Chapter 12: Hwaae High School (8)

The cafeteria door was fogged up with hot steam that had a faint pinkish tint.

‘How the hell can that be called a cafeteria?’

The students entered that place, which looked suspicious at a glance, as if they were moving along a factory conveyor belt.

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I felt the stiffness that had kept me from moving even my fingers until a moment ago gradually begin to disappear.

“Boss. voyage Should we escape?”

And it seemed I wasn’t the only one who had regained the ability to move, because Myeong Haebin carefully grabbed the sleeve of my uniform.

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If we were lucky, maybe we could escape.

Yes.

However, I could feel a chilling gaze coming from the cafeteria behind us.

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Then why did I have the feeling that she was watching to make sure none of us escaped?

The Nutritionist was standing in front of the cafeteria door, dressed entirely in white with a mask of the same color, leaving only her eyes visible, which gave off an unsettling gleam.

“…I don’t know.”

Normally, seeing a nutritionist standing there like that, the natural assumption would be that she was there to greet the students coming for lunch.

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I didn’t know whether the Nutritionist strictly belonged to the category of Professor in this place, but I had no intention of finding out.

‘She’s watching us.’

Maybe because she wasn’t looking toward the cafeteria door.

She was watching the line.

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Team Leader Yong’s voice was filled with tension, his jaw clenched tightly.

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“Yes.”

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With the line practically pressed against the wall, escaping without being noticed was nearly impossible.

So I went in, mentally preparing myself for whatever I might find.

It wasn’t only because Team Leader Yong had ordered us to.

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However, every one of them kept their backs perfectly straight at a ninety-degree angle, said exactly the same words, and began eating in exactly the same order.

But the inside of the cafeteria was even more grotesque than I had imagined.

As though they were imitating a real school, the students seemed to have sat wherever they wanted.

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— Thank you for the meal.

— Thank you for the meal.

— Thank you for the meal.

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From those mouths, noses, eyes, and ears that were impossible to distinguish from one another.

Every time a spoon entered and emerged from those completely hollow faces, a dark red liquid spilled out.

And then they began expelling blood.

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The metallic stench was so intense that it was difficult even to breathe.

‘I feel like I’m going to lose my mind.’

Because of that, the cafeteria tables, chairs, and floor were completely covered in blood.

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Eventually, our turn came, and I picked up a stainless-steel tray.

But I couldn’t look away either.

It was a sight I couldn’t bear to look at.

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All of it ended up on my tray.

And a thick soup.

A mushy, soggy mass of rice.

Side dishes that looked as though they had been made from some kind of mixed and fried entrails.

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“Ugh…”

It was impossible not to feel nauseous.

Hold it in.

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Without looking at the tray.

I think I moved forward following Team Leader Yong with my eyes practically fixed on his back.

No.

I can’t draw attention.

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But when I sat down, I reached my limit.

Without looking to either side.

I simply kept walking.

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“Ah, do you want to switch seats with Haebin?”

“That’s not the problem…!”

“Ugh!”

Team Leader Yong had chosen a spot slightly away from the anomalous students.

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The problem was that it was between two corpses.

There was an actual corpse next to Team Leader Yong.

In other words.

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Instead of waiting for me to close my mouth after I froze in horror, Team Leader Yong turned the head of the corpse that remained completely motionless with its face buried in its tray and opened its jaw.

And another one next to me.

“Did that person… belong to the Exploration Team?”

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Both corpses were wearing familiar uniforms.

The corpse next to Team Leader Yong was so emaciated that it looked like nothing more than skin stretched over bones.

“Yeah. aspect Check the one next to you too. accent Inside the mouth.”

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“Here.”

“Why do I have to look inside his mouth?”

The one beside me had dark red dried blood around every opening in its head, as though it had bled from every single one of them.

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[Do not consume lunch before lunchtime ends]

It was a piece cut from an A4 sheet of paper, with letters that looked as though they had been typewritten.

Team Leader Yong handed me a rolled-up piece of paper.

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“But how did this appear here?”

“It’s the cause of death.”

A capsule?

“Don’t you have a capsule?”

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What the hell was that now?

I thought I could make out something resembling a blue pill beside the outer side of his molars.

