When I found the dress shoes in the entryway, at first I thought, So this bastard Baek Saheon finally came back to the company housing after work.
“Did he finally work up the nerve after several days?”
Or maybe he’d gotten wind of the rumor that I hadn’t come back from the Ghost Story today and hurried in.
“But I got off work just now.”
So I was just standing there, thinking about how to deal with the guy who would be in the room right now.
-My, Mr. Roe Deer. Judging from your story, it seems there has been a slight misunderstanding!
A misunderstanding?
-Those shoes were always in the exact same place every evening, my friend.
“……!”
What?
No. I was sure there had been nothing in this entryway when I left on the first day too….
“…Wait.”
Suddenly, I remembered the last time I’d seen Baek Saheon.
Segwang Industrial High School.
The sight of him creating confusion between the Supernatural Disaster Management Agency and the Field Operations Team, then running off with an item in hand.
And the effect of the fountain-pen-shaped item he’d been holding was….
“Brainwashing.”
“……”
I looked down at my hand.
The silver ring.
The mental defense item I had bought today.
“…Aha.”
So that was it.
Baek Saheon hadn’t been leaving before me and coming back after me all this time, or commuting from somewhere else altogether.
He had kept returning to the company housing the entire time.
He had simply planted a suggestion on me.