Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 69

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Chapter 69

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On an ordinary day when the soft sound of keyboards filled the Guihon Trading Trainee Team Office, Cha Manager walked in carrying a newspaper and dropped it in front of me.
Startled, I turned my gaze toward the newspaper.
Startled, Taewoo turned his gaze toward the newspaper.

Teacher at Andong Mando High School Makes Extreme Choice While Detained in Custody on Suspicion of Attacking School Janitor with Weapon

Tae-woo’s eyes were drawn to the large headline, and he picked up the newspaper to read it carefully.

A teacher arrested on suspicion of assaulting a school janitor with a weapon at a high school in Andong, Gyeongbuk was found dead in the detention center after taking his own life.
Andong Detention Center announced on the 17th: “On the 16th at approximately 3:20 PM, Yoon, a teacher at Mando High School who was in custody, was discovered unconscious in his solitary cell. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation was administered, but he ultimately passed away.”
Yoon was arrested and detained on suspicion of murdering Kim, a school janitor (63), by stabbing him multiple times with a weapon while patrolling near the school dormitory in October.
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As Tae-u read the newspaper, Ye-rim and Ji-seok also rose and caught a glimpse of its contents.
Cha Manager asked alone, arms crossed.
“Is this what Kim Chief wanted?”
To that question, I couldn’t muster a response.
Of course, part of me believed in karma and just deserts, but the fact remained that the client—a living person—had died, and from the company’s perspective, this case was undoubtedly problematic.
“Still, I didn’t expect them to die in just a few days. That’s brutal.”
Ye-rim shook her head as she spoke.
“Did Silent Spirit Ghost ascend on its own? Didn’t Kim Chief promise that? It might be difficult to confirm.”
Ji-seok asked with concern in his voice.
Then Cha Manager nodded.
“I contacted the Settlement Team right after this article came out. Asked them to go verify. They said there are traces suggesting Silent Spirit Ghost ascended on its own.”
“That’s fortunate.”
Ji-seok nodded in agreement and shot me a look.
“Kim Chief. It’s fortunate those spirits kept their promise and ascended properly, but it was incredibly reckless. And you know how exhausted the Settlement Team got from this? They had to check all the school CCTV footage, delete every frame you appeared in one by one. On top of that, they didn’t even get paid properly.”
“I apologize.”
“From now on, don’t let compassion and sympathy cloud your judgment. Just do your job properly.”
“I apologize.”
Cha Manager spoke with a cold expression.
I couldn’t offer much in response and simply lowered my head in acknowledgment.
“Stop scolding him already. After reading the report and statement, it’s not something worth that much criticism.”
That’s when Moon So-ryeong’s voice was heard.
“Ah. Moon So-ryeong.”
Cha Manager turned his head toward her.
Moon So-ryeong walked over with an air of dignity, dressed in a wine-colored suit different from before.
“If Kim Chief managed to extract a promise from Silent Spirit Ghost and Silent Spirit Ghost actually kept that promise—isn’t that remarkable in itself? Cha Manager, how many times have you actually seen a ghost keep its promise?”
At her words, Cha Manager let out a disgruntled sound.
“How can you take sides like that when I’m disciplining my subordinate?”
“You made him write a statement, so it seems like you’ve already scolded him enough. I’m just saying because it looks like you’re doing it again.”
Moon So-ryeong shot back sharply.
“Moon So-ryeong’s got a point, but do you know how much the Settlement Team complained? The client only gave ten million won upfront to the Mugunghwa Fairy Bodhisattva, and that was the only revenue. After deducting the commission for the Bodhisattva and accounting for the damaged items—”
“Good grief.”
“And the Settlement Team had to ‘clean up’ the entire crime scene and even went to the detention center to investigate. You can imagine how much that finicky Settlement Team grumbled.”
“That’s just how work goes. Don’t you remember what the Founder said? Catching ghosts is exactly like doing business. In business and sales, there are days you lose money too.”
“Ha. Easy for you to say since you’re not from Team 4. Are you going to cover our performance shortfall?”
“That’s exactly why I came—to cover Team 4’s performance shortfall.”
Moon So-ryeong smiled and handed over a photograph.
It was a photo of a woman with strikingly beautiful features and pale skin.
I received the photo somewhat awkwardly and wore a bewildered expression.
“What is this? Who is she?”
Cha Manager asked.
“Jang Min-hee. Granddaughter of the JY Electronics Chairman.”
Moon So-ryeong answered at last.
“Jang Min-hee? Jang Min-hee? I’ve heard that name before.”
“Oh! Isn’t she the one who was kidnapped two years ago and never came back?! It was all over the news!”
“Right, right. They must have caught the perpetrators, didn’t they?”
Ji-seok and Ye-rim spoke in turns.
Moon So-ryeong then continued with further explanation.
“Yes. Two years ago, kidnappers abducted Jang Min-hee for ransom. It was all over the news.”
Tae-woo also remembered that news from back then.
“A month after the kidnapping occurred, the perpetrators were caught. But they never found Jang Min-hee’s body.”
Upon hearing Moon So-ryeong’s explanation, Ye-rim’s expression showed confusion.
“How is that possible? If they were arrested, they would have been interrogated and everything.”
Moon So-ryeong then raised her index finger and spoke with an intrigued expression.
“Exactly. That’s the key point. The arrested perpetrators revealed where Jang Min-hee’s body was buried during interrogation. But when they went there, the body was gone.”
“What?”
“There were clear traces that a body had been buried there, but the corpse had vanished without a trace.”
