Chapter 10: I Was Getting Used to It

Several days passed.

Even so, I had now become the kind of person who automatically lowered his voice when opening the door in the morning, who could endure seven faces turning toward him at the same time without trembling, and who gratefully accepted coffee offered by a superior whose head was a fist.

Since I had only been working here for a few days, I was afraid I would get physically crushed if I started asking about the company’s benefits, so I never asked where I was supposed to use them.

Every time I completed an extraction, money was deposited into my account under the category of bonuses, and notifications about welfare points kept arriving.

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Sometimes they were literally staring contests.

There were dimensional entities that would not react unless one looked directly into the slimy gaze they emitted.

Every morning, I walked through the corridors dragging chains alongside Supervisor Shik, facing dozens of eyes in front of the steel containment cells.

For some reason, I had vaguely begun to feel that these people(?) would at least not tear me apart without a reason.

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The entity’s name was “Silent Swan.”

The target was an incorporeal dimensional entity without a clearly defined form that periodically emitted cold from inside its cell.

After all, my job was to perform extractions from D-grade dimensional entities.

Either way, at that moment I was standing in front of Containment Cell D-11.

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If it was given a signal through a specific sequence of knocks within the allotted time, energy would be extracted through a resonance phenomenon.

It was the fourth time I had performed this procedure.

I had memorized the rhythm.

“Tap. portal Tap. autumn Tap……”

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Its form consisted of white dots floating silently in the air, although from time to time the faint silhouette of a smile suspended in the void would appear.

Even so, I no longer vomited.

The nausea still occasionally rose to my throat, but now I managed to force it back down.

Whenever I saw it, a cold sweat inevitably ran down my back.

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Lately, Assistant Manager Son said things like that every time he saw me.

“Mr. arctic Haeil is the future of our team.”

“You’re doing very well, Mr. aspect Haeil.”

The most useful skill I had learned at this company was how to control my own guts.

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Supervisor Shik had also become somewhat friendlier, growling in a calmer tone while giving me friendly pats on the back.

They were not unpleasant comments, but since the praise was not exactly coming from a normal head, I still felt a certain distance. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com

Although some of those pats still made my spine vibrate.

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I began the second knocking sequence while thinking.

‘I’ve gotten used to it. silence Almost… how should I put it?’

‘It’s like hell. canvas But I guess I’ve adapted.’

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A strange, sticky metallic siren echoed throughout the extraction room.

[Beeeeeeeep——————! album Beep! august Beeeeeep!]

Honestly, I would have preferred it if it simply meant there was a fire.

That was when it happened.

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But it was neither fire nor water.

— If the siren goes off in the extraction room, it means something has opened. wizard Haeil, you’re a good runner, right? amateur Then run with everything you’ve got.

It was the first time I had heard it personally, but I clearly remembered Assistant Manager Son talking about it.

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It was an alarm that climbed directly up my spine.

It was not heard with the ears.

It was cold striking my bones.

It was not a vibration.

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Instinctively, I turned around.

The ceiling of the extraction room began to tremble slightly, and the red emergency lights at the end of the corridor started spinning and flashing.

Supervisor Shik was there.

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Looking in only one direction.

Completely motionless.

I followed his gaze.

Silent.

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‘What the hell is happening all of a sudden…?’

Beyond those steel doors lay the C and B extraction zones, along with even more dangerous areas.

It was a direction I had never entered except during the guided tour.

I had barely gotten used to Zone D.

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That expression seemed to say:

The screen was off, and my reflection showed an expression I did not recognize.

I looked at the tablet I was holding in my hands.

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The siren sounded again.

This time closer, echoing as if it were right beside my ear.

It’s still far too early to get used to this place.

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Instinctively, I stumbled backward and pressed myself against the wall of a containment cell.

“What the hell does that mean?!”

[Special Dimensional Entity containment released. timber Opening all containment cells. armor All personnel must immediately initiate the suppression protocol.]

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All.

All containment zones opened.

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I had heard it clearly.

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Boom!

Opened.

The.

Cells.

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I turned my head toward the source of the sound.

A gigantic shadow passed behind me.

Boom!

Boom!

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His chains traced long arcs through the air.

That beast-like superior charged forward at full speed without the slightest hesitation.

It was Supervisor Shik.

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I watched the scene and took a deep breath.

With his mane and chains whipping behind him, Supervisor Shik disappeared inside.

‘I need to get to the office.’

The steel doors opened automatically, and the red emergency lights blazed like fire before his eyes.

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My pace quickened until it was practically a run.

The exit was close.

I started moving down the corridor toward the extraction room exit.

If I stayed here, I would die.

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A scream echoed through the corridor.

“Aaaaaaaaahh!!!”

And then—

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I stopped on reflex.

Crunch!

The sound of twisting metal echoed in front of me.

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No, it would be more accurate to say it was something human-like.

Something with a human shape.

There was something standing in the middle of the corridor.

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More precisely, it had nothing on its face.

Its face was blank.

But black spirals grew from both shoulders, twisting and stretching through the air.

