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“Ugh, this is the worst. I have to get ready for work all over again.”
I grumbled my dissatisfaction and finished a simple breakfast.
Time to prepare for work a second time.
‘Even in the nightmare, I’m sure I woke up from the dream.’
Is this a dream within a dream?
It was a very unpleasant experience, even though it was my first time.
Ѐn û m̄ ã
With a lingering feeling of unease, I left the house and got into the car.
On the way to the research institute, I glanced at the place where I had seen the man in white.
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‘He’s not there this time.’
I must have been seeing things because it was a nightmare.
This time, there was no sign of anyone in white.
The research institute building came into view in the distance.
W е̇b̈nó vе́ l̀ Ěnu m̌а́
‘The light of humanity, found in the darkest place.’
I read the phrase written on the outer wall of the research institute.
A short, powerful phrase symbolizing the motto of Ansong Research Institute.
‘I also came to the research institute to help people at first.’
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Researching Anomalies to protect others from the unknown.
When I first became a young professional, I had such grand dreams.
Ẃ е bṅо̊v́е̊ l Ĕ n ū mӑ
‘It would be hypocrisy for me to think I’m helping people now.’
I conducted live experiments.
They were people who had committed capital crimes and had agreed to it themselves, but I still stood by and watched people die.
‘I can’t say I’m helping others when I can’t even save the person in front of me.’
The dream of helping others still exists in a corner of my heart.
But I didn’t deserve to have such a dream.
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Because that would be ugly hypocrisy.
Lost in thought, I arrived at the research institute before I knew it.
I stepped inside.
“Hello, Se-hwa.”
A fellow researcher greeted me.
Who was it? To my embarrassment, I couldn’t remember their name.
Еn̂ ü mӑ. і̄ d̃
“Ah, hello.”
I greeted them with an awkward smile.
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Come to think of it, all the researchers seemed to have name tags.
Why doesn’t this person have one?
“The weather is really nice today, isn’t it?”
The researcher whose name I didn’t know smiled brightly.
Е̊ǹ ũm̃ ӓ
I smiled appropriately to match the mood.
“It is. We should be out enjoying it, but it’s a shame.”
The researcher laughed at my words.
They burst into a hearty laugh, their mouth splitting wide.
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“Hahaha! I want to go out and play too!”
Was what I said that funny?
Еn̊u mа̃
They seemed a little crazy.
That researcher must have lost it from the continuous experiments.
It’s not a big deal.
“I, I want to go outside too!”
The researcher with a grotesque smile took a step closer.
I subtly stepped back as much as they approached.
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“I, if I hadn’t died, I could have gone outside.”
“…Excuse me?”
The researcher smiled.
Their mouth splitting wide.
“I didn’t want to die. Why did I have to die? I wanted to go outside too!”
The researcher’s face twisted grotesquely, forming a hideous smile.
Е nǔ m̃ а̇
Ah, I remember now.
This person is the ■■■ Researcher who died ■ months ago.
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The nightmare wasn’t over yet.
“Se-hwa. Se-hwa is still alive, right? Please let me out. Don’t let me die!”
The grotesquely smiling researcher lunged at me.
I quickly dodged and escaped.
É ň u m̄ а̊ . і d̄
I ran away from the pursuing researcher, trying to sort out my thoughts.
‘What do I have to do to wake up from this nightmare?’
I pinched my cheek as I ran.
It only hurt, and I didn’t wake up from the dream.
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I tried everything I had seen somewhere about waking up from a nightmare, such as moving my fingers or facial muscles.
But the dream didn’t break.
Еn û_m а
While running, I spotted a security guard at the research institute.
I rushed over and grabbed the guard’s shoulder.
“Excuse me! Someone is chasing me. Please stop that person!”
If this is my dream, shouldn’t I be able to make things happen the way I want, at least a little?
I held onto a sliver of hope.
“Someone is chasing you, you say?”
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“Over there! Can’t you see that person?”
The guard looked puzzled, as if they hadn’t found anything even after looking where I pointed.
“There’s no one there?”
I cautiously turned my head to follow the guard’s gaze.
The researcher who had been chasing me had disappeared.
“Hah, hah. This nightmare is really terrible.”
Ên ůṁ ȧ
“Huh? Nightmare?”
The guard looked at me with a puzzled expression.
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It was a familiar face.
