Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 243

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 243

An agent of the Disaster Management Bureau.

And the entity his blade points to.

Ho Yu-won.

Supernatural disaster.

“….”

“I’ll have to write up a report as soon as I return to the Management Bureau. ‘Genbu Team 1 seeks formal approval to register this supernatural disaster with the goal of termination.'”

Agent Choi and Ho Yu-won’s eyes meet.

Between their coldly hardened faces, the agent’s eyes burn.

“Let’s see if that insane cult company that grinds people up will keep trying to save one director who’s been marked by the Disaster Management Bureau.”

“…Ah.”

And.

“You’re going to register me as a supernatural disaster and have the Disaster Management Bureau manage me directly? Until I die? Until I’m terminated?”

A malevolent entity beyond the black smoke.

“That’s really too much.”

It speaks in a smooth voice.

“A government agent threatening a civilian… and it’s not like I killed anyone in front of you, Teacher.”

However, Ho Yu-won’s eyes are sunken.

“Someone had to die anyway. Does death stop being death when the Disaster Management Bureau chooses? Does it become rational?”

“….”

“Did you think someone like me wouldn’t emerge while you were selecting people who were more okay to die?”

Ryu Jae-gwan gritted his teeth.

Then.

“Huh? So you can just kill anyone randomly?”

“…!”

“We were talking about not killing good people if they’re going to die anyway, but Director, you’re the one who touched people with superstitions without any agreement.”

The one approaching while dusting herself off was Deputy Lee Seong-hae.

Ho Yu-won’s smile deepens.

“It sounds like you’re saying it’s bad not to cooperate with the group… I’m a bit worried. You belong to the group called a company, but is it okay to not cooperate with your superior and make personal criticisms?”

“Why? I didn’t even attack the Director. And your interpretation is strange too. I’m just saying the Director did something mean.”

Lee Seong-hae looked at Director Ho as if she didn’t understand, then lightly jumped to stand next to the Employee.

“And I’m on vacation so I’m not working, so it’s fine!”

“Wow. How brave of you.”

“Yes. I am a bit like that!”

“….”

“….”

“…Well, it doesn’t matter anyway.”

Ho Yu-won, who had been tilting the scales, eventually ignored the annoying employee and turned his head.

To 130666.

“Employee. Then could you continue accompanying me for my project? As work.”

He adds.

“And those people over there keep interfering with work… I’d like you to suppress them. For security.”

“…!”

The agents’ expressions harden.

The yellow lantern under the black shadow looks around at the agents…

Then looks at the director.

Refusal

“…!”

Reason:

▶ Existing work (Mumyeong Chanran Temple exploration) completed

▶ Damaged uniform

Will report to assigned researcher after returning to containment room

Uniform?

At that moment, people noticed.

Inside the Employee’s coat, something was flowing out through the torn fabric.

Something amorphous.

Things like clumped flesh were overflowing as if losing form and squeezing out.

130666 pressed the area with a gloved hand and covered it with black fog. Just like an action conscious of gazes.

Someone also read a faint signal through that.

Something like shame.

“…!”

Agent Choi’s eyes change.

Hope.

“That uniform, we can fix it too.”

The Employee’s gaze reaches him.

“Come with us. We’ll even sew you something really nice. The workshop people are really skilled with their hands.”

But.

Impossible

Reason: Proposal violates work rules

“…Work rules? Can you explain what that is in more detail?”

Impossible

Reason: Proposal violates work rules

“….”

“Wait a minute. Employee, do you have no intention of changing jobs at all?”

The gaze looks down at Lee Seong-hae.

Resignation impossible

Reason: Proposal violates work rules

“You can’t even resign? Huh, that’s….”

And before Lee Seong-hae could finish speaking, the Employee turned around.

As if about to leave and return immediately.

To Daydream Underground.

To the containment room.

“…Wait!”

Agent Choi urgently ran out and blocked the way.

“I’ll help you return.”

….

Question: Reason

“You rescued me from the temple box.”

“…! Right. I should repay you.”

Agent Choi continued speaking while readily accepting Ryu Jae-gwan’s help.

“This is near Cheonan. Even using the Ground Shrinking Technique to walk quickly to the Company in Seoul would take several hours, right?”

Instead of arguing as usual, Ryu Jae-gwan quietly came and stood beside him.

“You don’t have a car and can’t use spatial movement, right? I’ll take you there.”

….

Silence.

And.

Question: Transportation method

Good.

“Were you worried I’d ride a bicycle? Come on. I can use something else instead of that.”

Agent Choi casually moved his steps as if guiding the other.

Toward the well.

“This is a secret, but this well here is in a good location. The earth veins flow through it, so in the old days it was originally a passage the Management Bureau used for emergency dispatches to the provinces, you know? They say it was blocked due to procedural issues.”

An additional explanation that because of the symbolic nature of that mystical function, it was also used as an escape point when this village became a supernatural disaster.

“You remember, right? When you came to this village festival, I gave you a manual with tips I’d written. There was mention of the well there too. Haha. How was it back then, reading it?”

After another silence.

Unknown

….

“That’s possible too. Don’t worry.”

And….

“Anyway, we don’t use that well now… but if we send the promised signal, the transportation function will probably come alive, so let’s try using it just once.”

Of course.

It was a lie.

‘There are such records, but there’s no way it would come back to life.’

