Chapter 4: Not Even in My Dreams
And it’s true.
There’s a phrase that says life is the C (Choice) between B (Birth) and D (Death).
“Ah, employee Jeong. matrix Did everything go well in Human Resources?”
Because the choice I made when I entered this place was complete garbage.
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When I returned to the office feeling as though all the energy had been drained from my body, Manager Myeon stared at me with his seven faces.
And there was only one answer I could give him.
As soon as I left Human Resources, I immediately took the elevator.
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“It seems there was a mistake on the hospital’s part. artist They said it’s not such a serious condition after all.”
“Oh, did something happen?”
“…Yes. athlete I don’t think I’m going to quit.”
Maybe because it was the correct answer, Manager Myeon didn’t continue asking about the call.
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“I see. alert What a relief, truly a relief. galaxy We just hired a new employee, and it would have been a shame if you quit on your very first day.”
Perhaps they were simply short on staff here.
It had just seemed to me like the fifth face licked its lips.
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“It must have been quite a shocking day for you, so for today, finish up here and go home. apple It seems the others will still take a while to return, so I’ll introduce you to the rest of the team tomorrow morning. anchor And starting tomorrow afternoon, we’ll begin the real training.”
“Go home…?”
When I responded with an awkward smile, Manager Myeon approached and patted me on the shoulder.
But surely that was just my imagination.
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“Don’t tell me there’s another problem?”
Beyond the open office door, I could vaguely see the hallway I had passed through earlier.
I carefully looked around while leaving the sentence unfinished.
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As though he were watching a completely lost rookie who didn’t know how work functioned.
Manager Myeon nodded.
He was definitely holding back laughter.
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If I had spoken carelessly at that moment, that enormous red tongue would have tasted my flesh, and I never would have been able to leave this place.
It truly was fortunate that I hadn’t said in front of the baby monster that I wanted to quit.
Even so, this was at least a place where something called an “exit” existed.
I decided not to directly ask that thing how exactly “leaving work” functioned.
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— I’m Jeong Haeil, the new employee who just joined Extraction Team 1. audit I came to introduce myself. wizard I hope we get along well.
Being seen as an excessively polite employee was a hundred times better than losing my life.
It wasn’t a bad improvisation.
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It was a little clumsy, but even that baby monster didn’t eat a hardworking rookie just because his face looked a little pale.
The baby monster responded irritably that something like that could be confirmed from its own office, and I maintained my composure as best I could before escaping Human Resources unharmed.
‘Forget it. armor Don’t think about that and get out of here.’
As for Lee Jihyun…
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Manager Myeon chose one of his kindest faces to smile at me.
I stood up from my seat, picked up my bag as naturally as possible, and headed toward the office door.
“Then, as you said, I’ll be leaving for today.”
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“Very well. acid You worked hard today, employee Jeong.”
I bowed my head in farewell and headed toward the emergency exit at the end of the hallway.
It had been a day full of absurd situations.
For some reason, I didn’t want to use the elevator I had taken to go to Human Resources again.
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Let’s go home and rest.
First, let’s leave the company.
But even so, I managed to endure an entire day.
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Cold air immediately rushed in.
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Click—
Thinking only about that, I opened the door.
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The clothes and bed were still perfectly arranged.
A small, cramped but tidy studio apartment.
Aside from the deep darkness beyond the window, it was exactly the same room I had been in this morning.
And what appeared before me was unfortunately, my room.
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Just in case, I carefully closed the door.
My room again.
And opened it again.
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I closed it and opened it again.
My room.
My room again.
My room.
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On top of the shoe cabinet by the entrance sat the book I had left reading last night.
And the goldfish inside the aquarium opened and closed its mouth as always.
I stared at that scene for several seconds, as though it had been sewn into place with a needle.
Well, they had said they would come pick me up when it was time to go to work.
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But.
Could I really call this “leaving work”?
I guess that made sense.
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Quit?
— Can we leave? aluminum Really? audit No…!
I sensed malice and mockery organized at an institutional level.
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Was it even possible to leave this building from the beginning?
It wasn’t.
Leave work?
