episode_0038

Letel jumped up and down with an excited expression and tugged at his collar.

“What is this!? What is this? Why are you giving me points all of a sudden!?”

“I-I don’t know. Stop pulling. The clothes will stretch.”

[Points: 715]

My heart started pounding as I checked the points, but I tried not to show it.

“As expected, it seems like Han-gil has something to do with you!? He only gives points like this when it comes to things related to you!”

“Hmm, is that so…? It’s ambiguous because I’m not sure…”

“Everyone, we need to take them to the bureau headquarters right away and explain the principle of earning points! This is definitely huge…”

“Now, wait a minute! Just calm down! ‘Work’ comes first right now!”

“Oh, that’s right! Whoa! I need to calm down. Calm down… How can I calm down about this!?”

“……”

She was running around, grabbing my collar and shaking me, and it was only after a while that she finally calmed down.

“What should we do next?”

“Hmm…let’s start with number 1. It’s not time for the ‘security guard’ to wander around yet, and the ‘office worker’ in the restroom doesn’t know the conditions for his appearance. Even if it’s a little difficult, let’s start with the one we think we can handle reliably.”

“no. 1?”

I looked at the list.

[1. Please bring the ‘crying paper’ from the ‘12th floor’ and submit it to the bath room]

“It’s the 12th floor… I’m sure the top floor here was the 10th floor, right?”

“That’s right. Our destination will probably be ‘a terrible conglomerate.’”

“What are they doing there?”

“Hmm… It’s a large company from a world where common sense, values, and laws are a little different. To be more precise, I guess it’s a ‘warped place.’”

“…I can’t tell by saying that.”

She thought about my words for a moment and frowned.

“It’s gross.”

“Gross?”

“It’s a very disgusting and disgusting place. I don’t know why it exists in the first place. It would be better if it were just destroyed.”

“No, what kind of place is it…”

“Ha…you’ll see for yourself. Let’s go first.”

“Okay, well…”

I followed her and headed towards the elevator.

Taeee!

“Hmm…”

I was a little nervous, but the inside of the elevator was like usual.

Quite a large interior space, mirrors on both walls, bright fluorescent lights.

“…there is.”

I suppressed the sigh that was about to come out as I looked at the buttons for the 11th and 12th floors that seemed to exist as if they were obvious.

“Does this always appear this easily?”

“No. Maybe he made it because he asked me to do it? That’s good. If there wasn’t a button, I was even thinking about going through space.”

“Oh… I’m just a little greedy about that, huh? How does it feel to move through space?”

When I pressed the button for the 12th floor and asked, she chuckled.

“It’s not a power that can be used as easily as it appears in fantasy novels. If there wasn’t a button, I would have had to go there alone. There’s a fairly high chance that my body could be torn apart.”

“……”

It’s a much more dangerous ability than I thought.

Is there such a risk with the spatial movement skills in the point shop?

No, who buys the skills if there is such a risk?

“Is that what all space travel is like? Or is it just the way you use your powers that’s weird?”

“Hmm. Maybe I’m the weird one? People with other abilities carry around a lot of people without a care in the world.”

“Are there any other people with the ability to move through space?”

“Of course it is. It’s definitely a rare ability, but it’s everywhere. Oh, by the way, ‘Romenel’, the founder of the Management Bureau, can also move through space.”

“Romenel?”

“Yeah. Have you never heard of him? He’s still a human being on active duty.”

“…Still on active duty? What do you mean?”

6, 7, 8…

I looked at the number of floors going up and turned my head towards her.

“I heard that the Bureau was created 200 years ago?”

“Oh, you know that? That’s right. It was created back then. And Romenel has been the Director of the Bureau ever since.”

“No, how is that possible? Do you have the ability to become immortal?”

“Oh. It feels good? That’s right.”

“What…”

I was at a loss for words because it was so absurd.

Even though the world is full of strange supernatural phenomena, I had no idea that immortality really existed.

“Is that person also a victim of the Holy See community?”

“No. I don’t think so. Did you hear that he came from another dimension?”

“Ah… now that I think about it, I guess that’s what happened?”

“Yes. I think it’s an ability obtained from that dimension. It doesn’t even have just one ability to move through space, but has many abilities. To the point where it seems omniscient and omnipotent.”

“Oh…no, but why didn’t Eunno-eul say that when she explained it?”

“…Oh, this is confidential information. Not many people know.”

“……”

When I stared at her, she smiled awkwardly and winked, as if she had made a mistake.

“No, if I make that mistake… will I get kidnapped again?”

“No, no! Rest assured! That won’t happen! As long as you keep your mouth shut!”

“Ha…you mean it. If you have high enough authority to access classified information, why don’t you watch your mouth?”

