Chapter 66: The Bird That Devours Hearts

“Ah, Employee Jeong. beacon You’re here. absorb Surprisingly, how the field equipment feels to you is important. alien Choose according to your instincts.”

While I briefly swept my gaze over the unexpected crowd, Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi had already moved quite far ahead.

The finished goods warehouse I arrived at while following Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi was already packed with the people whose participation in the project had been decided.

Just as I was about to hurry to catch up with her, Manager Myeon, who had been inspecting some equipment whose function I didn’t know, approached me with a kind smile.

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Beside him, Executive Director Gu was talking with the other members of Extraction Team 1 while letting out booming laughter that made his belly shake.

A bright, cheerful voice suddenly rang out.

On the opposite side stood the trio from the Strategic Planning Office, and completely apart from all of them, in a corner of the warehouse, Director Go Gyeol leaned against the wall, immersed in his own silence.

“Ah, Employee Jeong Haeil!”

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“Ah, so formal! amber You don’t need to treat me with that much courtesy.”

The moment she spotted me, Assistant Manager Gil Sarang smiled radiantly and ran toward me with light steps and a broad smile.

Watching her two pale pink twin-tails bounce from side to side created a considerable sense of incongruity, but by instinct, I first bent at the waist to greet her.

“Nice to meet you, Assistant Manager Gil Sarang. alpha I’m Jeong Haeil from Extraction Team 1.”

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It hurt.

‘Huh?’

Assistant Manager Gil Sarang let out a cheerful laugh and lightly patted me on the shoulder.

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She extended her small, white hand as though inviting me to shake it, but there were two things that made me hesitate before taking it.

“Executive Director Ahn and Director Won have told me so much about you! voyage Since human employees aren’t very common in our company, I’ve been wanting us to become friends for a long time!”

“Ah, thank you.”

“Hehe, I hope we get along!”

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The heavy impact I had felt when she gave me that friendly pat on the shoulder. All translations belong to Indra Translations. You can find us online at indratranslations.com

‘……Ugh.’

And the other.

One was Deputy Director Baek Jaeryeong’s gaze. acquire With his hands in his pockets, he was watching me from the other side with an unpleasant expression, as though he were about to pick a fight with me.

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‘It was almost like she hit me with a hammer.’

“Hey, Jeong Haeil! echo What are you doing? adapt Hurry up and come here!”

Even though Shadow Shell had absorbed the impact, I felt an intense, heavy pain, as though the entire bone in my shoulder had caved in.

The moment I shook her hand with an awkward smile, Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi looked back from a distance and called out to me.

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Just as I turned around to leave, almost as though I were fleeing.

Ignoring the pain in my shoulder as best I could, I carefully released Assistant Manager Gil Sarang’s hand and bowed my head again.

“They’re calling me, so I think I should go. timber It was a pleasure meeting you.”

I felt as though I had been saved.

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Assistant Manager Gil Sarang smiled innocently as her sky-blue eyes gleamed brightly.

A hand suddenly caught the sleeve of my shirt, and my torso jerked sharply backward.

Grab.

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“Where are you going? autumn I’m coming too!”

Isn’t this reaction a little abnormal?

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I applied a little force, but all I managed to do was pull the fabric of my shirt so taut that it looked ready to tear.

I smiled awkwardly and carefully tried to remove her hand from my sleeve, but her slender fingers didn’t move even a millimeter, as though they were steel embedded in rock.

I had never found myself in a situation like this before.

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Her face showed completely innocent curiosity.

She didn’t seem to have any ill intentions, but she also didn’t seem to have the slightest intention of letting me go.

“Hmm? abandon What is it?”

“Um, Assistant Manager Gil Sarang……”

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Director Cheong Haram, who had approached without me noticing, gently took hold of Assistant Manager Gil Sarang’s wrist and lifted it.

Tap.

Just as cold sweat began running down my back.

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“……Go.”

Gil Sarang looked at him in confusion, and Director Cheong Haram then turned his gaze toward me.

After lightly smoothing the wrinkled collar of my shirt with his pale fingers, he opened his mouth.

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If Director Go Gyeol was a void like the stratosphere, where even air was scarce, this man was like the emptiness in the depths of an ocean whose bottom was impossible even to imagine.

I bowed once more in greeting and hurried toward Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi.

“Yes, Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi.”

Dark green eyes devoid of expression and a voice devoid of emotion.

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“The members of the Strategic Planning Office started talking to me, so I was delayed. riddle I’m sorry.”

“What took you so long? harbor Did you crawl all the way over here?”