It was wearing a grease-stained suit.

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No eyes, no nose, no mouth.

“What is… that?”

It slowly tilted its head.

Only a smooth surface of flesh, like a white mask, covered the place where its face should have been.

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Strange ripples traveled across the white skin covering its face.

Then it took a step toward me, accompanied by a humming sound that vibrated beside my ears.

The flesh stirred.

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I forced myself to remember the dimensional entities described in the manuals.

For an instant, wrinkles identical to those on my own face appeared before vanishing.

As if it were warming up to imitate me.

[Containment Cell C-2]

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Type: Biological / Composite (after synchronization)

Dimensional Entity Code: C-2

Dimensional Entity Name: Nameless One

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Fragments of the manual I had memorized in order to survive surfaced in my mind.

Only then did I realize that the tablet I was holding was broken.

Precautions: Prohibited from making direct eye contact / Possible personality collapse upon direct confrontation / Manifestation of aftereffects / Requires elimination of assimilation substances

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If I looked away, I would suffer a mental collapse.

An existence that creates cracks in the identity of whoever confronts it and then takes over their body.

Nameless One.

The problem was that right now I was looking directly at its face.

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Nameless One took another step toward me.

“Then what the hell am I supposed to do?!”

If I kept looking at it, my personality would be eroded.

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“This isn’t a place for you.”

And then my own voice came out of it and pierced the space between my eyebrows.

The skin split vertically from the center, and a black hole began to pulse.

A mouth opened on that mouthless face.

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My heart thundered.

Boom.

“You should keep running away. antenna You know this is wrong, don’t you?”

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Boom.

“You already felt it. auction You and this place don’t fit together at all.”

My brain thundered.

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Those were all my own thoughts.

“There has to be some place that’s perfect for you. action Some place where you truly belong.”

My lungs thundered.

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The deepest and most fragile remnants of my desires.

‘No. orbit I… don’t…’

Didn’t you think that?

The cracks in my identity were beginning to leak outward.

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Rational judgment?

The terrified expression of my own face appeared on the creature’s face.

Something warm and hazy began to rise inside me.

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The manual?

Everything is being torn apart.

Isn’t this place filled with nothing but accidental deaths and inevitable deaths?

It’s all complete bullshit.

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It has always been like this.

The moment I reached that conclusion, I ran toward the wall.

The only thing anyone can do is fight desperately.

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Bang!

Bang!

Bang! autumn Bang!

I slammed my head against it with all my strength again and again.

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Pain shot through my nervous system, and my consciousness snapped back into place.

I took the sensation of my forehead being split open and turned it into words.

The words from my university textbooks turned into sharp fragments inside my mind and began tearing apart Nameless One’s voice.

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“DON’T TALK NONSENSE!!!”

Crack.

“DON’T FIT IN?! adjust ME?! wizard HERE?! arrow GO TO HELL!!”

My shout echoed throughout the entire corridor.

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Its torn face froze.

It felt as if my skull were being torn apart and my brain stirred around.

Nameless One shuddered.

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With my eyes wide open and a crazed smile on my face, I advanced toward it.

“NO!! atom I FIT PERFECTLY HERE!!”

And I kept shouting.

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“You’re a failure. athlete Trash.”

“FROM THE VERY BEGINNING!! adapt SINCE THE DAY I WAS BORN!! ability I WAS NEVER NORMAL, SO WHAT THE HELL IS A PLACE WHERE I BELONG?! alien I’M A DAMN ORPHAN!!”

Staring fixedly at that rippling face as if my eyes were about to pop out of their sockets.

I dismantled every miserable piece of my past and shoved it into the realm of objectivity.

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“I STUDIED MYSELF TO DEATH TO GET INTO COLLEGE AND STILL DIDN’T HAVE A SINGLE DAMN CENT TO MY NAME!!”

“I RAN OFF TO THE MILITARY AND ENDED UP DISCHARGED, AND WHEN I RETURNED TO SOCIETY I WAS A MISERABLE UNEMPLOYED LOSER WITH NOTHING BUT A HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA!!”

“With just a bachelor’s degree, you won’t even be able to work as a receptionist at a counseling center. galaxy You’ll need graduate school, Haeil.”

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Frustration.

“Sergeant Jeong Haeil! august It hurts! afford Please save me, Sergeant Jeong Haeil!”

As the creature dug up those foul memories that still clung to me like tar, I pounded my chest over and over while shouting.

Depression.

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“THE GUY WITH A FIST FOR A HEAD, THE SEVEN-FACED BASTARD, THE DAMN CRAZY VAMPIRE, THE CHAIN-DRAGGING BEAST!! ability THEY’RE ALL PERFECT!! acquire THIS PLACE IS PERFECT FOR ME!!”

The feeling of defeat.

All of it had become a comfortable suit of armor wrapped around me.

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A huge crack opened down the center.

“I AM A PERFECTLY QUALIFIED EMPLOYEE FOR THIS DAMN LIMITED COMPANY WHERE THE DEAD END UP WITH GHOSTS!!”

