The Facility Security Team employees looked up.
The dark pantry.
The sales employee, sprawled on the floor holding his breath, met the eyes of the figures who had emerged beneath the shadows through the transport device.
“A child…… no.”
The one wearing an animal mask drawn by a child, Badger, calmed his own stirred contamination.
Soon, an even, businesslike voice came out.
“Employee belonging to Sales Team 4.”
“Y-yes….”
“Identity confirmed. We will now begin calculating the charges.”
The sales employee swallowed.
Wrapped head to toe in black specialized gear, their faces hidden, wearing all manner of bizarre equipment, they themselves looked like a Ghost Story.
And yet, despite clearly being supernatural people on some sort of special mission, he felt a momentary relief.
Of course, the next moment, terror at this incomprehensible situation surged up again.
“Um, excuse me, wh-what am I supposed to….”
As the sales employee rolled his eyes, trying somehow to grasp the situation, something caught his attention.
The Facility Security Team employee who had come out after the others was carrying a black transport cage in one hand.
A metal transport cage that looked like it was meant for capturing beasts.
…Wait a second.
“D-don’t tell me you’re going to put me in there and take me out….”
“No. Of course not.”
Badger stroked the transport cage gently.
The sales employee had just begun to feel relieved.
“There’s already someone inside.”
“……What?”
“Don’t think too hard about it.”
Watching the sales employee look as though he had gone out of his mind in a situation he could not possibly understand, Badger smiled inwardly, bitterly.
And….
“It’s cramped…….”
J3, who had been holding the transport cage in one hand, had little interest in the situation itself.
Of course, it had been an unimaginably long time since he had come out to “work” wearing something other than a guard uniform.
Though calling it “coming out” felt strange when the place they were currently in was so narrow.
Meanwhile, Badger exercised a degree of kindness absurd for a…