The Field Operations Team employees of Baekilmong Co., Ltd. were people who worked with their lives on the line because they had wishes they desperately wanted fulfilled.
What that meant was this: the great majority of employees were people prepared to use anyone—coworkers, civilians, or insane Ghost Stories alike—to make their own wishes come true!
People to whom nothing mattered except the welfare points meant for their own wish.
Three people who were practically the poster children for that kind of person stood right in front of me.
Of course, it didn’t seem like their personalities were… only because of their wishes.
“Assistant Manager, the ones who fell behind when we ran into the baby mermaids earlier…”
“I’m not interested.”
“Ms. Pony, of course it’s really unfortunate that they got taken, but… I guess that was their fate. Shall we move forward quickly? We need to find the item…”
“That’s right, that’s right. But they might’ve dropped some equipment while they were getting dragged off, so let me just take a quick look… hahaha!”
“……”
They really were consistent, weren’t they…
‘Even if I told those people that the baby mermaids are actually children…’
It probably wouldn’t make a dent. If anything, they were the kind of people who’d start thinking about whether there was some other angle they could exploit out of that information. So even if we knew each other by face, it was useless.
No, in the first place, with how I looked right now, I couldn’t step forward anyway, so recognition had been useless from the start.
Hiding in the form of a stray animal within the black shadow cast by a collapsed streetlamp, I watched the Baekilmong Co., Ltd. employees rummaging through this alley and that one.
And then, at that moment…
“Quiet.”
Jin Nasol stopped walking and lowered herself.
“It’s a mermaid.”
“……”
“A baby one.”
All three employees held their breath and pressed themselves against the alley…