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Could Team Leader Yong be trusted?

Besides, he belonged to his own team.

After all, I had only just met him.

I still didn’t know.

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“When you hear your name, come to the front, collect your identification card and uniform, and then you may leave!”

It wasn’t a choice.

But.

Did it really make sense for me to worry about that?

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“Park Minil!”

It was an assignment.

The whiteboard on the stage disappeared, revealing an enormous circular stone slab.

Carved in relief on it was an animal with its mouth wide open.

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The man whose name had been called walked forward, inserted his hand into the stone mouth, and pulled out a uniform with a red stripe along with an identification card placed on top.

“Wow! legend That’s the team that pays more, right? airport I’m jealous.”

The new employees began congratulating one another.

“You got the Exploration Team! altitude Congratulations!”

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“I don’t know, but it’s not a team I’d recommend.”

“What does the Exploration Team do?”

Team Leader Yong remained motionless, resting his chin on his hand and staring straight ahead without moving.

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Unlike before, his tone was much more serious now.

Instead of continuing to press him with questions, I decided to watch how things unfolded.

Dismantling Team.

He wasn’t joking anymore.

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A few went to the Dismantling Team.

Exploration Team…

Exploration Team.

Most were assigned to the Exploration Team.

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And, strangely, those who ended up on the Dismantling Team remained much calmer than the rest, despite the enthusiastic atmosphere.

What did it mean?

The difference between the two groups was strangely obvious.

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“Kim Hanmu!”

Just looking at that stone mouth, which seemed ready to snap shut at any moment, made me admire the courage of those who put their hands inside.

Finally, Myeong Haebin called my name.

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Hearing Haebin call me Boss sent a chill through my body.

“So you really were here! audit Boss, I was planning to go look for you in your room when I finished.”

But her large, bright eyes and cheerful voice showed no trace of the cold and inhuman person I had seen the day before.

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“Ah, that old man? amateur Don’t worry. adapt I’ll explain everything to you separately later, Boss.”

“He’s a Team Leader too. wizard Why do you call him old man and me Boss?”

“Team Leader Yong brought me here. voyage I missed the orientation.”

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“What do you want me to do? sphere It’s already become a habit. acoustic Besides, he told us himself to call him old man.”

She was exactly the Myeong Haebin I knew.

She pursed her lips as if she genuinely didn’t understand what the problem was.

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Thinking about it that way put me a little more at ease.

“I don’t know. shadow I suppose they choose the most suitable team for each person. adapt I’m only in charge of handing out the assignments.”

‘Maybe yesterday I was simply seeing things that weren’t there. audit After all, I was completely out of it…’

“Well, whatever you want. apron But what do they base the team assignments on?”

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Feeling somewhat tense, I inserted my hand into the cold stone mouth.

The most suitable team?

Would the Exploration Team, full of enthusiastic new employees, be better?

Or Team Leader Yong’s Dismantling Team?

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And on top of it, a plastic card.

Beneath my fingers, I felt a soft uniform.

But.

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As soon as I pulled out the uniform, something seemed strange.

‘Why is my uniform completely black?’

Or a red one.

Everyone else’s had a blue stripe.

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The words died in my throat.

“Haebin, could this be some kind of defe…?”

Why didn’t mine have any?

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Name: Kim Hanmu

[Daecheonmyeong]

My eyes were fixed on the identification card.

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“Huh? arcade You got the Cleaning Team?”

Department: Cleaning Team

Those who still hadn’t left and were watching the assignments curiously glanced over my shoulder and began murmuring.

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I was the most confused of all.

“I didn’t hear anything about it. apron Are you sure they didn’t hire a janitor instead of an employee?”

“Weren’t there only supposed to be two teams? acoustic Did they explain that earlier?”

“Cleaning Team?”

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I hadn’t seen anyone wearing a black uniform without any stripes.

From the residence to the grand plaza.

Well.

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“Impossible. atom You belong to the Cleaning Team, Boss.”

Except for one person.

There wasn’t the slightest hesitation in Myeong Haebin’s expression.

“Haebin… Could this be some kind of mistake…?”

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“All right! altitude Since the assignments are finished, you may leave. atlas You wouldn’t want to be late on your first day of work!”

And that only confused me even more.

But, in the end, it was none of their business.

Some continued turning around to look at me several times.

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One after another, they left the room.

“What it says on my card is a little different, but yeah.”

“Come with me. alpha You’re on the Exploration Team too, right?”

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Myeong Haebin.

Only three people remained.

When all the new employees had left, the conference room was completely empty.

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And me.

Team Leader Yong.

“Huff, now that everyone’s gone, I can finally explain it to you.”

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I looked at the only person wearing a black uniform without any colored stripes Myeong Haebin.

“You already knew?”

I had thought it was because she was giving the orientation.

