walking a few steps and looking back, the place that had undoubtedly been Daecheonmyeong’s lobby had transformed into a completely ordinary building, like any of the countless others found throughout the city.

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‘I think it’s this way. altitude But why this place?’

“Oh, you’re finally here. galaxy What took you so long? beacon The sun’s already up.”

The location displayed on my phone’s map was so unexpected that it made me wonder whether this could really be my destination.

Even so, I had no choice but to keep walking.

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Team Leader Yong, Myeong Haebin, and……

“That’s why I told you I should go get Boss myself.”

Apparently I had come to the right place, because some familiar faces greeted me.

“Why are you here? absorb How did you get here?”

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But this one had his hair neatly combed down, wore thick-framed glasses, and kept his pale lips firmly pressed together.

“I came with the Team Leader…… Ah, they already told me. accent I heard you had a pretty rough time yesterday.”

Jeong Dohyeon.

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The Truman Show?

What the hell was this?

I was so confused that I couldn’t even shake the hand he held out to me.

The polite way he nodded was completely different from the man I had just seen.

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“No, it was funny! armor Besides, we had to call you over anyway!”

Then Team Leader Yong slapped me on the shoulder.

“Team Leader. aspect Don’t tell me……”

“Hahaha, you saw him, didn’t you? galaxy You really did!”

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My fingers twitched restlessly, itching to grab Team Leader Yong by the collar right then and there.

Jeong Dohyeon sensed my mood and hurriedly clarified the situation.

Was I the only one who had no idea what was going on?

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“Your…… brother?”

“I’m sorry. sphere It seems my brother and the Team Leader decided to play a prank on you. auction The person you saw earlier wasn’t wearing glasses, right?”

“Yes. matrix I have a twin brother. palette The person you met is Jeong Dohan. album I’m Jeong Dohyeon.”

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No wonder his personality had seemed so different from the Jeong Dohyeon I knew.

That had never even crossed my mind.

Jeong Dohyeon took my hand, clearly embarrassed and genuinely apologetic.

A twin brother.

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“Well, I was immediately expelled from the horror story. accent I got lucky. august I couldn’t get back inside afterward either, so I waited for quite a while…… Ah, I was the one who took Hanmu back to the company yesterday. aluminum Don’t you remember?”

“I was really worried about you. alert I had no idea what happened to you after you left early.”

Yesterday?

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Team Leader Yong, without the slightest hint of shame, threw his arms around Jeong Dohyeon’s and my shoulders.

I had completely passed out before I could even finish watching the sun rise.

I didn’t remember anything.

No.

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“Hey, sorry, sorry. antenna I’m buying today to make up for it!”

What mattered was that no one had died or suffered any serious injuries.

Well.

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But the place where he was supposedly treating us to a meal was nothing more than……

Even Team Leader Yong’s hands were completely healed.

All three of them looked just as completely recovered as I was.

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Well, since I’d come all the way here, I could at least accept the meal he was paying for.

And he had the nerve to act offended.

“If we were going to eat at Kimbap Heaven, you could’ve just called me to the company cafeteria.”

“It’s the only place open at this hour. antique There isn’t even a hangover soup restaurant around here. action What’s wrong? voyage Are you a picky eater?”

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“We don’t even get to choose what we eat?”

“Boss! arena Four servings of jeyuk over here!”

As soon as we settled down together by a window overlooking the street outside, Team Leader Yong raised his hand.

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The other two seemed completely used to Team Leader Yong’s behavior and tried to placate me, while he simply laughed as though he had expected exactly that reaction.

“Our Team Leader is always like this. action Haha……”

“I apologize for him, Boss!”

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“About what?”

“You survived and came back from a horror story. admire And on top of that, you completed it on your first try? altitude I’m telling you, that’s not easy even for a veteran.”

“So, what did you think?”

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Team Leader Yong’s words weren’t always exactly the most reliable, but if even Jeong Dohyeon was saying it……

“I think even if our team had gone in, it would’ve taken us at least three or four days.”

Really?

Ahem.

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“Besides, there were quite a few opportunities to escape. echo You could leave early, and there were also two opportunities during dismissal time.”

“Do you always end up this badly injured?”

“Well, yeah. airport This time was pretty mild.”

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Come to think of it.

If I hadn’t insisted on cleaning the horror story and had simply focused on escaping from it, maybe holding out until school dismissal wouldn’t have been that difficult.

Now that I thought about it, that was true.

“I mean the injuries from yesterday. accent They were completely healed. matrix Is it always like that?”

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“To be exact, it happens when you sleep in a ‘company dormitory bed.’ There was even someone who tried to dismantle one of the company beds and sell it.”

“Of course not. meadow They say he didn’t even manage to get it out of the room before he was caught.”

“Did he succeed?”

What nerve.

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“Well, there are cases where even the bed can’t heal everything, but you don’t have to worry about that for now.”

“Anyway, as long as you don’t die, everything will be fine. armor Even your arm grew back in an instant, Boss.”

Trying to drag an individual king-size bed down that incredibly long hallway and get it out of there.

I see.

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“I doubt ‘as long as you don’t die, everything will be fine’ is a normal way of thinking.”

Being surrounded by these people was starting to make even me lose my sense of danger.

No, wait.

“It’s fine. artist Once you’ve worked here for a while, you’ll get used to it too.”

