Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 130
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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 130
That evening when Kim Sol-eum agreed with the Director to infiltrate the Disaster Management Bureau as a spy.
At the same time, at the company housing, Baek Sa-heon was enjoying an extremely comfortable private life.
All thanks to that damn psychopath roommate going missing!
‘That bastard, I knew he’d die from acting out like that.’
Baek Sa-heon smiled with satisfaction.
Although Team D’s Crazy Team Leader, who looked exactly like that psychopath, had persistently requested interviews about the ‘Tamra Express’ from him several times.
And because of that, the terrible… contamination had intensified, but now it had calmed down considerably. He no longer threw up or had mental breakdowns when thinking about that Great Talk… Fuck, whatever that was.
Thanks to that, he could now access the Fox Counseling Center.
For free!
‘This is a benefit you’d normally only get after becoming Team Leader… not a bad exchange rate.’
Getting this Fox Counseling Room nameplate separately thanks to Team D Manager’s handling was a clear benefit.
Moreover, that counselor in the ghost story gave him another nameplate each time he received counseling. With the ‘treatment’ he received from the company, he could use this ‘until he recovered adequately.’
‘I could even slip it to someone else occasionally, right?’
If he played his cards right.
‘Until my Team Leader promotion… I could milk this for at least 3 more months.’
For today, he would use it once more himself.
To visit the Fox Counseling Room once more, Baek Sa-heon hummed while hanging the nameplate on his already dead roommate’s door.
And opened the door…
“Ah. They said it’s closed today.”
“…?!?!”
A black-haired office worker with a cool impression stood beyond the door and spoke to him casually.
And walked out from the door.
A familiar face he could never forget even in his dreams.
That was, that was…
“Ki, Kim Sol-eum.”
His former roommate, who had been reported missing and declared dead, looked at him and chuckled.
Huh?
Huh huh?
“…?!?”
Baek Sa-heon began to seriously doubt.
‘Is, is this a dream?’
Did I fall into hypnotic-type darkness?
If not, why is that crazy bastard who went missing and was declared dead coming out of the Fox Counseling Room door right now…
Smack.
Baek Sa-heon slapped his own cheek.
It stung.
At least it wasn’t a dream.
‘Damn it.’
And he felt the pitying gaze of someone watching a fool who had just punched himself in the face.
“Hmm… I can see why you wanted counseling.”
“…!?”
“But even if you go in now, it’s closed, you know? Take off the nameplate and go in next time.”
Thud.
Kim Sol-eum completely exited the room and closed the door.
And using clear physical force, he removed the nameplate attached to the door that was once his room and threw it to Baek Sa-heon.
“…!”
He caught it reflexively.
“But… you just happened to open the door now?”
“…”
“I didn’t expect to see your face like this.”
Baek Sa-heon swallowed.
At the same time, his brain began spinning rapidly.
In this absurd and unexpected situation that made him question what was happening, one thing became crystal clear.
The deep halo shooting through from beyond the eye patch.
Warning alarm.
-You have seen something you shouldn’t have seen.
An employee declared dead standing perfectly fine before his eyes meant there was a conspiracy at the company level, or beyond.
‘He even used me as a witness to his disappearance…!’
Trying not to recall the terrible mimimimil intrusion he suffered while trying to track down Kim Sol-eum who disappeared from the bathroom, Baek Sa-heon swallowed.
His head was spinning with anger and dizziness, but the warning hit his mind first.
‘…Wait, but seeing this crazy bastard alive and well here right now…’
Am I,
allowed to see this?
“…”
“…”
The most certain way for that psychopath bastard to deal with me is…
-Murder and destruction.
‘Ah, no!’
Baek Sa-heon quickly corrected the absurd thought that reflexively crossed his mind.
Why would anyone do such an inefficient thing in modern society?
‘That bastard has my brainwashing fountain pen…’
The item he exchanged for this eye. Baek Sa-heon clenched his fist.
Right. He’ll definitely brainwash me and get away. Just make me forget I saw anything and leave. There’s such an easy and simple method, no need to go around…
“You’d like me to erase your memory with the fountain pen, right?”
“…!!”
“I’m not going to do that.”
In Baek Sa-heon’s mind, immediately usable countermeasures—punching, using specialized equipment, reporting, begging—flashed by in an instant.
And as soon as he thought of them, they were all discarded.
‘No, that won’t work.’
If he acted rashly, there was no telling what might happen to him.
As much as he hated to admit it, that bastard was skilled in his own psychopathic, ruthless way.