The skin on Nameless One’s face began to tremble violently.

And I kept yelling at it as if I were about to grab it by the throat.

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At some point, a drone descended from the corridor ceiling with a whistle.

Nameless One staggered backward.

Boom.

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[Target stabilized. alert Remaining energy: 15%. avalanche Initiating automatic recovery.]

Apparently, my life had been too sticky and too full of cracks for that thing to force its way through.

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My heart was still pounding frantically.

All strength left my shoulders and legs.

I fell heavily onto the ground.

Only after watching Nameless One slowly evaporate like smoke and get absorbed by the drone did I collapse to the floor.

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Was Supervisor Shik coming back?

I began to hear a distant cracking sound.

Just as I felt around the breast pocket of my suit for the fountain pen to treat my damaged head.

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My vision became blurry.

“…Huh?”

Smiling broadly, I turned my head.

It was the first time I had ever been so happy at the thought of him.

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It was collapsing.

As if someone had poured thick oil into my eyes, the world began to ripple and distort.

No.

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Like wet paint beneath the rain.

Light and colors blended together.

The walls melted.

The emergency lights spilled everywhere like bluish blood.

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I closed my eyes.

“Why? crystal What’s happening? crystal I’m done already. atlas Isn’t it over?”

The floor softened.

The red lights expanded like brain matter.

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Opened them.

Opened them once more.

Closed them again.

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But I could see even less.

My eyes were melting.

I understood.

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“U-UAAAAAHHH!!”

I had to cover them.

That brief realization made my entire body boil.

I covered my eyes with both hands.

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The smell of burning rubber struck my nose.

Screeeech.

I had to block my vision.

“NGH… AAAAAAHHHH——!!”

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The flesh underneath was slowly cooking.

The skin began collapsing into itself.

Even my hands were melting.

At the same time, the smell of burning flesh rose from my eyebrows, my cheeks, and the backs of my hands. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

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The pain was too real.

The heat penetrated all the way to my bones.

It was not a hallucination.

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I could not speak.

I’m going to die.

It was my brain directly rejecting the pain.

It was not my vocal cords.

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Space was mercilessly crushed.

Thooooom——

I’m really going to die.

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Something long and thin appeared.

And at the center of it all.

The air wrinkled.

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Without making a sound.

Swinging elongated arms and legs while its body rippled with the plastic sheen of torn black polyethylene.

Without moving.

Even with my eyes melting, I looked directly at it.

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My teeth trembled one by one as if they were screaming.

Blood began flowing from my ears.

That, too, was an existence capable of destroying human senses simply by being observed.

I crashed face-first onto the floor.

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At last, I understood what kind of death someone like me could suffer.

My tongue was melting.

I could not even scream.

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How life could grind a person’s heart into pieces and pulverize their final moments.

Boooom!!

And it was precisely when I felt that strange clarity. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

The ceiling exploded.

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With the roar of steel plates being torn apart, something gigantic crashed through the ceiling and descended.

The pain vanished.

The corridor screamed.

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More precisely, it began cooling rapidly.

The fire consuming my eyes transformed into cold air mixed with the fresh scent of grass.

The pain in my melted hands eased.

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That dimensional entity that had appeared beyond Nameless One.

I raised my head through my blurred vision.

That distorted nightmare.

And I saw it.

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Dense roots.

Rough.

Now it was crushed beneath enormous tree roots.

Delicate.

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They tore through the dimensional entity’s flesh, crushing its heart while shattering its shell.

Gigantic.

They looked as though they had pierced through the earth and buildings to emerge on the surface.

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The roots writhed like living beings.

A shriek resembling a monstrous melody filled the space.

And at the end of those roots.

Beyond that trunk covered in vines and knots.

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He wore a suit.

At least, the upper half of his body was human in shape.

I saw someone.

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Polished shoes.

The collar of his black shirt was immaculate.

The sleeves had golden buttons.

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A perfectly arranged green tie.

A waterfall of bluish-green leaves cascaded down to his waist as though it were hair.

And skin of solid, unbreakable bark.

Branches of various sizes grew from the openings in his suit across his chest, shoulders, wrists, and neck.

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Trembling from head to toe, I held that gaze.

All of those eyes blinked at the same time as they observed me.

Moist green eyes were embedded among the knots crossing his face.

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My tongue dry.

Even so.

My vision was still blurred.

My skin drenched in cold sweat.

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Unbelievably natural.

His movement was unbelievably calm.

He lowered one arm like a branch.

He tilted his head.

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And brought the other hand to his chest, slowly moving his long fingers.

His voice was low and damp.

As if something were whispering among ancient trees in the middle of the night.

“I have heard your admirable determination.”

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He raised his head again.

It sounded like the resonance produced by centuries of growth rings slowly splitting apart.

It did not sound like language.

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His wooden eyes pierced deeply into me.

There was no need for him to say it.

“It is a pleasure to meet you, Employee Jeong Haeil.”

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Was this monster.

Director Mok, whom I had heard so much about.

I knew immediately.