Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 14

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Chapter 14

2:00 PM.
K-Mart in Ilsan Janghang-dong.
This mart was a standalone four-story building—the first floor stocked with daily necessities and food ingredients, the second floor displaying clothing, tools, and household goods.
The third and fourth floors served as parking levels, making it a sizable supermarket.
After parking the car, Ye-rim gestured for me to get out immediately.
As I stepped out and reached for my weapons, she waved her hand in protest.
“The store is bustling with customers right now. If you carry large weapons, people will find it suspicious. Bring only something small.”
“Understood.”
I nodded and retrieved only the Blood Crimson Blade, securing it at my waist.
Then I put on my smart glasses and initiated a reboot.

[System Booting]
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[System Initialized]
[Recording Started]
[Ghost Sensor Activated]

Beep—beep—

[Equipment Synchronizing]
[Equipment Synchronization Complete]
[Primary Weapon – Ghost Slayer Blade (Not Equipped)]
[Secondary Weapon – Blood Crimson Blade (Equipped)]
[Flashlight – Battery Remaining 81%]

The lens display booted up, and a red dot appeared inside the vehicle Tae-woo had arrived in.
It marked the location where I’d left the Ghost Radar.
Glancing around, I noticed faint blue dots scattered throughout the area, though I didn’t pay them much attention.
Given how they appeared and vanished in moments, it seemed nearby spirits had sensed Ye-rim and Tae-woo’s presence and were fleeing.
As Tae-woo glanced about uncertainly, Ye-rim asked him a question.
“Are there spirits nearby? Can your Ghost Radar or whatever it is detect them?”
“Yes. There are faint traces remaining. But I don’t see any actual spirits visible.”
Indeed, even where the blue dots had been faintly detected, no spirits were visible.
Ye-rim then offered her explanation.
“We do sometimes engage in combat with wandering spirits—but most of them flee the moment they see people like us.”
“They flee? What about those wandering spirits that charged at me so aggressively?”
“Those are the ones that want to protect their territory. Most wandering spirits—the most common kind you’ll encounter—bolt the instant they realize we’ve detected them. What the radar’s probably picking up is residual ‘spiritual energy’ they leave behind as they scramble to escape.”
“Hmm. Is that so? All the spirits that appeared in front of me seemed to get right in my face.”
Tae-woo muttered as if speaking to himself.
“That was probably because you seemed weak to them. Easy prey.”
“Easy prey?”
“Yes. People with spiritual sight are usually shamans or those with strong spiritual intuition, so spirits flee when they encounter them, fearing they’ll be exorcised. But since you have spiritual sight yet appear weak, they probably thought it was fun to mess with you and strike up conversations.”
“I see.”
In truth, whenever Tae-woo saw a spirit, he would scream or run away, closing his eyes—he had never once considered fighting them.
He hadn’t even attempted to listen to what they had to say.
After all, he hadn’t believed in their existence to begin with.
So the spirits had seen Tae-woo as easy prey and attacked—such was Ye-rim’s explanation.
“We’re people who capture spirits, but we can’t catch every single one. Everyone becomes a soul when they die. It’s safe to say there are more spirits in this world than there are living people. How could we possibly catch them all? We only need to capture spirits that harm the living.”
Ye-rim offered her explanation as she walked toward the mart’s entrance.
Tae-woo hurried after her, listening intently.
“As for where the harmful spirits are—that’s what the Sales Team inquires about.”
“Right. Whether it’s our in-house sales staff or outsourced contractors.”
She countered with a smile.

Shhhhhhhhh shhhhhhhhh—

Even as I followed her through the K-Mart, the Ghost Radar continued its relentless cycle—blue dots flickering into existence only to vanish moments later.
Yet despite possessing spiritual sight, I couldn’t perceive the ghosts directly with my own eyes.
It seemed these were the type of spirits that caught sight of Ye-rim and me, then fled at the first opportunity.
A thought suddenly struck me.
How many ghosts had I brushed past during all those years before acquiring the Ghost Radar?
Only through the radar’s assistance did I realize just how vast the number of spirits concealing themselves from my spiritual sight truly was.
Despite detecting only within a twenty-meter radius, the constant stream of contacts was utterly beyond comprehension.
Of course, a mart was a place where countless people gathered, so naturally it would attract numerous ghosts as well.
Regardless.
If the radar kept displaying ghost signatures at random intervals, it would only prove a hindrance.
I switched the radar off.
‘Useful, certainly, but terribly inconvenient.’
When I’d faced the Building Owner Ghost at Incheon Yeongan Wharf earlier, the radar had proven invaluable.
However, it was only truly useful when hunting spirits concealed within walls, ceilings, or antique jars—in situations involving multiple ghosts or circumstances like this, it merely cluttered my vision.
For me, this was my first real-world application of the feature.
I decided it would be better to refine the radar further once I returned home, and for now, activate it only when searching for hidden spirits.

Beep—

I deactivated the radar and looked ahead.
Together with Ye-rim, I stepped onto the escalator descending to the Second Floor.

Whoooooooooosh—

That was when I saw it.
Between the store displays, a ghost with ashen skin and long hair drifted casually through the crowd of shoppers.
The spirit seemed indifferent to the people around it, and the people, in turn, remained utterly oblivious to its presence.

