Chapter 856 Chapter 853: Side Story - Anomalous Phenona Managent Bureau (2)
—Identification Number S-102.
Anomalous phenonon, commonly called 'Wonmi-dong Psychiatric Hospital'.
What is presud to be the entity is an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Wonmi-dong that has been closed for over 40 years.
At present, from the outside, it is a building that is not being maintained.
Even if one goes inside, no particular abnormality can be found, but missing persons continue to occur within a 50 km radius in the nearby area.
There is a high possibility that it is an anomalous phenonon that has co over from another country.
For eyewitness accounts and records from the other country, refer to the link below.
Records regarding Wonmi-dong Psychiatric Hospital.
Among them, the conversation between Missing Person Miss A and Bureau Agent B. For details, refer to the link below.
Below is a summary of the events that occurred between Miss A and Bureau Agent B.
[Miss A recently beca a graduate student, and, unable to endure the professor's harassnt, was presud to have walked near the abandoned building while on the phone with a friend, and to have had conversations such as, 'Living as a graduate student, I think I got a ntal illness. The professor must be crazy. I will get rid of the professor,' and so on.
[Starting a few days later, Miss A began to not co out to graduate school, and Miss A's friend, her lab seniors and juniors, and the professor, finding this strange, ca to Miss A's ho and looked for Miss A. When she was not found anywhere, they filed a missing person report through her parents, and afterward the police handed the case over to the Bureau.
[Agent B, who has jurisdiction over that area, tried to contact Miss A through several asures and contacted Miss A through an app received from the Bureau Director.
[Miss A claid that she was currently captured and brought to so psychiatric hospital. She said that she was dragged away by certain people, and that they were confining her under the na of 'treatnt'. Fortunately, Miss A secretly brought her phone inside, so she received Agent B's signal.
[Three days after Miss A received contact. Miss A continued to exchange contact with Agent B while behaving normally. She conveyed the situation inside the psychiatric hospital and said she requested that they let her out. However, she said the 'beings' inside the psychiatric hospital treated her request as part of ntal illness and ignored it. Inside the hospital there were quite a few others who seed to be in the sa situation as her, and she said that those who received 'treatnt' there for a long ti instead seed to have beco very strange in the mind.
[Around six days after Miss A received contact. The psychiatric hospital's 'treatnt' of Miss A began. It is not known exactly what they did to Miss A, but after forcibly administering an unidentified drug to Miss A, they were presud to have used various psychological and physical ans to break Miss A's will. After undergoing sothing like drug treatnt, Miss A's condition beca very strange.
[Around nine days after Miss A received contact. Miss A pretended to take the drugs they gave her while hiding them away, and thanks to that, her mind returned to so extent. However, perhaps as a side effect, extre thinking and violence beca prominent, and she boldly made a plan to escape the hospital and put it into action. Over several days, Miss A grasped the hospital's structure, set a fire in one place, and, taking advantage of the mont when attention was drawn there, fled through the back door. From then on, she exchanged contact with Agent B by phone. However, no matter how much she ran in the opposite direction after leaving the hospital, an end did not appear, and at so point, Miss A said that even though she ran straight, for so reason she arrived at the hospital's front gate. Afterward, Miss A was presud to be dragged back by the hospital's 'beings' and to have received even stronger 'treatnt'.
[Fifteen days after contact with Miss A passed.
[Contact ca first from Miss A's side. This ti, Miss A seed to be together with the beings called the hospital's 'doctors'. As if Miss A's mind and body have completely collapsed, she no longer through this place is reality, and after dismissing everything in this world and Agent B and so on as 'ntal illness,' and saying that soday she will receive healing from the psychiatric hospital's 'beings,' contact was cut off.
[Afterward, no further communication with Miss A was reached, and after Agent B researched the hospital's rules, he found out the fact that the hospital unconditionally abducts a person within a 50 km radius of the hospital among people who have said words in the similar vein of, 'I think I have gotten a ntal illness.'
[After saying that he will save Miss A and the missing persons, Agent B took sufficient weapons and equipnt, satisfied the conditions himself, and entered the psychiatric hospital.
[However, even up to now, contact with Agent B has not been reached, and there also seems to be no change in the anomalous phenonon.
[The abduction radius of the relevant anomalous phenonon, S-102, is widening little by little every week, and since not only the conditions for extermination or sealing, but even the thod itself to rescue the missing persons is not visible, the managent committee requests the Director's decision.]
—Abnormal Phenonon Managent Bureau Managent Committee Chairman Park Dang-mu.