No.
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Was I really going insane?
I closed the door and pressed my hand against my forehead.
My forehead was warm.
But my hands were freezing cold.
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I didn’t know when he had followed me, but Manager Myeon was standing several steps behind me.
I flinched and violently turned my head.
“Employee Jeong.”
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Another yawned.
Another frowned.
One laughed.
His seven faces wore expressions of satisfaction, as though they had finally seen my true feelings.
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Manager Myeon brought his kind face closer and smiled at me once again before elegantly turning around and heading back toward the office.
“Since you are a valuable talent, I made a special arrangement to improve your work efficiency. anchor So you no longer have to worry about coming to or leaving work.”
And then one of them, the one with the most innocent expression of all, spoke kindly. Visit indratranslations.com for more free chapters and updates.
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I had already arrived home.
As a working adult, I no longer had any choice but to accept it.
In a way I could not escape from.
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I pushed aside the blanket and lowered my feet to the floor.
It’s a new morning.
A quiet awakening, without sunlight or alarms.
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Even so, I forced myself to get up, open the cabinet, and take out the bag of cereal I had left there two days ago.
Leaving the warmth of the bed is never easy, but this time it was difficult for a different reason.
The milk seemed so old that I couldn’t even remember when I bought it, but at least the smell was still normal.
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I scooped up a spoonful of cereal and brought it to my mouth.
“…Haaap.”
Crunch, crunch.
Normal sensations.
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Like remnants of a routine that still hasn’t collapsed.
The kinds of sounds that belong in a place where a person lives.
I hadn’t collapsed either.
Sweet, crunchy, and slightly rough as it went down my throat.
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I got up normally, I was eating cereal, and soon I would go to work.
Ding.
Somehow, I would survive inside that organization and get something out of it.
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The first was a deposit of three million won from Citizens Bank, labeled as a welcome bonus and work support.
The second was a notification indicating that points had been added to an internal company store application that I didn’t remember ever installing.
But.
A notification appeared on the black phone screen.
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From experience, I knew that if I didn’t mutter something even while alone, I would eventually lose my mind.
“Well, I’d better take a shower.”
I forced my voice while imitating Manager Myeon just to make myself speak.
Where exactly was I supposed to use money or points like those?
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The dark circles under my eyes also seemed deeper.
I opened the bathroom door, washed my face, brushed my teeth, and quickly rinsed my body with water.
The face reflected in the mirror looked paler than yesterday.
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It felt as though icy water filled my lungs.
I finished drying my face with the towel and put on my pants and shirt.
Then, absentmindedly, I opened the curtains.
Even while saying it, my voice trembled slightly.
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Outside the window, there was still nothing but empty darkness.
‘I forgot.’
No light.
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No sound.
It wasn’t night.
No outlines.
It wasn’t even darkness.
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Since no one was watching me, my fingers trembled freely.
It was something nonexistent.
A void where everything seemed to have come undone.
Slowly, with extreme care, I closed the curtains again.
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The fact that my room was behind the company’s door and that nothing existed outside the window.
This entire world seemed to be screaming at me that I had no choice.
Today’s mental escape had failed.
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Then I saw something beneath the window, on top of the desk.
Had I left it there myself?
Employee Jeong Haeil
Beside my work clothes, the employee ID badge had been carefully placed there, as though someone had deliberately left it.
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I slowly picked up the ID badge.
Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts | Extraction Team 1
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With my lips closed, I murmured those words to myself, as though trying to hypnotize myself.
“Limited Company… Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts.”
My name and department were engraved with an almost funerary clarity, like an epitaph.
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If there truly was nowhere to escape to and no time to do so then I had no choice but to enter.
I silently turned the doorknob.
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The faint smell of dust, the scent of detergent spreading through the hallway, and the cold air of a perfectly organized office space.
Click.
When I opened the door, the company’s fluorescent lights enveloped my face.
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And at that instant, as though the entire world had been waiting for me, the fluorescent lights began turning on one by one.
Just as I expected, beyond the door I had closed after leaving work last night, the same company hallway still stretched out.
I took exactly one step.
