Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 160

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 160

The agents of the Disaster Management Bureau turn their eyes.

“Wow!”

Wire with brilliant nails shoots out and wraps around the young mermaid’s hem in an instant.

Team A Deputy Manager’s exclusive weapon.

“Oh? It’s fireworks!”

The child laughed.

Hearing the laughter of the contaminated young mermaid, Jin Na-sol severed the most lethal parts first.

The parts that secrete paralytic and infectious fluids.

Scrape.

“Aaaahhh!”

The massive tail attached to the young mermaid fell off.

Blood and mucus burst out.

“It hurts! It hurts!”

By a hair’s breadth, the agent’s attack grazed past.

Jin Na-sol didn’t hesitate and pulled the young mermaid, now powerless with its tail severed, with the wire and tucked it under one arm.

“Agh!”

And then declared.

“Come any closer and I’ll kill it.”

“…!”

It was a perfectly rational choice.

‘My leg isn’t normal.’

Jin Na-sol’s calf, which had been hit by the bell scythe earlier, was still paralyzed, so she had to use items even while chasing that ominous cat entity here.

In this state, confronting two Disaster Management Bureau agents while securing items and fleeing would be foolish.

Jin Na-sol despises foolish acts.

So she chose.

“I told you not to come.”

“…!”

Even when words don’t get through, some communication functions with gestures alone.

“Cheongdong, wait a moment.”

Agent Choi, who values each human life, immediately raised his hands as if surrendering to Jin Na-sol while quickly racking his brain for alternatives.

However…

That is not the standard response of the Disaster Management Bureau.

‘Hostage.’

The standard Disaster Management Bureau figure, Bronze Agent, looked at the villain before him with dark eyes.

Those human scum are planning to take items that could save 12 children for their own greed and run away.

‘Even though they could escape without taking them.’

If they’re allowed to leave like this, 12 children will die.

And the Management Bureau’s priorities are clear.

Maximum survival with minimum sacrifice.

-If more citizens can be saved by accepting the sacrifice of one citizen.

‘Then that’s what we do.’

“…Cheongdong?”

Bronze Agent decided quickly.

And raised his Glass Hand Cannon as he charged forward.

“Hey…!”

But at that moment, another creature moved simultaneously.

Jingle.

“Huh? No, wait…”

Through Baek Sa-heon’s flustered voice, the cat stepped on his shoulder and leaped down silently.

In the cat’s mouth was a conch shell tied with a golden string, ‘Angel’s Sigh.’

It had taken it from Baek Sa-heon’s bag.

“No!”

The cat sprinted straight toward Jin Na-sol.

“…!”

Jin Na-sol reflexively prepared to kick and shoot wire, but the cat’s target wasn’t that employee.

Instead, the cat headed slightly to the side, downward.

“Huh? A cat doll…”

The young mermaid that Jin Na-sol was holding hostage.

The cat, with the conch shell still in its teeth, pressed it completely against the young mermaid’s ear.

“…!”

A poignant voice resonates from inside the shell.

Humming.

It sounds like the song of a very beautiful woman, or like a lullaby that parents hummed while holding you in childhood.

It also sounds like a verse from a powerful national anthem, or like a hymn overflowing with cheers and vitality.

However, only one verse taken from there.

Only one melody came out softly and tenderly from inside the conch shell, tickling the child’s ear.

“…Ah?”

The young mermaid with its tail cut off stiffens.

Mm, mmm, mm, mmmm.

The bleeding decreases.

The inflammation on the face and limbs covered with ulcers subsides, the syndrome of infection that twisted the limbs disappears, and the vocal cords return to their original form.

Of course, it didn’t completely return to the perfect form of a child as if time had reversed.

However, the rapidly spreading infection loses momentum, and the human life the child originally possessed blazes up like flames meeting firewood.

The next moment.

“Huuuu…”

The child, breathing heavily, regained the appearance of a sick child.

“…”

“…”

A moment when people hesitated briefly due to human instinct at the wondrous sight.

“Wh-what is this? Mom…!”

The child began to burst into convulsive tears.

As the infection subsided and hallucinations cleared, the Sparkling Dragon Palace disappeared, and they began to see the horrific reality with their bare eyes.

“…!”

‘It even breaks them free from brainwashing…!’

However, when the child, expelled from the enchanting and beautiful ‘Sparkling Dragon Palace,’ continued to burst into tears.

Amazingly, the cat went in and hugged the child!

“Hey, kitty…”

It sits perfectly still without moving even as a child’s rather rough hands grab and pull at its head.

