The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

86.

“Investigate the noise in the villa… ”

The summary of the case was as follows.

Police have received reports of strange noises coming from an old villa located in the mountains.

As a result, a general police officer visited the scene directly to investigate, but contact was lost.

The next day, he was found exhausted inside the villa by a fellow police officer.

So he did not lose his life, but after waking up in the hospital, he suffered from nightmares or testified that he had seen a ghost inside the villa, so the case was handed over to the exorcism police.

“hmm… ”

In summary, it was nothing special.

To an ordinary person, it may seem like a ghost story.

From the exorcist’s point of view, it seems like monsters or spirits exist in the villa, so it’s a simple matter to go find them and exorcise them.

Of course, it would be a headache if the guy hiding in the villa didn’t come out easily, but it didn’t matter to me.

This will be over soon enough.

It’s the first case I’ve taken on since the vacation.

It was easier to deal with simple things rather than dealing with complicated cases.

So I looked into the details of the case.

“It is an old building.”

The villa was built during the Japanese colonial period.

Also, the villa consists of two buildings built in the Western style.

It was so large that it could be called a mansion rather than a villa.

In such a villa, there were many events that were as intertwined as the old history.

Among them, the police focused on two things.

The first was a family suicide case that occurred 30 years ago.

This is an incident in which four family members, including the owner of the villa, committed suicide together inside the villa.

According to the records at the time, the exorcism police were not involved, and it ended as a general case.

And then the most recent disappearance.

It was an incident in which a woman who is currently registered as the owner of the villa suddenly disappeared a month ago.

That is why the case is still pending.

Based on past incidents, the police assumed that this case was the work of Ji Park-ryeong, who used the building as a medium.

Han, which occurred in a suicide case 30 years ago, has recently changed.

It was said that he murdered the owner who was staying at the villa and became a jibamyeong, creating noise around him.

“… Well, it seems so.”

It was a sloppy, but flawless inference.

Maybe that’s why the story about the incident ended there, and the rest was like reference material.

“What is this again?”

There, based on the collected situation of the field, information related to exorcism was briefly organized.

For example, from the transmission of various jibakryeong, to the shamanistic meaning of two villa structures facing each other in the same form.

So far, I haven’t given any reference material like this.

Is the change in policy starting from here?

Although the amount of data increased a little, it was not a bad change for me to solve the case.

Whatever it was, it added information that could help solve the case.

So I skimmed through the reference material and got up.

The location of the crime scene is near Songnisan.

It’s a bit far, but if there were no other problems, it was a distance that one incident could have been finished within a day.

As I was preparing to mobilize, team leader Seo In-na approached me.

“Are you going to go out?”

“yes.”

“Then go with Eunyoung. I have the rest for you.”

“All right.”

I said that and looked around the office.

In fact, it was enough to go alone, but unless there are special circumstances, two or more of them should be dispatched.

So I said to Choi Eun-young.

“Commissioner Choi, let’s go.”

“yes!”

Immediately we moved to the scene of the incident.

after a few hours like that.

We came to the middle of the mountain where there is a villa.

Surprisingly, the vicinity of the villa was a well-known tourist destination in its own way, and other pensions were seen nearby.

Even though the villa was a few tens of meters away from the section where the pensions were concentrated along the forest, it felt like I was standing alone.

It wasn’t as remote as I thought.

And I saw… Was the reporter a guest staying at a nearby pension?

“Let’s get off here.”

We stopped a police car in front of the villa.

The cottage was surrounded by a tall hedge covered with ivy.

The front door is an iron gate painted black.

Except for a little rust, the door was nothing special.

So I was about to enter the villa, but I heard Choi Eun-young’s voice from behind.

“excuse me… Who is here?”

Looking back at her words, there was a man she had never seen before.

Age is about 30 years old.

He was a tall, well-built man who must have been exercising.

Also, the level display… There was no

It means ordinary people, not exorcists or demons.

The first to speak was the man.

“Are you cops?”

“It is, but… Who are you? You are not allowed to come in here.”

“Ah, I… ”

The man sighed and spoke.

He, whose name is Kim Chang-yeon, introduced himself as the owner of a nearby pension.

“In fact, rumors have been circulating for a long time that this villa is sinister from the beginning.”

He also told me some rumors about the villa.

Listening to the contents, most of the actual events at the villa were exaggerated or distorted rumors.

Also, according to his testimony, strange noises have often been made in the villa every night for a long time, but it seems that recently it has become worse.

The sound is the sound of a woman screaming and the rupture of something breaking.

I had already seen the information in the documents, but hearing it directly from an eyewitness felt different.

“However, a person staying at our pension reported it to the police, and it was said that another police officer who had come the other day had died, so I kept thinking about it. Is it really?”

the police are dead

Maybe this is just a rumor that spread after seeing the police being taken out of the villa.

So I shook my head and opened my mouth.

“He is not dead. You are slightly injured and are in the hospital.”

“Oh yeah?”

“So don’t worry too much. We will continue our investigation.”

At my words, he let out a laugh.

“okay. I just know he’s wrong… All right. Then work hard.”

Saying that, Kim Chang-yeon went back to the pension through the forest path.

As his figure disappeared from sight, Choi Eun-young, who had been quiet, opened her mouth.

“It must have been a villa with bad rumors from the beginning.”

“I know. Let’s go inside.”

We entered the villa.

Then I saw an unmanicured garden and two buildings on either side of it.

Identical buildings facing each other at a distance of about 20 meters.

They were named Rose Crown and Lily Crown, respectively.

Among them, the first place I went to was the Rose Hall.

It was because there was a room used by the missing owner.

“This way.”

I went to the Rose House and opened the door.

