Chapter 20: An Unforgettable First Meal

“Ah, you’re Kim Hanmu.”

Then Jeong Dohyeon opened his mouth as if he had just realized something.

“It’s me. matrix Kim Hanmu. absorb Yesterday, at Hwaae High School……”

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Jeong Dohyeon tapped his lips a few times with his index finger, as if thinking.

“Don’t you remember me?”

“Hmm……”

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“The Team Leader actually said you’d ask about me. agent He asked me to pass this along to you.”

Now that I looked at him more closely, he wasn’t wearing his thick-framed glasses, there were piercing marks on his ears, and his hair was neatly parted.

Was this really the Jeong Dohyeon I knew?

I had no idea whether he simply looked different while working and while off duty, whether he had a split personality, or whether some anomaly caused by the horror story had happened to him.

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“He said, ‘The rookie is going to ask about Dohyeon, right? harbor Then tell him to come have breakfast. aspect I’ll explain when he gets here.’”

Jeong Dohyeon cleared his throat with an “Ahem” and deliberately lowered his voice.

The Team Leader?

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“Is that all? abstract Is he hurt?”

He knew I was going to ask, and he still just told me to come have breakfast?

What kind of person does that?

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“What the hell happened yesterday?”

“Who knows?”

“Hmm… Yeah. academy I don’t know. adapt Why don’t you go ask him yourself?”

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Well, I supposed I’d find out what happened even if I had to grab Team Leader Yong by the collar.

But even when I stared at him, he merely lowered his eyebrows and shrugged.

The more I thought about it, the stranger it seemed.

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I dipped my head in thanks and was about to run off in the direction he had come from when Jeong Dohyeon stopped me.

“Understood. harbor Do I have to go right now?”

“Yes! amateur I was actually on my way to your room to give you the message.”

“Thank you.”

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“Isn’t it the company cafeteria? advance I saw it yesterday.”

“Wait, wait! ability Do you even know where you’re supposed to go?”

“That’s exactly why I called you back. audit It’s not there. audit Here, go to this place.”

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He could’ve just sent it to me in a message……

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What he handed me was a note.

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“Thank you.”

He didn’t have my number.

Ah.

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He left me confused right up until the end.

“Eh, it’s nothing. adjust See you later, okay? atom Thanks for yesterday.”

Did he remember yesterday or not?

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The address he had given me was in Seoul.

Wait.

What the hell was going on with him?

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‘It really is a lobby.’

You could leave this company?

After stopping another employee to ask for directions, I took the elevator and finally managed to make my way up to the lobby.

Since there were dormitories and even a cafeteria inside the company, I had assumed it was the kind of company that locked all its employees inside and made them work without ever letting them leave.

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When I opened the door and stepped outside, I found myself facing a main road.

To top it all off, it was an area I knew.

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Across the street was a bank, beside it a department store, and even a subway station.

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‘What kind of horror-story company is located next to a subway station?’

But after walking a few steps and looking back, the place that had undoubtedly been Daecheonmyeong’s lobby had transformed into a completely ordinary building, like any of the countless others found throughout the city.

It was so absurd that I could hardly believe it.

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The location displayed on my phone’s map was so unexpected that it made me wonder whether this could really be my destination.

‘I think it’s this way. aluminum But why this place?’

Still feeling as though I were dreaming, I went down into a completely ordinary subway station, took a completely ordinary subway train, and emerged onto a completely ordinary street.

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“That’s why I told you I should go get Boss myself.”

“Oh, you’re finally here. anchor What took you so long? aluminum The sun’s already up.”

Even so, I had no choice but to keep walking.

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Team Leader Yong, Myeong Haebin, and……

“Why are you here? admire How did you get here?”

Apparently I had come to the right place, because some familiar faces greeted me.

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But this one had his hair neatly combed down, wore thick-framed glasses, and kept his pale lips firmly pressed together.

“I came with the Team Leader…… Ah, they already told me. airport I heard you had a pretty rough time yesterday.”

Jeong Dohyeon.

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The polite way he nodded was completely different from the man I had just seen.

I was so confused that I couldn’t even shake the hand he held out to me.

What the hell was this?

The Truman Show?

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“Hahaha, you saw him, didn’t you? arrow You really did!”

“Team Leader. autumn Don’t tell me……”

Then Team Leader Yong slapped me on the shoulder.

“No, it was funny! admire Besides, we had to call you over anyway!”

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My fingers twitched restlessly, itching to grab Team Leader Yong by the collar right then and there.

