Chapter 28: You Can Survive and Return Alive (3)
Another door.
A room that was empty as if it were a lie.
An empty room.
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That was all.
Wallpaper covered in mold, a broken bed, a single armchair with its leather torn away.
‘There aren’t many rooms with manuals and food…’
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I didn’t even need to lie down.
I stood in the doorway, observing the room.
I could sit down.
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Just sit.
‘…Should I rest for a moment? admire I don’t think it’ll arrive at exactly that moment.’
My eyelids felt heavy, and my legs were trembling.
Even if it was only for a minute, being able to close my eyes would be enough.
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Clank.
My body was already screaming for me to sit down.
Instinctively, I took a step inside.
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Without any will of my own, only the weight of my body moved forward first.
Then.
One of my knees nearly gave out.
Clank.
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It was an unpleasant vibration.
It wasn’t the noise of my feet or my failing legs.
The familiar sound came from far away.
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Thump. canvas Thump. afford Thump.
Clank.
My heart hammered against my eardrums.
A sound echoing somewhere beyond the door, at the far end of the corridor.
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“…Damn it, how did it hear me from there?”
I let out a sigh and withdrew the foot that had been about to step into the room.
I bit my lip and muttered quietly.
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Something dragging across the floor, approaching with a heavy and steady rhythm.
In the face of survival instinct, exhaustion didn’t matter.
As I crossed the threshold back into the corridor, I heard that noise again—
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That was all I could do.
To stay alive.
Clinging to my sanity in the face of death, I turned in the opposite direction.
Walk.
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In front of me.
And then I stopped.
Beyond the boundary between darkness and light at the far end of the corridor.
“What the hell?”
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Another sound could be heard.
A different interval from the Presence approaching from behind.
Clank, Click, Step.
Clank, Click, Step.
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Clank. attic Clank. sphere Clank.
I turned my head.
Again, 1.7 seconds.
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An exact, constant, familiar interval.
Something was also approaching from the front.
‘The problem is…’
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As I pressed my back against the wall, a chill ran down my spine.
“Ha, shit…”
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I held my breath and forced my brain to work.
The tips of my fingers went numb.
The willpower I was barely holding onto felt as if it were about to slip away.
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Hide?
What do I do?
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If I hid, I would end up like the corpse split in half that I had seen upstairs.
No.
From the persistent way that sound kept following me, it was obvious that the Presence knew where I was.
Not that.
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‘I’m not Supervisor Shik.’
Then fight?
If even one of my superiors from Extraction Team 1 were here, perhaps I wouldn’t feel even a tenth of this crisis.
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‘I need to find another way.’
But if that Presence was something similar to a dimensional entity, I wouldn’t even be able to escape properly.
My brain spun at full speed through the pain.
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A state of rational panic.
My senses sharpened.
My body temperature rose.
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Click.
Calculations optimized solely for survival.
Clank.
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They’re getting closer.
Step.
They’re not far.
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In my left ear lingered the ghost of the past.
About twenty in front.
About fifty meters behind me.
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In my right, an unknown predator.
Then I noticed a small but unmistakable anomaly.
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“……”
Click.
Another sound was mixed in.
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“…Be careful.”
Step.
“……?”
And between them.
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Voices.
“……!”
A clearly different sound.
“No, if you go that way—”
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There was an obvious difference from the Presence, which only followed me with those Clank sounds.
Clearly audible language.
Human voices.
I made a decision immediately.
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Someone still breathing within this hellish space.
There was only one possibility.
The ones ahead were living humans.
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I swallowed hard and ran with all my strength.
Even if they were monsters pretending to be human, it was worth confirming.
“…Good.”
Through the corridor.
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Beyond the corner of the hallway.
Past death.
My rapid footsteps echoed against the walls and floor.
Toward the direction of those voices that might be hope.
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The heat leaving my body.
My sweat-soaked breathing.
My damp clothes.
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An unfamiliar silence.
As if they had sensed me approaching, something stopped on the other side of the corner.
