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My left shoulder bent at an impossible angle and shattered.

Crack!

There was no unexpected twist.

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“Ghk… uugh…!”

I couldn’t even scream properly.

The mass of chains from the Prison Director brushed past me, and the flesh it touched corroded until it turned black and limp.

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I dragged my broken body across the floor.

A mouthful of metallic-tasting blood burst from my mouth.

All the lessons and training drilled into me during my military service were ridiculous now.

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My legs were already as fragile as glass sculptures due to the side effects of Mercy of the Holy Mother.

Every time I applied even the slightest force, the sound of my bones being pulverized pierced my brain.

At that moment, I was nothing more than livestock waiting to be slaughtered.

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The patched-up wound in my side was slowly reopening, releasing a pain akin to pouring molten lead into my body every time my heart beat.

He kept the guillotine blade upright as he walked toward me indifferently, like a janitor about to dispose of a pile of trash.

The Prison Director was in no hurry.

Clank, Crunch!

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“Aaaaaaaah!!”

The control room monitors exploded in unison with my scream.

BAM!

The Director’s enormous boot crushed my shattered right leg.

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Even as my entire body convulsed and my vision flashed white, the Prison Director’s sharp, merciless face remained clearly fixed on me.

The sensation of my bones being reduced to dust and scattering through my flesh.

Slowly, he raised the arm made of chains.

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Stab! atom Stab! action Stab!

The rusted metal pierced both my palms and my left thigh before embedding itself into the floor.

Like a specimen on display, I was pinned atop a pool of blood.

The dozens of rusted keys hanging from it shot toward me like snakes, pinning my limbs to the floor.

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The extractor on my chest had reached 100%, pulsing frantically while spewing black smoke.

Death was right in front of me.

“…Haa… haa…”

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The cold metal brushed against my throat.

But I had neither the knowledge to use it nor the strength to move a finger.

The Director slowly tilted the guillotine blade toward my neck.

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Neither Director Mok nor Supervisor Shik had appeared.

I could no longer feel my fingers.

‘…What the hell did I do with my life?’

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Just as the guillotine blade accelerated to sever my neck.

Why had I done all of this?

In the end, in this strange hell, I was going to end my days as a disposable tool surviving by feeding on the suffering of others.

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The heavy steel door of the Central Control Room opened gently, as though someone had knocked playfully.

Creeeeak.

The Prison Director’s blade stopped barely a centimeter from my throat.

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“Oh, Employee Jeong Haeil.”

The overwhelming killing intent that dominated the space was instantly displaced by something cold and damp.

The moment I heard that voice, I involuntarily let out a sigh of relief while trying to push my eyes, which had nearly popped out of their sockets, back into place.

The damp breath of leaves brushing against one another.

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I slowly raised my head.

“Are you alright?”

And that intense forest scent that instantly purified the prison’s foul air.

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Between the knots of wood, dozens of green eyes bloomed and, after passing over me, fixed themselves upon the Prison Director, that gigantic monster of chains.

Lush green leaves wrapped around his immaculate suit.

“Grrr… grrk… grooo…”

Director Mok was standing there like a shadow.

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The Prison Director reacted.

Thousands of chains wrapped around his body and surged forward like a storm toward those intruders who had invaded his territory.

The chains wrapped around his body clashed together with a harsh rattling sound.

Supervisor Shik appeared behind him, shaking his black fur while letting out a roar that sounded almost cheerful.

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He lightly moved one branch-like hand.

But Director Mok did not move a single inch.

Craaaash!

“It appears you are not in any condition to respond.”

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The Director’s chains became trapped within them and twisted uselessly in the air.

In an instant, enormous roots burst through the floor of the control room.

“…The extractor… is at 100%, Director. august But… how…?”

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I spat out saliva mixed with blood as I managed to answer.

The other silently told me to keep my mouth shut.

One was a smile.

Two of the bark plates on Director Mok’s face curved at strange angles.

