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Mistaken for a Catastrophe-Level Ghost Story Employee 122

Chapter 122

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With the distinctive static noise brushing past my ears.  

The gazes of everyone in the current space fell upon only one being.  

The very person who trapped me in this dream space.  

Someone with an extremely complicated past with Eve.  

Our outstanding superior.  

Mr. Noise.  

“I’m sorry for not coming to see you sooner…Eve.”  

“……”  

“Eve?”  

As Noise maintained his position with a brief silence at Eve’s lack of response to his question.  

“…Cute.”  

“Huh?”  

“Adorable! Why did you become so small?”  

Even while bound by the blanket, Eve showed a reaction calling Noise cute.  

If it had been the usual Noise, I would have been quite shocked by Eve’s reaction just now.  

But Noise’s current appearance was quite different from his original form that I knew.  

Not the outward appearance of Noise that I normally knew.  

Short arms and legs.  

And a body size with cuteness rivaling our Three Bear Cubs.  

Literally.  

An SD Noise version.  

Since this space was within my dream, I thought it might be possible to recreate any being I wanted here exactly as imagined.  

And that hypothesis.  

Proved completely correct.  

The SD Noise before my eyes was living proof of that.  

“Let me hug you just once! Just once! PLEASEEE!!”  

Eve couldn’t contain her excitement seeing the shrunken Noise.  

Leaving such drunken antics behind. I urgently called Noise over.  

“Mr. Noise. There’s something I want to ask you.”  

“Yes, go ahead, Employee Park Yeon-jeong. If it’s something I can answer, I’ll gladly tell you.”  

At Noise’s words about gladly answering, what I wanted to ask him now was.  

Just one thing.  

“Waking up from this dream I’m currently having.”  

To ask this.  

I had summoned SD Noise here.  

“…So that’s why you called me here.”  

Noise seemed slightly troubled by my question. 

And I too hoped for a method that wouldn’t be too difficult.  

When Noise opened his mouth again after hesitating for a while.  

“Such a thing doesn’t exist. Employee Park Yeon-jeong.”  

!  

Noise who delivered this shocking statement looked up at me to assess the situation. 

Then continued speaking.  

“That’s what I would have said with my usual joking tone if this were normal circumstances, but I assume that’s not the answer you wanted to hear.”  

Noise flicked his finger.  

Bzzt-  

From within the small burst of static, the noise revealed something emerging from it.  

What came out was.  

A kitchen knife.  

“……”  

“What did I tell you! I said that was the only way!”  

As the blanket-bound Eve shouted triumphantly.  

Noise gripped the knife spat out by the static in one hand, pointing the blade toward me.  

“Then Employee Park Yeon-jeong. Please don’t move from that spot. This is my first time actually doing this too.”  

“Okay! Just a moment! Need to mentally prepare!”  

“Here I go.”  

Thwack-  

“Wait!”  

Despite my protest, Noise’s hand moved relentlessly toward me.  

And without mercy.  

Swish-!  

He swung the knife at me.  

With not a moment’s hesitation in his swing, I could only helplessly accept it.  

Against Noise’s blade, I had no choice but to close my eyes, and when the surrounding commotion gradually subsided.  

Well…  

I didn’t feel anything you could call pain.  

Nor did the atmosphere around me seem to change either.  

As I slowly opened my eyes again in this situation where no major change was noticeable.  

A playful voice reached my ears.  

“Done. I think I managed to cut through better than expected.”  

“…Huh?”  

Noise spoke as if he had successfully cut something, and where my gaze turned, a rift had appeared in midair.  

“This is…what? Mr. Noise?”  

To which Noise answered.  

“I’ve created a passage connected to Employee Park Yeon-jeong’s physical body. Now, you should go meet it. Go meet my original self that’s currently occupying your body.”  

Original self?  

As Noise spoke these words about going to meet his original self, he then turned his gaze toward Eve.  

“Will you…come too, Eve.”  

“……”  

“The me you knew might be different. You’ll probably be disappointed. But if you, Eve, want to go…”  

“I’ll go.”  

Eve’s eyes held an intensity of will I’d never seen before.  

“…That look where you always think of others first…it’s been a while. Just for this moment, I feel happier in this form here than my original self.”  

Swish-  

With a light vertical slash of the knife.  

Noise precisely cut only the blanket restraining Eve, then extended his hand to her sitting on the floor.  

“Let’s go.”  

“…Yeah.”  

Eve took Noise’s offered hand, and I too stepped toward the rift in space with firm resolve.  

We slowly extended our steps forward.  

