“Please prepare for landing”

Adam Baek’s eyes slowly peeled open as the plane touched down and people began to exit to the airport.

He groaned as he pulled himself off of the seat he had sat in for the last indeterminate amount of hours, and opened his phone. Adam was supposed to meet up with a partner, who would take him to the office where all the information pertaining to the isekai initiative was stored. He departed the plane, until…

…Haneul Ha was loading luggage off of the plane. He was rushing a bit, since there was another plane coming in just a few minutes, and he had to be quick to make sure that he and his crew would be available to unload the luggage for that plane too.

“A large suitcase coming down.” His colleague shouted as he pushed a suitcase onto the conveyor belt to be loaded down.

Haneul quickly crawled up the belt to receive the suitcase. But just as he managed to get to it, his heart sank as his foot missed the next step and he tumbled to the ground.

Thud.

He landed on his back, and all the breath was forced out of his body, leaving him unable to breath for a second. He sat up. Luckily, it seemed that he hadn’t suffered any injuries in his fall, which was good since he still had many shipments to go. Unluckily however, in the few seconds he had taken to regain his breath, he failed to hear his coworker’s warning until the last second. Now, hearing this warning, he looked up to see the heavy suitcase plummeting towards him. He held up his arms in a futile attempt to ward off the impending death, and saw…

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Splat.

…Suddenly, Adam Baek heard screams from the airstrip. Everyone was rushing to the window, blocking his view. Gaping, staring in horror at something so grotesque, it could only be something that barely ever occurred in day-to-day life. Violent death. Adam rushed to the window, where he witnessed a splatter of blood on the airstrip. The blood seemed to be emanating from a suitcase on the ground, likely to have crushed a poor soul moments before.

…And yet, the suitcase was completely flat on the ground. Almost as if despite having crushed a person…

“... there was no body beneath it.”

Almost unconsciously, Adam Baek threw himself towards the passage from which he had dismounted the airplane from, quickly barging past any personnel that tried to stop him. He descended on the staircase, in a rush.

“This was perfect. A chance to immediately examine a site of crime for the case I am working on? It’s almost as if the Isekai Initiative wants to be solved!”

But before he could finish dismounting the stairs, an arm whipped out and knocked him onto his butt. Then, a figure came out from behind the door, and stood in front of him.