Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 242

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 242

Outside the underground bunker of Mumyeong Chanran Temple.

The deserted Jisan Village was already half-destroyed.

As soon as he burst out of the equally shattered underground bunker door, Ryu Jae-gwan nearly bit his tongue at the sight that greeted him. And then…

“Oh, you’re out!”

A human voice came from right beside him.

“…!”

Lee Seong-hae, assistant manager of Baekillmong Corporation’s Elite Team, had been leaning against the door and turned to look at him, waving her hand.

Ryu Jae-gwan, who was about to speak immediately, hesitated for a moment.

‘How…’

How can she be so calm?

Two people had just escaped from a bizarre supernatural disaster that had been trapping and digesting people for decades.

It was certain death.

He had even heard multiple times that once a box closed, it would never open again. Even Ryu Jae-gwan, who had escaped, was confused about what was happening…

“Why…”

“Aren’t you surprised?”

…!

“Well… you went in with our employee.”

She looks at the ‘Grape Agent’ that Ryu Jae-gwan is holding.

Light reflects in Lee Seong-hae’s pupils.

“Our mascot is stronger than that box!”

“…”

Mascot?

A strange feeling comes from this unfamiliar title…

And looking down at Kim Sol-eum, who was called by that title, Ryu Jae-gwan unconsciously asks himself.

How did I escape?

‘…That sound I heard earlier.’

There was something that mechanically twisted the seeker inside the box who was making strange sounds. That was…

…

‘…Grape Agent?’

“Anyway, are you looking for your colleague agent?”

“…!”

He snaps out of his strange thoughts.

“That’s right.”

The Bronze Agent takes a breath and focuses on the situation again.

So, Agent Choi’s whereabouts are…

“Everyone’s over there.”

Boom.

Just then, a loud noise was echoing again.

Ryu Jae-gwan quickly turned his head.

Two enormous blue guillotine blades held in someone’s arms, moving enthusiastically through the air.

It’s Agent Choi.

The guillotine drives down toward the ground again without hesitation.

Toward its target.

‘…That!’

“Hmm. I think she’s angry.”

Lee Seong-hae’s voice reaches Ryu Jae-gwan’s ears again as he was about to run over.

“At first, that agent seemed to be trying to open the box again somehow. It looked like she was trying to analyze any weaknesses.”

Ryu Jae-gwan can easily imagine it.

Someone who would stare blankly at the box in disbelief, then eventually rack their brain and take action to somehow dismantle the closed box.

He had seen it many times. An agent who would somehow regain composure and try to find a way to save people by getting through this situation, even if it meant taking reckless action.

“She was shaking and looked so distressed that I tried to help. But then Director Ho started saying really annoying things.”

“…!”

-How unfortunate. Of all people, Noru went in.

-But what can we do? Since two people went in, this box will be safe for decades to come. Congratulations!

-This is a situation the Disaster Management Bureau loves.

“Really awful, right? After he pushed them in himself.”

Ryu Jae-gwan felt his mouth twist.

Anger and worry.

“After hearing that, the agent took her hands off the box and pulled something out from her chest.”

And then…

“The door broke.”

Boom.

Another loud noise echoed from the side.

Dust flies all the way here.

“…!!”

Finally, through the settling dust, it becomes faintly visible.

The figure of someone pierced by the guillotine and stuck in the ground.

“Oh, she caught him.”

It’s Director Ho.

Two enormous ceremonial guillotines are embedded in the chest of the suited figure.

“I was staying back so I wouldn’t interfere with her anger, but I should probably go help with the cleanup… Huh?”

Ryu Jae-gwan ran over.

‘No.’

Because he saw it.

Ink was rising from the settled dust on the ground, drawing letters.

The letters turn red and blue, forming a circular pattern.

The sound of gongs, drums, and bells begins to be heard.

‘A ritual…!’

And there’s only one thing that holds rituals like this.

‘A sacrifice ritual…!’

It was a procedure passed down in the Disaster Management Bureau for offering powerful supernatural artifacts.

She’s planning to offer that Baekillmong Corporation director as a whole sacrifice to summon a divine being and destroy the box…!

Anger and purpose have aligned.

‘But.’

“Agent!”

Agent Choi shouldn’t use that!

Agent Choi was sitting on the ground with her eyes closed, doing something.

Her mouth moved as if praying.

She was definitely reciting an incantation.

But even with her eyes closed, she could hear sounds, and since that voice was very familiar.

“Agent!”

Agent Choi stops what he was doing and turns his head.

Agent Choi’s pupils dilate as their eyes meet.

Surprise.

Suspicion.

Joy.

Relief.

And… overwhelming emotion.

“Jae…”

“Agent!!”

Ryu Jae-gwan runs over and grabs him by the collar.

“You know you can’t perform sacrifice rituals, Agent!!”

“…”

“When you don’t even have a name to use, if you do such things…”

“Cheongdong.”

Two scarred hands firmly grasp Ryu Jae-gwan’s shoulders.

“Thank you…”

“…”

Agent Choi, released from the collar grab, slowly crouches down on the floor.

From his gasping appearance, Ryu Jae-gwan realizes how tense and mentally cornered this person had been, and a flood of emotions washes over him momentarily.

The senior’s feelings when he realized that all field team members except himself had been caught in a supernatural disaster in the blink of an eye, and would die after decades of torture.

At the same time, he felt overwhelmed.

‘This guy…!’

