There are six people here who each possess enough of a story to satisfy the Seeker within the Box.
Which of them will be thrown into the pain of a slow, horrific death that cannot be escaped, lasting an average of twenty-seven years?
That absurd choice was right before our eyes now….
“Roe Deer.”
I lowered my head.
Assistant Manager Eun Haje, in the form of an old grandmother, was tapping around my shoulder.
“Come down a little. Even if I look like this, I’m not actually elderly or frail.”
But—
“Let me spit out the marble and recover some mobility too. Looking at this, the situation doesn’t seem ordinary.”
……
I lowered Assistant Manager Eun Haje.
Assistant Manager Eun Haje spat out a glass marble, then began returning to her original form.
Agent Cheongdong’s expression changed.
“You are…”
“Well, well, it’s been a while, you old fogey.”
Assistant Manager Eun Haje grinned.
As fate would have it, the two of them had known each other here in Jisan Village, and now they had met again in a similar place.
“Oh. Hello, Assistant Manager! Have you been doing well since quitting?”
“Yes, yes.”
The mosaic face of Agent Cheongdong twitched as he looked back and forth between Assistant Manager Eun Haje greeting Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae and Ho Yuwon.
As if he had realized what kind of being had been using Assistant Manager Eun Haje’s body.
“Are you currently in a state where your life is being threatened by a supernatural…