Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 174

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 174

Lizard became a theme park employee.

No, really!

Kim Sol-eum stared blankly at Manager Lee Ja-heon, who this morning suddenly expressed firm employment intentions instead of checking out.

R e a l l y ?

“Yes.”

And he finished signing the employment contract in an instant. The sight of Manager Lee Ja-heon wearing a uniform was really, really…

‘It, it suits him.’

Since he looked like a lizard, he really looked like a theme park employee…

“Over there?”

Yeah

Manager Lee Ja-heon, naturally assigned as security personnel, would be working near the main entrance.

‘Please take care of troublesome customers…’

By the way, Jang Heo-un standing next to him was looking at the suite room voucher in his hand with a bewildered expression.

That’s right. He had already heard that this was Jang Heo-un’s doing!

-Actually, I went to Manager Lizard last night and asked him. I said the resort was short-staffed and we couldn’t escape from here…

Thus, Jang Heo-un was promoted to HR manager.

“…!?”

It was a pyramid-like structure, but since everyone was planning to make a quick profit and leave anyway, no one cared!

However… Kim Sol-eum did feel a strange sense of unease.

‘How did he know.’

That more employees were needed to escape from this resort.

“Huh? Well, it just came naturally… Ah, since we needed three employees to run the resort to get one stamp, I thought the next one might be similar… I mean, needing manpower.”

Hmm.

If you could call it deduction, it was quite impressive, but something felt oddly strange, so Kim Sol-eum decided to remember it.

‘Anyway, it’s a good thing.’

Manager Lee Ja-heon was a person… no, an alien with excellent values who wouldn’t find it strange to intervene as a superior for the survival of multiple employees.

This brought them one step closer to escape!

However, there was someone watching this scene anxiously.

‘Damn it.’

The Ladybug Employee rolled his eyes.

With the manual for dealing with crazy room service making work somewhat manageable, he began having other thoughts.

Standing out in a ghost story was crazy, but falling behind and being distant from ‘success’ was also a matter directly related to survival.

He looked at Jang Heo-un with the buffalo mask and held back his curses.

‘Isn’t he just saving that bastard.’

Ghost stories where only those who received passing grades by the standards of strange beings could clear were also a kind of cliché.

‘This won’t do.’

Eventually, he persuaded the Weasel Employee who came to check out with lies and threatening remarks to sign an employment contract.

After hearing things like “you have to become an employee to get out” and “that Manager Lizard isn’t working there for nothing,” the terrified weasel mask went to the mascot in a near-panic state.

‘This is it.’

The Ladybug Employee hoped he might also get some position, but…

You can go

The Yellow Mascot instead told the Weasel Employee he could leave.

After staring intently, then bluntly.

‘Damn it!’

Was this because he was a useless bastard?

…Still, since the Weasel Employee was hired after practically begging, he was somewhat satisfied.

One more guinea pig was created… huh?

Just then.

Standard Mascots appeared in droves and installed something in the center of the lobby.

Look at this

A giant gacha machine appeared in the center of the lobby.

“…??”

The Ladybug Employee momentarily forgot all words and stared blankly at that giant, sparkling, enchanting glass decoration that looked like a Christmas tree.

What, what was this supposed to be.

As if to inform them, a flashy sign was attached in front.

[Welcome Gift Gacha]

Meet wonderful items that will help your rest.

The inside, which looked like a giant snow globe, was filled with wrapped gifts.

Resort guests could press a button to draw the gifts inside.

Kim Sol-eum inside the Yellow Mascot was looking at it with pleased eyes.

‘Probability games always give dopamine…’

By the way, special gifts had golden wrapping, and when drawn, the room would be upgraded to a suite on the top floor.

Besides that, there were no duds at all, only good things, so there was no way anyone could dislike it… Hahaha.

‘Take this and all of you just stay quietly in your rooms.’

The Yellow Mascot scattered bribes in all directions!

“Oh my, it’s sparkling! I like shiny things! Can I draw one?”

Yeah

Gift

That wasn’t the end of it.

He was upgrading rooms for each visitor, making up reasons…!

‘What, what is this?’

Truly generous management!

The Ladybug Employee looked at the mascot in confusion and bewilderment.

And he realized.

‘He’s trying to enchant customers this way to pressure them into staying at the theme park longer and raise his own status as the resort owner!’

He wasn’t!

Kim Sol-eum, who was simply running a variety show-style board game with all coins bet for escape, looked at the resort guests with proud eyes.

By the way, starting today, he had also blatantly put up a sign on the glass door in front of the lobby saying ‘A Space for Quiet Rest.’

It seemed to be effective, as some troublesome customers were being cut off at the entrance.

‘Good.’

The Yellow Mascot breathed a sigh of relief while envisioning a fairly decent prospect.

Thinking that he was finally getting a feel for how to run the resort as it entered its second day.