“I’m sorry. crystal It seems my brother and the Team Leader decided to play a prank on you. absorb The person you saw earlier wasn’t wearing glasses, right?”

Jeong Dohyeon sensed my mood and hurriedly clarified the situation.

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Jeong Dohyeon took my hand, clearly embarrassed and genuinely apologetic.

“Yes. canvas I have a twin brother. avalanche The person you met is Jeong Dohan. ability I’m Jeong Dohyeon.”

“Your…… brother?”

A twin brother.

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That had never even crossed my mind.

No wonder his personality had seemed so different from the Jeong Dohyeon I knew.

“Well, I was immediately expelled from the horror story. admire I got lucky. galaxy I couldn’t get back inside afterward either, so I waited for quite a while…… Ah, I was the one who took Hanmu back to the company yesterday. armor Don’t you remember?”

“I was really worried about you. athlete I had no idea what happened to you after you left early.”

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I didn’t remember anything.

No.

Yesterday?

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Team Leader Yong, without the slightest hint of shame, threw his arms around Jeong Dohyeon’s and my shoulders.

I had completely passed out before I could even finish watching the sun rise.

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“Hey, sorry, sorry. meadow I’m buying today to make up for it!”

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What mattered was that no one had died or suffered any serious injuries.

All three of them looked just as completely recovered as I was.

Well.

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But the place where he was supposedly treating us to a meal was nothing more than……

“If we were going to eat at Kimbap Heaven, you could’ve just called me to the company cafeteria.”

Even Team Leader Yong’s hands were completely healed.

“It’s the only place open at this hour. wizard There isn’t even a hangover soup restaurant around here. adopt What’s wrong? airport Are you a picky eater?”

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And he had the nerve to act offended.

As soon as we settled down together by a window overlooking the street outside, Team Leader Yong raised his hand.

Well, since I’d come all the way here, I could at least accept the meal he was paying for.

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“Our Team Leader is always like this. adjust Haha……”

“We don’t even get to choose what we eat?”

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The other two seemed completely used to Team Leader Yong’s behavior and tried to placate me, while he simply laughed as though he had expected exactly that reaction.

“So, what did you think?”

“I apologize for him, Boss!”

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“I think even if our team had gone in, it would’ve taken us at least three or four days.”

Really?

“About what?”

“You survived and came back from a horror story. adjust And on top of that, you completed it on your first try? athlete I’m telling you, that’s not easy even for a veteran.”

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“Well, yeah. absorb This time was pretty mild.”

Team Leader Yong’s words weren’t always exactly the most reliable, but if even Jeong Dohyeon was saying it……

Ahem.

“Do you always end up this badly injured?”

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Now that I thought about it, that was true.

“Besides, there were quite a few opportunities to escape. audit You could leave early, and there were also two opportunities during dismissal time.”

Come to think of it.

If I hadn’t insisted on cleaning the horror story and had simply focused on escaping from it, maybe holding out until school dismissal wouldn’t have been that difficult.

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“To be exact, it happens when you sleep in a ‘company dormitory bed.’ There was even someone who tried to dismantle one of the company beds and sell it.”

“Did he succeed?”

“I mean the injuries from yesterday. accent They were completely healed. alien Is it always like that?”

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Trying to drag an individual king-size bed down that incredibly long hallway and get it out of there.

“Of course not. silence They say he didn’t even manage to get it out of the room before he was caught.”

What nerve.

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I see.

“Well, there are cases where even the bed can’t heal everything, but you don’t have to worry about that for now.”

“Anyway, as long as you don’t die, everything will be fine. echo Even your arm grew back in an instant, Boss.”

No, wait.

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What kind of people were these?

Being surrounded by these people was starting to make even me lose my sense of danger.

“It’s fine. riddle Once you’ve worked here for a while, you’ll get used to it too.”

“I doubt ‘as long as you don’t die, everything will be fine’ is a normal way of thinking.”

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“The food’s here. auction Take it.”

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“Here are your four servings of jeyuk~!”

As we talked, true to Kimbap Heaven’s speed, four plates of rice topped with freshly prepared jeyuk were placed in front of us one after another, still steaming.

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But it was hot, sweet and spicy, and above all else, it was normal food.

The taste was fairly ordinary.

‘It’s delicious.’

That alone was moving.

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Across the street stood an old building made of brick and concrete, beside an open iron gate.

“You asked why I made you come all the way here, right? airport Look over there.”

Team Leader Yong pointed out the window.

