The lump looked at the glittering dream incubator.
At the liquid inside it.
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Dream residue points exceeding five million rippled in dazzling, iridescent color.
The lump kept watching.
Even though it could feel no meaning in it.
“Soleum-ah. Just wait a little, okay?”
Even when people took turns guarding the room like they were standing watch through the night,
even when the mascots outside intermittently stopped moving as though they were glitching,
even when, before anyone realized it, it had been left there alone.
It remained there in the dark research facility, together with the dream residue solution rippling in brilliant color.
Together with the astronomical essence of dreams that had been gathered as the result of what Kim Soleum had done.
And then.
“Hello.”
Someone opened the door and walked in.
The multicolored dreamlight cast glittering light and shadow over her face.
“…Mr. Soleum.”
Go Youngeun.
That person, Kim Soleum’s fellow hire, carefully tried to shut the door, then noticed Agent Haegeum following behind her and left it slightly open as she walked in.
And then she looked at the lump inside the tank.
Her face was hard to make out because of the shadows.
“I rescued my family safely.”
The light rippled.
“Thank you. Thanks to you… I didn’t lose my way, and I was able to make it all the way home.”
The lump perceived the sketchbook paper in Go Youngeun’s hand.
The map the mascot had…