The Shaman Wants Transcendence

50 – How to Enjoy the Festival

“Yes. It’s a really good choice.”

He pulled something out of his chest.

It looked like a bunch of bright red meat wrapped in plastic wrap, the size of a ping-pong ball, and I could see white stuff smeared on the surface, as if some powder had been sprinkled on it. Jinseong took off the wrapping from it, rolled the round meatball several times with his hand, and threw it towards the door where the elder was.

Smack!

The chunk of meat hit the door with an unpleasant sound and slowly flowed down the door under the influence of gravity. As the chunk of meat fell to the floor, the white powder on the surface gradually expanded as if it were breeding itself.

Chi-Ik.

Before long, a small piece of meat was completely covered in white.

It was really so small that I could hear it crying so low that I mistook it for the sound of an insect.

It sounded like a rat’s last scream, or like the cry of a rat crying bitterly in a monster’s stomach.

Hearing that cry, Jinseong turned his head and put the unzipped bag into the politician’s arms.

“This?”

“Check it out.”

When the politician looked inside the bag, it was full of Nendoroids.

The Nendoroids were showing off their cuteness as they were, wearing colorful clothes and making cute expressions.

“Isn’t this something otaku or something likes?”

“That’s right. But the people here will also like it. No, they’ll love it so much that they’ll roll their eyes and go crazy.”

“Is that so?”

The Nendoroids were all staring upwards with their bodies bent as if they were shaking inside the bag. When his eyes met with one of the Nendoroids, the politician could feel a terrifying aura, and he turned his head and avoided his gaze in an uneasy feeling.

But even when I turned my head, the gaze I felt inside the bag was still there. He couldn’t stand the stare, as if it were about to pierce the skin of his face, and looked at the bag again. When he looked at the bag, the dolls stood up calmly, leaving only the top of their heads visible, as if the gaze he had felt earlier had been a lie.

Seeing it, the politician sighed in relief as if his gaze was uncomfortable, but soon felt strange.

‘The top of the head?’

He didn’t shake the bag or lay it down.

But how can all the dolls, which were lying down and staring at the sky, stand upright and only see the top of their heads?

The politician felt goosebumps rising all over his body.

Then he realized that the bag he was holding and the dolls inside it were no ordinary thing.

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“Oops. It looks like it’s been fed blood before and its body is hanging on. hahahaha.”

However, Jin-seong laughed as if it was nothing.

“Don’t worry. If you do as I say, you won’t be harmed. Instead, you won’t make a single mistake.”

* * *

Shoot aaa-

The politician went into the bathroom and turned on the water.

The water came out strong enough to overdo it, and in an instant it filled the bathtub.

The bathtub, which was clogged with silk, began to overflow as the faucet was constantly spitting out water.Also, because the drain was clogged, the entire bathroom became a sea of water.

In the center, the politician was covering his mouth with a cloth soaked in water with one hand and clutching his bag with the other hand.

“I need water first. Plug the drain and the bathtub stopper and make the bathroom a sea of water. 』

Even though it wasn’t winter, the terribly cold water seemed to freeze his feet, but he just maintained his posture, trembling and unmoving.

『And with one hand, cover your nose and mouth with a cloth soaked in this water, and hold the bag firmly with the other hand. Never miss the fabric or let the bag touch the water. It’s something you should keep in mind 』

How could I have watched the water overflow in the bathroom while shivering like that?

He saw white smoke pouring in through the crack in the bathroom door.

When dry ice was immersed in water, it, like white smoke, was moving slowly into the bathroom.

The smoke, which seemed to have no smell, smelled like fishy water, and water droplets formed on every part that the smoke touched, as if it was full of moisture.

『If you stay in the bathroom for a while, you will see white smoke coming in. Then throw the cloth covering your nose and mouth towards the door and pour all the dolls in the bag into the bathtub. 』

As Jinseong had requested earlier, as soon as he saw the smoke, he rolled up a piece of cloth and threw it toward the door, then turned the bag inside out and dumped all the Nendoroids into the bathtub.

Pong-dang.

With a splash.

As if the doll was quite heavy, not befitting its small size, it sank to the floor with a large splash of water as if it were about to fall into the bathtub.

『 Then all the dolls will sink in the bathtub. Make sure that the number is 20 and put this amulet in the mouth before the doll floats up. You will feel thirsty once the amulet is in your mouth, but you must not open your mouth until all 20 dolls have floated up and the light in the bathroom has gone out. 』

He panicked when a Nendoroid in the bathtub was about to rise to the top, and hurriedly stuffed the amulet into his mouth. Then he closed his mouth tightly with both hands to prevent it from opening without his knowledge.

Beep———— ripe.

The timing was just right.

As soon as he shoved the talisman into his mouth, the rising doll floated above the bathtub, jumped to its feet with a whistling sound, and spewed out something translucent.

The thing that came out of the doll started to move by crawling on the surface of the water as if I were smoke, and whenever it moved, the water on the bathroom floor swayed like a wave. The look was bizarre as if looking at the sea.

Beep-!

Beep-!

And starting with that, the dolls that had been submerged in the bathtub came to mind all at once.

The other dolls, too, jumped up as soon as they surfaced, spewing smoke, and crawled across the floor toward the door, making a whistle-like sound.

‘Cold.’

Because the smoke is cold.

It was so cold that I wondered if my flesh would freeze to pieces.

He could only keep his mouth shut and tremble.

But is it because of the talisman he holds in his mouth?

He gathered in front of the door without paying any attention to the trembling smoke.They gathered, and eventually picked up a piece of cloth that had fallen on the floor, floated it in the air, and hooked it to the doorknob.

Rattle.

Then the door of the closed bathroom opened and a gap opened, and they all went outside through the gap.

And when they all went out, the light in the bathroom flickered and flickered as if it had reached the end of its lifespan, and then it went dark with a popping sound. And in the sea of water where the darkness fell, the politician continued to tremble with his mouth shut.

『If the light in the bathroom goes out, you are now safe. Well, remember it well from now on. Spit the talisman in your mouth into the palm of your hand, tear it into small pieces, and scatter them on the floor. Really. You shouldn’t try to drink water just because you’re thirsty. Never. Absolutely, no matter what, you must not drink until the sun rises tomorrow morning. And… hahahaha, don’t be nervous. All you have to do is say the words you normally wear three times. 』

He spat out the talisman in his mouth in his trembling hands. Then, as Jinseong requested, relying on the faint light coming from outside the door, he tore the amulet into pieces and threw them on the floor, then cleared his throat and shouted with all his might with a trembling voice.

『Come on, try it. Oh…』

“Otsukaresama desh*ta!”

Otsukaresama desh*ta, which means thank you for your hard work.

As Jinseong said, it was a word he always lived with.

“Otsukaresama desh*ta!”

But somehow I don’t know.

For some reason, I thought that what he was shouting now was something other than what he usually shouted, thank you for your hard work.

Although he was a politician who did not know much about superpowers, he only knew that what he was doing was not ordinary. Jinseong made him perform witchcraft, a ritual that seemed to be close to necromancy, and in fact, ghosts came out of the doll and went outside.

Could it be that ‘Thank you for your hard work’ at the end of such a gruesome ceremony?

‘Maybe this, this.’

He closed his eyes and sighed one last time.

“Otsukaresama desh*ta!”

It’s not “Thank you for your hard work” That we use in everyday life.

‘Possession.’

Couldn’t it have been ‘Otsukaresama desh*ta’, which means ‘I am a possessed person’?

* * *

The necromancy ritual is over.