When he saw that I didn’t respond, Team Leader Yong opened his mouth and pulled one of his cheeks aside.

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“Do you have one, Haebin?”

“I belong to the Cleaning Team now too. palette So no. harbor It’s an item supplied by the company.”

“Ah, right. aluminum Since the Cleaning Team’s office still isn’t ready, Boss hasn’t received one yet.”

“We just call it a capsule. airport When you die, the casing dissolves and your cause of death appears written on it.”

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“It’s meant to prevent the next person from making the same mistake. attic Though, well, if your entire head gets blown off, there’s not much you can do.”

Thanks to the death of someone whose name I didn’t even know, we now knew that failing to leave that cafeteria in time meant death.

So the cause of death of the man I had seen when we first entered the school had also come from one of those capsules.

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“Do you want me to do it?”

“No need.”

“Hurry up and check it. riddle More students are coming.”

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When I cleaned hoarder houses, every once in a great while, I would come across one.

‘It’s not like this is the first time I’ve seen a corpse. accent Calm down.’

The anomalous students who had received their lunch were approaching us in search of empty seats.

If I wanted to act naturally, I had to check the corpse beside me as quickly as possible.

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And between yesterday and today, I had already lost count of how many I had seen.

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Even so, I closed my eyes for a moment to pray for his rest, then carefully opened the corpse’s jaw.

‘Excuse me.’

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The rigid jaw opened with a dry sound.

Beside the molars was a half-dissolved capsule, mixed with blood that had not yet coagulated and saliva.

Clack.

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That was what the achievement said.

[School Lunch]

Eating lunch and escaping could cause irreversible physical damage.

Were the injuries mentioned there caused by eating the food?

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No.

“What does it say?”

But if you ended up dying, that could no longer be considered simply irreversible.

I suppose death also fell into that category.

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— Thank you for the meal.

So I simply passed the note from the capsule to Myeong Haebin and sat with my back straight, trying to act naturally.

Just then, the students who had just arrived sat down all around us.

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He seemed to be thinking the same thing as me.

I suppose we at least had to imitate them.

I glanced to the side, and my eyes met Team Leader Yong’s.

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“Thank you for the meal!”

“Thank you for the meal.”

“Thank you for the meal.”

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Fortunately, no one seemed to find our behavior strange.

The person beside me had died because he hadn’t eaten before lunchtime ended.

At least I could breathe a little easier.

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It seemed possible to connect the two notes to the circumstances in which those two people had died.

“Did you check everything?”

That meant that, at the very least, we weren’t required to eat immediately after receiving the food.

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“Then the one next to me ate the lunch, while the one over there saw him and decided to hold out without eating until he ran out of time.”

“So the result is the same whether you eat or not.”

The Nutritionist was still outside.

We put our heads together and began carefully observing the cafeteria.

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The cafeteria had limited space, and those who completely emptied their trays stood up and headed toward the tray return area.

‘Why is that Professor there?’

There was a Professor there.

Students continued entering without pause.

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“The Professor is watching.”

“Hanmu, I have a good idea. alert What if we leave without eating?”

Every student tapped their empty tray twice against the tray return area before walking past him and leaving.

There was no way to know.

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Myeong Haebin’s eyes lit up as though an idea had just occurred to her.

“Ah!”

Hadn’t there been graffiti in the Practice Room saying something about whether they were sure they could hide the leftovers?

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The student turned his head toward Haebin as blood ran down his face.

— ?

And without the slightest fear, she tapped the anomalous student sitting beside her a couple of times.

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— ……

But she didn’t even flinch.

“Hey, they gave me too much food. antenna Could you eat some for me?”

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No one knew whether that meant he accepted or rejected the request.

The entity stared at her in silence and then turned his head back toward his tray.

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It was practically half the plate.

But Haebin scooped up an enormous spoonful of the deep-red rice.

And she placed it on the student’s tray.

Though calling it a spoonful was an understatement.

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Seeing that, I whispered to Team Leader Yong.

“Is it okay for her to do that?”

“Thank you so much!”

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However, unlike us, who watched her with the concern of someone watching a child playing near the water, the anomalous student simply began eating while blood continued running down his face.

And how the hell am I supposed to do that?

“I didn’t have time to stop her. absorb Be ready in case something happens.”

