An office with the lights off.
Tap-tap-tap.
Someone sat alone, tapping at a keyboard.
On the lit-up monitor, words could be seen.
Draft Report
Author: Lee Jaheon
Witness statement record regarding the process of clearing the irregular C-grade Darkness that occurred on the Mokpo-bound high-speed train on 20XX. 01. 02., and the process leading to the presumed death of Chief Kim Soleum.
The typing made a steady sound as sentence after sentence was produced, without hesitation or pause for thought.
As though the entire timeline had already been organized inside his head.
Witnesses: Employee A, Employee C, Employee F
(For ease of review, initials were selected according to each person’s assigned Group.)
Employee A: Are we really doing this again? This whole thing (the interview), I mean. It doesn’t seem to mean much.
Employee A: Anyway… yes. I boarded the train to go on a regional business trip, and then it was running over the sea.
Employee C: The clear went super smoothly. Chief Soleum really took the lead and did a lot of different things, and it was also nice seeing him try so hard to minimize civilian casualties!
(Employee A stated that he asked whether the occurrence of this Darkness had been intentionally planned by the company, but was told by the research team that it was “pure coincidence” — for additional confirmation, refer to the third interview)
The three elite team members took the lead in clearing the anomalously manifested Darkness. Collection of C-grade Solution confirmed.
At this point, all witnesses stated in common that the train was no longer within the Darkness, but in a completely real space.
Employee C: Chief Kim Soleum checked the Solution first, and then he went to the restroom. Yeah, that restroom.
After the train departed, Chief Kim Soleum left his seat after saying, “I’m going to the restroom.” Contact was lost for 15 minutes.
At the 17-minute mark: Employee F, who had been riding in Car 3 of the train, visited the seats of the three elite team members.
Purpose of visit…