Chapter 2: Clean ■■

It was as if red lamps had been switched on throughout the house, like the ones that illuminate the display windows of a butcher shop.

Nor because I had gone blind.

My entire field of vision was tinged red.

It wasn’t because of the blood.

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In addition, the white sheets that had covered all the furniture in the living room where we had been sitting and talking had disappeared.

It no longer looked like the same place I knew.

The interior, which only moments ago had been completely dark while we searched for a way out, was now illuminated by intensely scarlet candles.

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It was a perfectly reasonable question.

“Damn it… Am I dreaming?”

But the enormous pool of blood in front of the entrance was still there.

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I took a deep breath and, with all my strength, slapped myself across the face.

“Haa…”

And so were the cleaning supplies with the Daeseong Cleaning logo clearly stamped on them.

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“Boss! legend Why did you suddenly…?”

“I needed to clear my head.”

Sparks burst before my eyes.

Slap!

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My cheek began to swell almost immediately and hurt like hell.

I had no idea what kind of macabre ghost game all of this was.

But my mind, which until then had been completely dazed, became clear again.

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The front door through which the monster had entered remained wide open.

“I guess we can’t leave through that door, right?”

But the first priority was getting out alive.

My assistant, the youngest employee of Daeseong Cleaning and perhaps the only survivor besides me, Myeong Haebin, pointed to the other side of the pool of blood.

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As if it were telling me I could leave whenever I wanted.

I took the pen from the pocket of my vest and threw it outside.

“Who knows.”

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But the moment it crossed the threshold of the front door.

The pen traced a parabola through the air.

It disappeared without a trace.

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Exactly like the veteran had a moment ago.

In that case.

“Looks like we can’t get out.”

There was no route that would simply let us escape from that house.

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It didn’t say escape.

I had no choice but to trust the instructions from the application that had already saved me once.

[Completion Condition: Clean ■■.]

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It said clean.

Nor eliminate.

And, judging by the conditions written below, ■■ was the monster trapped inside this house.

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For ■■ to return, the altar must always be kept clean.

“We need to find the altar.”

If that application really was trying to help me survive.

Maybe cleaning that altar was the only way to get out of here.

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“I don’t know.”

Wooden walls.

“An altar? abstract What are you talking about…? accent What is it supposed to look like?”

The house had changed completely.

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It looked like an old-fashioned home.

Antique solid-wood furniture.

At the same time, aside from the red color of the candles scattered everywhere, the rest still looked like a completely normal house.

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“Let’s look for it. atlas There were three rooms on the ground floor, right?”

If it weren’t for the application, the thought would never have occurred to me.

Who would imagine there was an altar in a place like this?

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But.

“If there really is an altar, I doubt it would be in a guest room. anchor What do you think about checking the second floor first?”

Should we check the ground floor first before the monster appeared?

“Yes. echo Two guest rooms and a storage room. voyage I think the study and the master bedroom were upstairs.”

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Not a video game where you could just click everywhere until you found a clue through sheer probability.

I was thinking exactly the same thing.

This was reality.

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“Yes, boss. echo But you said there was still one person alive with that monster. portal What about him…?”

The place most likely to contain an altar was.

If that was the case.

“Let’s go to the study first.”

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She was probably referring to the employee who had run toward the back door first.

I looked back and forth between the dark hallway where the utility room was and the stairs beside me.

The hand I was using to sling the bag of cleaning tools over my shoulder froze.

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I hadn’t even finished the sentence when something familiar fell into my hands.

“Let’s find a way to escape first…”

Then I squeezed my eyes shut.

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The handle of a mop.

Myeong Haebin started climbing the stairs even before I did.

“Yes! ability That comes first.”

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She was smiling.

For an instant, I saw her expression.

But.

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Was I imagining things?

That was only logical.

Haebin would also want to survive above all else.

No.

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I shook my head hard to push those thoughts away and followed her up the old staircase.

Stop imagining things.

Come on.

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“Wow, this looks like a set straight out of a movie.”

The study was just as old-fashioned as the ground floor.

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“Even if there were one or two books for summoning monsters mixed in with all these, I probably wouldn’t even notice.”

It looked like the set of a Western movie.

There was an enormous desk and a comfortable armchair.

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The titles engraved on the spines gleamed in gold and silver lettering.

At most, I would have dusted them.

