Thrown In as Bait, the E-Rank Lantern Wakes Up Every Time He Dies novel · Chapter 16 of 24

Chapter 16: Rain

That night the crew sat around the low table in the rooftop room, and nobody touched the stew.

"Hand in your licenses," Woo-seok said. "All of you. Tomorrow morning."

"Then the Association can't call you. The party pays you instead."

One of the twins shook his head.

"A party pays when there's a contract," he said.

"And there's no contract for a month," said his brother. "And the van eats every week."

The knitter put down her needles.

"I cooked for children for twenty years, and then I had nothing," she said.

"This license is the only thing I've got with my name on it."

Chil-seong took his reading glasses off and polished them on his vest.

"Fireman," he said. "My granddaughter has her lessons Tuesday and Friday."

"I'll pay for her lessons."

"You'll pay for your own nephew's lawyer," the old man said. "I'm sixty-three. I've been called at night before."

Woo-seok looked around the table at all of them.

"Then promise me one thing," he said. "If they call you at night, you call me first. Any hour."

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