Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 191
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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 191
So.
I opened the unmanned hotel door to find Section Chief Gwak Je-gang tied up with the Security Chief sitting on top of him?
And why is Park Min-seong here of all places?
I mean, it’s nice to see him after so long, but what kind of combination is this…?
“Mmph!”
Just then, Gwak Je-gang who was sprawled on the floor started struggling again. Wait!
‘This is bad.’
If he turns his head and sees my face, things will go completely haywire. I immediately came to my senses and tried to close the door and leave.
But the Security Chief, seeing my movement, seemed to realize something first.
“Ah.”
The Security Chief struck the bound person’s head.
And so Section Chief Gwak Je-gang passed out.
“…”
-What a mess, good heavens! How chaotic this is! But there’s a unique charm that comes from chaos, I must say.
Oh please…
“What on earth is going on here?”
“Ah… he secretly followed me…”
“…??”
To summarize the hurried explanation that followed:
The Security Chief said he had been going around various parts of the company to collect some stories worth telling in order to find information about ‘Pleasant Research Institute’ that he had promised me.
And in that process, he explored various places, and the place he went today was…
“I went to the… Research Team Special Zone in the annex building…”
“…Wait a minute. Isn’t that a restricted area for all employees except authorized personnel?”
“Ah… the Security Team is… fine for work purposes. Like… zone patrol and such…”
Ah, I see.
“So you waited until you were assigned that patrol duty?”
“No… I worked in place of… another security guard…”
“…”
“You said you needed… information…”
‘I feel sorry…’
The Security Chief looked so proud that I lost my words.
Anyway, seeing how their activities overlapped this much, the security team member Baek Sa-heon mentioned was definitely the Security Chief.
Wait, come to think of it…
“Um, I heard you fought with Section Chief Gwak Je-gang… is that related to the current situation?”
“I never fought… he kept picking fights with me…”
“Ah, so you got caught up in his provocations.”
“No… I ignored him…”
“…”
“He bumped into things and fell by himself… Well, anyway.”
The Security Chief scratched his head and returned to the main point.
Today, while patrolling the Research Team Special Zone and looking at equipment and documents, something unusual happened.
“It felt like someone was following me…”
“…!”
At some point, a persistent observing gaze had attached itself to him.
He said he felt some kind of strange malice.
“So I came outside completely… but he kept secretly following me…”
So you subdued him…!
“Well… there happened to be no one watching…”
I nodded with the feeling of wanting to hold my head.
“You didn’t know it was Section Chief Gwak Je-gang.”
“No, I knew…”
“…”
Aaaah!
“Well… it doesn’t really matter… I just didn’t expect him to call the Security Team in the middle of it…”
My gaze turned to Park Min-seong.
His pupils trembled.
“Yeah. I got called…”
“…”
“When I came… it was already… yeah.”
And thus this bizarre encounter came to be…
-Ahahaha! Good heavens! It’s like a sitcom!
Life is indeed a comedy when viewed from afar. The problem is that I’m right in the middle of it!
‘This is maddening.’
I barely managed to speak while resisting the urge to press my temples.
“If we send him back like this, what’s the probability that Section Chief Gwak will report Jay or… anyway, exaggerate the situation and make it a problem?”
“…Most likely?”
Park Min-seong and I broke into cold sweats as we looked at each other, then at the Security Chief.
The Security Chief had a face that found everything bothersome.
He seemed to have a ‘whatever happens, happens’ attitude.
“…”
“…”
But this is about your personal safety…!
“For now, then… should you take the Security Chief away, Team Leader?”
“In principle, yes… but hmm, if you just send him back like this, I’ll somehow handle it on my end… um, I’ll say Section Chief Gwak Je-gang was here alone.”
Park Min-seong laughed awkwardly while scratching the back of his head.
“Since he’s someone who does a lot of eccentric things anyway, it should somehow work out…”
“It won’t work…”
“…!”
The Security Chief stared intently at Park Min-seong.
“Since you just became Security Team… the prohibition spell is at its strongest…”
Prohibition spell?
“You haven’t even… completed 100 days of official work yet, right? It’ll be hard to… lie to the company…”
“…”
“The watch. It’s counting down right now, isn’t it…?”
Park Min-seong’s face hardened.