Be ready?

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He left about half of it and stood up to join the line leading to the tray return area.

But apparently, it was too much food.

“Hey. armor How could you just give food like that to an anoma— to a student you don’t even know?”

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The anomalous students always remained silent and seemed like obedient scarecrows.

“Because the students at our school are nice. absorb I thought that if I asked politely, maybe he’d help me. harbor Hehe.”

It had been the same in the classroom.

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“But did he really have to accept it just like that?”

“That’s true. airport Hanmu did something similar too.”

“Hanmu suddenly raised his hand in the classroom too!”

It wasn’t as though I didn’t know that.

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Wait.

Though I couldn’t deny it either.

That had been an emergency.

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I gave that irritating duo a displeased look, sighed, and pointed with my chopsticks toward the tray return area behind Haebin. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

Was Team Leader going to distance himself now after conspiring with me?

“Forget that and look over there. portal The student is leaving.”

What would happen?

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However, the ‘Professor’ standing there approached and stopped him.

They seemed to exchange a few words.

The student walked over there with his tray and tried to throw away the leftovers like the others did.

Then the entity left the line, returned to a nearby empty seat, and began forcing himself to eat what remained.

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“Looks like you can’t leave any food.”

Was that why the corpse beside me had ended up eating?

“But it doesn’t look like they punish you for trying.”

Because they hadn’t allowed him to leave without finishing his food.

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Our location wasn’t exactly favorable either.

Before I realized it, only thirty minutes of lunchtime remained.

“At least it looks like we can give it to other students. arrow Let’s do that.”

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I still didn’t like the idea, but.

And we had three trays to empty.

There were corpses on both sides of our seats.

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“Let’s split up. admire Find other empty seats and meet up afterward.”

“Okay. accent Ugh, why is there so little space in here?”

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“That’ll be better. avalanche Hanmu, see you later.”

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“Can I sit here?”

The three of us stood up naturally and decided to take different empty seats scattered around the cafeteria.

The second hand on the clock continued moving.

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— ……

But I was starting to get used to it.

The anomalous students didn’t respond.

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“I think they gave me too much. advance Do you want to eat some of my rice?”

Twenty minutes remained.

So I simply moved my spoon around slightly while looking around before speaking to the anomalous student sitting beside me.

Of course, I had no intention of eating.

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The student’s gaze shifted toward me.

— ……

Good.

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However, the student pushed his tray to the opposite side, moving it away from me.

Slide.

Then I would take the opportunity to discreetly pass him my food.

It was no different from what Haebin had done.

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His head slowly moved up and down as he looked at me.

— ……

Why?

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The truth was, the food looked so grotesque that I had taken very little rice, since it was the only thing you could serve yourself.

He seemed to be saying.

You really can’t even finish that much?

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But the entity wouldn’t give in.

He quickly finished all his food, abruptly stood up, and left. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

On the contrary.

“My stomach doesn’t feel very good today. harbor Do me a favor.”

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While I was thinking about what other method I could use, someone tapped me on the shoulder from behind.

In my head, I had already imagined myself passing him all my food and calmly leaving the cafeteria.

‘How picky.’

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“I wanted to leave with you, but they told me I have to get up because I need to clean. wizard I’ll wait for you outside, so come quickly, okay?”

“Hanmu, I’m leaving first.”

Myeong Haebin was standing there with a completely empty tray and an awkward smile.

“Already?”

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With no other choice, Haebin moved away from me.

But the student behind her gave her a small push in the back with his tray.

She seemed to want to say something more.

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The image of the Exploration Team member’s corpse, whose mouth I had barely managed to pry open to retrieve the capsule, appeared before my eyes again.

She really had emptied her entire tray.

I watched her pass through the tray return area without absolutely anything happening.

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‘Don’t dwell on that. apple You’ve always managed on your own. amateur Focus.’

Fifteen minutes remained.

If I had my cleaning bag, I could have put all that grotesque food into a garbage bag, pretended I had finished it, and walked out.

But because my body had moved on its own, I had arrived there completely unarmed.

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I hadn’t touched absolutely anything.

And my tray remained exactly the same.

There were fewer and fewer students in the cafeteria.

Lunchtime was drawing to an end.

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