Chapter 118
It was only natural.
The very next day, Maru was summoned to the company.
Parallel’s fan gallery had exploded with speculation, which spilled over into members’ livestreams. A wave of bans had been issued, and the first round of damage control had concluded.
When Magia came down to the eighth floor after wrapping up training and sending the second-gen members home, she saw Maru leaving the CEO’s office—after clearly getting chewed out.
The office was half-lit since most employees had already left for the evening.
With her long hair hanging over her shoulders and her posture completely slumped, Maru looked eerily similar to the zombies from the AR escape room they had done the day before.
For once, Magia couldn’t help but laugh as she called out first.
“Wow. Looks like a zombie virus has spread in the office.”
“....”
She couldn’t dodge Maru’s enraged chase immediately afterward, though.
But even that felt like a chase scene straight out of the AR escape room, making Magia burst into laughter again.
She ended up taking refuge inside a bathroom stall—like a mouse hiding in a hole from a cat.