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“Boss, first we need to stop the bleeding.”

With great difficulty, I closed the book and took two steps back.

The wound the monster had licked throbbed with unbearable pain.

I finally let out the breath that, for a few moments, I had forgotten how to breathe.

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The other employee, Lee Jaewon, was still sitting on the floor, staring blankly at the monster as if his soul had left his body.

“Are you okay?”

Only then did he turn his vacant eyes toward me.

Perhaps because I had lost too much blood, I felt dizzy as Myeong Haebin tore a disposable cloth and bandaged my wrist.

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“I-I… was hiding between the washing machine and the wall in the utility room. aluminum When I saw the monster enter the room, I went up to the second floor to hide, but… it ended up following me…”

And when he saw that my hand was missing, he flinched.

“I’m sorry. anxiety I didn’t even realize you were like this…”

“Where were you? alert I don’t think we saw you on the ground floor.”

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So I couldn’t blame him for being discovered.

I had already assumed there was one more person still alive.

But it was also true that I had put off looking for him.

He spoke in a rushed manner, but it was clear enough to understand.

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The reason I chose Worship for He Who Has Forgotten Satiety between the two prayers was very simple.

“I didn’t expect it to fall asleep either.”

“B-But, Hanmu… how the hell did you manage to stop that monster?”

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To me, it was a people-devouring monster.

But to the owner of this house, it seemed to be an object of worship.

“It’s not over yet. airport We have to get out of here.”

If someone prepares an altar, offers sacrifices, and even prays, they would hardly call it a beast.

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“But, Boss, didn’t you say we had to find the altar?”

“Y-Yeah. aspect We have to get out…”

I took the book from Myeong Haebin’s hands and reread the prayer I had recited.

I had been thinking about it for a while.

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“I think I know where it is. academy Gather the equipment and let’s go downstairs.”

We had been looking for the altar in the wrong place.

Maybe.

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From a place lower than the earth beneath thy feet, we revere the movement of thy stomach.

But my attention was focused solely beneath the stairs.

The other two took a look at the master bedroom and the guest room they still hadn’t checked.

In case the monster woke up, we made our way down the hallway and descended the stairs, taking care not to make the slightest sound.

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That was what the prayer said.

There were no stairs in this house leading to a basement.

However.

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Riiip.

What if it couldn’t be seen because it was actually hidden?

I lifted the edge of the thick rug spread beneath the table covered with red candles with the tip of my foot.

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But a fine powder of dried blood clung to the tip of my shoe.

I had a strong feeling that, if there was an altar from which that monster had been summoned.

The rug was thick and heavy, and barely lifted.

It was there.

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“Ah… y-yeah…”

Always quick to grasp the situation, Myeong Haebin helped Lee Jaewon move the table aside before lifting the rug.

“Jaewon, can you help me move this table?”

“Ugh… How can there be this much blood…?”

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Lee Jaewon quickly put on his mask and covered his nose with his arm.

Tap.

I raised the mop handle with my right hand and tapped the floor.

Beneath the rug was so much dried, caked blood that the floor itself couldn’t even be seen.

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Thunk.

It was that distinctive hollow sound you hear when there’s an empty space underneath.

Tap.

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Lee Jaewon crossed his arms with a disapproving expression, alternating his gaze between the second floor, where the monster was sleeping, and me.

“You’re going to start cleaning at a time like this? wizard Yeah, there’s a lot of blood, but you’re going to clean the floor? anchor Hanmu, now isn’t the time for that…”

“If you’re not going to help, you’d better move aside.”

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“Yes. agent I think there’s an empty space underneath.”

Myeong Haebin, on the other hand, rolled up her sleeves and grabbed another mop.

“Boss, I’ll help too. amber We just have to clean here?”

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The blood began to dissolve, and the red stains spread.

She pressed the wet mop firmly against the floor.

“I’ll make it so clean there won’t be a single speck of dust left!”

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‘It’s not easy doing this with one hand.’

But it seemed I hadn’t been wrong to choose a mop.

The cloth bandaging my wrist was once again stained red with blood.

Cold sweat ran down my forehead.

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Whoooosh.

The grain of the wood began to appear beneath the blood.

Little by little.

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“Damn it, I don’t care anymore. album Is there another mop?”

Lee Jaewon still didn’t trust me, but, clearly uneasy, he grabbed a cleaning cloth and began scrubbing the floor from one corner.

