episode_0013

The place Eunnoeul and I headed to was the supplies room one floor below.

It actually looked like a warehouse, with miscellaneous items piled up in a large space.

Of course, contrary to appearances, the crime prevention equipment was thorough, requiring fingerprint recognition, iris recognition, and an ’employee ID card’.

“…It’s so big.”

“Right? All the items here are objects of supernatural phenomenon. Of course, there is no problem storing them like this and they are low risk.”

“These are all paranormal objects?”

There were all kinds of things in the supply room.

Starting with cooking utensils, stationery, furniture, clothing, bathing tools, beauty tools, toys, small and simple machines…

“There are so many? Are supernatural phenomena this common?”

“That’s not true. If you look at the percentage, it’s very small.”

“Even though there are so many?”

“If you know how paranormal objects are created, you will understand. Perhaps Mr. Han-gil thinks that there must be some special story or process for supernatural objects to be created, right?”

“…is not it?”

“No. It has not yet been clearly revealed how paranormal phenomena are created. It is completely random.”

After saying that, she lifted up a nearby pencil.

“For example, think of pencils being mass-produced in factories. Hundreds of thousands of them are produced every day, right? Among them, there is a probability of about one in hundreds of millions that a ‘paranormal phenomenon object’ is born.”

As she strained, the pencil went limp and the words ‘Eunno-eul is lewd’ were embroidered in the air.

“…What is this?”

“It is a ‘pencil that spits out the truth.’ It is a supernatural entity that can only be used once a day.”

She puts down the dried, twisted pencil in its original place and makes eye contact with glaring eyes.

“what.”

“No. Well…she’s the succubus queen.”

“So what is it?”

“No…nothing…”

I awkwardly looked away and changed the topic.

“Ah, but you’re the succubus queen now? But you don’t have horns or wings? Are you a race that didn’t exist before?”

“No. You can take it out whenever you want.”

Clumsy! Faaah!

As soon as she finished speaking, a pair of purple horns sprouted from her head, large wings made of skin, and a tail with a heart-shaped tip stuck out.

“…wow.”

I was curious and looked at the dish, and she quickly put it in.

“But, is it possible to work at the Bureau even if you are not human?”

“What do you mean? I’m human? Look at this.”

When she takes out a wooden doll and places it in her hand, she draws a circle as if it were natural.

“…What is the standard for this? They say the Succubus Queen is also human, but why do they say I am not?”

“I don’t know about that. Maybe there is a standard for these wooden dolls, right? Don’t worry, there are a lot of these items. The important thing is to find out Mr. Severe Gil’s current condition.”

Although the spacious supply room seemed to have items piled up haphazardly, it was divided into its own sections and the items were also organized. Eun No-eul took me into a section labeled ‘Inspection, Interpretation’.

“…But what happens if, no matter what object I use, it turns out I’m not human? Will I die?”

“Oh, you don’t have to worry so much. It’s not like they are hostile or attacking the Hangil Clan Management Bureau, they are just victims who got caught up in it, right? They won’t kill you carelessly.”

“That’s a good thing.”

“Well, I might end up incarcerated.”

“……”

“Ahahaha! I’m just kidding, I’m kidding.”

I don’t think it’s a joke, do you?

I looked at Eun No-eul in bewilderment as she playfully poked my side.

Isn’t your attitude too light? Someone’s life is at stake!

Moreover, the feeling of close distance keeps making me agitated.

I don’t know if it’s because she’s a succubus queen, but her every action and every expression is so charming that it makes your heart flutter, and so bewitching that you’ll be captivated without even thinking about it, and something pink buried deep inside your heart flutters.

If I let my guard down on this, I’ll confess. Let’s be careful.

“Ugh, my head…!”

As the sad scenes from the past flash by, I start to shiver.

The dark history of the past must not be repeated!

“Oh my, why are you falling? Is this really a joke?”

“…Really?”

It wasn’t because of that that I was shaking, but I didn’t show it and made a puzzled expression.

“Of course. There’s nothing like a catastrophe if you try to deal with a supernatural entity like you hastily and end up backlashing. Of course, if you cross the line, the management bureau will do its best to deal with it…”

As she was looking at the items on the shelf, she placed a square, flat machine that looked like a scale no matter how you looked at it, and placed it on the floor.

