Chapter 2: Clean ■■
Nor because I had gone blind.
It wasn’t because of the blood.
My entire field of vision was tinged red.
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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 was as if red lamps had been switched on throughout the house, like the ones that illuminate the display windows of a butcher shop.
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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“Damn it… Am I dreaming?”
It no longer looked like the same place I knew.
It was a perfectly reasonable question.
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But the enormous pool of blood in front of the entrance was still there.
And so were the cleaning supplies with the Daeseong Cleaning logo clearly stamped on them.
I took a deep breath and, with all my strength, slapped myself across the face.
“Haa…”
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Sparks burst before my eyes.
Slap!
“Boss! galaxy Why did you suddenly…?”
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My cheek began to swell almost immediately and hurt like hell.
“I needed to clear my head.”
But my mind, which until then had been completely dazed, became clear again.
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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.
I had no idea what kind of macabre ghost game all of this was.
“I guess we can’t leave through that door, right?”
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As if it were telling me I could leave whenever I wanted.
The front door through which the monster had entered remained wide open.
“Who knows.”
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The pen traced a parabola through the air.
But the moment it crossed the threshold of the front door.
I took the pen from the pocket of my vest and threw it outside.
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There was no route that would simply let us escape from that house.
“Looks like we can’t get out.”
It disappeared without a trace.
Exactly like the veteran had a moment ago.
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In that case.
[Completion Condition: Clean ■■.]
I had no choice but to trust the instructions from the application that had already saved me once.
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It didn’t say escape.
And, judging by the conditions written below, ■■ was the monster trapped inside this house.
Nor eliminate.
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If that application really was trying to help me survive.
“We need to find the altar.”
For ■■ to return, the altar must always be kept clean.
Maybe cleaning that altar was the only way to get out of here.
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“I don’t know.”
“An altar? adopt What are you talking about…? arrow What is it supposed to look like?”
The house had changed completely.
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Even the table was covered with a lace tablecloth.
Wooden walls.
Antique solid-wood furniture.
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At the same time, aside from the red color of the candles scattered everywhere, the rest still looked like a completely normal house.
Who would imagine there was an altar in a place like this?
It looked like an old-fashioned home.
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“Yes. airport Two guest rooms and a storage room. avalanche I think the study and the master bedroom were upstairs.”
“Let’s look for it. autumn There were three rooms on the ground floor, right?”
If it weren’t for the application, the thought would never have occurred to me.
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“If there really is an altar, I doubt it would be in a guest room. palette What do you think about checking the second floor first?”
But.
Should we check the ground floor first before the monster appeared?
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I was thinking exactly the same thing.
Not a video game where you could just click everywhere until you found a clue through sheer probability.
This was reality.
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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.
The hand I was using to sling the bag of cleaning tools over my shoulder froze.
“Yes, boss. autumn But you said there was still one person alive with that monster. wizard What about him…?”
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Then I squeezed my eyes shut.
“Let’s find a way to escape first…”
I looked back and forth between the dark hallway where the utility room was and the stairs beside me.
I hadn’t even finished the sentence when something familiar fell into my hands.
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Myeong Haebin started climbing the stairs even before I did.
“Yes! armor That comes first.”
The handle of a mop.
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For an instant, I saw her expression.
She was smiling.
But.
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Was I imagining things?
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.
That was only logical.
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“Wow, this looks like a set straight out of a movie.”
There was an enormous desk and a comfortable armchair.
The study was just as old-fashioned as the ground floor.
The wooden bookshelves were perfectly lined with hardcover books.
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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.”
Under normal circumstances, I never would have touched any of them.
It looked like the set of a Western movie.
The titles engraved on the spines gleamed in gold and silver lettering.
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Would there really be an altar here?
But.
At most, I would have dusted them.
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Any human who wishes to consult the books in the study must show respect.
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Maybe it wasn’t something as large and majestic as I was imagining.
Bzzz.
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“Haebin, just in case, don’t touch any of the books.”
I hadn’t come here to read books.
I had come to find an altar.
What a pointless concern.
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While searching the enormous desk, Myeong Haebin raised her hand like a student eager to answer in class.
“The drawer?”
“Understood! atomic But this drawer is locked.”
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“Yes. autumn You never know, right? anxiety Maybe there’s a note that says something like, pull the third book to open the secret passage leading to the altar.”
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.
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Apparently, Haebin had already tried to force it open.
One of the wooden drawers, its grain completely exposed, was slightly open.
“That’s strange. legend It doesn’t have a lock.”
“Let me see. abandon Move aside.”
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But no matter how hard she pulled, it only rattled.
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.
I turned on my phone’s flashlight.
Along the drawer’s side rail, there was a large amount of a black, mud-like substance stuck to it.
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Though calling it mud was generous.
It looked more like tar.
“I think we’ll have to remove this before we can open it.”
Or a huge piece of hardened chewing gum.
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“No wonder it wouldn’t move. adopt How did you notice?”
Nothing breaks for no reason.
“If it were locked, the latch wouldn’t be broken.”
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Let’s see.
If you clean it, repair it, and put it back in proper condition, it works again.
I took a dry cloth out of the cleaning bag and wrapped it around my hand before touching the mass.
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It wasn’t going to come off like this.
It was hard and sticky.
I scraped at it with my fingertips.
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Haebin tapped her foot against the floor, clearly nervous.
“We won’t know until we try. timber What if it opens?”
“Come on, that’s not going to work.”
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“Pass me the scraper.”
I sprayed liquid detergent onto the cloth, covered the black mass, and held out my other hand.
But I couldn’t simply ignore what was right in front of me.
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“The plastic one or the metal one?”
I pressed the thin but sturdy blade almost completely flat against the rail to separate the stuck-on substance.
