Seo Yoon/Counter Case

## Underground Leader

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Sound Beta is happy to inform Sound Alpha that Coffin Company, thanks to their improved financial situation, has recruited a new, promising employee and therefore form a second combat squad. The recruit is Seo Yoon, a Grade B Counter from the Underground who leads a highly successful mercenary group known as ALT Squad. Beta particularly admired ALT Squad's unity and their deep-seated unanimous obedience towards their leader because that eliminates the risk of having a squad that can't work together or with other squads. Beta boasts that she's going to teach ALT Squad on what it takes to be part of a fully authorized and official TASKFORCE company before leaving to finalize their contract with them.

## [Record] Review Conference

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Sound Beta angrily returns from the interview with ALT Squad. As it turns out, Seo Yoon had not only presented to her a revised contract that was greatly skewed in ALT Squad's favor but also a detailed report of Coffin Company's unstable employment history and financial difficulties. Using that information, Yoon pressured Beta into signing it by mockingly asserting that no other Counter would ever would apply to work with a company that is "weaker than third-rate grave robbers," even if it's an official TASKFORCE company.

Sound Alpha questions how Yoon could have gotten a hold of Coffin Company's financial records, and Beta reveals that the ALT Squad leader is also famous on the Dark Network and has contacts that can help her acquire such information. Exhausted and humiliated, Beta says she'll give more details tomorrow and leaves to go to sleep early.

## [Appendix] Restored Video #1

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Years ago at the 64th Disaster District, a young Seo Yoon shows her newly-acquired Counter Watch to her bedridden mother and says they won't need to live off food stamps anymore if they inform Administration of it. Yoon's mother demands she keep her Counter powers a secret as it would put them at great risks if word gets out— only when Yoon becomes older and strong enough to defend herself can she reveal them.

Yoon's mother, despite her condition, goes outside to get food stamps, much to Yoon's worry.

## [Appendix] Restored Video #2

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Yoon is enticed by a unnamed group to work for them as a Counter in exchange for special food stamps. To see if Yoon's really a Counter, the boss asks her where she got her Watch and instructs her take it off and show it to him. When Yoon refuses to hand over her Watch, the boss threatens to kill her and orders his men to point their guns at her.

Suddenly, an outside party breaks in, killing the men and knocking out Yoon. One of the intruders reports that they found three other Counter children in the building to their Queen, who orders them to bring those children with them. When asked about Yoon, the Queen says they'll take her in as well due to her observed skills and potential to become a Grade B Counter. She examines Yoon's refugee ID card before leaving the area with her men.

## [Record] Aptitude Evaluation

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Yoon meets up with the Administrator, whom she had suspected was the true CEO of Coffin Company, in person and asks him why he would reveal his identity to a minor employee like herself. The Administrator explains he wants to her to make use of her "specialties", i.e. feign friendliness to and backstab someone— the target being someone she knows well and "always guides [her] way" like a lighthouse. Realizing what he means, Yoon demands to know how much the Administrator knows about her past, but the Administrator replies he'll send her a detailed note and promises to give her and the rest of ALT Squad Official Administration Licenses regardless of if the missions succeeds or fails. Not only that, because of the high risks, he even offers to give her information about her own past before her abduction by the Replacer Syndicate as an additional reward. Yoon accepts the offer and questions who the Administrator truly is, and he merely answers he's "just a reliable helper who is cheering on all of the employees from the backstage."