An evening with darkness settling over everything.
The entrance hall of the annex of Baekilmong Co., Ltd.
Two black-clad Facility Security Team employees, each with a transport cage beside them, were sitting at the front desk and dealing with people.
“Hallway… 32. It’s over there….”
“Th-thank you.”
Of course, rather than “dealing with people,” it was more like roughly returning greetings, opening hallway access permissions, and notifying them of a few instructions.
Since this was usually a one-person shift, and since it was rare to have something like a transport cage sitting next to them, employees would sometimes falter, or look at it with the kind of cold-sweating expression that said, Is this some kind of experiment too?
And inside one of those “exceptions,” that transport cage… was me.
“Are you okay…?”
Tap.
“Mm… got it.”
The Security Captain checked on my condition from time to time, but basically, he was sprawled out at the front desk with a face that looked annoyed by everything in the world.
The security team was not originally supposed to be handling public-facing duties like this, but because they had been assigned as the team in charge of me, they had ended up doing all kinds of odd jobs.
I’m sorry….
“But it’s nice, isn’t it? Peaceful! Right, Ro… no, Employee-nim?”
Tap.
I agreed with Senior Staff Park Minseong.
Even within the security team, he said he mostly handled mental-control duties, so he had hardly ever done work this peaceful. Park Minseong seemed to be quite welcoming of this assignment.
And during today’s shift, he had also been very pleased that my attitude during communication had become more stable than before.
I…