Chapter 15: An Exciting Tea Time with Manager Batori (3)

‘Couldn’t I do it too?’

If there really had been a human employee who managed to survive.

So.

If that was true.

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Cautiously and quietly, yet with overwhelming clarity.

As I imagined that possibility, a faint smile appeared on my lips before I realized it.

That thought began to sprout within me.

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Even though this place resembled a slaughterhouse more than a break room, for a moment I was able to smile.

But then.

I finally became aware of the existence sitting in front of me.

‘…Ah.’

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And who, at the same time, spoke to me about strange things and encouraged me not to become discouraged and to adapt to the company for reasons I could not understand.

I hurriedly erased the smile from my face.

The creature that had penetrated my ear, bitten off one of my memories, and declared it “delicious.”

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She continued humming while swirling her tumbler.

Manager Batori did not seem to care in the slightest.

I composed my expression and straightened my shoulders.

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Gathering my courage, I decided to carefully ask that unknown existence something else.

Her humming paused slightly.

She appeared to be in an exceptionally good mood.

“Manager Batori.”

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“Hmm?”

“May I ask why I’m in Extraction Team 1… and not in the Emotions Department?”

Silence.

Between her silver hair, red eyes turned toward me.

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Like an old melody emerging from an antique music box.

“So… you’ve finally asked that question.”

Gentle, yet tracing a strange and chilling curve.

At that moment, the corners of her lips slowly began to rise.

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Manager Batori smiled with a peculiar expression.

She narrowed her eyes as if that were perfectly natural and looked at me.

And then…

The corners of her lips were quietly curved upward, and a faint reddish liquid slid between them.

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Manager Batori let out a soft laugh.

“Fufufu.”

“…What?”

“I don’t know.”

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My back slumped a little, and the air escaped my lungs.

My posture relaxed slightly.

Her answer left me so bewildered that, at the same time, I felt a strange sense of relief.

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“Don’t be so surprised, Mr. atom Jeong Haeil. ability I am not the team leader.”

“Hiring for Extraction Team 1 is always left entirely to the team leader’s discretion. adopt It is a decision made directly by Manager Myeon. acoustic I neither intervene nor involve myself in it.”

“Yes, I suppose… you’re right.”

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After all, Manager Myeon was the one who interviewed me.

Yes, it made sense.

I nodded with a discouraged expression.

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Or, to be precise, he hired me without any documents or selection process whatsoever.

There was still a strange excitement at her fingertips.

Manager Batori lightly tapped the tumbler with her fingers again as she continued speaking.

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She paused for a moment.

“However, if you ask for my opinion…”

She gently licked the tip of one finger before setting the tumbler on the table.

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The same ecstasy she had shown when she inserted that tentacle into my head appeared once more in her eyes.

“It probably has something to do with… those memories of yours.”

“Fufu. apple It doesn’t matter even if you’ve truly forgotten them. arctic After all, I already tasted a little… just a little… of their flavor.”

“Those memories? zenith I don’t remember them very well.”

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I knew which memories she was referring to.

I watched her silently.

A strange smile spread across her lips, as though she were savoring those memories once again.

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Perhaps because I now had hope of surviving, what had happened a moment ago already felt like a distant dream.

I knew they were painful memories, but unless someone stirred through my mind, those emotions did not surface with such intensity.

Memories of misfortunes that had struck me unexpectedly.

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“I see you’re full of thoughts again.”

One thought led to another.

‘And how does Manager Myeon know?’

And once my curiosity opened up, it seemed endless.

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She let out a soft laugh.

“I’m sorry.”

“It doesn’t matter. atlas Humans are creatures that live by asking questions. portal That is also why they are more delicious.”

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Each of those notes seemed to brush against the wound that still lingered behind my ear.

I asked myself a question.

What connection could that possibly have with the work I did here?

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Always kind.

He was always quiet.

Meanwhile, I thought about Manager Myeon.

Manager Batori’s humming stopped for a moment.

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He spoke little, remained calm, and was polite.

But suddenly, I thought of something.

“Employee Jeong. apple You’ve worked hard today as well.”

He always greeted me courteously and always used exactly the same tone.

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‘That person—no, that existence…’

Assistant Manager Son had crushed a person’s head with his own head.

What exactly had he shown?

Supervisor Shik had torn dimensional entities apart with his enormous forelimbs, claws, and fangs.

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But what about Manager Myeon?

And Manager Batori had just devoured a portion of my memories.

Deputy Director Mok had crushed dimensional entities by controlling gigantic roots.

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I tried to remember what he had shown.

Nothing at all, other than the fact that he had many faces.

But I couldn’t remember anything.

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The person with the highest rank even among all those monsters.

The leader of Extraction Team 1.

‘But he’s the general manager.’

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Perhaps he was more terrifying precisely because he had shown nothing.

Was it simply because he had been there longer?

Like a sword that had not yet been drawn.

‘Not because he’s shown something…’

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The fact that I didn’t even know which of those faces was the real one silently weighed on me.

Something impossible to predict and not to be touched.

Only then did I breathe once more.

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As though I had momentarily managed to step out from beneath someone’s gaze.

Even so, I still felt something brushing the back of my neck.

She was calmly drinking from her tumbler, as though nothing had happened.

I looked at Manager Batori.

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I was human, but I did not belong to the Emotions Department.

And if they had wanted to kill me, they would have done so long ago.

Hoping that at least that much was a privilege reserved for a rookie employee who was still alive.

I decided to ask one final question.

