episode_0073

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※Guide to a harmonious apartment culture※

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2. The little lady in the black dress has just moved into the house!

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2-1. If you hear bugs crawling on the ceiling.

– When passing through the apartment hallway, you can sometimes hear insects crawling overhead.

– No need to panic. Lie quietly on the floor, close your eyes, and wait.

-Once the sound disappears, you can stand up.

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3. If a doll falls in the hallway.

– If it’s an animal-shaped doll, it’s probably an ordinary lost item. Please leave it as is or bring it to the apartment security office.

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– However, if a human-shaped doll is left in the hallway, please shout to the doll, “You will be sad if you become a lost child.”

– Then the doll’s owner will soon come to retrieve it.

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# caution! It is recommended that you hide immediately after finding lost child.

You might mistake which doll to take.

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“Elder. I have a delivery.”

“I’ve already kept it. Please come inside.”

“Oops.”

way home. Eunha received a text message saying a package had arrived and came to the apartment security room.

Even if it’s a courier service, it’s no big deal. Simple side dishes, ramen, mosquito repellent that I bought just in case, miscellaneous items, etc… These are items that could normally be purchased at a supermarket or convenience store.

These days, you can order all kinds of items via courier. Except that it is expensive, it is really convenient.

Eunha entered the security room with her head down, trying not to look up at the apartment, just in case.

The security room was bright. To a strange degree.

Round lights installed at each corner of the ceiling, and square LED lights installed in the exact center.

A total of five light sources brightly illuminated the surrounding area, so there were strangely no shadows inside the security room.

It seems as if this has been marked as the only safe zone in the apartment.

A desk is placed close to the window so that you can look outside even when sitting, and on top of it is a computer with slightly older specifications that displays CCTV footage installed throughout the apartment.

And the slightly open drawer was full of documents, and a glow-in-the-dark security uniform for patrol was hanging on a hanger next to the sofa.

It is an ordinary security room that can be found in any apartment.

“Oh, there’s a mirror too.”

Eunha parked the suitcase containing [The Black Book] next to the sofa and looked into the square mirror hanging on the wall.

A woman with a large chest that keeps drawing attention and a languid smile on her lips smiles at her.

Eunha ran her fingers through the hair that fell down to her chest.

A few strands of hair are dyed in a soft sunset color, as if a bridge had been put in at a beauty salon. It has been like this since I realized ‘Mana’ in the park.

I’m embarrassed because I feel like I’m showing off.

“Elder, do you have any hair dye?”

“I wonder if it will work… You have become truly beautiful.”

“I hear that often.”

“I’ll bring the package in a moment.”

While the security guard, who was leisurely making clay dolls, went into the back room to pick up a package, Eunha slumped down on the desk chair the old man had left.

My butt is cold.

She became a temporary security guard and looked outside through the window.

There is a gray van parked in the apartment parking lot. There are no other vehicles in sight.

Is it okay for the apartment parking lot to be like this? Maybe it’s her own parking lot now.

In the future, when Hunter becomes famous, I want to fill the parking lot with all kinds of foreign cars… except sports cars.

I especially hate red sports cars.

‘Elder, you were watching CCTV.’

Eunha, who made a new resolution to a trivial goal, watched the CCTV screen on the monitor.

Now I realize this, there are quite a lot of CCTVs in the apartment.

Is it because I usually don’t pay much attention to it? I thought it would be installed only at the entrance and parking lot. However, there are more than 20 camera screens displayed on the security monitor.

A cat lying on its belly on the wall yawns loudly.

“Do you see all of this CCTV? It must hurt your eyes.”

“Because that’s my job. Sitting at my desk and watching people come and go in the apartment is one of my pleasures. It’s good entertainment for old people.”

“……Apartments everyone?”

“Yes, everyone.”

I looked at the monitor with interest while listening to the elderly security guard’s answer coming from the back room.

Like a sparrow perched on a telephone pole, it was quite enjoyable to look down from above on the road I always pass by.

I understand why the old man said it was a place for entertainment. It’s good to spend time idly.

Moving in, parking lot, apartment interior…

What is unusual is that the CCTV inside the apartment did not show all floors except the 9th floor where Eunha lives. There is just a thick noise covering the screen with the words ‘No Signal’ written on it.

Also, there are two elevator CCTV screens.

This ‘Saetbyul Apartment’ only has one elevator.

Two cameras showing the inside of the elevator from the same location and at the same angle.

What is this again? Is it an error?

They’ve already moved so many times… I wonder if the apartment maintenance fee was so low that the CCTV would be like this.

Eunha silently prayed for the building owner, whose face she did not know or who was alive or dead.

“Don’t look too much, miss.”

At that time, an elderly man carrying a package from the inner room spoke to Eunha.

He places the large delivery box on the desk as easily as if it were Styrofoam.

Why are you telling me not to look into it?

Feeling puzzled, Eunha took her eyes off the monitor and looked at the elderly security guard who came next to her.

Pugh…

And… a person fell into the parking lot.

The sound of fruit bursting when crushed.

The sound of a bunch of wet tissues being rolled up and thrown on the floor.

A sound that should not come from the human body hits Eunha’s eardrums.

