Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: Four Minutes
Ha-yeon held onto his hands for a moment.
Then she let go and stood up and brushed the frost off her coat.
"Then tell me how," she said. "And we'll do it some other way."
So he told her, and the crew, and Gyeol, in under a minute.
The alley was full of steam things, and the boiler never got lit.
"Then the alley gets a light to follow," Gyeol said. "Forty of them."
He turned to the lanterns on the riverbank.
"Lamps on," he said, in his uncle's fire-ground voice, and forty lamps came on at once.
He led them up the back alley behind the Blue Crane at a jog, every lamp blazing.
The steam things poured out of the alley after them.
At the market, Gyeol shouted, and the lanterns switched off one at a time down the line.
The things drifted in the dark with nothing to follow.
The knitter and the twins walked down the empty alley to the boiler room door.
"Lit," the knitter said on the radio at 4:40. "Twenty minutes."
The master was already walking up and down Mangwon-ro, freezing everything it passed.
It had to be kept away from the bathhouse until five, and then brought to it.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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