Got Dropped into a Ghost Story, Still Gotta Work - Chapter 201

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Even If I Fall Into a Ghost Story, I Still Have to Go to Work Episode 201

“…!!”

Baek Sa-heon quickly raised his head.

Just now, there was a loud roar from behind him. Perhaps an even more terrible situation had occurred in the village….

‘Fuck, is this the time to think about that?’

He gritted his teeth and moved his feet again.

He had to get away as quickly as possible.

“Huff.”

The massive backpack that Baek Sa-heon carried while running down the mountain path contained drinking water, food supplies, and survival gear he had carefully selected after intense consideration.

These were things he had gathered and hidden in a place only he knew, to use when he would need to urgently flee this village someday. He couldn’t believe he could finally use them.

However, in the empty space that remained in the backpack now….

There were bones.

What remained after the traditional music troupe collapsed and disappeared.

Among them, bones that had once been his sister.

“….”

He should have left them behind since they were heavy.

Even though he knew it was a foolish act, he found himself ridiculous for deliberately bringing them along, but he couldn’t just throw them on the ground now.

However, that was the only thing he cared about.

‘I hope they all die.’

It was actually better this way.

The village people, the outsiders who came to the village, the agents who couldn’t rescue me.

If they all died, and this fucking village left no trace at all.

It was an imagination that sent thrills through his entire body.

But.

‘Still, that agent….’

That young agent with glasses who made him draw the ‘special prize.’

Surprisingly calm, never once mocking his words or getting angry. Even after helping him, he demanded nothing until the end.

And in the end, he kept his promise.

Both of them surviving.

Not betraying each other.

‘….’

He felt a strange emotion.

It was probably the first time he’d felt this sensation in his life.

This peculiar feeling when you unconsciously attempt something good that you would never normally do, and achieve it.

People called that sense of fulfillment.

‘….’

That must have been why. Why he impulsively left behind the ‘paper boat.’

Of course, it would only have meaning if that agent survived until the end and discovered it.

‘…I’ll think about it when he picks it up.’

Considering all the chaos with centipedes and cleavers earlier, he might be dead by now….

At that moment.

“…!”

A strange, spine-chilling pressure struck the back of his neck like a piercing stab.

There was something behind him.

Something even stranger was definitely happening in the village.

‘…Fuck.’

Baek Sa-heon couldn’t hold back and glanced behind him.

And.

“…!!”

His face turned deathly pale as he began sprinting down the mountain path again.

He never looked back again.

‘Damn it.’

The scene he had just witnessed.

Bright red blood was pouring down from the sky.

I prostrated myself.

It happened automatically. I found myself prostrated with both hands placed on the floor.

As if I were bowing.

I see you, I see you

I can see you

Drip drop.

Red blood pours down onto my head and the backs of my hands.

Cunning beast, disease, old fox ghost

Pain enough to make me scream burns in one hand. My left hand that hadn’t been cut.

I feel like I’m going to die!

It reeks of rot

I clawed at the ground with my hands.

“Grape Agent!”

I could hear Bronze Agent and Agent Choi arguing.

“Isn’t that the Daecheongbong Tiger! Are you insane? A supernatural phenomenon that isn’t even friendly to humans…!”

“Later! Just be quiet for now!”

I held back my groans and urgently looked to the side.

Director Ho, who had taken the form of Deputy Eun Ha-je….

Dirty and lowly thing

Let me see your form

Was laughing while being drenched in blood.

“This person is my acquaintance. Please don’t mind them and go on your way, Elder.”

Blisters bubbled up on the back of one of my hands.

I see the tail

“This person is my acquaintance. Elder, please just shout from beyond the threshold.”

It burst red and pus emerged. Traces of plague.

The tail was cut off

“This is my acquaintance. Elder, please sit on the wooden floor and have a meal.”

Pus bursts and flows.

Cunning tongue

Deputy Manager Eun Ha-je’s body floats up into the air.

“…!”

Her limbs are twisted and roughly fixed in place, but the gentle smile on her face remains unchanged.

“No….”

“Shh.”

Agent Choi pressed down on my shoulder.

Die

Lightning strikes.

Leave only skin

Burn to death

“I don’t want to?”

Director Ho’s expression is revealed through the lightning.

“It’s tigers that leave their skin when they die. I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

Still smiling.

“They say a fake shaman kills people, and it’s truly frightening. I’m not a fox ghost. Is there proof that I’m a fox? Is there proof that I’m a ghost? How about this? Evil spirit, begone! Namu Amitabha, Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, quickly as commanded, may the kingdom of our Heavenly Father come, let’s sprinkle salt and red beans too.”

Lightning strikes again.

“But it’s not working.”

A tearing sound.

“What should we do? You seem to have been mistaken. How unfortunate….”

A peaceful voice came from the one suspended in air.

“You can’t burn me.”

Enormous eyes are revealed among the blood falling from the sky.

How noisy

Director Ho’s limbs twist.

Old and wicked

Filthy thing

Get lost

“Oh my.”

Grab your tail

And run away

“How truly wicked of you. To forcibly separate me and my acquaintance like this.”

The smiling face turns to look at me.

“How unfortunate. Sol-eum.”

“…!”

And the next moment.

Disappeared.

Deputy Manager Eun Ha-je’s body, which had been bound in air and strangely twisted, no longer exists as if it had never been there.

Director Ho who had possessed that body disappeared along with it.

“….”

“….”

Did they… run away?

My mind began complex deductions about what method was being used to control Deputy Manager Eun Ha-je, what kind of prohibition spell was cast on her, and whether she was okay right now.

At the same time, I found myself looking up at the sky.

The falling blood had stopped.

And I looked down at the back of my hand again.

The blisters and pus had completely disappeared.

As if washed away by the blood.

