The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

77.

After work, I immediately called Cha Seo-hyun at the courthouse.

It was to check whether it was okay to visit the courthouse today.

however,

“yes? now… Are you talking?”

When I said that I wanted to learn the next tradition, Cha Seo-hyun showed a somewhat hesitant reaction.

Was it too sudden to contact you on the same day?

“Do you have any other plans?”

“that is… No, no. You can come right away.”

Seohyun Cha answered like that.

For some reason, I feel like canceling that schedule because of me.

But even if that were true, it would be difficult for me to learn the Buddha Way if it were not today.

It looked like it would be put into an unusual incident from tomorrow.

So I decided to go out a little brazenly.

“Okay, then I’ll see you in a little while.”

After that, I went straight to the courthouse.

Then, as always, Cha Seo-hyun was at the entrance.

“Are you here? Go right in.”

Seohyun Cha went inside with a strangely hurried look.

A vast site with several large temples.

Among them, we moved towards the training center we always used.

Streetlights were lit on the roads around it, and other exorcists could be seen.

But why?

There were a lot of eyes looking at me today.

Of course, compared to them in monk’s uniform, I stood out in my police uniform.

Normally, I don’t think I was this conscious.

“What’s going on?”

So I asked.

Then Cha Seohyun smiled bitterly and opened her mouth.

“that is… In fact, there have been rumors of thieves roaming around lately.”

“Are you a thief?”

“yes. However, it is not something that Inspector Kang Jin-woo will be concerned about.”

Drawing a line like that, Seohyun Cha said.

however… Isn’t it kind of like talking about a thief and not paying attention to the cops?

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Just then, one of the exorcists who had been looking at us approached us.

It wasn’t an unfamiliar face.

Sowol Lee.

She was the woman who worked with me to solve the magic case at a certain school.

“Are you here today to receive lessons?”

Lee So-wol always greeted me briefly whenever I came to the temple, but today he asked why.

“yes.”

“I heard you learned Mahuraga when you saw it before. however… It’s only been a few months now. You’ve already learned it all?”

“It happened.”

“under… !”

Lee So-wol smiled blankly, stared at me for a moment, and then spoke again.

“Then let me talk for a minute. It only takes a few minutes.”

“… … ”

what to say

I’m trying to figure out why I learned so quickly.

However, there was no particular negative sign from Lee So-wol.

Since he is so faithful to his emotions, it is unlikely that he is hiding his true feelings.

So I nodded.

“I see.”

Cha Seo-hyun headed to the training room first, and I and Lee So-wol headed to a small bench under a lamppost.

Lee So-wol himself first slumped down on the bench, and then immediately got to the point.

“I have a favor to ask of you.”

“Please?”

“okay. Did you hear that a while ago? About thieves.”

Lee So-wol said that, as if he had been listening to the conversation with Cha Seo-hyun.

“yes.”

“Can you catch him?”

“You mean now?”

“Yes, now.”

“But it’s already time… ”

The time was already 7pm.

So, you have to solve the case in just an hour or two.

Of course it might be possible for me, but I wasn’t sure.

“I heard you are so good at investigations. Well, I’ve seen it before my eyes, so I don’t doubt your skills. And I’m not asking you to do it bare-mouthed.”

saying that there is a price.

So I quietly waited for Lee Sowol’s next words.

“I’ll help you teach the eight steps.”

However, the price was a bit ambiguous.

Is there any reason to receive it from Lee So-wol?

“Are you already receiving lessons from Seohyun Cha?”

“It will be like that now. But how long do you think that will last?”

“why? Where is he going?”

At my words, Lee So-wol shook his head as if that wasn’t the case.

“What you are learning today is ‘Gin Nara’. And Seohyun Cha is currently performing the next stage, ‘Garula’. Of course, since it’s almost in the final stage, he’ll teach Garura on his own. But what next? In a few more months, you’ll come running as fast as you’ve learned everything. But can Seohyun Cha keep up with your speed?”

that… Certainly it was.

Now, Cha Seo-hyun is telling me about the tradition of the Buddhist teaching she has learned.

The speed at which I learned the lore was noticeably faster than her.

So, sooner or later, I will catch up with Seohyun Cha.

“The principle of transmission of Buddhism is that the beneficiary handed it down directly. So at this rate, from Ashura, the next one after Garura, you have to wait until Cha Seohyun finishes her training. Will you be okay though?”

I understood Sowol Lee’s words.

Saying that even if I was ahead of Cha Seo-hyun’s growth, Lee So-wol would teach me directly.

