Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work
Chapter 192.3

‘Huu.’

For some reason, I felt relieved.

“I just leave him outside… right?”

I quickly nodded.

As I watched the sergeant move Kwak Jaekang, I hurried to take off the Security Team uniform.

‘…Done.’

So what happens now?

The sergeant will dump Kwak Jaekang near the company, and he’ll be ‘found’ and taken in by Supervisor Park Minseong.

This way, Supervisor Park Minseong can report that he ‘found Section Chief Kwak Jaekang passed out near the company and returned him to work’.

‘Any sighting of me or the sergeant will have nothing to do with official duties.’

This way, Supervisor Park Minseong didn’t have to lie, and could omit my sighting from his report.

– Mr. Roe Deer! Ah, what a delightful performance. Wit, deception, secrets. You used all three elements very well.

After changing back, I picked up Braun, who had been sitting off to the side of the office, and put him in my front pocket. He burst into applause.

‘Really? It didn’t look awkward?’

– Ah, it was perfect. That composure, not even batting an eye when your own name came up! It was a wonderful performance.

– But aren’t you worried that man will go back and expose everything that happened here, Friend?

Ah. That.

I smiled confidently.

‘That won’t happen.’

– Oho?

Because Kwak Jaekang is the type whose mind is always working.

Security Team interrogations are a strict non-disclosure matter.

Usually, unless someone directly involved asks, everyone keeps their mouth shut.

Especially in Kwak Jaekang’s case.

All the more so if the interrogation was about some outrageous abuse of authority on his part!

‘Why would anyone go around blabbing that they did something to get disciplined?’

Especially when they haven’t even gotten to experience the catharsis of ‘observing’ what result comes of it.

– I see!

This was better than any binding.

I recalled Supervisor Park Minseong’s anxious voice.

– If only there we had a memory-erasing pill, or a silencing pill.

We could have bought those, but I opted not to use one.

Those are potions made by Daydream Inc.

Someone in Kwak Jaekang’s position could just buy an antidote from the points mall, and he’d be suspicious of a binding that could be undone so easily.

What’s important is to handle this in the most natural way possible.

Make it seem like there’s no real point in talking about it, even if you do.

And even in the unlikely event that Kwak Jaekang does talk, the higher-ups who hear it will just assume it’s another secret project of some powerful faction and find nothing strange about it.

– So Mr. Roe Deer, you went to great lengths to perfectly recreate a ‘Security Team interrogation’.

– To make even the insiders get the wrong idea, if word gets out.

‘That’s right.’

The only thing that nags at me is… the way Kwak Jaekang associated Supervisor Kim Soleum with my Security Team disguise.

But even if he goes around later telling people in great detail, by the time that news reaches Director Ho, I won’t be here anymore.

“All done.”

In this way, I managed to extract all the information from Kwak Jaekang while also cleaning up the situation.

My whole body aches…

‘Maybe I should rest a bit before the sergeant gets here.’

After dealing with that insane researcher, my stomach’s starting to hurt.

I put away the Security Team uniform into my inventory tattoo and sat down in front of the Dream Incubator.

I gazed at it for a moment.

– Friend, sorry to disturb your break, but… now I feel like giving you a small hint and a preview.

‘…A preview?’

– Indeed! Let’s raise the tension just a bit.

– A very interesting incident will occur soon.

“…Braun?”

Just then.

Bzzz.

My phone buzzed.

“…!”

A call at this hour.

Could it be something that happened at the Disaster Management Bureau? Maybe there were so many rescue requests that they overlapped beyond what could be handled.

I immediately opened my smartphone. But…

[K.LEE: Oh it’s been a while since I’ve contacted you Employeeㅋㅋㅋ]

[K.LEE: Have you been doing well?]

Huh?

A person whose profile picture is a Hawaiian beach.

Someone who introduced himself as Assistant Manager Lee Kangheon from the C-squad, the one who connected me to the Salmon Market.

But……

A message from him?

‘But that’s impossible.’

Because, because…

I’m already a dead person to Daydream Inc.

I changed my number a long time ago.

‘……’

Something’s wrong.

And yet, my phone kept buzzing.

[K.LEE: RightㅋㅋYou’re a supervisor now aren’t you]

[K.LEE: Or rather…]

[K.LEE: A spy, right?]

“So that’s how it is.”

I turned my head.

“If you really want to be a spy…”

From behind the office chair in the Dream Incubation Room, someone took off the goblin hat they’d been wearing.

Agent Choi.

In his hand was the crumpled note I’d given him.

“You should have found some way to slip out a hint like this in the middle. …Mr. Roe Deer.”

And then, the blades descended.

T/N: The ‘blades’ in this context refer to a shaman’s weapon, which are also tools to show off their divine power. To prove that a spirit has descended, shamans would ‘ride’ a pair of these blades.

For more info on this, read: https://namu.wiki/w/작두#s-3

Other notes:

Hi? What? What the fuck? Hello??? Agent Choi?????? AAAAAAHHHHHH