Chapter 394
The next morning.
Breakfast was distributed again under the pretext of being a special meal. This time, it was salad bread and banana milk.
People were pleased with the fairly tasty special meal, but they were even more interested in the pills.
I picked up the pink, translucent softgel capsule that had been distributed again today.
“You said it’s a Darkness.”
“Yes.”
Like me, Assistant Manager Jin Nasol pretended to take the pill and slipped it away instead, but before doing so, she examined it with considerable interest.
I could hear the workers talking nearby.
“I’m telling you, look at this. The inflammation is completely gone.”
“Whoa, did you really get infected with parasites and then recover or something? Why does your skin look so good?”
“Your bruises disappeared. Oh my!”
Some of them were probably being swept along by the atmosphere and imagining that they felt better, and there were probably plenty of exaggerated cases too.
Even so, the overall trend was fairly clear.
“These pills improve your condition?”
“I-I don’t know….”
As our voices grew louder, I started speaking in my clumsy persona again.
“But even I kind of feel like… maybe I’m doing a little better…? My face seems… less swollen too, maybe…?”
“You look like a complete wreck.”
“……”
I know….
Just play along with me a little, please.
But Assistant Manager Jin Nasol looked as though merely hearing the way I spoke was giving her a headache, and furrowed her brow.
“Why do you let people beat you up in the first place? What’s the point of carrying a knife?”
Because I’m scared.
“Hahaha….”
I laughed awkwardly and looked away.
For reference, Assistant Manager Jin Nasol had been “temporarily assigned”…