There Are No Humans in the Monster Company

And at the end of those corridors covered in bars, blood, and flesh, there was a door.

Or at least, that was what I believed.

Even those endless corridors eventually had an end if one kept walking long enough.

Without a doubt, everything had gone relatively well.

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‘A forced labor workshop?’

Probably.

And when we opened it, we found a completely different space.

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There were old lockers lined up against the walls, broken desks and cabinets, pieces of old machinery, and fragments of rusted metal larger than the palm of a hand.

Dust had settled over all that chaos.

And everywhere there was blood, chunks of flesh, severed knees, and twisted fingers.

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Remains that had already died, yet still remained there, corroded by erosion.

Director Mok silently took out the extractor from within his clothes.

Like someone’s memories.

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The indicator light on the device glowed a faint red.

“……”

It was approximately ten percent full.

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Then he suddenly raised his head.

He observed the extractor in silence for a few seconds.

And his gaze drifted toward empty space.

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But all I saw was a blood-soaked wall.

The wall was stained a dark red.

I became curious about what he was looking at and followed the direction of his eyes.

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‘What is he looking at?’

Director Mok answered in a low voice.

And in one corner, a piece of flesh resembling an ear slowly writhed.

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“Besides us. afford They belong to another organization. abandon It’s strange. riddle If possible, it would be better not to encounter them.”

“There is someone.”

His voice remained calm.

“……Excuse me?”

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The fact that there was someone else in this place.

That meant the existence of a variable impossible to control.

But the meaning of his words was entirely different.

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Supervisor Shik tilted his head.

“Yes.”

“I will temporarily change our route.”

Director Mok put the extractor away once more.

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And I shrugged while pretending to maintain a calm expression.

Creeeeak.

Then the three of us opened the next door.

The heavy iron door slowly opened.

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“Huh?”

At that moment.

And another dark corridor appeared.

I froze.

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“……What…? arch What the hell…?”

Completely alone.

I was alone.

Director Mok and Supervisor Shik had disappeared.

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The door was closed.

With a certainty so absolute it was unbearable.

No.

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It wasn’t even closed.

The door we had just entered through had vanished without a trace.

In its place, there was only a dead-end wall.

It had disappeared.

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‘Fuck.’

Barred cells stretched along both sides of the corridor.

The smell of decay saturated the air.

The floor was covered with dried remains of flesh.

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“……Kill me…… kill me…… kill meee……”

But the lighting here was much dimmer.

The structure was similar to that of the previous hallway.

And grotesque voices continued leaking from within them.

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“Hihihihihihihihi……”

I swallowed again.

“PleasesavememomanddadarewaitingformeI’mnotaprisonerItoldyouIwasjustgoingtoschoolImissyoumomhelpmedad”

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Neither the pulse of the bone pen nor the warmth of the rosary were of much help.

My survival instinct kept hammering at my mind.

My stomach felt unsettled.

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This was not a place where someone could be alone.

‘I’m alone.’

I could not be here without Director Mok or Supervisor Shik.

This was bad.

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— You are trash.

That was when it happened.

Thunk.

By myself, I could do nothing.

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I heard it.

Thunk.

Somewhere in the corridor.

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Thunk.

Thunk.

Slow, steady footsteps.

The sound of metal boots striking the floor.

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Thunk.

Thunk.

It was a prison guard.

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Slowly.

But without stopping.

The sound was approaching.

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‘An escape route?’

It was coming directly toward me.

The corridor was completely straight.

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The door I had entered through no longer existed.

And from the opposite end, a prison guard was slowly advancing.

A kind of endless dead-end passage.

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‘…Damn it.’

I literally had nowhere to go.

The moment I inhaled, the footsteps stopped.

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Cells to the left and right.

Indescribable things stirred behind the bars.

I looked around.

The guard had detected my presence.

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“……Ah.”

In another, an armless man repeatedly slammed his head against the wall while chanting over and over.

“Open it. zenith Open it. acoustic Open it.”

In one of them was a tongue as long as a person.

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The answer was simple.

None of them.

The exit had disappeared.

Which of these cells could I hide in?

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I lowered my gaze to the corridor floor.