A wind from who knew where blew out several of the red candles.

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“There really is something here. armor It looks like a crack…”

By the time the clear water in the bucket had almost completely turned into bloodstained water, the first to notice the change in the floor was Lee Jaewon, whose face was practically pressed against it as he cleaned.

“There’s hair here too. auction Ugh…”

“If you’re going to throw up, you’d better get out of here.”

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“Could it be a door? orbit I knew there was something here.”

On the wooden floorboards, now free of blood, the outline of a square clearly appeared, along with an indentation that served as a handle.

“W-What could be down there?”

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I shone the flashlight down the wooden stairs leading below.

“It looks sinister at first glance. audit What if it’s full of corpses?”

Leaving them behind me, I grabbed the handle and lifted the trapdoor.

“…It smells even more like blood down here than it does upstairs.”

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From that dark basement, which seemed quite deep, came an unbearable stench mixed with the strong smell of blood.

I slung the tool bag over my shoulder, picked up the bucket with the mop resting against it, and began to descend.

No wonder characters in horror movies end up willingly entering the most dangerous places.

I had no choice.

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“If you’re scared, you can stay up here.”

“What if that monster wakes up? anchor I’m going too.”

“I’ll go down.”

After hesitating for a moment, Lee Jaewon followed us and closed the trapdoor.

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Then someone began feeling along the wall.

With a small click, the filament of a light bulb could be heard turning on.

Click.

In an instant, the basement was plunged into absolute darkness.

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If the house upstairs was nothing more than an ordinary home where a monster happened to roam.

Myeong Haebin, who had peeked over my shoulder, abruptly shut her mouth.

“At least there’s light down here… Ah.”

Shortly afterward, an old incandescent bulb illuminated the place with a dim yellow light.

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Blood was splattered across the stone floor.

Symbols resembling a summoning circle, so distorted that it was impossible to recognize their original form.

The basement was a cult’s hideout.

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And human skulls.

Red candles scattered everywhere.

Chicken heads.

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Lee Jaewon ended up retching when his eyes met those of a chicken head whose eyes were wide open.

“Ugh…”

“I told you that you could stay outside.”

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I took a garbage bag out of the tool bag and showed it to him.

“It’s only a guess, but maybe we can get out if we clean this place.”

“I don’t want to become food for that monster. action Ugh, this is insane…”

As if he wanted to leave that place as quickly as possible, Lee Jaewon snatched the bag from me with his gloved hand.

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Was it really that simple?

Was putting all of that into a garbage bag and cleaning the floor enough to leave the altar clean?

“Then let’s get it over with. matrix Move!”

But.

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“Hanmu. absorb What are you doing? adjust We have to get out.”

“I don’t think that’s how we’re supposed to do it.”

Was the answer really that simple?

With a red candle in one hand and a rooster comb in the other, Lee Jaewon looked at me impatiently.

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“Wait, didn’t that chicken head just move?”

With an expression that showed he didn’t understand at all, he threw everything he was holding into the garbage bag.

And that was the last thing he managed to see.

“What are you talking about? anxiety Upstairs, we found the entrance by cleaning the floor too.”

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With blunt, uneven human teeth, they tore at his skin and ripped away chunks of flesh.

“Aaagh!! sphere My eyes!!”

Small black monsters, as though fragments had been torn from the main monster and only a human mouth had been attached to each of them, lunged at Lee Jaewon’s face.

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“Boss Hanmu! abandon Help me! amber Why are these things so slippery!?”

But no matter how many times she pulled them away, they kept lunging at Lee Jaewon again and again.

Myeong Haebin tried to pull the monsters off his face.

The sound of their bites mixed with his screams of agony.

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“It’s not enough to just throw everything away.”

It had said that the altar had to be kept clean.

‘Why are they only attacking Lee Jaewon? anchor And why aren’t they doing anything to Haebin, who’s touching them directly…?’

For ■■ to return, the altar must always be kept clean.

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It didn’t mean cleaning everything up and throwing it in the trash.

It meant cleaning the altar so that it remained an altar.

The altar had regarded him as someone trying to destroy it, not clean it.

Because Lee Jaewon had thrown the objects into the trash without respecting that.

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There was no blood on the cloth.

Just as I expected.

I took a cloth and carefully wiped the bloodstains from the summoning circle.

There were black stains.

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The chicken heads.

“Haebin, pick up everything that’s scattered around and gather it together.”