Always trying the most dangerous things by himself!

Still, the overwhelming feeling quickly subsided.

At least both Grape Agent and himself had made it out safely.

Instead, he focused on the small orb attached to Agent Choi’s waist.

Someone was already inside that makeshift glass prison.

The person who had introduced himself as a journalist in Jisan Village.

An employee using the strange name Peregrine Falcon.

“…Did you put him in there on purpose?”

“Yeah. I was worried the citizen who got caught up in this might get hurt, so I did this for now.”

Though he didn’t say it outright, he had been cooperative, Agent Choi said with a grin as he finally stood up.

And Ryu Jae-gwan managed to say one thing.

“Please, please don’t do reckless things anymore.”

“Haha…”

No answer came back from Agent Choi.

“My goodness, how touching.”

The supernatural disaster suppressed by two ritual cleavers.

Director Ho of Baekillmong Corporation.

It was smiling.

It doesn’t even frown at being pierced by the cleavers, nor does it let out a single pained groan.

Instead, it calmly raises both hands and places them on the surface of the massive cleaver blade that has split its chest almost in half.

Even as the sizzling sound of burning flesh is heard, its smiling eyes remain unchanged.

‘…Really.’

To the point where you’d wonder if it’s actually suppressed.

“But now, will you return our company employee? You keep holding onto him.”

“…!”

Ryu Jae-gwan immediately steps back.

Agent Choi’s eyes beside him grow cold.

This being, whose habitual smile has completely disappeared, pretends to cover its mouth with its hand while bending down toward the fallen ‘Kim Sol-eum’ and nods as if listening to something.

“What’s that? Grape. Yes yes, that’s a good idea.”

Then it looks back at the fox plague pierced by the cleaver and smiles.

“Grape says he’s resigning?”

“Is that so? If he says it directly, there’s nothing we can do. Shall we wake him up?”

“I don’t want to.”

Blue flames spark in Agent Choi’s eyes.

“Why wake up a sleeping kid. We’ll take good care of him, so you rest in prison too.”

Then he looks around at his nearby colleague.

“Isn’t that right, Bronze…”

“…”

But Ryu Jae-gwan doesn’t agree.

Agent Choi notices that subtle expression.

And having been overly relieved by the situation, questions for understanding the circumstances that he had momentarily postponed come to mind.

How exactly.

How did they get out of the box.

“Bronze.”

Why, when they came out the same way, is Kim Sol-eum still unconscious despite all this chaos.

“Oh my… he doesn’t seem to be waking up.”

“…”

“Shall I try?”

“Shut up.”

“Employee 130666, it’s time to wake up and stand by for duty.”

At that moment.

130666 sat up.

Black smoke.

Rising thickly between the black uniform, yellow lanterns flicker, and an eerie presence heavily presses down on the dusty ground.

The horned thing stands still, motionless, casting a black shadow with its coat hanging down.

‘…’

Something was strange.

‘This is.’

Different from before.

Earlier, despite the bizarre silhouette that was clearly not human, there was something felt from within it.

The atmosphere coming from attitude and reactions.

Things that made him not hesitate to call it Grape at first sight.

But now…

Something forcibly molded into a human silhouette.

A spine-tingling, inductive instinct as an agent.

‘It’s a supernatural phenomenon.’

Still, his mouth opens.

“…Grape?”

The smoke turns to look first.

Gas lamp flames flickering slowly over the black and dusky thing spreading beneath its feet.

The gaze beneath the horns.

Inappropriate designation

Reason: Unofficial

“….”

Agent Choi was at a loss for words.

After moving his lips several times, he finally managed to complete his sentence.

“Then, what should I call you?”

No official designation

Recommendation: Registration Number 130666

“…Call you by a number? You right now….”

“Wait.”

Ryu Jae-gwan urgently interrupted.

“Grape Agent. What’s your current condition? Are you experiencing continuous pain, or are you hearing strange whispers?”

The smoke doesn’t move.

The Black-Clothed Employee from the Special Department stands still and displays text after a few seconds.

Unknown

“….”

“Oh my.”

Ho Yu-won’s laughter can be heard.

“Seems like it’s not the state you expected?”

“You…!”

“Employee 130666. Since a company executive is restrained, could you please remove this?”

Black smoke rushes toward the cleaver.

“…!”

Clang.

The blade of the ceremonial ritual knife that was pulled out and fell makes a clear, hard sound as it hits the floor.

The moment Ho Yu-won, now free, gets up, Agent Choi tries to rush at him while pulling out another restraint device, but….

The smoke blocks him.

“…!”

Warning: Security risk behavior

Suppression level will be changed upon retry

“….”

Dangerous.

The experience of hair standing on end at the back of his neck, like when facing something truly dangerous.

“…You,”

Trembling eyes see something sinister beyond the smoke.

“What did you do.”

“Nothing.”

Ho Yu-won speaks with a voice that sounds regretful.

“It seems the box had a bad influence. Right?”

“The box? Sounds like something you or your cult company did.”

“Who knows.”

Laughter.

“But what should we do. I have no intention of answering you… you can keep wondering about it.”

“….”

Agent Choi withdraws his cleaver.

Looking at the being he once worked with, who was now in a standoff….

“But I know one thing for certain.”

The cleaver points at the sinister thing beyond the smoke.

The Xuanwu Team 1 Agent declares.

“Director Ho Yu-won of Daydream Corporation is a supernatural disaster.”

A target designation.

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