One day, when she appears, Diana invites her for coffee before the blasting, because that's Diana for you. Circe blasts all the coffee in the Embassy and leaves, because that's Circe for you.
whenever you see C#m on a chord sheet you know the musician was just playing bar chords and couldn’t resist the temptation of the most annoying chord in the god damn book
ok so just for this ep, I basically translated the entire dialogue.
just for this ep! because of what this ep was!
TL
KSE: you noticed?
BSH: what?
KSE: you noticed.
BSH: …!
(Researcher runs in)
Researcher: section chief!
Researcher: the contamination here has been removed cleanly…?! (Sees KSE and panics)
KSE: uh, um…
Researcher: I told you to not open your mouth during roll call! This is worth a penalty point. I'm not just warning you, you're getting penalty for real!
KSE: S, sorry… (moves backwards)
Researcher: (hurriedly stepping in front of KSE) Ah! Those workers with end numbers are naturally just like that, you know what it's like, haha…
BSH: I don't.
Researcher: What?
BSH: I don't know what it's like.
Researcher: …!
BSH: It seems you can tell whether or not someone is contaminated just by looking at them?
Researcher: that's,
BSH: (quizzical) then why are you at the branch office?
Researcher: …
BSH: I'll write you a letter of recommendation. With that amazing ability, you should come to the field exploration team.
Researcher: wh, what…?
BSH: For now, I'll request you for my squad. (Grips researcher's shoulder with gloved hand) It just so happens that a supervisor died 3 days ago, so there is an empty spot
Researcher: ….that's,
BSH: It was recorded as 'missing', but they died. I know, since I went in with them and saw them die.
Researcher: ….
BSH: In case you had doubts.
Researcher: I-it's fine! No, no way, what doubt, of course I believe you! But doing research at the branch office fits me, so…
BSH: Ah, I see. This life fits you so well that it's become so comfortable for you, enough to make a mistake in judgement. Is that it?
Researcher: …
BSH: Is that it?
Researcher: of… course
BSH: (Let's go of shoulder and crosses arms) Well, don't worry. That's exactly why I came here to audit.
Researcher: …
BSH: No need for a roll call. I can collect testimony directly from the worker. (Gestures with chin) Go outside.
Researcher: what?
BSH: I said, go outside.
Researcher: but…
BSH: If you have any complaints about the audit procedure, you can speak directly to the main office. Or I'll speak directly to the branch manager. I'll tell them that the person in charge seems dissatisfied with the audit.
Researcher: N, no! (Forced laughter) Haha, I'll be waiting outside!
BSH: You… (* using the casual 'you' aka 'neo')
KSE: 'You'? ('neo'?) (<- KSE has previously reacted like this when BSH tried to speak casually to him, immediately killing the attempt)
BSH: …! (Wince)
BSH: ….what the hell.
KSE: …
BSH: It is you.
(BSH takes in he looks and his one eye shakes. He approaches him and speaks in low voice)
BSH: (respectful sentence ending) You, you took my points and left…. So why are you stuck here! And why do you look like such a…
KSE: You, you're scaring me…
BSH: …?!
KSE: (respectful sentence ending) I don't know what you're talking about… (Mouths 'wiretapped')
BSH: …ha.
BSH: (uses item) That's a sound blocking item.
KSE: ….
BSH: Fine now, right?
KSE: (casual sentence ending) Yeah. (Smiles and gets up)
BSH: …!
KSE: It's been a while.
(BSH's pupil shakes, but then calms down as if trying to hide how shaken he is)
KSE: Let's see… Has it been 3 years?
BSH: …
KSE: Have you been well?
BSH: (looks at KSE) Looks like you haven't been well
KSE: …
BSH: Was it a fellow worker who did this?
KSE: well, yeah.
BSH: (sneering) Are you living like this to avoid being noticed? I guess you must have gotten beaten up less then you might have because I came.
(KSE thinks, nope… But BSH seems encouraged by his own words and goes back to a more section chief like demeanor)
BSH: Now you're a day laborer and I'm a section chief here for audit. Do you think that attitude is appropriate?
KSE: obviously?
BSH: ~!
KSE: I'm quitting in a week anyway.
BSH: If you're just going to quit, why are you here… I didn't see you for three years, were you gambling or something?
KSE: I don't know either. I woke up here?
BSH: …
KSE: Anyway, my mind has been made, I'm quitting. But I don't know if they'll let me go quietly.
BSH: What, do they kill people who quit here, or something?
KSE: I wouldn't know about that. Don't think they'll let me go in the first place. (Smile) Because last week, I got grade B dream essence with nothing but my bare hands.
BSH: …?!
KSE: and I even managed to survive contact with the darkness perfectly well during this quarantine failure incident.
BSH: That's,
KSE: I'm saying, I attracted some attention. They might not let me go.
