A full ten days after the unprecedented incident in which two Hyunmoo 1 Team agents, two Baekilmong employees, and one unidentified supernatural disaster abruptly appeared unconscious in the main building of the Supernatural Disaster Management Agency—
the people involved in the incident gathered at a meat restaurant.
The somewhat shabby restaurant was loud and bustling, the kind of old beloved place in an office district, but at the corner table where they sat, a tired quietness flowed….
It was the calm they had only barely regained.
“…….”
“…….”
Sizzle.
The sound of meat grilling on the iron plate could be heard.
Three haggard-looking people offered one another polite encouragement.
“Please eat a lot.”
“Yessir, thank you.”
Agent Choi grabbed a piece of meat off the grill and brought it right to his mouth with gusto.
It was hard to believe this was someone who had spent a full week able to take in nothing but water and liquid food, simply because swallowing anything at all had been impossible.
Something similar was happening with Assistant Manager Eun Haje, who was opening a soju bottle.
“Man, not being allowed to drink is no joke.”
“Come on now, no matter what, a state institution can’t give you alcohol. Your treatment was free, though, right?”
“If I make a tax joke here, that’d make me a menace, huh?”
“So you do know that too?”
This person had already had her identity dug up once by an agent she met in a Ghost Story back when she was a rookie, so despite the grandmother outfit, she had still been identified as a Baekilmong employee.
After several days of questioning and treatment, she was permitted to go out on the condition that she be accompanied by agents.
Her equipment had been confiscated by the Agency, but some replacement gear to make…