Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101

“Anryeong Spear?”
Kim Tae-woo murmured.
Then Choi Min-hye, who was sitting nearby, spoke.
“It means giving peace to a spirit. My adoptive mother took care of it for me when I was young.”
“I see.”
Kim Tae-woo gently touched the blade.
A subtle chill transmitted through his fingertips.
It seemed this spear had vanquished quite a number of spirits.
“For now, our Team 4 operates with Bang Ji-seok here, myself, and Kim Tae-woo over there.”
Meanwhile, Yerim was explaining various things to Choi Min-hye.
Choi Min-hye carefully took notes in her diary, absorbing everything she learned.
And that afternoon.
Without fail, talk of the new recruit orientation field assignment began.
“Choi Min-hye. When an intern joins, there’s one mission they must complete.”
“A mission?”
“Yes. I’ll give you an address, and you just need to go there, photograph the second floor, and return.”
“Photograph it? Can I use my phone?”
“Yes. Feel free to do it however is convenient for you.”
It appeared to be the same field location that Kim Tae-woo had visited before.
“Understood.”
Choi Min-hye accepted the slip of paper with the address without suspicion.
“Kim Tae-woo. How about going together if you have nothing else to do?”
Then Yerim spoke, looking at Kim Tae-woo.
“Pardon?”
Kim Tae-woo turned his head in surprise.
“Since we don’t know what might happen. You could wait at the School Gate while she’s photographing, couldn’t you?”
At Yerim’s unexpected suggestion, Kim Tae-woo blinked his eyes with a bewildered expression.
At that moment, Yerim sent Kim Tae-woo a separate message via the company messenger.

[Choi Min-hye’s energy looks too weak. She might even lose consciousness. I’ll be monitoring the Battle Site on CCTV from here, so could you please keep watch at the School Gate?]

Only after receiving that message could I understand Ye-rim’s true intentions.
Of course, since I had to deal with ghosts, I naturally possessed the ability to confront them—but Min-hye’s small stature and delicate voice made her seem fragile, which was apparently a concern.
I realized this wasn’t so much gender discrimination as a precaution for the safety of a new employee.
“Yes, I understand.”
I nodded without objection and replied.
And that night.
Choi Min-hye and I rode in a car driven by Seung-hun to the Training Team field.

* * *

The new employee training field.
The Abandoned School, which I had returned to after several months, was still saturated with malevolent energy.
As the vehicle stopped in front of the School Gate, I stepped out first.
“Sigh—”
Suddenly, I recalled my first visit to this place.
Back then, I had never anticipated enduring encounters with countless ghosts.
Whoosh—
While I was lost in reflection, Choi Min-hye retrieved the Anryeong Spear from the car.
Swish—
She held the Anryeong Spear up to the moonlight, then removed her dress shoes and arranged them neatly beside the vehicle.
“You’re going barefoot?”
I asked in surprise.
“Dress shoes hurt my feet.”
Choi Min-hye answered casually and strode purposefully through the School Gate.
I thought barefoot would hurt more, but there was no way to insist otherwise.
“Well, she’ll manage on her own.”
I put on my smart glasses and equipped myself with the Ghost-Slaying Blade, the Blood-Devouring Blade, and my pistol, ready for deployment at any moment.
“This new employee seems awfully delicate, doesn’t she?”
Seung-hun muttered from the driver’s seat, watching Choi Min-hye’s retreating figure.
“If management selected her, they must have had good reason.”
I leaned lightly against the vehicle, arms crossed, quietly observing her.
As she passed through the School Gate and entered—not a single footstep could be heard.
Because she was barefoot, there wasn’t even the sound of soil being disturbed.
“They should appear soon.”
I narrowed my eyes and murmured.
In fact, when I had visited this place before, ghosts appeared the moment I stepped through the School Gate.
As expected—
Before my words even finished, ghosts appeared from inside the School Gate.
They were somewhat different from the ones I had encountered previously.
I watched intently to see how Choi Min-hye would handle them.

Shwaaaack—

Spotting a ghost materializing from the side, Choi Min-hye quickly repositioned her spear and swung it in a wide arc, generating centrifugal force.
Then, as if hurling it forward, she extended the spear toward the ghost before catching the shaft mid-strike.
Simultaneously, she lifted one leg, dramatically extending the spear’s effective range.
The movement was kung fu spear technique incarnate.
“Oh?!”
Kim Tae-woo’s eyes widened in surprise at the kung fu form.
Whoosh—
The ghost was pierced by the spear before it could even approach her, dissipating into nothingness.
Shwaaaack— Fzzzzzzzt—
Choi Min-hye swung her spear in a wide circle, then attacked the neck of a ghost approaching from another direction.
Thwack—
The ghost whose neck was severed by the spear tip also vanished instantly.
It was undeniably swift and powerful.
At least visually, her attacks seemed to carry even more impact than those of Kim Tae-woo wielding his blade.

