Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 50

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Chapter 50

Afterservice.
Within Guihon Trading, “afterservice” was shorthand for “after-sales service”—cases where additional work requests came in following a completed exorcism operation.
When the Sales Team at Guihon Trading secured a contract, the Training Team would review it and dispatch personnel for the exorcism work. After completion, the Settlement Team would verify that the exorcism had been properly executed.
Since final payment processing occurred only after this verification, cases where exorcism work itself was incomplete were extremely rare.
In other words, there were virtually no instances where ghosts remained after the Training Team had completed their work.
Though occasionally, different ghosts might appear at a previously cleared location as time passed.
However, with afterservice cases, additional feedback was received suggesting that ghosts had not been completely eliminated—despite the Settlement Team’s verification and final payment processing being fully completed.
When such feedback arrived, the Sales Team member or outsourced sales company that originally secured the contract would visit the site to determine whether the ghosts originally targeted for exorcism still remained, or whether new ghosts had simply migrated to the location.
In the former case, an afterservice request would be submitted to the Training Team. In the latter case, a new contract would be negotiated with fresh estimates, and the case would be transferred to the Training Team as a new job order.
“Afterservice after a full year? Why?”
Tae-woo examined the documents more carefully, his expression puzzled.
First, the Case 86749 Junkyard incident.
This case involved scrapping a vehicle from a traffic accident that had killed an entire family. When male, female, and child ghosts appeared, junkyard employees quit en masse.
Training Team 1 had been dispatched and eliminated the male and female ghosts on-site, while the two child ghosts were sealed and transferred to the Incineration Team—or so the records indicated.
But recently, after an Old Woman Ghost appeared—not the male and female ghosts—the junkyard owner hanged himself in the office.
The junkyard owner’s wife had submitted the afterservice request.
The outsourced sales company that originally handled the contract investigated and discovered that the Old Woman Ghost who had appeared was the mother of the man who died in the traffic accident.
And then Case 87528 Olympic Boulevard.
This case also involved a traffic accident—a ghost who died in a traffic accident on Olympic Boulevard appeared and caused multiple additional accidents.
As the problem persisted, the city secretly requested exorcism directly from Guihon Trading, and Training Team 3 was dispatched to eliminate the ghost causing the accidents.
But by cruel coincidence, another ghost—one who died in a traffic accident caused by that very ghost—had taken root at the location and continued causing additional accidents.
As Tae-woo quietly reviewed the reasons both cases had been classified as afterservice, he scratched his head and asked.
“Um, Manager. Looking at the afterservice reasons here—shouldn’t both cases require new estimates?”
“Hmm?”
“I’m just confused about this. With the junkyard case, all the requested ghosts were eliminated, and then a year later a different ghost appeared. Olympic Boulevard seems the same way. I’m wondering if afterservice is really the right approach. Even with products, customer negligence usually means paid A/S.”
At Tae-woo’s question, Ye-rim glanced at Ji-seok’s expression.
Ji-seok nodded.
“Well, you’re right, but… in the junkyard case, the mother of the man who died in the accident apparently suffered severe shock after the incident and deteriorated over the course of a year before dying. After that, she appeared at the junkyard, which was the final location of the accident vehicle. So I thought it was better to handle it as afterservice rather than get a new estimate.”
Hearing this, Ye-rim asked.
“Didn’t the Manager scold you before for handling things that way? She said you shouldn’t accept cases based on sentiment.”
“This isn’t about sentiment or lack thereof. It’s not a completely different ghost—it’s the mother. It’s better for us to provide clean closure.”
As Ji-seok countered, Ye-rim simply shrugged in response.
“And with Olympic Boulevard, similar incidents have continued occurring after our company took action on the initial case, so I thought providing afterservice was the right call. Especially since it involves city administration—if we handle the afterservice properly, we’ll likely get more requests down the line.”
In other words, since the national government and civil servants had requested it, proper afterservice had to be provided.
Tae-woo slowly nodded while looking at the monitor.
Regardless of industry, working with or supplying to government and public institutions seemed to be the best revenue source for private companies.
“When will these two cases be filed?”
Yerim asked.
“Once we finish the final report on the Jangdok Training Ground case, we’ll submit it. Yoon Manager will work on it with you.”
“Yes, understood.”
Jiseok answered, pointing at Taewoo’s monitor.
Yerim responded immediately and pulled her chair over to sit beside Taewoo.
“Let’s finish the report quickly.”
“Ah, yes.”
Taewoo and Yerim immediately began drafting the final report on the Jangdok Training Ground case.

