Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 103

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Chapter 103

Late at night.
Guihon Trading Team 4.
Photographs and maps that Cha Jun-ho had provided were pinned to a whiteboard placed in one corner of the office.
The moment Tae-woo arrived at the office, he circled one victim’s photograph.
It was the first victim he had just met.
“From this ghost, I was able to hear the perpetrator’s voice. It was a very deep and resonant tone—I can’t quite describe it, but once you hear it, you’ll be able to identify the perpetrator immediately.”
Tae-woo jotted down a brief note of what he had witnessed beside the photograph and continued.
“And the perpetrator had a very robust build. The victim appears to have been struck on the back of the head while walking through a nearby alley and collapsed. After regaining consciousness, the location was something like an ordinary house bathroom.”
“So you’re saying the body was desecrated at home?”
Ji-seok asked the question with his arms crossed.
“I’m not certain whether there’s a separate workshop or if the work was done at home as you mentioned, but given that I glimpsed items like shampoo and soap, the house bathroom seems most likely.”
“Do you remember the structure of that bathroom?”
“Yes. I can sketch it.”
Tae-woo quickly drew a rough sketch of the bathroom interior he had seen within the ghost’s consciousness on an A4 sheet and pinned it to the whiteboard.
“If we examine the consciousness of the victim ghosts like this, we’ll definitely uncover clues. Okay. Good.”
Ji-seok clapped his hands a couple of times, then turned his head toward Min-hye.
“But Choi, what was that behavior just now? Didn’t you receive instructions not to eliminate the victim ghosts?”
“I apologize.”
Min-hye immediately offered an apology to his rebuke.
“What on earth were you thinking? Explain yourself.”
Ji-seok demanded an explanation as if he couldn’t comprehend it.
Tae-woo also found something odd about the situation.
Most notably, the moment she lunged forward, a blue dot had been detected on the Ghost Radar.
With so many ghosts suddenly appearing in the vicinity, it might have been difficult to discern through intuition alone—but the Ghost Radar had precisely marked a blue dot at her location.
That meant she had been possessed by a ghost.
“Actually—the General Bosal I serve came to me whenever a ghost appeared….”
“The General Bosal that Choi serves?!”
Ji-seok repeated the question.
Tae-woo also widened his eyes and looked at her, completely unprepared for such an answer.
She, noticing the gazes of Ji-seok and Tae-woo, opened up about her story.

The deity that descended into her through the shamanic ritual was General Bosal.
The reason remained unclear, but General Bosal harbored a profound hatred toward ghosts, becoming immediately aggressive whenever one appeared.
Whenever ghostly energy was sensed nearby or she glimpsed a spirit with her spiritual sight, General Bosal would possess her body.
This was precisely why she could not practice as a shaman.
The moment a ghost became visible, General Bosal would brandish a spear, making it impossible for her to sit quietly in the Shrine Room and conduct divinations.
When dealing with many clients, not a few of them carried attached spirits, and each time General Bosal would wield the spear—what could be done about it?
If Tae-woo demonstrated his spear skills thanks to the ancestral spirit Kim Hwan dwelling within the Guihon Lineage Record, then Min-hye displayed her spear mastery through General Bosal directly possessing her body.
Given such circumstances, when orders came from above like now—there was the problem that she might not follow those orders as instructed.
It would be efficient for missions involving simple ghost elimination, but for assignments like this one requiring dialogue with spirits, it could become a hindrance.
Yet she could not be excluded from this mission either.
Beyond Cha Jun-ho’s orders, if he could not control General Bosal standing behind her, she could become a liability to the team at any moment.
As the senior member of the team, Ji-seok bore the responsibility of training her.
“Sigh.”
Ji-seok pressed his forehead and exhaled deeply, then nodded.
“Right, I understand the situation for now. I’ll give you a talisman later. If you keep it with you, it should prevent General Bosal from possessing Choi’s body. When necessary, discard the talisman. Understood?”
“Yes, I understand.”
Min-hye answered with her head bowed, looking embarrassed.
In any case, the fact that Ji-seok’s talismans could provide some degree of control was at least a relief.
“Now then. Let’s return to the main matter. Next, we should visit the second body disposal site. Tomorrow, let’s meet the Victim Ghost there.”
He tapped the whiteboard as he spoke.

* * *

The next evening.
The group returned to the back alleys of Juan and made their way to the location where the second body had been discovered.
This time, it wasn’t the Villa District, but a residential neighborhood where single-family homes stood packed tightly together.
“Here it is.”
Ji-seok pointed to a utility pole wedged between the alley houses.
The perpetrator had stuffed the second corpse into a burlap sack and abandoned it beneath the utility pole.
The spot was now piled high with garbage bags and food waste bags of every description.
As Ji-seok and Tae-woo crouched down to examine the surroundings, Tae-woo spotted a blue dot on his Ghost Radar and turned his head in that direction.
“Ah.”
There, collapsed in the shadows, lay a figure whose gender was difficult to discern.
“Chief. Over there.”
Tae-woo called to Ji-seok and pointed toward the figure.
“There it is.”
Ji-seok rose to his feet and turned his body toward where the ghost lay.
The form collapsed in the shadows then began to rise, twisting at every joint.
Long hair hung from its head, and blood streamed from its facial features.
It was the second Victim Ghost.
Tae-woo immediately turned his head to check on Min-hye.
She stood staring directly at the ghost, her body trembling violently.
Thanks to the talisman Ji-seok had given her, General Bosal hadn’t taken possession, but the forced rejection of possession was causing her body to react.
“Kim Chief.”
Ji-seok called to Tae-woo.
It meant to use the Blood Severance Blade on the ghost, just as he had yesterday.
Tae-woo nodded and stepped forward.
The fabric rustled.
He lifted his coat slightly and drew the Ghost Severance Blade and Blood Severance Blade, one in each hand.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
Tae-woo began advancing toward the ghost.
The ghost twisted its head more than ninety degrees to the side and spat out a handful of blood.
Splat. Splat.
The sound of blood hitting the ground echoed loudly.