But the next moment, a picture-perfect smile appeared on his face.
And as if unconsciously, he brought his hand to his wrist. On the wrist hidden by the Security Team uniform, a shape that could also look like a watch was visible.
Right. A wristwatch.
‘…The prohibition spell placed on the Security Team.’
It comes back to me.
At Daydream Company, once rescued employees adequately recovered from contamination and regained their humanity, rather than further investment, they devised ways to put them to immediate use.
The Darkness Investigation Records don’t mention all the specifics of that prohibition spell. It was thought to be more meaningful and chilling to let readers imagine.
However, there were hints scattered throughout.
For example…
‘Wristwatches.’
-Glass Prison Inmate A56 (Origin: Baekillmong Corporation) Interrogation 26 Excerpt
“Team Leader.”
“…Ah! Yes.”
Park Min-seong quickly came to his senses and removed his hand from his wrist.
The atmosphere in the unmanned hotel had become somewhat subdued.
But the Security Chief spoke nonchalantly.
“Look, don’t worry… Well… it’ll probably just be disciplinary action… it’s not like you killed anyone…”
“…?!”
“Just… go and tell them… But… wait a minute.”
The Security Chief looked down at the researcher he had restrained and muttered seriously.
“Isn’t it… a bit of a waste…”
…??
“This person… knows a lot… hmm, since things have come to this… at least some information…”
“No. It’s fine.”
That’s suspicious!
Besides, why is he trying to make the disciplinary action he’ll receive even worse!
‘Let’s wrap this up quickly.’
It wouldn’t have mattered if he hadn’t seen me… wait a minute.
Even if Gwak Je-gang didn’t see me, there’s someone who did.
“Park Min-seong.”
“Yes?”
“If it’s difficult for you to lie to the company right now, in the process of reporting the incident… do you have to mention that you saw me?”
“…!!”
Park Min-seong’s face turned pale again.
“Probably… if the company demands it. I might have to…”
Damn!
From that point on, the problem won’t end at just being discovered alive.
‘…In the process of handling that, it’ll definitely reach Director Ho’s ears.’
If they ask why I was meeting with the Security Chief, then even the Dream Cultivation Room might be discovered…
“Please avoid that situation as much as possible…”
“Excuse me…”
The Security Chief raised his hand.
“Um… actually, I don’t feel like it… and it’s bothersome but…”
And he pointed at Gwak Je-gang.
“Should I just… kill him…?”
“!?”
K-kill authorization!
Come to think of it, the Security Team has kill authorization!
“Kill him… and the Security Team reports ‘no summoning target found’… it wouldn’t be a lie… and it would just pass. For now… we could also buy time…”
“That won’t do.”
“P-please calm down, Chief!”
No, the Security Team’s kill authorization isn’t meant for security employees!
‘It was created so they wouldn’t have to compensate when company people die during the suppression process when ghost stories appear in the company!’
Additionally, it’s more like ‘since the Security Team has kill authorization, don’t get in their way during operations and cause additional costs.’
In the first place.
“Kill authorization is the right for the Security Team to kill employees who interfere during work. Right now you’re not on duty!”
If he could kill so carelessly, Gwak Je-gang might have already disappeared as a handful of blood at the hands of other Security Teams.
“That’s true but… hmm,”
“L-let’s think of another method.”
“That’s right! We’ll think about it carefully!”
“Hmm… yes…”
I’m breaking out in cold sweat.
‘F-fortunately the Security Chief lacks motivation…’
His decisive judgment shows why he was an Elite Team Leader.
…Honestly, it seems like he wasn’t thinking about kill authorization but rather killing to destroy evidence, which makes it even more concerning.
It’s fortunate that he’s fundamentally not a bad person. I wiped away my cold sweat.
…And this situation was my responsibility.
I was too tempted by the Security Chief’s offer to look into information about the Joyful Research Institute.
-It’s a moment of choice, friend! An adventure for a clean result without losses, or stability while accepting some losses!
-Oh, if you request advice from this host, I’m fully prepared to give you a tip.
‘…You’re suggesting we try the adventure of killing and destroying evidence, right?’
-Correct!
Damn.
I was pressing my forehead when suddenly…
I thought of a method.
‘No.’
