The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

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“Are you familiar with the person who committed suicide?”

“no. Until then, I was a child whose name I didn’t even know.”

Choi Sujeong shook her head and said.

“Then you don’t even know why he chose to commit suicide at the time.”

“yes. however… In fact, something similar happened back then.”

“Is it something similar?”

“So, right before the child commits suicide… I remember that something like a ghost story actually happened at school. like now.”

“… … ”

At that, I slightly frowned.

In my heart, I wondered if the student who committed suicide at the time was the cause.

It was a testimony that denied that speculation.

Remembering this, I continued to ask questions.

“Then can you explain which ghost story matches the current phenomenon?”

“that is… ”

Sujeong Choi then connected several anomalies with ghost stories.

So she said 6 things in total.

First of all, the ghost story related to the science room and the music room matched what I heard from Yeon Ji-woo.

And the third is a bathroom ghost story.

In the middle of the night, the door to the far end of the bathroom on the 4th floor of the school building was locked, and someone’s cries could be heard from inside.

And the stairway ghost story that the stairs leading to the rooftop are increasing, the library ghost story that there is a ghost with only the upper body in the library, and finally the statue ghost story that the statue in the playground is moving.

In a way, it was a collection of obvious ghost stories, but Choi Su-jeong insisted that all these ghost stories were being witnessed right now.

“That’s all I can remember.”

“however… Wasn’t it the 7 wonders?”

All she said was six.

One was not enough for 7 generations.

Then Choi Soo-jung nodded her head plainly.

“It is not known what the seventh was. Oh, instead, there was a story that you would die if you knew the 7th ghost story.”

“… okay.”

It was also an obvious ghost story.

After that, I asked a few more questions, but there was no big harvest.

So after I finished asking the question, I got up from my seat.

“Tonight we will investigate. Please do not let the guards come in, just guard the school gates.”

“All right. Then I’d like to ask you well.”

The story with Choi Soo-jung ended there.

We immediately left the teachers’ room, and Yeon Ji-woo, who was waiting outside, quickly caught up with us.

“What does the teacher say?”

“It’s okay, so just follow me.”

We left the school building and went back to the police car.

I took out my smartphone there and asked Kwon Tae-soo.

“… what do you think?”

At my question, Kwon Tae-soo sighed deeply.

“The student who died 18 years ago doesn’t seem to be the cause. Rather, it should be seen as a victim.”

“Isn’t that right?”

The hint was that the ghost story-like phenomenon had occurred even before the student died.

All evil begins with death.

Therefore, spirits and strange creatures are involved in this case.

If the student was the cause, nothing should have happened before his death.

So Kwon Tae-su asked Yeon Ji-woo.

“Student Jiwoo. How old is the history of this school?”

“uh… It’s very long. Will it be over 70 years?”

“Tsk! It’s become a hassle.”

Kwon Tae-soo clicked his tongue and said that, and I agreed with what he said.

If the student who died 18 years ago is not the cause but the victim, then after all, something happened at this school before that.

It means that the period before that was over 70 years.

Besides, isn’t that 70 years a period of upheaval in Korea?

There were so many historical events that could have happened, from the Japanese colonial period to the Korean War and the dictatorship.

“… Where should I start looking for this?”

So I muttered that while accessing the National Police Agency database on my phone.

Then Kwon Tae-soo, who had been lost in thought for a while, quietly added.

“Search by 18 years.”

“huh? Are you swearing just now?”

“her! What are you swearing at!”

At Yeon Ji-woo’s words, Kwon Tae-soo let out a laugh.

“Student Jiwoo, do you know that Parkryeong Ji?”

“yes. that… living on land.”

“It’s not about living, it’s about being tied down. They are spirits bound to the ground and unable to escape. But some anima are bound to time, not space. They are called periodic spirits because they appear at regular intervals.”

It’s a cycle order.

Hearing my words, I nodded.

Yeon Ji-woo and Choi Soo-jung also spent several years at this school, but they said there had never been an incident like this one.

Still, if a similar incident had happened 18 years ago.

The saying that it was a periodic order that appeared every 18 years was quite reasonable.

So, as he said, I started searching the police database based on the cycle.

“… It really is.”

It really paid off.

There was a student who died at this school in the records 36 years ago and 54 years ago.

Besides, the cause of death was suicide.

It was a record that was related to this incident no matter who saw it.

“and… Grandpa, how did you know this?”