“Ugh, I have nothing to say… I’m sorry. I let my guard down without realizing it. I don’t usually make mistakes like this, right? But… no! Now that I think about it, it’s because of you!”

“What?”

When I looked at her in confusion, she raised her eyebrows.

“I was mentally shaken because of that disgusting snout and the sudden points given! Anyway, it’s because of you!”

“ha…”

It was so pathetic to see him behaving so forcefully that he sighed and shook his head.

“Hmm! Hmm! Ah, anyway! It looks like we’re arriving now. I’m nervous.”

She cleared her throat and stood in front of the elevator door, perhaps feeling that she was being forced to do so.

“…By the way, what is ‘crying paper’? Do you know?”

“Well? I don’t know about that.”

“What if you don’t know?”

“It will work out somehow. Since the name is ‘Crying Paper’, there might actually be a crying paper, right?”

“Uhm…”

She wasn’t trustworthy at all, but she was the only one I could trust right now.

Taeee!

Finally arriving at the 12th floor, the elevator door slides open.

“This…”

As soon as the door opened, the scent of blood hit me and I became stiff.

When I instinctively roll my eyes, the first thing I see is an ordinary office scene.

Personal seats separated by partitions, people moving around in a hurry, and even everyday devices such as computers and water purifiers.

It is an ordinary scenery that can be seen anywhere.

If it weren’t for the horrible appearance of people rushing around, I would have thought so.

“What on earth is this…”

The masked man in the nearest seat was stabbing his chest with an awl with a frustrated expression.

“Wow! This damn computer is having trouble again!”

Fortunately, I was able to understand what was being said, but the blood flowing down was all over the bottom of the chair, so it didn’t seem surprising if he died right away.

However, despite his strange behavior, the reactions of those around him were normal.

“Ahaha. Assistant Manager Jeong. Is your computer having trouble again?”

“I don’t know when it will be fixed.”

People laughing and talking peacefully, all wearing bizarre masks.

Blood drips from the cracks in the masks they wear.

It looks like a needle was inserted upside down inside and stabbed into the face to secure it.

The clothes were also full of sharp metal pieces, as if they had been made by someone who was determined to torture people, and blood was dripping down them.

Their appearance alone is bizarre and terrifying, but what about their actions?

“Ha, I feel frustrated and tired these days. I have to pray to God.”

“Oh, let’s do the same.”

Kwasik! Sigh!

“God who looks down on us. Please give us great grace today as well, providing us with daily bread and a safe place to live…”

Those who chew off each other’s fingers put them in their mouths and begin to pray.

“I’m breaking the record for working 48 hours straight today.”

“Oh, you work hard. God will give you grace the more you work without stopping, so let’s work hard.”

“How many hours do you have?”

“Me? It’s been a little over 60 hours now. It’s been hard not to sleep. I need to relieve my fatigue like this.”

On one side, they were calmly having an unusual conversation and washing away the spilled internal organs.

“God willing! God willing!”

“Oooh! Look down!”

“God protect us and watch over us!”

Elsewhere, humans gathered together were holding a prayer meeting, holding out their hearts.

“…Retel. What on earth is this place?”

“What is it? It’s a world of crazy things. Ugh, even the floor is full of blood. Let’s fly.”

“Huh? Oh…?”

When she gestures, her body floats.

Can someone with spatial abilities do something like this? that’s interesting.

Thanks to her, I was able to avoid stepping on the sticky blood on the floor and looked around while floating in the air.

“…Retel. I don’t think they can see us? Is this your ability too?”

“That’s right. They distorted space. It’s not that those guys are weak, but if they get caught, they’ll be really annoying. On the outside, they just look like crazy people wearing masks, but they basically have regenerative powers close to immortality and the ‘ability to achieve what they wish for through prayer.’ .”

“pray…?”

“I can only guess that it is the power of a divine being that exists in this world, but I don’t know the exact details.”

“Is this a world with constellations?”

“I guess that’s not right? It seems like the constellations in the community basically can’t interfere with the world. Maybe they’re other beings who call themselves gods?”

“If the constellation cannot interfere with the world, then what are we? We go through all kinds of hardships because of the community.”

“How do I know that? Even if you ask me, you won’t get an answer, so start looking for ‘crying paper’ or something.”

“Tsk, I understand…”

I guess I was in a really bad mood after seeing something so disgusting.

Her voice became nervous as she frowned, so she nodded silently and looked around.

“…I don’t think it’s here?”

All there was was plain paper.

“Tsk. I can’t do that. All I can do is walk around this building a little bit… Damn. I didn’t want to stay too long…”

As I followed her lead and left the office, a sweet and savory smell hit me.

“…her.”