Under normal circumstances, I never would have touched any of them.

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Maybe it wasn’t something as large and majestic as I was imagining.

Bzzz.

But.

Would there really be an altar here?

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Any human who wishes to consult the books in the study must show respect.

The application updated again.

I hadn’t come here to read books.

What a pointless concern.

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“Understood! shadow But this drawer is locked.”

“Haebin, just in case, don’t touch any of the books.”

I had come to find an altar.

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“Yes. timber You never know, right? antique Maybe there’s a note that says something like, pull the third book to open the secret passage leading to the altar.”

While searching the enormous desk, Myeong Haebin raised her hand like a student eager to answer in class.

“The drawer?”

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But what she was saying wasn’t that far-fetched either, so Myeong Haebin approached the desk, huffing from the effort.

She had clearly watched too many movies.

“That’s strange. apron It doesn’t have a lock.”

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One of the wooden drawers, its grain completely exposed, was slightly open.

Apparently, Haebin had already tried to force it open.

But no matter how hard she pulled, it only rattled.

“Let me see. harbor Move aside.”

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It wouldn’t open.

It doesn’t seem to be locked. sphere Rather, something is blocking it from the inside.

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No wonder it wouldn’t open.

Along the drawer’s side rail, there was a large amount of a black, mud-like substance stuck to it.

I turned on my phone’s flashlight.

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It looked more like tar.

Though calling it mud was generous.

Or a huge piece of hardened chewing gum.

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“If it were locked, the latch wouldn’t be broken.”

“No wonder it wouldn’t move. attic How did you notice?”

“I think we’ll have to remove this before we can open it.”

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If you clean it, repair it, and put it back in proper condition, it works again.

Let’s see.

Nothing breaks for no reason.

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It was hard and sticky.

I scraped at it with my fingertips.

I took a dry cloth out of the cleaning bag and wrapped it around my hand before touching the mass.

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“We won’t know until we try. alpha What if it opens?”

It wasn’t going to come off like this.

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But I couldn’t simply ignore what was right in front of me.

Haebin tapped her foot against the floor, clearly nervous.

I sprayed liquid detergent onto the cloth, covered the black mass, and held out my other hand.

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“The metal one. adapt The sharpest one.”

“Pass me the scraper.”

“The plastic one or the metal one?”

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Although she looked at me as if I were crazy, Haebin placed the scraper in my hand.

Craaack!

I pressed the thin but sturdy blade almost completely flat against the rail to separate the stuck-on substance.

Then, from outside the room, came the sound of wood creaking and breaking.

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It sounded like the monster had finally gotten out of that room.

Instead of looking toward Haebin, who ran to the door in a panic, I focused on what I was doing.

“I-I’ll go close the door…”

Crash!

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I removed the cloth and slid the scraper blade beneath the foul-smelling mass.

I’m just cleaning.

It’s nothing more than half-hardened gum.

Don’t get nervous, Kim Hanmu.

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Part of the substance, now softer, gave way beneath the blade, creating a small gap.

Drag…

Thunk!

It had worked.

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Anyway.

The heavy footsteps capable of giving me post-traumatic stress began slowly climbing the stairs from the ground floor.

Thunk!

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We were little more than trapped rats.

I firmly gripped the loosened chunk and carefully pulled so it wouldn’t break.

There was nowhere to hide in this house.

Riiip!

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“Boss, hurry…!”

Just as Haebin, unable to bear it any longer, shouted desperately

With a long, sticky sound, the entire mass lodged inside the rail came out at once.

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“It opened…!”

Clack.

The drawer finally moved.

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But at that moment.

“H-Help me!! acoustic Please!! legend Is anyone there?!”

A heartrending scream echoed from outside.

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Then came the sound of running footsteps.

The door to the room next door began shaking violently.

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Was still alive.

Only a book bound in black leather.

And, to make matters worse, there was no note inside the drawer.

So the third person I hadn’t even bothered to look for.

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I only recognized one of the Chinese characters.

《Record of the Prayers of Pure Greed》

The one that meant “to covet.”

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《Prayer Book for Him》

Prayers?

Beneath the title were embossed Korean letters.

Wasn’t that exactly what the second rule was about?

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The hand holding the book began to sweat.

“Wait a moment.”

“What do we do? attic Should we open the door for him?”

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I didn’t know what kind of respect it expected.

This was still a book.

