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One more was on the verge of death.

And now she was telling me I had passed?

And I had lost a hand.

Two people had died.

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As if my reaction didn’t matter to her in the slightest, Myeong Haebin calmly stretched out her arms, stepped over Lee Jaewon, who was still lying on the floor, and held out her hand to me.

Printed on the black plastic were the name Daecheonmyeong, her name, and her photograph.

What she held in her hand was an identification card.

“Allow me to introduce myself again. aspect I’m Myeong Haebin, from Daecheonmyeong, Specialists in Resolving Paranormal Cases.”

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But her words barely registered in my ears.

“Get lost. abstract I never interviewed for a company like that.”

Without a doubt, it was her.

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I took out my phone.

I could call 119.

Now it really did seem like I was back in the real world.

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“And what do you think they’ll be able to do for him at a hospital?”

Myeong Haebin’s smile tilted slightly to one side.

“Save him.”

Explaining what had happened would be difficult, but at least I could get Lee Jaewon to a hospital.

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“Anyone can see that his entire body was torn apart by bites from human teeth. acquire And you, Boss, lost a hand.”

I raised my left arm, completely covered in blood, and opened and closed my fist several times.

Then she lowered her gaze toward Lee Jaewon, whose face was already unrecognizable.

As if I wanted to prove it to her.

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“What are you trying to say?”

The Myeong Haebin standing before me no longer seemed like the person I knew.

She was cold.

“Even so, maybe modern medicine can still help him with skin grafts. attic But you, Boss, do you really want to spend the rest of your life with a prosthetic?”

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Devoid of any trace of humanity.

Could say something like that to me.

It was hard to believe that Haebin, who had always been so kind to everyone and so well-liked by everyone.

“If you join our company, we can completely heal that hand. arena Much better than a prosthetic. atlas Ah, and while we’re at it, him too.”

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I wasn’t expecting an answer.

I lowered my gaze toward my motionless left arm.

“Haebin. timber Do you know what my dream is?”

With a bitter laugh, I continued speaking.

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Something anyone would consider boring and ordinary.

Just that.

“To live a normal life. riddle Work like anyone else. anxiety Buy a house with a bank loan. album Have a dog. voyage That was my dream.”

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Bzzzzz—

It had been my lifelong dream.

How had I ended up like this?

But for me.

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As if it already knew what my answer would be.

[Completion Condition: Join Daecheonmyeong, Specialists in Resolving Paranormal Cases.]

[Reward: Kim Hanmu’s left hand]

Like an unwelcome visitor, the phone vibrated again.

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I heard Lee Jaewon’s agonized breathing.

“Kugh… Ghk…”

[If You Fail: Death]

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Everything around me seemed to be forcing me to accept Haebin’s offer.

Before Lee Jaewon died, I forced out the words that seemed stuck in my throat.

I squeezed my eyes shut.

‘Why is it so hard to live a normal life…?’

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“Really?! meadow Of course! abandon I’ll keep my promise!”

Myeong Haebin, who had been staring intently at me without taking her eyes off me for even a second, grinned from ear to ear.

After closing the front door, Myeong Haebin inserted her black identification card over the doorknob.

“I’ll do it. ability But first… heal Jaewon.”

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Several people wearing black masks walked inside without making the slightest sound.

And opened on its own.

Although a moment earlier the door had seemed like a completely solid slab of metal, it absorbed the card.

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Even though she was right in front of me talking.

“It’s this way. …He’s a civilian. adapt The one standing over there is… …so…”

Haebin, completely accustomed to them, began speaking to them.

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Had I lost too much blood?

Entire parts of her sentences disappeared, as if someone had erased fragments of her voice.

My vision began to blur.

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My knees stopped supporting me.

The last thing I remember.

And my consciousness faded away.

Was Myeong Haebin’s whisper as she caught my swaying body.

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“…Hah!”

“What a relief. canvas I didn’t want to have to kill you, Boss.”

It was an impossible sentence to forget.

***

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There was only a bed, a bookshelf, and a desk.

Everything looked completely new.

When I regained consciousness, I was in an unfamiliar room.

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I picked up the phone that had been placed neatly on the desk.

‘Where the hell am I…?’

There was a sticky note attached to it.