This made it look even more eerie, but it was definitely a clear signal.

That thing is friendly toward children.

‘Is this a ghost story with different rules depending on age groups?’

Jin Na-sol analyzed the situation like the elite Field Investigation Team member she was, while not letting go of the hostage she was holding.

However, she no longer blatantly suppressed the child. It was impossible to predict how that danger in the form of a cat would react.

But….

“These guys really aren’t in their right minds.”

There were also those who targeted that exact opening.

“…!”

A bullet comes flying.

Jin Na-sol saw it. The agent across from her aimed at her legs and fired a Glass Cannon, while simultaneously the one who had already approached tried to restrain Jin Na-sol’s upper body.

‘Ha.’

Jin Na-sol deliberately fell backward.

Her body, losing balance and moving formlessly, barely avoided the agents’ suppression.

And at the same time, with one hand she quickly released the hostage and threw them forward.

Toward Agent Choi.

“…!”

The moment Agent Choi caught the child who had been holding the cat.

‘There are plenty of hostages outside anyway.’

Jin Na-sol made a cold judgment and tried to kick down the door.

‘Retreating.’

The other Daydream employees who witnessed the situation also tactfully moved their feet to follow and escape, and just as Baek Sa-heon was about to run out gripping the bag containing the remaining eleven ‘Angel’s Sighs’.

[This way]

“…!”

The ominous cat quietly walked out from the arms of the child being held by Agent Choi.

“Why is it doing that….”

The four-legged beast walks among the frozen people. And it passes everyone to stand in front of something.

The young mermaid’s tail that Jin Na-sol had cut off.

The string of ulcerous mass.

[This way]

The cat’s form crackles as it looks around at the people.

“Wh-what are we supposed to do with that….”

[This way]

Blood-red eyes peer into me.

A gaze that seems to already know everything about me.

“….”

Fuck.

Baek Sa-heon quickly picked up the tail with his gloved hand and tried to stuff it into the front of his waterproof bag.

But Agent Choi snatched the tail away faster than that.

“Ah…!”

Agent Choi gripped and suppressed the tail that was still writhing and struggling to parasitize toward himself as a ‘child’, and spoke to the cat.

“Did you induce the attack because you needed this?”

Silence.

“What use does this tail have?”

The cat doesn’t answer.

But it does answer.

[This way]

By staring at the Baekillmong Corporation employees.

“…!”

Agent Choi stored the tail in a containment box and hurriedly began writing with the chalk he carried on the floor.

A single connection method where the gazes of the Sparkling Dragon Palace and Mermaid Graveyard are shared.

-So you guys use this tail?

“…!”

-If you tell us first where and how you use it, we won’t fight anymore until we leave here~ I swear on an agent’s honor!^^

-Do you use it when escaping? We know all about escaping on escape ships. Where and how do you use it?

‘Crazy bastard….’

However, Agent Choi had something to rely on.

-It seems like the cat wants us to have a conversation too?

[10]

“Ah, seriously!”

Disgusted by the cat that started a countdown in response, Baek Sa-heon looked around.

‘Don’t want to take the lead….’

Fortunately, Kang I-hak quickly bent down and started writing an answer.

-Oh, how much will you give us if we tell? hehe

‘There’s another crazy bastard.’

-We’re broke ㅠㅠ You guys have money, so deal with it! I don’t want my head smashed by a cat~

“Ugh.”

‘You bastards…!’

In the end, under the pressure of the countdown, Baek Sa-heon tactfully wrote the answer himself instead of his money-crazed colleague.

-You already know everything… We need the tail in the process of escaping.

-But we’ve never barbarically cut off a young mermaid’s tail, we only minimally cut tails from general infected bodies that were already completely infected. We also need to survive…

‘It’s obvious they’d have a fit if I said we killed a child!’

Though he wrote it as prettily as possible to soften the message, Agent Choi didn’t bat an eye.

-How do you use them? Fuel? Admission tickets? Sacrifices?

Is it okay to say this much?

[6]

Damn.

-Admission tickets.

While writing, Baek Sa-heon reflexively glanced at where the cat had been. Are you satisfied now after tightening like a countdown to kill? You psychopath bastard….

But the cat was no longer there.

“…!”

It was now standing in front of the window.

On two legs, that is.

The cat’s posture was bizarre.

As if someone was forcibly controlling the cat, it stood upright on two legs by the window like a ghost, then suddenly raised its left front paw and pointed somewhere to the west.

That place was….