“No way. Did the perpetrator give them the wrong location? Did they get confused?”
“That doesn’t seem to be the case. Apparently, the traces of where the body was buried were very clear.”
“Then could someone else have taken the body?”
Ji-seok, who had been listening, asked.
“We can’t say for certain, but after that, the police mobilized all their resources to search that mountain for the body but couldn’t find it. Even Jang Guk-bae, the JY Electronics Chairman, spent his own money hiring people and thoroughly searched the entire mountain, but they found nothing.”
Moon So-ryeong said.
Then Cha Jun-ho narrowed his eyes and asked.
“So. You want us to find the body? How on earth would we do that?”
“But recently, rumors started spreading that a ghost has been appearing near the crime scene.”
“A ghost?”
“Yes. That area is a popular backpacking spot, so many people go there. They say people have spotted a ghost at night and even took photos of it.”
Moon So-ryeong pulled out the next photograph and handed it over.
In the pitch-black darkness of the mountain stood a woman wearing blue pants and a white t-shirt.
Only that figure was exceptionally blurred, making it look genuinely like a ghost.
“Isn’t that photoshopped?”
Ji-seok asked, furrowing his brow.
“The police suspected that too, but here’s the strange part—the clothes in that image are identical to what Jang Min-hee was wearing when she went missing.”
“Ah.”
Ji-seok closed his mouth.
Tae-woo also felt a chill run down his spine.
“When Chairman Jang Guk-bae heard about these rumors, he directly requested our company’s Sales Team to investigate this ghost. He thought that by looking into the ghost, we might be able to find the body as well.”
Moon So-ryeong said, crossing her arms.
“How much?”
“One billion won.”
At those words, all the team members widened their eyes and looked at each other.
“Three hundred million won.”
Cha Manager responded calmly, unlike the other team members.
“That’s how desperately Jang Guk-bae wants to find his granddaughter’s remains.”
If it was a billion won commission without an outsourced sales company taking a cut, there would be no intermediary fees, and considering it was in the mountains, there would be almost no damaged equipment to account for.
In other words, a billion won commission meant Training Team 4 could claim nearly the entire amount as revenue without significant losses.
“But it won’t be easy. She was kidnapped and murdered, and for some reason her remains disappeared, so the ghost’s resentment will be intense. And there’s an Unclaimed Persons Cemetery near that mountain. There will be an enormous number of Wandering Spirits.”
“Well, if the resentment is that strong, it should show up in photos.”
Cha Manager muttered quietly.
Then, as if thinking for a moment, he shifted his gaze.
“Does Team 4 not want to take this?”
Moon So-ryeong asked, narrowing her eyes.
“No, that’s not it. Why are you passing this to our team? Why not assign it to Team 1 or Team 2 under Moon So-ryeong’s management?”
Cha Manager asked back with a slightly suspicious tone.
Then Moon So-ryeong chuckled and replied.
“We’d be happy to take it, but Jang Guk-bae’s condition is that his granddaughter’s appearance must be captured on video. Even if our team wanted to take it, we can’t.”
“Ah.”
“So let Team 4 give it a try. You have a team member who’s good at filming, right? Bring the spirit camera too.”
Moon So-ryeong patted Tae-woo on the back as he sat and spoke.
“Got it. We’ll give it our best shot. Thanks.”
Cha Manager said with a smile.
Moon So-ryeong wore an aloof smile, turned sharply, and walked away.
In her wake lingered a rich fragrance.
“Wow. A billion won job. It’s been a while.”
Ji-seok spoke in a slightly excited voice.
“Just from hearing about it, it doesn’t sound that demanding, but a billion won? Jang Guk-bae must be quite desperate.”
Ye-rim chimed in as well.
Then Cha Manager shook his head.
“It won’t be as simple as it sounds. Why would the kidnapper’s buried remains suddenly disappear?”
“Could there be a third perpetrator?”
“That’s possible, but there are those strange behaviors ghosts exhibit when they refuse to accept their own death. Didn’t you learn about that in training?”
Cha Manager asked, his eyes gleaming.
Tae-woo looked bewildered, glancing between his seniors.
“Self-corpse theft?”
Then Ye-rim answered quietly.
Cha Manager pointed at her with his index finger as if to confirm she was correct.
“If Jang Min-hee’s ghost is in a state of self-corpse theft, she’d have at least the power of a Wandering Spirit or higher. And if there’s an Unclaimed Persons Cemetery nearby with many ghosts drifting around, she could have even evolved into a Silent Spirit Ghost with tremendous power.”
His voice carried weight.
As soon as he finished, Ji-seok added his thoughts.
“If she considers that mountain her territory, she could even be a territorial spirit.”
Grade 6 ghost: Wailing Spirit.
I swallowed hard, my throat dry.
Even in the Ghost Records or Grandfather’s diary, there were no documented encounters with a Wailing Spirit.
A Wailing Spirit possessed all the characteristics of ghosts up to Grade 5 Silent Spirit Ghost and was known to exert powerful spectral energy across a specific territory.
And according to the records, no one had ever defeated a Wailing Spirit in combat.
“It seems unlikely that a ghost dead for only two years would have evolved into a Wailing Spirit that hasn’t appeared for hundreds of years, but we can’t rule it out entirely. If it is a Wailing Spirit, the moment we enter the territory it created, we could fall into hallucinations immediately. If we’re trapped in hallucinations without even encountering the ghost, we’ll need to escape right away.”
Cha Manager spoke with a serious expression.
“Then who goes in?”
Ji-seok asked.
Cha Manager pondered briefly before answering quickly.
“Me, Director Bang, and Kim Chief.”

Exorcism Specialist Company Guihon Trading Chapter 69

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

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