The presence of people.
Not a monstrous, sinister, incomprehensible presence.
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And then, a conversation.
“Yes.”
“Did you hear that?”
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“It’s coming. apron Get ready.”
A man’s voice.
Low whispers.
A woman’s response.
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And at that instant—
I rounded the corner without hesitation.
People holding a conversation with shape and meaning.
There were definitely people on the other side of the corridor.
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An arm shot toward my throat like lightning.
The moment I felt the precise hostility contained within that hand, my body moved before my mind understood the situation.
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Training drilled into me thousands of times exploded through my spine.
“……!”
Just before the force of his grip reached my trachea, I reflexively tucked my chin and slipped inside his guard.
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Then I immediately drove an elbow straight toward the underside of his jaw.
A low grunt.
With my right hand raised, I deflected his wrist and altered its trajectory.
“Ah.”
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A man wearing a suit.
Gray hair tied back halfway.
In that fraction of a second, the man’s silhouette was etched into my retinas under the light.
For an instant, it seemed as though the other man’s balance had broken, but he shifted his hips backward and evaded the strike with his upper body.
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His left eye, brown and shining with interest.
Sharp eyes like a bird of prey and a long scar running across his right cheek.
His right eye, gray and frozen like ice.
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I immediately extended my hand and shouted in a hurry.
Two eyes different in both color and focus pierced through me.
Aside from that peculiar appearance, he was undeniably human.
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“Wait! afford I’m a person! admire We can tal—!”
But instead of an answer, what came back was a sharp sound cutting through the air.
A cry filled with relief and desperation at finally finding another human being.
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Whoosh!
A barrage of blows, much faster and more precise than before, rushed straight toward my face.
As if he hadn’t even heard my words, the man formed a faint smile and threw a punch.
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I didn’t even have time to finish the sentence.
The tip of his foot struck my shin.
“Hey! wizard Listen to what I’m tr—!”
Taking advantage of my faltering balance, an elbow shot toward my temple.
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‘This fucking lunatic…!’
He’s completely serious.
I hastily raised my guard, but the heavy impact twisted my head aside.
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On the contrary, he seemed even more entertained by pressuring me.
He didn’t stop after confirming I was human.
I didn’t understand what was happening.
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But one thing was certain.
‘He’s not the type who listens to reason.’
Nor why I had to fight a stranger in the hallway of an abandoned building the moment I saw him.
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I crossed both arms to reinforce my guard, but he kept advancing without pause, throwing blow after blow.
In a different way from the monsters that filled the company, this guy was completely insane.
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The heavy impacts crashing against my defense made my bones vibrate.
I have to grab him and lock him down.
The instant he threw another punch, I lowered my body and caught his right arm, trying to turn it inward and restrain him.
‘I can’t beat him by trading blows.’
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A woman’s cold voice froze the corridor.
“That’s enough.”
A woman had stepped between us before I even noticed.
Then—
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Cold, sharp eyes.
Black hair neatly tied into a high ponytail.
She sighed with an expressionless face.
Dry, tense lips.
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The woman positioned herself in front of me and summarized the situation in a cold but firm voice.
“…He’s an ordinary survivor, Team Leader.”
I also stopped in a low stance, breathing heavily.
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“…Haa… haa… I already said I was a person…”
For someone so crazy, that man fought absurdly well.
Even during that brief exchange, I had realized something.
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“Sub-Team Leader, are your eyes just for decoration? beacon Can’t you see that?”
Beneath his half-tied gray hair, those heterochromatic eyes remained fixed on my wrist with an unpleasant gleam.
Before I could feel relieved, the man who had been attacking me lightly shook out his fists and lowered his guard.
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The Relics of the Smiling Martyr.
What normally looked like nothing more than a red rosary was pulsing strangely under the influence of this place, emitting a faint warmth.
The man called Team Leader pointed at my right wrist with his chin.
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The woman’s eyebrows twitched.