But just before closing that day.

An unexpected situation begins to unfold.

I looked at the employee candidate in front of me… no, the prospective guest lacking funds.

The person with sunken eyes, still appearing human, searched through their pocket with an anxious expression before breaking down.

“Uh, it’s not here… I don’t have money…!”

Oh!

I extended my hand in welcome and kindly said.

Then

Work

Labor also counts!

“Hiiiiek!”

However, they instead ran out toward the front door. No, I was even thinking of letting them sleep rough in the lobby…

I hope they quickly exit the theme park within business hours. I clicked my tongue and looked down at my front paws.

‘Finding the last one… it’s difficult.’

Job recruitment offer instead of accommodation fee – failed.

Still, I thought if I kept at it, at least one more person would get caught.

‘…How much longer will it take.’

My heart grew slightly anxious at the thought that it might take longer than expected, but I suppressed it since I couldn’t panic from fear in this situation.

I am a mascot right now.

And…

-See you again next time~

‘Closing time has come again today.’

The theme park’s business hours ended.

End of day 2.

“Ahhhhh!”

“It’s the resort!”

The last resort guests came running to the door to enter, and the Standard Mascots slowly prepared to close the door, standing on both sides.

Manager Lee Ja-heon was still learning his duties, as a Standard Mascot holding a suppression baton had him stand behind and was teaching him something.

‘The Manager is a new employee…’

Just as I was thinking it was a somewhat amusing sight.

Thud.

“…!”

Someone roughly pushed open the glass door and appeared in the lobby.

“Welcome… hiik.”

I heard Jang Heo-un next to me gasp and hold back retching.

…I also thought it was a monster at first.

A bloody mass monster with humans sprouting instead of arms.

But looking closely, it was a small person dragging one person in each hand.

…One might have thought it was a horrific sight.

If only what they held in both arms weren’t corpses with all limbs broken and heads smashed, being dragged like garbage.

“Gasp,”

The Field Mouse Employee who was cleaning covered their own mouth. Pure fear arising from threats to survival rather than supernatural terror.

It left two thick trails of blood in the lobby, pushing through the guests who had entered earlier and approaching the front desk at a frightening speed…

“…”

Huh?

Instead of fear, a strange emotion rises up.

Displeasure.

‘You shouldn’t cut in line.’

Isn’t that behavior against etiquette?

And what’s the reason for coming while so blatantly dirtying the floor?

They could have left the corpses in the lobby, or handed them to the Standard Mascots who would have kindly moved them!

No class.

They don’t suit our resort.

The Standard Mascots and I all looked at it in unison.

‘…’

However, this strange and sudden displeasure vanished the moment I made eye contact with the person in question at the front desk.

The small bloody shadowy figure who was breathing roughly lifted their head toward me at the front desk…

“One room please.”

‘…!!’

Dolphin mask.

…It was Lee Seong-hae from the Elite Team!

‘Why, why is he here?’

Shouldn’t he have left yesterday? Why is he still remaining, and…

‘How on earth did he survive last night?’

In the theme park after business hours ended.

While dragging two dead corpses around.

‘…Wait!’

I barely managed to check again the corpses in terrible condition held in Lee Seong-hae’s hands.

Masks and business suits.

They were the team members who had drawn red pieces like Lee Seong-hae.

My spine went cold.

‘He was carrying them around after they all died.’

Because they’d be strangled to death if the physical distance increased.

‘…’

I felt something strange, but as a mascot, I courteously attended to the customer.

Accommodation Fee

“Ah.”

Thud thud.

Lee Seong-hae, who carelessly dropped the corpses on the floor, held out something small and golden covered in blood.

“Um, how about something like this?”

It was pure gold.

It appeared to be fragments of what was probably originally a decorative item.

‘Gold.’

If it were the original me, I would have thought this was incredible profit when I was already short on funds and accepted it.

But as a mascot, I couldn’t do that… Sigh.

No

Way

I took out the plastic coins, the cheerful currency, from under the desk and showed them.

However, Team Leader Lee Seong-hae had no reaction. Naturally, it seemed he didn’t have any coins…

Ah.

Then in that case.

Then

Want Work?

This might work.

I nervously watched his mouth.

Lee Seong-hae’s mouth opens…

“Sure!”

Wow!

“But both my legs are cracked… Could I get a sitting job? Hehe.”

‘…’

Why are you saying such things so cheerfully.

Looking at him now, it seems the cutting in line happened because he could barely move while not properly recognizing his surroundings.

He needs to rest quickly for now.

‘Let’s hear the details tomorrow.’

Here

I quickly held out the employment contract, and Lee Seong-hae carefully looked over the contract…

“But there’s no compensation section?”

Ah.

Right. That’s the most important thing in a contract from an employee’s perspective.

‘The situation was too urgent…’

We made a resort from ruins and opened for normal business in half a day.

