Elite Team.

In Daydream Inc., a company that often valued lives less than B-grade dreamscape liquid, the title of elite team was reserved for employees deemed "long-term valuable assets."

It came with perks like a private office, a separate salary scale, and additional benefits in the company’s welfare mall.

Most importantly…

They assigned you a member of the cleanup team to act as an expendable safeguard—a policy that, while distasteful, undeniably improved survival rates.

And now.

The development department executive in front of me was offering this to me.

“There’s been a persistent agenda to expand the number of elite …