Chapter 57: Min Dohyeon

“Director Moon Ara.”

The next day, as soon as lunchtime arrived, I went straight to find Director Moon Ara.

“Yes?”

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Manager Myeon was undoubtedly a competent and kind superior, but to begin with, we belonged to different species.

‘I’d rather leave asking Manager Myeon directly as a last resort.’

The reason I decided to speak with Moon Ara first instead of Manager Myeon was simple.

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“This café has a nice atmosphere, don’t you think?”

“There’s something I’d like to ask you.”

No matter how much Batori talked about bonds of blood and affection, Manager Myeon wasn’t exactly someone I could calmly demand the truth from.

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‘It’s almost time to go back to work for the afternoon.’

It was nice to have gone out into the outside world for lunch like a normal person, but before I could even bring up the main topic, Director Moon Ara had taken me by the hand and brought me to a café whose location I didn’t even know.

She has absolutely no intention of listening to me.

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She wasn’t much of a talker to begin with, but seeing her sitting across from me doing nothing but reading a book made me feel as though the pasta I’d eaten earlier had gotten stuck in my stomach.

It was an old thread-bound volume, something difficult to find these days. anxiety Judging by the yellowed paper, it looked more like an object that should be displayed in a museum.

I suppressed a sigh and turned my gaze toward the book Director Moon Ara was reading.

The cover didn’t even have a title and was covered in Chinese characters meticulously written with a brush.

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“I didn’t know you liked such old books.”

Director Moon Ara slowly raised her head.

Her hair, which would originally have been white, gleamed golden beneath the afternoon sunlight streaming through the window, and finally, my figure was reflected in her cold eyes.

Every time her slender fingers turned a page of the old book, the peculiar stale and cold scent of aged paper brushed against the tip of my nose.

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Did she already know?

“They say history repeats itself. anxiety Especially for those who desperately await something.”

“So, what do you need? harbor Do you want to talk about Manager Myeon?”

She closed the book with an enigmatic smile.

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“Yes, it was fine.”

“Did you have fun at the Banquet?”

I nodded cautiously. voyage She closed the book completely and tucked it deep inside her human-skin coat before raising the corner of her lips by barely a millimeter.

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“Why are you asking me instead of asking him directly?”

“I’d like to ask you about Manager Myeon. shadow And also whether you know anything about the reason Manager Myeon brought me here.”

At my question, Director Moon Ara rested her chin on one hand and stared intently at me, as though she found it interesting.

Somehow, I had ended up being swept along by Moon Ara’s pace, but at last it was time to address the main topic.

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Naturally, I couldn’t say it that directly, so I added a little courtesy.

“Hmm.”

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“I considered you someone I could trust and rely on without worry.”

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It was an ambiguous look in which satisfaction and a certain degree of disappointment coexisted.

Moon Ara narrowed her eyes and looked at me with a peculiar expression.

“Really? anchor Are your nonhuman superiors frightening to you? atlas There’s also Director Go Gyeol.”

“I’m not close enough to Director Go Gyeol to ask him personal questions.”

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“And Supervisor Hong Na-gyeom?”

“Those are the only two you’ve met so far, right?”

“The same.”

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“As I already told you last time, I don’t know why Manager Myeon brought you here.”

While idly playing with her cup of coffee, which had already gone cold, she continued.

After suddenly murmuring that, Director Moon Ara blinked her completely white eyes several times. artist She remained silent for a few moments before continuing.

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“Going around investigating other people’s secrets is rude, don’t you think? aluminum Especially when they’re the secrets of someone like Manager Myeon.”

“May I ask why…?”

“And as for Manager Myeon, even if I knew something, I couldn’t tell you.”

But Director Moon Ara gave me no opportunity to dig any deeper.

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She shrugged slightly.

‘Am I going to have to ask Manager Myeon directly after all?’

It was an impeccable refusal that made it clear there was no point in insisting.

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I was about to sink into thought, wondering how I should approach Manager Myeon amid that uncomfortable silence, when Director Moon Ara spoke again.

If even Director Moon Ara refused to talk, the only person capable of untangling this matter would be the person involved himself.

I suppose even monsters have a right to privacy.

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I flinched and raised my head.

“You’d better not do what you’re thinking of doing right now.”

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“When the time comes, Manager Myeon will tell you himself. apple It isn’t an answer you can obtain simply by rushing things.”

“What… do you mean?”

She took a sip of her already cold coffee and continued indifferently.

“You’re thinking of going to find Manager Myeon and interrogating him.”

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It seems this damned place has absolutely no intention of letting me take the initiative.

“When a subordinate asks questions of his superior, it’s enough for those questions to be about work matters.”

