A Fortune-telling Princess - Chapter 350

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Chapter 23. The Ghost Who Digs for Medicinal Herbs
【”Have you ever heard of a Taeja Ghost? There’s an old story that shamans starved children to death and imprisoned their spirits to use as their own power. But what if I told you this isn’t ancient history—it’s happening right now? I have footage of a tip-off I received.”】
Days later, the world was turned upside down by a current affairs broadcast program. From the very first video, people couldn’t tear their eyes away.
A woman lay on what appeared to be an altar, while a figure who looked like a shaman circled around her wielding a knife. And then came the moment when the knife was raised high.
【”Do you know where this place is? It’s the basement of the home where Chairman Choi of Hansan Group resides. Here, the man captured in this footage is Chairman Choi himself. And beside him are his wife and daughter.”】
What shocked people even more was that the person behind this grotesque act was the owner of a relatively well-known company.
【”Please pay attention to this shaman as well. You’ve probably seen the news about the Police discovering five children’s bodies recently. And only one person’s DNA was found at that location. It belonged to this shaman here.”】
Before the current affairs report aired, the world had focused on one piece of news: five children’s bodies had been discovered scattered across someone’s private land.
【”Do you see? The red strings and talismans… and the fence that strictly prevents outsiders from entering. This is the mountain where the children’s bodies were found. And the owner of this mountain is said to be the shaman captured in this footage.”】
The owner of that land was Cheon Bosal herself.
The children’s bodies buried throughout the mountain were already decomposed from the passage of time, but the autopsy results made it easy to determine that the cause of death was starvation.
【”The Taeja Ghost I mentioned earlier… the land of the shaman where children’s bodies were found. What do you think, everyone? Do you think this is merely a simple murder?”】
The reporter continued to focus intensely on Cheon Bosal and Chairman Choi, while subtly hinting that there were other conglomerate families connected to Cheon Bosal, further drawing people’s attention.
The live chat window erupted in flames.
[Wow, this is insane.]
[Taeja Ghost? What’s that?]
[Search “Naked History, Summer Horror Edition” and you’ll find it.]
[Is that person trying to kill someone right now? Oh my god!]
[They already killed five children.]
[F#%! Cr@Z%!]
“That reporter really has sharp teeth.”
Camilla nodded with satisfaction as she watched the reporter on TV and the comments streaming in real-time. The reporter was the one she’d handed the footage and all the materials to.
‘They even caught that scene?’
The TV footage showed Chairman Choi exiting the hospital. Reporter Kim’s attempt to conduct an interview while blocking his path—moving through the VIP-exclusive elevator and corridor to avoid others’ gazes—was captured perfectly on camera.
Of course, security quickly stopped the reporter, so Chairman Choi’s voice wasn’t captured at all, but his gaunt face was recorded very clearly in the footage.
‘He’s lost quite a bit of weight.’
Seeing Chairman Choi’s emaciated appearance, having suffered considerably from the malevolent spirit, Camilla clicked her tongue lightly.
The footage continued, and true to form as the relentless Reporter Kim who never let go once he sank his teeth in, he was investigating this incident very thoroughly.
‘Of course, I left out the Issia accident entirely.’
Though it was a car accident caused by Cheon Bosal and Chairman Choi, Camilla had deliberately refrained from providing that information to Reporter Kim.
It wouldn’t be good for the entertainer Issia’s name to be dragged into something these people could chew on and gossip about.
“These people are absolutely insane. How could they do such things….”
Issia, who was watching TV with me, kept clicking her tongue in disbelief. The scene of Cheon Bosal raising the knife and attempting to stab the person lying on the altar was far too shocking.
“So I almost became a sacrifice to that shaman too.”
“Yeah.”
I told Issia everything about why she’d been in that car accident. There was no reason to hide it.
‘It might have been because of me.’
Why Issia had suddenly become a target. I suspected that the reason Cheon Bosal, that shaman, had tried to eliminate Issia, a celebrity whose face was known to the public, stemmed from their previous encounter.
When she learned that Issia, whom she’d thought she’d never meet again in her lifetime, was appearing in the same drama as Mari Choi, the memories of that time must have resurfaced.
‘She must have been anxious that someone might know about the murders she’d committed.’
I suspect she wanted to eliminate Sia while she had the chance.
Cheon Bosal was arrested immediately after the children’s bodies were discovered. With an abundance of her fingerprints and DNA found on the bodies, there was no way for her to escape.
“Mari Choi, unaware that she was orchestrating such atrocities.”
Sia’s greatest fury was directed at Mari Choi. After being so affectionate with Yeeun, it turned out everything had a purpose behind it!
“She was cut from the drama too, wasn’t she?”
“Yes.”
That said, Mari Choi didn’t face any legal punishment. There was no actual victim who suffered direct harm.
‘If anything, it would be the crime of abetting murder?’
She was present in the space where they intended to sacrifice the maid as an offering.
But even that remained unresolved as attempted murder, and since she claimed to have been in a confused mental state and knew nothing, it was difficult to hold her accountable.
‘And she’s still young.’
Currently, all focus was directed at Cheon Bosal and Chairman Choi.
‘I wish the video could serve as strong evidence.’
But since no one actually died and they insisted they never intended to kill anyone, the trial outcome remained uncertain.
The internet, however, was already ablaze.
[Shouldn’t we start a petition to ban Mari Choi from the entertainment industry?]
[Already doing it. Check the link below!]
[Shouldn’t we also boycott the Hansan Group?]
[Already happening! Check the list of Hansan Group products and the link below!]
…South Koreans really were fast. Mari Choi’s expulsion from the entertainment industry seemed only a matter of time.
‘Well, she might go insane and die before that happens.’
Mari Choi and her parents, Chairman Choi and Lee Suyeon, weren’t using the gifts I’d given them.
I’d given them the dark stone that could take away their daughter’s suffering, yet it was Mari Choi alone who was now tormented by malevolent spirits.
“Do you think it’s okay to let those two keep holding onto it?”
Camilla asked Arsian, slightly worried that the black stone I’d given to Chairman Choi might be used for something sinister.
‘Should we go back and retrieve it now?’
Wouldn’t it be better to go back and recover it? No matter how I looked at it, there seemed to be no chance those two would consume it again.
“Don’t worry. As time passes, it will naturally scatter and disappear.”
“Really?”
If it would vanish on its own, there was no need to worry further.
“Then shall we head back soon?”
The business here seemed to be wrapped up anyway.
I’d have liked to see the trial results for Chairman Choi and Cheon Bosal before leaving, but I’d already stayed here far longer than originally planned.
“What? Right now?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
Sia, who had been watching TV, turned to Camilla in surprise.
“Please stay a bit longer!”
“I’ve already stayed longer than scheduled.”
If not for that woman, Cheon Bosal, I would have left long ago. Time in the Other World must have passed considerably by now.
“Still….”
“I’ll just come back anyway.”
Camilla let out an amused chuckle at Sia’s disappointed expression, then withdrew a card from her wallet.
It was the access permit card to this world that Sia had given her not long ago. Camilla’s name was already engraved on the card.
‘Perhaps that’s why I lasted longer this time than before.’
And there was still no sign of me having to leave.
Perhaps because they’d arrived together—even without access permits, Arsian and King remained unbanished as well.

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