Then, the smell peculiar to the old wooden building flowed out, stimulating the sense of smell.

Inside with red carpets and gothic style furniture.

The inside of the building was as old-fashioned as the outside.

“Wow… ”

Choi Eun-young, who entered the villa, made such a noise.

It looked like an old mansion in the West, probably because it was an unfamiliar sight to her.

On the other hand, the room the owner used was the third floor of this building, the farthest room.

It was difficult to climb up, but I could see why I was using that room.

It’s probably the room with the best view in this villa.

“Is this it?”

Climbing the stairs, we soon reached the third floor.

The room the owner used was indeed different from the other rooms.

From brightly colored wallpaper that does not match the building, to neatly designed furniture and various electronic devices.

Unlike the other rooms that had been neglected, it felt much more modern.

And what fills one corner of the room… It was a doll.

It is not an ordinary doll, but a Western-style bisque doll made of ceramics.

The number of bisque stones in the room was about 30.

However, the fact that the owner of the villa was collecting bisque stones was also in the data.

So I glanced at it, but Choi Eun-yeong looked at the bisque stones decorated with sparkling eyes.

“Do you like this?”

“No, no. Just because it’s the first time I’ve actually seen it… ”

Well, aside from what I saw in another world, is this the first time I’ve seen bisque dolls in real life?

So I nodded and looked all over the room.

But the rest is just plain furniture like a bed and a wardrobe.

No matter how you look at it, there was no clue.

So I called the arrow of the quest, but.

“hmm… ?”

For some reason, I didn’t even see that arrow this time.

If you don’t see an arrow, you’ve already reached your destination.

“Am I supposed to wait?”

And Bonnie, Kim Chang-yeon, whom I saw earlier, said that he heard noises from the villa every night.

Also, the police who were said to have been taken out of here were dispatched after sunset, and they were rescued by fellow policemen the next morning.

in other words… Something hidden in this villa was said to be active only at night.

“Let’s just do this much here.”

“yes? What about the investigation?”

“I think the rest should come after the sun goes down.”

“ah… yes!”

Choi Eun-young, who understood my words right away, answered like that.

During the day, there were not one or two spirits or monsters that did not reveal their identity.

After leaving the room, I went straight to the second building, the Lily Hall.

In fact, since the arrow isn’t pointing, there’s no clue whatsoever.

It was because I had plenty of time anyway, and the references to the structure of the building attached to the back of the case brief bothered me.

Two buildings of the same shape facing each other.

The reference material said that such a structure symbolizes a mirror shamanically.

Because of that, what happens in one of the two buildings tends to happen in the other as well.

Exorcists called this the mirror phenomenon.

For example, if you break a window in the rose garden of this villa.

The next day, even if no one touched it, there was a high possibility that the glass window of the Lily Hall in the same location would also be broken by itself.

And the most problematic thing about this mirror phenomenon was when people lived in only one of the two buildings.

At this time, the building on the other side is trying to somehow bring someone to live by the mirror phenomenon.

This, in the end, increases the possibility of attracting non-human beings, that is, demons.

So I checked the room at the end of the third floor of the Lily Hall.

OK,

“hmm… ”

Traces of dust being swept away by something moving, walls that have recently been scratched, etc.

As expected, several traces that could not be seen were found in the neglected room.

There seems to be something, but does this guy only appear at night?

I checked this and went back to the police car.

Now all that remains is to wait for the sun to set… The time is now 4pm.

I had to wait an additional 5 hours.

So I said to Choi Eun-young, who was behind the wheel.

“Let’s kill time outside until the sun goes down, then come back and eat.”

In the meantime, there was no need to guard the villa.

We moved the car to pass the time properly.

after a while like that.

We ate until dinner and were heading back to the crime scene.

Pension Street near the villa.

“wait for a sec.”

I briefly stopped the police car there.

Most of the pensions had lights coming on brightly, and I could see people grilling meat outside.

I was checking them out to see if there was anything suspicious.

but,

“Nothing.”

None of them could see a level indicator.

It means that all of them are ordinary people who have not been healed.

That’s when I was about to tell Choi Eun-yeong to start the car again.

“What are you doing here?”

Kim Chang-yeon, whom we met during the day, looked at us and said.

He said he was the owner of the pension, and he had a lot of barbecue equipment in his hands.

“it’s nothing. Business seems to be going well.”

“hahahaha, the peak season is almost over now. When the weather gets colder, I have to stop doing this for a while. May I get you a drink?”

“You can’t take that kind of thing these days.”

“Oops, that was it.”

At my words, Kim Chang-yeon smiled helplessly.

“By the way, are you done with your investigation?”

“From now on. So, please take good care of me so that other guests do not approach at all.”

“Oh, of course. You’re working hard until late.”

With that said, he walked away from us.

Then Choi Eun-yeong, who knew nothing, opened her mouth.

“Than you think… He is a kind person.”

okay.

If I had just talked to him, I would have thought he was a kind person with a wide range of distances.

But my eyes were already detecting his change.

“Why?”

A red silhouette flashed along Kim Chang-yeon’s body as she moved away.

It was the effect of my human hunter trait, which marked the humans who were hostile to me.

In other words, unlike when we met during the day, Kim Chang-yeon now recognizes me as his enemy.

But I couldn’t immediately guess why.

That said, you can’t interrogate ordinary people who aren’t even demons.

“… I can’t help it.”

So I just remembered for now and went back to the villa.

It was past 9pm and the sun had completely disappeared.

A villa where only quiet darkness has subsided.

So when I opened the door to the villa,

“hmm… ”

Finally, an arrow was created in front of my eyes.

It pointed to a lily crown, not the rose crown the owner used.