Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 230

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 230

Yukwae Research Institute office.

Director Ho.

Black roulette.

Something dangerous.

“Soleum….”

I reflexively covered Director Ho’s face with smoke.

The figure wearing the Yukwae Research Institute employee ID card disappears into a silhouette as it’s buried in black smoke. I try to read its background and settings. And then erase him….

“You know what? Killing me would violate company regulations.”

….

“It might be possible if there’s evidence that I’m harming the company… but is there any?”

….

I released the smoke.

Director Ho, revealed from within the smoke, is smiling unchanged.

I leave some smoke around his neck just in case, then ask.

Request for situation explanation

“Ah, I came out on an inspection to check on the Security Team… and I happened to see the Underground 29th Floor elevator button. So I pressed it.”

….

Lie

“Huh?”

I raised my hand and tapped the employee ID card he was wearing.

Something prepared.

“Ah.”

Director Ho glances down at his employee ID card and smiles with a twisted corner of his mouth.

“You’re still sharp as ever. Even in that state?”

Director Ho mockingly scans my appearance, which is identical to the prototype Security Team uniform he had given me, then continues speaking.

“That’s right. I also have darkness I’m looking for, so I come out for walks sometimes. With this employee ID card, I can move through this hell relatively safely.”

…Hell?

It was a strange choice of words.

And more importantly than that….

Source of the employee ID card

“Sorry, but I don’t see any reason to tell you…. Oh, would you like me to lend it to you if you need it? Want to try wearing it?”

Director Ho whispers kindly.

“If you wear this, you can see the employees of Yukwae Research Institute. I’ll show you specially, Soleum.”

….

I turned around and resumed my search.

“Soleum?”

‘There’s no need to get involved now.’

I found one advantage of having my life mortgaged to Director Cheong while not being in a human body.

Now I don’t have to struggle and respond to his words.

“Soleum?”

I put the roulette in my uniform pocket and continued examining the office.

“Why are you taking that? Is it darkness… ah, it seems like it. I suspected it too, but you found it right away, Soleum.”

Director Ho continues speaking leisurely.

“As expected, do darkness created at Yukwae Research Institute recognize each other?”

I stopped walking.

Just now.

“I know that Soleum was born from Yukwae Research Institute’s last dream incubator.”

….

Question: When did you find out

“From our first meeting, of course.”

…!

“But it seems you made the wrong wish. Judging by your contract with Director Cheong.”

I looked back at Director Ho.

He was smiling like a picture.

“Still, it’s much better to be here even like that. Baekillmong Corporation is a place that accepts you no matter what form you’re in. As long as you have utility value… like Soleum.”

It was sophistry.

And that form of address.

Request to change form of address

Don’t call me by my real name.

“But Soleum. You’re still Soleum, aren’t you?”

Is he doing it on purpose?

I’m on edge about calling someone’s real name in the middle of darkness.

Especially if it’s Yukwae Research Institute.

And if the speaker is Director Ho, even more so.

“If it really bothers you, I’ll try changing how I address you. Would Noru work?”

I looked at him.

“I’ll take silence as agreement. Noru!”

Question: What you know about me

“I know that Noru is a very special existence. Special enough for the last remaining researchers of Yukwae Research Institute to stake their lives on summoning and trying to steal you away, and….”

The emotion disappears from Director Ho’s voice.

“Special enough to provide information about Segwang Special City that I requested, as if you already knew it, without doing any intelligence activities at the Disaster Management Bureau.”

….

‘So he was suspicious after all.’

When I handed over the information and obtained the Wish Potion, I didn’t care whether he looked at me suspiciously or not.

I didn’t know we’d meet again like this.

And I realized one thing.

‘He doesn’t know who I am.’

That I came from a world without ghost stories, where only the wiki existed.

While stirring up this Yukwae Research Institute in the main building’s basement, he might have seen the experiment logs I saw, but he doesn’t seem to know the details.

That means….

He actually has information he wants to know from me.

And I have neither the intention nor the need to answer him.

I resumed my search again.

“Excuse me, how about we exchange with each other? Our identities, I mean.”

Not necessary.

“Can we go together? I’m scared to go alone…”

Testimony of fear

▶Unqualified as a Daydream worker

“…It’s okay. That only applies to regular employees.”

Director Ho smiles benevolently again like a naive employee.

“I’m a contract worker, so it’s fine. …Same goes for you.”

…If you can call having your life permanently mortgaged a contract position.

“Noru?”

I came out of the office and started walking.

I hear footsteps chasing after me from behind.

And a calling voice too.

“Noru?”

…

“Please come with me. Noru.”

Warning 1

Reason: Work interference

Accumulated warnings: 1 / 2 until disciplinary action

“…You’re going to give me disciplinary action?”

Warning 2

Reason: Work interference

Accumulated warnings: 2 / 1 until disciplinary action

“Did someone tell you it was okay to do this to Noru? Director Cheong Dal-rae? Researcher Gwak Je-gang? Security Chief J3? Park Min-seong…”

Warning 3

Reason: Work interference

I turned around and grabbed the opponent’s neck.

“…!”

Accumulated warnings: 3 / 0 until disciplinary action

Execution

The smoke hanging around Director Ho’s neck covers the face again. Director Ho reaches out a hand…

‘That won’t work.’

I grabbed that hand with my other hand as if crushing it.

…

…

“Ah, I touched it.”

[Oh my, be careful, friend!]

Director Ho’s hand joints twist grotesquely. It grabs the zipper on the wrist part of my security suit,

Ziiiiiiip.

And pulls it down.

“You shouldn’t say such things while wearing the shroud I made. You shouldn’t say such things when the covenant made with me still stands.”

The joints of the long fingers try to grasp the amorphous flesh on the forearm revealed as the zipper is pulled away.

Blisters rise from the flesh.

“Man. You, your hand…”

An attempt to cast a prohibition spell.

However, the blisters rise more slowly than before, and the hand twists strangely.

Precariously.

‘How dare you.’

I completely covered it with smoke. And before it could recite the prohibition spell, I read it first.

The records of Director Ho belonging to Daydream Corporation.

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