Bronze Agent and I were staring at each other as if we’d both just been struck by lightning.
The train shelter.
Its true value was revealing itself beneath the driver’s seat.
‘An escape talisman…!’
But after the shiver of revelation passed, urgent questions flooded my head.
“Wait a second. But if you could get out with that talisman in the first place, wouldn’t you have left a long time ago?”
“……!”
As the agents died one by one, there had been no reason to keep enduring. Then why in the world…?
—He just kept saying there was still something else this train needed, and went out looking for it over and over!
Ah.
‘So something had been missing.’
What was it? What had been missing?
At that moment, someone suddenly yanked the cab door open from outside.
“Roe Deer….”
“Ms. Mountain Goat!”
The moment I saw Go Youngeun’s face, before any explanation about why I’d avoided everyone or what was happening now, the words that leaped out first were these:
“We found traces of an escape attempt.”
“…!!”
I quickly called everyone into the driver’s cab, then saw Manager Lee Jaheon shut the door and lean against it like he was standing guard.
It seemed he and Assistant Manager Eun Haje had brought Go Youngeun with…