A man in his early thirties, dressed ordinarily, was talking on the phone excitedly in his studio apartment.
“Yeah, yeah, that’s right. I got into Baekilmong. Yeah, I only applied as a test, you know.”
He had applied to the sudden additional hiring notice posted by Baekilmong Co., Ltd., and in the end he had made it all the way through and been accepted.
And now he was calling all kinds of people, pretending it was nothing, just to brag.
Especially to friends whose academic backgrounds were worse than his and who still hadn’t found jobs.
‘What? You said my eyes made a bad impression, so I’d probably need to prepare hard for interviews?’
But look at the result!
“Well, I mean, I ended up getting hired like this, but it’s kind of a shame too. Hm? I didn’t really get the chance to apply to lots of places. Unlike you.”
The electrifying thrill of putting down a competitor who was inferior to him.
Just imagining that person later chewing over this conversation and feeling their self-esteem sink was enough to make his heart race.
The new researcher at Baekilmong felt a shiver-like pleasure inside as he kept talking.
“Why didn’t you apply too? Huh, you did? I didn’t know. Sorry about that. Next time we meet, I’ll treaaagh!!”
Suddenly.
Thud.
Something black dropped out of thin air.
And immediately grabbed the researcher by the throat.
“…!!”
It was a black silhouette.
‘F-from where?’
There was clearly no passage or space in the ceiling that something like that could have come through. Even when he rolled his eyes upward and looked, there wasn’t a trace of anything.
Then how?
“Shh.”
The black…