‘…The direction of the escape ship!’

And then it fell straight down below the window.

“…!!”

People rushed to the window and looked down, but there was nothing below….

The cat had disappeared.

“…Ha.”

Suddenly the air seemed lighter.

As several people caught their breath and busily turned their heads.

“The escape ship… the escape ship!”

Baek Sa-heon grabbed his head.

“Right! It was telling us to get on the escape ship and get out!”

“What?”

“It said to prepare for death. I wondered what that meant, but now it seems like it meant it would kill us if we don’t all get out on the escape ship…!”

“…!”

“We need to get out quickly….”

But the Baekillmong Corporation employees didn’t hastily forget the danger.

There were still Disaster Management Bureau agents in this space.

And….

The influence of the actions shown by that thing that was a cat earlier.

“….”

At that moment, Agent Choi was lost in thought.

The cat had made the young mermaid remove its tail and healed it with a conch shell.

Recalling that clearly friendly behavior toward the children….

‘Hmm.’

The agent calmly writes on the floor.

-Seeing how the cat showed us the location of the conch shells and even demonstrated treatment, it seems like it means to use them to save as many kids as possible…

-Anyone want to get killed by monsters while being greedy for items?

‘Fuck.’

But the agent’s words didn’t end there.

-Or should we temporarily cooperate until everyone gets out safely?

“…!”

-Let’s try to take as many children as possible safely. Using the conch shells, to that escape ship you’re taking.

“….”

Jin Na-sol pushed Baek Sa-heon aside and stepped forward boldly.

“…!”

And without even blinking, she stared at the agent and wrote on the floor.

-Try anything funny and I’ll shoot you dead.

“Okay~”

Thus a strange temporary alliance was formed.

A composition that could use both the senses of the Mermaid Graveyard and the Sparkling Dragon Palace, with enough people to handle biological hazards while simultaneously taking care of multiple children.

‘…Was this guided?’

Ryu Jae-gwan’s eyes twitched.

Just what kind of supernatural phenomenon was that ghost story in the form of a cat, appearing from where to cause this… No, for now the important thing was to safely escape from this place and complete the mission.

Right, he wasn’t even alone right now. A new employee had come in too….

Wait!

“Grape!”

Ryu Jae-gwan looked back at his superior with a hardened face in panic.

The new employee who should still be among the children looking for citizens who could be rescued was being left behind…!

“We need to find them right now. If they get left behind here….”

“Wait, wait! Let’s calm down. We agreed to meet this evening anyway. We’ll be able to meet on the way to take care of the kids.”

That was the problem…!

‘We can’t bring these human scum along…!’

“I’ll threaten these guys first.”

Agent Choi, instead of continuing to give conch shells to Baek Sa-heon, received tail tissue from general infected entities they had collected as collateral, and confirmed they weren’t lying about the location of the escape ship.

And while secretly pretending to argue over the conch shells, they even attached a tracking device to the conch shells to complete their preparations.

“Done.”

Finally, they firmly decided to meet in front of a building near where the escape ship was located.

“Now let’s go gather the children.”

“…Yes.”

Anyway, the encounter between that crazy pseudo-pharmaceutical company and Grape Agent was unavoidable.

Ryu Jae-gwan felt a chill in his chest, but thought he should quickly spot them first and make them cover their face with a hat or something.

His superior would understand if he said he wanted to protect the new employee’s identity from the pseudo-pharmaceutical company employees.

“They’re at the fountain! Over there.”

“Yes.”

But the moment they met Grape Agent at the fountain in the city center.

“Agent!”

Ryu Jae-gwan realizes that his plan had been meaningless.

Through the Sun Catcher I’ve been holding ready like keeping it equipped at all times just in case, I can see clearly.

The New Agent notices us and turns around…

“I was gathering the children and organizing them by era!”

Half of his face was covered with ulcers.

“….”

Ryu Jae-gwan stopped in his tracks.

Breaking out in cold sweat, his trembling gaze sweeps over the child-like form of his colleague agent…

Below his upper body, long umbilical cord-like cell masses were hanging down.

Thick chunks of flesh flowed out from his waist, with ulcers dangling like a tail.

Disgusting and horrifying, but due to the characteristics of the underwater city and the fact that it looked like a tail…

This biological disaster was called a mermaid.

“But playing together is so much fun…”

The Young Mermaid that had been an agent smiled and waved his hand.

“Can’t we stay just one more day?”

Seeing the New Employee completely infected by the biological disaster, the Two Agents stopped with faces pale as sheets.

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