Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 37

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Chapter 37

Whoosh—
Turning around belatedly, Ye-rim spotted Tae-woo engulfed in black smoke, having just cut down a ghost that had been stalking him from behind.
From his stance and positioning, it appeared he had slashed the creature that had been targeting his back.
In that same instant, another ghost came rushing toward Tae-woo from behind.
Ye-rim immediately raised her gun and fired at the head of the ghost charging toward Tae-woo’s back.
Bang bang bang—
Three refined pellets embedded themselves in the ghost’s forehead.
Yet the creature merely tilted its head backward; it did not dissipate.
Sensing its presence, Tae-woo spun around and swung his blade in a wide arc.

Slash—
Screeeeeech—

As the ghost’s neck severed, it finally transformed into black smoke and vanished.
As the battle raged on, the smoke-laden air that had grown thick from the smoke grenades gradually began to clear.
Simultaneously, more ghosts revealed themselves.
Even more vivid and grotesque than before—the ghost rank had apparently increased.
If the ghosts from moments ago were around Grade 1 Mountain Ghosts, these had now ascended to Grade 2 Complex Ghosts.
Though Tae-woo swung his blade rapidly, one or two strikes were no longer enough to make them dissipate.
Even when he severed their arms and legs, causing limbs to fall from their bodies, only the severed portions dissolved into darkness—the torsos remained.
Moon So-ryeong’s attacks proved equally ineffective.
Thud— Thud—
The soldier ghosts struck in the chest by arrows showed no signs of dissipating; instead, they charged forward with even greater ferocity, like zombies.
Witnessing this, Moon So-ryeong gritted her teeth and nocked three arrows onto her bowstring simultaneously.
Then she drew the string back with all her might and released.
Twang—
As the three arrows struck the soldier ghost’s chest in unison, the creature was sent flying backward and slammed against the wall.

Ssssshhhhh—

Only then did the ghost dissolve into black smoke.
“Target the vital points! Strike them down as you would a living person!”
Moon So-ryeong shouted.
Before her words even finished, I swung my blade and severed the neck of another ghost nearby.
At that moment, a ghost from another direction lunged at me and seized my throat.
Clang—
The Guichaldo I’d been holding clattered to the ground.
My smart glasses highlighted the Guichaldo’s location in red.
“Damn it!”
But the ghost’s grip was so powerful that I kept being forced backward.
I planted my feet and braked, then drew the blood-water short sword from my waist and stabbed the ghost’s abdomen twice in quick succession.
Then I kicked it away, sent the ghost sprawling, and mounted it before driving my blade through its neck.

Squelch— Shrieeeeeek—

The ghost dissolved into black smoke.
In that instant, two more ghosts rushed at me simultaneously.
I hurled the blood-water short sword at the head of the charging ghost, embedding it deep.
Whoosh— Thud—
Shrieeeek—
As the ghost with the blood-water short sword lodged in its skull dissolved, I threw myself toward it, snatched up the Guichaldo from the ground, and slashed the leg of the ghost beside it.
Slash—
When the ghost with its shin severed collapsed, I cut its neck and immediately rose to strike down another ghost.
The movements were remarkably swift and precise.
‘Not a single millimeter of wasted motion. Every action is clean and deliberate.’
Moon So-ryeong watched Kim Tae-woo’s movements and clicked her tongue in admiration.
She had never seen an exorcist who caught ghosts quite like Kim Tae-woo.
Of course, she had witnessed exorcism with the Guichaldo before.
It was the weapon that Kim Jun-mo, the Founder, had primarily used in the past.
But he had demonstrated considerable swordsmanship skill even without holding the Guichaldo.
At times it resembled the sword dance performed during shamanic rituals, yet he never let a single ghost escape—whether they approached him or fled—and he dispatched each one with absolute certainty.
She had heard that he even personally instructed new employees in swordsmanship back then.
When asked how he wielded the blade so masterfully, Kim Jun-mo, the Founder, had given this answer.
“You simply follow the will of the Guichaldo.”
Yet he had demonstrated exceptional swordsmanship even without holding the Guichaldo, so she hadn’t fully grasped what he meant.
But now, watching Kim Tae-woo’s movements as he wielded the blade and caught ghosts before her eyes.
They seemed to mirror Kim Jun-mo’s movements while simultaneously displaying a fresh, innovative style.
And yet the moment he set the blade down, he reverted to a complete coward.
It was a genuinely fascinating phenomenon.
‘If Kim Tae-woo could move his body like that even without the Guichaldo, he’d reach the top tier in no time.’
Moon So-ryeong considered the matter with a grave expression.
Bang, bang—bang.
At that moment, gunfire continued to ring out from Ye-rim’s weapon.
There were still many ghosts surrounding them.
She too moved with remarkable speed and precision, as though awakened.
Blending martial arts with marksmanship, she methodically obliterated the spirits in her path.
She fired two rounds into the torso of an approaching ghost, then shot its head before immediately turning her sights on the next target.
Bang, bang—bang—bang, bang.
While doing so, she broke the legs and arms of other advancing ghosts to topple them, then riddled them with bullets—eyes, back of the head, forehead, it mattered not.
Click.
As her ammunition ran dry, she immediately ejected the magazine and hurled it at the head of the ghost rushing toward her.
Crack.
The ghost struck by the magazine staggered momentarily.
In that instant, she loaded the next magazine and fired at its head.
Blam, blam, blam, bang.
The ghost’s head exploded in a burst of black smoke and vanished.
In the next moment, another ghost seized her from behind.
She couldn’t fire the submachine gun in this position.
She immediately drew her pistol from the holster, shot the ghost’s thigh, threw it forward to the ground, pressed the barrel against its eye, and pulled the trigger.
Bang.
The ghost dissipated instantly.
Moon So-ryeong nodded as she observed the movements of these two.
Their coordination was undeniably excellent.
However—
For now, Ye-rim’s greater experience meant her results might surpass Tae-woo’s, but it seemed that given just a little more time, Tae-woo would far exceed Ye-rim’s performance.
No—
It seemed possible that he might even surpass Bang Ji-seok’s results, not to mention Cha Jun-ho’s, and perhaps even her own.
“Is it cleared now?”
Tae-woo glanced around and asked.
Ye-rim nodded while picking up a fallen magazine from the ground.
No ghosts were visibly approaching from the immediate vicinity.
Tae-woo’s Ghost Radar likewise clearly indicated that there were no spirits within a twenty-meter radius.
“Kim. You said this was your first time holding a sword?”
Moon So-ryeong asked.
“Yes.”
“And you’ve never studied swordsmanship or anything like that?”
“No, I haven’t.”
At that response, she nodded slightly.
“Tell me—are you aware that our company has an ‘Outstanding Employee Program’?”
“An Outstanding Employee Program?”
Tae-woo tilted his head slightly as he asked.
From what he’d heard, it sounded like the kind of thing any company did—placing high-performing employees on a hall of fame for “Salesman of the Month” or “Insurance King of the Month.”
“When you’re selected as an exemplary employee, you get some pretty good benefits. Haven’t you heard about it?”
“No, I haven’t.”
“What did Manager Yoon tell you?”
Moon So-ryeong frowned as she looked at Yerim.
“I’ve been explaining things to her one by one.”
“Tell her what matters. The essentials.”
“Yes, understood.”
Yerim gave her answer, but she didn’t seem to be taking it to heart.
“How does one become an exemplary employee?”
Tae-woo asked.
Moon So-ryeong smiled as she answered.
“Just catch a ton of ghosts. Manager Yoon will explain the details.”
At her answer, Tae-woo pouted his lips and looked at Yerim.
Yerim gestured for him to move along, her expression suggesting she’d explain later.
“Then let’s conduct an interior search.”
Moon So-ryeong finally moved toward the door on the far left.
At last—the search was beginning.

