TCF S1-2

“Excuse me?”

“What do you mea-”

Most of the new employees who didn't know about the hazing ritual opened their eyes wide, looked around, and started talking.

Choi Jung Soo thought about the hazing ritual, something he wouldn’t have known about if he had not heard about it from Park Kyung Ho just now, and opened his mouth.

“Umm, what do you think the hazing ritual is, Mr. Rok Soo?”

“I’m not sure, Mr. Jung Soo.”

“Oh come on, you seem like you know all about it, Mr. Rok Soo.”

“I don’t know, Mr. Jung Soo.”

Choi Jung Soo frowned at the stoic Kim Rok Soo's response. Kim Rok Soo sighed after taking a look and was about to open his mouth when the emcee started speaking.

“You all know where this is, right?”

“Ah.”

He couldn't help but gasp.

The auditorium that the orientation was taking place...

This place was quite far from the company.

“Is it possible-”

Choi Jung Soo looked at Kim Rok Soo who calmly opened his mouth to speak after noticing the gaze.

“If it is a hazing ritual, it is probably a search.”

He looked at the auditorium entrance and added on.

“This is one of the destroyed lands.”

Destroyed land.

That was the term given to an area where civilization had not been restored properly after monsters had rampaged through it.

There were quite a lot of places like that within Korea.

"As you all know, this is one of the destroyed lands.”

The MC gently addressed the talkative new employees.

“I'm sure you all saw it on your way here, but an auditorium has been built and a few new buildings are being built outside.

There was only one thing that could mean.

"Thankfully, this is an area that has returned to human territory.”

Monsters lived in the destroyed lands.

The humans who lived in new central cities based around the shelters were slowly recovering the destroyed lands around the city.

This land with the auditorium was one of those places where humans had pushed the monsters out and were reconstructing a city.

“The ones on the ‘Head’ side will be tasked to go through documents related to the reconstructions.”

The MC then looked toward the ‘Body’ side.

“As for all of you here, you will be doing a treasure hunt.”

The mission given to the new employees...

“...A treasure hunt?”

Choi Jung Soo looked confused while Kim Rok Soo's eyes clouded over.

"Everybody here is talented and has all sorts of abilities but we cannot send you to complete missions right away.”

That meant that they could not be placed in battle right away. That was why they were going to give them a different sort of ‘mission’ to check out their abilities.

The MC sternly but gently continued speaking.

“There used to be many important public institutions around this auditorium.”

The traces of a city and its records were important for a city reconstruction.

"Since we have already pushed monsters out of this area, you will move based on your teams to find something that might be helpful to the city reconstruction.”

Choi Jung Soo heard a mumbling voice.

“Hmm. They want us to search?”

“How boring.”

The person who was saying that it was boring was a familiar voice.

‘Was his name Park Kyung Ho?’

A bitter smile appeared on Choi Jung Soo's face.

‘I personally didn't want to fight starting the first day.’

A search was much better. He did not want to see blood from the first day, regardless of whether it was human or monster blood.

The emcee continued speaking.

"We will rank you all in the treasure hunt based on the value of the item you bring back. The judging will be by the team leader-nims of the different teams who have gathered here.”

The new employees turned to look at their team leaders.

Boom.

emcee stomped his foot and gathered their gazes

‘Mm.’

Jung Soo flinched after seeing the stiff look on the emcee’s face. He finally saw that the emcee's hands that

most important thing is

spoke to the new employees of

You will be removed from the ranking if

and emphasized it

return empty handed so please keep safety as

‘Safety.’

Rok Soo reaffirmed that word in his mind as he slightly nodded

‘Safety is important.’

to him, the person he would be moving as a pair with

time limit is until

It was currently 10am.

hard. See you all at 2pm safe

raised

“And go!”

BEEEEEEEEEP---

buzzer go off

“We're starting right away?!”

department? I thought we needed to look at

employees who had received their respective duties were basically all talking, causing

Soo slowly got

person who is the quickest is going to

“Yes, let’s hurry!”

new employees had gathered with their teams and were headed

“Uhh...mm......”

Choi Jung Soo wondered what he should do and turned toward

Can’t they

and spoke to the other newbie

go? Just

seem to have

should do in such a

Kyung Ho turned to look at

I guess there are some people who

okay. Let's go,

name was Choi Soo-In, apologized

“Mm.”

Jung Soo looked to the

should we do,

his head to see Kim Rok Soo quietly sitting on the chair with

index finger was tapping on his

me, Mr. Rok

finally slowly opened his

Mr.

He then stood up.

taller than

opened wide at the taller than expected but feeble Kim Rok Soo. His clear and dark black eyes looked into Kim

Mr. Rok Soo? Where

Soo

thinking it through. I think we need to set a

to Kim Rok

pretty short for searching. I wonder if we should narrow our search radius and focus on a specific

Soo's

guy's good-guy appearance that made him seem as if he would be happy

suggestion is true too, Mr. Choi Jung

It might seem

search the remains of a destroyed city rampaged

because it was a place that was barely starting its reconstruction. It was extremely likely that most of, no, all of the new

visiting for the first

was completely destroyed where they could not tell what

to simply find some unspecified ‘important items’

was highly likely that they would

“Mr. Rok Soo.”

continued speaking once it sounded as if

how about we

“No, Mr. Jung Soo.”

“Excuse me?”

a large area

“No, that-”

That's difficult?

scowled. Kim Rok Soo had just agreed with his suggestion

like to amount

me, Mr. Rok

it all, Mr.

“Excuse me?”

closed

images flashed through

order to participate as rear support for a battle squad as he didn't have any

as many things

map of this area prior

Rok Soo and Choi Jung Soo made

subway routes, government offices, local businesses, and

“...Excuse me?”

Jung Soo

live here in

“Pffft.”

at Jung Soo's clueless face

Record. It

Pat.

Jung Soo’s shoulder before heading toward the auditorium door. Kim Rok Soo and Choi Jung Soo were the only ones left in

nearby since they said

Soo motioned with his head to Choi Jung Soo who was not

“Shall we go?”

“Wow.”

Jung Soo gasped

You just happened to see them

nonchalantly as if it was

need to do

talking

to do this to

He then continued speaking.

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