Chapter 397
—Did you… take the pill?
The question was thrown out.
For a split second, a deathly silence seemed to pass.
In the noisy corridor, amid people in shabby work clothes whose complexions looked almost unnaturally healthy, stood a former elite-team employee whose complexion was just as clear.
The area beneath her eyes, which should have been bluish and dark with irritation from exhaustion and pain, was clean.
Considering this person’s track record, there was no way that should have been the case.
“Assistant Manager.”
“…….”
Assistant Manager Jin Nasol opened her mouth.
“I don’t know.”
“…Excuse me?”
A voice cut in from behind me.
“That means she took it.”
…!
I turned and found Baek Saheon already approaching, frowning as he urged me on.
“Leave her. Hurry!”
“She hasn’t actually confirmed that she took it.”
“Are you stupid? If she hadn’t taken it, she’d say she hadn’t!”
“…!”
“If she’s saying she doesn’t know, that means there’s something going on! She can’t tell the truth, so she’s going to drag this out and whine about it. Why are you indulging her?!”
“She isn’t the type to make excuses like that. There really must be some—”
“What makes you so sure?! And even if there is something, so what? Does that change whether she took it?”
“Instead of wasting time arguing with you, I’ll ask her and be done with it!”
While Baek Saheon fell silent for a moment, I whipped my head toward Assistant Manager Jin Nasol.
“Why aren’t you certain?”
“I don’t remember taking it, but my condition has improved.”
“…….”
“I feel… unusually okay.”
That….
“You mean… although you don’t know exactly when, there’s a possibility you took it?”
“Yeah.”
Assistant Manager Jin Nasol’s eyes swept over the chaotic corridor, then over Baek Saheon and me, who had suddenly appeared.
Then she spoke in a subdued voice.
“I told…