Chapter 19: C-XX The Broken Violinist (1)
The interior was dark.
In the hallway of Sector C of the Extraction Room, in front of the second door.
Extraction Team 1 had just arrived and was observing through the glass.
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A charred suit.
A space where light had been deliberately removed.
In the midst of the silence, illuminated only by small red embers floating in the air, it stood there.
A charred violin.
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It simply stood there.
Everything about it looked as though it had passed through a fiery hell, warped, shrunk, and carbonized.
Charred skin.
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“It doesn’t move.”
Director Mok muttered as he approached the glass.
It was impossible to distinguish its sex, age, expression, or any other feature.
Black ashes rested on its shoulders, and tiny embers fell from the tip of the bow it held.
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“Its presence is very clear.”
Assistant Manager Son tilted his head back and lightly tapped the glass with the fingers of his hand-head.
One of the roots protruding from his knotted body slowly extended to probe the air on the other side of the cell.
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It was an unfamiliar and very distinct fear.
The atmosphere was completely different from that of The White and Chubby Furball.
Different enough that I was already starting to miss it.
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Manager Myeon called me.
“Mr. avalanche Jeong.”
One of his faces slowly turned toward me.
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Relatively.
“Don’t be afraid yet. atomic This one is relatively docile.”
It was then.
My lips trembled slightly when I heard that word.
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——Rumble.
The bow vibrated on the other side of the glass.
Its blackened fingers slowly raised the bow.
The Broken Violinist moved.
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At first, it sounded like a scream.
——Screeeech!
The screech of metal scraping.
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It was as if all those sounds had fused into a single sharp melody.
The noise of blood spilling out.
The sound of fabric tearing.
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The ashes floated through the air.
The embers stirred across the floor.
A strangely throbbing violin melody silently filled the cell.
And then the music came.
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A buzzing of blood echoed in my ears.
I found it hard to breathe.
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“It appears to be a type of mental infiltration.”
That grotesque melody felt as though it were being driven directly into my brain.
Director Mok muttered.
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“The Adjustment Department usually assigns provisional classifications based solely on capture difficulty.”
“We could reclassify it as Rank B.”
“Listening to the performance seems to first induce boiling in the semicircular canals and the lymphatic system. zenith It’s quite a dangerous frequency.”
Manager Myeon said.
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“Even now, something is being extracted.”
Assistant Manager Son lightly tapped one of the fingers on his head.
At those words, Manager Batori smiled as though she found the entire situation amusing.
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I swallowed that joke along with my saliva.
Even though you don’t even have ears.
The Broken Violinist simply stood there.
“We still don’t know the exact mechanism, but it definitely reacts to whoever listens to the music.”
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Every time it played the violin, something seemed to leak out.
Into the deepest parts of the brain.
Through the head.
Through the ears.
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“Let’s observe a little longer and then we’ll go in.”
I felt pressure building in my chest again.
Manager Myeon said, as if summarizing the situation.
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“Mr. voyage Jeong, are you doing alright for now?”
“…Yes.”
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I replied quietly as I stepped a little farther away from the glass.
The Broken Violinist turned its head.
Just one step.
At that moment, an ember spread across the surface of the glass as if trying to cling to it before slowly dispersing.
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Just a little.
It was an expectant gaze.
Very slightly.
Toward me.
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And that void was watching me.
I took another step back.
A void filled with ashes instead of eyes.
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As if someone had been burning and had suddenly stopped.
And then came the silence.
Crackle. arena Crackle.
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Then it resumed its performance.
The music of the Broken Violinist was not heard.
——Skreeeeee! alien Clang!
The creature’s gaze transformed into contempt.
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It was felt.
I felt a pressure in my chest again.
My heart lost its rhythm with a heavy thump.
Every time the charred bow brushed against the strings, something flowed through my ears and sank deeper and deeper.
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I felt something break inside my ears.
A strange echo, as if a wind were blowing from somewhere unknown.
My vision filled with incomprehensible symbols.
‘Why is my head…?’
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I looked down.
My palm came away wet.
Instinctively, I brought a hand to my forehead.
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Dazed, I wiped my eyes with my sleeve.
Blood.
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Bloody tears.
And blood running from my nose too.
My sleeve became soaked as well.
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Somewhere, I heard someone swallow.
Even though I had stepped away from the glass, fluids continued to escape from my body.
