Archived Y.U.N. Files (Retouch)

[Private Quarters — Lt. Kim]

When Lieutenant Kim entered his private quarters, he immediately sank into the chair behind his cluttered wooden desk. The old wall clock ticked softly, marking each breath he took. His eyes followed the hands. Exactly 11:16 KST. Time seemed suspended there, hanging in the air. He sat in silence, the only sound the faint hum of the overhead neon light.

Minutes passed before he stirred. Rising from his seat, he crossed to the steel filing cabinet in the corner. From his inner uniform pocket, he produced a small key, slotting it into the lowest drawer. The lock clicked open. Inside was a thick folder bound in red, stamped repeatedly with official seals:

[CLASSIFIED DOCUMENT — K.A.D. / S.K.A.R.D.]

File No.: K-GA1127-X / SUBJECT_YUN

Even before opening it, Kim felt a chill creeping through his body. This was no ordinary file. It held decades of haunting records—records of a subject unlike any other.

Yun.

Kim placed the folder on the desk, flipped the cover, and began to read.

SUBJECT PROFILE

Designation Name: Y.U.N.

Code Name: Yielded Unknown Neotype

Approximate Age: 18 years (based on morphology)

Sex: Female (based on biological markers)

Date of Discovery: March 17, 2001

Discovery Location: Daejeon, South Korea

Detention Site: Chungnam National University Hospital

Room Number: Observation 71-A

Kim exhaled deeply.

“Eighteen years…” he whispered.

If this was true, then Yun’s biological age had remained unchanged for decades—while the world outside marched ever onward.

PHYSICAL, BIOLOGICAL & BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATIONS

Height: 168 cm

Weight: 48.2 kg

Hair: Jet black

Eyes: Deep black

Current Status: Stable (non-responsive; comatose, low brain activity)

Threat Level: Passive (for now)

Additional notes tightened Kim’s chest.

Yun’s brainwaves bore no resemblance to human patterns. Instead, they showed theta waves layered with an unknown frequency. She required no food, no water, no oxygen. Her body temperature remained constant at 39°C—as though a fire burned within. Wounds closed at unnatural speed.

And yet… she did not respond to any stimulus—sound, touch, heat, even pain.

Kim felt his skin crawl.

Whatever she was, she was not human.

INCIDENT REPORT — DISCOVERY

Eyewitnesses described a “burning object falling from the sky.”

No crater. No meteor fragments. No foreign material.

Only a girl—unconscious, drenched in blood, parts of her body still aflame.

Kim paused, picturing the scene: the fire, the broken figure of the girl, the panic of field personnel who could not understand what they had found.

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES

Blood: Unidentifiable.

Saliva: Unidentifiable.

Hair: Unidentifiable.

None of Yun’s samples matched known human biology.

SECURITY PROTOCOLS

Full collaboration between KAD (medical/research protocols) and SKARD (security/tactical protocols).

Monitored 24/7 by rotating SKARD personnel.

Protocol CERULEAN LOCK to be enacted immediately if subject awakens with unpredictable behavior.

Responsible officers:

Dr. Lee Min-Jae (Director of Anomaly Entity Studies, KAD)

Col. Park Hyun-woo (Field Commander, SKARD)

Kim closed his eyes briefly. He knew those names—men who once stood at the front lines against unexplainable threats. Now gone, leaving only their records behind.

He turned the page. Attached were photographs of Yun’s first discovery: her frail, pale body, blood streaked across her skin, flames flickering unnaturally across her limbs.

Kim’s throat went dry. He swallowed hard. She looked fragile… and yet terrifying, like something that had no right to exist in this world.

The logs continued, page after page of routine examinations. Until Kim reached the entry that marked her first awakening.

DATA UPDATE (CODE: YUN-Δ1)

Date: March 21, 2021

Filed by: Dr. Lee Min-Jae & Anomaly Medical Team

INCIDENT: TEMPORARY CONSCIOUSNESS

Time: 03:47 KST

Duration: 5 seconds

Personnel Present: Nurse Kim Hye-Jin

Summary:

At 03:47, subject Y.U.N. opened her eyes for the first time since 2001. She looked directly at Nurse Kim Hye-Jin with a blank expression. Then she spoke a single word:

“씨앗 (ssi-at) — Seed.”

Moments later, she collapsed back into unconsciousness.

Kim’s hands tightened into fists.

“Seed.” The word echoed in his mind.

Seed of what? Seed for whom?

Medical notes recorded no major brainwave shift—only a slight 2.1% spike in the unknown frequency. The word was captured by the facility’s audio systems, verified, yet with no environmental context.

Follow-up noted that the linguistic division was tasked with analyzing the “seed” reference in interdimensional context.

But as Kim flipped further, his unease deepened. The trail went cold. No further research. No conclusions. As though the topic had been deliberately buried.

The records pressed onward, until the second awakening.

DATA UPDATE (CODE: YUN-Δ2)

Date: April 2, 2073

Filed by: Third-Generation Anomaly Monitoring Unit

INCIDENT: BEHAVIORAL SHIFT

First detected: March 28, 2073 — 06:12 KST

Duration: 5 consecutive days

Personnel Present:

Dr. Jung Tae-hwan (KAD)

Nurse Kang Ji-Won (KAD)

Lt. Kim Joon-seo (3rd Generation SKARD)

Former Personnel:

Dr. Lee Min-Jae (d. 2062)

Col. Park Hyun-woo (d. 2065)

Nurse Kim Hye-Jin (ret. 2041)

Summary:

That morning, Nurse Kang Ji-Won discovered Yun standing near the window of her observation chamber. No record indicated she had been moved. CCTV suffered unexplained interference.

Observed behavior pattern:

Standing or sitting near the window.

Staring outward, silent.

No response to voices, touch, or environmental changes.

Physical changes:

Iris shifted from dark brown/black to pale blue, emitting faint luminescence.

Additional notes:

Still no basic human needs (food, water, sleep).

No response to verbal or physical contact.

Personnel reported mental distress when near her for extended periods.

Subject appeared no longer entirely within physical reality.

Follow-up:

Surveillance level raised to Tier 3.

Multi-spectrum sensors installed.

Linguistic team reassigned to re-examine “seed” as possible marker of non-human transitional phase.

Protocol CERULEAN LOCK remains active.

Signed:

Dr. Jung Tae-hwan (Director of Anomaly Studies, KAD)

Lt. Kim Joon-seo (Field Commander, SKARD)

Kim stopped reading. He slammed the folder shut, the sound reverberating across the wooden desk.

The final report was his own—the one he had co-signed with Dr. Jung. He was not just a reader of history now. He was part of it.

Hours had passed as he sifted through the medical logs, incident reports, technical data. Yet one truth suffocated him:

There was no further mention of the word “seed.”

As though, from the moment Yun first spoke it, generations of KAD and SKARD had deliberately erased or sealed every trace of its meaning. No analysis. No conclusions. Nothing but a word—left hanging in the air, steeped in mystery.

Kim stared at the folder, hollow-eyed. Something vast. Something terrifying. Something the old guard had buried with their silence.

And now, that burden rested on his shoulders.

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