The Segwang Special City subway, entered once more.
“This way.”
“Yep!”
Holding flashlights, Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae and I were walking along the tracks.
There was plenty of space to step aside if a subway train approached, and even if we got hit and died, we would wake up outside, so our pace remained calm.
Still, with our ears pricked for any unexpected situation, I spoke with Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae.
Thanks to having slept, my thoughts were clearer than before.
Even when going back over my conversation with Agent Choi.
I realized it plainly.
‘…He hadn’t believed me from the beginning.’
-So you think you got dropped here after getting caught in a supernatural disaster. The world changed suddenly, and you got equipment.
Before.
When I told Agent Choi that I had come from another world and wanted to go back there, I had felt relieved when I saw how calm his response was.
I thought he had acknowledged my situation.
But it wasn’t acknowledgment….
‘It was just… wariness.’
Had he already decided, even then, that I was someone he couldn’t trust?
‘…Why?’
In Mermaid Graveyard… in Sparkling Dragon Palace, too, hadn’t he seen children who had come from other worlds?
Things like parallel worlds were not such unfamiliar concepts in this Ghost Story world.
So wasn’t that much… something he could have believed?
“……”
For some reason, my mind felt strangely dull.
Then Assistant Manager Lee Seonghae’s clear voice rang cleanly through it.
“Have you been doing okay in the meantime?”
Ah.
“I heard…