Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 175

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 175

The morning of the third day since Flower Golden Resort’s opening dawned.

One hour before 9 AM when the lobby doors open, the employees who came to work gather in the lobby to listen to the mascot’s briefing.

And today, yet another extraordinary event occurred.

Over there

The mascot points to the left window of the resort.

Beyond it, part of the resort area that was still in ruins could be seen.

Now

Operating

And the moment the mascot makes the declaration.

“…!!”

The ruins beyond the window are reconstructed.

Shattered glass swirls to form a dome shape, with gold decorations glinting between the gaps.

And filling the interior are splendid golden flowers.

Steam rises from above, and a glass corridor extends toward the resort building, piercing through the window to create a door that connects them.

Standard mascots rush out and hang an elegant sign above it.

[Healing Golden Spa]

All the employees opened their eyes wide and stared at that golden glass greenhouse.

Looking at it this way, it seemed like a wonderful place that might appear in a fairy tale, but it wasn’t a place meant for people.

If humans entered without any information and tried to enjoy the spa, it would be fitting for the ending to conclude with horrific descriptions like ‘becomes ■■ and goes missing’ or ‘bones of limbs removed. Later found at the recycling center’.

Even the oils used were like that.

The oils placed in the spa are made from carefully selected premium ingredients including sun orange, grape, fig, apple juice from Eternal Farm, blood of 18-year-old ■■ from ■■ Mountain, vascular juice of bipedal primates, etc….

…Recalling the spa introduction example that had such descriptions written in it, Kim Sol-eum felt dizzy.

‘It’s perfect for dying.’

Therefore, after much deliberation, he implemented an emergency measure.

Namely… automation!

At Healing Golden Spa, all massages are customized and performed by plants filled with expert ritual consciousness.

All massages here are automatically performed by bizarre greenhouse facilities.

This was because Kim Sol-eum had thrown coins at it to cut off the connection between this dangerous place and the employees as much as possible….

In the process, the spa became even more bizarre, but he had no regrets!

‘No more additions to Neapolitan-style work rules….’

The theme of ‘guaranteeing precious guests’ private rest’ was put to good use again this time.

By the way, the remaining coins were scraped together and all thrown into changing the bed furniture to match the highest-grade bedding in the resort rooms.

An investment with no consideration for profitability!

‘Please be satisfied with your room and don’t come out to the lobby or corridors.’

It was an action solely for minimizing movement and blocking variables.

In essence, the purpose was no different from an exorcism seal.

The mascot’s efforts to prevent the work rules from expanding to number 20 were tear-inducing….

The Yellow Mascot suppressed a sigh and finally assigned new tasks to the new employees.

First, Lee Seong-hae wearing a dolphin mask was assigned to the spa’s reservation confirmation desk.

“Okay. Got it.”

Next, he assigned the Weasel Employee as a cleaner for the spa waiting room.

“Yes, yes….”

The Weasel Employee, whose mind still hadn’t properly returned, kept nodding and ran off in that direction with his head deeply bowed.

And there was an employee watching this scene intently.

The Ladybug Mask.

He was realizing something on his own.

‘…He’s putting useless employees in places where they don’t have to deal with customers directly…!’

In a way, it hit the mark.

By Kim Sol-eum’s standards, the more trustworthy an employee was, the more he placed them in positions dealing directly with ghost stories.

It was a utilitarian arrangement to increase everyone’s survival rate, but people naturally judge others according to their own values and ways of thinking.

‘He’s selecting them!’

The Ladybug Employee clenched his fists.

Wouldn’t useless employees like that end up being fired or converted into standard mascots?

Either way, it was a cold-sweat-inducing ending.

‘Damn it, really.’

And he looked around at his competitors with dark eyes.

Since he had already become an employee, the safest formula of ‘clearing by staying unnoticed and blending in’ could no longer be applied.

Then he had to use a different formula.

Getting into the passing range.

Making the ghost story evaluate that it was okay for him to survive…!

Come here

The Yellow Mascot separately called the employees who had been on his team and stamped their boarding passes with the stamp placed at the spa entrance.