To avoid getting entangled and thrown into hell or killed, he had to stay calm.
What the hell does he want?
Don’t tell me he really wants to kill…
‘…No!’
A sentence flashed through Baek Sa-heon’s mind like lightning, reassembling itself.
-He wants something.
That bastard is confronting me because he wants something!
Baek Sa-heon finally calmed down.
And barely managed to cross his arms to show composure.
“…Team Leader, it seems you want something.”
“Hmm.”
As expected!
“…Ah. Do you perhaps need my eyewitness testimony, Team Leader? Like during the disappearance incident! You know, reporting to the company that I think I saw Team Leader Kim Sol-eum at the company housing or something….”
“No.”
Damn it.
Baek Sa-heon, barely holding back his curses, looked at his counterpart with the most composed face he could manage.
Kim Sol-eum was also quietly observing Baek Sa-heon.
Now that he looked closer, while his counterpart was indeed wearing a suit, his hair was somewhat cut, and one arm was supported by a splint. This meant he wasn’t in completely ‘fine’ condition.
‘Where did he get injured?’
Moreover, the suit itself was also somewhat different.
It was strange. Somehow it seemed too expensive and stylish for a regular office worker to wear, like a fit meant for showing off….
‘The kind you’d wear on a broadcast….’
…Huh?
Just as some strange connection seemed to flash in his mind.
His counterpart brought up something absolutely impossible to ignore.
“You seemed to have an appetite for items.”
“…!”
“Not the useless ones, but proper ones. Hypnosis, suppression, healing…. Do you want to have more useful items like those?”
Desire and necessity that surpassed everything else flashed at the top of Baek Sa-heon’s priorities.
Baek Sa-heon quickly raised his head.
Kim Sol-eum was smiling.
“Then regularly inform me about what happens at Baekillmong Corporation from now on.”
“….”
What his counterpart proposed was a deal.
An information trade.
“…High-grade darkness investigation manuals… that the company possesses, something like that?”
Kim Sol-eum looked at him with an expression of disbelief. Right, no matter what, he wouldn’t demand Field Investigation Team classified information….
“Why would I want to know such boring stuff.”
“….”
“Company rumors are fine, personnel announcements, employee gossip is good too. Bring me ‘information that would be valuable to internal employees’ in your opinion.”
“…Why?”
“Because I’m curious?”
“…!!”
“No, I got fired so I can’t hear anymore, so I’m bored.”
What the hell!
Baek Sa-heon felt like he was going crazy and wanted to jump around.
If it were any other person, they would naturally express indirectly that they didn’t want to tell him, but his counterpart was Kim Sol-eum.
‘That bastard seems like he might be serious!’
He really seemed like a lunatic who wanted to hear company gossip for dopamine, making him even harder to figure out…!
‘Hah….’
“So. Are you going to bring information and exchange it for items?”
“Information,”
….
….
“I could… bring it.”
Baek Sa-heon thought.
‘What do I care.’
If the company found out?
He could just say he was threatened or brainwashed.
Anyway, the company was lenient with whatever the Field Investigation Team did as long as they didn’t sell masks and collectors.
Just answering a former employee asking about the ‘company atmosphere’ was nothing!
Even though the company was ‘misunderstanding’ that this former employee had died, honestly, was that his problem?
No matter how he thought about it, this company didn’t seem like it would discipline him for something like this.
‘It’s not like I’m selling information to the Disaster Management Bureau?’
He wasn’t even manager-level, and he wasn’t in the research team where he could leak development know-how.
‘Good.’
No matter how he thought about it, this was the right deal to accept.
…He didn’t want to admit it, but Kim Sol-eum… never screwed people over or humiliated them by not paying the promised compensation for things like this.
‘Let’s do it.’
Take it first and see!
The moment he saw a place to stretch his legs, the slyness returned to Baek Sa-heon’s face.
“But you know, Team Leader, oh wait, you’re not a team leader anymore, are you?”
“….”
“Anyway, I’m not sure what you’re trusting in me to entrust this to me…. I might lie out of fear.”
He meant that if they wanted to buy his trust, they should give him some items as advance payment.
Kim Sol-eum smiled brightly.
“You’d lie? That sounds interesting. Please do try it.”
“….”
No chance.
‘Son of a bitch.’
“But if you bring more interesting and intriguing information, the items I give you will naturally get better too, right? That’s the basics of commerce.”
“…!”
He meant that as long as the information was proper, he wouldn’t treat him carelessly.