“You killed me and tried to cover it up as just a nightmare?”
It was the face of one of the Type Zero Personnel who had been put into the Equivalent Exchange Machine experiment.
I shook off the hand trying to grab me and ran away again.
Е nü m а . ïd
The nightmare was getting worse.
Everyone I encountered looked like wriggling human entrails.
The buildings and objects all looked like butchered raw meat.
Everything was red like blood.
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‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’
I ran down the hallway, stepping on the slimy entrails.
Е̂ňü m̃ а . і̇d
Monsters made of entrails rushed at me to kill me.
“You killed me. You knew I would die if you proceeded with the experiment. You’re the one who killed me.”
“It couldn’t be helped for the sake of humanity? No, you just didn’t want to admit it. You couldn’t admit that someone died because of you.”
“You disgusting hypocrite. You should have been the one to die, not me!”
I squeezed out all my strength to escape from the monsters, my whole body breaking down.
‘I just wanted to help people.’
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Countless muscles reached out to me.
‘…No matter the reason, what I did won’t disappear.’
I ran away from the clutches and sins.
‘I’m a hypocrite. A dirty, ugly hypocrite.’
When I reached the point where I felt like I couldn’t run anymore.
A thought suddenly struck me.
Еn̊ ŭm̀.á
‘Let’s die.’
If I die, I can wake up from this nightmare. I woke up from the last nightmare when my neck was cut by a sword.
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A space filled with nothing but red, made of entrails, meat, and blood.
I took out my self-defense pistol.
Just as I was about to put the gun to my head.
The Black Princess appeared.
Е̄ ň uṁа́
“Hello.”
In the middle of the all-red background, the Princess elegantly greeted me, showing off her noble black color.
“What are you doing?”
The Princess calmly walked over and spoke to me.
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“Ah, I’m trying to wake up from a nightmare.”
“Nightmare?”
Е ňu m̆а
The Princess tilted her head, as if she didn’t understand what I was saying.
Then, she looked at the empty space behind my shoulder instead of my face.
“Crouch down and stay still.”
I knelt down to meet the Princess’s eye level.
The Princess reached out her hand as if to caress my cheek.
The outstretched hand was directed towards the empty space behind my shoulder.
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Soon after, the Princess seemed to grab something and put her clenched hand into her mouth.
“It’s done now.”
The Princess smiled peacefully, chewing in her mouth.
Was I about to wake up from the nightmare?
Suddenly, I felt sleepy.
“I, I’m… I’m a hypocrite. I wanted to help people, but I was only doing bad things.”
Wе̌b̀ńо̃ v е̄l Ӗn̄ u m а̌
The words leaked out.
I wanted to confess to someone before waking up from the dream.
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“In the end, it was all an excuse for my own satisfaction. I was just intoxicated with the feeling that ‘I’m doing good things.’ It was just disgusting self-consolation.”
I had used up all my energy running away, so I didn’t even have the strength to shed tears.
I looked at the Princess with dry eyes.
The Princess opened her mouth.
Е núṁ а̊
As ordinary as when she greeted me in the morning.
As if it were natural and familiar.
“Se-hwa is an idiot. There’s no way that wanting to be good is wrong, is there?”
She spoke to me peacefully, as if she were just saying a light greeting.
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I lost consciousness.
In my fading consciousness, the Princess’s words lingered in my mind.
Ŵеb̈n о̃ v ѐ l̆ Е ṅ_um̄â
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Se-hwa is an idiot.
She had been muttering hard-to-understand words like hypocrisy since a while ago.
There’s no way that wanting to do good is wrong.
“There’s no way I’m a bad guy for doing good deeds to get a Level 5 Keycard.”
Right. Doing good deeds to get a Level 5 Keycard isn’t a bad thing.
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No matter the intention or the result, the desire to be good is not wrong.
Even if someone says something, that fact will never change.
“By the way, you over there. Who are you? I don’t think I’ve seen you before.”
A person in white was floating in the air like a ghost.
When I spoke to them, the person in white was startled and tried to run away.
“Hmm. They’re not even accepting my greeting and trying to run away. How rude.”
Еn̆ u ṁ ă. i̊d̈
I quickly moved and blocked the place where the person in white was trying to escape.
I smelled a familiar scent from the person in white.
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“Is it you?”
I found the guy who attached the strange Anomalous Object to Se-hwa.
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