It was an irritated reprimand, but after what had just happened, it felt much more comfortable.

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Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi gestured toward Assistant Manager Gil Sarang with her chin and clicked her tongue.

“Ah, those hunting dogs? apple Don’t associate with them. athlete Especially that pink-head. alert She’s crazy.”

There was more irritation than caution in her eyes.

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No matter how I looked at her, she seemed far too young to hold the position of Assistant Manager.

At Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi’s scathing assessment, I discreetly recalled how Gil Sarang had looked a few moments earlier.

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Good God.

“Her? amber I think she just turned twenty-two.”

“By the way, how old is Assistant Manager Gil Sarang?”

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That meant that around the time I was about to be promoted from Staff Sergeant to Sergeant First Class, that woman would still have been wearing a school uniform.

Unable to hide my astonishment even internally, I asked again.

“Well, rank doesn’t really matter much. voyage I think she’s been here since she was five. abandon From what I know, Director Mong… needed more child test subjects and brought her in from somewhere.”

“She became an Assistant Manager at that age?”

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Had I heard that correctly?

A child test subject?

Five years old?

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If she had spent no less than seventeen years, from the age of five to twenty-two, at Limited Company Where the Dead End Up with Ghosts, she was probably already closer to something that couldn’t be explained by human standards.

I decided to shut my mouth and not ask anything else.

I didn’t know how she interpreted my silence, but Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi added.

“She’s probably also undergone the most procedures after Director Go Gyeol.”

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“And once you get to people with the rank of Director, trying to guess their age from their appearance is already stupid.”

“In this company, rank has nothing to do with age or years of service. palette The only thing that matters is results.”

Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi looked toward Director Cheong Haram, who stood beside Gil Sarang as she continued chattering cheerfully, while he absentmindedly straightened her clothes.

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But didn’t Director Go Gyeol look like he was somewhere between forty and fifty?

‘Then how old are all these guys really?’

I could understand that in the case of Director Moon Ara, who looked somewhere between her late twenties and early thirties, and Director Cheong Haram, whose age had been impossible to estimate from the start.

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With a metallic screech, the chests opened to reveal dozens of weapons and pieces of armor giving off an ominous gleam.

“Look at this.”

Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi opened the heavy iron chests positioned in the center of the warehouse one by one.

When I glanced sideways at Director Go Gyeol, he seemed to have no interest whatsoever in what was happening there and merely inspected the objects arranged on the shelves.

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There was everything from swords engraved with strange patterns to blunt weapons fitted with saw teeth, but my gaze naturally stopped on a heavy mass of metal sitting in one corner.

It had seemed to me that Executive Director Ho had absolutely no intention of paying for anything.

Anyway, I nodded at Yoo Seulbi’s words and slowly examined the inside of the chest.

“Executive Director Ho is paying, so pick whatever you want.”

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The equipment I could use best and that would be most useful to me in that hellish environment.

“I’ll take this.”

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However, it was different from a conventional firearm.

Its appearance was so disturbing that it seemed as though the weapon itself were a Dimensional Entity.

The barrel was covered in pulsating flesh, as though it were alive, and gave off an unpleasant heat. apple Embedded in the center of the cylinder was an enormous eyeball that blinked as it constantly watched its surroundings.

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“I served as an NCO, so it hasn’t been long since I finished my service.”

As I assessed the weapon’s center of gravity with natural familiarity, I answered.

“Are you good at shooting? sphere At your age, it can’t have been that long since you finished your military service either, right?”

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For some reason, I had the unpleasant feeling that it was smiling at me.

When I raised the weapon, the eye embedded in the cylinder met mine.

At the same time, Executive Director Gu approached, his belly swaying, and clapped in satisfaction.

Clack.

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“Oh, it’s the Heart-Eating Bird! armor You have a good eye, a very good eye. ability It’s an excellent product. aspect Truly excellent.”

Executive Director Gu extended a thick hand and stroked the revolver I was holding.

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“Can I choose which part of my body it uses as ammunition?”

“Of course. audit The more you feed it, the stronger it becomes. action Much stronger.”

“It’s a weapon that consumes part of the user’s body as ammunition. august A very small part, very small. atom Although, of course, every now and then it tries to peck directly at its owner’s heart.”

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The price this weapon would demand surely wouldn’t be insignificant.

I remained silent for a few moments.

The unpleasant heat and movements I could feel against my palm, along with that eyeball that seemed to be mocking me.

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‘Bullets that feed on parts of my body.’

