The Name Written Only as Rin Was So Rin

The name written only as "Rin" was So Rin.

In the examination room, with her ankle still bandaged, she opened the testimony price list first.

If the mascot said it saved Sera, thirty thousand won.

The screen showing the dissenting vote withdrawn, fifty thousand won.

An on site witness account, negotiable.

Prices were low. So low it looked like traces of someone selling in a hurry. The underground correction market So Rin knew bought the exit before it bought the mouth. Add up contact disposal, cash routing, and statement withdrawal costs, and it came to at least ten times more.

"A beginner, or bait."

So Rin picked the shortest lived deposit address among the three links. Scheduled for disposal in twelve minutes. Following the address led to an unmanned storage locker at the western freight station.

She could have caught him.

Even dragging her ankle out, nine minutes.

That was when three other messages came in.

The first sender was a night call center agent.

`They said if I confirm the team leader as a guardian like family, this month's complaint calls get erased. If I don't, I'll be classified as a traitor agent.`

The second was a refrigerated delivery driver.

`They said if I write that a coworker was a savior, I get priority routes. But in exchange, that person can't refuse urgent deliveries.`

The third was a school facilities engineer.

`If the management department changes the accident cost liability chart to my name, the disciplinary action disappears, they said. It says withdrawal is possible.`

All three sent evidence photos. So Rin's finger paused between the freight station address and the photos.

Opening the locker meant catching one conspicuous person. Taking the messages first meant that person would likely disappear.

So Rin closed the freight station tracking screen.

"Exits first."

She didn't send the same question to all three people.

To the call center agent, she sent four boxes asking which of name, company, voice, or screen to leave.

To the delivery driver, she asked for a time range that could be compared even if the route and license plate were hidden.

To the facilities engineer, she asked whether to disclose the accident investigation statement and the cost liability chart separately.

While the answers came back, the locker address was disposed of.

The agent allowed only the screen text and receipt time, keeping name, company, and voice private.

The delivery driver chose to keep the license plate private, disclosing only the route zone and the fifteen minutes before and after dispatch.

The facilities engineer chose to disclose the investigation statement and hold the cost liability chart.

So Rin didn't bundle the three into one victim group. She made separate folders and separate hashes for each.

Then the account that had sent the first locker address raised its price.

`All three original cases in bulk, two hundred thousand. With real names, three hundred fifty thousand.`

So Rin stared at the numbers for a long time. It could cover the loss from missing the locker, the taxi fare, and future handover costs all at once. If she countered by offering to sell only the redacted materials, she might draw out the other side's connection time even longer.

She wrote only three lines in the trade window.

`No bulk sale.`

`No real name sale.`

`Contact ended.`

The other side offered four hundred thousand won. So Rin didn't answer, and sealed the links as separate evidence outside each victim's folder. Once she stopped using the victims' sentences as bait, the tracking time was also over.

"Expensive exit, that was."

As she muttered to herself, the agent sent a new message.

`Do I need to tell you the price of my own material too?`

So Rin didn't send the price list screen.

`No. Refusing to trade won't go into your statement either.`

At that moment the examination room door opened. Jang Mina walked in carrying two laptops.

"Three more samples."

So Rin looked up. "Don't call victims samples."

Mina corrected immediately. "Three cases. How many items can be disclosed?"

"Depends on each. Why are you here."

"To tell you your hypothesis is wrong."

So Rin pushed the empty chair with her foot. "Price first."

"Free."

"Free is more expensive."

"Then let's settle it with the tracking value of the locker you abandoned."

On the first screen, Mina pulled up the flow of the three deposit links. The mascot testimony went through a secondhand marketplace quick transfer, the dissenting vote withdrawal screen went through a game item payment, and the on site account went through delivery point exchange.

Different business registrations, different servers, different settlement times.

"It's not one broker," Mina said.

"If it's split up."

"The discrepancy is too big for it to just be split. The first link is an account dormant for eight months, the second was created today, and seventeen individual sellers copied the same phrasing for the third."

"Could be my market's phrasing spreading."

"That's only if you look at the market alone."

Mina opened the second screen. On the confirmation documents that came to the call center agent, the refrigerated delivery driver, and the facilities engineer, the names and company logos were blacked out. Only the fields So Rin had permitted were visible.

The titles of the three documents were different.

Family guardian confirmation.

Emergency rescue dispatch consent.

Accident cost attribution change.

But the sentence under the selection button was the same.

`Withdrawable at any time after confirming role performance.`

Even the punctuation matched. There was no comma after "at any time."

Mina said, "The buyers are moving separately. The phrasing supply is the same."

"Evidence that it's official phrasing."

"None yet. Phrasing that looks official. That's as far as it goes."

So Rin didn't cross that line. If she confirmed it was one trading network, she could file for an investigation quickly. Instead she only attached to the three folders the fact that different professions had used the same sentence.

The call center agent sent a new message first.

