episode_0016

A place where you don’t even know what floor it is on. As soon as the elevator door opens, the smell of medicine wafts in.

Is it a hospital? Or a corporate office?

I try to move my body, but the floor won’t let me go.

A man in a white robe is standing in front of the elevator. He has messy hair and a servile appearance. The awkward standing posture makes that feeling even stronger.

“Hey?”

“……I still have permission. You can access it now. Then we can solve it……”

Without even looking in this direction, the man passed by the elevator and stopped in front of the door.

A man puts the card key around his neck to the door lock.

Beep-

[You are an unauthenticated user.]

“What!”

Beep-

[You are an unauthenticated user.]

“No way!!! Already-”

Beep-

[You are an unauthenticated user.]

[If you continue to attempt access, you may be terminated immediately.]

Nevertheless, the man did not give up and tried to bring the card key again.

Again. Again.

Another sound of shoes was heard. This time, a tall, thin woman passed me and approached the man.

“Chen. The application for temporary injunction to revoke your A-level researcher status has been completed. All your privileges were frozen ten minutes ago.”

“What? That’s ridiculous!!!”

“Your argument has been discarded. The council has not permitted any further experiments, and you will soon be brought before a disciplinary committee. Regarding the ‘results’ of the last experiment you led…”

“No. No.”

“Now is the time to admit it. You touched something you shouldn’t have touched.”

“No! We can solve it! This is a problem I created. I know best how to solve it! The only way is…!”

“In my personal opinion, Dr. Chen, there is nothing more foolish than trying to wash the blood from a bloody knife. The Foundation will find another way. And that’s none of your business.”

“You mean another way…? It’s something that could literally erase the world. How can we stop this?”

Slurp-

The elevator doors close again, and this time the elevator begins to go up.

When the door opens, the man from before appears. He has changed from a lab coat to comfortable activewear and looks more gaunt overall.

“I will correct my mistakes.”

The location is an apartment hallway. In the long space, there were many people other than men. A woman wearing a cast. A girl with sunken eyes. There are strangely many women in the crowd.

Grumble-

A man begins to move, dragging something heavy. I made my way through the crowd and down the hallway to the elevator at the other end.

The door of another elevator opens, and the man gets into it.

Sreuk-

After a while. The doors of both elevators began to close at the same time.

The sound of cheers echoed through the hallway.

“Huh?”

wait for a sec.

I think I saw a familiar face in the crowd…

The elevator continues up, now back to the first floor.

The tied body began to move again…

Ding!

I opened my eyes after feeling a slight shock to my head.

“Umm…”

The surrounding area is a room with the lights off. I was lying in bed.

“What.”

Rustle. When I raise my arm, a pink nightgown comes up.

Did you fall asleep? So is all this a dream?

I brought my hand to my chest.

…It’s a woman. me.

I held my throbbing head and looked back on my memories.

I locked the door of my house to avoid Park Seong-jin, who was going crazy. I washed and dried my hair with Da-ju Yoon, who was insisting that she was going to die. I think I fell asleep at that time without realizing it. I was definitely extremely tired. Because accidents kept happening without a break.

You didn’t fall asleep while drying your hair, right?

I got out of bed and moved outside.

“What are you doing?”

Bright living room. Se-rim Choi and Da-ju Yoon are sitting on the sofa and looking at their laptop.

“Oppa, are you awake?”

“How long did I sleep?”

“About ten hours.”

“I slept a lot.”

It is already morning outside the window. Maybe it’s because it’s a dream, but I don’t feel very refreshed.

“Dabin.”

“Yes.”

Choi Serim calls me in a quiet voice. My eyes are still looking at the laptop screen. Did I do something wrong?

“This on my laptop. What is it?”

“Ah. right. That’s what I found on the Internet last time.”

“Program? Virus?”

“Uh… I don’t think it’s both. When you see them talking, they seem like people. Um…someone stuck on the internet? However, the format is only a file. Should I say that’s how it feels?”

No matter how I look at it, it’s hard to explain something that doesn’t make sense.