Shocked, Eunha turned her head and tried to check the CCTV.

However, the security guard’s hand covers her eyes, preventing her from seeing ‘that’ reflected on the monitor.

“A person lost in the desert came down looking for water.”

“Um, what is that? It wasn’t in the rules?”

“We are people who came here because they wanted to receive your attention. Don’t worry about it.”

Excited. Excited.

Eunha placed her hand on her rapidly beating heart and took a breath.

It was a little bit, but I saw it. Beyond the security office window, the figure of a person falling face first onto the parking lot floor.

Although it was a fleeting sight out of the corner of her eye, it was enough to make her heart pound.

I wonder if Baeul felt this way when he fell from the roof of the department store.

Eunha bit her lip while her eyes were covered by the elderly security guard.

“But what a lost person really wants is a reference point to keep them on the right path.”

The old man said as he turned off the monitor.

I don’t know what you’re talking about. You are senile.

Only then did the hand covering Eunha’s eyes fall, and she blinked a few times before standing up quietly.

There was nothing in the parking lot visible through the security office window.

“……Is that a person just now?”

“Miss, what would you like to do with the delivery? Will this old man bring it to your house?”

“Oh, just a moment. I need to check the package.”

Eunha was tempted to ask about what she had just witnessed, but the old man told her to go pick up the package.

Overwhelmed by the caring yet firm tone, she opened the package without saying a word.

okay. Let’s think positively.

Anything could fall out of the apartment.

I guess I wanted to get some fresh air.

Eunha, who quickly changed her mood, hummed and opened the delivery box.

Everything is included exactly as ordered from home shopping. It’s more expensive than buying it at the supermarket, but since I’m always lugging around a suitcase full of [black books], I don’t have enough hands, so I buy them in bulk through home shopping.

Rustling…

After rummaging through the contents of the package for a while and comparing it to the receipt that arrived in the mailbox, Eunha put the newly purchased insecticidal spray and a bundle of amulets into the carrier containing the [Black Book] and stood up.

“Okay, thank you, old man. While you’re at it, can I borrow your truck for a moment? I’ll move the package and bring it right away.”

“It’s standing behind the security office, so feel free to use it.”

As expected, the only person I can trust in this apartment is the elderly security guard.

To express her gratitude, Eunha took out a few amulets from her carrier and placed them in the elderly man’s hands.

“Put this on the entrance or living room of a senior’s house. It’s an amulet made by a famous shaman.”

“Hoo, what are the benefits?”

“Sometimes I feel short of breath and dizzy.”

“Hehehe.”

After that, with the help of an elderly person, Eunha put the delivery box into a trailer and headed home, dragging the suitcase and the trailer with both hands.

… … .

… … .

“Okay… Then…”

After Eunha whined and left the security room, dragging the cart and carrier.

The old man dressed as a security guard sat at his desk and turned on the monitor that had been turned off.

The monitor projected CCTV screens installed throughout the ‘Saetbyul Apartments’.

A camera inside an apartment showing only noise along with the text ‘No Signal’.

Perhaps because it was too heavy to drag, Eunha climbed onto the car like a kickboard, but her front wheel got caught in the gap in the elevator and she fell forward.

And… a human body fell in the middle of the parking lot.

Unlike the clean parking lot seen through the window, the security monitor was showing the gruesome sight of a body that had fallen into the parking lot.

A human body broken by a fall.

A woman who appears to be in her late 20s.

The three daggers hanging from his waist sparkle sharply.

The security guard who was looking intently at the blue dragon mark engraved on the clothes of the body that fell to his death,

I stroked the clay doll on the desk with my wrinkled hands.

『… … The apartment is going to be noisy from now on. I need to make more guides.』

Grumble.

The old security guard muttered quietly and opened the desk drawer.

Then, he takes out a book from a drawer full of documents.

A book as thick as a dictionary.

On the cover, the words [Computer Teacher – How to escape from computer blindness] were written.

You will need to print the guide.

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“Why do you keep coming out?”

9th floor apartment.

Eunha, who was struggling to drag the delivery box and suitcase onto the truck, asked a question to the plush toy placed in the middle of the apartment hallway.

Saga-gak…

A plush toy in the shape of a spotted cow. Round buttons are sewn on both eyes.

Eunha put down the puller for a moment and picked up the stuffed toy that had fallen on the floor.

Rules for dolls are also recorded in [The Black Book].

The rule was to say something specific if you found a ‘human-shaped doll’.

But regular stuffed animals are fine. They said you can either ignore it or take it to the security office.

Eunha, who was fiddling with the cow doll, frowned.

It’s really just an ordinary plush toy. Even if you press your stomach or head, you only feel soft cotton.

‘It’s been sitting in the hallway for a few days now. What do you want to do? Can I really just keep ignoring it? ‘Maybe something big will come later?’

Every time I pass by the hallway, it’s on the floor and it’s something that bothers me, but when it doesn’t actually do anything, I get more worried.

When playing the barley rice game, is this what it feels like when the other person keeps throwing out barley rice?

Sagagakㅡ.

The sound of insects crawling.

Eunha frowned at the noise tickling her ears and put down the cow doll.