Exorcism Specialist Company: Ghost Soul Trading - Chapter 79

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Chapter 79

[Two years ago, the body of Jang Min-hee, granddaughter of JY Electronics Chairman Jang Guk-bae and the victim of a kidnapping case that had captivated the nation, was discovered last night in a cemetery near Boryeong, Chungcheongnam-do. The victim’s facial features were severely damaged—]

Kim Tae-woo listened to the radio, unable to hide his troubled expression.
Seung-hun, driving the car, caught sight of that expression in the rearview mirror and asked.
“I’m worried since you were at the battle site so late yesterday. Shouldn’t you get some rest before your afternoon shift?”
“It’s fine. Even if I went home, I don’t think I’d be able to sleep anyway.”
“Still, I’m concerned. In a way, seeing you reminds me of the Chairman, so my feelings are rather complicated.”
“Is that so? Did Grandfather do things the same way?”
“Yes. The Chairman also never knew how to rest properly. After finishing one battle site, he would always go somewhere.”
“Ah, I see.”
“He seemed to have compassion. Compassion for the deceased.”
“That could have been the case.”
I answered quietly.
“There it is. We’ve arrived.”
Seung-hun pointed ahead as he spoke.
It was a large prison located in Gyeonggi Province.
He reduced speed and drove the car toward the prison.
We had come to meet the Jang Min-hee kidnappers.

* * *

Visitation Room at the prison.
Kim Tae-woo sat separated by a large pane of glass, waiting for the Kidnapper.
Moments later, the door opened and a gaunt-faced inmate was led in by a guard.
He tilted his head upon seeing Kim Tae-woo, then sat across from him.
“Hey. Who are you….”
From his perspective, this was a face he’d never seen before.
“You’re the one who kidnapped and murdered Jang Min-hee, aren’t you?”
“…Are you a cop?”
“I’d almost prefer if I were. You’ve heard the news, haven’t you? They found the body at the Cemetery.”
“We didn’t do that. We killed her and buried her, sure, but we never disfigured her face, and we didn’t move the corpse.”
“I know.”
“You… know?”
The Kidnapper’s expression turned to shock at Kim Tae-woo’s answer.
“The question is whether the police will believe it.”
“Ah.”
The Kidnapper let out a sigh at Kim Tae-woo’s added words.
He stared at his face for a moment, then stopped.
“Even after death, Jang Min-hee couldn’t accept her own demise. She disfigured her own corpse herself. And she even hid her own body.”
“What? Are you saying a ghost moved the corpse or something?”
“Believe it or don’t—that’s your choice. But I wanted to make sure you understood just how much your conscience is dead while you live.”
“Who the hell are you?”
“You’ll likely be charged with desecrating and abandoning Jang Min-hee’s corpse as well. JY Electronics will mobilize every lawyer at their disposal to maximize your sentence.”
“I’m asking who you are!”
“Once charges of corpse desecration, relocation, and abandonment are added, everything you’ve testified to will be deemed false, and you’ll face enhanced penalties.
“Even if we didn’t do it?”
“Jang Min-hee will be given a proper funeral rite, so she won’t be able to take direct revenge herself. But within the bounds of the law, I’ll ensure you continue to be punished to the fullest extent possible.”
“Aren’t you listening to me? Who are you!”
The Kidnapper finally erupted, shouting.
Kim Tae-woo stood and looked down at him, then added:
“Me? I’m the last person to meet Jang Min-hee—the one you killed.”
With those words, he left the Visitation Room with Seung-hun.
Left alone, the Kidnapper’s eyes darted about in confusion.
“The last to meet Jang Min-hee? Then she wasn’t dead when we killed her? No, that’s not right. She was definitely dead. That’s why we buried her. Who… who the hell could it be?”
His eyes trembled violently.
At that moment, a guard approached and grabbed his arm, forcibly pulling him up.

After that, Jang Guk-bae, the chairman of JY Electronics, mobilized all his resources to file additional charges against the kidnappers.
Desecration of corpses, abandonment, and false statements during their initial testimony—all of it was included, and they received the death sentence.
Naturally, during the trial they insisted they hadn’t done it, but nothing they said could serve as evidence.
Moreover, thanks to the Settlement Team handling the cleanup, the police never discovered that Guihon Trading employees had been at the scene.
Thus, their punishment proceeded over the course of several decades.