Sisisisisisisisisisisisisisisisi—

The ghost muttered with its head twisted.

[I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Please spare me. Please spare me. Please spare me.]

The ghost’s voice reached Tae-woo’s ears.
“I’m not trying to harm you.”
Tae-woo approached the ghost and spoke.
But the ghost, its eyes brimming with blood, blinked twice before suddenly bolting backward in panic.
It had mistaken Tae-woo, who held a sword, for a murderer.
“Damn it!”
Tae-woo immediately gave chase.
“Kim Chief!”
Ji-seok began running after them as well.
But keeping pace with the ghost and Tae-woo’s speed proved overwhelming.
Thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-thud-
Meanwhile, the ghost scaled the outer wall of the house and crawled up onto the rooftop.
Even as it moved, its entire body rippled grotesquely.
“Stop!”
But Tae-woo refused to let it escape, pushing off the fence wall with tremendous force and vaulting onto the rooftop in one fluid motion.
Whoooosh-
The ghost swept across the rooftop, conjuring a biting wind in its wake.
Tae-woo pursued at an incredible velocity.
Huff-huff-huff-
As they passed, the laundry hanging on the rooftop billowed wildly into the air.
Whoooosh-
The ghost leaped to the adjacent rooftop to evade Tae-woo.
Tae-woo followed, clearing the several-meter gap with a bound and landing on the neighboring rooftop.
Thud-
Upon landing, Tae-woo lifted his head to locate the ghost’s retreating silhouette.
In the briefest of moments, the ghost had already grown considerably more distant.
Tae-woo sprinted across the rooftop without pause, pushing off the ground with relentless momentum.

Whoooosh-

The ghost vaulted onto the next rooftop.
Tae-woo was hurling himself toward the adjacent rooftop in pursuit.
The ghost, having landed first on the next rooftop, swung something toward Tae-woo.
Glass shards scattered across the rooftop floor suddenly hurtled toward him at tremendous speed.
Whoooosh-
Mid-air, Tae-woo twisted his body to evade the glass shards.
Like a high jumper, he rotated his torso to slip past them.
‘This won’t work like this-!’
As he dodged the glass, Tae-woo drew his blood-stained dagger and lightly cut his palm, letting blood coat the blade.

Saaaaaaa—

The moment the ghost realized its attack had failed, it bolted toward the next Rooftop.
Thwack—
In that instant, Tae-woo hurled the blood-stained spirit blade at the ghost’s back.
Whoosh—Thud—
The crimson-smeared blade shot through the air like an arrow, embedding itself precisely into the fleeing ghost’s back.
Shrieeeek—
Simultaneously, black smoke coiled around everything, and the scene shifted.

A shadowed corner of a Dark Room.
Rustle—
A faint sound accompanied a subtle presence.
Tae-woo narrowed his eyes and turned his head toward the source of the noise.
There lay a woman, her hands, feet, and mouth wrapped tightly in tape, tears streaming down her face.
She glanced around, realized no one was there, and began wriggling her body toward the door.
Thump—
In the process, she knocked something over, and an object clattered to the floor.
The moment the woman’s eyes widened in alarm as she stared at the fallen item—
Creak—
Shrieeeek—
The door swung open, and fluorescent light flooded in.
The woman winced at the brightness and quickly turned her head.

“Stay quiet. Why are you making such a racket?”

A man shuffled in, muttering under his breath.
A hammer hung unmistakably in his grip.

“Mmph! Mmph-mmph!”

Seized by terror, the woman shook her head violently.
In that moment, Tae-woo caught sight of a scar on the man’s left hand.
It looked like a burn scar from fire.

Shrieeeeeek—

In an instant, black smoke swirled around me once more, and I found myself back on the rooftop of the residential area.
Tae-woo nodded and bit his lip firmly.
‘Burn scars on the left hand.’
He immediately retrieved the blood-stained blade and returned to the alley.

* * *

Ji-seok, Tae-woo, and Min-hye located ghosts at the sites where the victims’ bodies had been abandoned, continuously uncovering traces of the perpetrator.
The information they gathered proved far more meaningful than anything the police had discovered thus far.
First, the perpetrator bore burn scars on his left hand.
Second, he had used a vehicle that appeared to be an SUV in committing the crimes.
Third, his voice was remarkably deep and resonant.
And finally, the perpetrator’s residence was located near Juan.
The ghosts who had retained consciousness at the time of their abduction remembered being carried on someone’s back or dragged to some location.
This meant the place where the bodies were abandoned couldn’t have been far from where they were taken.

The following day, similar information was discovered at the body discovery site in Ilsan.
And there, Tae-woo was able to confirm the perpetrator’s face.
The victim had seen the perpetrator’s face at the moment of being struck on the head and loaded into the trunk.
As soon as Tae-woo returned to the office, he sketched the perpetrator’s face as it appeared in the ghost’s memory onto an A4 sheet of paper.
Upon seeing this, Ji-seok nodded as if to say it was sufficient.
“Okay. That’s it. The police should find this quite useful, wouldn’t you say?”
He spoke with a relieved expression, then immediately contacted Cha Jun-ho Manager.
The message conveyed that they had identified the face of the Jjamppong Killer based on the information compiled thus far.
Upon receiving that report, Cha Jun-ho Manager immediately summoned Ji-seok and Tae-woo to his office.

Guihon Trading: Exorcism Specialists Chapter 103

Author
Cha U-Renz
Publisher
Daon Creative
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Yoon Tae-ri
Cover Art
Lee Chi

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