In the end, Baek Sa-heon broke out in cold sweat while grinning and extending his hand.
“Good. I’ll bring you some good stuff. ‘Interesting information.'”
“Yeah.”
Kim Sol-eum accepted the handshake.
Thus, Kim Sol-eum successfully planted a very calculating information spy in the company.
‘Phew.’
He survived!
Kim Sol-eum inwardly let out a sigh of relief.
‘Unofficial information source… secured.’
Director Ho had deliberately mentioned ‘colleagues he’d work with’ to subtly create an atmosphere that prevented him from grasping the situation, but Kim Sol-eum knew.
He and his colleagues were under strictly different conditions.
‘I’m the only one who’s officially dead.’
Moreover, he had resigned.
What that meant was that all natural channels for grasping company news were blocked off.
‘And Director Ho is a superior who would gladly exploit the fact that I’m isolated information-wise.’
Kim Sol-eum clearly remembered Deputy Eun Ha-je’s statement.
-I don’t know what other team members are doing in this project. Director Ho completely prevents employees from different departments from even talking to each other.
He would never deliberately take care of him.
So he needed another line.
‘But Team D won’t work.’
No matter how he thought about it, Director Ho seemed to have already grasped that connection. Delivering the nameplate through Deputy Eun Ha-je was quite blatant.
So he was already planning to target Baek Sa-heon or Kang I-hak anyway, and the situation worked out very well.
‘Honestly, Kang I-hak… seems like he’d sell all my information to anyone who offered more money.’
Just thinking about it made him break out in cold sweat.
In that sense, Baek Sa-heon, who moderately feared him while also being wary of others and had strong survival instincts, was the right card to play.
Kim Sol-eum looked over his former roommate and nodded.
“Then I’ll be going.”
“Huh? Well… you must be busy.”
Kim Sol-eum nodded at Baek Sa-heon’s soulless words.
“I have work to do.”
There were only a few weeks left until he would be deployed to the Disaster Management Bureau.
‘It’s tight.’
He had to start preparing now.
A new character befitting a Disaster Management Bureau agent, not a new employee of Daydream Corporation!
February 22nd.
“Bronze Agent, sir. The aptitude test for new recruits is ready.”
“Yes.”
Ryu Jae-gwan, an agent of the Supernatural Disaster Management Agency with the codename ‘Bronze’, stood in front of the glass window with documents in hand.
In fact, the glass window was one-way, so it would appear as just a mirror to the people standing on the other side.
And there, candidates who would soon become new agents of the Disaster Management Bureau were waiting.
Strange determination was etched on the faces of those sitting around the room with tense expressions.
All that remained was the aptitude test.
But this was also the most important gateway.
‘If you fail the aptitude test, you’ll forget that you even took the exam and go back.’
They wouldn’t even give you another chance to prepare.
Because there would be no point in trying again.
It meant you either had a temperament that couldn’t handle working at the Disaster Management Bureau, or you had immoral ethics.
You absolutely couldn’t work there.
“…”
However, knowing that most of those who applied here had their own stories, Ryu Jae-gwan secretly hoped that many people would safely pass the aptitude test.
Especially volunteers looking for missing relatives, or volunteers who had supernatural disasters they absolutely wanted to eliminate.
“Let’s begin.”
“Yes!”
But since he was never the type to give generous scores, this wish was never expressed outwardly at all.
The assistant interviewers grading alongside him just swallowed nervously and were conscious of the ‘Bronze Agent’.
‘I heard the passing standards are really strict.’
‘I feel sorry for the volunteers in this room.’
They exchanged glances with each other and began the aptitude test according to Bronze Agent’s instructions.
-Group ‘D’ numbers 1 through 4. Please come forward.
The announcement came from the room beyond the glass window.
The four final interviewees who were called walked out to the center of the room.
Number 1, age 25, with an obviously nervous expression. Number 2, age 38, who seemed calm but had a pale face. Number 3, age 31, whose eyes were burning with intensity. And…
“Pfft!”
“A-Agent, sir?”
Ryu Jae-gwan hastily stifled his cough.
He wondered if he had mistaken for a moment, but the image forming beyond the glass window hadn’t changed at all.
The strange and good-natured person he had unexpectedly seen several times over the past six months in supernatural phenomena.
‘…Grape Agent!’
Kim Sol-eum.
He, who had been an employee of Daydream Corporation, was standing across from the mirror with an awkward, hunched expression, fidgeting with his glasses!!
As Supernatural Disaster Management Agency agent candidate Group ‘D’ Number 4.
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