Dojin's Right to Amend Was Sealed

Dojin's amendment rights were sealed.

But the school safety system was telling him to fix every injury that hadn't happened yet.

More precisely, to pay for them with Kang Eunha's future.

Baek Dojin read the supervisor's amendment draft posted on the wall of Team 7's temporary clinic. It bundled together the facilities technician and two underclassmen who'd come out of Garam's exhibition prep room, a broken toolbox and laptop, and a drop in civic trust.

Emergency offset for mascot luck costs.

Drafted by: Agreement Correction Officer Baek Dojin.

Execution: Party key, Chae Garam. Medical key, Kang Eunha. Special observation audit key.

Dojin only had the drafting window. He had no personal execution key. All three keys had to come in together for it to activate once, and if any one person refused, the clause was discarded. The safety system called this a restoration of amendment rights, but what actually came back was only a name to hold responsible.

The school liaison pushed the remaining time.

"If the safety procedure isn't settled today, Garam's exhibition safety review gets pushed to next semester. One clause can erase the mascot cost line entirely."

Dojin opened the first draft.

Chae Garam's luck applies only to Team 7's successful rescues.

All other injuries, damage, or failures are not classified as mascot costs.

Any physical costs incurred are recovered by Team 7's medical staff.

The screen displayed the projected outcome in green.

Garam's exhibition safety review resumes immediately.

Mascot cost procedure deleted.

Witness backflow probability: 3 percent.

The safety system offered other autocomplete options too.

Any physical costs incurred are recovered by Team 7's medical staff out of love and devotion.

A pink heart icon appeared next to Eunha's name. When Dojin deleted "love," the system swapped it for "professional ethics." When he deleted that too, "including standby allowance" got tacked on. The allowance amount was zero won.

Dojin discarded all three suggestions. The school liaison's face said this wasn't a laughing matter, but he made sure the record showed he'd deleted them before Eunha ever saw them. The more softly the amendment window wrapped a person's future in gentle words, the higher its safety score climbed.

Dojin's hand stopped on the last line. Clicking "medical staff" expanded into a name. Kang Eunha. It was automatically linked not just to her current duty, but to every future treatment for the entire special observation period.

"Eunha."

Eunha was rewrapping the technician's wrist brace. "Read me the draft first."

Dojin didn't lead with the good outcome. He read the three lines in order.

Eunha asked the technician, "Is the pressure okay, want me to loosen it?"

"It's fine."

"Any numbness in your fingers?"

"None."

Only then did Eunha look at Dojin.

"No."

The school liaison cut in. "Treatment duty falls within current job scope. There are only three actual injuries, all minor."

"Treating three people now and recovering every future injury are two different sentences."

"Future injuries might not even happen."

"Then there's no reason to get my consent for injuries that don't exist yet."

The supervisor's amendment window registered Eunha's dissent.

Medical key: refused.

Emergency offset: halted.

Garam's exhibition review: remains on hold.

Dojin looked at the green outcome one more time. Garam's face surfaced in his mind, the one worried about next semester's tuition and studio rent. If he could just convince Eunha to take the three current patients and revise it later, this would wrap up fast.

He changed the question instead.

"Which clause are you refusing?"

"'Recovered.' Treatment isn't about erasing a cost. It's the patient and the caregiver choosing the scope, every single time."

"What about the first two lines?"

"Garam needs to be asked again too. Even the sentence limiting her luck to successful rescues could leave behind an obligation to answer team callouts."

Dojin zoomed in on the first line. Sure enough, an appendix clause read: "May request mascot's on-site presence when a successful rescue is needed." A sentence that kept only the convenient ability turned Garam into a more efficient callout resource.

"I missed that."

"We caught it now, so log it."

Dojin crossed Eunha off his list of people to persuade. He put her name back in the joint authority box.

The school liaison sighed. "So who writes the replacement clause?"

Eunha opened a new window.

"I'll write the medical clause."

She started by listing the costs she herself would bear. Two extra hours on today's shift. One additional support staff rotation. Cross-checking treatment records against the luck cost ledger. After that, she listed the costs she was refusing: indefinite callouts, blanket recovery of future injuries, guaranteed treatment outcomes, and any exchange between Garam's exhibition resumption and medical consent.

"Who covers the extra rotation?" Dojin asked.

"Not me, Coordinator Park. I already got his consent."

"And the two extra hours?"

"My choice. But once it's done, the callout ends."

Dojin reached to add his own pay into the cost column, then stopped. He pulled his hand back before Eunha could say anything.

"Can I ask what I'm allowed to contribute?"

"One hour of record cross-checking. No treatment. Only after you confirm blood sugar and meal status."

"Current blood sugar is 92, two hours since a completed meal."

"Then one hour of records. I'm not taking any offer to do more right now."

