I went back to the desk and looked at the document card.
Requirements to begin resort operations
Employees : 3
“……”
I opened the desk drawer.
Inside were employment contracts, just as the document had said.
Employment Contract
I accept my employment at the Flower Golden Resort with gratitude and joy, and pledge my sincerity and my existence to the operation of a happy and joyful theme park.
Employer : _____
A chilling document, like something for illegal test subjects.
‘No way am I letting it end like this.’
I immediately grabbed the pen and edited the contract.
Employment Contract
I accept my employment at the Flower Golden Resort with deep gratitude and joy, and pledge my sincerity and my existence to the operation of a happy and joyful theme park.
The employee may, at any time, safely return home if they wish to resign, and may refuse any action that threatens their safety.
Employer : _____
Employee : _____ ‒‒‒
I erased as much as possible of the ambiguous parts that could be interpreted in multiple ways.
‘Writing over the sentence is not allowed.’
The pen refused. I could barely manage to cross out and erase lines, and squeezed in some added provisions in small letters in a blank space.
Then, holding the completed contract, the original document card, and the quill pen, I went back outside.
Click.
The staff, huddled in the hallway on high alert and whispering to each other, turned to look at me.
Only Jang Heowoon stood a bit apart, as if he hadn’t been included by the others, waiting quietly.
‘Phew.’
I held out the employment contract to them.
“What’s this…?”
“……”
“…!!”
As if confirming something horrific, the employees stared at the contract with trembling eyes, then immediately froze in horror.
Because I was telling them to get hired by the theme park.
“Y-You want us to sign this…?”
“Uh…”
Of course, signing an employment contract in a ghost story leads to a horrible disappearance more than half the time.
Those who knew that had a different look in their eyes.
The eyes of experienced people searching for a way out.
“Um… I already have a job, so it’s difficult to sign something like this right away. Could I have a moment to think about it?”
“M-Me too, please…!”
So, given time, they’d try to find a way to escape, or prepare some gear to temporarily overpower me the moment I let my guard down.
‘If they’re veterans in the Field Exploration Team, they’re bound to have at least one life-saving trick hidden.’
So I couldn’t just wait for them.
‘No choice.’
I silently stared at the person who spoke first.
“Uh, uh…?”
And then I stopped breathing.
“…!”
Instead of being drawn in with my breath, black smoke thickened around my suit.
Smoke that wouldn’t disperse began to flow heavily beneath the staff member’s feet and around their waist.
If you don’t sign, something will happen.
That was made clear to all five senses.
So clear that, trying to buy time, they’d realize they might die right now.
I lowered my face and looked down at the harvest mouse employee.
Up close.
Completely enveloped in black smoke and the dim glow of yellow lanterns, the staff member’s hand shook.
“H-Hiicc…”
In the end, the harvest mouse employee, tears streaming down his face, reached out to the paper and, with trembling hands, took the pen I held out and signed in the employee section.
‘Please, don’t write your real name.’
If they tried to, I was going to snatch it back and nudge him to write a nickname, but luckily ‘Harvest Mouse’ was what was written.
‘Phew.’
I immediately inhaled and drew back the black smoke.
“Ah…!”
The harvest mouse employee sat down right there and pressed back against the wall, bowing her head to me.
And, while all this was going on, the ladybug employee—whose eyes were quivering as he watched—quietly started backing away…
“Ugh!”
Then shoved Jang Heowoon and bolted down the hallway, trying to escape in a panic.
But.
“Urk!!”
As the ladybug employee ran, a rope wrapped around his neck and he collapsed.
‘He tried to break away from the yellow group.’
So the yellow line strangled her neck…
As I thought, I was still recognized as a member of the yellow group. The rules of entry through the board game were still in effect.
I suppressed a sigh and walked over to them.
Fortunately, instead of running away again, the staff member knelt in the hallway.
“S-Sorry. I just thought I saw something over there… If it was a trespasser, I was going to chase them out, ha ha…”
I silently held out the employment contract again.
“……”
The ladybug employee swallowed, then, eyes squeezed tightly shut, signed the document.
Ladybug. Good.
And finally…
“……”
Jang Heowoon glanced up at my face for a moment, then hurriedly lowered his head and signed.
‘Thank you.’
In this way, I got signatures on all three employment contracts.
‘And last…’
Employer. It was time to sign my name.
I chose the most appropriate alias.
Employer : GOLDEN
At that moment.
Fwoosh.
The employment contracts burst into flames and turned to ash.
And the ashes stuck to the foreheads of all three people.
“Ah…!”
Now, on the foreheads of the Daydream Inc. employees, something like an ornate cursive letter ‘G’ was engraved.
“……”
I looked at the first document I’d brought from the room.
As soon as I lifted the pen above it—
Requirements to begin resort operations
Employees : 3 complete.
The area began to tremble.
“…!!”
The decrepit ruins we had been in collapsed, and something new emerged.
A glittering golden light.
A splendid and cozy corridor surrounded on all sides by bright and beautiful wood and gold decorations.
Elegant, small chandelier-style lights swayed from the ceiling, and at the end of the corridor, a grand and dazzling lobby appeared.
A space where golden staircases like in a cartoon, magenta velvet, and sparkling yellow crystal ornaments bloomed like flowers.
And then…
[Flower Golden Resort]
The sign of Flower Golden Resort appeared in elegant script, revealing the glorious resort of Cheerful Theme Park.
“…!”