“Amazing.”

Choi Se-rim gives a brief reaction.

“So, sister. I told you not to delete it.”

“What is it? Did you delete that?”

“No. It was noisy so I put it in the trash can.”

“Ah…”

I think I know roughly what the situation was.

Click. Click. When Choi Se-rim moves the mouse and takes out a file, a notepad immediately appears on the screen.

– Is this a joke????????????????????????????????????

– I almost died!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“I have to use my laptop. Is he still like this?”

“I will try to do something.”

Just in case, I took out my smartphone, which I had been keeping with me.

Strange characters kept appearing on the screen as soon as I turned it on. I couldn’t use my phone for a while because of this.

Wooow-

Now it even lights up on its own. I turn off the vibration and cover the screen of my phone with the floor. Then unplug the cable from the charger and connect it to the laptop.

– what. Smartphone?

“Yes. It’s broken, can you fix it?”

– wait for a sec.

– I can fix it.

I immediately closed Notepad and moved the file.

Since my smartphone doesn’t even have a basic notepad, I was wondering how to communicate now, but when I checked, there was a KakaoTalk chat room.

– ah

– Insufficient capacity

– I can’t even talk about it because it’s so hard to fix.

– hey

– Answer me.

– Me: Okay, good job.

– Me: Block notifications

– ??????????

Just block chat room notifications.

A chatbot that only talks when necessary has been completed.

“It will be okay now.”

“Thank you.”

“That’s right. Oppa, I have to go see people today.”

“Huh? Who?”

“People who live here. I went out to explore the apartment and arrived safely yesterday evening.”

“Thank goodness.”

“But there’s something I want to hear from you. He told me to bring him when he wakes up.”

“Ah…”

Because they are different people… I have complicated emotions about what to say.

I was the one who brought the server to the 7th floor. Because of that, we lost Choi Jun-gi and Park Seong-jin. If this is all my fault. What should I say?

“It will be okay. Even though they are a bit sensitive, they are all good people.”

“Yes…”

“Wait! Where are you going, oppa?”

“Are you going out in your pajamas? I’m going to change clothes.”

“I put the clothes in the closet, so let’s find something that fits!”

“I don’t like it.”

I went back to the room and changed my clothes.

Roughly a hoodie zip-up. Below are sweats. The same clothes I wore yesterday.

“What is that?”

“This is the most convenient.”

It’s not that I haven’t opened the closet. If I had plain clothes, I tried to wear them. It’s all filled with girly clothes, you evil bastard Yoon Da-ju.

“Come back in. I’ll pick out some clothes for you.”

“I don’t like it.”

I did my best to resist Daju’s hand.

I can’t even use my right hand because it’s injured. I wonder if this is too much.

“Oh, I really hate it!!”

“Then are you really going to go that way? In front of strangers?”

“It’s more embarrassing to wear women’s clothes!!!”

Choi Se-rim is sitting at the table and smiling.

“Sister! Help me!!”

I put my laptop down and just kept smiling.

So, to conclude: I lost again.

“……”

“Lighten your expression.”

I can’t believe you’re being dragged around by a kid like this. It’s really crazy. Now they’re trying to force me to wear women’s clothes???

However, what Daju Yoon opened was not a closet, but a closet in the back.

“Actually, I hid some manly clothes here, right? I’ll take that out.”

“What?”

My head feels dizzy.

“Hey. Are you crazy?”

“It’s fun, right?”

“Is this playing with me???”

Kuuk.

“Ahh really!!!”

Above is a bright colored T-shirt and cardigan. Originally, I chose a hoodie, but Daju blocked it with all his might.

Below are plain cotton pants. What Daju chose was a pleated skirt, but this time I resisted until the end.

“That’s it. It’s much better like this.”

“……”

” Let’s go.”

Together with Da-ju Yoon and Se-rim Choi, we moved to room 702, where people were gathered.

Knock knock knock.

The door opens without any greeting.

An expressionless man looked out through a crack in the door and raised his glasses.

“Come in.”