Chapter 156

Chapter 156

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[Translator – Clara]

[Proofreader – Lucky]

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Chapter 156: Rules for Night Shift Workers’ Safety (2)

[Inner Door]

In order to ensure the safety of night shift employees, the orphanage provides the following rules.

※The contents below must not be leaked to the outside, and the orphanage will not provide any compensation for accidents resulting from violating these rules.

This notice was definitely not there during the daytime.

“...for the safety of night shift employees.”

Vikir muttered quietly.

Below the sign, various precautions were written.

(1) If you find a child alone in the hallway during your night patrol, ignore them and return the way you came. If the child approaches you or tries to hand you something, immediately leave the area at the highest possible speed.

The orphanage strictly prohibits the passage of children in the hallways at night, and under no circumstances are children left alone without any guardians.

(2) If a group of children, regardless of gender, approaches you and says that there is a problem with the water pipes in room 66 on the 6th floor of the main building, answer, “I understand,” and lock the door to the guard’s office. After that, hum your favorite song. ‘They’ dislike singing.

For your information, there are a total of 65 rooms on the 6th floor of the main building, and there is no room 66 in the building.

(3) Self Pleasure is strictly prohibited within the orphanage, regardless of gender, under any circumstances, in any way.

(4) If, while patrolling the halls, you find that no matter how far you walk, you never seem to get to your destination, and you keep seeing the same scenery over and over again, you should immediately exit by the fire escape stairs, crouch down with your forehead against the wall in the corner, close your eyes, and cover your ears.

Daytime security personnel will check the emergency exit stairs first when they come to work. Maintain this state until you hear the sound of a rooster crowing in the morning.

* If there is anything else on the list below that negates item #4, you should never pay attention to it.

(5) Sometimes, there are cases of finding a suicide victim. This is a common incident that other orphanages also experience, so follow the usual procedure. However, if you find the body of a young child hanging from an ordinary place, carefully check if there is something under their feet.

If there is nothing, and you wonder how the child could have climbed up there and hung themselves, leave the area immediately and go to the guard’s office, turn off the lights, and lock the door.

Pay special attention to the order: turn off the lights and lock the door, not the other way around. In this case, do not sing or make any noise at all.

‘They’ have sensitive hearing.

(6) If you are patrolling the hallway and hear strange sounds in your ears, even when there is nothing around, immediately crouch down, lie flat on the ground, keep your body low, and do not make any sound. When the sound stops, call another staff member to find and erase the stain on the ceiling.

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[Translator – Clara]

“...”

Nymphet looked at Vikir with an expression that somehow felt strange, then disappeared to the other side of the corridor. Vikir hurriedly moved toward the spot where Nymphet had been. But when he turned the corner, Nymphet was already gone, and in its place, only a torn curtain scrap lay on the floor.

“What’s this? Did I see something useless?”

Frowning, Vikir bent down and picked up the curtain scrap that had fallen on the floor. Then, the writing on the curtain scrap deeply engraved itself in Vikir’s retina.

“Please save me.”

Vikir’s mind flashed back to the number 1 he saw in the guide he read earlier.

“This place feels really unpleasant.”

Vikir immediately began to chase Nymphet. He had the building’s layout in his mind and focused on tracking spaces where Nymphet could disappear in the blink of an eye.

However, something is strange.

“Is this...?”

From the moment Vikir saw Nymphet, he realized that the same scenery repeated every time he turned a corner in the corridor. The same wall, the same ceiling, the same floor, the same window, and even the same view outside the window.

Vikir furrowed his brow lightly.

‘Is this an illusion? Have I fallen into a trap?’

Naturally, the guide he had read earlier came to mind. The 4th and 14th items were precisely about this.

‘Did it say something about going to the emergency exit stairs, crouching in a corner, closing your eyes, and waiting until dawn?’

But the last 14th item vehemently negated that. Which option should Vikir follow, the 4th or the 14th?

In the direction Vikir turned his head, he could see the emergency exit stairs illuminated by the green mana lamp. Being trapped in this ongoing maze of corridors, it seemed like he should at least exit through the emergency stairs.

Creak...

Vikir twisted the rusty doorknob on the outer edge of the corridor and opened it.

The emergency exit stairs were dimly lit in green and the eerie shadows that cast them. However, when he opened the door, an unexpected sight met Vikir’s eyes.

There was someone who had arrived at the emergency exit stairs before Vikir. A girl, with her eyes tightly closed and trembling, reciting a prayer while pressing her forehead against the wall. It was clearly ‘Dolores,’ the student council president, the saintess of Quovadis.

She was reciting a prayer on the wall of this emergency exit, seemingly out of nowhere.

Vikir could only let out a light sigh under his mask.

“...What on earth is she doing here?”

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[Translator – Clara]

[Proofreader – Lucky]

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