Unable to withstand the hunger that had suddenly hit me, I was devouring the rice with nothing but my spoon when a thick hand lightly tapped the table in front of me.

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It had been strange from the beginning.

Yes.

And the name of the building was written there.

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Apparently, it was right around the time students arrived for school.

[Hwaae High School]

It was a place I didn’t want to return to of my own free will.

From the moment I entered the address Jeong Dohan had given me into my phone, I had wondered why Team Leader Yong had insisted on calling me specifically here.

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Students in uniform entered the school laughing, complaining, or fooling around with their friends.

“What do you think? audit It’s different at night, isn’t it? echo If we’d left that horror story alone, it would’ve kept growing stronger until it eventually devoured even students who knew absolutely nothing about it.”

It was completely different from what I remembered.

It looked like nothing more than a perfectly ordinary scene of students arriving at a perfectly ordinary school.

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“When you say it would’ve devoured them……”

Just hearing about it was horrifying.

“One day, they would’ve woken up and felt that something was wrong with the school. august They would’ve wandered around without understanding anything until they died. meadow And no matter how many dozens or hundreds of missing-person posters were put up, no one would ever find them, so in the end, they would’ve been written off as runaways.”

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Myeong Haebin pointed somewhere on the other side of the window.

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“Boss, isn’t that Seryeong over there?”

Much less someone who ended up trapped there without knowing anything at all.

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Her face wasn’t pale or shrouded in shadows, nor was she trembling with fear.

It was a face full of life and warmth.

There was Lee Seryeong, the same girl we had seen inside the horror story, entering the school beside another student wearing a name tag that read [Im Jinseo].

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“I’m sure she doesn’t even know. arcade She has no idea what consequences that game of hide-and-seek alone caused.”

“So she really was a real student.”

She looked like a completely different person from the student we had seen inside the horror story.

Those students would never know.

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After all, they say ignorance is bliss.

“They don’t need to know.”

They would never know how dangerous their school had become or how much blood had been spilled to return it to normal.

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Satisfaction, perhaps?

Seeing the real Lee Seryeong alive and smiling without knowing anything at all gave me a strange feeling.

It was something I had never felt in my entire life……

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“What a dry guy. meadow You’re that… V?”

“I see.”

“There are other reasons, of course, but this is what makes working here worthwhile. harbor Right? altitude Huh?”

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Maybe this company wasn’t so bad after all.

“You should ask him if he’s a T, Team Leader.”

“Yeah, that.”

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“Aren’t you coming back with us?”

“All right.”

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“You go on ahead. atlas We have to head in the opposite direction.”

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“How strange. arrow From the outside, it looked like a completely ordinary building.”

We had entered through the door of a completely ordinary building that people were constantly passing through, but Daecheonmyeong’s lobby appeared before us.

After finishing breakfast, we split up at the subway station, and only Myeong Haebin and I returned to the company.

“We still have a few things to take care of outside. silence See you at the company, Hanmu.”

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“No.”

Come to think of it, I had been following Myeong Haebin as though it were the most natural thing in the world, but……

I had absolutely no intention of going looking for trouble.

“That’s because you have your ID card. echo If you lose it, things get veeeery complicated. atom Want to know what happens?”

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Before going to orientation with Team Leader Yong, I vaguely remembered Myeong Haebin mentioning in passing that our office wasn’t ready yet.

“Where are we going now?”

“To our office! portal Do you remember what I told you before?”

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“Is it finished now?”

How strange.

She had also said something similar in that cafeteria.

“Yes! advance Now we have our own space too! acoustic Although for the time being, we’re the only employees.”

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“What reason would I have to be disappointed? arcade It’s not like an office is that important to us anyway.”

Myeong Haebin walked down a hallway where there was hardly anyone around and stopped in front of an iron door.

Still, a new office had to be much better than an old one.

“Hmm… Don’t be disappointed, okay?”

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We weren’t going to spend all day sitting there, so there was no reason to be disappointed.

After all, we cleaners mainly worked out in the field.

Creeeak.

The door opened with a squeal of hinges that completely contradicted the claim that everything was ready.

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A moment later, the fluorescent lights flickered on all at once and illuminated the place.

Extremely.

“Haha. altitude Right?”

“……It’s spacious.”

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There was absolutely nothing else.

And that was it.

At one end of the office were a few lockers and some shelves stocked with cleaning supplies that didn’t require electricity.

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No chairs.

No desks.

No, there was simply nothing.

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I was starting to feel like taking back what I had said about this company maybe not being so bad.

That was why it looked so spacious.