Director Moon Ara gathered her things again and prepared to stand.

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I sat back down, and she gazed at her empty cup before murmuring quietly.

“The coffee here isn’t very good. harbor Is it?”

I had been so lost in thought that I hadn’t even had time to taste it, but I also had no reason to contradict her.

I suppressed a sigh and was about to stand up with her when Director Moon Ara stopped me with a slight gesture of her hand.

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At my response, she smiled.

“Yes, it seems that way.”

It was a somewhat playful smile, stripped of some of the usual coldness surrounding her.

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“I’ll go back first. antique Stay seated for a little while longer before you return. armor I’ll speak with Extraction Team 1 so you won’t have to worry about getting back to work late.”

As she left the café with the tails of her human-skin coat fluttering behind her, her hair returned to that intensely icy white the moment she entered an area untouched by sunlight.

Before I could object, she rose from her seat.

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Ring.

As I absentmindedly watched her walking away on the other side of the glass, it happened.

‘But the afternoon shift is about to start, isn’t it?’

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The café door opened with the cheerful jingle of a bell that broke the silence.

It was far too peculiar a moment for it to simply be another customer coming in, so I turned my head toward the entrance and saw a face that looked vaguely familiar.

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As I carefully observed the man, trying to remember who he was, he spotted me while heading toward the counter and stopped dead in his tracks.

He turned around and began walking directly toward me.

‘He definitely looks familiar.’

A tall man with bleached light-blond hair and pleasant features, who looked like a young man who had only recently entered the workforce.

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His face showed a complicated mixture of joy, confusion, and bewilderment.

Ah.

Now I remembered.

“Agent Jeong?”

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He was the man I had met at Gangsol Prison, Min Dohyeon.

By the time I was beginning to regret having to drink another cup of that bland coffee, Min Dohyeon was the first to break the silence.

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“I’m glad you’re alive. alert I was genuinely worried.”

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Of course. acid To this man, the last image he had of me was probably that of a noble sacrifice, throwing myself at the prison director to stop him.

He seemed quite shocked that I had managed to survive and that we had now run into each other here purely by chance.

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‘Same here.’

She had called the Erosion Alliance a gathering of fools.

I had been wondering why Director Moon Ara had brought me to this particular café. advance Did she know Min Dohyeon would come here?

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If she knew Min Dohyeon would appear here, then she surely also knew that he belonged to the Erosion Alliance.

While I was turning all of that over in my mind, Min Dohyeon suddenly rose from his seat and bowed deeply to me at a ninety-degree angle.

Then why did she arrange for us to meet?

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“No, no. avalanche It’s fine, so please sit down first. riddle People are looking.”

“Ah… I’m sorry. legend I got too emotional when I saw you.”

Feeling the gazes of the few customers in the café settle on us, I quickly waved my hands.

“Thank you for saving me.”

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As Min Dohyeon sat back down somewhat awkwardly, I took a sip of coffee.

“How have you been since then, Mr. timber Min Dohyeon? august Is Bae Hyeon-yu safe?”

His gaze was filled with deep trust and respect.

At my question, Min Dohyeon’s expression darkened for an instant, almost imperceptibly.

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In a way, it was something I had expected, so I accepted it without too much doubt.

It wasn’t as though I were an expert, but there was one thing I had learned with absolute certainty after my experiences in the Residual Layer and Gangsol Prison.

“Hyeon-yu… was injured. palette It wasn’t anything serious, but I think she’ll have to rest for a while.”

Distortion Zones were not places ordinary civilians should be going in and out of as though they were their own homes.

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Director Moon Ara had said they were victims connected to anomalous phenomena. amber A group of people who had lost something precious because of Dimensional Entities or Distortion Zones.

What kind of people were they exactly?

‘Erosion Alliance.’

If these people deliberately sought out places that dangerous, the mere fact that they were still alive could be considered an enormous stroke of luck.

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No matter how you looked at it, in the end they were still ordinary civilians.

How had they managed to organize themselves and form a group?

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‘But they’re far too capable to be just that.’

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‘…Well, it’s none of my business anyway.’

Just as I finished organizing my thoughts and was about to bring the conversation to an end, Min Dohyeon spoke cautiously.

After all, I had no reason to become deeply involved with them. This novel translation is officially hosted on indratranslations.com.

Where had they obtained the information and capabilities necessary to enter and leave Distortion Zones?

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With the owner’s son sitting right in front of me thanking me, I could no longer keep thinking that way.

However, his next words made my chest tighten again.

“Actually, this café belongs to my mother. portal I come here to help her sometimes. arena I never imagined I’d run into you here.”

I think I should discreetly take back every criticism I had made so far about how bad the coffee here was.