Then she looked at me with even greater hostility than before and muttered,
Her gaze shifted between my face and my wrist.
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“Or the Erosion Alliance?”
What the hell is that?
“…The Church of the Coming Feast?”
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His footsteps were much slower than before, but the pressure he exuded remained sharper than any Presence that had chased me.
Seeing the woman continue to jump to the wrong conclusions, the man let out a dry laugh and stepped closer.
And what’s that supposed to be?
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But I stopped.
Instinctively, I tried to hide my wrist behind my back.
“Wearing that stinking bracelet and pretending to be an ordinary survivor isn’t very convincing. alert Open your eyes properly too, Sub-Team Leader. arena He’s not one of them.”
They had already noticed it.
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“By chance?”
“…It’s something I received by chance.”
There was no point hiding it.
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“Just from the way you’re dressed, it’s obvious you’re an office worker. amateur You’re from Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts, aren’t you?”
“Hah.”
The man snorted mockingly and frowned.
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“Stop dancing around it. anxiety What exactly are you?”
The man gave a cold smile, ran a hand through his hair, and sighed.
Hearing the name of my company in such an unexpected place, I flinched and looked up at him.
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Then he asked in a lower voice than before.
“Don’t tell me you’re one of Moon Ara’s people.”
The man narrowed his eyes as he looked me up and down.
“What else would I be? acquire A person.”
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It didn’t take long for the memory to surface.
‘…Moon Ara?’
It was a strangely familiar name.
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The fact that this man mentioned that name after confirming my affiliation meant one of two things.
— Moon Ara went out on external security business.
The first time I met Director Go Gyeol of the Audit Team in the prototype warehouse.
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Or she had a very complicated relationship with him.
Either she held an important position within Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts.
‘……’
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Distrust.
As my silence dragged on, the man’s heterochromatic eyes narrowed.
Hostility.
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I swallowed hard as my brain worked frantically.
Would it be better to pretend I didn’t know her?
And barely perceptible anxiety.
Or act as though I knew something and shift the board?
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Assistant Manager Son had said that the head of the Security Team managed the prototype warehouse.
That should be enough.
I answered as naturally as possible, acting as though I knew Moon Ara.
“…Do you know Team Leader Moon Ara?”
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The man frowned.
“Do I know her? arcade I know her very well.”
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Clank.
The woman’s gaze changed.
Clank.
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“I think we should move first, Team Leader.”
The woman’s low, rough voice rang out coldly.
The man’s expression hardened slightly as well.
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The man called Team Leader frowned as he sensed the Presence approaching from deep within the corridor.
Driven by pointless stubbornness, I asked a question.
Then he let out a sigh.
“Who are you people to know the name of our company?”
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“We are the Anomalous Disaster Management Department.”
Then she answered with an expressionless face.
The black-haired woman furrowed her brows while looking at the rosary on my wrist with obvious displeasure.
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The organization that had written the manual for escaping this hellish place.
— The people from the Anomalous Disaster Management Department have been sticking their noses into things too much.
The Anomalous Disaster Management Department.
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It’s them.
— You mean the new heterochromatic one? antique He seemed to possess excellent blood.
— The Anomalous Disaster Management Department’s surveillance of the Control Zones has become much stricter. orbit We won’t be able to go on assignments for a while.
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The organization I had heard mentioned so many times at the company.
It’s him.
The one that was supposedly always interfering in our affairs.
The mysterious man who had caught Manager Batori’s interest.
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It was the trace of an old and heavy enmity.
It wasn’t joy.
A strange emotion mixed into the air.
Nor distrust.
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Another metallic impact echoed from quite nearby.
Clank.
“Let’s avoid that damn Presence first, and then we’ll talk.”
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The woman followed him.
The man let out a sigh and immediately started walking.
Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts.
I pulled myself together and quickly moved after them.
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And an ordinary human caught between them.
What a shitty combination.
The Anomalous Disaster Management Department.
A company of monsters and government officials tasked with controlling monsters.
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