“So you’re helping me with that part.”

“okay. Because I have something to help you too. And you don’t even have to solve the case. All you have to do is investigate for a moment.”

If that was the case, it wasn’t something to be rejected.

So I nodded.

“All right. I will.”

When I accepted Sowol Lee’s request, the quest was also created.

As usual, an F-class quest with no rewards.

But that was enough. I didn’t want a quest reward anyway.

All I needed was the arrow it showed.

“however… ”

I looked at Lee So-wol.

In the end, this case was just that there might be a thief in the temple.

But why is Lee So-wol trying to move so aggressively?

The reason is that… I guessed to some extent.

“Did Lee So-wol also get robbed?”

“… It was Seohyun, not me. It’s a very valuable item, so I was looking for it today, but you said you were coming to pick it up. Be kind anyway.”

Somehow, the attitude was strange from before.

I don’t know what a valuable item was, but it must have been lost.

However, if Cha Seo-hyun was the victim of the incident, it was a good thing.

“Then I guess I should call Seohyun again.”

“Why is he?”

“Aren’t you a victim of a crime? The investigation should start from there.”

“Ha, you talk like a detective.”

“It’s a detective.”

After a while, we met Seohyun Cha, who received our call.

She hardened her expression somewhat after hearing the story from Lee So-wol.

“But that… Aren’t you causing too much trouble to Inspector Kang?”

“What about the lungs?”

“I can’t even ask my benefactor to find things-”

“noisy. Tell me more about the thief.”

At Lee So-wol’s words, Cha Seo-hyun hesitated for a moment before sighing deeply.

“… All right. But I don’t have much to tell you either.”

As Seohyun Cha said, there was not much to refer to in her story.

I just woke up and the thing was gone.

That’s what the testimony was all about.

“Then why don’t we check out his room?”

“my… You mean my room?”

“I woke up and it was gone. So there will be traces left in the room.”

Cha Seo-hyun opened her eyes wide and shook her head.

Lee So-wol had some truth in his words.

also… If there is evidence, it’s likely there.

So I opened my mouth while looking at the arrow that appeared in front of me.

“Which one is it, by any chance?”

“Cha Seohyun’s room? He lives in the yosachae here, so it’s over there.”

“What’s this yosachae?”

“Think of it like a dorm.”

I nodded and looked in the direction Lee So-wol pointed.

Coincidentally or inevitably, it was similar to the direction the arrow was pointing.

So, I went there first.

Yosachae was also located at the farthest corner of the site of the large living quarters.

“Are you here?”

I said, looking at a small complex of three-story buildings.

The style of the building is hanok, but there are rooms and buildings with the same structure, so as Lee So-wol said, it felt strongly like an apartment or a dormitory.

“okay. Follow me.”

“Wait a moment, please.”

As we were about to enter one of the buildings, Seohyun Cha blocked our way.

She opened her mouth with a slightly reddened face.

“I will go and tidy up the room first. 10 minutes… No, just five minutes.”

“what? You don’t have to-“

“no. You do.”

At my words, Seohyun Cha bowed her head and entered the building.

Seeing that, Lee So-wol clicked his tongue.

“Anyway, I only care about useless things.”

“I am not an outsider. It would be a little uncomfortable for Seohyun Cha to show me the room as it is.”

“Is that so? I guess I don’t mind.”

yeah… It would be you.

I tried to swallow those words up to my throat, but I just swallowed them again.

Without saying anything, I waited for Cha Seohyun to come.

After a while, she came running towards me in a huff.

“all… That’s it. It is this way… ”

Seohyun Cha’s room was in the middle of the 3rd floor of the Yosachae building.

And when I checked the direction of the arrow as I came, it seemed to be pointing to her room.

So I went into Cha Seohyun’s room without any hesitation.

“oh… ”

Is it because the dormitory building is a hanok, and this is a temple?

Of course, I thought the inside would be similar, but the room was quite bright.

A clean pink wallpaper, a similar bed, and even a teddy bear on top.

“Uh, how… did you?”

Cha Seo-hyun asked with a face stained red.

How are you?

Are you asking about your impressions of the room?

“It is a cute room.”

“Ears, cute… ! no, that’s not it… Is there anything suspicious?”

Oh, that’s what it sounded like.

I looked in the direction the arrow was pointing in the room.

however… There was nothing but a blank wall on that side.

I got closer to the wall.

“hmm… ”

Obviously, the arrow was pointing at the wall.

