“…Is this a visualization of my contamination? So I can refer to it while making purchasing decisions?”
“It is similar.”
I’m going crazy.
For now, I sat back down and pressed my temples. The yellow mascot fidgeted, looking like it wanted to help .
This is seriously driving insane.
“Would you like to check?”
Check what?
“For a smooth shopping experience, would you like to take another look at the features of the projections sitting closest to you?”
“……”
Instinctively, I understood.
This is advice.
So I lifted my gaze and looked at the ‘’s’ filling the table.
WhereamII’mconfusedLet’sgofindthehandbookagainThrowingawaythehandbookwasareallyhugemistake.
Welco to Looky Mart!
[The graduation ceremony will start again soon. I need to return to school.]
– What a unique place. If I do an in-depth report, the great host might prepare a new corner for !
I’m going to hurl.
But that repulsion cos from things I know. It’s fear that arises because I know them well enough to imagine them.
However…
“……”
I looked at the faces of those sitting closest.
Since they weren’t shrouded in fog, their distinguishing features were relatively clear.
But then.
“Who are you?”
The one sitting just after the huge mascot at my side, obscured by it.
It was draped in sothing like an old rag.
“I’ve never seen you before.”
A I don’t know.
I n t r u d e r
The mascot turned its body, clearing my view toward that figure.
As I looked more closely, I noticed the material of the unfamiliar ’s rag.
That was… worn parchnt.
“You.”
I looked at the unfamiliar .
“Take that off.”
“……”
The figure sitting at the table slowly pulled the parchnt rag off its head, revealing itself.
, dressed in a scarlet janitor’s uniform.
– Caught .
The mimic from the Church of the Luminous Unknown turned to look at , twisting its head.
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“Allow to cover up anything that interferes with your shopping.”
The next mont.
The in the janitor uniform vanished from the table.
“……”
My heart pounded.
“Dear Custor. Did anything from your mind’s image just now co to mind?”
“Yes.”
I rembered.
I reached into my inventory tattoo and pulled out the item I’d forgotten… No, the item that had been subsud so I’d forget it.
A worn, rolled-up piece of parchnt.
The Mimicry Sect’s Scripture, Verse 4
Story Usurper
The item that ca out when the security sergeant disposed of the mimic I t while cleaning in the company basent, back when I was under disciplinary action.
A fragnt of the Church of the Luminous Unknown’s sacred law.
I also rember wrapping it up with ‘Wrapper 12B357나’ to block its effect.
‘And… On Tamra Express, I unwrapped it and wrapped it around my body for defense!’
After that, as I got caught up in Braun’s Late-Night Talk Show, I never had a chance to think about this Church of the Luminous Unknown’s scripture.
Or maybe, at so point, my narrative had been manipulated so I couldn’t recall it.
‘…If I hadn’t just received a music box from the Church of the Luminous Unknown in the rch Box, I would’ve completely forgotten.’
It was thanks to seeing another item from the sa source just now that I was able to recall it.
And…
“Dear Custor. The parchnt is swallowing sothing.”
“Yes.”
I saw it too.
I forcibly pulled out a black, cylindrical object that was almost completely absorbed into the parchnt.
A fountain pen.
“…!”
It was the brainwashing item from Sekwang Technical High School, the one I’d gotten back from Baek Saheon by turning the tables on him.
‘I had forgotten about this too.’
I realized.
Apparently, the scripture had been stealing the narrative of this fountain pen.
It grew stronger through that, and one day when I was taken over, I was completely assimilated into the bizarre phenonon of the Church of the Luminous Unknown…
……
Wait a second.
‘What else have I forgotten?’
I racked my brain quickly. But nothing ca to mind.
Of course, it must already be a stolen mory!
If that’s the case…
“Can I receive a list of the items I’ve purchased so far from the alien shop?”
“Yes. Are you attempting to track down the whereabouts of your items?”
“…That’s right.”
“In that case, I have sothing to tell you.”
The lizard looked at .
“There is an item you have forgotten.”
“What is it?”
“You received strength-enhancing gear from Section Chief Lee Jaheon and used it to craft new equipnt, but the whereabouts of the crafted item are unclear.”
“…!”
“Section Chief Lee Jaheon attempted to inform you of this fact, but soon realized that simply notifying you would not resolve the problem.”
…I rember.
– Does it enhance strength?
– Sothing similar. Use it as a parent item when crafting a new special equipnt.
– ……! Thank you.
We definitely had that conversation.
As I listened, I slowly realized what the item was.
‘…It was a bracelet.’
It was sothing I last made together with Assistant Manager Eun Haje at the Daydream Inc. annex.
At that ti, she had suddenly appeared in my room… just like Section Chief Lee Jaheon appearing in this motel room now.
But after making that custom equipnt, I have no mory of what happened to it.
There were several crisis situations where I could have used it, but it never ca to mind.
And it probably never will again… because it’s already been devoured by the sacred scripture fragnt.
…It’s a chilling thought. I barely managed to speak.
“I’m sorry. After you went through the trouble of lending it to .”
“It’s alright.”
Even though it said it wasn’t Section Chief Lee Jaheon, it accepted my apology as if it were natural.
‘Huu.’
Calm down, calm down.
At least I noticed in ti. That in itself is a relief.
‘Was the Dream Essence Collector not filling up because the mimic had almost completely overtaken ?’
On top of that, I’d been playing all sorts of bizarre roles, from the Security Team’s special division to the mascot, ‘imitating’ them all, so the effect would have been amplified.
…Most likely, that’s why I was judged not as a human, but as a being of the Church of the Luminous Unknown.
‘Huu.’
Thanks to that, it feels like the contamination has gotten even deeper.
With a gloomy gaze, I looked at the bizarre “’s” seated around the table.
The cat slapped its tail on the table with displeasure, its eyes blood-red as it stared at , and the mascot drooped its horns, looking dejected.
All the other reactions left feeling dazed.
And although I hadn’t been expelled from the table, the part of overtaken by the mimic was probably still inside …
‘Ha.’
For now, one thing at a ti.
I signaled to the fragnt of the Church of the Luminous Unknown’s sacred law.
“Can I dispose of this parchnt through the shopping mall?”
“It is not an item the Space Shopping Mall purchases.”
“Do you deal with any of the contaminations sitting at this table?”
“They are not items the Space Shopping Mall purchases.”
Huu.
Right. Either way, these are too dangerous to be sold to humans, so of course they wouldn’t be accepted here.
‘But Section Chief Lee Jaheon guided this way as an alternative to the Fox Counseling Office.’
If so… it must an there’s so thod.
At that mont, the ‘We Can Help’ button flashed through my mind.
“Then, is it possible to request the ‘Coalition’ to remove these, for a fee?”
“Yes.”
“……!”
The lizard looked at .
“Are you requesting an order to permanently destroy a part of yourself?”
D o n ’ t
I t ’ s D a n g e r o u s
Wait.
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