Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work

Chapter 131

Ryu Jaegwan remembered clearly.

The mountain lodge where a series of murders had taken place.

Even in the midst of that horrifying disaster, there was someone who found clues to stop the killings and worked tirelessly to save even the original culprits.

The owner of the Silver Heart.

"You pretended to kill them and hid them, staging the scene."

"I figured it might throw off the killer enough to make them hesitate."

And then there was the dedication and sacrifice this person had shown in the eerie nightmare of Segwang Technical High School.

"I retrieved the nametag, but it’s no longer with me."

"I left it with someone who was still alive in the classroom."

Giving someone else a lifeline in such an extreme situation wasn’t something just anyone could do.

Ryu Jaegwan, who had seen all kinds of people in his work at the Disaster Management Bureau, had been at a loss for words when confronted with such upright choices.

But at the same time, there had been that thunderbolt revelation:

Applying to become an agent of the Disaster Management Bureau.

“......”

But something felt strangely different.

‘...Why can’t he meet my eyes?’

Whenever Ryu Jaegwan had encountered Kim Soleum before, he’d always been impeccably neat, his appearance clean and composed—even during the nightmare where he’d been a high school student.

Now, the man visible through the glass had disheveled hair and glasses, his head bowed low.

He looked less like a confident applicant and more like an awkward, inexperienced young man taking an exam for the first time.

Or...

Like someone who’d suffered a significant psychological blow and retreated inward.

“......”

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