After that, everything was handled fairly quickly.
It seemed I’d once again earned some sort of major recognition from the company.
Apparently, it wasn’t unheard of for an employee to rescue a contaminated coworker on their own, but in most cases, people prepared for months or even years and then dragged them out with the resolve to die trying.
And there were countless cases where they attempted it and disappeared together.
Pulling someone out immediately after they became contaminated like this was apparently unprecedented among new hires.
“That deer-antler mask over there….”
“Ah, is that him?”
“Wow… how many times is this now?”
When I walked around the company halls, I occasionally heard people whispering behind me.
Actually, it reminded me that even before this, I’d had similar experiences a few times while eating with Group D in the company cafeteria….
Maybe because I was walking around alone, I could hear it especially well.
Though it didn’t last long.
“Kim Soleum.”
“Yes.”
“Starting tomorrow, do not come to work for ten days.”
“…??”
“It is paid leave.”
Group D’s operations had already been temporarily suspended since half the team had disappeared, and now leave had been issued for me as well.
‘Even so, I’d still been coming in every day for a few days to write the incident report.’
That was because people had been intensely curious about how Assistant Manager Eun Haje had come back alive from a B-grade Darkness where the Hangman had to die for the clear, and exactly how its rules had been bent.
‘Looks like someone reported that…