Hammond Hotel (6)

“That’s how it is.”

“Even if we’re supposed to be on guard, checking under the bed seems a bit much.”

“In horror movies, if you’re alone in the bathroom, you die, right?”

Kang Chae-young said that, after realizing I had suddenly disappeared in the hallway, she had given up searching and returned to the room.

“With a location-type entity, when someone suddenly disappears, the basic procedure is to stop searching and wait for them somewhere safe.”

“I’ve never heard of that basic procedure.”

“You learn that as soon as you join the Gwanak Branch, so how could you not have heard—ah.”

Kang Chae-young cut herself off while talking about the training curriculum.

Come to think of it, I think the Gyeongbuk Branch Director said the parasite had served to suppress Sinan.

If those eyes could see even the future, they must have seen what had interfered with her perception, too...