Wait

I quickly wrote on the back of the employment contract.

The employee has the right to guaranteed accommodation while working at this resort.

Hmm.

In addition to this.

And if you work until all three facilities in the resort are successfully operating, you can take one desired item from the gift shop of a future resort that opens.

This way, he might be able to take an item too.

‘It’s worth trying.’

I don’t know if a real gift shop will be created, but thinking of other theme park areas, it was quite a reasonable deduction.

“Oh, sounds good.”

After checking all the clauses, Team Leader Lee Seong-hae took the pen and signed boldly.

Employee: Dolphin

At that moment, something amazing happened.

“Oh.”

The bloody traces disappeared from Team Leader Lee Seong-hae’s body as a clean uniform covered him, and his disheveled hair was neatly arranged and tied down.

Over the severely injured body parts, buckles and stickers using the mascot’s appearance were attached, creating a decoration befitting a theme park employee.

…Like magic.

“Oh.”

Team Leader Lee Seong-hae jumped in place and raised both hands.

“My body feels light!”

That’s fortunate.

‘It seems like it’s not just putting on a uniform, but making them look like an employee.’

So they can work properly.

Good

Now I need to receive the next guest, so I’ll guide Team Leader Lee Seong-hae to a room… Ah!

Team Leader Lee Seong-hae is trying to carry the corpses under his arms again. Aaaah!

No

Your uniform will get dirty!

‘Really creepy.’

I suppressed the goosebumps rising as I looked at the two corpses Team Leader Lee Seong-hae had carelessly thrown on the floor.

And I pointed my finger.

Leave Behind

“If I leave them behind, I’ll die…”

Inside Resort

Okay

Strictly speaking, all my employees are mascots and part of me.

So when working as employees. Inside the resort, they seem to be recognized as one group.

‘That’s why everyone is working at their respective positions now.’

And the corpses from the same team… hmm. They seem to have automatically become my subordinates.

They’re mine now.

I watched the standard mascots move the two corpses somewhere.

…Let’s not worry about what happens to them. It’s harmful to mental health, and I don’t have the luxury to worry about such things right now.

Let’s take care of the living people.

Today

Rest

I placed a welcome gift that hadn’t been put in the machine yet into Team Leader Lee Seong-hae’s hand.

It was a golden flower incense candle that eliminates insomnia.

“Ooh.”

The team leader drew a small golden flower shape in the air while looking at the burning flame, then smiled softly.

“What a kind-hearted mascot.”

T h a n k y o u

Team Leader Lee Seong-hae raises both hands in clenched fists.

It looks like a dolphin cheering.

“Then where will I be working starting tomorrow?”

Well, about that… Hmm.

‘She does seem like she’d be really good at Difficult Customer Handling.’

However, she also seems like she might openly fight to the death or try to kill clients who make unreasonable requests…

‘Hmm.’

I put her assignment on hold.

S t a n d b y f o r n o w

“Yes.”

Because it’s about time for new positions to be created.

‘Resort expansion.’

After business hours that day.

Day 2 Business Results

Visitors: 102

Resort Guests: 67

Rooms Used: 41

Satisfied Guests: 33 / 45

Revenue: Cheerful Coins x62

‘Good.’

I was able to see a decent report card.

‘The satisfaction rate was pretty good on the first day too.’

I should be able to confirm exactly how effective the ‘social distancing’ theme that started today, the second day, will be tomorrow.

The important thing is…

‘Now I can expand the facilities.’

I looked at the documents.

Requirements for Resort Facility Expansion

3 Employees Complete.

30 Satisfied Guests Complete.

The opening has proceeded smoothly! Resort Guests are generally satisfied, and the biggest reason for satisfaction seems to be that it’s ‘accommodation befitting a theme park.’

I’m looking forward to seeing what effect the new bedding and welcome gifts purchased with revenue investment will have.

And… this resort now seems ready to open new facilities as well.

What kind of facility should I open?

I’m considering the options from the list below…

I watched the pen in my hand moving as if flying.

The expected words fill the documents.

Spa

Restaurant

Fitness Center

Swimming Pool

‘…Phew.’

It’s easy since I thought about it in advance.

Let’s see.

Considering the tendencies of the current employees and ghost story clichés…

‘This is it.’

I picked up the pen and circled one facility.

Spa ○

Restaurant

Fitness Center

Swimming Pool

Restaurant is a ghost story staple, fitness center has gore risks, and swimming pool overlaps with the Blue Zone so who knows what unexpected incidents might occur, so I excluded them.

‘Then it’s definitely the spa.’

Everyone can enjoy saunas and get massages!

I was pleasantly satisfied.

Incidentally, this choice would bring about a completely unexpected situation.

Two days later.

Our resort’s guests would surge by 7 times…

‘…!?’

And.

…On the same day.

The first death would occur.

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