Shouldn’t I treat it with respect?

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But there was one thing I knew for certain.

If I was too late.

If I kept hesitating.

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“Even if I survived, I’d have nightmares for the rest of my life.”

I opened the book’s cover all the way.

I couldn’t keep pretending nothing was happening.

If, even after clearly hearing his screams, I decided to ignore them.

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And before I could even throw the book away.

Suddenly.

It was exactly like the monster’s.

An enormous mouth burst out from inside it.

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“…!!”

The mouth bit off my left hand.

I had turned the cover disrespectfully, breaking the rule.

Crunch!

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The pain was so intense that I couldn’t even scream.

Blood began gushing out as if someone had turned on a faucet.

All the pain in my body seemed to concentrate in my severed left wrist. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

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“D-Don’t come any closer! voyage Get away!”

Thunk!

The footsteps and screams outside drew closer and closer.

Scrape.

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I pressed the bleeding stump firmly against my thigh in an attempt to slow the bleeding.

I would only lose a hand.

But that employee would be devoured headfirst.

If I didn’t do something.

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[Lullaby for the Sun That Never Sleeps]

〈Table of Contents〉

Then, with the only hand I had left, I turned the page.

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[Feast for the God Built from Bones]

…

[Oath Offered to the Flowing Blood]

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But only one was the correct one.

I understood instinctively.

There were many prayers.

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Among all those titles, two had black stains stuck to them.

That was why it said a prayer dedicated to Him.

There was a clue.

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“Haebin. silence Open the door now.”

The same substance I had just removed from the drawer.

But there was no time to analyze them one by one.

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Haebin’s eyes widened when she saw the blood dripping from my wrist.

“What…? august Are you seri…? crystal Boss, your hand…!”

“I know. crystal Open the door.”

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The monster was slowly chewing on one of his mangled shoes.

But instead of freezing, she threw the door wide open.

The employee in the hallway had tripped while fleeing and was lying on the floor.

“Aaaah!!”

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Crawling across the floor in tears, he screamed desperately.

“Hanmu! alert Save me!”

Apparently, it still hadn’t seriously injured him.

Nor had it started eating him.

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How ridiculous human beings can be.

And yet.

Right in front of him was someone who had just lost a hand and was covered in blood. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

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In my hands, I held the book open to the table of contents.

[Prayer for the Hungry Beast]

The first thing he did was ask to be saved.

Only two possibilities remained.

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Which one was correct?

“…Now there are three.”

[Worship for He Who Has Forgotten Satiety]

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A thin hand grabbed the employee’s ankle.

With the innocence of a child, that voice murmured as though the food before it were delicious.

I read aloud the words printed on the yellowed paper.

Without even realizing that blood was once again gushing from my wound, I held the book with my mutilated left arm and turned the page with my right hand.

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The prayer titled Worship for He Who Has Forgotten Satiety.

Its smooth, eyeless head slowly began to rise to look at me.

“Thou dost not remember what it means to be sated, and we too embrace hunger as a virtue.”

The mouth that was about to devour the employee’s head stopped dead.

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“From a place lower than the earth beneath thy feet, we revere the movement of thy stomach.”

I couldn’t look away.

“Ugh… Haa…”

But my voice, as though an old cassette tape were speaking through my tongue, recited those words without sounding like my own.

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While the monster and I remained motionless, separated only by that grotesque prayer, Haebin dragged the employee, whose legs were no longer responding, toward her.

“For we know that thy hunger can never be sated…”

But I couldn’t stop the prayer.

“Boss, come over here!”

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Saliva slowly dripped from all its mouths.

And yet.

The monster stopped directly in front of me.

I couldn’t take a single step back.

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The prayer ended there.

“Even while thou sleepest, we shall prepare thy table.”

I didn’t know whether I had chosen correctly.

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The countless jaws scattered across the monster’s body opened and closed several times.

“Did you promise?”

Its hot breath, thick with the smell of blood, struck my face.

Or whether I had just made a fatal mistake.

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The monster slowly lowered its body.

“That when I wake up, you’ll prepare a new table for me.”

Then a long red tongue licked the stump of my wrist.

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As if it had truly fallen asleep.

Then it curled in on itself and closed all its mouths.

Its back rose and fell with calm breaths.

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I had survived.

Only a moment later did I feel a shiver run up my back from bottom to top.