The Fox Counseling Room, filled with warm sunlight.
Another me standing outside the window.
He was holding my arm and rummaging around inside the tattoo.
…….
Huh?
Isn’t that another person?
Then I should refuse. Did I break the rules? No. Right, this situation isn’t right! It isn’t right! It isn’t right! It isn’t right! I have to follow the rules because I am a new teach—
“It’s all done, sir.”
The hand that had been stirring around inside the tattoo on my arm slipped back out.
Tap.
Something came flying out with it, held in that hand.
From inside the tattoo, which should definitely have been empty…….
“This was in there.”
Under the lights of the garden, a sharply vivid red title was revealed.
A brown document folder.
<■■ Affiliated Kindergarten Teaching Manual>
“It seems like you recognize this item. How do you remember it?”
Good heavens.
As if I had been suddenly doused in cold water, my mind snapped into perfect clarity.
‘That…!!’
And as though a blocked dam had burst open, several parts of my hazy memories from the past few weeks came flooding back with clarity.
When I shoved the contaminated Chief Park Minseong into my wrist at the kindergarten!
The space inside the tattoo had kept swallowing it all without trouble… ah, the teaching manual touched it! I’ll definitely keep that separate and make sure that never happens.
The teaching manual he had been holding had gone into my tattoo all at once too!