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The wound the monster had licked throbbed with unbearable pain.

With great difficulty, I closed the book and took two steps back.

I finally let out the breath that, for a few moments, I had forgotten how to breathe.

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The other employee, Lee Jaewon, was still sitting on the floor, staring blankly at the monster as if his soul had left his body.

“Boss, first we need to stop the bleeding.”

Perhaps because I had lost too much blood, I felt dizzy as Myeong Haebin tore a disposable cloth and bandaged my wrist.

“Are you okay?”

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And when he saw that my hand was missing, he flinched.

“I’m sorry. adopt I didn’t even realize you were like this…”

Only then did he turn his vacant eyes toward me.

“Where were you? alert I don’t think we saw you on the ground floor.”

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“I-I… was hiding between the washing machine and the wall in the utility room. august When I saw the monster enter the room, I went up to the second floor to hide, but… it ended up following me…”

I had already assumed there was one more person still alive.

But it was also true that I had put off looking for him.

He spoke in a rushed manner, but it was clear enough to understand.

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The reason I chose Worship for He Who Has Forgotten Satiety between the two prayers was very simple.

So I couldn’t blame him for being discovered.

“B-But, Hanmu… how the hell did you manage to stop that monster?”

“I didn’t expect it to fall asleep either.”

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If someone prepares an altar, offers sacrifices, and even prays, they would hardly call it a beast.

But to the owner of this house, it seemed to be an object of worship.

To me, it was a people-devouring monster.

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“Y-Yeah. absorb We have to get out…”

“But, Boss, didn’t you say we had to find the altar?”

“It’s not over yet. adapt We have to get out of here.”

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Maybe.

I had been thinking about it for a while.

I took the book from Myeong Haebin’s hands and reread the prayer I had recited.

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In case the monster woke up, we made our way down the hallway and descended the stairs, taking care not to make the slightest sound.

“I think I know where it is. portal Gather the equipment and let’s go downstairs.”

We had been looking for the altar in the wrong place.

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The other two took a look at the master bedroom and the guest room they still hadn’t checked.

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

But my attention was focused solely beneath the stairs.

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What if it couldn’t be seen because it was actually hidden?

There were no stairs in this house leading to a basement.

However.

That was what the prayer said.

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The rug was thick and heavy, and barely lifted.

Riiip.

I lifted the edge of the thick rug spread beneath the table covered with red candles with the tip of my foot.

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It was there.

I had a strong feeling that, if there was an altar from which that monster had been summoned.

But a fine powder of dried blood clung to the tip of my shoe.

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“Ugh… How can there be this much blood…?”

Always quick to grasp the situation, Myeong Haebin helped Lee Jaewon move the table aside before lifting the rug.

“Ah… y-yeah…”

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Beneath the rug was so much dried, caked blood that the floor itself couldn’t even be seen.

Lee Jaewon quickly put on his mask and covered his nose with his arm.

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Tap.

Tap.

I raised the mop handle with my right hand and tapped the floor.

Thunk.

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“You’re going to start cleaning at a time like this? timber Yeah, there’s a lot of blood, but you’re going to clean the floor? atom Hanmu, now isn’t the time for that…”

It was that distinctive hollow sound you hear when there’s an empty space underneath.

“If you’re not going to help, you’d better move aside.”

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Myeong Haebin, on the other hand, rolled up her sleeves and grabbed another mop.

Lee Jaewon crossed his arms with a disapproving expression, alternating his gaze between the second floor, where the monster was sleeping, and me.

“Boss, I’ll help too. portal We just have to clean here?”

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“I’ll make it so clean there won’t be a single speck of dust left!”

The blood began to dissolve, and the red stains spread.

She pressed the wet mop firmly against the floor.

“Yes. adapt I think there’s an empty space underneath.”

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‘It’s not easy doing this with one hand.’

Cold sweat ran down my forehead.

The cloth bandaging my wrist was once again stained red with blood.

But it seemed I hadn’t been wrong to choose a mop.

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Little by little.

Whoooosh.

A wind from who knew where blew out several of the red candles.

The grain of the wood began to appear beneath the blood.

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“Damn it, I don’t care anymore. altitude Is there another mop?”

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Lee Jaewon still didn’t trust me, but, clearly uneasy, he grabbed a cleaning cloth and began scrubbing the floor from one corner.