“Dumb… Isn’t it all an experience?”

At Yeon Ji-woo’s words, Kwon Tae-soo said with a happy face.

However, on the contrary, Yeon Ji-woo’s expression soon darkened.

“But then… If things stay like this, who will commit suicide at our school?”

“If we don’t solve the case, that will be the case.”

“… … ”

At my words, Yeon Ji-woo’s somewhat light mood changed.

Well, since he meant that his close friend could die right away, it was natural.

“Is that person who died 54 years ago the cause?”

“I don’t know. It was there before, but it could just be that there are no records left.”

From 54 to 18 years ago, that is, 72 years ago, this school also existed.

However, no record of that time was left in the police DB at all.

That was before the existence of an organization called the police, so it was unavoidable.

Also, even the records from 54 years ago were all about someone dying by suicide.

So, who the cause was, and from when, I have not yet been able to answer with certainty.

“Then what do we do now?”

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Jiwoo Yeon asked.

It was difficult to trace further than this for the person who caused it.

But there were still clues left for us.

“what… I’ll have to check the ghost story.”

I pointed to the sword that was kept in the police car.

Then Jiwoo Yeon’s eyes widened.

And a few hours later, just before midnight.

The school was finally dark.

Inside the school, where no one is left, not even a small light can be seen.

Standing on the playground in front of such a school, I asked Kwon Tae-soo, who was just returning.

“Are you done?”

“Okay, that’s it. Then let’s begin.”

He was on his way to use Taoism to open a kind of barrier.

There are guards at the school gate, and this is a school in the middle of the city.

So I had to do at least some tricks.

And Yeon Ji-woo, who stood next to me, was watching the whole process with interest.

But no matter how many times I was told to stay by my side without making a sound before coming here, I didn’t open my mouth.

“I’ll check that first.”

We first approached the statue in front of the school building.

It was not a statue of a special great man, but a statue of a female student reading a book.

According to a ghost story I heard during the day, at the exact moment of midnight, this statue turns over the book.

So I waited for that midnight.

“omg… !”

Yeon Ji-woo, who soon found something, swallowed her breath.

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Just a few seconds before midnight, an imperial spirit appeared casually and entered the statue.

In response, I wrapped the statue in the torch.

Kyaaa!

Then, at most, the level 20 emperor disappeared, leaving only a short return.

And at midnight, of course, the statue with the emperor’s extinction stood still as if dead.

“What, is this the end?”

Yeon Ji-woo, who was watching the scene, said as if he was absurd.

That’s because the ending was too empty to see with the naked eye.

But, contrary to her thoughts, this was never the end.

“This… Not good.”

“why? Didn’t that ghost just die?”

“It was an exorcism. But that’s probably not the anima that caused it. It must have been manipulated by the real vengeful spirit.”

It was as Kwon Tae-soo said.

At this moment, I could clearly see several anima appearing at midnight.

Probably all spirits mobilized to reproduce each ghost story.

But that meant that there was something behind the scenes that commanded the spirits.

“If there is a vengeful spirit that commands the same spirit, it is not an ordinary one. He is much more dangerous.”

“aha… ”

“Then be quiet.”

“yes.”

Since then we have a science room and a music room and more.

He exorcised the spirits that tried to reproduce the ghost story around the school.

Exorcising them wasn’t difficult.

At most, it was an enemy of the imperial level.

but.

“Ouch… !”

Yeon Ji-woo, who was startled next to me whenever the spirits came out, was annoying.

But he didn’t say it because he wanted to say it, and he made a sound in surprise, but he couldn’t say anything.

Besides, the guy in the library, with only the upper half of his body left and his chin resting, ran furiously across the desk with both elbows.

That’s how we reached the fourth floor bathroom, the sixth ghost story.

When I went there, only the last compartment was closed, and a woman’s cry was coming out from inside.

“… … ”

Yeon Ji-woo, standing at the entrance, was hardened.

Perhaps it was because of the spirits he had met so far, it seemed that his sense of fear had risen to the fullest.

So I deliberately told Yeon Ji-woo.

“Follow me.”

“why… why… ?”

“Shouldn’t it be because the exorcist is afraid of ghosts?”

Unable to refute my words, Yeon Ji-woo followed me and stood in front of the toilet.

“door… Shall I open it?”

“Before you open it, look through the crack below to see what’s inside.”

“yes? why?”

“Don’t ask, come on.”

