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Then I slowly raised my head and looked around.

Lee Seon, who had been crying black tears of blood, and Tak Jucheol and Paeng Sangdo, who had kept screaming like a chorus.

There was no one.

I stared at the system window announcing the Trial’s completion.

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‘I didn’t even get to say goodbye to them.’

All of them had disappeared without a trace.

I remembered Smiley, who had turned into an item right before my eyes.

Seeing something similar happen for the second time left me with a strange sense of emptiness.

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They had been alive right in front of me.

Without caring how I felt, the system continued displaying one notification after another.

And because of that, I constantly forgot that they were beings destined to disappear, unconsciously convincing myself that I would always be able to see them again.

Even though I knew they were only NPCs, while I was inside the Trial I almost never thought of them that way.

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I pushed aside that feeling of emptiness and continued reading.

Last time it had only increased by 0.01%.

‘Wow, the Fame.’

◆ Epic Quest (Han Goyo): Close 3 Trials within one month.Trials Closed: (1/3)
(Warning! advance If you fail the mission, you will lose all four limbs. anchor If you succeed, you will keep all four limbs.)
‘Han Goyo’ has made his name known to Akasha!
■■ ■■■ has turned its attention toward you.
Current Fame: 0.05%

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They had been quite generous.

But now it had gone up by a full 0.03%.

Although I still had no idea what increasing that number was actually for.

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I lowered my gaze to the portable cassette player in my hand.

‘And I also don’t know what it means that those black blocks have turned their attention toward me.’

At that moment, another system window appeared.

You believe you should listen to this music no matter what.

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I wanted to know why its contents had changed and listen to the songs.

In any case, I had already planned to check it.

It was very similar to the message that had appeared when I obtained the Happy Smile Candy.

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The Trial (Dead Zone Delivery) has ended.
The Trial will be permanently closed in 80 seconds.
You are the greatest contributor to the Trial (Dead Zone Delivery).
You may take ‘2’ items.

Since it might be dangerous, I planned to have Samra, who probably wouldn’t have any problems with it, listen to it instead of me.

‘I’ll have Samra listen to it.’

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I had already decided what one of the items would be.

The portable cassette player.

Just as I had expected, the greatest contributor notification appeared.

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The difficult part was choosing the second one.

However, in the end I didn’t even get the chance to think about it.

I wanted to ask Captain Kwak and Captain Mo whether there was an item that could be useful to the Trial Response Agency, but since they weren’t there, I would have to decide on my own.

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“…Huh?”

I could no longer choose another item.

Apparently, the player and the cassette inside it had been recognized as two separate items.

Item selection has been completed.

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I was going to leave the Trial with nothing but a cassette player.

‘I can’t change it?’

I immediately regretted it.

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Swallowing my embarrassment, I tried every command I could think of.

“Cancel. arctic Change. avalanche Undo…”

But there wasn’t any button to cancel the selection.

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‘I found it inside the Trial. athlete Maybe it contains music that doesn’t exist anywhere in human history.’

It seemed I had no choice but to become someone passionate about music.

The system window didn’t respond.

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Who knows.

Eighty seconds later.

Hoping that would be the case, I carefully put away the cassette player.

Maybe it would become a revolutionary breakthrough for the world of music.

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The entire world crumpled into a swirl of colors.

In the real world, probably only five or six days had passed.

It had been a very long time since I had experienced something like this.

And I returned outside the Trial.

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“Ugh…”

A groan escaped on its own.

Before I even opened my eyes on the laboratory’s cold floor, intense pain shot through my entire body.

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The bandages and stitches that had treated my wounds inside Dead Zone Delivery had completely disappeared.

I remained lying face down as I endured the pain.

As the price for becoming the greatest contributor, I stayed curled up motionless for quite a while.

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After groaning for a while, I finally managed to lift my head and look around.

It seemed even the painkillers’ effects had vanished.

The first people I saw were Captain Kwak and Captain Mo.

‘I don’t remember it hurting this much inside Dead Zone Delivery.’

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It seemed they still hadn’t regained consciousness.

Fortunately, they were fine.

Since I had ended up alone inside the Trial, I had been a little worried that something might have gone wrong.

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His back was resting against the wall.

Je Hyuno was sitting in the farthest corner.

Even though he was the one I needed to worry about the least, I looked for him while checking on everyone else.

‘What about Lieutenant Colonel Je?’

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The protective goggles, the gas mask, the hooded sweatshirt, and the combat uniform.