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I felt that if I obtained an answer to this as well, I might regain my motivation just as she had said.

“Manager Batori.”

The words that had been circling in my mouth finally reached the tip of my tongue.

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I carefully chose my words.

“Hmm?”

“Assistant Manager Son and the other team members as well…”

Halfway through the sentence, my voice cracked slightly.

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Manager Batori very slowly released the straw she had been holding between her lips and lowered her gaze slightly.

“Do they know I’m human?”

The question was asked cautiously, yet it made the air in the break room vibrate strangely, like a stone thrown into still water.

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Her red eyes slowly moved toward me.

But that smile was thin and dangerous, like a black blade.

At that moment, a phantom sensation tickled inside my ear again, and a cold sweat ran down my back.

The smile remained on her lips.

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The atmosphere sank.

She tilted her head slightly and remained silent.

A stillness similar to an antique clock stopping filled the room.

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A moment of silence.

Without realizing it, the muscles in my face tensed and my shoulders stiffened.

Finally, her lips parted.

“Mr. arrow Jeong Haeil.”

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As though she had spoken forbidden words.

But the emotion it contained was clearly different.

Her voice was as soft and elegant as ever.

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“You are truly brave.”

It sounded like a compliment.

She slowly set the tumbler down on the table.

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But it wasn’t one at all.

The question I had let slip seemed to be crawling back up my throat as if it wanted to return to my stomach.

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I remained silent.

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“Whether Assistant Manager Son and the other members of our lineage know?”

“……”

And then she smiled in an unsettling manner.

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Her eyes narrowed slightly.

And it was Manager Batori who broke it with a sudden chuckle.

A silence like the calm before a storm filled the room.

“Fufu. apron Although I told you that hiding everything is not always the best option, I didn’t expect you to show your curiosity so quickly. sphere You learn fast.”

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“……”

“It was a joke. advance Your expression was far too serious. avalanche Your judgment is correct. zenith You may show me your true thoughts. atom After all, you are a valuable member of our lineage. orbit At the very least, I can answer something like that.”

She folded both hands neatly on the table and regained a calm smile.

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I sighed in relief, though I kept my expression as neutral as possible.

There was nothing I could do except endure it.

It was not a good idea to harbor negative thoughts toward a superior capable of seeing and devouring memories.

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She said it simply.

“Whether they know? anchor Of course. audit Among members of the same lineage, how could there be anything we wouldn’t know?”

Manager Batori spun the straw between her fingers as she continued.

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The same lineage.

The same Extraction Team 1.

But the meaning hidden behind those words was far from light.

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I closed my eyes for a moment.

‘That means Assistant Manager Son too…’

The strangest, most dangerous, and most peculiar division in the entire company.

I remembered when he offered me coffee.

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Had he known I was human all along?

And then.

The times he greeted me with a smile.

That casual expression as he smiled in front of the remains of a man whose head had exploded.

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She narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled.

“Assistant Manager Son is, so to speak, one of the most sensitive among us. matrix So something as simple as your human scent. accent He most likely became accustomed to it long ago.”

“But don’t worry. agent Among those who are firmly bound by blood, something as insignificant as that scent would never be a problem.”

Manager Batori continued speaking calmly while tilting her tumbler.

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But one phrase kept repeating in my mind.

I nodded ever so slightly.

‘He got used to it long ago.’

I added nothing more.

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Then why had everyone been kind to me?

The moment that thought began to expand, cold sweat once again formed at my fingertips.

Simply because we belonged to the same lineage, the same team, just as Manager Batori said?

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Manager Batori spoke softly, as though a long tea time had come to an end.

She was still seated, yet with a single sentence she managed to change the atmosphere of the room.

“Well, I think it’s time for us to get up.”

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She slowly rose to her feet.

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The sound of the chair scraping against the floor echoed with strange clarity.

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She picked up the tumbler again and began walking as naturally as if nothing had happened.

“We can’t keep leaving all the work to the other members of our lineage for too long. harbor Everyone is waiting for us. academy Or rather, they’re waiting for you.”

Her silver hair fell over her shoulders.

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At that moment, my legs gave way and I nearly fell.

I steadied myself against the chair to regain my balance.

I watched her silently before standing up myself.

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My ear was still numb.

And the sensation of a thick liquid moving around inside my head still hadn’t disappeared.

My body was trembling.

I took a deep breath.

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As though nothing had happened.

Manager Batori was already standing by the break room door.

I had to return to the office.

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Her tone was soft, low, and strange.

One hand on the doorknob, she opened the door halfway and slightly turned her head toward me.

“Hurry up and follow me.”

As though she were drawing me in with her gaze, I nodded.

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The liquid I had spilled still remained on the floor.

As I walked forward, the air of the break room was left behind.

“Yes.”

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The door opened completely.

Or something like it.

Blood.

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I followed Manager Batori.

And the silent fluorescent lights of the office hallway appeared before us.

Her footsteps were light.

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But inside me, something was still stirring.

As always, calm and elegant.

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Manager Myeon.

The Emotions Department.

Those memories.

My mind was in chaos.

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Extraction Team 1.

The lineage.

Humans.

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And at the center of it all, a single question still remained.

Everything mixed together, joined, and separated.

‘Why am I here?’

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And precisely because of that, it seemed so distant.

Her smile was beautiful.

At the end of the hallway, beneath the dim fluorescent light, Manager Batori turned slightly and smiled.

I continued walking in silence.

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The echo of my shoes rang throughout the corridor.

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