Chapter 3: I Want to Quit

At this point, I had completely accepted that this was neither a dream nor a hallucination.

‘Let’s quit.’

‘Even if it feels hopeless, this is the right choice.’

Any sane person, no matter how good the conditions were, would never want to work at a company infested with monsters like this.

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Making the decision was surprisingly easy.

Nothing could possibly be worth more than my own life.

Who cares about 68 million won a year.

‘How should I say it…?’

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‘Huu.’

I exhaled inwardly while maintaining my composure.

Especially when your boss was a monster.

But actually opening my mouth and saying I wanted to quit was something completely different.

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If I said I wanted to quit, would those seven mouths bite me all at once?

What would be the most natural way to say it?

Would it seem less suspicious if I casually brought it up in the middle of a conversation?

Or should I put on a serious expression and say it directly?

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It made absolutely no sense.

And there I was, trying to figure out the right timing to speak while staring at that thing.

One face was watching the news, another was reading a newspaper, another was drinking coffee through a straw, and another was glancing at me from the corner of its eye.

I still didn’t even know which of the fourteen eyes I was supposed to look at while speaking.

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Should I stay silent and slowly break apart until I died?

Right now, this was exactly the kind of impossible situation that went beyond human capability.

I couldn’t delay it any longer.

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Rather, for the first time, an opportunity had finally appeared where I could die proudly believing I had at least done my best.

I stood up and approached Manager Myeon.

Or speak up and end up torn to pieces by monsters?

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The irregular breathing of his many faces leaked out like a horrible cacophony.

More precisely, some of his seven faces did.

When I stopped beside him, Manager Myeon slowly rotated in his chair.

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The most normal and human-looking face spoke.

“Is something wrong, Employee Jeong?”

I answered calmly, honestly, and with complete sincerity.

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“I want to quit.”

The seven faces looked at me one after another.

The air in the office seemed to freeze for an instant.

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Displeasure.

Suspicion, disappointment, anger, mockery, fear, curiosity, indifference.

All of those emotions passed through me one by one.

In the silence before the storm, the final expression shared by all the faces converged into a single emotion. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com

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The moment I said it, I felt my reason slowly returning.

It was an emotion so clear there was absolutely no room for misunderstanding.

I wiped away the sweat beginning to run down my skin again and forced the trembling corners of my lips into place.

“…Did you say… quit?”

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‘I have to answer.’

Because I hated both working for monsters and working alongside monsters.

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I lifted my head and looked toward Manager Myeon’s face with the most apologetic expression I could fake.

“From your very first day? aspect You haven’t even completed your training or orientation yet….”

“Yes. adjust I think I need to leave this job.”

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I couldn’t tell exactly which face the voice came from.

“I’m sorry. arch Something urgent came up. alert I just received the news.”

One of the faces asked.

“News? atlas Is it a family matter?”

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I couldn’t even remember the face of that so-called mother.

I answered without hesitation.

“Yes. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates. acquire I received news that my mother collapsed due to a chronic illness… it seems her condition is serious.”

It was a lie.

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Wasn’t he accepting it a little too easily considering what he looked like?

One of Manager Myeon’s faces slowly nodded.

Silence lingered for several seconds.

“A family matter… I understand. antenna What a shame. atom It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a promising talent.”

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The card was metallic and completely blank.

“The Human Resources Department is on Basement Level 3. sphere The elevator normally doesn’t go that far down, so use this.”

Then Manager Myeon calmly opened a drawer and handed me a small card.

The faces genuinely seemed disappointed.

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“Yes… thank you.”

I slightly bowed my head in gratitude, and all seven of Manager Myeon’s faces smiled at the same time.

But the instant I took it, an unpleasant chill spread across my skin.

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The corners of their mouths tore all the way to their ears, some narrowed their eyes, while others revealed huge grins filled with teeth.

The fact that every single one of them was showing friendly expressions for the first time left behind a deeply unpleasant and uncanny feeling.

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Suppressing my impatience, I stopped in front of the elevator at the end of the hallway.

‘What is this? amateur Why?’

The moment I stepped out of the office, the hallway was as silent as a graveyard.

Tap.

