A young female employee with glasses and short hair had been following Leo and Hana the entire time, listing the items they wanted to buy.
She was just about to secretly take another photo while watching Leo kneel down and talk to Hana, when Leo suddenly came up to her and said he wanted to complete the purchase.
"Are you really going to buy everything you mentioned, sir?"
When Leo answered her question positively, the woman grabbed Leo by the arm and pulled him aside.
"I thought you were just playing with your little sister this whole time. If that's the case, there's no problem. While watching you, I ended up slacking off from work, and to be honest, a few customers who were secretly watching you also wanted to take another look at the furniture you approved."
As she looked at Leo's expression, the woman organized her words.
"What I mean is, even if you decide not to buy them, it's fine. If you want, I can even act as if you already purchased everything."
After wondering why this woman was being so kind, Leo suffered a bout of narcissistic poisoning.
"I see. You're playing the overly kind role to seduce me. Unfortunately, I like Black women. You know, love born from contrast and all that..."
The woman with glasses wrinkled her face and replied to Leo. "I like factory original men anyway. I'm not interested in a doll toy whose parts have all been replaced like you. If you don't mind, could you stop talking nonsense, Mr Leo?"
At that moment, Leo felt the urge to explain that he was completely original, but when he thought about where the conversation would go and the questions she would be asked, he gave up.
With a green face, Leo turned around, found the nearest employee, and said he wanted to purchase the furniture from that person instead.
The woman also thought that she might have been too harsh toward a customer who had just flirted with her, so she did not cause any further trouble. Besides, the sales commission given to employees at this store only applied to certain products. And Leo and Hana's orders would bring in at most around 500,000 won in commission.
For a woman earning 6 million won a month, that commission was not particularly important.
In the end, Leo completed the sales process and paid extra to have the furniture delivered to his home within three hours.
After leaving the furniture store, Leo checked his bank account on his phone and saw that he had 150 million won left. That meant the furniture shopping he had just done had cost him like 100 million won.
After thinking for a while, Leo decided that before taking a break from his shopping spree, he still had enough energy left to buy a few pieces of clothing.
Fortunately, the furniture shopping had exhausted Hana's energy, so she could not object to the full-body animal costume pajama sets Leo bought.
As Hana and Leo headed home, Leo calculated that his shop was already ready for use and clenched his hands in excitement. Soon, he would fully transform into an immortal cultivator.
Hana sleeping in the back seat of the taxi formed a complete contrast to Leo's excitement.
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Meanwhile, at Institute 01:
Miss 03 was reading the real-time updated summary of Leo's day spent with Hana.
Everyone else had already forgotten about the matter and was lost in thought over another file.
The place where the council members were currently located was not a meeting room.
Since all important decisions were made during the meeting, they had left that place behind.
The location they were at now was a beach.
Each council member was seated in a lounge chair, savoring cold drinks while watching the operations of SCP Foundation members in Korea on the screens in front of them.
After finishing her reading, Miss 03 placed the file in her hand onto the small table next to the lounge chair and turned toward the hologram screen.
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File name: SCP-741
Threat level: B
Anomaly type: Abnormal location
Known rules: Every year, on the first day of the 12th month, the seventh person to enter the second restroom of the tenth carriage of the high-speed train with serial number E1211027 disappears. According to investigations, the first disappearance case occurred three years ago, on 2.12.2023. The most recent disappearance occurred on 2.12.2025.
During interrogations, none of the 674 passengers, including [censored], stated that they heard or noticed anything abnormal during the disappearance.
Identity information of the missing civilians: ****************
Last known actions of the missing civilians: ****************
Coordinates of the abnormal location: ****************
Important information: The daughter of the most recently missing civilian, [censored], identified as [censored], has been entrusted to [censored] by local police as part of an experiment.
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While looking at the censored sections of the document, Miss 03 noticed that her session time had expired, passed the security verification, and continued reviewing the file.
At this moment, the tenth carriage of the mentioned train had already departed toward Antarctica aboard a cargo ship.
At that time, the sighing voice of Mr 01 drew everyone's attention.
"File number 741... Just a few years ago, the number of known anomalies was only around eighty. It's as if something happened and the world suddenly started to change."
"If Albert Einstein were alive, he would have a heart attack."
Under normal circumstances, if Mr 01 heard Mr 02 make a joke like that, he would tell him to be serious, but this time, even though the young man's words were a joke, they carried a degree of truth.
"Anyway, the only thing we can do now is say that this was the work of a serial killer and help catch a local criminal, then pin the murders on him in return."
In the past, since the number of anomalies was small, Mr 01 was always the one to have the final say on such matters. What he said now was simply an old habit.
After the anomaly incident, how things would be covered up had already been determined by the SCP Foundation representatives in Korea.
Everyone knew this, so no one said anything, and no one passed Mr 01's orders on to anyone else.
"Returning to SCP-0004; we thought that entrusting this small child named Hana to him would provide us with information about her psychological condition, but are these data really reliable? At the very least, you should have allowed me to check his internet history. What if there's a hidden pedophile somewhere inside him?"
Mr 01 was the first to oppose this.
"I already told you not to touch his internet traces. Until we understand how his self-protecting luck barrier works, none of you are to touch him at all. In his current state, he is nothing more than a small human with superpowers but no grand ambitions. That monster's life is not worth the life of any council member, not even that of any Foundation personnel. From now on, dealing with SCP-0004 will be Miss 03's responsibility. Everyone should now prepare to move out to carry out the decisions made in the meeting. I've had submarines prepared to take you to your destinations."