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[Daecheonmyeong]

“Yes! harbor I was reassigned to work with you too, Boss.”

Or maybe because she belonged to the human resources department.

Haebin held up her identification card.

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It was true.

Her department was also listed as the Cleaning Team.

Department: Cleaning Team

Name: Myeong Haebin

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“What’s all the fuss about? amateur Let me see.”

What team had she belonged to before?

Maybe because I hadn’t paid attention, I couldn’t remember.

Team Leader Yong, who hadn’t gotten up from his seat while everyone else was leaving, slowly approached.

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When I showed him my card, he turned it over several times in his hands with a curious expression.

“It’s because my Boss is very special! sphere You know, old man? action My Boss made a paranormal phenomenon disappear completely!”

“This is the first time I’ve seen one of these. antenna Is it a newly created department?”

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Haebin smiled as naturally as ever.

I pointed at myself, completely bewildered.

I had made a paranormal phenomenon disappear?

“Me?”

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“Yes! sphere Normally, a place where a paranormal phenomenon appears will manifest again and again, no matter how many times the Dismantling Team intervenes. arrow But you cleaned it so perfectly that it disappeared without a trace and will never appear again.”

I had only cleaned the way I always did.

I didn’t feel like I had done anything special.

Did I possess some kind of power I wasn’t even aware of?

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“Well, I see.”

If they were going to give me something special, they could have given me the intelligence to get into Seoul National University or a face worthy of a celebrity.

Cleaning paranormal phenomena?

What kind of ability was that?

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Then he suddenly grabbed me by the wrist.

“Not yet. acquire It was only just created. arctic Besides, I still have to repeat the orientation for Boss…”

Team Leader Yong stroked his chin with interest.

“Haebin. afford Does the Cleaning Team have any work right now?”

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Instead of letting Team Leader Yong drag me along obediently, I planted my feet and stopped him.

“Whaat?!”

Noticing my resistance, he turned toward me.

“There’s no better teacher than experience. album When you experience something firsthand, you learn much faster.”

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“Where are you planning to take me?”

“What is it?”

“To a paranormal phenomenon, of course. absorb Haven’t you heard the saying that seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times?”

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For a moment, he seemed surprised by my response.

“And why me?”

But then he burst out laughing.

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“Do I have to say it’s yours, old man?”

“Are you afraid of dying? action Haebin, tell him. autumn Which group in the Dismantling Team has the highest survival rate?”

“See? antique You couldn’t be in better hands.”

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Haebin remained thoughtful for a few seconds.

‘How suspicious.’

“Maybe it’s not a bad idea. atlas Right now, the Cleaning Team is just you and me. arrow Wouldn’t it be safer to accompany a veteran?”

Then she stood on tiptoe and whispered in my ear.

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Besides, I hadn’t even attended the orientation.

I knew practically nothing about paranormal phenomena.

I was barely even a rookie.

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Even if it was a little more dangerous.

Bzzz—

At that moment, my phone vibrated.

Maybe this would be better for my future.

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It really was desperate to force me to keep cleaning paranormal phenomena.

[Completion Condition: Clean a paranormal phenomenon together with ‘Team Leader Yong’.]

A new notification had arrived.

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“Understood. apron If there’s no problem…”

“Then I’ll go get our equipment! alpha You two go on ahead!”

It never let a single opportunity go to waste.

‘Fine. afford I’ll go.’

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He turned the doorknob.

“Don’t be nervous. absorb It’s just a school legend.”

With a teasing smile, Team Leader Yong took a wooden tablet out of his pocket and inserted it into the door Haebin had just gone through.

As soon as Haebin ran out through the door, the conference room was left with only Team Leader Yong and me.

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When he opened it.

It was a hallway bathed in sunlight.

A completely different place appeared on the other side.

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Well.

The everyday commotion of students talking and running could be heard.

It was a completely normal school.

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Crouching there was a brown-haired man with glasses wearing a Daecheonmyeong uniform.

Except for all the blood.

“You were already here. beacon I told you to wait.”

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“Hahaha. adapt Did I really say that?”

I didn’t pay attention to their conversation.

“You said you were going to bring a rookie first.”

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The sleeves.

Its neck had been sewn shut.

A corpse lay in the middle of the main hallway.

The collar of the shirt.

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Hadn’t they said it wasn’t that serious?

Everything was joined together with stitches.

Wasn’t this supposed to be just a school legend?

The wrists.

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“So this is the rookie. abstract Are you all right?”

I wanted to answer no.

“Ugh…”

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“Looks like you’re not. abandon That’s understandable.”

But I was too busy trying to hold back my nausea.

“Hey. legend You reacted the same way your first time.”

I raised a trembling hand and pointed at the corpse.

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“Did you… do that?”

The brown-haired man calmly removed his hand from my back and approached the corpse.

