The morning after clearing the high school Ghost Story inside that dreadful horror game.
Because of the even more ghost-story-like fact that I still had to go to work anyway, I was busily getting ready to head in.
Still, this time the trip to work wasn’t quite so grueling.
Because I had something to rely on.
The dream collector filled to the brim with A-grade liquid.
‘That’s reassuring.’
I carefully packed the dream collector filled with golden liquid into my briefcase.
It was the harvest I had earned through last night’s labor.
And the moment I fully lifted myself out of bed, I also confirmed a rather unusual ‘extra harvest.’
Rattle, rattle.
Something that had been covering my body spilled down onto the floor.
Dozens of… marbles?
They were transparent marbles that looked as though they could be loaded into a bead gun.
I picked one up and inspected its shape, then read the single Chinese character written inside it.
護
The ho for protect… maybe?
—Aha, a Chinese character that frequently appears with the meaning of guarding or protecting someone. Quite obvious and intuitive.
Ah.
I realized immediately what they were.
‘These are the clear reward for finishing the final chapter of that game!’
Graduation Ceremony Successfully Conducted (2 dead, 1 survivor)
Confirmed that the field operations employees who died as students woke safely in the morning.
A large quantity of reward items discovered at the bedside of the one survivor who remained alive to the end. (Analyzed as a type of protective talisman with some effect in exorcism and protection.)
In other words, I had brought the items from the game in my dream out into reality.
Just like Baek Saheon had run off with that fountain pen item from…