-Hmm?
‘There’s another way to destroy evidence…!’
“I’ll handle this.”
I took out an item I had stored in my inventory.
Children’s Disguise Syrup
(Green Grape Flavor)
★★★★★
A moment later.
“…Hmm?”
Manager Gwak Je-gang opened his eyes.
To be precise, that’s our assumption. We had blindfolded him.
“Huh? Did I perhaps fall into darkness… No. You just blindfolded me.”
His tone, which had been excited for a moment, suddenly became flat and uninterested.
But soon his tone changes as he realizes why he’s in this situation.
He had been tailing the Security Chief and was restrained and knocked unconscious.
“Hey! Just covering my eyes won’t make me forget what I saw! Hahaha! Oh, my goodness. How are you planning to explain this to the company after pulling this stunt?”
“…”
“The situation has changed a lot since you were Team B’s leader~ Do you still believe the company will give you special treatment? Really now.”
‘Did you really think the license to kill meant you could just go around killing researchers?’ ‘I wonder how the company would react if a busy Research Team manager like me was found as a warm corpse,’ and so on.
He spoke lightly with the characteristic tone of someone who takes pride in their irreplaceable uniqueness, delivering subtle threats and ominous predictions.
But soon.
“Or maybe… you’re desperate enough to resort to this.”
“….”
“What were you looking for in the Annex Special Research Lab? Perhaps…”
His voice became meaningful.
“Were you hoping that darkness you went missing in might be there?”
“….”
“Listen, the entry method has collapsed! Even if you’re curious about what unfortunate state the employees still trapped there might be in…”
He seemed to have talked enough.
I swiftly pulled off the cloth covering his eyes.
Gwak Je-gang looked pleased and seemed about to say something else.
“…!”
But there wasn’t the Security Guard who had once been an Elite Team leader that he expected.
Instead.
There was me, wearing a Security Team suit.
“….”
I took out a pager and waved it in front of the frozen Gwak Je-gang.
“…Ah, so you’re the one who responded to the call! This is… um, the Security Team area?”
Silence.
“By any chance, wasn’t there a security employee where I was?”
Silence.
“…You’re quite taciturn. …Wait a minute.”
Something clicked in Gwak Je-gang’s eyes.
“That’s a special suit.”
He recognized my outfit.
Security Team special department uniform.
“What’s going on? You actually responded to a mere Research Team manager’s call? This kind of cleanup work isn’t something a special and rare individual like you should be doing! Haha… unless you have another purpose,”
And as if he thought of something, Gwak Je-gang’s expression changed.
Right.
‘Unless you have another purpose.’
I silently raised my hand and placed something on the office desk in front of him.
[Fun Truth Game!]
[Shall we play a round?]
“…!”
A carrot-shaped plastic recording toy that cheerfully announced itself.
It looked childish and cheap, not fitting the atmosphere, but Gwak Je-gang’s expression hardened.
‘He knows about it, as expected.’
One of the most famous Security Team interrogation equipment from the Darkness Investigation Records.
Hmm.
Where did I get it, you ask?
To be honest.
‘It’s fake.’
It’s a knockoff I created by pouring ‘Children’s Disguise Syrup’ on my smartphone.
Why else would it be five stars?
It’s an item that disguises what you want, not for disguising yourself.
So it’s for objects, not people, which makes it versatile, and it perfectly mimics the appearance and performance the user desires.
And it doesn’t matter if it’s a fake imitating the original.
What’s important is that the other party will believe this is real.
For the first time, confusion flickered slightly in Gwak Je-gang’s eyes.
“…What? No, there’s no need to do it this way, right? I’m…”
Good, he’s ready.
Now I just need to skillfully lead the deceived opponent and wrap up the situation.
…Preferably in a direction that’s slightly more beneficial to us.
[If everyone’s ready, let’s begin.]
[Now, the question!]
While the carrot chattered, I shifted my feet slightly to open up Gwak Je-gang’s view.
Behind me, Pleasant Research Institute’s prototype dream cultivation device came into view.
“…!”
Gwak Je-gang’s eyes wavered, but the ‘carrot’ stated its recorded question.
[What do you know about the machine in front of you?]
Thus began an incredibly cost-effective cleanup method.
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