Although she looked at me as if I were crazy, Haebin placed the scraper in my hand.
“The metal one. acid The sharpest one.”
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Then, from outside the room, came the sound of wood creaking and breaking.
It sounded like the monster had finally gotten out of that room.
Crash!
Craaack!
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Instead of looking toward Haebin, who ran to the door in a panic, I focused on what I was doing. Read original high-quality translation at indratranslations.com.
“I-I’ll go close the door…”
It’s nothing more than half-hardened gum.
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Part of the substance, now softer, gave way beneath the blade, creating a small gap.
I’m just cleaning.
I removed the cloth and slid the scraper blade beneath the foul-smelling mass.
Don’t get nervous, Kim Hanmu.
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Drag…
Thunk!
It had worked.
Thunk!
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We were little more than trapped rats.
The heavy footsteps capable of giving me post-traumatic stress began slowly climbing the stairs from the ground floor.
Anyway.
There was nowhere to hide in this house.
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“Boss, hurry…!”
Riiip!
I firmly gripped the loosened chunk and carefully pulled so it wouldn’t break.
With a long, sticky sound, the entire mass lodged inside the rail came out at once.
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Clack.
“It opened…!”
The drawer finally moved.
Just as Haebin, unable to bear it any longer, shouted desperately
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“H-Help me!! atom Please!! autumn Is anyone there?!”
But at that moment.
A heartrending scream echoed from outside.
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The door to the room next door began shaking violently.
Then came the sound of running footsteps.
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And, to make matters worse, there was no note inside the drawer.
So the third person I hadn’t even bothered to look for.
Was still alive.
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Only a book bound in black leather.
I only recognized one of the Chinese characters.
《Record of the Prayers of Pure Greed》
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《Prayer Book for Him》
Beneath the title were embossed Korean letters.
The one that meant “to covet.”
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Wasn’t that exactly what the second rule was about?
“What do we do? adjust Should we open the door for him?”
“Wait a moment.”
Prayers?
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Shouldn’t I treat it with respect?
I didn’t know what kind of respect it expected.
This was still a book.
The hand holding the book began to sweat.
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If I was too late.
If I kept hesitating.
If, even after clearly hearing his screams, I decided to ignore them.
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I opened the book’s cover all the way.
I couldn’t keep pretending nothing was happening.
“Even if I survived, I’d have nightmares for the rest of my life.”
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An enormous mouth burst out from inside it.
It was exactly like the monster’s.
Suddenly.
And before I could even throw the book away.
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I had turned the cover disrespectfully, breaking the rule.
“…!!”
The mouth bit off my left hand.
Crunch!
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All the pain in my body seemed to concentrate in my severed left wrist.
The pain was so intense that I couldn’t even scream.
Blood began gushing out as if someone had turned on a faucet.
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The footsteps and screams outside drew closer and closer.
“D-Don’t come any closer! audit Get away!”
Scrape.
Thunk!
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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]
[Feast for the God Built from Bones]
Then, with the only hand I had left, I turned the page.
〈Table of Contents〉
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There were many prayers.
I understood instinctively.
[Oath Offered to the Flowing Blood]
…
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There was a clue.
But only one was the correct one.
That was why it said a prayer dedicated to Him.
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Among all those titles, two had black stains stuck to them.
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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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“I know. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors. accent Open the door.”
“Haebin. wizard Open the door now.”
“What…? altitude Are you seri…? admire Boss, your hand…!”
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“Aaaah!!”
But instead of freezing, she threw the door wide open.
Haebin’s eyes widened when she saw the blood dripping from my wrist.
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Apparently, it still hadn’t seriously injured him.
The employee in the hallway had tripped while fleeing and was lying on the floor.
The monster was slowly chewing on one of his mangled shoes.
Nor had it started eating him.
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“Hanmu! abandon Save me!”
Crawling across the floor in tears, he screamed desperately.
How ridiculous human beings can be.
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In my hands, I held the book open to the table of contents.
And yet.
The first thing he did was ask to be saved.
Right in front of him was someone who had just lost a hand and was covered in blood.
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Which one was correct?
Only two possibilities remained.
[Worship for He Who Has Forgotten Satiety]
[Prayer for the Hungry Beast]
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“…Now there are three.”
With the innocence of a child, that voice murmured as though the food before it were delicious.
A thin hand grabbed the employee’s ankle.
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The prayer titled Worship for He Who Has Forgotten Satiety.
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.
“Thou dost not remember what it means to be sated, and we too embrace hunger as a virtue.”
I read aloud the words printed on the yellowed paper.
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Its smooth, eyeless head slowly began to rise to look at me.
The mouth that was about to devour the employee’s head stopped dead.
“From a place lower than the earth beneath thy feet, we revere the movement of thy stomach.”
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“Boss, come over here!”
I couldn’t look away.
But my voice, as though an old cassette tape were speaking through my tongue, recited those words without sounding like my own.
“Ugh… Haa…”
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But I couldn’t stop the prayer.
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…”
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And yet.
I couldn’t take a single step back.
Saliva slowly dripped from all its mouths.
The monster stopped directly in front of me.
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I didn’t know whether I had chosen correctly.
“Even while thou sleepest, we shall prepare thy table.”
The prayer ended there.
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Its hot breath, thick with the smell of blood, struck my face.
Or whether I had just made a fatal mistake.
“Did you promise?”
The countless jaws scattered across the monster’s body opened and closed several times.
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“That when I wake up, you’ll prepare a new table for me.”
Then it curled in on itself and closed all its mouths.
The monster slowly lowered its body.
Then a long red tongue licked the stump of my wrist.
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I had survived.
Only a moment later did I feel a shiver run up my back from bottom to top.
Its back rose and fell with calm breaths.
As if it had truly fallen asleep.
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