The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 101

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Obsess — Chapter 101
The massive figure did not approach where Woo Ju stood.
To be precise, it seemed to have no interest in him whatsoever, continuing to walk steadily forward.
Though it moved slowly through the street as if searching for something, the distance between Woo Ju and the Giant was far too great for him to fall within its field of vision.
‘For now, there’s no need to engage it directly.’
Woo Ju had no intention of fighting unnecessary battles.
Such a confrontation served none of his purposes.
‘First things first — find the others.’
So Woo Ju decided to search for the people who might have been scattered when they arrived in this place.
Solving this situation and tracking down whoever was behind it mattered, but those were tasks he could undertake after regrouping with the others.
Woo Ju began moving, hugging the shadows of the buildings.
According to the information he’d reviewed earlier, the Giant he’d seen wasn’t alone.
Eyewitness accounts placed the number of sightings in the double digits, with estimates suggesting there were even more.
However, not all the Giants roamed actively.
‘According to the reports, there were almost no cases of anyone spotting more than one Giant at the same time.’
These creatures remained invisible until they activated, at which point they emerged.
Had it been otherwise, the space would have been crawling with them no matter how vast it was.
The crucial danger was that an inactive Giant could suddenly become active without warning.
According to one witness, a man had hidden in a building, thought it was safe to emerge, and had a Giant appear right before his eyes the moment he stepped outside.
Had he not immediately fled back into the building, that testimony would never have been recorded.
He would have been caught at once.
So even now, despite appearances of safety, he needed to move with utmost caution.
‘If the others were also dragged here, where would they be?’
Woo Ju continued moving while his mind worked without pause.
Neither of them would be standing foolishly in the middle of the street.
Baek Ho certainly wouldn’t be, and Yeon Woo would have reviewed the available data as well.
So they were likely hiding somewhere.
‘The problem is…’
There were quite a few places to hide in the vicinity.
Buildings were everywhere.
The one saving grace was that he could narrow down the candidates.
‘First choice — somewhere with minimal or no windows.’
When Woo Ju had chosen the PC Bang earlier, it wasn’t simply because he was familiar with it.
Places with few or no windows. Locations with minimal exposure to the outside.
Such places were optimal.
Defending from outside threats mattered surprisingly little — once a Giant perceived a presence, there was simply no way an ordinary person could stop it.
This reasoning led Woo Ju to the Church.
His choice was straightforward.
It wasn’t that the building itself held any special significance, but rather that it met the criteria perfectly.
Specifically, the basement.
‘Was it here?’
Upon finding the Church, Woo Ju scanned the surroundings, spotted stairs descending underground, and moved toward them.
He knocked on the basement door and listened for any sound from within.
Nothing.
So he knocked again, this time with a different rhythm. Knock, knock, knock-knock, knock.
This time, a sound came from inside almost immediately — so faint he would have missed it had he not been concentrating.
But it was unmistakably someone approaching the door.
—Yeon Woo?
The voice that followed was very familiar.
“No. It’s me.”
—Woo Ju?
“Yeah.”
Not long after his response, the door opened.
The figure that emerged was Baek Ho, as expected.
Baek Ho gestured for him to come in quickly, and Woo Ju stepped inside, scanning the interior.
The basement was well-organized. A chair sat on one side where Baek Ho had apparently been sitting, and stacked boxes lined the opposite wall.
“Where’s Yeon Woo?”
“I don’t know. He was dragged away before I was.”
Baek Ho furrowed his brow and turned to Woo Ju with a question.
“I didn’t expect you to be pulled in here too.”
“Pardon? You didn’t see me get dragged away?”
“No. When Yeon Woo disappeared and I was about to tell you, I got transported here too. You were still there until then.”
“Ah, I see.”
Woo Ju had thought he’d vanished first, but it was the opposite.
Yeon Woo, then Baek Ho, then Woo Ju—that was the order.
The gap between them had just been incredibly short. Baek Ho said he’d disappeared right after Yeon Woo did.
‘I was probably transported here just after that.’
While Woo Ju turned this over in his mind, Baek Ho let out a long breath.
“I never thought we’d be dragged back here again.”
“I was shocked too. How did this happen?”
“I have no idea. The case was definitely closed.”
Baek Ho furrowed his brow.
“The root cause was that a passage had formed between this unknown world and that street.”
“So that’s why people were suddenly pulled in here.”
“Right. So we destroyed the cause—the passage itself. Made it so it could never be restored.”
Woo Ju was well informed on that point.
Though he’d only confirmed it through a report, the odds that they’d made a mistake seemed low.
The passage that had formed back then had definitely been destroyed.
“Then a new passage must have appeared.”
“That’s what I figure.”
It was more likely that a new passage had formed in the interim than that the old one had been repaired.
That was Woo Ju’s conclusion, and Baek Ho agreed.
“The problem is how it happened.”