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One side of Cha Jun-ho’s Manager’s Office featured a large window overlooking the Training Team staff, with blinds installed.
Moon So-ryeong gazed intently at Taewoo through the blinds.
“What did you think? Kim Juwim?”
Cha Jun-ho asked while typing at his computer.
“He’s no ordinary person.”
“Right? He’s the Founder’s bloodline, after all.”
“I wonder if that’s really why. He was impressive.”
“From what I heard, he even caught Silent Spirit Ghost alone. Three? Four of them?”
“Catching Silent Spirit Ghost solo is remarkable enough, but he broke free from the ghost’s illusion entirely on his own.”
“Ah. That thing you mentioned on the phone? Where Yoon Manager’s mind broke?”
“Yes. Yoon Manager has considerable field experience, but even considering his younger brother’s tragic death, there’s no way he’d fall into an illusion so easily. That means it had to be at least a Grade 3 ghost creating that illusion.”
“….”
“Yet Kim Juwim escaped that same illusion—the one that trapped Yoon Manager so easily—in an instant. He broke free faster than I did.”
“This isn’t an ordinary bet, is it?”
“Beyond Kim Juwim’s will as a Ghost Tracker, the person himself seems extraordinary too.”
Moon So-ryeong continued, watching Taewoo’s back as he wrote the report.
“Breaking free from an illusion means his conviction must be exceptionally strong.”
“Haha. Poor Yoon Manager—a new hire just made him look pathetic. Getting trapped in an illusion like that.”
“If Kim Juwim hadn’t escaped so easily, we’d know it was no ordinary illusion. It was realistic enough to confuse even department heads.”
“To break free from such an illusion… does he have a guardian spirit?”
“A guardian spirit?”
“Yes. A guardian spirit. It’s possible, after all.”
“Kim Hwan, dwelling within the Ghost Tracker’s path?”
“Kim Hwan will only be a Silent Spirit Ghost that devours Kim Juwim someday. I mean a different guardian spirit.”
“Hmm. Since the Founder served a deity, he could have inherited a guardian spirit too.”
“Regardless, talent is talent. He’ll be a major asset to the Training Team’s sales.”
Cha Jun-ho continued his work while speaking, eyes on the monitor.
“Oh. And Cha Manager asked the other day—is there any response from the Blood Water Ghost?”
“That’s right, that’s right. How did it go?”
“I wasn’t sure at first, but there was definitely a reaction. When I caught the last Silent Spirit Ghost, I drove Kim’s blood-stained Hyeolsu Dando into it, and all the buried corpses were revealed at once.”
“Just like the rumors said. Wow. It’s truly versatile. The Guichal Dagger and Hyeolsu Dando.”
“It’s versatile, but it’s a shame it only responds to the Founder’s bloodline.”
Moon So-ryeong spoke with a slight smile playing at the corners of her mouth.
“The Founder’s bloodline is with us, so what’s there to regret?”
Cha Jun-ho spoke casually, as if tossing the words aside.

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The next evening.
A junkyard somewhere in Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do.
The vehicle driven by Yerim entered the junkyard.
Vroom, screech—
The vehicle’s headlights illuminated the junkyard office brightly.
Soon after, a middle-aged woman with a deeply lined face emerged from the office.
“Did you come from Taesan-dang?”
The woman shielded her eyes from the headlights and called out her question.
Taesan-dang was the outsourced shamanic house that had first received the exorcism request for the junkyard.
Yerim nodded to Tae-woo, who sat in the passenger seat, then turned off the engine and got out.
“Ah, yes. You must be Lee Young-ui’s wife?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
The woman answered when Yerim asked.
“Yes. You mentioned that the ghost you drove out before still seems to be here.”
“Please come inside.”
The middle-aged woman gestured toward the interior of the office with a deeply sorrowful expression.
Yerim and Tae-woo exchanged glances and nodded before heading inside.
The junkyard office was thick with dust, as if it hadn’t been in operation for a long time, and the calendar hanging on the wall was several months out of date.
“It’s a bit messy, but please have a seat there. Can I get you some water? I don’t have coffee or anything like that.”
The middle-aged woman said as she drew water from the water purifier.
“That’s fine.”
After Yerim replied, she and Tae-woo sat down on the sofa.
“I came here for the first time after my husband died. I didn’t want to come back, but it seems unavoidable. Since rumors spread that there’s a ghost here, this business can’t be sold.”
The middle-aged woman said as she sat across from them.
“I’ve heard the general outline, but could you tell me the details of what happened?”
Yerim asked.
Then the middle-aged woman began to speak with a serious expression, her hands clasped together.
“The ghost first appeared last spring, I think. A vehicle from a family accident came to our junkyard. I saw the car that came in then—there was blood smeared inside and on the doors, and it was quite gruesome. So I think we proceeded with the scrapping work quickly and cleaned it up.”
“Yes, yes.”
“But it was from around then. Ghosts started appearing, they said. Our employees would see ghosts and run away when leaving work, or in the morning when coming to work, the radio would blare from a scrapped car with the engine off—strange things kept happening.”
“What did the ghost look like?”
“I didn’t see it myself, but they said a woman with half her head crushed appeared, along with a man with no face. Sometimes faceless children run around inside the junkyard too.”
Picturing those forms in my mind, I felt a chill run down my spine and shrugged my shoulders slightly.
“Because these things kept happening, the employees couldn’t endure it and quit en masse within a few months.”
“So what did you do?”
“My husband kept telling me about these incidents, so I asked a shaman from Taesan-dang—someone I’d known for a long time—to take a look. The shaman from Taesan-dang came to the site and immediately said vengeful spirits from the cars were wandering around. They said a simple ritual wouldn’t work and that an exorcism ceremony was necessary, so people came and performed the exorcism. After that, ghosts didn’t appear for a while, so we hired new staff and resumed operating the junkyard.”
That must have been when the Guihon Trading Training Team went and handled the work.
The problem came after that.

Guihon Trading Company: Exorcism Specialists Chapter 50

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

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