“Do you have any plans to kill anyone with the powers you have? Are you saying there is an enemy of the greatest heaven?”

“No. There isn’t any.”

“Then are you planning on committing a terrorist attack somewhere?”

“No. Why do you do such a thing?”

“Sometimes there are people who act as if they are something. Especially the ‘Pandora of the Salvation’ kids… No, it’s still too early to talk about this. Anyway, it’s enough that Han-gil has no intention of doing that. We “I will respect Mr. Han-gil’s choice.”

“That’s good. But what is this? A scale?”

When I looked down at the machine that had been placed at my feet from earlier, she smiled softly.

“It’s not just a machine. Have you ever taken an InBody measurement?”

“No. I don’t have any.”

“You don’t go to the gym. It’s the same thing. However, instead of weight and skeletal muscle mass, it diagnoses the condition of the body. The official name is ‘Body Analyzer.’”

“…?”

“Once you go up, you’ll know. Oh, you can go up with your shoes on.”

As I slowly climbed up, light came on in the body analyzer and letters began to be printed.

[Skeleton: Average human skeleton]

[Muscle: average human muscle]

[Heart rate: average human heart rate]

[Nervous system: Average human nervous system]

[Other hormones: normal]

“I can’t tell by looking at it…”

“Really? You’ll understand once I get up. Just get out of the way for a moment.”

“Ah yes.”

As she climbed up, the letters on the ‘Body Analyzer’ changed.

[Skeleton: It seems okay for now]

[Muscle: Soft]

[Heart rate: Not sure]

[Nervous system: Nervous system of non-entity living organisms]

[Other hormones: There is something that interferes with the human mind]

“oh…”

“See? My body is not human, so it looks like this. Anyway, congratulations, Mr. Han-gil. This proves that you are human.”

“Huh? This easy?”

“Ahaha. This is enough. Ah, but we will do additional tests. We need to know the exact condition.”

She smiled softly and dragged me in front of the full-length mirror.

“The name of this mirror is ‘Mirror that reflects the soul.’ I will do it first. Please step out of the mirror.”

As she took a few steps back, the mirror shimmered, creating a colorless and transparent energy flowing around her body.

It’s like a vivid haze.

“…Is that a soul?”

“Perhaps. Since the soul cannot be observed with modern science, we can only guess. Ah, but it has been verified through several ‘experiments’, so its reliability is quite high.”

“An experiment?”

“Hmm, for example, looking at corpses? Only looking at half-dead people… things like that.”

“……”

It’s a little scary.

“Come on! Come in!”

When she stepped back, I stood in front of the mirror.

The mirror filled with my image shimmered, and a large amount of haze gathered on my right hand, which had an eye tattoo drawn on it.

“…uh?”

However, the only thing that showed haze was the right hand.

“Hey, what does this mean?”

“From what I can see, there is a soul focused on his right hand. That tattoo isn’t an ordinary tattoo, is it? Is it a paranormal phenomenon?”

“…Well, the ability of this tattoo is to return mental attacks.”

“Aha…I don’t think there was anything about tattoos in the story I heard earlier?”

When she smiled meaningfully and looked up with raised eyes, he avoided eye contact and broke into a cold sweat.

“Ahaha! You don’t have to be so scared. Everyone wants to hide their abilities. Hmm, but the idea of a soul being stuck in a tattoo is a phenomenon that I don’t really understand. It’s likely that this is why the wooden doll couldn’t determine Han-gil as a human. .”

She nodded and tapped her smart phone busily, saying that she had more information about the wooden doll.

“Then shall we take the next test?”

“What else is there?”

“There’s a lot of this and that.”

She pulled me in with a seemingly happy expression and handed me a piece of coated paper from the shelf.

The paper was divided into several colors and lined up in a circle.

“What is this again?”

“It’s ‘the color matching paper that distinguishes souls.’ Now, please concentrate and look at it properly.”

“Uhm…”

I stared at the paper filled with red, no, chop, nambo, and the colors in between.