BSH: …ha. (crosses arm, mocking smile on his face.) So, you need my help.
KSE: …
BSH: Wow, three years is a long time, isn't it? While I made it to section chief, you were stuck here as a day laborer. After all that trouble I went to save you, aren't you embarrassed?
(Tilts head) (Foregoes respectful sentence ending) But… is this your attitude when you're asking for help?
KSE: …
BSH: How are you going to scare me now? Looks like you don't have anything
KSE: ah, I have an equipment item
BSH: …?
KSE: it's really good. It's first prize. I got it as soon as I entered the darkness.
BSH: you're lying
KSE: (shrug) it's true
KSE: and I have no intention of scaring you. There's no need to anymore.
BSH: …
KSE: I was just a little glad to see you
BSH: (flinch)
KSE: why are YOU still at Daydream
BSH: …
KSE: did something happen in your hometo-
BSH: It's nothing like that
BSH: whatever. (Back to using respectful sentence ending) Anyway… Wait and see, or something. It'll be easy to find out whether you can get out.
KSE: Thanks.
BSH: You're speaking as if this is free. (Frown) You said you had an item. You can pay me back with that. If you factor in interest, you owe me more than a few…
… Anyway.
KSE: …
(KSE thinks, that confirms it, he knows I'm the jisan agent)
KSE: (thinking) 'It seems that he's sure of it, but doesn't know how to handle it…'
KSE: I'm not the only one here, assistant manager butterfly is also here. We're cooperating.
BSH: Assistant manager butterfly…? Oh, that person from squad A. I'd heard she went into debt and was sent to branch office, I guess that was here.
KSE: …
KSE: then what happened to the others?
BSH: Who?
KSE: The people from Director Ho's project.
BSH: …
BSH: I don't really know either. Ever since the project fell apart I've never even acknowledged them.
KSE: Don't lie to me. You're saying you haven't been keeping an eye on company rumors when you even got promoted?
BSH: You've lost your ability to read the room. You must have been living a comfortable life?
KSE: What?
BSH: Couldn't you tell I was choosing my words because you wouldn't like what you hear? (Turns his head away) But if you want to know that badly… Well, most of them aren't at the company. Either quit, or became missing…
KSE: (what.) Who quit, who became missing
BSH: I don't know because I've been trying not to get involved!
KSE: …!
BSH: Why? You look really disappointed. What, are you going to say something like, I should have helped others?
KSE: (Why is he so defensive? It's almost desperate.) That's not it. I just wanted to know because I'm worried about them.
BSH: Ha… (presses hands on his eyelids) I knew it, that you're this kind of person…
…more people quit than go missing. For now, section chief lizard is still at the company. Though he's not a section chief anymore.
KSE: Then,
BSH: Time's up, I'm leaving. Just wait, don't do anything weird. It's not like you're in a position to save anyone anyway.
(BSH quickly turns to leave, then pauses)
BSH: Do you still have the paper I gave you?
KSE: …
BSH: I mean, if you do, it'd be easier to contact…
KSE: Not currently.
BSH: …well, alright.
(Basically, researcher is nervous that BSH might have noticed that KSE is the goose that lays golden eggs)
Researcher: he wouldn't know…
BSH: Won't know what?
Researcher: …!! (Turns head to see BSH smile at him)
BSH: Who wouldn't know what?
Researcher: Ah, I mean, the workers wouldn't be fully aware of the quarantine failure incident, or recognize what an important audit that the manager from main office is here to do, that's what I meant.
BSH: Oh? It didn't seem that way.
Researcher: …
BSH: Well, it doesn't matter.
(Flips page)
Researcher: Excuse me
BSH: (Flips page)
Researcher: Excuse me!
BSH: What is it.
Researcher: I was just wondering if the interview went well.
BSH: Yes, well. (Closes the stack of paper) The worker who spoke to me earlier did seem a bit strange.
Researcher: (damn it!) Hahaha, as I told you, it's not contamination -
BSH: No, I'm saying he didn't seem to be in his right mind in the first place.
Researcher: …what?
BSH: The two workers who ran out of that restroom earlier have told me that Z999 is a lunatic. What do you think?
Researcher: (obviously they were trying to cover up for bullying him!) (That twitch of lips on the section chief just now, when asking me that question… As if feeling a twisted sort of enjoyment… Of course, he must be having fun bullying me!)
Researcher: haha, well, that's just how those workers are…
BSH: Where on earth did you get a guy like that? This isn't going to get the main office into something troublesome, is it?
Researcher: No way, that wouldn't happen
BSH: And I also heard some workers say that they'll quit after making it to the full month… Do you really let them go?
Researcher: well, that… yes, we do.
Researcher: The details of worker management methods is a special management policy of Namhae branch, so you really need to ask the 'branch manager' for details!
BSH: (after looking at him for a long time) well, okay.