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Was I already adapting to this grotesque office?
Chk, chk, chk—
The electric buzzing accompanied the gradual lighting of the hallway, like a kind welcome preparing my place.
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Or maybe, in order to say that someone has “adapted” to a company like this, every difference between the two first has to disappear?
Or perhaps I was degrading?
The doorknob was warm, as though someone had just touched it.
I continued walking straight toward the Extraction Team 1 office.
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One of his seven faces slowly turned toward me and lifted the corners of its lips.
When the door softly opened, the exact same office space as yesterday appeared.
“Very good morning, Mr. autumn Haeil.”
Manager Myeon was already sitting down writing something.
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“Good morning, Manager Myeon.”
I bowed my head and walked toward my desk.
I also put on the mask more naturally than yesterday before responding.
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A working life where no alternatives remained.
A routine I never chose.
It had begun.
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“Assistant Manager Son just went to the break room. attic It seems he was excited because a new employee joined, so wait a moment. adjust I’ll introduce him to you when he returns.”
“Yes. august Understood.”
Maybe, if I tried hard enough, I could survive one more day.
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The first step was heavy and long.
Thud.
Thud.
As I set my bag on the desk and slowly regained my breathing, the sound of someone coming out of the break room was heard.
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Thud.
After those slow footsteps, the office door opened.
Thud.
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He was a large-built man.
Naturally, I lifted my head.
And I saw him.
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The creases in his pants were sharply pressed, his shoes slightly shiny, and he carried a mug in his hand.
He wore a simple black suit and an immaculate red tie.
The image of a completely ordinary office worker.
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The head on his shoulders.
Except for one single thing.
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Assistant Manager Son.
A word was missing.
“Assistant Manager Son, this is employee Jeong Haeil. acid Introduce yourselves.”
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A gigantic pale-skinned hand was attached directly to his shoulders without a neck, clenched like the sturdy fist of a boxer.
More precisely, an enormous fist.
Because in reality, it was “Assistant Manager Hand.”
His head was literally a hand.
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The thumb and index finger gently separated before coming together again.
Only five bent fingers rising like a deformed crown.
It had no ears, eyes, or nose.
And that hand slowly began to move.
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A handshake.
It looked like a greeting.
Then the middle finger opened before closing once more.
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Or perhaps the motion right before strangling someone.
The hairs on the back of my neck stood up.
“Ah, so you’re the rookie?”
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It was as though it crushed and burst something between my eardrums and brain before being forced inside me.
That voice didn’t enter through my ears. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.
No rather, it was embedded directly into my mind.
The voice came from his head.
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“Wow, a new employee finally joined. silence Call me Assistant Manager Son. arrow I hope we get along well.”
As though politely offering a handshake.
Every time he pronounced a syllable, the fingers of that fist twisted in place of lips.
As he approached, the fist on top of his head slowly began to open.
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“How about a handshake?”
That entire enormous head was what pointed toward me.
He wasn’t extending a hand.
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Erasing the bewildered expression from my face, I extended my right hand.
“Yes, nice to meet you. legend I’m Jeong Haeil.”
Because I felt that the hand embedded in his head could clench into a fist and smash into my face at any moment.
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Creeeak—
A pain as though steel pincers were crushing my entire hand.
The instant our palms touched, a chill ran through my body because of the abnormal warmth of that hand.
And then came an absolutely inhuman pressure.
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Without noticing my condition, Assistant Manager Son let out a loud laugh and lightly smacked my back.
The strength he applied simply by shaking hands was in a completely different category from mine.
“You’ve got a tougher hand than I expected. acquire Looks like you trained something, huh?”
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For him, it was probably just a friendly pat.
But for me, it was enough of an impact to force all the air out of my lungs at once.
“Guhk…!”
Tap!
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But my brain was already slowly pulling down the emergency shutters in order to survive.
Something cracked inside my body.
Maybe no bones were broken.
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‘…Damn monsters.’
Thinking I could endure an entire day here had been pure arrogance.
The last image I saw before collapsing was Assistant Manager Son’s enormous fist-shaped head tilting from side to side.
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