"Identification number S? An annoying one ca in."
Kang Min-hee clicks her tongue as she flips through the materials about the anomalous phenonon on a tablet.
The docunts received by fax contain specific figures, types, and detailed data about the anomalous phenonon, and after entering the Bureau-only site through the QR code in the fax docunts to check the situation, she sits in a limousine and takes a sip of coffee.
The anomalous phenona managed by the Anomalous Phenonon Managent Bureau receive an identification number and a letter grade according to the danger they possess and the abilities they have.
If the identification number is simply a classification table that categorizes anomalous phenona, the letter indicates the danger level of these anomalous phenona.
The letter ratings classified by the Bureau are five in total:
H, which has the lowest danger level but complicated handling.
G, a danger level that also causes damage to agents.
S, for which agents find it difficult to find a way to respond.
SS, for which requires evacuation and contacting the Director rather than confronting it upon discovery.
There is also J, for which is impossible to deal with even with the current Director's ability.
'A J-rank is sothing I can suppress only if I draw in the power of the main body, but those guys are crushed on their own under the presence of Sword Spear's main body, so there's no need to worry... These days, anomalous phenona from G up to S are a pain.'
Even if Sword Spear seems to be loafing around, just by having the main body reside on Earth, she casts her presence over this entire universe and gives a wordless warning to the transcendent existences of otherworlds that flow into this place.
In that respect, Kang Min-hee rates Ji Hwa highly.
Of course, even if Ji Hwa is pressing down truly troubleso things with presence, the bugs that cannot even feel that presence are sothing Kang Min-hee has to go around and clear out herself.
"It would be nice if so talent that can be used by the Bureau cos in... Is there no talent who can bear [wisdom]...?"
She lets out a deep sigh and finally arrives in front of the problematic Wonmi-dong Psychiatric Hospital.
[Director, we've arrived...]
"I know. Stay on standby."
After leaving behind the anomalous phenonon she subjugated and works as the limousine driver, Kang Min-hee gets out of the limousine, puts a pipe in her mouth, and lights it.
"Puhu..."
Exhaling smoke that glows with a faint blue light, she approaches the agents waiting in front of the hospital.
Among them, she approaches a woman wearing an out-of-place hanbok rather than a black suit and sunglasses.
"How is the situation? Chairman."
"P-Please lower your speech. This lowly one still cannot get used to receiving honorifics from the Director."
"Don't be like that. Right now, I'm just a human. More importantly, give the situation report first."
"Yes, yes... Then...up to now, 36 more missing persons have occurred, and the hospital's abduction radius is now a situation where it has increased by another 41 km."
"Are you continuing attempts at sealing or isolation?"
"Yes. We are bringing even various devices that seal anomalous phenona and trying, but...there is no reaction at all."
"Hm..."
Kang Min-hee holds the pipe in one hand and hands the materials she brought to the 'Chairman'.
"I will go and suppress it. After I enter, please isolate the area around the hospital from the surrounding space. For the ti being, treat the inside as 'the sa as the Director's Office,' so tell the agents to wait while facing the direction opposite from the hospital, and inform them that no matter what sound cos from behind, they must never turn around. If they turn around, at minimum they will have to be confined for six months."
"Yes, I will make sure they keep it in mind. Is there anything else you need?"
"Mm... When I do damage recovery, if the missing persons' condition is bad, I will use a rather rough thod and turn them back. However, in a bad case, it is possible that they will also have to be isolated for at least six months. Please keep this in mind."
"Yes, understood. Please return safely, O Great One..."
"Umm..."
Kang Min-hee's face reddens a little and she waves her hand.
"...I say it again and again, but I am only human. There is no need for excessive courtesy. Then I'll be going for now."
After greeting the Chairman, she slowly goes into the hospital entrance and spits out a line as if muttering.
"I think my mind is going to turn strange."
Imdiately after, she notices that at so point she has entered a bizarre world.
***
"Hmm."
At so point,
The clothes she wears have changed into a patient uniform.
Of course, the phone and handbag she brought are still in her hands, and the position of the pipe in her mouth also has not changed.
The only thing that changed is her outfit.
As well as the space, and the strange dicinal sll that stings her nose.
"Patient. I believe you were told that smoking is prohibited inside the hospital."
And then, sothing wearing a doctor's gown approaches in front of Kang Min-hee and speaks.
Its face is not visible in detail.
However, strangely, she does not feel any sense of incongruity, and if she thinks about it later, it is an existence she thinks she will rember as just 'a human with no distinguishing features'.