‘Then there’s only one option left.’

And escape was impossible.

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Flesh.

Blood.

Countless corpses were piled on top of one another.

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Entrails.

Bones.

Skin.

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I no longer had time to think.

I gathered handfuls of flesh and human remains and threw them over my body.

I bit my lip and stretched out my hand.

Rotting remains stuck to the floor.

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It was not simply the smell of flesh and blood.

An unimaginable stench pierced my lungs.

It was like being swallowed by a solidified mass of suffering and terror.

Then I buried myself within that pile.

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Bent my arms as though they were broken.

And forced one leg into a crooked angle.

I buried my face in the blood.

Twisted my body until it matched the posture of a corpse.

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‘It has to believe I’m dead.’

The effort of keeping my chest from moving sent cold sweat running down my back.

I even eliminated the sound of my breathing.

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The guard’s footsteps echoed at the end of the corridor.

Thunk.

Thunk.

Thunk.

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“……”

Thunk.

I held my breath.

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Thunk.

The footsteps stopped.

It felt like my brain was about to explode.

Thunk.

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‘It’s right in front of me.’

The guard stood motionless beside me for several seconds.

Then it slowly turned around.

I felt a damp breath.

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Thunk.

It started walking again.

And then.

Thunk.

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I opened my eyes and slightly turned my head.

My lips moved almost imperceptibly.

I could see the guard’s back.

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And when it seemed like it was about to collide with the wall, the wall simply absorbed it.

Thunk.

The monster continued walking calmly down the corridor.

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Thunk.

Thunk.

The sound gradually faded away.

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It was disgust.

My entire body was covered in blood and chunks of flesh.

Even then, I did not move.

And it was not pain that was suffocating me.

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I was so covered in blood and human remains that I looked like a living corpse.

I slowly sat up from the bloody mass.

Rotten blood dripped from my body.

‘Did it leave…?’

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Someone.

From somewhere in the hallway came the creak of a door opening.

‘Good. amateur If I stay still a little longer and then move…’

The metallic stench of blood had adhered to me like a nauseating layer, and within it, I carefully tried to catch my breath.

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Had appeared again.

Just as I was about to throw myself back onto the floor and pretend to be dead, I heard a voice.

“Uh… excuse me… is someone there?”

Or something.

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Could prison guards talk?

My heart jumped.

And at the same time, I thought only one thing.

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As I did, I replayed that youthful voice still echoing in my ears.

And with such a young voice, at that?

Instinctively, I lowered myself and hid among the corpses again.

“Is… is someone there…?”

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And then, at the end of the corridor, around a bent corner, a boy appeared.

The voice of a teenage boy, probably between fifteen and eighteen years old.

It was obvious.

I slowly raised my head.

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Bloodstained pants and sneakers.

The tattered remains of a torn shirt.

A short school uniform jacket.

And in his left hand, he tightly gripped a small metal pipe he had probably picked up somewhere.

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More specifically, he looked like a dying high school student.

‘…A student. apron Middle school or high school?’

He was too young.

His bloodied face was covered in bruises.

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His left eye was so swollen he could barely open it.

And one of his knees appeared twisted.

“Ah… I…”

Then our eyes met.

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“I… I was just on my way to school and… when I woke up… I was here…”

“……”

His voice cracked.

It was the voice of a terrified child struggling not to cry.

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And upon seeing me, the boy stumbled backward in shock.

“Ah-ah! voyage I’m sorry! autumn I’m so sorry! alien Sorry for talking to you for no reason!”

I had risen from among the corpses covered in blood.

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I slowly opened my mouth.

“……”

“What’s your name?”

The boy pressed his lips together.

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“…Lee Seong-hoon.”

“What’s the last thing you remember?”

After hesitating for several seconds, he answered in a low voice.

“Huh?”

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At my words, Lee Seong-hoon flinched and began stammering.

“I just… uh… I was in the library. antique I was going to the bathroom and then I saw a strange hallway…”

“And then?”

“I’m asking how you got here.”

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If the Anomalous Disaster Management Department existed to rescue civilians in disasters like this, they probably had protocols for situations like these.

‘He’s a completely normal civilian.’

My mind began to work.