Beside him, the Field Mouse Employee was even grinning, seemingly starting to feel at ease.

“At this rate, we’ll escape within the next four days, right?”

“….”

Stupid kid.

The ladybug thought anxiously.

Where would he, who was in charge of room service, rank?

‘I can’t be pushed out before getting all three stamps.’

However, regardless of what an individual employee thought, the resort operates.

Business start

The day began with new facilities.

That day’s business was also a success.

However, from the next day on, the Yellow Mascot began to notice strange anomalies.

The fourth day of business.

Kim Sol-eum unconsciously exchanged bewildered looks with Jang Heo-un.

“….”

“Um, somehow the guests seem to have changed a bit….”

That’s right.

Ever since the spa was built, strange phenomena had been occurring somewhere.

Until yesterday, most of the resort guests who came seemed to be here for the theme park, or looked like they had enjoyed the theme park.

It was natural. This was a theme park affiliated resort after all.

But… today, there were more guests with somehow bizarre appearances.

“I heard I can rest quietly thank you so much for the gift please don’t mind me I just need bath water and there’s no problem thank you”

What just passed by was a bizarre creature with only limbs attached to slime.

An appearance that would only appear in ghost stories about being stranded in a remote forest.

No admission ticket on their wrist, not a single souvenir or headband. Clearly not someone who came to enjoy the theme park.

And today, such strange customers were rushing to the front desk like a rush and booking rooms.

A crowd large enough that you could say they were swarming in!

‘…??’

Business is going this well?

Somehow he had an ominous feeling. Sales would be good, but…

Next

Anyway, Kim Sol-eum received the next guest.

But that guest was…

Even someone he was acquainted with.

“Give me a room. Including the spa. Phew…”

A pale man wearing a chauffeur uniform like a uniform and a cap.

‘It’s the Apocalypse Taxi Driver…!’

Kim Sol-eum, who had been indebted to him when escaping from Death Road, broke out in cold sweat!

Why on earth would that gentleman come to a place like a theme park? Was there any entity among the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse who would be interested in theme parks?

‘This won’t do.’

He needed to understand the situation.

Finally, the Yellow Mascot opened his mouth.

Ex cuse me

“Hmm?”

If you do this

One more gift

Kim Sol-eum hastily made a ‘How did you find us’ survey and handed it over.

The taxi driver looked it over with tired eyes and just spoke instead.

“There’s been a lot of promotion through reviews lately… I need rest due to my job. I can’t quit until it’s over. Hahaha…”

…??

Watching the taxi driver take a deluxe room and go up to the 4th floor, the Yellow Mascot blinked.

‘Promotion through reviews…?’

And he remembered.

The coupons the Blue Mascot had been distributing.

Flower Golden Resort

Deluxe Room 1-Day Stay Voucher

(Experience review required)

‘…!!’

No way.

The Yellow Mascot immediately summoned Lee Ja-heon.

Did you write

A review?

“Yes.”

Good heavens!

Where

“One of the mascots assigned as a guide handed me a postcard.”

Kim Sol-eum summoned the standard mascots in charge of that task and checked the identity of the postcard.

‘Good Lord.’

…Dozens of postcards written by guests who had used the coupons were already piled up.

And Manager Lee Ja-heon’s one-line postcard was there too.

-The bed mattress is soft.

‘…’

Well, it was a good review, but…

‘It seems these review postcards are circulating as promotional materials through some strange ghost story network.’

…And this seemed to match perfectly with the newly launched social distancing theme, creating tremendous synergy that even attracted ghost stories that wouldn’t normally come to theme parks…

A completely unexpected boom!

‘Aaaah.’

It wouldn’t have been strange if Kim Sol-eum had cried out ‘Why is business going so well’ and suddenly drastically reduced the number of rooms.

But his identity as a mascot wouldn’t allow such behavior of driving away customers…

Finally, the Yellow Mascot drooped his horns and resigned himself.

‘…Let’s think of it as being able to quickly fill the satisfied guest numbers.’

He recalled the conditions needed for adding the third facility that he had written down yesterday.

What’s needed for resort facility expansion

3 employees

300 satisfied customers

Mascot ceremony ritual

The required customers had increased by exactly 10 times.