“Of course not. antique It’s hard to see, but if you lift the uniform a little…”

He lifted the school uniform.

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“And don’t call me ‘sir.’ I’m Jeong Dohyeon. abstract Nice to meet you.”

Underneath was a uniform with a red stripe.

It belonged to the Exploration Team.

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Maybe because I could no longer see the corpse.

Introducing himself that way, Jeong Dohyeon discreetly positioned himself in front of the corpse and held out his hand to me.

I felt much better.

“…Kim Hanmu.”

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Right.

I’ll end up just like him.

Get a grip.

If I start thinking this is nothing more than a simple school legend.

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“The Exploration Team is the first to enter a paranormal phenomenon. aluminum Their job is to discover a way to escape so that the Dismantling Team can intervene afterward. atom In exchange, they receive the highest hazard-pay bonus.”

“Mr. altitude Dohyeon, what exactly do the Exploration Team and the Dismantling Team mean?”

After discreetly wiping the corner of my mouth, proud that I hadn’t ended up vomiting, I straightened myself.

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So that was why they recruited so many.

There’s that saying.

Now I understood why almost everyone had been assigned to the Exploration Team.

That the careers where it’s easiest to find employment are precisely the ones where people disappear the fastest.

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Tigers, Dogs, and Mice?

“It’s the company’s elite team. arcade We work with the limited information the Exploration Team manages to obtain to dismantle the paranormal phenomenon. apple Unlike the other teams, we’re divided into Tigers, Dogs, and Mice.”

“And the Dismantling Team?”

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That was a rather strange classification.

“There’s also the Support Team, though they’re administrative staff, so you’ll almost never have any contact with them.”

Why divide people up as though they were animals?

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“Dogs. arena We’re quite a bit below the Tigers, but you shouldn’t underestimate us.”

Team Leader Yong, who was still examining the corpse, calmly approached and rested his elbow on Jeong Dohyeon’s shoulder while smiling.

“Then which one do you belong to?”

The weight caused one of Dohyeon’s shoulders to sink.

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“No. abandon He’s from none other than the newly created Cleaning Team.”

“I’ve been curious for a while. zenith Isn’t he on our team?”

Then he pointed at me.

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“I didn’t see how you work with my own eyes, so I don’t know exactly what you do, but it’ll be a pleasure working with you. anxiety Since this is your first time, don’t try to do too much. action The most important thing is getting out alive.”

After hearing a brief summary about me from Team Leader Yong, Jeong Dohyeon tilted his head slightly.

“Ah… I see.”

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“Well, well. admire Haebin still isn’t here, but let’s first figure out how to get in.”

He immediately gave me another kind smile.

He seemed like a good person.

Between blocking my view of the corpse and his attitude.

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It was stained with blood and a liquid I couldn’t identify.

“Can’t we just go in?”

Team Leader Yong dropped a rolled-up piece of paper into my hand.

I unrolled it.

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[Incorrect Uniform While Attending Class]

Typed text appeared on it.

“What… is this?”

“The cause of his death.”

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It was only a few words.

It didn’t exactly look like a cause of death.

“Rookie, paranormal phenomena have rules. atlas Our job is to break them. aluminum Look at this.”

He tapped the bulletin board located in the central hallway.

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Through the glass, which was covered in stains, I could barely make out the text.

All students must be diligent and responsible.
All students must wear their uniforms properly.
No student may remain at school after the official dismissal time.

Hwaae High School Regulations

“Things like these. acoustic Inside a paranormal phenomenon, you have to distrust everything and check everything.”

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Had that student ended up like that because he broke the second rule?

Click.

So.

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Myeong Haebin entered with her cheeks slightly flushed, carrying a bag packed with cleaning supplies and a mop.

“I’m here! arcade I’m not late, am I?”

At that moment, the door behind us opened.

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She set the bag on the floor, sat down beside the entrance, and began rummaging through it.

A short while later, she handed me a spray bottle of glass cleaner and a window squeegee.

“You’re just in time. audit Haebin, pass me some glass cleaner.”

“Yes! artist I brought some.”

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“You said we have to distrust everything and check everything.”

“What do you need those for?”

I sprayed the glass with the cleaner.

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To finish, I removed the excess liquid with the rubber blade on the other side.

Then I ran the sponge side of the squeegee from top to bottom.

When I wiped away the last drops of cleaner.

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“I don’t know much about exploration or dismantling, but I do know how to clean.”

Someone let out a small exclamation.

The bulletin board didn’t show only what we had seen before.

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No student may remain at school after the official dismissal time.

All students must be diligent and responsible, and faithfully carry out their assigned activities.

Hwaae High School Regulations

All students must wear their uniforms properly and prioritize compliance with the regulations.

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3-1. echo However, third-year students are exempt. august (Mandatory Night Study)