Outside the office was a long hallway, and the walls and ceiling were filled with disgusting bloodshot flesh, and food including chicken, hamburgers, pig’s feet, and all kinds of fruit were hanging from thin tentacles protruding from the flesh.

“Is this what you call ‘the ability to achieve what you wish for through prayer’?”

“Maybe so?”

“That god thing seems to be quite brave. He can make something like this…”

“Well… I think the humans in this world became like that because there was such a god. If there was such a god, wouldn’t it be better if there wasn’t one?”

“is it…?”

As I passed through the passage filled with delicious smells and came out to the lobby of the current floor, I couldn’t help but empathize deeply with her words.

“Ah ah ah ah ah!”

“Ughhh! Huckuhuhuh!”

“Keheuuu! Keheuuuu!”

Numerous people were grouping together and harming themselves.

Some groups were rhythmically beating their bodies, exposed to the bone, with steel whips, others drank what was presumed to be poison and repeatedly poured out blood, and still others cut and broke each other’s bodies with knives and hammers.

“God! Look at our penance! It is a proof of our faith!”

“Bend down! Have pity on me!”

“Please give me grace!”

Crazy voices constantly chant God.

“hmm…”

“Wow…”

Letel was gagging and clenching his fists as if he was going to throw up at any moment.

“are you okay?”

“Eww… wow, no, it’s really hard. So let’s take care of what we need quickly.”

“Okay. I don’t want to stay here any longer. Where do you want to go?”

“Hmm… Since there are no clues, let’s go to the top floor first. I don’t have the confidence to search each floor, so let’s leave it to luck.”

“Not bad. Good.”

As I patted her on the back and agreed, my body floating in the air moved faster than before.

As if she didn’t have the courage to get on the elevator, which was moving with thicker flesh than the other walls, she went over to the emergency stairs and started climbing quickly.

I took a quick look and found out that the number of floors we were on was the 331st floor.

“331st floor…?”

I couldn’t believe it, so I looked out the window on the landing and saw that the ground was so far away.

“What? Didn’t we get off on the 12th floor?”

“It’s only natural that the spatial coordinates of each dimension are different. Moreover, the space in this world is messily twisted… wow…”

As she was explaining, she frowned as if she was offended.

“Ugh…!”

Before long, I too had a face similar to Retel’s.

This is because the higher we climbed, the more bizarre the surrounding scenery became.

Glassy eyes blink their eyelids.

Noses of various shapes breathe in as if they were breathing.

The mouth is clenched, chewing on blood, and the protruding limbs are flailing, obstructing the path.

“Is that really a person stuck in it?”

“I don’t know! I’m closing my eyes right now!”

“Open your eyes. Please…!”

I was moving around with her powers, but seeing her eyes tightly closed made me feel more anxious and scared than I imagined.

However, contrary to what I had worried, my body flew stably without hitting anything.

“Oh…how can you do this when your eyes are closed?”

“Don’t look down on my spatial perception ability. There is such a thing as a sixth sense.”

“That’s amazing… huh? Oh, I think we’re already on the top floor?”

“really!?”

Letel opens his eyes and frowns when he sees the broken stairs and the door made of flesh.

The door said it was the 333rd floor.

“Oh! Really!”

Pakwaang! Pujjajwajwa!

I don’t know what or how, but the moment she gestured, part of the wall, including the door, exploded.

Spattering blood and flesh.

“What! Is it an intruder!?”

Of course, the people inside were startled, but they were still looking in the wrong direction, as if they couldn’t see us.

“…wow.”

However, we were equally surprised.

In particular, my head started pounding, as if a trauma switch had been hit.

A huge ceremonial altar, humans who appear to be sacrifices, and even humans bowing and praying around it.

Although the scale was much larger here, it was a very familiar and terrifying sight.

“Damn, isn’t this the place? Han Gil. If things end up like this, go to the lowest floor…”

She clicked her tongue at the sight of a space that seemed to be used solely for ritual purposes and was about to leave again, so he quickly stopped her and pointed to the altar.

“Wait. Letel. Doesn’t that thing over there look a little suspicious?”

“huh?”

There was a thick book on the altar, and it seemed to have an ominous aura.

“…It’s not made of paper. This is…”

After examining the book up close, Letel’s expression becomes crumpled and distorted like a piece of tissue paper.

“Uhm…Retel. I will do it. Please move it.”

I didn’t want to touch the book, which was probably made of human skin, but my intuition was telling me.

That’s what we’re looking for.

“…Ugh, the feeling…”

I got goosebumps from the vivid feel of my skin as soon as I touched it, but I held it back and opened the book.

“Keee!”

At that moment, a mouth resembling a human popped out from the open page and began to cry horribly.