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Ye-rim measured the angle from behind, Tae-woo led the way inside, and then Ye-rim and Moon So-ryeong entered the room.
They alternated between entering what appeared to be a storage area and what looked like a control room, continuously checking for any irregularities within.
Tae-woo also periodically checked his radar.
As expected, no spectral presence was detected.
Ye-rim and Moon So-ryeong proceeded with their search unfazed, as if they too sensed no spiritual presence.
“Being a military facility, they certainly took everything necessary with them.”
Since training records and personnel rosters could be classified military information, almost no documents had been left behind.
“That’s right. There probably won’t be anything special.”
Moon So-ryeong answered casually, glancing around without bothering to open drawers or cabinets.
Then Tae-woo noticed something odd.
While the radar detected nothing, thin black smoke was rising faintly from somewhere in a mold-covered corner.
“No. That’s….”
Tae-woo lowered his smart glasses slightly and confirmed it with his naked eye.
The black smoke that had been rising faintly disappeared from view.
When he put the smart glasses back on, the smoke became clearly visible again.
“What is it?”
Ye-rim approached and asked.
“There—there’s some kind of strange reaction coming from there.”
Tae-woo tilted his head in confusion.
He had never designed the smart glasses to display such a phenomenon.
Particularly, “black smoke” was a phenomenon that appeared when spirits were annihilated, and it seemed anyone with spiritual sight could see it regardless of the smart glasses.
Yet this black smoke was invisible to the naked eye and only visible through the smart glasses.
He couldn’t fathom what kind of phenomenon this was or what had caused it.
“What kind of strange reaction?”
Moon So-ryeong approached and asked.
Instead of answering, Tae-woo slowly moved toward where the black smoke was rising.
He then brushed away the heavily bloomed mold in the corner with his foot.
Swish—
A bundle of documents came into view.
Tae-woo had discovered papers so covered in mold that they were barely visible.
“What is that?”
Moon So-ryeong asked.
Tae-woo crouched down and examined the documents.
They were official papers written in a crude font, as if typed on a very old typewriter.

[Jangdok Mountain Korean War Remains Excavation Plan (Draft)]

The moment I saw the title, I could discern that there had been a plan to search for the remains of those who died during the Korean War in 1950 at this location.
“This could be a solid lead, couldn’t it?”
Moon So-ryeong tapped the desk rhythmically.
I picked up the mold-covered document and placed it on the desk.
Black smoke continued to drift faintly across the document on the smart glass display.
“Let me take a look at this.”
Yerim flipped through the document page by page.
“It’s estimated that around a thousand North and South Korean soldiers are buried throughout this entire mountain. Apparently, a massive battle took place here at the time. After the war ended, in 1968, they opened a path for the excavation work of the remains.”
She turned the pages and showed me a hand-drawn map of Jangdok Mountain.
The map depicted the routes necessary for the remains excavation operation.
And remarkably, those routes matched 100% with the current layout of the Jangdok Training Ground’s training field guide.
In other words, they had constructed the training grounds at the very passages created for the remains excavation work.
“I’ve never heard of remains excavation work happening here either.”
Moon So-ryeong murmured with a grave expression.
If a thousand military remains were buried according to what was documented, and if training grounds had been built directly over the locations where those remains lay, then it was only natural that spirits would swarm each training field.
And the resentment they carried would inevitably be extraordinarily potent.

Exorcism Specialist Company Guihon Trading Chapter 37

Author
Cha Woo-rens
Publisher
Daon Creative
Planning / Editing / Production
Yun Tae-ri
Cover
Lee Chi

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