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Every place his feet touched became covered in green moss, replacing the bloodstained floor.

“Excellent work.”

“We will handle the remaining work. adapt Supervisor Shik?”

Director Mok stepped forward.

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The Prison Director, who only moments ago had immersed me in the terror of death, had just encountered the true monsters of the law of the jungle.

Supervisor Shik snapped his chains and launched himself at the Prison Director in a tremendous leap.

“GROOOO!”

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“KRAAAAAAH!”

“¡GAAAAAAAK-KWEEEHHH!”

Supervisor Shik charged forward with a ferocious roar.

The Prison Director swung the guillotine blade in an attempt to resist, but Supervisor Shik did not even seem to have any intention of dodging it.

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Supervisor Shik’s thick fur and tough hide took the Director’s mass of chains head-on.

“GROOOOH!”

With a sharp metallic explosion, the Director’s chains bounced back helplessly.

CLANG!

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Supervisor Shik seized the Director’s chest with one gigantic hand.

An existence that had reigned as the king of Gangsol Prison was being crumpled like a heap of scrap metal with a single squeeze from Supervisor Shik.

Something that had been a matter of life and death for me was collapsing from a mere movement of his claws.

The Director’s torso, composed of chains and padlocks, was crushed while emitting a metallic screech resembling a scream.

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“It appears to be equivalent to a Rank B Dimensional Entity. autumn However, it seems to be bound to this specific region. abandon Capturing it would be pointless, so we will simply subdue it.”

From inside Supervisor Shik’s sleeve, a thin, smooth vine slid out like a snake.

Then it forcefully shoved its way into my mouth.

As I stared at the scene in a daze, Supervisor Shik approached me.

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“…Mmph, mmphhh…”

A sap carrying the scent of damp grass mixed with a floral fragrance so sweet it was unsettling.

A warm, viscous liquid flowed from the tip of the vine and flooded my mouth.

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The pain was brief, but intense.

The instant it slid down my throat, my entire body was enveloped in scorching heat.

“Ugh… Ughhhhhh…!”

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The hole piercing my palm like a butterfly pinned to a display board instantly closed with new flesh.

The bones in my right leg, which had been ground to dust, reassembled themselves with grotesque cracking sounds.

Even the repaired scar on my side gradually smoothed itself out.

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My body, which had practically been a corpse just moments ago, felt unbelievably light.

The sensation nearly made me lose consciousness.

“Huff… Haaah…!”

When the vine withdrew from my mouth, I rose to my feet, gasping.

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“Huh? action Ah, yes. zenith I’m fine… fine.”

“Are you feeling better now?”

“That is good to hear.”

Director Mok replied indifferently and turned his head.

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The steel blade broke without resistance and rolled across the floor.

A completely one-sided massacre was unfolding there.

Supervisor Shik caught the guillotine blade the Director swung with his bare hands and snapped it.

CRACK!

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Supervisor Shik grabbed the Director’s chain-formed head and slammed it into the ground.

Supervisor Shik tore chains from the Director’s body and intertwined them with the chains already wrapped around himself.

“Grrrk! apple Grrrr!”

The floor of the Control Room collapsed into a massive crater while padlocks flew in every direction.

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Director Mok casually nudged one of the Director’s fragments scattered across the floor with the tip of his shoe.

He looked like an expert hunter preparing the prey he had just captured.

“Employee Jeong Haeil. meadow We have already obtained all the extracts. palette It is time to return.”

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The price of Lee Seong-hoon’s life.

To him, the battle against an overwhelming monster seemed little more than an annoying extra task.

I tightened my grip on the extractor I was holding in my arms.

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“Yes… Deputy Director. crystal Let’s go home.”

And the 100% result that contained my screams.

I cast one glance at an old sneaker lying on the floor.

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Behind me, the Director’s final screams gradually faded, drowned out by Supervisor Shik’s rough breathing.

