Out of nowhere, I spotted dozens of Baekilmong Co., Ltd. researchers inside a subway station in Segwang Special City.
And then our eyes met in this insane reality.
‘Damn it.’
Reflexively, I brought a hand to my face.
Hanging there, as always, was the mask with antlers jutting up like tree branches.
Which meant, in other words, that I was dressed exactly the same as when I worked as Roe Deer.
‘Shit…!’
There would definitely be researchers who recognized me.
‘I didn’t enter Segwang Special City in the alien lizard body in case it caused problems.’
Even though that brute strength might have helped, I had given it up for safety’s sake. It might affect my sleeping mind.
And yet, instead, I had run into this sudden incident that was terrible for mental health.
“What?”
“Field Operations Team?”
The moment those words were spoken by the person pointing at me, researchers began poking their heads out from beyond the wall.
‘…Wait.’
I turned around and changed masks.
From Roe Deer to feline.
To the mask of the new identity I had been given.
“…Huh?”
The researcher who had been pointing at me stared blankly for a moment, then shouted.
“Uh—uh? W-wait. That field employee… their mask changed!”
“What?”
“No, just now, it definitely had, like… antlers or something. Excuse me! You changed your mask just now, didn’t you?!”
“I’m not sure what you mean….”
“N-no, I definitely saw it!”
“Could it have been a hallucination?”
“A hallucination?”
“So it really is a Darkness after all, damn it!”
The researchers’ attention shifted away from the Field Operations Team member supported only by testimony and immediately returned to the situation they themselves were in.
The researcher who had pointed at me was still staring at me with a look that said he couldn’t accept it, but I ignored him for now.
“Excuse me, what kind of Darkness is this exactly? And who are you?”
Whew.
“To be honest, I don’t know either.”
“…!”
“To be precise, I’ve been trapped here so long that I can’t even answer…