The Disaster Management Bureau wasn’t stupid either, and if it was a passage that could come back to life, they would have at least relocated it.

But it was quite plausible talk.

“I’m going to try moving with that. Close your eyes and when you open them, you’ll be in Seoul. Is that okay?”

It wouldn’t happen.

He was just planning to put him in the well, corner him in the most enclosed space possible where he couldn’t escape, then use his Transportation Ability.

‘A makeshift Glass Prison.’

…He didn’t want to use that method if possible.

But there was no other way.

“Using that well absolutely won’t result in your identity being transferred to the Disaster Management Bureau or anything like that. I swear on the Dokkaebi.”

He could swear carelessly.

Since there would be no occasion to use the well anyway.

‘…Did he notice?’

It was possible. This damn junior was annoyingly perceptive only at times like this….

Really, he was a kid suited for being an agent.

‘Please.’

The fact that the guy called Director Ho was just standing there quietly also bothered him. He expected him to interfere or try some scheme to take him away himself, but he was strangely silent and well-behaved.

And Deputy Lee Seong-hae following along also didn’t feel right somehow.

But he couldn’t tell them to stop. He couldn’t let them notice anything suspicious.

Agent Choi moved his feet with his nerves on high alert.

Behind him, Ryu Jae-gwan would be preparing the makeshift Glass Prison he had.

‘Thank you, Jae-gwan.’

He felt deeply moved that his junior, who had no talent for lying, who had just returned alive, was quickly preparing to help him somehow.

Agent Choi kept walking.

Step.

Step.

With the sound of footsteps, the well drew closer….

“Here.”

Ryu Jae-gwan quickly tore off the blocked upper part of the well.

…The trapped air that had been humid came out, leaving a strange smell.

Agent Choi took a breath and looked back at 130666… no, Kim Sol-eum with a smiling face.

“…It would be difficult for you to go in first, right? I’ll go in first and show you it’s safe. Look. There might be other things.”

The gas mask silently looked at Agent Choi.

Agent Choi grinned and put his foot into the well.

‘The footholds… fortunately they’re still there.’

They hadn’t collapsed.

He carefully fitted his feet into the well wall while going down as quickly as possible.

To lure the other without variables.

And when his feet finally touched the bottom of the well.

“Oh! It looks like it’ll work well! Come down.”

At that shout, the horned thing looked inside.

“…I’ll try sending the movement signal as soon as you come down.”

Please.

….

Thud.

Black boots walked down the well wall.

The smoke fell and pooled at the bottom, but 130666’s body arrived in the well in a bizarrely physics-defying manner, as befitting a supernatural phenomenon.

‘Ugh….’

Some kind of nauseous feeling passed through Agent Choi’s throat, but there was no time to focus on that now.

‘I have to pull this off.’

For more convincing acting, he reached his hand down among the black smoke and placed a Dokkaebi lantern in the center of the well floor.

As if really sending a movement signal.

Though it was actually a different implicit signal.

One he was sending to Ryu Jae-gwan.

“Now, then….”

Jae-gwan needs to capture this guy together with me now.

But that was the moment.

Light burst forth from the Dokkaebi lantern placed on the floor.

“…!!”

Wait a minute.

‘This is….’

This is what you see when a movement signal actually works at a place where earth veins converge.

This is really going to transport us?

‘Where to?’

And the strange occurrence didn’t end there.

Among the black smoke, something similar to the light from the lantern shone from 130666’s body.

A small rectangle from inside the pocket of his clothes.

“…?”

130666 also took it out as if to confirm what it was.

It was… something in the form of an employee ID. But it wasn’t from Daydream.

The company name written there was…

‘Joyful Research Institute…?’

At that moment.

The light grew stronger.

“…!”

The person watching from outside had completely noticed something was amiss.

‘Damn!’

Ryu Jae-gwan hesitated for a moment, but eventually gritted his teeth and threw himself into the well. He couldn’t let just those two be transported.

And therefore Lee Seong-hae, who had been peeking around.

“Oh.”

Sensing the unusual situation, jumped into the well to give ‘help’ to the good people.

Today was a day she had taken off, so she had plenty of time!

And so, a moment later.

When Ho Yu-won quietly approached the well and looked down below, he saw this sight.

“Ah.”

There was nothing inside the well.

Ho Yu-won gripped the stone at the well’s entrance tightly with hands filled with ecstasy.

…

It’s dark.

It’s noisy.

Muscle pain and the aching sensation in my bones from sleeping in the cold makes a person miserable.

I’m definitely collapsed on some concrete floor… But I’m so damn tired and drowsy that I can’t possibly open my eyes…

Tiredness?

“…!!”

I snapped my eyes open.

The back of my neck was damp as if I had some chilling dream. I wiped away the cold sweat that had formed and let out a sigh.

“Phew.”

…

…Wait a minute.

‘…Voice.’

I, I made a voice.

“…!!”

And my hands, my hands are bare. Ordinary hands with nails and joints and fingerprints. I feel around with them. There’s hair, cold sweat, and a face…

I lifted my head and looked around.

Right next to me, I can see a silhouette reflected in the dark glass window.

“…Human.”

It was me.

I stared blankly at my human appearance reflected in the glass window.

I had no idea what was happening.

So I realize a beat too late.

That several familiar people are collapsed around me.

And…

That this place is a subway platform.

“…”

I stagger to my feet. The station name sign that had been hidden behind a pillar comes into view…

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