Necromancer Survival

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     I wondered if I should respond, but for some reason I felt shy and clamped my mouth shut.
However, I vigorously nodded my head several times.

     “He’s handsome too.” Bang Eunji confidently said what I had only inwardly thought.
Choi Kyungsik looked exhausted at those words and shook his head, but he didn’t retort since it was an open secret that Bang Eunji blindly followed the Mage.

* * *

     After conversing for a while, it suddenly became evening; the two ate dinner in this house and, bewilderingly, still did not leave.
Well, now that I’ve gotten used to Jung Garam’s body, it wasn’t too hard to deal with them…

     ‘Is this perhaps not Garam-ie’s house…Is this the Red Lotus dorms or something?’

     Both of them seemed to be vacantly staring at their cell phones or watching TV–comfortably, as if this is their home–with no sign of leaving.

     “Hey… Are you perhaps sleeping here tonight?” I asked cautiously.

     Bang Eunji looked up from her cell phone screen and stared at me, “Of course.
I guarded him during the day.”

     “Huh…?”

     “So, isn’t it fair for Garam-kun to do it during the night?” She sounded accusatory, as if she were criticizing a slacking coworker.
Choi Kyung-sik, who played mediator every time we growled at each other, shrugged his shoulders when our eyes met.

     His gesture informed me he had no intention of intervening.
Of course, I couldn’t understand Bang Eunji’s words, so cold sweat flowed down my back.

     ‘Somehow, this feels like some important key event…’ 2

     It feels like I have to calmly pass this test.
So, I nodded and tried to adopt an expression that exclaimed, ‘I already knew~.’ Of course, inwardly I felt like I was going to get motion sickness from trying to deduce what was happening.

     ‘…Let’s think this through coolly.
What did Bang Eunji say? Guard? She said guard, right…? Since Bang Eunji said that it’s only fair if I guard during the night if she did so during the day, I have to protect something right? … But, who am I supposed to guard?’

     Just as I thought that, my eyes turned to Choi Kyung-sik, sitting on the sofa and watching TV.
Choi Kyung-sik locked gazes with me and scratched his cheek.
“You still haven’t caught the lab terrorist, right?”

     “Huh?”

     “I guess you don’t have much to say” Perhaps he took my exclamation as answer, Choi Kyung-sik’s shoulder drooped in disappointment.

     Bang Eunji, who saw that, responded on my behalf.
“The terrorist has been caught, and we’re trying to figure out who’s behind him.”

     “Really? Garam-ie is going to personally interrogate them?”

     Bang Eunji opened her mouth, so I thought I could take a breather, but the question was flung back at me like a boomerang.  Thanks to this, I was too busy guessing at the current situation; my mind felt chaotic.
I felt strangled at the sight of two pairs of eyes staring at me.

     ‘…Laboratory terrorist? The laboratory they’re mentioning…it must be that strange place on the 47th floor, right? I had thought it was structured a bit differently from the meeting room… Ah! Did the security system change due to the terrorist attack?’

    A plausible scenario was being written inside my whirling head.
I opened my mouth and gambled, “He’s an… insane guy, right? He’s enough of a nutjob to blow up a whole floor…”

     I tried my luck–this gamble was enough to drain the blood from my face.

     Fortunately, it seemed like my reasoning was correct; Choi Kyung-sik nodded.
“Well, I suppose he wouldn’t open his mouth easily.”

     “However, he’s still alive, right? Jung Garam-kun would often torture and not interrogate; many times now he’s made people into dishrags.”

     “……”

     The problem was… Perhaps interrogating the captured criminal was mainly entrusted to Jung Garam…the questions wouldn’t stop coming.

      I tried to enter the real ‘Jung Garam’s’ mentality, trying to assuage whether or not the terrorist was still alive.
I thought of Jung Garam’s attitude, back when he tore Park Hoseok into pieces…

     “His tongue is…intact.” Wouldn’t this answer be appropriate? Fortunately, that must have been enough, neither of them asked me any more questions.
And I… became sure of something.

    ‘This Vengeful Ghost Memory…’

     There must be special conditions to complete this memory.
And in order to succeed in those conditions, I was given Jung Garam’s body as a tool.

      Maybe that goal is…

     ‘Maybe it’s saving Choi Kyung-sik from the threat of assassination.’

TL: Hey guys, really quick update before I gotta go.
I’ve been a bit busy, writing my thesis paper.

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Footnotes

참 나 (cham, nah) Is a sound of frustration, annoyance, etc.
It’s just an exclamatory remark.
I used Jeez here to fit Kyung-sik’s personality and his tone.  It’s ‘important timing’ in the original.