The one waiting for me in front of the elevator.
The new employee, Kim Heowoon.
“Employee?”
I cannot distinguish human faces.
They look like melted mosaics, and even their voices are hard to tell apart, like old radio recordings.
So I couldn’t tell how much the “new employee Kim Heowoon” standing in front of the elevator resembled the Jang Heowoon I had known, but… there was one thing I could be sure of.
‘…This is strange.’
This was strange.
And someone standing right beside me knew that even better than I did.
A director of this company.
“Hello. You must be the new member of this round’s Field Operations Team.”
“Ah. Yes…! My name is Kim Heowoon.”
“I see. …But how did you get in here?”
“……Pardon?”
“You’re in the Field Operations Team, Mr. Heowoon, aren’t you? Then you shouldn’t be able to enter this Facility Security Team area at will… so I was wondering how you came to be here.”
Silence.
“And how did you find this elevator? And the fact that employee—”
Ho Yuwon pointed at me.
“—would be here.”
“How did you know that?”
“…….”
His mouth opened.
“I imitated them.”
…What?
“I imitated Facility Security to get in, and I imitated the research team to learn where employee was.”
‘Imitated…?’
The moment a bad premonition rose in me,
a smile spread…