Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work

Cheerful Theme Park would soon open for business.

We returned to the connecting gate to the yellow zone, but the gate we’d used was no longer the entrance to Blue Dream Waterland.

It was the gate Magic Bunny had installed.

But now, a different sign hung there.

[Blue Dream Fantasyland Gate]

The Blue Mascot, who had put their mascot suit back on, now waved from what was now their own territory.

The staff clumsily waved back.

[Good heavens, it’s like Stockholm syndrome.]

…That’s probably what Braun would have said, if he’d been there.

But with the arrival of dawn, the receiver had lost its function, and the connection with Braun had already been cut.

Still, I was sure we’d meet again soon.

I hung the receiver on my belt.

Just then, Supervisor Lee Seonghae came up to me.

“Um, does this mean you have to go back into your mascot suit now?”

I just looked at her.

If there was no other solution, that’s what I’d have to do.

And then, unable to follow the others out, I’d remain in this theme park as a mascot forever…

If I quit being a mascot, there would be nothing left of me. …I would disappear.

But then.

– Cheerful Theme Park is now open!

As lively music signaled the start of operations, my Security Team uniform was overlaid with a resort staff uniform.

But it wasn’t a mascot suit.

“Huuh?!”

A neat suit uniform, with a yellow bowtie.

“A… staff member?”

That’s right.

Finally, the horns on my mask were smoothed down, and I stood there as a fully-fledged employee of Flower Golden Resort.

“Mr… Mascot?”

Um.

Strictly speaking, no.

This body was an employee.

Since when, you ask?

Since just before the illumination show started!

‘Because I signed an employment contract!’

Employer: GOLDEN

Employee: Roe Deer

That’s right.

I brought my original body, which had been waiting by the blue gate, and made it sign an employment contract.

So that I would be separated from the mascot!

‘As long as the being is alive, you can make it an employee.’

Since the mascot ceremony had not yet been performed, not all of my mind and body existed for the mascot.

But the mascot’s will was so strong that even a standard mascot suit could serve as a body, so this separation was carried out perfectly.

Thus, my original body was separated as an employee!

That’s why, even while I was buried inside the shelter, the Magic Bunny couldn’t notice me.

Because I was not a mascot, but an employee.

“Uhhh…”

I felt a little sorry that, as part of the Security Team concept, I couldn’t even manage a smile for the few staff who stared at me in confusion.

‘Still, I have to do what needs to be done.’

…Of course, there were problems with this process.

Namely, that my consciousness was split in two.

Experiencing the death of the ‘me’ in the standard mascot suit was not pleasant.

But I could endure it.

No, I had to endure it.

For this result!

‘Now I can leave.’

All the yellow mascots except for a few standard ones were dead, and even the resort had collapsed.

Taking advantage of this moment, when the mascot’s power was weakened, I could quickly resign as an ‘employee’ and leave this theme park.

As for the part of my consciousness that would remain behind, torn apart as a mascot and left in a ghost story… It was horrifying, but I had to accept it.

If, as Braun said, I’d dumped all of this on another employee, we both would have been torn apart by the Magic Bunny.

‘…If I’d tried that, my already weakened self probably wouldn’t have survived.’

In fact, this whole expedition into Cheerful Theme Park had been a special event arranged at my request by Director Ho.

Even if everyone had volunteered, especially Jang Heowoon… I kept thinking Director Ho had hand-picked him.

So, if I had to bear something, it was better this way.

I took a breath.

And from the ruined resort, I had the me inside the standard mascot suit escape…

‘Let’s have everyone resign first, then rebuild the resort.’

If I poured in the Cheerful Coins we earned by taking over the red zone, it would be easy.

Then the remaining employees would have a workplace again, and we could all escape quickly.

There shouldn’t be any problem.

Or so I thought.

Good Child

The Blue Mascot, standing beyond the gate, looked at me in silence.

Then, raising their hand to the air, they pointed toward the zone conquered by Magic Bunny, where they now stood.

Hm?

Here

Good Child

Take It

‘…?!’

W-Wait a minute.

But it was already happening.

The color of the zone transferred by the blue dragon began to change.

The paths that had turned blue now began glowing gold again.

And the golden light, spreading along half the path, began to occupy ‘Fantasy Land’.

‘Oh god.’

Nearly a third of the entire ‘Fantasy Land’, the parts serving as resort facilities, were dyed in golden light.

And everywhere, cat mascot decorations with flower crowns on their heads began to appear.

Good Child

For You

No.

No!! I had utterly no plans to expand the yellow zone at all…!

‘All I wanted was a bit of money to rebuild the resort!’

I barely stifled a scream at the expectant face of the Blue Mascot watching me.

Now there were five—no, seven—yellow zone facilities!

‘I’m going crazy.’

I could feel it.

The mascot’s consciousness was swelling far too much.

Wait, at this rate, I won’t be able to resign…!

‘The mascot is getting too powerful!’

Compared to when I just had just the resort facility, overwhelming things were pouring into my mind, pushing aside my employee self and making me want to shift my vision back to the standard mascot. No!

‘If I resign now, will I… will I even be left?’

On the verge of being overwhelmed by terror, and in that maddening moment when the mascot’s joy surged over me—

Light began to shine through my Security Team uniform.

“…!”

I looked down.

Light was leaking from my wrist in the shape of letters.

: 恩主 :

The tattoo that acted as my inventory.

And that light detached from my skin and formed an object.

Its shape was…

‘The employment contract!’

The words that had been blurred there began to come to life.

A person of inherent, existential nobility.

The strikethrough, which had previously been drawn across it in denial…

A person of inherent, existential nobility.

…disappeared.

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