The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 103

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Obsess Over Him — Chapter 103
Yeon Woo hesitated for a moment before speaking.
“Actually, there is one thing that’s been bothering me.”
“What is it?”
“You know that middle-aged man you were talking to earlier?”
He was probably referring to the middle-aged man. When Baek Ho nodded, Yeon Woo continued.
“That person knows an unusually large amount about this space.”
At those words, Woo Ju and Baek Ho exchanged glances before looking back at Yeon Woo.
“An unusually large amount?”
“What do you mean?”
“Well, I mean — we came in here with some knowledge already, because we’d reviewed the data you seniors had gathered, right?”
“That’s true.”
“But that man seems to know those things too. And it couldn’t have been more than a few days since he arrived here.”
That was a fair point.
Not much time had passed since the last incident was resolved.
Even if someone had gotten caught up in this place again, the window would be quite narrow.
“It makes sense that he’d know crocodile birds and giants are dangerous. But that the basement is safer, that you mustn’t enter ‘the Vision.’ Those kinds of insights aren’t things you’d naturally come to understand in just a few days, are they?”
That was true.
You couldn’t puzzle out such things in merely a few days of experience.
Or more precisely — even if you’d sensed it dimly, it would be hard to feel confident that you were right.
“But it seemed like that man was leading people around as if he’d known it all from the start. And that’s why the group has grown so large.”
“That part did strike me as odd too.”
Baek Ho answered.
When he’d been deployed to the previous incident, he’d confirmed that the internal survivors had clustered into several groups.
But back then, more time had passed, and each individual group had been fairly small.
Here, though, in only a few days, a large group had formed.
That was decidedly abnormal.
“But precisely because it’s so suspicious, I suspect he might not be the one pulling the strings after all.”
At Baek Ho’s words, this time both Yeon Woo and Woo Ju nodded.
That was right.
If he were the mastermind, he would have acted more discreetly and cunningly.
Instead, as Yeon Woo described it, the middle-aged man simply revealed his special knowledge openly and led people.
Though it was possible he’d disguised himself doubly to evade suspicion even in that way…….
But once you started thinking like that, there was no end to it.
So Baek Ho said this:
“Let’s have one more conversation with him. After that, we’ll decide where to go next.”
“Yes.”
“Understood.”
Once they’d decided, they committed to moving quickly.
No matter what else was true, prolonging the current situation would only make things worse.
As time passed in this place, the environment became increasingly hostile to humans.
More and more giants would awaken, and the number of crocodile birds would continue to multiply.
So the best course was to end this situation while it was still in its infancy.
It was Baek Ho who took on the task of speaking with the middle-aged man again.
Baek Ho went to the room where the middle-aged man was staying, knocked, and asked for a conversation.
Since they spoke alone, Woo Ju and Yeon Woo couldn’t join them, and the two ended up conversing by themselves.
“So you said you were pulled in here while working as a mascot costume attendant?”
“Yes! You seemed suspicious at first, but you stopped worrying about it pretty quickly.”
True enough. Given the circumstances, there were more pressing things to worry about than the person in the costume.
Wasn’t survival more important than suspicion about someone else?
“Did you feel anything else unusual about him?”
“Hmm. That’s the tricky part. It’s not that I don’t feel anything — it’s the opposite. I feel too much.”
“Too much?”
“Yes. This place looks dangerous, that place looks dangerous. Everything looks dangerous. The only relatively safe spot is this basement.”
Woo Ju nodded.
Indeed, when it came to sensing like this, it was hard for him to keep pace with Yeon Woo even while wearing the mask.
The Spirit Mask let you see things you normally couldn’t, but it didn’t grant such delicate perceptive ability.
Of course, the mask had its strengths too.
At least its ability to identify enemies was reliable.
As it happened, when looking through the mask, he’d found no one here who wasn’t human.
If such a being had existed, I would have found a way to intervene.
Knock-knock.
Just as they finished that exchange, Baek Ho opened the door and stepped inside at the sound of the knock.
He’d wrapped up the conversation faster than expected.
Baek Ho gestured for everyone to sit, then spoke with a grave expression.
“Someone’s been feeding him information.”
“Information?”
“Who?”
In response to Woo Ju and Yeon Woo’s questions, Baek Ho continued.
“Even he doesn’t know who it was. He says a man approached him out of nowhere just before he was dragged here, and started talking to him abruptly.”
According to what Baek Ho related, this man had rattled off a disjointed stream of information.
Naturally, the middle-aged man assumed he was dealing with a lunatic and tried to move away.
But the stranger grabbed hold of him and kept repeating the same warnings over and over.
Avoid the giants.
The underground is safe.
Avoid anything that looks human but isn’t.
Windows are dangerous.
All of it advice pertaining directly to this space.
“He thought the guy was just some maniac and headed home, only to be dragged here anyway.”
“So that’s when he remembered the warnings.”
“Right. They seemed directly relevant to what’s happening now.”
After hearing this much, Woo Ju’s brow furrowed.
“So he has no connection to whoever’s behind this.”
“That’s right. He could be lying, but from what I could tell, he didn’t seem to be.”
Baek Ho added, “Unless he’s had special training, that is.”
“Still, just to be safe, I’ve set up a simple tracking method. Let’s resolve matters here first, then we can question him again.”
“Understood. That seems best.”
They couldn’t rule someone out based on a few words alone, but for now there were more pressing matters at hand, so they couldn’t afford to linger.
So the three of them decided to leave the karaoke.