"Patient, you need to receive treatnt at our hospital right now. We do not know in detail what kind of person you were in your world. But what is certain is that you can receive treatnt, and you can neatly forget the false world that stems from your ntal illness. Please follow our instructions. If you resist, I will call the 'nurses'..."
"Hmm..."
Kang Min-hee takes the pipe out of her mouth and glances back.
Sturdy nurses are already standing behind her, waiting to subdue her if she makes a sudden move. The nurses also have faces that are blurry and hard to see.
"Huuu..."
Kang Min-hee exhales smoke and asks the 'being wearing a doctor's gown.
"May I ask a question, Doctor?"
"If it is a normal question, I will accept it."
"If you are soone who treats ntal illness...while watching the ntal illness or hallucinations that patients see...have you ever thought things like 'there are ghosts' or 'there is an afterlife'?"
"Patient. In this world, there are no ghosts, and stories like an afterlife, or experiences of an afterlife, are also nothing but hallucinations the brain sends as it reaches death. Those are all hallucinations or ntal illness, and you should..."
"Yes, yes, you believe there aren't any, right? You want to get treated, right? Fine. I will get treated once, so while I get treated, I will leave this with you for a mont, Doctor."
She draws on the pipe one more ti, exhales the smoke for the last ti, and hands it to the being wearing the doctor's gown.
"Where is my room? I want to treat my illness while mingling with the other patients. I believe the doctor will treat my ntal illness. Now quickly guide ."
At Kang Min-hee's cooperative attitude, the being in the doctor's gown and the beings in nurse uniforms look at each other and mutter sothing, then lead and guide her to a hospital room.
After a while, once the nurse and doctor confirm that she is staying quietly in the room, they suddenly vanish sowhere, and Kang Min-hee looks around the room with an amused face and smiles.
Then, she rummages around in her sleeve and starts taking sothing out.
"Ghosts don't exist? Hahaha..."
Although she is a split body, so in practice she stays at a human level, her essence is a great existence.
Therefore, through that rank, she suppresses and keeps isolated countless dangerous anomalous phenona.
"Co out, [Eight-Chi Ghost]. [Slit-Mouthed Woman]. [Portrait of the Abandoned House]. [Monkey Hand]. [Press Man]."
Splat splat splat splat, splat splat!
From Kang Min-hee's sleeve, powerful anomalous phenona that Kang Min-hee suppressed fall out with splats.
Kang Min-hee picks up the hand-shaped anomalous phenonon that cannot move on its own, then slightly opens the hospital room door, pushes the hand into the room next door, and gives an order to the remaining anomalous phenona.
"I'll let you loose for a while, so make a ss on your own."
[Kyaaagh!]
[Kkiyeeeek!]
"I said if you don't answer as a human, you'll get hit. Answer..."
[We apologize, Teacher. Because it has been so long since we ca out, we seem to have briefly lost reason. We ask for your understanding.]
"Good. Then all of you play happily."
As soon as her words fall, the four ghosts that can move on their own rush out of the room like beasts and begin tearing through the hospital in their own ways.
Eight-Chi Ghost goes out through the window and walks while going popopopo, flaunting its long body.
Soon, the popopopo sound rings out from outside the hospital.
The Slit-Mouthed Woman follows behind nurses who wander alone, her face covered by a red mask.
Soon, a scream like sothing tearing rings out inside the hospital.
The Portrait of the Abandoned House begins heading silently toward the hospital director's office, and soon, from the direction of the director's office, as if the sothing playing the role of the director seems startled, a slipping sound occurs.
Press Man swings its fist and strikes a passing patient.
Soon after, along with a voice that says, "With a constitution so suited to being a sailor, do you not know that not enlisting in the Royal Navy of the British Empire is the sa as desertion!?", the passing patient instantly transforms into the British Navy and is consud, and before long they gradually increase their numbers and beco the splendid navy of the great British Empire, fully attempting a Press Gang inside the hospital.
"Huuu..."
Kang Min-hee takes out the tobacco she hid, puts it in her mouth, and looks out past the iron bars.
"Popopopo..."
"How do I look?"
"Nurse!? What is this portrait?"
"He who has seen this uniform, abandon hope! We are sailors of the Great Empire!"
Listening to the sweet sounds of chaos, she exhales tobacco smoke.
"If you're so good at treating ntal illness, I'll keep throwing people who need treatnt at you, so try treating them well."
It is an evening in the season when it turns cold as autumn runs toward its very end.
It is late autumn.
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