But nothing can be seen on the wall.

no way… Are you behind the wall?

As I was thinking about that, the arrow pointing to the wall got smaller and pointed right at the bottom.

It must have been frustrating that I hadn’t noticed.

don’t tell me that sooner

“This… ”

Under the wall where the arrow was pointing, there was a very small sense of incongruity that could only be felt by looking closely.

That, too, was not normal, it was a sense of incongruity caused by demons.

Feeling similar to the disconnection I saw at a hotel during training at the training center.

So I pulled out the star cloud sword.

“Inspector Kang… ?”

Seeing me suddenly pull out my weapon, Cha Seohyun was taken aback.

I gestured to mean that it was nothing, and poked the part that felt uncomfortable with the tip of my knife.

Then, the thin hemp curtain covering it lifted, revealing a small hole.

“What’s this?”

Is it a mouse hole?

No matter how I looked at it, it didn’t seem that way.

If there’s anything unusual about it, it’s just that golden powder is sprinkled around the hole.

Perhaps that is the true identity of the demon hiding this hole.

“Get out of the way for a moment.”

Then Lee So-wol pushed me away and said so.

As if she knew something, she took out the amulet in front of him and held it up.

Soon after, a black and thin snake flowed out of the amulet and entered the hole.

“this… What is this?”

Cha Seo-hyun said that as if she had never dreamed that there was such a thing in her room.

Lee So-wol calmly opened his mouth.

“This is the rat’s hole. Golden Rat is literally a monster that looks like a golden rat.”

“God, what is it?”

“He’s not that dangerous. Just a pesky rat stealing little things. But it’s not easy to find because it has the property of hiding rat holes, but it’s quite good. Is it because of him that thieves come and go in the temple?”

Lee So-wol slightly frowned.

It looked like he was involved in trivial matters.

“By the way, what is that snake?”

I pointed to Lee Sowol’s amulet and asked.

Because the form of the talisman looked closer to LB Academy than to the temple.

“This is my food soul.”

“Do you know how to do that?”

“I learned it at home. It’s magic that’s far from the Dharma Hall.”

And Bonnie, Lee So-Wol also came from an exorcist family.

That’s why I didn’t know at first sight that this was a golden rat.

Soon, her food soul, the snake, returned, and it was put back into the talisman.

“… done.”

“What happened?”

“The gold rat keeps what it stole in a specific place. that you have found the place Follow me.”

Next, Lee So-wol headed to the restaurant on the first floor of Yosachae.

Lee So-wol asked the people in the kitchen for their understanding and went inside.

And a corner of the kitchen, let’s lift up a tile there-

“This… !”

There were all sorts of odds and ends like a treasure chest.

Lee So-wol took it out and spread it out on the kitchen floor.

And asked Cha Seo-hyun.

“Are your things here?”

“that is… Oh, yes!”

What Cha Seohyun took was a stick the size of a finger.

“Is that a precious thing?”

“okay.”

“What is that?”

At first, they said it was a valuable item, so I thought it would be something with memories.

Whether it’s a ring or a photograph.

However, the value Cha Seohyun answered was unexpectedly very realistic.

“This is my seal. I was so worried about falling into the wrong hands at all.”

I nodded.

Yes, seal stamps are not important.

Cha Seo-hyun, who took the seal, immediately bowed her head to me.

“Thank you, Inspector Kang! I’m indebted to you again. And also, Lee So-wol unnie, thank you.”

“done. Inspector Kang did a good job. Seohyun, you should go and teach Inspector Kang the Buddhist sword. I’ll be doing the cleaning up for the rats.”

Lee So-wol made a gesture as if to drive away a bird and said so.

“Ah, that’s why you came. All right. time is… It’s not too late yet. Fortunately, the. Then let’s go right away.”

Immediately, Seohyun Cha led me to the training ground.

And, as always, he handed down the 7th seat of the Palbushinjung, the tradition of Kinnara, and I immediately engraved it on my body.

Ginnara is a Buddhist god of music and dance with a half-human, half-bird body.

And he was known as the Buddha’s musician.

That’s why the power of the tradition of Kinnara is to control the sound.

He said that he could use this to completely hide the sound of his footsteps, conversely, make sounds from the wrong direction, or attack the weakness of monsters who are sensitive to sound.

Indeed, it was not such a bad tradition.

The ability to disrupt hearing was equivalent to sealing one of the opponent’s five senses.

“Then take a look.”

And Cha Seo-hyun saw me off to the exit of the temple today.

I went home greeted by her.