`I didn't press the confirm button, but three coworkers have started saying I betrayed the team leader.`

The call assignment screen changed right away. A "traitor agent" label appeared next to the agent's name. Complaint calls were routed to her at three times the normal rate. The logout button was locked with "usable after guardian confirmation."

The moment three independent coworkers repeated the same words, the role stuck.

On the delivery driver's side, the opposite happened. When four coworkers registered him as a "rescue dispatch witness," two priority routes opened up.

At the same time, the button to refuse urgent refrigerated delivery disappeared.

Not just convenient privileges came with it.

Nothing had changed for the facilities engineer yet. Only two people had shared the cost liability change.

So Rin got up from the bed.

"Call center first."

Mina looked at her ankle. "I'll do the tracking."

"I'm not tracking the culprit."

"Then what?"

"The exit for going home."

The call center agent had been inside the building for eleven hours. So Rin didn't ask for the company address. She only got the taxi pickup point the agent chose and a contact channel that would stay open for twenty minutes.

Calling Team 7 logistics would add insurance cancellation costs. So Rin pulled out her own cash.

Taxi fare, thirty six thousand won.

Waiting fee, up to twelve thousand won.

Contact disposal, twenty minutes later.

"This is advance compensation," So Rin said. "Not a favor."

"Compensation to whom?" Mina asked.

"To the person trapped by the withdrawal phrasing with no exit that I was the one selling."

Mina didn't record that line. She only posted the amount and expiration time on the dashboard.

The agent reached the first floor of the building, but the automatic door wouldn't open.

Family guardian confirmation incomplete.

Not eligible to leave for the day.

So Rin didn't tell him to erase the team leader's name or press a false guardian confirmation. She asked again about the disclosure range for the screen photo.

The agent chose to disclose the text, keep her own name private, and disclose the company floor.

The call center manager cut into the agent's channel.

"Family guardian confirmation is a welfare item. If you acknowledge the team leader as a guardian, we'll normalize the entrance door and call assignment immediately."

So Rin didn't answer the manager. She only asked the agent.

`Shall we confirm you heard this explanation, acknowledge the guardian relationship, or refuse both?`

The agent chose the first.

`Heard the explanation. Do not acknowledge the relationship.`

The manager tried to bundle that answer into participation in the guardian confirmation process. Before it was sent, Mina split the two sentences into different fields. Receiving the explanation, gray. Refusing the relationship, red. They couldn't be merged into one consent button.

The automatic door stayed locked.

Mina checked the building's fire safety system through a separate route.

"It's not just role lock, the night entry settings got mixed in too. The emergency stairs are on general facilities."

So Rin said, "Not one cause, then."

"Right. The role phrasing is eating the general lock as if it were its own effect."

Mina sent only the emergency stairway location to the agent. So Rin moved the taxi pickup point forty meters and prepaid the extra waiting fee.

The agent came down the emergency stairs. The role didn't disappear. The complaint call assignment stayed too. Still, she got out of the building and got into the taxi she'd chosen.

For the delivery driver, what was needed was the option not to use the priority route and a place to safely hand off the refrigerated cargo already loaded. Mina compared only the dispatch times and found a regular refrigerated warehouse, and So Rin sent the handover fee in cash.

The driver's vehicle carried two boxes of vaccines and one box of insulin. A warning popped up saying the three boxes would be discarded if he refused urgent delivery. Accepting the savior role meant a seventeen minute arrival, refusing meant thirty one minutes to the regular warehouse.

So Rin didn't recommend the faster route.

"How many minutes of temperature retention?"

"Forty six minutes on backup power."

"Regular warehouse fee, eighty thousand. Delay penalty, one hundred thirty thousand. I'll pay first."

"Why?"

"Because the sentence I used to sell got into your truck."

The driver didn't press the savior confirmation and headed for the regular warehouse. The priority lane gate opened three times and closed each time his vehicle approached. The cars behind him honked. So Rin didn't produce an apology broadcast. She only shared the refrigeration temperature and remaining time with the driver and the warehouse.

Arrival, twenty nine minutes. Discarded, zero. The priority route was revoked.

The facilities engineer didn't change the cost chart. Before a third repeater appeared, the accident statement and the entry log were split into separate archives.

The outcomes of the three cases weren't the same.

The agent got to go home, but the role and the call disadvantage stayed.

The delivery driver didn't take on the emergency obligation, but lost the priority route.

The facilities engineer hadn't gotten a role yet, but the disciplinary review had started.

So Rin didn't bundle the three together as a success.

Mina pulled up the final comparison chart.

Three professions.

Six payment routes.

At least twenty one buyer accounts.

One common sentence.

`Withdrawable at any time after confirming role performance.`

So Rin asked, "The source?"

"Still don't know."

"The trading network?"

"Can't say it's one."

"Then what we've secured today."

Mina pointed at the three different disclosure ranges the three people had set.

"That one sentence locks exits in different professions the same way."

So Rin deleted the locker number she'd missed at the freight station. Instead she saved the contact end times the three victims had set.

Twenty minutes.

Two hours.

Tomorrow at ten in the morning.

The culprit got away.

The repetition remained.