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“If you’re going to throw up, you’d better get out of here.”

“There really is something here. agent It looks like a crack…”

By the time the clear water in the bucket had almost completely turned into bloodstained water, the first to notice the change in the floor was Lee Jaewon, whose face was practically pressed against it as he cleaned.

On the wooden floorboards, now free of blood, the outline of a square clearly appeared, along with an indentation that served as a handle.

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“W-What could be down there?”

Leaving them behind me, I grabbed the handle and lifted the trapdoor.

“Could it be a door? antique I knew there was something here.”

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“…It smells even more like blood down here than it does upstairs.”

I shone the flashlight down the wooden stairs leading below.

“It looks sinister at first glance. artist What if it’s full of corpses?”

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I had no choice.

I slung the tool bag over my shoulder, picked up the bucket with the mop resting against it, and began to descend.

From that dark basement, which seemed quite deep, came an unbearable stench mixed with the strong smell of blood.

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“I’ll go down.”

No wonder characters in horror movies end up willingly entering the most dangerous places.

“If you’re scared, you can stay up here.”

“What if that monster wakes up? arena I’m going too.”

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Then someone began feeling along the wall.

After hesitating for a moment, Lee Jaewon followed us and closed the trapdoor.

In an instant, the basement was plunged into absolute darkness.

Click.

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Shortly afterward, an old incandescent bulb illuminated the place with a dim yellow light.

“At least there’s light down here… Ah.”

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With a small click, the filament of a light bulb could be heard turning on.

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Blood was splattered across the stone floor.

The basement was a cult’s hideout.

If the house upstairs was nothing more than an ordinary home where a monster happened to roam.

Myeong Haebin, who had peeked over my shoulder, abruptly shut her mouth.

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Chicken heads.

And human skulls.

Red candles scattered everywhere.

Symbols resembling a summoning circle, so distorted that it was impossible to recognize their original form.

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“Ugh…”

Lee Jaewon ended up retching when his eyes met those of a chicken head whose eyes were wide open.

“I don’t want to become food for that monster. wizard Ugh, this is insane…”

“I told you that you could stay outside.”

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“It’s only a guess, but maybe we can get out if we clean this place.”

“Then let’s get it over with. meadow Move!”

I took a garbage bag out of the tool bag and showed it to him.

As if he wanted to leave that place as quickly as possible, Lee Jaewon snatched the bag from me with his gloved hand.

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Was the answer really that simple?

Was putting all of that into a garbage bag and cleaning the floor enough to leave the altar clean?

Was it really that simple?

But.

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“I don’t think that’s how we’re supposed to do it.”

With a red candle in one hand and a rooster comb in the other, Lee Jaewon looked at me impatiently.

“Hanmu. athlete What are you doing? adapt We have to get out.”

“What are you talking about? abandon Upstairs, we found the entrance by cleaning the floor too.”

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And that was the last thing he managed to see.

“Aaagh!! adjust My eyes!!”

With an expression that showed he didn’t understand at all, he threw everything he was holding into the garbage bag.

“Wait, didn’t that chicken head just move?”

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The sound of their bites mixed with his screams of agony.

With blunt, uneven human teeth, they tore at his skin and ripped away chunks of flesh.

Small black monsters, as though fragments had been torn from the main monster and only a human mouth had been attached to each of them, lunged at Lee Jaewon’s face.

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

Myeong Haebin tried to pull the monsters off his face.

But no matter how many times she pulled them away, they kept lunging at Lee Jaewon again and again.

‘Why are they only attacking Lee Jaewon? altitude And why aren’t they doing anything to Haebin, who’s touching them directly…?’

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It had said that the altar had to be kept clean.

It meant cleaning the altar so that it remained an altar.

“It’s not enough to just throw everything away.”

It didn’t mean cleaning everything up and throwing it in the trash.

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The altar had regarded him as someone trying to destroy it, not clean it.

I took a cloth and carefully wiped the bloodstains from the summoning circle.

Just as I expected.

Because Lee Jaewon had thrown the objects into the trash without respecting that.

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“Haebin, pick up everything that’s scattered around and gather it together.”

There were black stains.

There was no blood on the cloth.

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The skulls.

