I tried to recall the faces of the three new employees I t earlier.
I can’t rember. They were lting mosaics.
“Do you prefer a certain age or gender in a coworker?”
I don’t rember their voices, either. They sounded like a low-quality radio.
“Do you have a preference for a corpse?”
I turned to Kwak Jekang.
“No preference? Not even one? Really?”
……
I raised my hand.
As the smoke moved, Kwak Jekang’s face brightened.
“That’s right! Using words to communicate like this—”
Warning 1
Reason : Request for work outside of working hours
Cumulative warnings : 1 / Strikes left until disciplinary action : 2
“…Ah.”
From Room 666, an announcent began to play in my head.
The signal for the end of my shift.
– Your work shift has ended. Please return imdiately. Your work shift has ended. Please return imdiately…
“No, but this interview is more like a casual—”
Warning 2
Reason : Request for work outside of working hours
……
Cumulative warnings : 2 / Strikes left until disciplinary action : 1
Smoke began to rise at my feet.
Kwak Jekang fell silent. I could see the tense shoulder muscles of the nearby Guard Team mbers.
Though I couldn’t see it, I could sense the barrier set up between and Kwak Jekang for safety…
However, on Basent Floor 13, my assigned security area, I know I could ignore that and discipline this researcher if I so choose.
I know.
“…Haha! Right. Of course, contractually guaranteed break ti must be observed! I agree, wholeheartedly.”
Through the lting mosaic, I seed to see Kwak Jekang’s sly smile.
It was the poise of an experienced researcher of Darknesses.
Knowing the right timing.
“I wish you a pleasant rest. …We’ve got plenty of ti!”
But there’s no real sense of regret in his voice.
From the center of the Guard Team, with a cheerful wave and picking up his handwritten interview notes, Kwak Jekang smiled.
“I am your assigned researcher, after all.”
……
“I’ll do my best to help you from now on. For a long, long ti… I look forward to working with you. Hahaha… Even at your new post.”
So ti later.
I opened my eyes in a different place, not in Basent Floor 13 of the annex.
A new work site.
* * *
Filled with excitent all the way to the top of his head, Kwak Jekang typed away.
Recording the results of the experint was a true delight.
Especially in a case like this, where so many test subjects produced unprecedented outcos through complex interactions!
“Hahaha, to think this was possible. Just how in the world did anyone manage to make a contract with sothing like this…”
Kwak Jekang stared into his PC, his eyes still spinning with laughter.
On the screen was a neatly transcribed version of the field notes he’d written, a summary of the experintal record.
New Employee Orientation – 21st Attempt
There are docunted cases of interactions between orientation participants and the Guard Team officers in charge, or the ‘Special Division Employees’ on each basent floor of the annex.
And, without question, the longest entry of all was this.
2.2.1 Security Officer of Basent Floor 13 (hereafter referred to as 130666)
“To think we could actually et…”
Ever since Director Cheong first said he would be assigning him ‘special tasks’, he’d been quietly hopeful.
But for it to actually appear!
Kwak Jekang recalled the employee who had interrogated him, that bizarre figure with horns, a gas lamp, and swirling smoke.
That strange being, summoned into the vessel of the Field Exploration Team’s fastest-promoted mber.
Of course, compared to that ti, the being he t again now seed sowhat chanical and bound…
But isn’t it only natural to be curious as to why it turned out that way!
‘Did side effects manifest or sothing?’
It was truly fascinating!
All the more so as he analyzed the tendencies observed in this experint.
He couldn’t help but read over the notes he had written for himself.
This entity, while serving as the security officer for Basent Floor 13 for a period of 179 days, strictly complied with all labor regulations. No noncooperative or aggressive anomalous cases, which are commonly observed in Special Division entities, were recorded during this period.
However, in the recent experint, the entity identified an irregular loophole in the regulations and boarded an elevator that had stopped within its designated security zone, accompanying experintal subjects who had entered the area. The entity displayed a tendency to facilitate the survival of multiple experintal subjects.**
Here’s the thing, though.
**This behavioral tendency is similar to the Dream Essence collection trait exhibited by the employee’s body prior to death, which was used in the employnt contract process for 130666.
Indirect influence of the self is suspected, and further experints are requested.
“This is 100% going to be censored.”
He figured that either it would be marked as a researcher’s personal opinion or that the content itself would be deleted outright.
Well, the fact that an entire employee was used as a living sacrifice in the Special Division security contract isn’t really that surprising, but the identity is a problem.
“Would they really want to reveal that it was that elite employee with the fastest promotion record?”
They’d rather not be specific.
Especially if, without ever being told, so crazy Research Team mber managed to figure it out on his own…
Shrugging as he typed even faster, Kwak Jekang thought back to that interesting employee… Kim Soleum.
Because the next part was even more interesting!
Anomalous Aggression of 130666
: When exposed to the entity’s smoke (hereafter referred to as 130666-1), humanoid ‘Darkness’ entities are transford into corpses.
No signs of life are detected. Analysis of blood and cell samples confirms these are human corpses at the initial stage of decomposition.
CCTV footage of the elevator during activation of this ability by 130666 intermittently shows the entire elevator covered by 130666, exhibiting a phenonon similar to a supernatural phenonon.
He humd as he recalled the Guard Team staff in the annex basent who were turned into corpses.
They were slowly being restored to Darknesses, but as if suffering from aftereffects, they were going through a confusing and bizarre state of transformation.
Guard Team mbers sotis showed unusual reactions just by being near them, as if contamination was flaring up.
Kwak Jekang grinned.
“They really are interesting fellows.”
……So.
Of course, an interesting idea occurred to him.
No additional significant risk factors have been identified. 130666 consistently resus the form of an employee before exiting the elevator.
Therefore!
Thus, the entity is certified as being in a state suitable for official duty within the Special Division.
“Hahaha!”
However.
Dedicated personnel will be assigned to prevent unexpected incidents and fatal safety accidents.
Kwak Jekang was beyond thrilled.
This had already been approved by higher-ups.
And… with personnel especially chosen by himself.
Safety Supervisor : Security Managent Departnt, Guard Team Unit 3 Leader (alias J3, real na ■■■)
Control Support : Security Managent Departnt, Special Managent Team mber (alias Badger, real na Park Minseong)
And so.
“……Ah.”
130666 will et two Security Team staff mbers at its newly assigned worksite.
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