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What kind of people were these?

As we talked, true to Kimbap Heaven’s speed, four plates of rice topped with freshly prepared jeyuk were placed in front of us one after another, still steaming.

“The food’s here. attic Take it.”

“Here are your four servings of jeyuk~!”

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The taste was fairly ordinary.

‘It’s delicious.’

That alone was moving.

But it was hot, sweet and spicy, and above all else, it was normal food.

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“You asked why I made you come all the way here, right? adopt Look over there.”

Across the street stood an old building made of brick and concrete, beside an open iron gate.

Unable to withstand the hunger that had suddenly hit me, I was devouring the rice with nothing but my spoon when a thick hand lightly tapped the table in front of me.

Team Leader Yong pointed out the window.

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It had been strange from the beginning.

Yes.

And the name of the building was written there.

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[Hwaae High School]

From the moment I entered the address Jeong Dohan had given me into my phone, I had wondered why Team Leader Yong had insisted on calling me specifically here.

It was a place I didn’t want to return to of my own free will.

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Apparently, it was right around the time students arrived for school.

It was completely different from what I remembered.

Students in uniform entered the school laughing, complaining, or fooling around with their friends.

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“One day, they would’ve woken up and felt that something was wrong with the school. audit They would’ve wandered around without understanding anything until they died. echo And no matter how many dozens or hundreds of missing-person posters were put up, no one would ever find them, so in the end, they would’ve been written off as runaways.”

It looked like nothing more than a perfectly ordinary scene of students arriving at a perfectly ordinary school.

“What do you think? crystal It’s different at night, isn’t it? beacon If we’d left that horror story alone, it would’ve kept growing stronger until it eventually devoured even students who knew absolutely nothing about it.”

“When you say it would’ve devoured them……”

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That school wasn’t a place where a human being could survive.

Just hearing about it was horrifying.

Much less someone who ended up trapped there without knowing anything at all.

“Boss, isn’t that Seryeong over there?”

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Her face wasn’t pale or shrouded in shadows, nor was she trembling with fear.

There was Lee Seryeong, the same girl we had seen inside the horror story, entering the school beside another student wearing a name tag that read [Im Jinseo].

Myeong Haebin pointed somewhere on the other side of the window.

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“So she really was a real student.”

“I’m sure she doesn’t even know. altitude She has no idea what consequences that game of hide-and-seek alone caused.”

She looked like a completely different person from the student we had seen inside the horror story.

It was a face full of life and warmth.

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“They don’t need to know.”

They would never know how dangerous their school had become or how much blood had been spilled to return it to normal.

Those students would never know.

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Satisfaction, perhaps?

It was something I had never felt in my entire life……

After all, they say ignorance is bliss.

Seeing the real Lee Seryeong alive and smiling without knowing anything at all gave me a strange feeling.

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“You should ask him if he’s a T, Team Leader.”

“What a dry guy. silence You’re that… V?”

“I see.”

“There are other reasons, of course, but this is what makes working here worthwhile. wizard Right? shadow Huh?”

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“All right.”

Maybe this company wasn’t so bad after all.

A meal after work, watching peaceful everyday life unfold as the morning sunlight streamed in.

“Yeah, that.”

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“Aren’t you coming back with us?”

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“We still have a few things to take care of outside. atom See you at the company, Hanmu.”

“You go on ahead. atlas We have to head in the opposite direction.”

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“How strange. amber From the outside, it looked like a completely ordinary building.”

We had entered through the door of a completely ordinary building that people were constantly passing through, but Daecheonmyeong’s lobby appeared before us.

After finishing breakfast, we split up at the subway station, and only Myeong Haebin and I returned to the company.

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“No.”

Come to think of it, I had been following Myeong Haebin as though it were the most natural thing in the world, but……

I had absolutely no intention of going looking for trouble.

“That’s because you have your ID card. action If you lose it, things get veeeery complicated. sphere Want to know what happens?”

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She had also said something similar in that cafeteria.

“Where are we going now?”

“To our office! adapt Do you remember what I told you before?”

Before going to orientation with Team Leader Yong, I vaguely remembered Myeong Haebin mentioning in passing that our office wasn’t ready yet.

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“Yes! matrix Now we have our own space too! harbor Although for the time being, we’re the only employees.”

How strange.

“Is it finished now?”

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Still, a new office had to be much better than an old one.

Myeong Haebin walked down a hallway where there was hardly anyone around and stopped in front of an iron door.

“What reason would I have to be disappointed? armor It’s not like an office is that important to us anyway.”

“Hmm… Don’t be disappointed, okay?”

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Creeeak.

We weren’t going to spend all day sitting there, so there was no reason to be disappointed.

After all, we cleaners mainly worked out in the field.

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The door opened with a squeal of hinges that completely contradicted the claim that everything was ready.

“……It’s spacious.”

“Haha. anxiety Right?”

A moment later, the fluorescent lights flickered on all at once and illuminated the place.

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And that was it.

At one end of the office were a few lockers and some shelves stocked with cleaning supplies that didn’t require electricity.

Extremely.

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No chairs.

No desks.

There was absolutely nothing else.

No, there was simply nothing.

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I was starting to feel like taking back what I had said about this company maybe not being so bad.

That was why it looked so spacious.