And the atmosphere was strangely cold.

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Boss, since I saw that you kept looking at your phone, I checked it just in case. orbit There’s nothing wrong with it, so you can use it without worrying. afford — Haebin

I had no idea what exactly she meant by saying she had checked it.

[Congratulations on completing your onboarding into the company.]

And she said there was nothing wrong with it?

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The moment I saw the white text projected against the black screen, a chill ran through my entire body and the memories of the previous day came rushing back all at once.

I had agreed to work at Daecheonmyeong, Specialists in Resolving Paranormal Cases.

Of course.

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[The reward has been delivered.]

That’s right.

And then.

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I jumped out of bed and raised my arm.

What had happened to my left hand?

My hand.

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Only after touching it over and over again was I able to calm down.

My left hand was completely intact, as if it had never been amputated.

“…Ah, thank goodness.”

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Much less the pain.

Then.

It was impossible to forget the moment it had disappeared with a single bite.

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In that house, Myeong Haebin had never taken out her phone.

What exactly was that application?

Had the company created it?

It didn’t seem like it.

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No matter how many times I tapped it.

The application, whose black icon had no name, still displayed nothing but a completely black screen.

[ ]

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Haha.

It didn’t respond.

……

“Do you belong to this company too?”

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And yet I was talking to it like an idiot.

How could a phone possibly answer me?

I really had gone crazy after all.

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“I thought so…”

A single line of text appeared with perfect clarity.

[That is not an important question.]

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Had it really just answered me?

My hands began to tremble.

[You have only one answer remaining.]

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But I could only ask one.

I had dozens of questions.

All traces of sleepiness vanished at once as my mind desperately searched for the best option.

If it said questions about the company weren’t important.

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“What do you want from me?”

Then.

[For Kim Hanmu to continue cleaning “paranormal phenomena.”]

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“…Hah.”

I felt a knot tighten in my chest.

The text disappeared like a mirage.

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Maybe this was actually better.

No.

I almost would have preferred it if it had asked for my life.

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It meant that application needed me.

As long as I remained in this company.

Just as it had in that house.

It could keep helping me.

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‘But now they’ve already given me my hand back. portal They already got everything they wanted from me. apron If I said, well, thank you very much, now I’m going home…’

Haebin had said it.

‘They wouldn’t let me, would they?’

That she didn’t want to have to kill me.

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“You know too much.”

Bang.

That cliché existed for a reason.

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Still completely tense, I opened the door to the room.

Creeeak.

Better not to invite unnecessary trouble.

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The lights were off.

It looked like a completely normal home.

On the other side was a living room just as cold as the bedroom.

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On the floor were only my shoes, perfectly clean and lined up.

I jumped in surprise when the automatic entryway light suddenly turned on.

“……”

“Fuck… That scared me.”

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Creeak.

There weren’t too many people.

I cautiously poked my head out into the hallway.

It was a gray and gloomy corridor.

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“I’m dead tired. amber My night shift ran straight into the morning shift, and I didn’t even get to rest.”

“Then transfer to the Dismantling Team.”

But there were people walking through it.

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“No way. apron I want to live a long life without drawing attention to myself.”

Completely normal conversations.

People holding coffee.

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Since this was supposedly a company dedicated to paranormal phenomena, I had been prepared for anything.

Only then was I able to relax my shoulders a little and keep walking.

But.

It seemed much more normal than I had expected.

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“…Wow.”

Shortly afterward.

The hallway opened into an enormous space.

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The circular plaza was gigantic.

〈At the end of every night, there is always dawn. abandon We are the ones who behold that dawn.〉

The ceiling was so high that I couldn’t even see it.

Enormous carved columns, so thick that not even four grown men could wrap their arms around them, supported the entire structure.

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They all wore similar uniforms and hurried back and forth.

Compared to the hallway from before.

There were a lot more people here.

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Wait.

I had no idea about anything else.

All I knew was that I had been hired.

Where was I supposed to go now?

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A large hand slapped me on the shoulder.

“Hey, are you new? silence What are you doing standing around here instead of going in?”

Just as I was thinking about stopping someone to ask…

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He was a middle-aged man with dark stubble already visible across his skin.