Researcher: (phew)
BSH: It's not as if you have any authority, right?
Researcher: …Haha! (I want to kill him)
BSH: Then let's take a look at next week's section management schedule. Including who goes into what.
Researcher: Ah, that… yes!
(Researcher ends up getting him the resources)
BSH (to himself I assume) : Of course you should.
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Thoughts
BSH so effectively terrorizes the researcher lmao
him thinking Kse was beaten up less bc he arrived 😭 jfc bsh
kse still uses casual sentence ending towards bsh and bsh still uses respectful sentence endings like kse is still his superior… Until! He's talking about how kse probs needs his help, at which point he sort of naturally and smoothly changes to not using respectful sentence endings… But then he goes back to using them when he tells KSE to wait :)
To me it looks like he was trying to pose for a bit then backed down lol
bsh doesn't know what to do about the fact that kse is undeniably the jisan agent…
bsh super defensive, as if kse is gonna be mad at him for not helping others…
kse being worried over others, bsh going 'I knew it, you're this kind of person after all…' augh! Confirmation for bsh that kse is truly an altruistic person!
the … When KSE tells him he doesn't have the paper boar atm!! Augh
KSE lost as to what BSH wants…. Augh
BSH is so good at handling himself as section chief, so skilled… aaaaa
I wonder what's up with LJH. Did he make it to team leader (as opposed to to just squad leader) like he did in DER? Or………
bsh seems to now have gloves & slicked back hair...
Also btw even as BSH terrorizes the researcher he uses polite and respectful sentence endings towards him (although of course in context he's being sarcastic and such, so being rather aggresive while outwardly using polite language)
OK to be clear, BSH has used 'neo' before and it was him trying to be on the same level(hierarchy) as KSE. (KSE refers to BSH as 'neo' bc KSE is higher up and treats BSH casually.) KSE wouldn't let him of course, immediately going 'neo?' as in, 'oi, what did you just say?' so BSH immediately backed down.
Hero: (absolutely frustrated by what they're seeing) Oh, for the love of...
Villain: (waving their hand casually with a wide smile, shown on the massive billboard screen. Around the screen, on the street, there are citizens, about hundreds, all looking hypnotized, and somebody dressed up like an Idol in the middle, also hypnotized as well) Hiya sweetie, enjoying the show so far?
Hero: (furiously shouting to the screen) Free them, NOW!!
Villain: (face, feigning innocence) I don't know why you're so mad about this. You do love musicals, don't you?
Hero: You mind-controlled my Siren ex just because YOU WERE JEALOUS!!!
Villain: (still with a smiley face) Your ex may be a song-spewing doll-faced idiot, but his power is... impressive, though.
I mean, pulling "La La Land" on the entire district? That IS something.
Soleum: Outruns darknesses, carries grown adults while malnourished and severely injured while sprinting to safety, jumps over objects and people, yells while running at full speed which is a feat in and of itself, bikes for several miles immediately after running for several miles
Also Soleum: A self proclaimed salesman with no workout routine
Also what if this plot armor is canonical. What if our pathetic Kim Slutty-mom could only do these feats because he is Ireum-nim and has the default power to bend reality with enough will and desperation, provided he is not conscious that he’s doing this?
Fixing the wiki is an anomaly of his, because he is conscious of it, but as a side effect he loses himself.
Might I also propose that as the representative of all individuals who are Ireum-nim, Sluttymom may be imbued with the powers of thousands of thirteen year old girls?
Following its accidental discovery, the Mystery Flesh Pit and the unique phenomena surrounding it were targets of a headfirst and furiously paced campaign of commercial exploitation. Once architects, engineers, geobiologists and clerical members of the development team had done their work to make the park safe and viable, marketing teams faced the daunting task of selling the public on the intriguing and miraculous phenomena of the Mystery Flesh Pit while downplaying the visceral cosmic horror of the pit itself.
Families were a particularly difficult sell, as children often displayed an overwhelming fear and aversion to descending into the throat of the pit. One strategy early in the park’s history was the creation of friendly cartoon mascot Caver Coop. A brief animated film starring Caver Coop was shown at the park’s visitor center, where the character would attempt to assuage worries about being “eaten alive” or “swallowed”, reassuring children (and often parents) that the pit was perfectly safe and reinforced.
When the attraction was absorbed into the National Park System in the early 1980s, signage and other graphic materials were updated to the NPS Graphic Identity. The architecture of the park’s surface facilities was also expanded and renovated during this time to better fit with the “Natural Resort” image of the Mystery Flesh Pit brand, drawing inspiration from the local Santa Fe style integrated with unique bone formations discovered within the pit itself.
-Excerpt from New York Times Bestseller Unearthing the Unholy: Exploring the tragedy of the Mystery Flesh Pit, written by Dr. Rachel Frost, published 2011.
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