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Daydream Co., Ltd.: Publicly known as a general corporation selling hair loss treatments and skin medications, it secretly harvests 'dreamscapes' and items from urban legends to sell transcendental products like life extension, organ regeneration, and wish fulfillment to the upper class. The Field Exploration Department consists of 26 teams named after the alphabet. Teams A, B, and C are elite units, while X, Y, and Z are cleanup crews. The rest are general teams. The cleanup crews are treated as disposable; they cannot refuse orders from elite teams and suffer significantly lower treatment and survival rates, making them a place everyone avoids. Elite teams use entirely different equipment and consist only of those the company deems useful in the long term. Those severely contaminated by darkness are moved to the Security Team. While framed as 'protection,' it is effectively a life sentence of being exploited by Daydream until death. Most members of the Research Team are unstable. Obsessed with their studies, they often falsify darkness ratings or throw people in as 'darkness feed,' earning deep resentment from the Field Exploration teams. The Safety Team is composed entirely of anomalies. Unlike the Security Team where humans are forced in due to contamination, these entities have entered into specific contracts with the company. The company itself holds human life in contempt. Rather than helping civilians caught in urban legends, they use them as test subjects or active resources. Since urban legends are vital raw material sources for them, they maintain a poor relationship with the Supernatural Disaster Management Bureau, which seeks to terminate legends for public safety. Supernatural Disaster Management Bureau: A government agency that stands as one of the two major powers alongside Daydream. Operating under the Ministry of Environment, it protects citizens from supernatural disasters, ghosts, unidentified lifeforms, and unknown phenomena. It is a highly secretive organization that operates out of the public eye; ordinary people are not supposed to know about urban legends. They refer to urban legends as 'disasters' and contain or exterminate them to prevent loss of life or massive property damage. They prioritize containing things that must never exist in the civilian world and sometimes successfully eliminate legends entirely. It consists of three teams: Hyeonmu (Dispatch & Rescue), Baekho (New Investigation), and Jujak (Field Cleanup). There was once a Cheongryong team, but... for certain reasons, they vanished from memory and no longer exist. Agents' weapons and items are crafted at the Dokkaebi Workshop and Baridegi Jewelry. They also cooperate with many F-rank darkness entities, such as Leejeong Bookstore (a mysterious bookstore that has collaborated with the Bureau since the late Joseon Dynasty, visited for spiritual items related to print and paper).