Kyaaaaaaah—

Then four ghosts rushed at her from the front.
Choi Min-hye lowered her stance and gripped the middle and end of the spear shaft with both hands.
Then, at an incredible speed, she thrust the spear in rapid succession like gunfire.
Pababababat—
The spear appeared to bend from how rapidly she was thrusting it.
Perberberberk—
The rushing ghosts were pierced dozens of times by her spear before dissipating.
Fzzzzzzzt—
As black smoke swirled around her, she ceased her assault.
Standing between the cold wind and the black smoke, with the crescent moon hanging above her head shining with unusual brilliance, the scene was captivating.
It felt like watching a scene from a martial arts film.
“Well. There’s no need to worry too much, is there?”
Kim Tae-woo muttered quietly, scratching his cheek.
“That’s true. She seems not quite at the young master’s level, though.”
Kim Baek-hun spoke.
“Have you seen her fight before?”
“Of course. I saw her when she fought at the School Gate here. Her movements are flashy, but the young master’s technique feels far more refined.”
Kim Baek-hun’s assessment certainly had merit.
Kim Tae-woo practiced a martial art that fused Joseon swordsmanship with Japanese sword technique, while Choi Min-hye’s foundation was rooted in Chinese kung fu.
Consequently, Kim Tae-woo’s movements conveyed a sense of great economy and refinement, while Choi Min-hye’s movements carried a distinctly grand and ornate quality.
Observing her handle the ghosts appearing as she crossed the Schoolyard, it seemed she possessed considerable skill not only in spear techniques but also in kung fu-based unarmed combat utilizing fists and kicks.
However, her relatively small frame appeared to put her at a disadvantage in terms of raw power.
“….”
I watched her with an intrigued expression as she moved through the grounds.

After thirty minutes had passed.
She emerged from the School Gate, covered in dust.
Unlike when I first arrived at this place, she appeared remarkably composed.
“That’s all of it. Is there anything else you need me to do?”
At Choi Min-hye’s question, I chuckled and shook my head.
“No. Let’s head back.”
I removed my smart glasses and tapped the car body.
Soon after organizing the equipment, we got in the car and left the Battle Site.
Ye-rim, who had been reviewing the CCTV footage, quickly completed her assessment report on Choi Min-hye and clocked out.
Thus, new employee Choi Min-hye joined Guihon Trading’s Training Team 4.

* * *

Days at Guihon Trading continued as they always did.
The new employees, including Choi Min-hye, were occupied with various training sessions, while the other team members were too busy processing the incoming requests to enjoy the Lunar New Year holiday.
With the new year came an endless stream of requests to exorcise ghosts under the pretexts of cleansing bad luck and warding off misfortune.
Most were minor jobs under ten million won, though occasionally larger contracts exceeding fifty million won were mixed in.
With Bang Ji-seok recovered, Ye-rim, myself, and Choi Min-hye rotated through teams heading to Battle Sites, steadily increasing revenue.
By late January, Team 4 held a meeting under the direction of Cha Manager.
He nodded with satisfaction as he reviewed January’s sales figures.
“Good. Team 4 is performing well. You’re ranking second across the entire Training Team.”
At his words, Bang Ji-seok looked at his teammates and nodded with a pleased expression.
“Last year’s overall sales had Team 1 in first, Team 3 in second, Team 2 in third, and your Team 4 in last place. But after Kim Chief joined, sales improved, and by the fourth quarter you performed quite well. January is maintaining the same pace as last quarter. If you keep this up, you could achieve first place in sales for this quarter.”
Cha Manager set down the sales report he was holding and continued speaking.
“Yoon Manager and Kim Chief have worked very hard.”
Bang Ji-seok said, looking at the two of them.
“But be careful—whenever a team becomes the top sales team, there’s always a fatality. It happened to Team 4 before, and Team 1 just experienced it recently.”
Cha Manager spoke with sharp eyes.
Upon hearing those words, I could only nod in agreement.
It seemed this pattern actually existed, not just in theory.
I had heard that before I arrived, when Team 4 was the top sales team, a fatality occurred, causing the quarterly sales to drop due to fewer major contracts coming in.
After that, Team 1 consistently held the top sales position, but sure enough, when Lee Pil-ho died last month, sales began to decline, and Team 4’s sales started rising again.
This was a natural phenomenon that occurred because higher-value contracts went to the team with better sales performance.
Higher contract values meant those requests were proportionally more dangerous.
“Um…I have a question.”
At that moment, Choi Min-hye raised her hand and spoke.
Instantly, everyone’s attention shifted to her.
“I heard before that expensive requests go to the team with higher sales. Why is that? Since all team members have similar skills, wouldn’t it be better to give those requests to teams with lower sales?”
It was something Tae-woo had wondered about before as well.
“You’re right. Choi’s point makes sense, but our work is a bit different. We deal with spirits, after all—we hunt and exorcise ghosts. Because of that, we’re heavily influenced by ‘momentum.’ High sales means we’ve caught many ghosts, which means that team has accumulated strong momentum. That’s why we assign expensive requests that can’t afford to fail to teams with that kind of momentum. Got it?”
Cha Manager raised his index finger as he spoke.
Choi Min-hye nodded, her expression showing understanding.
In that context, a death within a team meant that team’s momentum had been broken, so expensive requests would no longer be assigned to them.
“In that sense—this time, one major case fell to our Team 4. Five hundred million won.”
Cha Manager snapped his fingers and pointed to the whiteboard behind him.
Multiple maps and photographs of what appeared to be deceased women were pinned to it.
Everyone’s gaze turned toward the whiteboard.
“What is that? I don’t think there’s been anything that complicated among the recently filed cases.”
Bang Ji-seok asked, sounding puzzled.
“That’s because this didn’t come from the Sales Team—it came directly as a separate request from the Police Department to Guihon Trading. The higher-ups called us directly.”
Cha Manager continued, his expression growing serious.
“You know about the serial murder case that happened recently in Juan, Incheon, right? They’re asking us to catch the culprit.”
The moment his words ended, Yerim tilted her head in confusion.
“I’ve heard about it, but—why would they come to Guihon Trading for that…?”
“You saw us exorcise Kim Baek-hun’s spirit last time, right? A report about the Kim Baek-hun exorcism reached the police higher-ups. That’s why they quietly came to us.”
Cha Manager snapped his fingers and began briefing them in detail on what had happened.

Exorcism Specialist Company Guihon Trading Chapter 101

Author
Cha U-Renz
Publisher
Daon Creative
Planning / Editing / Production
Yoon Tae-ri
Cover
Lee Chi

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