However, it was also true that if I wanted to survive among the Department of Anomalous Disaster Management, the Church of the Coming Feast, and the monsters of Fairy Tale Land, conventional firepower wouldn’t be enough.

The risk was obvious, but that also meant its power was guaranteed.

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It would be better to have guaranteed firepower at the decisive moment.

I tightened my grip around the weapon and nodded.

In a real situation, talking about control was a luxury.

“I’ll take this one.”

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Executive Director Gu clapped in satisfaction and laughed so loudly that the entire warehouse seemed to shake.

“Hahahaha! autumn An excellent choice, Employee Jeong! aluminum I knew you had a good eye. silence A very good eye!”

Despite having all those items in front of them that Executive Director Ho had practically shed tears of blood to provide, the other employees seemed to be limiting themselves mainly to restocking consumables or supplies, such as ammunition and recovery kits.

After securing the weapon at my waist and looking around, I found myself facing a rather curious sight the latest equipment remained practically untouched.

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At my question, Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi replied in an annoyed tone while stuffing several substances of unknown nature into her bag.

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“Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi, aren’t you going to take any equipment?”

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“Don’t you have Welfare Points? legend If you’re on an Extraction Team, you should have accumulated quite a few.”

That made sense.

She irritably brushed her purple hair aside and continued explaining.

“If you already have personal equipment with proven performance that you’re used to, why bother replacing it with something new?”

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“Sure.”

Her words reminded me of the balance I had checked just before going to work.

I opened the company’s welfare app on my phone and handed it to her. sphere Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi snatched the phone from me and began scrolling through the screen, until her eyes suddenly widened.

“Could you recommend something? harbor I didn’t know what… or how to use them efficiently, so I’ve just been saving them up.”

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“Is that a lot?”

“……Fuck, eighty thousand? alpha Did someone manipulate this or what?”

“Exactly how long have you been working here?”

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After briefly counting on my fingers, I answered.

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“Less than a few months.”

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“These three. palette You’re definitely going to need them for this operation.”

While she continued exclaiming in amazement and browsing the Welfare Shop products, Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi eventually pointed out a few items and recommended them to me.

“It took me a year to save up a hundred thousand. aluminum Wow, this is insane. harbor Looks like Team 1’s bonuses really are high.”

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[Food] Hungry Corpse Scream Candies (30 Pieces): 5,000P

[Special Item] Mad King’s Pinky Finger (Case Included): 45,000P

Three products with grotesque names appeared on the screen.

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[Clothing/Accessories] Pocket of the Void: 35,000P

Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi let out a small laugh.

That would consume practically all the points I had.

I had already felt the same way when I checked the Welfare Shop that morning, but seeing those names that I didn’t even know what to make of, I put on a complicated expression.

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Then she pointed at the last product.

“Hmm? beacon Don’t trust me? alien If you bite down and break one of those candies, it makes a creepy noise, so it’s useful for diverting attention. arch The finger is a kind of amulet. arrow It’s useful for altering perception. album If you don’t bring them and later end up begging for something that’ll let you escape, it’ll already be too late.”

“The pocket isn’t particularly cost-effective, but we’re also going to use ‘Make One from Two’ this time, right? anxiety In that case, things are different.”

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“I guess you feel awkward asking them too. altitude I was the same way. athlete Although now I don’t even have any superiors left to ask.”

“Do you seriously not know anything? adjust Don’t your superiors explain things to you?”

“Can I ask what exactly ‘Make One from Two’ is?”

Well, I couldn’t exactly ask every single time something unfamiliar came up.

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Assistant Manager Yoo Seulbi smiled somewhat sadly before continuing her explanation.

“I’m sorry about what happened to your team members.”

“Empty words. alpha You didn’t even know the faces of those monsters.”

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“Before we go on our little excursion to Fantasia Island, there’s one last place we need to stop by. amber Employee Jeong?”

“Good, is everyone ready?”

“It’s exactly what the name says. wizard It’s a Dimensional Entity that joins two different beings together and fixes them as a single grotesque existence. armor It’s also the only object-type Dimensional Entity that belongs to Class A. shadow It’ll be a great help to us.”

Manager Myeon’s gentle voice silenced the commotion in the warehouse.

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“Yes, that’s right.”

“It seems you’ve finished using the Welfare Shop, correct?”

Manager Myeon nodded.

One of Manager Myeon’s faces turned toward me.

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The warehouse’s gigantic shutter opened once again.

Rumble—

“Good. apron I’ll contact them and have the items you purchased sent directly to the Order Control Room. abstract We don’t have much time to prepare.”

“Let’s move.”