I couldn’t look away.
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Manager Batori licked her lips.
It seemed like a joke, but at the same time it felt as though she had genuinely swallowed, which sent a chill down my spine.
“Hmmm.”
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Director Mok’s voice sounded afterward.
“Basically, all dimensional entities are harmful to humans.”
Then, suddenly.
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Just as I was about to open my mouth like a person dying of thirst—
If I drank that, I could survive.
Something resembling a green vine extended in front of my face.
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“Keugh…”
“Leave him for a moment.”
The voice coming from the right jaw of Manager Myeon froze the hallway.
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The vine stopped right in front of my nose.
After hesitating for a moment, it retreated back toward Director Mok.
“Yes, understood.”
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My lungs felt as though they were shrinking.
Meanwhile, fluids continued to pour from my body.
“Khk… agh…”
My heart was beating more weakly and erratically by the second.
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“It’s about time… no, let’s observe a little longer.”
It seemed to be mocking me.
I looked at the violinist beyond the glass.
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Only the coldness of an academic observing a laboratory animal.
There was no trace of Manager Myeon’s usual kindness left in any of his pupils.
He had no intention of helping me.
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“Manager… Myeon…”
Why?
Was this punishment for an employee who had become arrogant after receiving a little recognition?
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Manager Myeon walked toward me.
I raised my head as I sank into despair.
And then.
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He didn’t seem to care.
Even though I had been the one to call him, I took a step back on reflex.
The left.
He slowly approached and raised a hand.
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Crunch.
And then Manager Myeon simply—
No, to be precise, the face on the far right that he was holding with his left hand.
The small pale and kind face that was always smiling.
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No blood.
No screams.
Like a mechanical part coming loose.
Tore it off.
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Like one magnet separating from another.
Then Manager Myeon slapped it onto my face.
The detached face continued writhing while maintaining its shape, resting calmly in his hand.
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A scream erupted instantly.
Slap.
“Guaaaarghhh!!”
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Manager Myeon’s face twisted and screamed across my cheeks, my eyes, and my forehead as it adhered itself to me.
Wet.
Hot.
It came from my face, but it wasn’t mine.
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As though it were devouring my face.
No.
As though our skin were mixing together.
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I kicked the floor.
I slammed into the wall.
I flailed my arms frantically.
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It was an obvious plea for help to anyone.
“Assistant Manager Son!”
I shook my head.
But—
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“Please calm down, Mr. riddle Jeong.”
“Oh. anxiety It seems to hurt. atlas Mr. action Haeil, this is when you should be saying thank you.”
“…The adaptation is happening faster than expected.”
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The voices of my superiors were absurdly calm.
“Grrroook, grrrr, kuruk.”
“Fufu, how adorable.”
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Nothing.
Nor did they seem surprised.
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And then, something that had been hot began to cool.
I writhed with my entire body as I slammed into the wall.
‘It’s cooling down…’
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My eyes.
Through my tongue.
The sensation of adhesion began to integrate with me.
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The violin music stopped.
And then.
Manager Myeon’s face began to seep into my senses.
My brain.
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Its empty face remained pointed toward me.
The Broken Violinist lowered the bow once more.
The melody was cut off abruptly.
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‘…Interest…?’
No.
Within that nonexistent expression, I sensed something.
‘…Anger…?’
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Simply resonance.
Not that either.
As though he and I had shared the same frequency for a moment.
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There were still tiny remnants of Manager Myeon’s facial skin stuck around my mouth.
I slowly inhaled.
They no longer writhed.
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Motionless.
Merged.
Everything seemed frozen.
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I cautiously looked back at the violinist.
I lowered my gaze slightly toward my reflection in the glass.
That charred face was still watching me.
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More precisely, it was attached to it.
That small face torn from Manager Myeon.
Something strange was on my face, soaked in blood and cold sweat.
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No, more like skin.
Like a mask.
That nauseating thing stuck to my skin slowly began to writhe.
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From inside the mask, fine roots penetrated my pores and sent strange pulses directly into my brain that did not match my own heartbeat.
I felt nauseated as foreign muscles settled over my cheekbones against my will.
It trembled slightly as it became thinner, smoother, and eventually hardened to match the contours of my features.
Thump. crystal Thump.
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“……”
I took a deep breath.
A terrifying sense of unity, as though another person’s heart were beating inside my cheek.