They’d concluded they’d extracted everything of value from this place.
“Wait, you’re leaving?”
When the three of them announced their departure, the middle-aged man’s expression turned bewildered.
He seemed unable to comprehend why they would abandon this safe haven.
Baek Ho answered him in an even tone.
“The problem is, we’re running low on supplies here. Won’t they deplete faster with more people around?”
The karaoke was indeed stocked with a considerable amount of beverages, snacks, and bottled water.
But there wasn’t nearly enough for everyone gathered to eat and drink comfortably.
The middle-aged man seemed to consider this, then finally nodded.
“I understand. But please be careful. Outside is very dangerous.”
With that, the conversation came to an end.
Though the middle-aged man’s expression remained regretful, he didn’t try to stop them, and the three made their way out of the building.
“You said the two of you were on the opposite side?”
“Yes. We came here through the park.”
Baek Ho spoke while surveying the surroundings.
For now, there didn’t appear to be any giants nearby.
“It looks like the gateway might be in this vicinity too.”
“We didn’t see any trace of it on our side.”
It was an obvious point, but when they’d searched for Yeon Woo earlier, they’d examined every sign and trace of a gateway carefully.
Yet they’d found nothing relevant in the opposite sector.
“Though those two did comb through this area thoroughly, I’m told.”
“We should check anyway. If we still can’t find it—”
Baek Ho tilted his head slightly, gazing into the distance where giants roamed.
“We’ll have no choice but to venture into their territory.”
The other group hadn’t approached anywhere near where the giants patrolled.
There was no reason to take unnecessary risks.
Besides, the probability of Yeon Woo hiding in such a place seemed low.
But if they couldn’t find the gateway, they’d need to approach and investigate even the most dangerous areas.
Because without destroying it, there was no way to leave, nor any way to resolve what lay ahead.
“Then let’s move.”
“Yes.”
“Yes.”
The three of them resumed their slow walk down the street.
Mindful not to rouse any sleeping giants, they picked their way carefully through the area, and after nearly half a day of wandering the streets, they reached a conclusion.
“Looks like this zone’s a dead end too.”
They had found no gateway in this safe area either.
Baek Ho clicked his tongue in frustration.
“Same as last time—are there just no gateways in the safe zones at all?”
According to the report Woo Ju had reviewed, the gateway back then had been located near the Park.
That was why they’d barely managed to approach it while evading the crocodile birds, and finally resolved the situation.
“So now we’re left with just the Park side and the territory the giants have claimed.”
Baek Ho said as much while looking toward one side.
There stood a building of unusual height—a relatively recent construction.
And right beside it stood a giant.
A giant whose appearance seemed particularly sinister, even compared to the others.
Woo Ju followed Baek Ho’s gaze and opened his mouth.
“Let’s use this to decide.”
With those words, what Woo Ju raised was none other than the Necronomicon.
At that, Baek Ho’s expression grew grave.
“It’s dangerous.”
“But what we’re about to attempt is dangerous either way, isn’t it? I believe it would be safer to draw upon the Necronomicon’s power, even if we must pay a price.”
Baek Ho opened his mouth as if to argue, then closed it. After a moment, he exhaled and spoke.
“Fine. Keep it simple. We don’t need a clear, certain solution. Just a general sense of direction is enough.”
Obviously—obviously it was true, but the greater the power demanded, the steeper the price.
The Necronomicon did seem to offer incantations whose cost was suspiciously low relative to their power, but there was no room for carelessness.
“Understood. Let’s head to that building first.”
They couldn’t chant an incantation in the middle of the street, so they ducked into a nearby building.
It wasn’t the perfect hideaway that the Karaoke had been, but it didn’t matter.
They’d confirmed there were no giants nearby, and they wouldn’t be staying long anyway.
“I’m beginning.”
Woo Ju didn’t drag it out—he simply lifted the Necronomicon and placed his hand upon it.
Then he began to concentrate.
‘I want to know the gateway’s location, even if only vaguely and imprecisely. I just need to know which direction.’
He repeated the same thought, again and again.
Soon a response came.
Whoooosh!
The Necronomicon trembled violently and began to open of its own accord.
Woo Ju looked down at it with a slightly tense expression. And a moment later.
Thwick.
The pages that had been turning ceased at a single point.
Woo Ju reflexively read the topmost line of that page in his mind.
‘Great Lord of the Heavens, be praised.’
Some incantations had names; others did not. This one, it seemed, was among the latter.
But reading through the page, he could grasp roughly what sort of incantation it was.
‘When there is something you seek with intensity, you may gain a very vague intuition regarding it.’
It was precisely the incantation Woo Ju had hoped for.
And the price was equally simple.
One need only chant the incantation with a heart that genuinely praised the Lord of the Heavens.
The caution was not to accidentally speak words that insulted the Lord of the Heavens.
For if one did, the Lord of the Heavens might turn its gaze upon this place at once.
Woo Ju briefly shared the contents with the others, then began to chant the incantation.
“Alef ehia ahtaka to de masiarek.”
His voice spread outward, and soon a black mist-like substance began to seep upward from above.
Baek Ho and Yeon Woo watched it intently, their expressions tense.
The mist swelled as if to fill the entire space. It was about the time doubts began to creep in—whether something had gone wrong—
“I understand.”
Woo Ju’s head snapped up as he spoke.
“The gateway is at the highest point in this vicinity.”
Continued in the next episode ▶
Calamities Within Urban Legends: Catastrophe-Class Relics and Their Obsessions
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