And they even had to hold a suspicious event…

‘Still, I should be grateful that the additional employees needed are still three.’

Anyway, seeing the flood of customers, it seemed he didn’t need to worry about filling the customer numbers.

“Is there a problem?”

Seeing the Yellow Mascot with drooped horns, Manager Lee Ja-heon asked.

Of course, the mascot had neither reason nor courage to be angry at the outer space lizard who just wrote a good review as instructed…

No

The Yellow Mascot patted the lizard’s back.

Good job

“? Yes.”

It was like a sitcom.

However, there was someone here watching that scene with an anxious expression, unable to laugh at all.

The Ladybug Employee sitting at the room service call desk.

He surveyed the scene with bloodshot, reddened eyes.

‘Is he being recognized?’

What if that Lizard Manager gets promoted?

He would fall behind.

His survival chances would decrease…!

‘No way.’

He had to do something.

The Ladybug Employee recalled his ‘secret weapon,’ but soon gritted his teeth.

The Lizard Manager was too difficult a target to scheme against.

His special ghost story escape method was already famous within the company. If he tried anything foolish, his head could literally explode.

In the same sense, the Dolphin Assistant Manager was also difficult. Since she was from the Elite Team.

In the end…

There was only one employee who received high evaluations while being manageable.

“…”

He looked back at the front desk.

The employee in the buffalo mask who had been promoted to manager, Jang Heo-un, was working there.

That night.

Knock knock knock.

A guest came to visit Jang Heo-un’s room.

“Um, who might you be…?”

“Ah, it’s me. Ladybug.”

“Ah!”

The tension disappeared somewhat from Jang Heo-un’s face as he stepped back while recalling various work regulations.

Fortunately, the voice-mimicking ghost type guest had also checked out yesterday. He had personally handled the checkout process.

‘G-good.’

Jang Heo-un opened the door, and the Ladybug Employee stepped into the room with a slightly awkward expression.

“Um, hello. Mr. Buffalo. Sorry, but could I just borrow one thing…?”

“Um, excuse me.”

“Yes?”

Jang Heo-un blocked his way.

“Please don’t come inside.”

“…!”

“It’s written in the work regulations.”

16. Please refrain from inviting other guests into your room.

It’s better to make no exceptions even when colleague employees visit. By the time you realize it’s not really them, it’s already too late.

“…”

“I don’t mean to be rude. It’s just… rules are rules, so I think it would be safer to follow them as much as possible.”

“Of course.”

The Ladybug Employee stepped back and laughed awkwardly.

“I ran out of water bottles in my room. If you could just lend me one bottle of water, I’ll leave right away…”

“Ah…! Of course. I should have some extras. Just a moment…”

The complexion under Jang Heo-un’s mask brightened slightly, and he quickly went to the refrigerator inside the room to find and take out some water.

“…”

Taking advantage of that gap, the ladybug moved very slightly.

Very. Slightly.

Flutter.

“…”

“Ah, here it is.”

“Thank you!”

The ladybug received the water bottle from Jang Heo-un, who had returned to the entrance after getting the item from the refrigerator, and left with a smile.

Jang Heo-un bowed his head toward him, then closed the door.

“Phew.”

He was alone now.

It seemed like resting alone at night like this was actually scarier. Remembering the blood and entrails he had seen during the day made him feel nauseous.

‘But it’s rewarding.’

This resort was truly a wonderful place, and the Mascot was truly amazing, cool, and great.

It felt like his daily life had energy for the first time in a long while.

Thinking this way, Jang Heo-un checked the entrance to secure the door for the night…

But then.

‘Huh?’

Something had fallen on the floor of the entrance.

A flat yellow square.

‘A Post-it note?’

It was a Post-it note commonly used on documents.

It seemed like either the cleaning supply-type mascot or the Ladybug Employee had dropped it.

Even that was yellow, so Jang Heo-un unconsciously smiled.

‘How fitting for this place.’

Though it was closer to a yellowish color than gold, Jang Heo-un picked up the paper anyway.

The front side of the Post-it note that had fallen face-down was revealed…

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