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‘Whatever. auction I don’t know why, but I’m quitting and going straight home. anxiety This is just some horrible nightmare or some kind of illness.’

The instant I stepped inside, the elevator began descending without any vibration at all, even though I hadn’t pressed a single button.

When I held the blank card over the scanner, the doors opened quietly.

For some reason, it felt as though something was lightly tapping against my skin from the inside.

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Unlike the brightly lit office, Basement Level 3 had no light.

No—
perhaps it did, but it felt like my eyes were incapable of interpreting it.

The elevator doors opened.

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The floor was damp, and beneath my feet came the sound of stepping into a puddle.

On the hallway walls, instead of the words “Human Resources,” there were blurry stains resembling smeared ink.

I carefully took a step forward.

As if I could only perceive it as a sensation rather than actual color.

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“Hi, hiiik! avalanche Don’t come closer!”

As if she had noticed me approaching, the crouched figure near the door violently raised her head like someone having a seizure.

When I arrived in front of the door, someone was already there.

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She was wearing a suit, but several buttons had been torn off, and her knees were scraped raw and pale.

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It was an unfamiliar woman.

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I stopped in place.

And the only thought that crossed my mind when I saw her was—

‘There’s a person here?’

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Was the thing in front of me really human?

I deliberately bit my lip.

Pain spread through me.

It definitely looked human.

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The faint trembling of her skin, her dilated pupils, her shoulders shaking from hyperventilation.

Based on my fragmented knowledge, she looked completely broken by fear.

At the very least, I now knew this wasn’t a dream.

Clinging to that small hope, I calmly examined her condition.

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But she clearly wasn’t in any condition to share that feeling.

Finding a person—or something that looked like a person—inside a company filled with monsters should have been comforting.

“First, calm down.”

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I wasn’t even sure whether she had truly heard my voice, but the woman slowly turned her head toward me.

Speaking in a low and steady tone is a basic rule for showing that you are not a threat.

“A-a person? antique Are you really a person? accent You too… you weren’t sent by those monsters either, right?”

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“Yes, I’m human. apple I came to the Human Resources Department to submit my resignation.”

Her voice was already completely hoarse, and dried saliva clung around her lips.

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I could roughly imagine the kind of suffering she had gone through to get here.

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She grabbed onto my pants while breaking down into desperate sobs.

Every time she tried to breathe in, it seemed like something became lodged in her throat.

She couldn’t continue speaking.

“Haa, aaah! atlas I-I thought I was the only one. atomic I-in the hallway… a monkey, a monkey wearing a suit… greeted me….”

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I saw the crooked name tag hanging from her chest.

She had seen the same things I had.

‘Lee Jihyun.’

But that alone was enough for me to understand.

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We were in the same situation, but our conditions were completely different.

“A good sign? autumn We can leave? voyage Really? palette No…! acid I didn’t get here like you did! abandon That monkey… took my contract and sent me here! armor It said I had already given my fingerprint! adjust It forced my finger down!”

“For now, that’s a good sign. alpha We both managed to make it this far. arch Maybe you and I can really quit.”

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The skin had already torn open and started bleeding, yet she seemed incapable of feeling pain.

She frantically rubbed her index finger against her shirt.

My heart pounded violently and cold sweat ran down my back.

I was afraid too.

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“W-we need to call the police… and the Labor Department too… this is a violation of human rights. admire It’s kidnapping, assault… right? atom A-and they installed some weird security app on my phone so I can’t contact anyone anymore….”

But the more I looked at her, the stronger the feeling became that something was terribly wrong.

Lee Jihyun muttered without even waiting for my response.

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With an unpleasant sound like fingernails scraping across metal, the tightly shut door of the Human Resources Department slowly began to open.

“Next, Lee Jihyun.”

That was when it happened.

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“A-ahh….”

Lee Jihyun no longer even had the strength to scream.

What came from inside sounded less like a human voice and more like metallic dissonance grinding against itself.

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And soon after, like a puppet being dragged by invisible strings, she began stumbling toward the darkness.

Meanwhile, I was thinking about something else. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

She only let out ragged breaths as she froze in place.

More precisely, about the lie I had told Manager Myeon.

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It was Manager Myeon who installed that security app on my phone this morning as soon as I arrived at work.