* * *

The afternoon of the day Kim Tae-woo visited the prison.
When he arrived at work, Ji-seok and Ye-rim greeted him immediately.
“Kim Chief. Send me the footage you shot yesterday and hand over a draft of the report.”
Ji-seok gave the instruction to Kim Tae-woo right away.
“Yes, understood.”
Kim Tae-woo removed his outer jacket and immediately booted up his computer.
“Director Bang. The Settlement Team classified the ghost from the Mureungsan field as a Curse Spirit, didn’t they?”
Ye-rim spoke to Ji-seok at that moment.
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“What exactly was it that made them classify it as a Curse Spirit? This has never happened before, has it? The whole morning, everyone in this office was talking about Mureungsan.”
Ye-rim asked.
“Hmm. At first we thought it was a Grade 3 Erased Spirit, then we thought it might be a Grade 5 Silent Spirit Ghost—something felt off. It was like the Silent Spirit Ghost had absorbed multiple spirits and grown larger, but when they killed it, an incredibly fast ghost came out from inside. And meanwhile, it was controlling all the ghosts in the Unclaimed Persons Cemetery like subordinates. I wasn’t there, so I didn’t see it myself, but apparently it was quite a commotion.”
Ji-seok spoke while looking at Kim Tae-woo.
Kim Tae-woo nodded silently.
“So it had almost every ghost characteristic, then.”
Ye-rim spoke with an expression of wonder.
“Well, it seems like it might have, but I’m not sure. For a Curse Spirit, it seemed to be caught fairly easily. Then again, I’d need to have experienced a Curse Spirit before to really say.”
Ji-seok answered while shaking his head.
Then Kim Tae-woo, who had been typing, asked.
“But is whether it’s a ‘Grade 6 Curse Spirit’ or not really such an important issue?”
“Of course it is. A Grade 6 has never appeared in all of history, not even once within Guihon Trading. You’ve seen the Ghost Records, right? Just looking at that shows how terrifying Curse Spirits are.”
“That’s true.”
“If one appears, it would become incredibly valuable data for our Guihon Trading—so it’s important. Very important.”
“Hmm.”
Kim Tae-woo thought for a moment, then focused on typing.
It seemed there was some internal debate about whether the Jang Min-hee ghost they’d encountered on Mureungsan this time was actually a Grade 6 Curse Spirit or not.

As expected, it happened right on cue.
Not long after Tae-woo and Ji-seok submitted their results report, an executive-level meeting was convened.
From Training Team 4, Ji-seok had to move to the Seminar Room as a meeting participant.
The rank of the Jang Min-hee ghost I’d encountered this time clearly held tremendous significance for Guihon Trading.
But now that I was chief, I simply continued with my duties without concern.
About thirty minutes after the meeting began, I received a call from Ji-seok.
He was asking me to come to the Seminar Room.
I informed Ye-rim of this and immediately headed to the Seminar Room.

Click—

As I opened the soundproof door to the Seminar Room, tiered seating and a podium came into view.
The field footage I’d captured on smart glasses from Mureungsan was playing there, and beside it stood Director Cha Jun-ho and Ji-seok.
Throughout the tiered seating were managers and above from the Training Team, Incineration Team, and Settlement Team, all seated in rows.
“Ah, there he is.”
As Ji-seok pointed to me, everyone turned their heads in my direction.
Suddenly feeling the weight of their attention, I scratched my head and descended the stairs.
“Since Chief Kim Tae-woo of Team 4 was the one who actually faced the Jang Min-hee ghost, let’s hear directly from him.”
Ji-seok gestured toward me as I came down.
“Ugh.”
I climbed onto the podium with an awkward smile.
“Chief Kim, come here.”
Director Cha Jun-ho approached and put his arm around my shoulder, guiding me toward the microphone.
“I, I’m not sure what I should say here…”
“Just tell us honestly—when you first encountered the Jang Min-hee ghost, when you cut it, and while fighting it, what did it feel like?”
As I hesitated, Director Cha Jun-ho offered clarification.
I scratched my head, grasped the microphone, and recalled last night’s situation.
“To be honest, I didn’t feel a significant difference. What I’ve noticed when cutting ghosts is that the higher the rank, the duller the sensation becomes. I’ve never actually cut a person, but when cutting high-rank ghosts, there’s a distinctly dense quality to what I’m cutting—it makes me vaguely imagine what cutting an actual person might feel like.”
“A dense quality to what you’re cutting?”
“Yes. Feeling physical density means the ghost has been given that much tangible form. A rank-4 Jang-do ghost that can lift objects must be able to wield them, so it naturally possesses higher density than lower-rank ghosts. That’s why I feel greater resistance when cutting. In that context, as rank increases, ghost density increases, and as density increases, the force I feel when cutting becomes stronger—that inference grows stronger. Based on the limited cases I’ve experienced so far, yes, that’s my assessment.”
As I spoke, everyone seated before me focused their gaze with serious expressions.
Their concentration only made me more embarrassed.
“Anyway, the Jang Min-hee ghost felt about the same as the other Jang-do ghosts or Silent Spirit Ghost I’d encountered before—there was nothing particularly harder or more difficult about cutting it.”
Silence fell over the room at my words.
Not knowing what to do, I turned my head toward Director Cha Jun-ho.
“Thanks for the physical explanation. You didn’t think it was particularly harder or more difficult to cut?”
Then someone in the audience raised their hand and asked.
“No, nothing special.”
I answered carefully.
“Chief Kim Tae-woo, you must have read the entire Ghost Record. What rank do you think the ghost we encountered this time was?”
Another person raised their hand and asked a question.
Kim Tae-woo pondered for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders.
“I’m not entirely certain. However, based on the physical impact I felt, it seemed to fall somewhere between Grade 4 and Grade 5. It was incredibly fast, but it didn’t feel any more solid than the Grade 4 Jang Guk-bae ghosts or Grade 5 Silent Spirit Ghosts I’ve cut through until now.”
At those words, the people murmured among themselves, whispering to those beside them.
Then Cha Jun-ho, the director, grabbed the microphone and added his thoughts.
“Well, there could be various interpretations, but given that it was a ghost that underwent self-dismemberment, unusual phenomena could have occurred compared to an identical Grade 5 Silent Spirit Ghost. In my view, it would be better to refrain from updating our data on Grade 6 Wailing Spirits based on this incident.”
Cha Jun-ho, the director, spoke.
The people in the room exchanged serious looks and discussed among themselves before turning their attention toward Cha Jun-ho, the director.
Several of them nodded their heads in agreement.

Exorcism Specialist Company Guihon Trading Chapter 79

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

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