Dojin wrote down his own end time next to his name first. Only then did Eunha keep typing the replacement clause.

The replacement clause was long.

Injuries, damage, and schedule losses from the incident are not finalized as mascot costs prior to investigation.

Each injured party chooses separately regarding treatment, transport, and record disclosure.

Medical staff and support personnel consent to duties only within the scope of the current shift roster, and may stop at a danger line.

Garam's on-site presence, use of luck, and exhibition review are not exchanged with one another.

Role release is held pending; only cost classification is suspended for 6 hours.

Dojin asked, "Why 6 hours?"

"That's when today's shift ends. I'm only writing down what I can actually be responsible for."

"And after that?"

"Ask again."

The quick amendment would have returned Garam's exhibition to her immediately. Eunha's clause didn't return it. Instead, it made visible who was putting up a body that hadn't even been injured yet, and future labor, as collateral.

Garam read both drafts on the remote screen. She started talking fast.

"I want to do the exhibition soon, I don't want to pay tuition again, and honestly it's a relief if Ms. Eunha says she'll treat everything."

She swallowed a breath.

"But I don't want to trade my exhibition for Ms. Eunha's future."

Garam opposed the emergency offset plan and gave conditional approval to the 6 hour cost classification suspension. She attached two conditions: that the school not count those six hours as a penalty against her exhibition review, and that it not be recorded as her having consented to role release.

The audit key was the last one left.

The special observation officer recommended the fast option, warning that if the amendment failed, the role could backflow onto a witness. Projected backflow: 3 percent. A small number.

Eunha asked, "3 percent of how many people?"

"Based on the current forty one independent witnesses, roughly one person."

"So one person whose body we don't even know."

The officer didn't answer.

Dojin didn't press the audit key. Instead he put both drafts, Eunha's dissent, Garam's conditions, and the roughly one person backflow up on the same screen. The school had asked him to make only the exhibition delay look large, but he didn't rearrange the order.

The audit key came in on the narrow version.

6 hour cost classification suspension.

No role release.

Exhibition review remains on hold.

Medical shift extended two hours.

Dojin had no execution key. Garam and Eunha each pressed their own. The clause activated only within the scope explained to each of them.

The "mascot costs" sign on the clinic wall turned gray. It wasn't deleted, only paused as under investigation. Eunha's shift roster now had an end time on it. Garam's exhibition screen was still on hold.

On the technician's wrist record, "luck cost treatment" disappeared and "post lighting rail accident stabilization" came back. He chose to keep treatment photos private and disclose only the toolbox damage amount to school insurance. One underclassman submitted a photo of the laptop screen as evidence but left his own face out of it. The other underclassman refused treatment and said she'd reach out again if pain showed up.

The three people's choices branched three ways out of the same incident. Eunha didn't stamp all of them as treatment complete. She left it as one complete, one under observation, one currently refusing treatment. Dojin was cross-checking that record against the luck cost ledger when the hour ended and his terminal locked.

"There are still two lines left."

"Do it tomorrow," Eunha said. "The records aren't going anywhere. People are the ones who need a door left open to leave through."

The school liaison said, "We went through all that correcting and nothing got resolved."

Eunha checked the technician's brace. "We didn't turn one future person into an automatic caregiver."

Dojin wrote that sentence down in the outcome field.

The cost of refusing a convenient amendment arrived immediately.

All forty one wristbands in the waiting area outside the clinic buzzed at once. They belonged to witnesses who'd submitted fan account captures or seen the accident happen.

Luck offset: incomplete.

Alternate cost bearer witness: pending designation.

Contrary to the roughly one person projection, red text appeared on twelve of the bands.

Person who witnessed the price of luck.

Witnesses may not leave the site until they designate a cost bearer.

One student saw a notice that the door would open if she named Garam, raised her hand, then lowered it. The facilities technician tried to name his own broken toolbox, but the system only accepted a person's name. The fan account operator picked Team 7 and got an error: "A group cannot be a cost bearer."

Next to the automatic door, the three most mentioned names appeared in recommended order.

Chae Garam.

Kang Eunha.

Baek Dojin.

Witnesses could leave once they picked one name. If they didn't choose, they stayed in the waiting room. Just as the convenient amendment had tried to create one future caregiver, the backflow now demanded one person to receive the cost.

Eunha started walking toward the locked door, then stopped. Her own shift roster, where she'd just written an end time, had turned yellow.

Medical staff extension duty triggered upon appearance of an alternate cost bearer witness.

"I didn't consent to this clause either."

Dojin tried to cancel the medical extension alert first, but there was no execution button for it. He wrote Eunha's sentence down verbatim as the first line of the incident log.

The automatic door to the waiting area locked.

Dojin didn't open the amendment window right away.

"Let's check on whoever's hurt first. Then I'll question the twelve of them one by one."