I no longer had to listen to people trying to stop me with things like, “You just escaped from aboveground in Segwang Special City after 293 days, and now you’re saying you want to go back down there again?”
No, I didn’t even have the leisure to listen.
“Is there something wrong with this music box?”
“…I’m going first.”
I immediately hung the Fox Counseling Office sign back on the door and crossed over into the counseling room, then prepared to enter the Segwang Special City subway through the long-term inpatient ward.
“You’re going in? …Grape, wait!”
Agent Choi, who had continued keeping a close watch on Director Ho, ended up coming along in the end, but I had no time to observe or mediate the conflict between Ho Yuwon and Agent Choi that unfolded in the counseling room.
I was just frantically anxious, as though my blood had gone cold.
‘What happened?’
Why… why was the music box that had caused the Day of Disaster also inside Baekilmong’s potion-making machine?
“For now, I’ll guide you, Roe Deer-nim.”
Even during the process of entering the long-term inpatient ward and “going in,” the questions did not stop.
The one and only fortunate thing was that the moment I opened my eyes, I realized I had successfully entered the Segwang Special City subway.
A familiar modern platform came into view.
…Segwang Station.
-Before your breath, too, was cut off and you were raised onto the sacrificial rite ground, before you were trapped in this May 4th… back to where you originally were,
Just as the counselor had said.
My intuition had been right—that since I hadn’t died on the Day of Disaster, on May 4, I would not be dragged in there.
But that relief did not last long.
Because I hadn’t forgotten why I had come here.
“Mm, this way….”
As instructed beforehand, I boarded the train and moved to Twilight Station, and the guard captain guided me to the platform of that station where Delusion Home Shopping had once been.
Creak.
Then he opened a fire hydrant in one corner….
An astonishingly wide space appeared.
“……!”
Originally, the inside of the hydrant had…