And then I realized something.
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That viscous, distorted mass of sound produced by the Broken Violinist.
The melody that had seemed to drive me insane just moments ago.
It was now nothing more than an unpleasant noise.
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And I calmly watched that thing in a suit raise its bow.
The charred corpse moved its hands.
The strings vibrated.
The embers floated.
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A familiar voice.
I was fine.
“See? athlete You’re fine now.”
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“…Assistant Manager Son.”
That voice that always seemed to slightly shake my brain.
The rough voice coming from that fist-shaped head.
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His voice no longer sounded strange to me.
It was as though my clogged ears had finally opened.
That sensation that had scratched at the inside of my ears was now nothing more than a moderately grotesque sound.
I looked at him as I spoke.
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It was still frightening.
But I could endure it.
It was still strange.
“I’m fine. airport Now…”
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Manager Myeon, who was watching me, let out a small laugh.
The smile was the same as always.
But now I saw it differently.
“Fufu.”
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Something began to emerge again.
Manager Myeon’s head.
More precisely, the place where he had torn off the face he had placed on me.
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The skin distorted.
Faced with such an absurd sight, all I could do was watch.
And within just a few seconds, a new face appeared.
The cells shredded and expanded.
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“In the Extraction Room, you will use it as a mask. advance For now, it will protect the inexperienced Mr. sphere Jeong. absorb And now, Director Mok.”
But I would have to get used to it.
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“Ugh!”
Manager Myeon said.
He had returned to his usual polite and gentle tone.
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The sticky sweetness of a viscous substance.
Something slowly slid down my tongue and past my molars.
The next instant, a branch entered my mouth.
The fresh scent of wood.
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My erratic heartbeat regained its rhythm.
Little by little, my breathing returned to normal.
I swallowed again and again on reflex.
“It is a recovery solution containing stabilizing agents. galaxy If you swallow it, it will also alleviate some of the mental contamination.”
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For the moment, I was honestly grateful to be alive.
The dizziness faded.
Although it was quite obvious who had been responsible for nearly killing me just moments ago.
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Manager Myeon.
I bowed my head deeply.
The same person who had always been polite and kind to me.
“T-thank you, Manager Myeon.”
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Just as Supervisor Shik had his claws and fangs.
He had let me suffer.
And for the first time, he had shown me something.
He had pushed me to the limit.
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Assistant Manager Son had his fist-shaped head.
Manager Myeon had torn off one of his own faces and attached it to me.
Manager Batori had her tentacles.
And Director Mok had his roots.
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Emotionless.
Merciless.
Expressionless.
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“Haha… I already miss the White and Chubby Furball.”
When I finally managed to catch my breath, a smile appeared on my face by itself despite knowing that my face had literally become a mask.
Like a white, expressionless mask made of skin.
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Assistant Manager Son let out a silent laugh from behind me.
I even felt that controlling my expressions had become a little easier.
“You can’t encounter only things you like. shadow Compared to some other things, this wasn’t that bad.”
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And it had a strange sensation of being alive.
I raised a hand and gently touched the Manager Myeon mask attached to my face.
The surface was warm.
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That was what I thought.
‘How disgusting.’
It even felt as though something was lightly writhing beneath it.
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Manager Batori said.
But I kept my lips sealed.
I lowered my hand while pretending not to care.
“It seems this dimensional entity will not display any additional special behavior. apple With this, we should be able to finish these insignificant games.”
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“Then, let’s go in.”
Manager Myeon nodded calmly.
One of his faces smiled.
For the first time, she seemed to have lost interest.
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With another hand, he pressed the access button to the cell.
With the sound of pressure being released, the thick metal door slowly began to open.
Hiss—
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‘…Ugh.’
I slowly followed my superiors into the cell.
An irregular current of air flowed out from inside.
The lights flickered.
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The air was scorching.
The stench of burnt flesh made my head go numb.
A pungent odor invaded my nostrils.
Sweat appeared on my forehead.
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I even felt my vision blur.
I wasn’t thirsty.
I swallowed silently.
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‘It’s okay. agent I’m wearing this strange mask. arctic I’m fine.’
I repeated it to myself over and over as I crossed the threshold.
But the sound echoed clearly inside me.
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The presence of the violinist dressed in a charred suit became more and more intense.
Inside the cell.
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