This time Heo Jeongu brought no paper to fold.
On the morning of February 13, Seorin stopped outside the interview room Yunjae had arranged. Her company's role remained support in distinguishing times and assignment circumstances within submitted questions. Jeongu had come with the supporter he chose. Final consent to today's scope had arrived through the designated route before Seorin entered.
She chose a chair facing the exit and put her bottle where her feet would not catch it. There was no chair for Doun. Only those assigned this role were present. Working together, and choosing a closer relationship, could not add a place at a material reading.
Jeongu brushed his knees twice with fingers holding nothing. Seorin recorded no reason for the movement. Yunjae checked place, participants and how to stop. The supporter repeated Jeongu's chosen scope without answering for him.
Seorin opened her notebook. Yesterday's first question remained: whose words had he actually heard when told to do the work? He lowered his head, then asked to begin by correcting heard.
“The purpose explanation wasn't a voice. I read forwarded wording. I said that last time too.”
She nodded. The earlier account had distinguished forwarded wording about maintaining checking while communications lines changed from direct conversation. She acknowledged that her question's verb blurred it. This was no new denial.
“Please separate where you read that wording from what a person actually said.”
Jeongu looked at the permitted relevant summary. He had not chosen the delay value, but had entered it himself. He had known the function put the picture out late. Today's consent would not turn his action into something he had understood nothing about.
He wanted to supplement the second confirmation's sending. The responsible party already held the submitted copy and second receipt record. He wanted to distinguish which words he had described as coming from whom, rather than bring new material.
Without a reply to the first confirmation he thought it had not arrived. Later, through the common work route, came a request to resend: the earlier attachment was not visible, so send the setting result in an easier form. He transferred management number and value to the second form. That sequence remained as previously explained.
“Did you mean the person requesting this had chosen the first value?”
He shook his head. No, then corrected himself. At the time he vaguely assumed the same counter meant the same person deciding the work. He had not checked that directly. What he could state was that the request came through that route.
He had not seen the first instruction writer's face. The second requester had not introduced themselves as that writer. Seorin divided her question, which had placed requesting counter and value setter on one line. The same code did not establish the same hand.
Was he submitting new material identifying a person? Yunjae asked. No. He wanted the part he had never claimed to know kept from being read as knowledge. The supporter repeated that distinction; Jeongu cleared his throat and agreed.
He took his bottle, turned only its cap and put it down without drinking. Would he like a pause? He could still explain this part. Seorin kept his own pace rather than substituting her judgment that he looked well. She waited, then asked one sentence.
What role had the resend code meant? The summary's contact field held a work code instead of a personal name. Jeongu had read it as the person sending him work. What was the actual screen heading? He stopped.
“I remember contact. That's what this summary says too.”
Seorin had not seen the original request screen. Reading the word today could have made it more familiar. She left a question for the material custodian about the heading and function in the preserved request, within the permitted portion.
Jeongu disliked his memory following paper. That could happen, Seorin said, promising only to distinguish what he gave as present memory today. Thinking longer would not necessarily return an exact time.
He again asked that 17:56 not be written as something seen on his own watch. He had read the device's retained indication later. The original device time stayed uncalibrated, Seorin confirmed. She filled no remembered waiting interval with fresh minutes.
His shoulders lowered slightly. Knowing he had entered the number had sometimes made him feel expected to explain everything around it minute by minute. The supporter said no more private circumstances were needed. Seorin did not ask when or how much he had slept.
A door shut outside. Both looked towards it. Yunjae confirmed their exit remained usable; another room was in use. Seorin felt her body stiffen and asked for water. They arranged a pause. She and the company worker went into the corridor while Jeongu had separate time with his supporter.
She did not practise the next question quietly outside his door or listen for their conversation. Prepared questions could not guarantee a quantity of answers. She left the corridor quiet. Inside, Jeongu and the supporter had time she had no part in. Her company colleague stood elsewhere beside the window. Seorin held her own bottle and let the water settle before drinking again. Nothing required her to use this interval to practise a sharper way of asking the same thing. Through the corridor window was the actual outdoors. Her phone's standard time and wristwatch belonged to the current interview. There was no reason to add or subtract the old west channel's thirteen minutes here.
After the break Jeongu had said what he wanted to say today. Could further questions about the actual field come through the existing route once its explanation arrived? He would consider scope with his supporter first. Seorin accepted that without requesting a personal number.
Yunjae restated the next receiving and correction route. Jeongu repeated it himself. Requesting route and first instruction writer would be distinguished.
“It still says I entered it?”
Yes. His entry of the value and transfer of the result remained. Correcting a mistaken identification of someone else had not made his own hand disappear.
He left with his supporter by their arranged route. Seorin did not follow for one more question. After looking at the empty chair, she took her own bag. The assigned ordinary vehicle returning her to the company was not driven by Doun. Current traffic signals changed outside; none supplied an old screen's missing fact.
She handed over the interview's actual end. No title claimed Jeongu had named a new culprit. He had never directly checked that the resend route and original instruction writer meant the same person. The code's original field function remained a question for its custodian.
Doun met her after lunch, his separate equipment assignment finished. Had she returned all right? She had received the explanation assigned today. He asked no material detail and told her there was still time to eat.
He had already eaten but could sit briefly with water. Seorin had spent more time correcting words than numbers, she said, without recounting particular statements. Shortening his bag strap one position had also taken unexpectedly long. They let the small joke stay small. He needed to leave for an afternoon assignment. Before lifting his bottle he looked at her once; she raised her head. That much tenderness suited today.
The afternoon receipt confirmed the custodian had accepted the question about original heading and code. It granted no new access or original-key search. Enlarging the same summary would not make its lettering more exact. Seorin waited for another answer instead.
The common original key remained unlocated. The original envelope stayed unopened; its contents, current custody and full seal history were unchanged. Completed photo comparisons stayed closed. Haeun and her mother owed no new private explanation because someone else had spoken today.
After work Seorin wanted rest at home. Doun welcomed that. Wanting to meet tomorrow or the following day remained, she added. He would check his own time. Today's rest had not erased the next wish.
At home she washed her bottle. The interview notebook stayed in company custody, not her personal bag. Reaching to flatten the exhibition leaflet, she left its corner folded instead. Not every fold required correction before night.
The following morning's first receipt brought a brief answer: the original request's relevant field could be compared to explain where the summary's responsible came from. Seorin filled in no name. Before asking which hand a code indicated, she would first read what its field had actually done.