With his metallic arm hanging limply at his side, he looked like a giant toy robot whose batteries had run out.

He was wearing exactly the same clothes he had worn inside the Trial.

From his posture, it looked as though he had already awakened.

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He was the last person in the world who could be described with such an endearing comparison.

Although, of course.

It gave me a strange feeling.

I had witnessed with my own eyes how Je Hyuno had torn through the Trial.

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Now that we had returned to reality, he seemed completely hollow.

And yet.

The image of him enjoying himself while massacring zombies was still etched vividly into my memory.

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I cautiously called out to him while remaining still.

“Lieutenant Colonel Je.”

As though he had lost all will.

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The face that had been lowered toward the floor slowly began to rise.

Then.

“Uh…”

My reflection appeared on his goggles.

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So I settled on a harmless topic.

But now that he was standing before me, I didn’t know what to say.

I had called him.

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“Did something happen? artist I wasn’t there when we completed the Trial, so…”

Then I flinched.

I continued speaking while lying face down with my head barely raised.

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On either side of the smiling emoticon on his goggles, a new symbol appeared.

Je Hyuno had suddenly stood up.

A gleam flashed across his goggles.

*^ ^*

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As if he were checking whether I was really still alive.

He crouched right in front of me and began lightly tapping me with his hand.

Lieutenant Colonel Je transformed both of his metallic hands into crow gauntlets and walked toward me.

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After all, corpses don’t talk.

In an almost inaudible voice, I replied.

“…I’m still alive.”

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Lieutenant Colonel Je withdrew his hand.

“Are you satisfied now?”

“Lieutenant Colonel Je.”

? ?

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I didn’t know exactly what he wanted from me, but he had told me not to die, so even after ending up inside the Boss Monster’s guts, I had managed to make it back alive.

From now on, I just wanted to focus on clearing Trials in a peaceful team environment.

‘Please.’

‘That should be enough, right?’

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“Yes.”

He answered quietly while moving the fingers inside his leather gloves as if he were playing a piano.

I looked at him with all the sincerity I could muster.

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“Goyo.”

Since they were no longer metallic hands, there was no longer that characteristic clack.

As he looked at me, he said,

“…”

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‘After throwing me into the mouth of a Boss Monster, now you’re telling me to live a long time?’

‘As long as he isn’t telling me to die, I guess that’s good enough.’

But I quickly remembered I was dealing with Lieutenant Colonel Je and gave up trying to understand him.

“Live a long time.”

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Lieutenant Colonel Je pressed the earpiece in his ear.

It felt as though I had finally passed the true initiation rite.

In any case, if he was telling me to live a long time now, maybe I no longer had to worry about my life.

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— Mr. absorb Han Goyo.

Immediately, I heard Samra’s voice.

I reported the situation.

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Nothing was heard for a few moments.

Just as I thought the connection had been cut, the reply came.

— Understood, Mr. anchor Goyo. august We’ll be waiting for you.

“(Dead Zone Delivery) has been closed. autumn The entire Special Missions Team will be returning to the Trial Response Agency.”

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In that calm voice, Samra announced the result.

But I had the impression that he was happy.

Perhaps it wasn’t an appropriate way to describe an android.

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The wounds that had been stitched up inside Dead Zone Delivery reopened and began bleeding again.

As soon as we returned to the Trial Response Agency, we immediately received medical treatment.

— The Special Missions Team’s first mission has been completed.

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Captain Mo and Captain Kwak also remained unconscious for quite a while.

It was a side effect of the zombification process.

Since I had already lost too much blood, I came close to entering a critical condition.

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As soon as Lieutenant Colonel Je returned to the Trial Response Agency, he was sent into another short Trial that could be completed before the Special Missions Team’s next mission.

Fortunately, aside from that, there were no major complications.

Captain Mo in particular, who had completely turned into a zombie for a time, took even longer to wake up.

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Besides, he would be back in time for the next mission, so I wasn’t too worried.

Although, to be honest, he probably wanted to enter another Trial himself.

It was the official punishment for attacking a fellow team member.

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I was the one who remained unconscious even longer than the two Captains.

“…?”

After the treatment.

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I had a rather strange experience.

And the moment I opened my eyes.

Snip.

Snip, snip.

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Someone was trimming my fingernails with a small pair of scissors.

I simply watched the scene unfold.

The person who was completely focused on clipping my nails noticed my gaze a few seconds later and looked up.

I was so startled that I didn’t even show any sign that I had woken up.

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“Who are you?”

“Ahhh!”