Whoooosh—

The ghost naturally rounded the corner of another store and disappeared.
I turned my head to look elsewhere.
There too, a gray-skinned ghost gently materialized before gliding seamlessly between the people and vanishing.
The way its legs remained invisible during movement, its body never bobbing or swaying—it was profoundly unsettling.
Whoosh—
Another ghost walked among the crowd, and upon spotting me, its gaze locked onto mine without wavering.
Unlike the others, this one possessed grotesque eyes—the whites completely consumed by black.
“Don’t stare at ghosts for so long like that. It won’t end well. The more you keep looking at them like that, the more aggressive they become.”
Ye-rim whispered beside me.
I nodded and shifted my gaze elsewhere.
When I glanced back to where the ghost had been, it had already vanished.
“The office is on the Second Floor. The client’s name is Kim Dae-woong. He said he’s the representative here.”
“Kim Dae-woong. Right, right. But why didn’t we meet the client back in Incheon?”
I asked, as if something had just occurred to me.
“That wasn’t a request from an individual—the Merchant Association had submitted it to a mudang they knew, so we only needed to complete the work within the agreed timeframe. But this request came from a specific client, so we need to meet and discuss things before proceeding with the work.”
She smiled as she answered, then moved toward the Second Floor office.

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When Ye-rim and I entered the K-Mart office on the Second Floor, a man in a suit regarded us with a puzzled expression.
“May I ask what brings you here?”
“We’ve come to meet Kim Dae-woong.”
“Our CEO? Who should I say is calling?”
The man rose from his seat and asked.
“If you tell him it’s regarding Nabi Bosal’s request, he’ll understand.”
Ye-rim clasped her hands together and spoke respectfully.
The man’s expression grew confused, and he tilted his head before heading deeper into the office.
He appeared to be reporting to someone seated within the inner partition.
Moments later, a man who appeared to be in his fifties poked his head over the partition in the corner.
“Ah, you’ve arrived. Please, come this way.”
This man appeared to be the client, Kim Dae-woong.
He gestured toward a round table in one corner of the office and approached us in quick strides.
Ye-rim and I sat down, and the client Kim Dae-woong took the seat across from us.
“Chul-jin, bring us something to drink. Coffee?”
Kim Dae-woong asked, and Ye-rim shook her head.
“That’s quite alright.”
“Ah, yes. Me too.”
Following her response, I answered as well.
“Well, I visit and pay respects to Nabi Bosal about once a month. It’s been about ten years now.”
It seemed the mudang he had commissioned for the exorcism was Nabi Bosal.
Nabi Bosal had passed the request on to us.
“So the two of you are Nabi Bosal’s spiritual children and daughter?”
At his question, Ye-rim shook her head.
“Not quite. You could say we’re in a cooperative relationship. Anyway, could you tell us what kind of ghost you’re dealing with?”
And she got straight to the point.
“Ah. Yes. Of course. Would you take a look at this?”
He pulled out his phone and played a video.
It was a CCTV feed showing the interior of the darkened mart.
Everything was displayed in shades of green, as if captured through infrared imaging.
“This is the clothing store alley in the right corner of the Second Floor.”
Kim Dae-woong provided the explanation.
Just then, a mannequin standing in front of the store twitched on its own.
Ye-rim and I focused intently on the footage with serious expressions.
Twitch—
The mannequin moved once more, then toppled forward abruptly.
While the footage was certainly unsettling, it was ambiguous enough that a single incident hardly constituted proof of a ghost.
It could just as easily have appeared as though someone had pushed it from behind.
“Is that all?” Ye-rim asked.
Yerim asked.
“Sometimes the mannequin faces a different direction, and other times it’s on the opposite side of the store. When I asked the security guard, he said he never moved it.”
Kim Dae-woong answered.
“Do you have footage of the mannequin actually moving?”
“Ah. On the day the mannequin moved, the CCTV went dead. I’ve already gone through all the cameras installed on the Second Floor because of the whole mannequin-moving incident, and during that exact time when it seems to have been moved—the CCTV was down, showing only static.”
Kim Dae-woong shook his head.
Hearing that, I recalled ghosts that could temporarily disable electronic devices.
“Usually all the CCTVs go out on the days the mannequin moves, but this one actually recorded.”
Kim Dae-woong added, retrieving his phone again.
“There haven’t been any disappearances or strange noises, have there?”
“No. I was worried it might be a burglar, so I checked with all the store tenants here about theft, and they all said nothing was missing.”
There was a high probability this was a particularly troublesome ghost.
Ye-rim nodded and stood up from her seat.
“Could we see that mannequin?”
“Of course. This way, please.”
Kim Dae-woong rose as well and led Ye-rim and me out of the office.

As we walked, I continued to catch glimpses of ghosts scattered throughout the space.
Tae-woo, who had been following Kim Dae-woong, asked a question.
“How long has this place been here?”
“Thirty years now. It’s been quite some time. That’s why the facilities have fallen into a bit of disrepair.”
He gestured toward the ceiling and walls.
The unmistakable atmosphere of an aged concrete structure permeated the space.
Paint peeled away from the ceiling in places beyond reach, and thick gray dust accumulated atop the steel ventilation ducts.
“In those thirty years, has there never been a death or accident here?”
Tae-woo asked.
At that question, Ye-rim turned her head toward Tae-woo.
“Given how long it’s been, there was an incident where a former employee collapsed from a heart attack and passed away—and there was also a small fire that caused quite a commotion.”
Kim Dae-woong answered and turned the corner, heading toward the clothing store.

Guihon Trading Company: Exorcism Specialists Chapter 14

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

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