Baek Ho spoke with a grave expression.
Without catching whoever was behind it, the same thing could happen again.
They’d expected that much.
Yet there was a reason they hadn’t anticipated it would repeat so soon.
“That passage isn’t something you can just create easily. At minimum, it would take months. Maybe even years.”
“And there’s no guarantee it would even succeed.”
“Exactly. The structure was far too unstable from the start. But someone built it anew in that brief window.”
Constructing a passage was extraordinarily difficult.
It was absolutely not work that could be done in mere days.
“The problem is that it happened anyway.”
“Yeah. That’s the problem.”
Baek Ho exhaled and glanced toward the door.
“Well, the situation’s already unfolding, so we can’t do much about that. For now, we need to find Yeon Woo.”
“I agree.”
Whatever the circumstances, finding Yeon Woo was the priority right now.
Though Yeon Woo did possess special abilities, her actual combat capacity was practically zero.
So the two quickly shared what little information they had and slipped out of the Church Basement.
“There’s an Underground Karaoke just ahead.”
Woo Ju took the lead as guide.
Baek Ho had entered this place during the previous incident, but fundamentally, this space was an almost exact replica of the neighborhood where Woo Ju had lived for years.
So Woo Ju understood it far better than Baek Ho did.
Yet after wandering for nearly thirty minutes, they’d found no trace of Yeon Woo.
“Hmm, where do we go from here?”
“We’ve covered this sector pretty thoroughly. I think we need to cut through the Park and search the opposite side.”
At Woo Ju’s words, Baek Ho’s frown deepened.
For good reason.
The Park was right beside the section where Giants roamed.
But turning back to find another route wasn’t any easier.
Those alternate paths likely had dormant Giants positioned along them.
This was something Baek Ho knew from experience.
For reasons he couldn’t explain, he’d confirmed that inactive Giants tended to cluster in specific areas.
So now, broadly speaking, this space divided into two zones.
The zone where they currently stood. And the opposite one.
The Park was the only safe way to cross between them.
“You know what kind of place the Park is, right?”
“Yes.”
But that Park itself was far from an easy place to navigate.
The park held no Giants, but for that very reason it had also become the place most altered from its original form.
Yet given their circumstances, the two had no choice but to head toward the park.
How long they traveled like this, neither could say.
Gradually, ‘people’ began to appear, wandering the streets.
The moment Woo Ju and Baek Ho caught sight of them, they crouched lower instinctively.
These figures bore the shape of ordinary humans, yet they were far from rescue candidates.
‘Crocodile Birds.’
Woo Ju recalled the Inspection Bureau’s nickname for them.
It wasn’t some difficult or obscure metaphor—rather, it was quite a simple and straightforward one.
They were Crocodile Birds, coexisting with crocodiles.
Then what were the crocodiles?
The Giants themselves.
‘Though Crocodile Birds don’t actually exist.’
Still, recalling that metaphor made it easy enough to grasp their role.
The moment they detected anyone, they would shriek loudly and shrilly, drawing the Giants’ attention.
There are playthings here, they called out.
Come this way, they urged.
Naturally, this information too came from survivor testimony.
According to his account, a group of people had been moving together when some of them spotted others and approached gladly.
Then came the sight of the Crocodile Birds shrieking in unison.
Two Giants arrived shortly after, and what followed…….
It was hardly a pleasant description.
“This way.”
In any case, to pass through the park unscathed, they had to avoid those creatures’ gaze.
So Woo Ju and Baek Ho kept their bodies as low as possible, picking routes through sparsely populated areas.
They had to vault over walls and scale buildings here and there, but fortunately neither faced serious difficulty.
Neither Woo Ju nor Baek Ho possessed the physical capabilities of an ordinary human.
Buzz—
Moreover, Pandora’s Box proved invaluable.
Whenever a Crocodile Bird drew near, it would vibrate and send a warning.
Thanks to that, the two traversed the park without incident.
“Over there.”
But passing through wasn’t the end.
They still had to search the district for Yeon Woo.
Moreover, with an active Giant roaming this sector, they had to evade its line of sight as they moved.
Because of that, an area that would normally take thirty minutes to survey consumed nearly two hours.
Yet Yeon Woo appeared nowhere, and as doubt began to creep in—
Whoosh.
Woo Ju caught sight of something moving in his peripheral vision.
He turned his head reflexively, but nothing was there.
Only a narrow alley remained.
Woo Ju frowned briefly, then whispered to Baek Ho.
“I thought I saw something move over there.”
“……Let’s check it out.”
Baek Ho nodded instead of dismissing the observation.
The two headed toward the alley, and when they finally reached its mouth.
“Hee, heeek!”
“Ugh!”
They encountered a group of people.
People gripped by fear.
To be continued in the next chapter ▶
How Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Become Obsessed
Author
Yi Se-gye-sa-jang
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Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Geul Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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