“Oh, right! That should be sent to the Team Leader’s desk, Agent Mint.”
“Yes…!”
Go Youngeun carried the bundle of materials she had just sorted over to her superior’s desk.
They were materials concerning a newly sighted supernatural disaster.
As she briefly reflected on how the word disaster now felt more familiar than darkness.
‘Hoo.’
Go Youngeun sat down at her desk.
Then she faintly heard the agents sharing idle chatter in the hallway outside the office they used together.
“…ended up that way. Hyunmoo 1 Team….”
“But with that rookie, even I probably would’ve….”
“…….”
Her nerves instantly sharpened.
Even from just that much, she could tell who they were talking about.
The thing that had been a carefully avoided yet constant topic among the Disaster Management Agency’s field agents for nearly two weeks now.
Agent Grape.
A story about her fellow spy.
About Kim Soleum’s imprisonment, release, and disappearance.
That was right.
Her fellow trainee, Go Youngeun’s counterpart, had failed at spy work and disappeared.
…At least, could she say it was fortunate he had not been caught?
Judging from the circumstances, it seemed that something had happened after the geas Director Ho had placed was discovered, but with how hush-hush the atmosphere was, it was hard to ask casually.
That things had become somewhat serious while he was imprisoned, and then he had recovered again.
And that even after his disappearance, the atmosphere among the field agents toward Kim Soleum was not all that bad.
…And that news from Hyunmoo 1 Team had…