Chronicles of the Otherworld Investigator

myself and Mars. I do not know how to respon

re I am, tending to a female patient who has

s nearing retirement and looked exhausted. The girl sat

she hates noise, so we gotta act fast or she gets annoyed at us." H

es. You can have a chat and take a break in your average ho

, so there must always be someone o

locked the heavy door. Eun went on, "No matter wh

safety but for

und that one had to be dedicated to be an asylum wor

ministrator as we changed shifts. They worked ou

I got this job when I lack

who recommended me, and after that, I

timesheet, I nearly s

The admin didn't even look up from her computer.

taff members, but now I'd be too tired. Looking dejec

I was appointed to Ward Eight for the night. I trudged

s. The night was uneventful, unlike what you see in h

st crashed into my assigned nu

mburger and soda. I was sitting alone when I

night," a tall nurse w

other curly-haired pet

that's gone missing this t

e as sharp as a hawk's. He would h

ong was still in hi

the petit wondered. They both glanced around an

ft in Ward Three two nights from now. I guess I

ked it back in my pocket, threw the plate

his time was a young woman, HaYoon Lee,

howed me all the medicatio

ale nurses have to rush in first and try to restr

and the doctor or pharmacist on t

nd only mind you, when neither the doctor nor pharmacist c

all red lips. She could have been a model.

, but she didn't look around as she respond

ne room to another when-" she continued in

ng was over, and she asked me if I had any questi

g, and it seemed patients kept going missing or dying in my

y and twiddled her hair. "Dunno what you'r

eard all about it." I lifted her chin toward me. I won't l

I thought-." she bit her lip. I grinned in triumph

n strange things occurring. Three patients died

be the deaths?" I

harply. She was on guard. I shook my head. "I have to know

irst person to die was an immigrant from America,

they took his body away. H

borate?" I asked suspiciously. She twiddled her

was of an elderly woman, Park Hana.

irst, a suspect in the missing patients, un

ed?" I inqui

o other wounds, so it was concluded that she didn't

rson?" She gulpe

ly twenties. His death was the most suspicious. He d

de. What's wrong?" I was

this asylum. But, the one who was in charge of him that night

quiet, with only a few mutters here an

who might want to cause harm. For several hours, I saw no

ish them, so I proceeded to

There was no answer, but he kept muttering. Feelin

ered under his bed and muttered incoh

n it reached for Jun Kim with snake-like arms, I ac

en. Maybe make it evaporate and disapp

. Its head snapped in my direction, and two glowi

howing large white fangs th