I have removed

The filthy thing

As promised

“….”

“No way, General! You said you’d make that bastard bow down and pay proper respects! But he ran away so easily!”

Noisy little thing

Agent Choi’s neck was grabbed and lifted into the air.

“Agent!”

“Ugh, haha….”

I urgently looked up at the sky and shouted.

“I’m sorry. And thank you!”

….

A child who knows manners

From the sky.

Something looks down at me.

Good

Examining me.

And declares.

Serve me

Wait.

Bow down

I permit it

Something, a strange force presses down on my shoulders and back….

“No.”

“….”

Agent Choi raised his arm.

“There’s already someone being served here. You can see, right? The Dokkaebi Elder.”

At the end of that arm, the Elder’s dokkaebi lantern swayed.

“Now that the procession is over, you should have a grand feast. Go back before it gets cold, Tiger General!”

Insolent thing

A sound like a feline predator snorting came out.

Prepare the promised

feast table

And.

Everything became quiet.

“….”

The blood rain falling from the sky, the striking lightning, all disappeared like a lie.

“Phew….”

With deep sighs, all three agents collapsed to the ground.

I barely managed to open my mouth.

“…That person is.”

“Ah, Seoraksan Daecheongbong Tiger General King Bodhisattva… it’s a bit complicated but you can think of it that way. That’s what he wanted to be called.”

Ah.

At that moment, I realized what kind of ghost story this was.

And that means….

First, one must climb to Seoraksan Daecheongbong carrying sacrifices entirely by one’s own strength alone.

That’s what Agent Choi had done.

“….”

I struggled desperately not to ask about that, and painfully changed the subject.

“…According to Bronze Agent, it didn’t seem like a supernatural phenomenon friendly to humans.”

“Ah, that.”

Agent Choi shrugged his shoulders.

“To be precise… he’s not interested. If you prepare a feast table with sincerity, he’ll listen when he’s in a good mood.”

“The problem is that he accepts it even when humans are on that feast table!”

Fire flashed in Bronze Agent’s eyes. Agent Choi grinned.

“Hey now, the Management Bureau is doing well coaxing and appeasing him. He’s living a vegan lifestyle, they say.”

And the next moment, Agent Choi’s eyes immediately turned to look at me.

“No, this isn’t the time to be talking about such things.”

Precisely, at my hand that had been washed clean by the blood rain.

Though he pretended otherwise, slight tension flickered in those eyes.

“It disappeared… right?”

“….”

Bronze Agent’s eyes also turned toward my hand.

Having seen that state earlier, it would be easy to predict that the entity that had been dwelling in Deputy Manager’s body had placed some kind of bad binding curse or misfortune on my hand.

“Grape Agent, what on earth….”

“Let’s discuss the details after we return. For now, let’s check first. …Grape. Say anything.”

I hesitated then opened my mouth.

“…I am Noru.”

“…!”

I can do it.

Without any resistance.

It worked.

“It worked!”

The prohibition spell was lifted.

‘My goodness.’

I looked down at my hand with dazed eyes.

And right on cue, the sound of bicycle bells ringing began to be heard from outside the village.

“Vermillion Bird Team has arrived.”

Like a signal for the conclusion.

“This Jisan Village… still has many suspicious aspects. From now on, we’ll conduct a full-scale search. Looking for people too. And the well as well.”

Agent Choi tapped next to the well site and spoke in a cheerful tone.

“Other special circumstances might emerge, but not immediately. Let’s go back today.”

“…Yes.”

A strange sense of relief spread from my chest.

Right. The prohibition spell is lifted now.

Dying within a month is also over. I’m free….

….

Wait a minute.

-How unfortunate. Soleum.

“…Grape Agent?”

I was mistaken.

I was momentarily swept up by emotion and felt absurdly relieved. This isn’t the time to be happy or feel unburdened at all.

My blood should run cold.

‘Damn it.’

I can’t afford to fall out with Director Ho here.

Dying in a month if I fail the mission? That’s a big problem, but more important is successfully completing the mission and receiving the Wish Potion.

But if things turn out this way, isn’t it too obvious a betrayal? To carry out Director Ho’s mission, I can’t do it like this….

Don’t tell me.

I looked back at Agent Choi.

Did he… even aim for me to completely fall out with Director Ho?

“….”

“Grape.”

Agent Choi didn’t meet my gaze.

Instead, with a still smiling face, he took out his ritual blade and checked the edge.

While saying this.

“But… on the way back. According to Disaster Management Bureau procedures, there’s a place Grape needs to visit.”

“…Excuse me?”

The ritual blade was smoothly spun once in the agent’s hand.

“You were under a prohibition spell the Disaster Management Bureau didn’t know about.”

“…!”

“Since an agent was under some strange prohibition spell, we need to properly examine exactly what happened. That’s procedure. Safely, …in the isolation zone.”

What he was holding along with the ritual blade came into my view.

A small glass bead.

“Let’s go in.”

The same thing I saw a few days ago.

Glass Prison Portable Detention Device.

No.

“Wait….”

Thud.

“…!!”

Before I could even finish speaking, countless hands burst out from the void created by Agent Choi’s bead and grabbed me.

“Agent….”

“Shh.”

With this sudden turn of events, there was nothing for me to grab and hold onto this time, so I was quickly restrained.

“If you cooperate with the interrogation procedures, you’ll be released soon. Don’t worry.”

I gritted my teeth and looked at him.

Agent Choi blocked Bronze Agent’s path with his cleaver as she tried to rush forward in surprise.

“She’s been acting a bit strange, but she’ll be fine.”

“Agent Choi, what is this….”

“Just a moment.”

Agent Choi turned to look at me and spoke quietly.

“Get some rest. …Grape.”

I was sucked into the void.

And so, I was transported to the Glass Prison.

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