“…Hey, this is a change…huh?”

At some point, all the colors on the coloring paper turned blue.

“Oh. Your soul definitely has that of a human. I’m so glad. By the way, I see black? Normally, only demon-type creatures are black.”

“What is a demon-type creature…?”

“I’ll explain later. Okay, next time!”

She grabbed my collar and sat me down on a desk suddenly placed in the middle of the supply room.

“What kind of supernatural entity is this again?”

“It’s a ‘desk and chair that helps you concentrate well.’”

“Concentration?”

“Hehe. Now, it’s test time.”

With a whimper, she pulled out a bunch of papers and placed the top sheet on the desk.

It was a blank piece of paper with no words written on it.

“Now, solve it! Oh, by the way! Use this pen!”

“uh…”

I looked at her once, then looked down at the paper and before I knew it, words had been written.

-Mental status self-assessment test-

1. Do you want to drink your baby’s blood?

“…is this correct? Problem number 1 is bloody, isn’t it?”

“Ahaha. What does it say?”

“Do you want to drink the baby’s blood?”

“Wow. That’s an extreme sentence that doesn’t come up often. It happens sometimes.”

“Uhm…”

I scribbled with a pen and solved the problems one by one.

2. Do you want to kill your puppy?

3. Do you want to break chairs and desks?

4. Do you feel sexual desire when you see a corpse?

“You’re crossing the line…”

He frowned and quickly moved his hands.

It’s all descriptive, so it’s annoying to have to write each letter.

10. Do you consider yourself a human being?

“of course.”

After solving all the problems, I looked at Eun No-eul.

“I solved everything. Are the results coming out now?”

“Just wait a moment!”

After waiting a few seconds as she said, the letters on the paper began to change.

[You have a universal and ordinary human spirit, values, ethics and morals. He has a bit of a loner temperament, but it’s not a problem.]

“…You think you can find out about something like that?”

It was absurd.

Suddenly, she stuck her head out, looked at the paper, smiled, and nodded.

“Yeah! There’s no problem mentally! But do you have any friends?”

“……”

“Oh. Did I touch on a too sensitive topic?”

“Well, my friend has internet friends.”

“ah…”

Even though I mentioned a pretty famous meme, she just gave me sympathy with a pitiful expression.

When I saw the reaction of a true insider who didn’t know anything about the Internet world, I was so shocked that I kept my mouth shut.

“Well, it’s okay! It’s not that big of a deal once you know that we’re friends! If anything, I’ll be your first friend!”

“…Thank you so much for that…”

My face felt hot and I couldn’t make eye contact.

***

We returned to the conference room and talked about the future.

“Hmm, so. You don’t necessarily have to go to the Management Bureau?”

“Yes. Of course, you have to endure multiple surveillance.”

“Hmm… if that’s the case, then what? Oh, and you’re really not going to get the money back?”

“Of course. You can use it as much as you want. I can afford that level of convenience, right? If only to change the mind of someone with valuable abilities.”

My heart started pounding when I saw her winking and winking, so I quickly averted my gaze.

“If you want to sell points, please let us know. We can give you 200 million won for 1 point.”

“oh…!”

At those words, my heart started pounding and going crazy.

After all, money is the best.

“Oh! And about the point shop. I don’t recommend using it as much as possible.”

“Huh? Why is that?”

“Because ‘karma’ accumulates.”

“What do you mean by that?”

“Hmm, it’s a little hard to explain, but to put it simply, you can think of it as the more you use the point shop, the more you become something other than human. Buying this or that isn’t necessarily useful.”

“…I’ll keep that in mind.”

I sighed because my head was spinning.

“And if you want to solve the soul problem, please let us know. The management bureau will also come up with a way.”

“Uhm… I understand.”

“Hehe. Okay. I have more to say, but it’s late, so I’ll leave it at that for today. If you have any questions, please contact me, okay?”

He nodded as she flicked her smart phone around.

“I’ll see you off outside the office.”

After seeing her off, I left the administration branch building and burst out in exclamation as soon as I returned home.

This is because the broken door had been replaced with a new one.

One thing is for sure.

Favorability toward the management bureau has increased.