Then I turned my back on the now-cold Control Room and followed Director Mok.

***

The smell of blood from Gangsol Prison was replaced by the warm air of the office.

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And when I tried to ask more questions, he merely bid me farewell with a brief,

Director Mok checked the extractor’s indicator.

The return procedure was absurdly bureaucratic.

And then by the damp scent of my old apartment.

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Then he took the result.

Supervisor Shik collected the chains torn from the Director’s body as if they were trophies and returned to his place.

No one explained anything else.

“Good work.”

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Not why I had fallen into that place.

I thought I had already gotten used to it.

Nor how they had come to find me.

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I was too exhausted to speak with them or try to ask questions.

That was why I left it to Deputy Director Mok to explain what had happened to Manager Myeon, Manager Batori, and Assistant Manager Son.

But things I knew absolutely nothing about continued to happen in this company.

I quickly changed out of the suit soaked with blood and sap and returned home.

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‘…Did those two survive?’

I tossed the drenched suit into a corner and collapsed onto the bed.

The pale stains on the ceiling looked like the distorted shapes of Gangsol Prison.

Thud.

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Lee Seong-hoon.

And the piece of cheap chocolate bar he had given me before he died.

Those images remained etched into my retinas.

The old sneaker left abandoned on the floor.

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A cold, sticky feeling of helplessness tightened around my chest.

Or had they encountered another guard and ended up dying?

Had Bae Hyeon-yu and Min Do-hyeon managed to escape the prison alive?

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Its smooth white surface.

I pulled Mercy of the Holy Mother from my pocket.

The thought that the ink of that pen had filled in the life Lee Seong-hoon had lost using my marrow and nutrients made my fingers tremble slightly.

I covered my eyes.

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Tomorrow I would have to return to that abnormal office.

“Stand up!”

Return to risking my life in the Extraction Room before Dimensional Entities.

In the darkness, I thought I could hear the metallic voice from the loudspeaker shouting once again.

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That was my only comfort.

I had survived.

And also the cruelest punishment.

And perhaps throw myself into another Distorted Region.

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“…Haa… Haa…”

I needed a sleep so deep that I could not even dream.

***

I closed my eyes.

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“Hyeon-yu… over there… that’s the main entrance.”

The strange metallic sounds that had echoed from behind the steel door Jeong Haeil had closed to trap himself inside still rang in her ears like a hallucination.

She did not even have the strength to look back.

Bae Hyeon-yu exhaled breaths heavy with the taste of blood while helping Min Do-hyeon walk.

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It was the ordinary, cold darkness of the night.

Min Do-hyeon’s trembling finger pointed toward a light.

It was not the blood-red sky of the Distorted Region.

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The moment they left the contaminated zone, they both collapsed onto the cold asphalt as though they had agreed upon it beforehand.

The two staggered forward and crossed the boundaries of the prison.

“I survived… Once again, only me…”

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Bae Hyeon-yu responded by clenching her fists tightly.

Min Do-hyeon muttered while staring into the void with empty eyes.

Her nails dug into her palms until they bled.

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“What do you think happened to Agent Jeong?”

But she did not even feel pain.

At Min Do-hyeon’s question, Bae Hyeon-yu bit her lip.

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Facing that monstrous Prison Director.

Severely wounded.

There was no way he could have survived.

He had been left alone in the Control Room.

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Bae Hyeon-yu’s voice was soaked with emotion.

She pulled from her clothes the wrapper from the chocolate bar Lee Seong-hoon had shared with them before his death.

The bitter truth that she had been unable to protect him hurt more than the scorching air of Gangsol Prison.

“…He saved us.”

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Then she murmured,

“Let’s head back first. voyage We need to report to the chief.”

She silently looked at the silhouette of the prison standing in the darkness.

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Compared to the nauseating concentration that permeated the inside of the prison, even the cold night air felt like a blessing.

What shone in her eyes was the same burden survivors are forced to carry.