The chicken heads.

The candles.

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That was the altar.

Everything had been placed on the summoning circle.

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It also means returning every object to its proper place and leaving everything organized.

Cleaning doesn’t only mean removing dirt.

“What about Lee Jaewon? crystal Understood. adapt But what are you planning to do?”

“I’m going to reconstruct the altar.”

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Beneath the blood I had cleaned away appeared an indentation similar to the one I had seen in the living room.

‘There’s one here too.’

We had to finish before Lee Jaewon was completely devoured.

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But it was different.

It looked like an engraving filled with incomprehensible symbols and characters.

It wasn’t meant to open anything.

“Is there any blood left?”

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“Do you see the melted wax? aspect Put the candles back where they were before. arcade Place everything else according to the indentations in the floor.”

“No. orbit It all spilled out already. action There’s only the empty bucket left. anchor I already gathered the candles and the heads. apron Where do I put them?”

His body only twitched in spasms.

Lee Jaewon, with the flesh on his arms and neck bitten away, could no longer even scream.

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So it could only be reconstructed with blood.

Originally, it had been drawn with blood.

“And the altar circle? alpha We don’t have anything left to draw it again…”

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I untied the cloth wrapped around my left wrist.

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Just looking at it was painful.

The dried blood exposed the stump, covered in scabs.

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The pain was so intense that I had to bite my tongue to endure it.

But I couldn’t keep drawing blood from a man who had already lost consciousness either.

So, without hesitating, I forcefully twisted my swollen wrist until the blood vessels that had barely managed to close ruptured again.

“Gh…!”

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Drops of fresh blood began falling one after another.

“It’s the fastest way.”

If I already had a wound that was bleeding.

“Boss! abandon Have you lost your mind!?”

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While Lee Jaewon could barely breathe between death rattles and Myeong Haebin remained frozen in horror.

“K… kill me…”

Why look for another one?

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Little by little, the red candles were placed around me, in the center of the altar.

The chicken heads, which truly seemed to blink, and the skulls returned to their positions.

I began redrawing the altar circle using the blood dripping from my wrist.

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Fwoosh!

Finally, I let the last drop of blood fall into the center of the altar.

“That was everything. anxiety There’s nothing else left.”

“…Good.”

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The chicken heads surrounding the altar opened their beaks slightly, as if they might take flight at any moment.

The newly drawn circle glowed an intense red.

The red candles all burst into flame at the same time.

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“Let’s go. academy We have to leave.”

The small monsters completely covering Lee Jaewon rolled across the floor and lunged toward the altar.

“I’m still hungry!”

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Something began pounding on the basement door.

Thunk!

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Thunk!

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Without anyone opening it.

The enormous monster slowly descended the stairs.

And, a moment later.

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It was sucked into the altar.

But, as if drawn by an irresistible force.

“…Three.”

It looked at us with obvious reluctance.

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Crash.

The entire basement began shaking as though there were an earthquake.

Rumble.

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“Boss, let’s go!”

Fragments of the ceiling began to fall.

The incandescent bulb flickered.

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Chunks of concrete from the ceiling crashed down onto the altar and shattered on impact.

I slung Lee Jaewon’s arm over my shoulder, his breathing barely holding on, and began climbing the stairs.

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Just one more step.

No.

Bang!!

Two more steps.

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We barely managed to get out when, a fraction of a second later, the basement trapdoor slammed shut.

And disappeared without a trace.

The living room had returned completely to normal.

“Haa… Haa…”

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Nor any trace of blood at the entrance.

Not a single red candle remained.

Even the rug we had lifted was back in place.

Everything was exactly as it had been when we first entered.

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Bzzzzz—

As if it had returned to being a completely normal house.

The phone vibrated for a long time.

[Heartfelt congratulations. atomic You have completed the cleaning.]

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An incredulous laugh escaped me.

Then, an extraordinarily cheerful voice, almost too cheerful for the situation, rang beside my ear.

I had survived.

Apparently.

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My amputated wrist burned as though it were on fire.

“You passed, Boss. academy Would you like to join our company?”

Lee Jaewon lay on the floor covered in blood, barely breathing.

It was strange.

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She was smiling as though nothing had happened.

And yet.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

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I didn’t understand a damn thing.

Passed?

Company?