Yeon Ji-woo did not move easily, but as I watched, he had no choice but to lower his stance.

Then she peered inside through the narrow gap between the floor and the bathroom door.

Yeon Ji-woo, who at first watched passively from a distance, tilted his head and then gradually moved closer to the gap.

“I don’t have anything… ?”

Yeon Ji-woo, who had been looking inside for a while, raised his head and looked at me.

But I shook my head.

“Look again.”

“I saw it, didn’t it?”

“Do you want to see me again?”

“No, no matter how much I look at it – wow!”

As soon as Yeon Ji-woo looked at the gap again, she got up in a fright.

Beyond that gap, a face with pitch-black pupils was already close.

Yes, it was usually this pattern.

I immediately thrust my sword into the gap and defeated the imperial spirit hiding inside.

Then the door opened naturally, and the bathroom ghost story disappeared.

“Hmm, shouldn’t there have been a need to surprise me?”

Kwon Tae-soo said as he looked at Yeon Ji-woo, who was clinging to the opposite wall and gasping for breath.

But I shook my head.

“You have to get used to this if you want to be an exorcist.”

“… That’s right again.”

He let out a short sigh, then spoke again.

“By the way, Inspector Kang, what are you going to do now?”

This is the sixth time I’ve defeated anima.

According to the ghost story I heard from the teacher earlier, this was the last one.

There is nothing more to do, he must have thought.

“All the ghost stories have been exorcised, but if we don’t get rid of the vengeful spirits, other spirits will eventually come.”

“Yeah, that’s right. That’s why I’m trying to find the 7th ghost story.”

“The 7th? why?”

“That teacher said that before. If you know the 7th ghost story, you will die. What do you mean by that?”

Kwon Tae-soo, who was lost in thought for a moment at my words, nodded his head broadly.

“Oh, there was such a thing. But how do you find the 7th?”

“I can find them all.”

I looked at the arrow of the quest.

Now the arrow was clearly pointing somewhere in the school building.

“Follow me.”

I moved towards that arrow.

Which classroom did I arrive at?

To be precise, it was the classroom of the 2nd grade 3rd class.

“Is this here?”

“I guess so.”

I opened the classroom door and went inside.

Right now, it’s a quiet classroom, covered only with dreary darkness.

And the quest’s arrow pointed to the highlighted mirror hanging at the back of the classroom.

be a mirror

But the moment I try to approach it.

“hmm?”

Suddenly, the quest’s arrow and highlight disappeared at the same time.

no way… Did the vengeful spirit move?

But I didn’t see any sign of that in my eyes.

“Why but?”

Then Kwon Tae-soo asked.

He had just entered the classroom after me.

While looking at him, I came up with a possibility.

“wait a minute. Would you like to go out of the classroom again?”

It was about the conditions of ghost stories that often appear in various ghost stories.

All school ghost stories are not observed during the day due to the condition that they only appear at night.

But besides that, some ghost stories have conditions.

Among them, one that is often used is that the ghost story only activates when you are alone.

“… I will.”

At my words, Kwon Tae-soo went out of the classroom again.

Then again.

Again, the arrows and highlighting of the quest were activated.

Apparently, the identity of the last ghost story was looking at that mirror alone in the 2nd grade 3rd class classroom.

“I guess I will have to do it alone this time. Please wait outside with Jiwoo.”

“hmm… That’s right. I see.”

When I said that, Kwon Tae-soo nodded easily as if he understood roughly what was going on.

Thanks to his long experience, he must be more familiar with ghost stories than I am, so he probably noticed right away.

Kwon Tae-soo closed the classroom door and went out into the hallway.

“… … ”

In a quiet classroom.

I passed between the desks and stood in front of the highlighted mirror.

The mirror was set at the eye level of the students, and it was a square mirror about 50 cm long.

So when I looked into the mirror, besides me, I could see the scenery of the classroom reflected behind me.

“… found.”

The last ghost story was right there.

A female student in a school uniform was standing in front of a blackboard where no one had been there before.

The school uniform was different from the one Yeon Ji-woo was wearing.

I don’t know when, but it’s a school uniform that I would have worn a long time ago.

My eyes met with the girl in the mirror.

Cloudy eyes with no whites, only blacks.

It was then.

The female student appeared right behind me as if she had teleported.

visor!

At that moment, I also turned around and swung the sword.

Before I knew it, the female student’s fingernails and human sword collided and sparked.