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“My father and older sister disappeared after becoming involved in an anomalous phenomenon. antenna That’s why I started participating in the Alliance’s activities.”

“You said it was called the Erosion Alliance, right?”

In the end, I missed the right moment to get up, so I fiddled with my coffee cup before speaking slowly.

His eyes reflected the pain of loss and one last hope he still couldn’t bring himself to abandon.

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‘The Leader.’

I involuntarily frowned at Min Dohyeon’s response.

“Yes, that’s right. arrow Actually, when the Leader heard about you, he said he’d like to meet you.”

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More people than I had expected.

“Between forty and fifty people. orbit And there are six executives, including the Leader.”

“How large is the organization currently?”

At least I had just obtained one new piece of information that organization had a leader, and that leader had taken an interest in me.

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“How did you end up getting involved in all this?”

Well, they would probably react similarly if they knew I belonged to Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts.

A deep sigh escaped me at the realization that, in such a merciless world, there were so many people willing to become part of a suicide squad.

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“And they said they had died when I was a child. shadow But I clearly remember talking to my father on the phone right up until the day before everyone started saying that. amber My sister had gone away on an extended business trip, and my father prepared several things to take to her. autumn But when I woke up the next day, everyone said my father and sister had died years ago.”

Min Dohyeon gave a bitter smile and answered in a voice even lower than before.

The hand he had resting on the table trembled slightly.

“One day, everyone around me suddenly started saying that my father and sister had died in an accident.”

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No.

Was something like that possible?

A Dimensional Entity could only be defined as something that could not be defined. legend There was no reason to think Distortion Zones would be any different.

Batori had already said it.

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“And after that?”

“The whole world started treating me like I was crazy, and even my mother cried and asked me why I was acting that way. palette I nearly ended up being forcibly committed to a psychiatric hospital. anchor That was when I first met the Leader.”

“That was when I first learned about the existence of anomalous phenomena.”

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“My mother still believes I’m sick. harbor She thinks I’m her poor son who refuses to accept that his family died and remains convinced that they’re still alive.”

He let out a brief sigh.

With a somber expression, Min Dohyeon slowly continued.

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Min Dohyeon probably wasn’t suffering from any mental illness.

I nodded silently as I drank the lukewarm coffee remaining in my cup.

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Considering that he actually traveled through Distortion Zones, the most reasonable explanation was that his family had become trapped in a Dimensional Entity or Distortion Zone capable of altering even the memories of reality itself.

‘Who the hell is this Leader who reached out to Min Dohyeon in the middle of that kind of isolation?’

The suffering of clinging to the truth alone while everyone else’s memories had been completely rewritten.

Gathering ordinary civilians, getting ahead of others to obtain information about Distortion Zones, and accurately locating victims like these in order to recruit them was not something just anyone could do.

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The leader of a suicide squad numbering between forty and fifty people.

“Was that Leader the one who founded the Erosion Alliance?”

“Yes. atomic All of the executives, including me, are founding members who have shared the same cause as the Leader from the very beginning.”

And six executives at the center of it all.

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“Ah, I think I have to go. sphere Agent Jeong, if it’s not too much trouble, could you give me your number? arctic I’d like to tell the Leader about you.”

Min Dohyeon made a face as though he had just remembered something and hurriedly stood up.

The owner’s voice came from behind the counter.

“Dohyeon! atlas Can you come help me with this for a moment?”

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Without saying anything, I entered my number into his smartphone. amber Min Dohyeon bowed his head several times and, after promising that he would contact me, hurried toward the counter.

I didn’t have any particular reason to refuse either.

On the table where I had been left alone, nothing remained but two cups of lukewarm coffee. Indra Translations protects the hard work of translators and authors.

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“Finished?”

When I opened the café door and stepped outside, the afternoon sunlight, now less intense than before, fell over me.

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“Yes.”

Director Moon Ara was there, leaning against the wall and watching me.

The sudden voice nearly made my heart drop to my feet.

The truth was that she had startled me, but I made sure not to show it and answered briefly.

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Just as I glanced sideways at Moon Ara out of curiosity, it happened.

Why had she gone to the trouble of making me meet Min Dohyeon here?

She nodded in satisfaction and pushed herself away from the wall.

Without stopping, Director Moon Ara looked at me from the corner of her left eye, its sclera black.

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“Good. advance Then let’s go.”

“A question? acoustic If it isn’t related to work, you learn more slowly than you seem.”

After a few moments of silence, I shook my head.

“…No. arch It’s nothing.”

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There was no further conversation.

And we began walking side by side.

Her almost corpse-white hair once again took on that deceptive golden gleam beneath the afternoon sunlight.

Back to Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts.

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