Bailonz Street 13-Chapter 216.2
AAAAAHHHH!
Thud.
Thud-thud-thud.
The sound of a body pushed out from the bathtub and striking the floor echoed together through the bathroom.
The tiled floor filled up with corpses.
AAAAAAAAAHHH!
Corpses piled up.
I covered with smoke, gathered it, and covered again, repeating the process as I watched its end.
The rainwater pit, having spit out every last fragment, began to boil and evaporate.
Delete.
‘More.’
Until you lose your identity and are crushed.
‘More.’
Like me.
‘More.’
I felt my body covering the bathroom collapsing further and further. Until it reached the point of no return, to the razor’s edge, until I lost everything…
“Roe Deer!”
!
“Roe, stop!”
……
……
Inappropriate form of address
Reason : Unofficial
I retrieved the smoke.
From behind came the sound of the one wearing the badger mask, panting.
“…Sorry.”
There was no need to apologize.
‘That’s right.’
If a ghost story’s very identity is deleted, then it cannot be used as Darkness……
From behind the gas mask, I exhaled smoke and swallowed it again. My collapsing body slowly began to recover…
I felt the eyes of the badger-masked man tremble as he looked at the pile of corpses.
“……How did you come to be able to do something like this?”
I don’t know.
I don’t want to know.
What matters is the next stage of the job.
Prepare containment unit
“……”
The one wearing the badger mask silently brought over the transport cage I had been kept inside.
I confirmed that even excluding the ‘space for me to fill’, there was still enough room inside.
So then…
Flinch.
The bathtub itself, torn up and seized in my grasp, the rainwater within it shrank in fear.
I willingly crammed the bathtub filled with rainwater into the transport cage.
Thump.
The sound of the iron door closing rang out.
“…Confirmed.”
It was done.
Carrying the containment unit as it was, I stepped out through the bathroom door.
……
Silence softly wrapped around the house.
The rain that fell beyond the window continued, but instead of chill and strange unease, there was a peaceful darkness there.
The sound of rain was gentle.
Ordinary.
“Ah…”
The Sales Team caller, who had been under the sergeant’s watch, seemed to notice it too.
Hope spread across his face.
“I-It’s… it’s over…?”
Affirmative
“Ha…”
The employee sank back down again.
This time, not from fear but from relief.
Soon, the lights in the house returned.
Flash.
The newly brightened interior looked as ordinary as if nothing had happened.
“Let’s go back.”
And the other Security Team members ed the present situation as they returned to reality, having exited the ghost story.
Amidst that, the relieved Sales employee finally managed to stand, smiling faintly.
“Th, Thank y—”
There was nothing to be thankful for.
Remaining phase
: Fee calculation
“……Pardon?”
Because everything comes at a price.
[Calculation complete]
[The estimated fee shall now be executed.]
“……”
At the words coming from the dead superior’s pager, the Sales employee blinked and lifted his head.
“…Ah, how much will it be?”
[A manager shall be assigned shortly.]
[Remaining time : 30 seconds…]
“Wait, wait, hey? Ah…!”
Suddenly.
A thought passed slowly through my head.
Anyone who regularly visited this place on rainy days would already have been no different from being bewitched the moment they stepped into this house.
Just like the employee’s dead superior.
But…
Could it really be that Daydream Inc. did not know?
That the couple, who had regularly purchased special potions, had been swapped out as victims of the ghost story. Or perhaps that they had already long since been receiving those potions in the state of residents trapped within the ghost story.
And that Sales Team employees could be dragged into that situation.
At the end of the day, as long as the payment could be collected, did it really matter how this would get resolved, either this or that? Or rather, on the contrary…
……
……
That’s not something for Security Team employees to decide.
“…Let’s go back.”
“Wait…? Wait…!”
The Security Team returned to the company. The shadow of the pager once again swallowed the Security Team.
And I was also stored back inside the containment unit and transported to the underground isolation room of the main branch.
But the thought kept returning.
The face of the caller, carrying an expression that seemed to say ‘I survived’, gradually becoming covered with unease.
That crumbling pile of mosaic.
* * *
[Goodness me. Truly, the kind of talent our company desires… no, should I call you a godsend instead? Hahaha!]
[To think you would capture it directly!]
A cheerful, chattering voice.
It was the voice of my assigned researcher, Kwak Jekang. After receiving this assigned task’s , he flipped through pages excitedly.
[The grade, ah, what level will it be… At least D, I’d say. Even just C would be enough to bring out some truly interesting, I mean, such a wide variety of exploration records… This is a fine Darkness indeed.]
[Let’s call it ‘Whispers on a Rainy Day’!]
“……”
[Well, shouldn’t the two Security Team members who were assigned as assistants at least give you a word of thanks, Mr. Employee?]
[Must’ve been fun, huh? Brought back old memories, playing at being the Field Exploration Team again!]
The man in the badger mask clenched his fist, then released it in resignation.
……
I added one more count to the accumulated tally for the researcher.
And.
Question
[Ah, of course, you can ask anything you want, but…]
Question :
The caller’s specific settlement cost
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