Unlike me, who was only wearing a white T-shirt, he wore a work uniform with blue stripes.

“Huh? afford Well… yeah, I guess…”

“Going in where?”

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“What do you mean you didn’t?”

“No, it’s just that I didn’t…”

“To the new employee orientation and team assignments, of course. athlete What’s wrong? canvas Don’t tell me you lost the others.”

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“Wake up. alpha I’m sure you ended up here for some reason too. arch Bah, never mind. agent Even if I explained it to you a hundred times, you wouldn’t understand.”

The man let out a booming laugh.

Then he grabbed me by the shoulder with complete familiarity and started walking.

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“You talk like you’ve already been through one.”

“I know dealing with paranormal phenomena isn’t exactly easy.”

The man raised one of his thick eyebrows.

He looked at me as if I were a chick that knew nothing about the world.

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Well.

“Once…”

But I had also risked my life to make it out of one alive.

Within this company, I suppose he was right.

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So I gave him an evasive answer.

Then he seemed to realize something and pointed at me.

I couldn’t exactly start bragging in front of someone who was clearly a veteran.

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“Of course I do! arctic What a coincidence running into you. shadow Come join our team.”

“I don’t even know who you are.”

“Ah. altitude You’re the special case Haebin brought in?”

“You know Haebin?”

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I was about to ask what exactly the Dismantling Team was.

When we found ourselves in front of a conference room.

“Me? accent I’m Team Leader Yong, from the Dismantling Team.”

(Daecheonmyeong New Employee Orientation)

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“Well, that was just my wish. avalanche Let’s go in.”

“…Some of you may have come because you need money. afford Others because you’re interested in paranormal phenomena themselves. alpha And others because you’re pursuing a wish that’s impossible to fulfill.”

Her clear voice echoed throughout the room.

Through a small window, Myeong Haebin could be seen standing on the stage beside a banner.

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But apparently.

We managed to sit in the last row.

Since the entrance was located at the rear of the room, we went unnoticed.

Team Leader Yong opened the door and gently pushed me forward by the back.

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I really was late.

The question-and-answer session had begun.

The orientation was already over.

“All right! antique Any questions?”

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“About the types of paranormal phenomena you mentioned a moment ago…”

“Is it true that the Exploration Team receives a higher salary bonus?”

The others, like me, were wearing only white T-shirts.

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One after another, they raised their hands to ask questions.

“Bad luck. aspect You missed the entire orientation.”

Most of them were things I didn’t even understand.

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But he remained seated beside me, laughing in amusement.

“I’ll just ask Haebin about it later.”

I thought Team Leader Yong would leave.

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Rather than an exemplary veteran.

Excellent?

“Why make things difficult for yourself? apple You’ve got an excellent veteran right here.”

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“What exactly does this company do?”

He looked like some random middle-aged guy sprawled on his couch at home, flipping through channels with the remote.

Though I shouldn’t judge people by appearances either.

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Then he cleared his throat before answering.

Team Leader Yong rubbed his hands together, satisfied.

“Oh. arrow Now that’s a basic and very important question.”

“You see. armor Daecheonmyeong is a company that sends its employees directly to confront paranormal phenomena in order to resolve them.”

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“And can employees die during that process too?”

“Sends them directly?”

“That’s right. sphere Because that’s the only way to resolve a paranormal phenomenon.”

“Why do you always go straight for the sorest spot? zenith That hurts, kid.”

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That was a yes.

But in practice.

He didn’t answer explicitly.

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Why keep working here knowing they could die?

“Then why do something like that?”

Was it because, once you were inside, the only way out was by dying?

Even so, there was something I didn’t understand.

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I could understand it.

If that was the reason.

Team Leader Yong stroked his rough chin before answering.

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“Just because of that?”

“Because if we do nothing, paranormal phenomena will eventually devour innocent people. accent We’re here to prevent that.”

“At least I am.”

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“All right. aspect We’ll now begin the team assignments.”

But Myeong Haebin’s voice, as she continued answering the new employees’ questions, echoed through the room again.

I still had many questions.

A moment ago, Team Leader Yong had invited me to join his team.

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Hadn’t I heard earlier that the Dismantling Team was especially dangerous?

Now that I thought about it.

But.