*****  

The place we arrived at after passing through the rift from the dream was.  

Crumbled buildings.  

Overturned roads.  

A scene devoid of any people.  

The familiar wasteland we all knew.  

‘Am I really in the right place?’  

As I looked around at the unrecognizable surroundings, wondering if Noise might have taken my body to another country.  

The small-sized Noise pointed in a specific direction, and where my gaze followed.  

Bzzzzt-  

Bzzt-  

Bzzzzzt-!  

Another version of myself appeared in view, engulfed in severe static noise, unable to maintain proper human form.  

And our Noise pointed at that figure and said.  

“If this continues, both my original self. And Employee Park Yeon-jeong’s original body might die.”  

“Huh?”  

At these words, I immediately looked toward the massive static noise ahead.  

With countless static disturbances everywhere, Noise’s figure at the center wasn’t clearly visible.  

But…even through the unclear silhouette, the arm drenched in red and stained clothing was immediately apparent.  

Yes, that was me.  

With one arm covered in red blood.  

Clothes torn to shreds, a miserable appearance…  

Face obscured by static.  

I saw myself fighting something.  

If this continued, before I could return to my original body.  

My body might die first.  

“What should we do, Mr. Noise!”  

“The method is simple. Employee Park Yeon-jeong.”  

“Yes!”  

“Run toward your original body right now.”  

“Huh?”  

“Then just reach out and make contact with your body – that’s all. Currently our bodies are essentially just souls separated from our physical forms. So attacks in reality won’t affect us.”  

“……”  

The explanation was quite simple but…  

Boom-!  

Kzzzt-!  

Crash-!  

‘…Noise, just what have you been doing with my body?’  

Watching the Hollywood-action-movie-worthy scene unfolding before me.  

Noise, who was calmly observing the situation, voiced this concern:  

“There’s no time to stay like this. Employee Park Yeon-jeong. At this rate, your body probably has at most…about 1 minute left.”  

“…Huh?”  

The moment I heard Noise say “1 minute.”  

With that questioning “Huh?” escaping my lips, my body was already instinctively leaping forward.  

Patapat-!  

1 minute.  

If this 1 minute passes, I’ll simply.  

Die.  

‘Please just hold on a little longer, Mr. Noise!’  

I ran with all my might toward where my body was. Stumbling over the uneven ground as I blindly moved forward.  

Without a moment’s rest.  

I pushed ahead.  

As the distance to my physical form gradually closed.  

‘Just a little more!’  

I reached out.  

The moment my fingertips touched my body’s back.  

!!  

From within the static-obscured, ruined face, a quiet voice emerged.  

“…Park Yeon-jeong…employee?”  

Bzzzzzt-  

And in that instant.  

Extreme static noise instantly swallowed the entire area.  

*****  

After Park Yeon-jeong ran off to reclaim his body.  

A quiet silence continued in a certain space.  

“……”  

“……”  

No one spoke first. They just…blankly stared at the scene unfolding before them.  

One person hung their head and muttered in a drained voice.  

“You must be disappointed. I’m so different from the me you knew.”  

“……”  

“Time is truly cruel. Change doesn’t always lead somewhere good.”  

“You haven’t changed.”  

“Huh?”  

Eve, who had kept her mouth firmly shut until now, looked at the small Noise with a faint smile.  

“The you I know…you’re exactly the same, so I’m relieved…”  

“…You don’t know. What kind of life I’ve lived…in a world without you.”  

“……”  

Listening to Noise’s low voice.  

Eve quietly spoke these words.  

“So what if you’ve changed a little? The you I know hasn’t changed, right?”  

“……….”  

It was a natural thing to say.  

One might call it an irresponsible remark.  

But…  

For Noise here, that single smile she showed.  

In that moment when he saw in her eyes a smile he thought he’d never see again.  

“You truly are…unchanging.”  

With that final smile on Noise’s lips.  

What he had been.  

Unable to say until now.  

With slight trembling.  

Noise, spoke.  

“…I…liked you. In the past……”  

“…Huh?”  

The static covering the entire space instantly swallowed everything within.

 

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Mistaken for a Catastrophe-Level Ghost Story Employee

Mistaken for a Catastrophe-Level Ghost Story Employee

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Status: Ongoing Type: Author: Released: 2025 Native Language: Korean
I got a job at a company in a horror story, but they say I’m the only employee. I just worked hard because I wanted to live… [A disastrous urban horror story appears.] [Nearby residents, please evacuate immediately.] They say I’m a disastrous urban horror story.

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