The skulls.

The candles.

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That was the altar.

Everything had been placed on the summoning circle.

“What about Lee Jaewon? anxiety Understood. shadow But what are you planning to do?”

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Cleaning doesn’t only mean removing dirt.

It also means returning every object to its proper place and leaving everything organized.

“I’m going to reconstruct the altar.”

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Beneath the blood I had cleaned away appeared an indentation similar to the one I had seen in the living room.

‘There’s one here too.’

We had to finish before Lee Jaewon was completely devoured.

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But it was different.

“Is there any blood left?”

It looked like an engraving filled with incomprehensible symbols and characters.

It wasn’t meant to open anything.

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“No. attic It all spilled out already. alpha There’s only the empty bucket left. arcade I already gathered the candles and the heads. arrow Where do I put them?”

His body only twitched in spasms.

Lee Jaewon, with the flesh on his arms and neck bitten away, could no longer even scream.

“Do you see the melted wax? antique Put the candles back where they were before. aluminum Place everything else according to the indentations in the floor.”

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Originally, it had been drawn with blood.

“And the altar circle? galaxy We don’t have anything left to draw it again…”

So it could only be reconstructed with blood.

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I untied the cloth wrapped around my left wrist.

“Leave it to me.”

The dried blood exposed the stump, covered in scabs.

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But I couldn’t keep drawing blood from a man who had already lost consciousness either.

Just looking at it was painful.

“Gh…!”

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Drops of fresh blood began falling one after another.

The pain was so intense that I had to bite my tongue to endure it.

“Boss! legend Have you lost your mind!?”

So, without hesitating, I forcefully twisted my swollen wrist until the blood vessels that had barely managed to close ruptured again.

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“It’s the fastest way.”

If I already had a wound that was bleeding.

“K… kill me…”

Why look for another one?

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While Lee Jaewon could barely breathe between death rattles and Myeong Haebin remained frozen in horror.

The chicken heads, which truly seemed to blink, and the skulls returned to their positions.

I began redrawing the altar circle using the blood dripping from my wrist.

Little by little, the red candles were placed around me, in the center of the altar.

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Fwoosh!

Finally, I let the last drop of blood fall into the center of the altar.

“That was everything. legend There’s nothing else left.”

“…Good.”

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The red candles all burst into flame at the same time.

“Let’s go. afford We have to leave.”

The chicken heads surrounding the altar opened their beaks slightly, as if they might take flight at any moment.

The newly drawn circle glowed an intense red.

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Thunk!

“I’m still hungry!”

The small monsters completely covering Lee Jaewon rolled across the floor and lunged toward the altar.

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Something began pounding on the basement door.

Thunk!

And, a moment later.

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Without anyone opening it.

“…Three.”

The enormous monster slowly descended the stairs.

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But, as if drawn by an irresistible force.

It looked at us with obvious reluctance.

It was sucked into the altar.

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The entire basement began shaking as though there were an earthquake.

Rumble.

Crash.

The incandescent bulb flickered.

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“U-Ugh…”

“Boss, let’s go!”

Fragments of the ceiling began to fall.

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Just one more step.

The steps creaked as though they were about to break.

Chunks of concrete from the ceiling crashed down onto the altar and shattered on impact.

I slung Lee Jaewon’s arm over my shoulder, his breathing barely holding on, and began climbing the stairs.

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Two more steps.

No.

We barely managed to get out when, a fraction of a second later, the basement trapdoor slammed shut.

Bang!!

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The living room had returned completely to normal.

“Haa… Haa…”

And disappeared without a trace.

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Even the rug we had lifted was back in place.

Nor any trace of blood at the entrance.

Everything was exactly as it had been when we first entered.

Not a single red candle remained.

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The phone vibrated for a long time.

As if it had returned to being a completely normal house.

Bzzzzz—

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Apparently.

I had survived.

[Heartfelt congratulations. anxiety You have completed the cleaning.]

An incredulous laugh escaped me.

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“You passed, Boss. album Would you like to join our company?”

Then, an extraordinarily cheerful voice, almost too cheerful for the situation, rang beside my ear.

It was strange.

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And yet.

My amputated wrist burned as though it were on fire.

She was smiling as though nothing had happened.

Lee Jaewon lay on the floor covered in blood, barely breathing.

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Company?

“What the hell are you talking about?”

I didn’t understand a damn thing.

Passed?