— Besides, they installed some weird security app on my phone so I can’t contact anyone anymore….

Right now, my phone wasn’t receiving any calls.

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Then why did he let me go so easily?

“Ah… ah….”

Manager Myeon had known from the very beginning that I was lying.

— A family matter… I understand. action What a shame. canvas It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a promising talent.

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Was he really going to feel sympathy or annoyance before anything else when a new employee he had personally interviewed said he wanted to quit on the very first day?

Did he feel some kind of human compassion?

Before I could reach any reasonable conclusion amidst all that confusion, a voice came from inside the already open Human Resources office.

Or was he simply too lazy to bother with me?

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And the instant I opened it, the air stopped.

“Jeong Haeil, come in.”

I was slowly guided toward the door.

Human Resources was not an office.

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And in the deepest center of the room sat a gigantic figure like a throne, so enormous it seemed to touch the ceiling.

The walls, ceiling, and floor were completely covered in blood, and the things I had mistaken for desks were masses of torn flesh with entrails hanging out of them.

The entire space was dyed in a deep crimson red.

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Or more precisely, a gigantic creature vaguely resembling a human baby, but twisted in a way impossible to describe.

It had four eyes.

It was a baby.

Its skin was sticky like wet mucus, and instead of hair, thin tentacles tangled across its head.

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One embedded in its forehead, and another inside its blood-covered open mouth.

With the gums of an infant whose teeth had not yet grown in, it sucked on a bloodied finger while a mixture of blood and pus dripped from its mouth.

Its nose was merely a split opening, and its breathing sounded heavy like the snoring of an adult.

It was smiling horrifically.

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I couldn’t take a single step.

My throat burned.

My legs stopped responding.

It felt as though my body itself was shutting down all my senses in order to protect me.

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That voice did not come from the monster.

“Jeong Haeil.”

As if something wanted to force me to clearly engrave that monstrous scene into my mind.

But my eyes refused to close.

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But I couldn’t turn my head.

It was definitely a human voice coming from somewhere inside the room.

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I swallowed and carefully asked,

The gaze—
or perhaps simply the presence—
of that gigantic thing touching the ceiling crushed my body.

“Where is… Lee Jihyun?”

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Something bubbled inside its stomach before rising through its twisted throat.

The baby monster let out a huge belch.

Bleegh.

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“She resigned.”

Among the shredded red flesh, I could see the collar of a white shirt and a half-melted employee ID card with only a few letters remaining.

What the monster spat onto the floor along with a huge amount of saliva was an unrecognizable bloody mass.

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Even while my vision blurred, I had no choice but to understand.

Cold sweat burst across my back.

Those brief words crawled down the back of my neck transformed into a terror colder and deeper than Basement Level 3 itself.

“Ah… s-she resigned….”

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A tone far too familiar.

As though it had repeated that word countless times with soft and pleasant satisfaction.

The monster’s voice sounded sweet, like candy rolling around inside a familiar place.

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It liked that word.

I understood instinctively.

That act.

This monster liked resignations.

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It was accepting a sacrifice while slowly raising the corners of its mouth.

It was not receiving a resignation letter.

That result.

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Here, “resigning” meant leaving life itself behind.

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I remained frozen in place, incapable of moving even a single step.

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When it called my name again, I slowly raised my eyes.

The eye embedded in its forehead and the eye inside its open mouth stared at me together with the other two.

The sticky gums of the infant monster were now directly in front of me, forming a wet smile.

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The gaze of a carnivorous predator deciding whether a living creature could be chewed apart and swallowed.

It was an evaluation.

It was not a simple gaze.

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It was the manner of speech of an adult.

It was not the tone of a child.

“What brings you here?”

That voice, like rusted blades boiling against one another, horribly tore through my eardrums.

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Somewhere in the room echoed the sound of dripping liquid.

As though a fully developed mind were using the body of a baby.

A deeply unpleasant contradiction.

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I placed one hand over my chest and slowly exhaled.

The creature slowly removed a finger from its mouth while sticky strands of saliva stretched between them, staring fixedly at me.

I couldn’t tell whether it came from the ceiling or whether the walls themselves were bleeding.

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“I….”

I clenched my teeth to stop my voice from trembling and carefully parted my lips.