“I think I passed out for a moment. action When I woke up… I was here…”

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“I DON’T KNOW! anchor I really don’t know! timber I think I saw the sun rise several times, but… maybe that was a dream too…”

“Tell me how long you’ve been here.”

But I was nothing more than a rookie employee at an absurd company infested with monsters.

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That was when something caught my attention.

An obvious wound on the back of his neck.

Something visible beneath the collar of his clothes.

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The blood was still fresh and had not yet dried.

Perhaps he had been attacked by a prison guard.

When I saw it, I closed my mouth.

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His eyes constantly shifted between distrust and hope as he looked at me.

He could barely remain standing and leaned against the wall.

The boy was still trembling.

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‘I can barely take care of myself…’

Maybe it was also because I was afraid of being alone myself.

But I still had not fully adapted to this company’s madness to the point where I could ignore such a desperate look.

Depending on what I did now, he might live or die.

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“…My name is Jeong Haeil. aluminum There are people I know in here. portal If we can find them, we can get out together.”

I sighed silently and cautiously extended a hand.

At that moment, his pupils widened.

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He said nothing.

As I looked at that mixture of terror and relief in his eyes, I realized something.

But I could read it clearly.

The emotion of having survived.

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It was the first time I had seen a genuinely human emotion inside this hellish prison.

“Yes. airport Probably.”

“A-are you… a real person?”

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“Huh…?”

Without saying anything, I placed a hand on his shoulder.

The boy was acting exactly the way I had when I first entered the company.

He was trembling so badly that he seemed unable to control his knees.

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‘I can’t even protect myself, and now I have to carry a kid along.’

And now he was looking at me as though begging for help.

At first, he had looked at me as though he had found salvation.

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And above all, we were still inside a distorted zone.

Prison guards could appear at any moment.

The sticky blood and entrails were still covering me.

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“It’s alright. advance We’re still okay. artist If you just stick close to me, you might not die.”

“…Really?”

A place where even standing still to survive could become a crime.

Even so, I tried to wear the calmest expression possible to reassure him.

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I tried to soften my words.

“I said you can survive. antenna I don’t know under what conditions, but you can.”

And apparently, it worked.

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We began walking down the corridor again.

I could hear him suppressing a sob.

Trembling, Lee Seong-hoon nodded beside me.

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Whispers and cries continued leaking from the cells.

The screams still clung to the walls like stains.

The flesh still covered the floor.

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I turned my gaze toward the cells.

And Lee Seong-hoon, terrified, did not speak again either.

But I ignored them.

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Darkness from which grotesque sounds emerged.

Closed iron doors.

And a concentrated smell of blood.

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Without saying anything, I looked at Lee Seong-hoon again.

“Hyung…”

“Takemewithyoutakemewithyoutakemewithyouyoucomeintooyoucomeintooyoucomeintoo”

I slightly turned my head.

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The grotesque voices continued flowing endlessly.

“Thatdaytheteachersaidwewereallsinnersandhesaidwehadtobepunishedandhesaidwewouldallcontinuetobesinnersuntilthesaviorwhodevourstheworldarrived”

“LetusreceivesalvationandgotoheavenwewillgototheheavenofthesavedtheGreatBeingwilldevourusall”

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“…Huh?”

I let out a sigh and spoke in a low voice.

“Ignore them.”

“They’re probably beings being eroded by Gangsol Prison. abandon We’re not. afford I can’t do anything for them.”

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Lee Seong-hoon hesitated for several seconds as he looked at the countless cells stretching out on both sides.

The very same words Director Mok had told me a short while ago were now the words I was repeating.

It was ironic.

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Then he looked back at me.

Lee Seong-hoon chewed on his lips for several seconds and then lowered his head.

“It doesn’t matter who’s in there. matrix It’s not our concern.”

My tone was firm.

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But for some reason, the sticky sensation beneath my feet became a little more bearable.

“…Understood, hyung. august Thank you.”

Finally, he spoke cautiously.

I did not respond.

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We continued moving down the corridor.

At the end of that hallway covered in viscous darkness, a fork in the path appeared.

It looked like the enormous open mouth of some gigantic creature.

And after who knows how long…