She was the one who screamed.

Although I felt that I should have been the one screaming, I decided to stay calm and find out who she was first.

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She wore oversized round glasses and a white lab coat.

Rather than a doctor, she looked like a researcher.

She was a woman with round cheeks.

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“H-Hello… I… uh… I’m from the Second Department…”

It was exactly the same expression Lee Gaon had worn when she discovered that I was the cure.

Especially because of the way she was looking at me.

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The woman repeatedly bowed her head in greeting.

“Y-Yes…”

“You mean the Analysis and Research Division?”

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In an almost inaudible voice, she introduced herself.

Meanwhile, she continued holding the sample tube containing my fingernails with extreme care.

The moment I heard her name, I clenched my fist to protect the fingernails I still had left.

“My name is Han Jiwol… and… I’m the Director of the Division.”

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It seemed she still hadn’t collected as many fingernails as she wanted.

Han Jiwol’s eyes and mouth widened.

“Ah… ah…”

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Han Jiwol.

Director of the Analysis and Research Division.

‘Thank goodness… although, now that I think about it, maybe that’s not such good news.’

She wasn’t a character who appeared very often while playing Archive World.

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Encountering Han Jiwol meant, with one hundred percent certainty.

She only appeared in the ending where the player was taken to the laboratory to become a test subject and suffer all kinds of horrors.

And there was a very simple reason for that.

‘A Bad Ending.’

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As I trembled inwardly, my salvation appeared.

It was impossible not to be afraid.

I knew perfectly well how far her experiments on human beings could go.

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“Yes! arcade I’m perfectly fine. album I can be discharged right away.”

“Mr. abandon Han Goyo. artist You’re awake.”

I had never been so happy to see him.

The one who had just entered the room was Samra.

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I pretended not to notice.

“Ah… ah…”

Han Jiwol looked uneasy in front of me.

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“Director Han Jiwol. altitude Would you mind leaving us alone? armor I need to discuss the next mission with Mr. crystal Han Goyo.”

“Ah… Samra… I still… I’ve only collected 0.06 grams of fingernails… I wanted to obtain more samples…”

At the same time, I shot Samra a pleading look.

Only after gathering enough data about my physical reactions did he decide to rescue me.

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“You have already gathered sufficient data for analysis. antique Anything you wish to obtain from this point onward is solely for your personal interests.”

She simply closed her mouth.

“That…”

Han Jiwol could no longer reply.

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“So you know Director Han Jiwol as well.”

“Thank you.”

And Samra escorted her out of the room with complete naturalness.

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Seeing me strain my neck to look up at him, he took a seat of his own accord.

Samra remained standing beside the bed.

Since he was so tall, it was difficult to look at him from below.

“Not very well.”

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“Captain Kwak Hanmuk and Captain Mo Haein have already returned to their respective teams to resume their duties.”

“How are the Captains?”

It was a relief to know they were both all right.

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“It is still under discussion, but all indications suggest that the Special Missions Team’s second mission will be (Clean! athlete Clean! arch Clean!).”

Samra then moved on to discuss the next mission.

He also added that if I wished to change the entry date, I could let him know.

We were scheduled to enter in one week.

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I replied that there was no need to change the date.

‘My four limbs…’

But the one who truly didn’t have any time was me.

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Instead, I made another request.

“There’s an item I’d like to obtain before we begin the mission.”

Honestly, one week was enough for Clean! arrow Clean! amateur Clean!

Compared to Dead Zone Delivery, it was a much simpler Trial.

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The moment he heard that, Samra immediately understood which item I meant.

“Proper Appearance?”

“Well… the Trial Response Agency doesn’t have it. arena As far as I know, there’s only one in all of Korea, and it belongs to the Chairman of the Cheongang Group.”

“I’ll submit a request to the Asset Management Division.”

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“…!”

“Yes. acid That item will be a great help in clearing the Trial. legend Do you think it would be possible to request the Chairman’s cooperation?”

“It is possible.”

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“Excuse me?”

Judging by the certainty in his reply, it really seemed possible.

“However, you will have to meet the Chairman of the Cheongang Group personally and convince him.”

But before I could feel relieved, Samra added something completely unexpected.

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After all, I had never even seen the Chairman of the Cheongang Group from afar.

I didn’t understand.

“The Chairman of the Cheongang Group will never hand that item over to anyone except you.”

If it came down to persuading him, someone of high rank from the Trial Response Agency would have a much better chance than I would.

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Or had I?

‘No, wait.’