The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 106

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Catastrophe-Class Relics Obsessed with Me in Urban Legends — Episode 106
Some people experienced something inexplicable one day while walking down an ordinary street.
Pedestrians who had been going about their business vanished in an instant, and familiar streets became unfamiliar.
Then, after a little time had passed, they realized what was happening wasn’t quite what they’d first thought.
It wasn’t other people who had disappeared.
It was the opposite.
They themselves had been dragged into a strange place.
“My God…….”
“Please, please…….”
Those gathered at the establishment bearing the sign “Frog Karaoke” had all undergone that same experience.
Now they huddled with their eyes tightly shut, muttering incoherently.
As if they’d lost half their minds.
When they’d encountered Woo Ju and his party earlier, they’d been anxious but still maintained composure. There was a reason for their current deterioration.
Thud, thud, thud—!
Boom!
The sounds coming from outside were the cause.
Not long after Woo Ju’s party had left, deafening booms began to echo.
At first the sound came from quite a distance, but as time passed it drew closer, until eventually it seemed to come from right outside.
Boom!
It was happening still.
With each crash—as though something were collapsing just before their eyes—everyone cowered and either screamed or whimpered.
Understandably so. Hidden in the basement as they were, if the building collapsed they would be buried alive.
Yet they lacked the courage to venture outside.
After all, they had seen with their own eyes what manner of creature lurked beyond.
Monsters the size of high-rise buildings. And entities in human form serving as sentries for those monsters.
Such things made any thought of leaving unbearable.
“E-everyone, stay calm! We’re s-safe here!”
The middle-aged man who’d assumed the role of leader did his best to reassure the others.
Of course, he didn’t truly believe they were safe.
He was afraid too, naturally. But he understood that panic would serve no one in a situation like this.
So he grasped for empty reassurances, however hollow, to calm the frightened crowd.
Boom—!
Another deafening sound erupted.
This time it came from directly in front, and even the middle-aged man flinched and trembled.
Several minutes passed since the sounds began in earnest.
Yet to them it felt like dozens of minutes, hours even.
Rumble, rumble…….
But gradually the sound began to recede.
The terror etched on their faces began to fade—not vanish, but fade. Only slightly.
There was no way to know when the sound might return.
Another few minutes passed.
“I……. I’m going to go check the situation outside.”
The middle-aged man said this with his fists clenched.
The others looked at him with startled eyes.
They were certainly curious themselves about what was happening outside—it directly affected their survival.
But they hadn’t expected anyone to step forward so readily and offer to scout.
The middle-aged man had his reasons, though.
‘I have to confirm whether this place is safe.’
What was the point of staying locked in the basement, trembling with anxiety?
Ultimately, it was to survive.
Even if the sound had receded now, there was no knowing when it might return.
So shouldn’t he at least go out and assess the situation?
There was always the option of sending someone else, of course. But the middle-aged man couldn’t bring himself to volunteer anyone.
None of them would have stepped forward willingly if called upon.
Moreover, he felt some responsibility toward these people.
Taken together, one might say the middle-aged man possessed a strong sense of duty and a kind heart.
Exhale.
He released a short breath, then turned with resolute eyes and left the karaoke room.
Of course, he had no intention of going all the way outside and bravely surveying the full situation.
His target was the entrance of the building.
He planned to go there, peek just slightly around the corner to assess the situation, then return.
And so the middle-aged man climbed the stairs with reluctant steps, soon arriving at the entrance.
And finally, when he reached the door.
The middle-aged man heard it. He saw it.
Boom…….
Crash……!
Sounds drifting from far away. And by pure luck, the source of those sounds entered directly into the middle-aged man’s field of vision.
Far down the corridor, giants were fighting with furious gestures.
At first, he thought the giants were fighting among themselves. But as the middle-aged man stood frozen, watching the spectacle unfold, he realized that wasn’t the case at all.
Someone was there.
Someone was leaping across the bodies of giants dozens of times larger than themselves, fighting.
“What…….”
The middle-aged man’s mouth fell open in bewilderment at this incomprehensible sight.
Was this something a human could actually do?
But the astonishing part didn’t end there.
Boom……!
When that person swung the rod-like object they held, a giant’s head snapped back violently and it toppled over.
That’s right. A human had felled a giant with a rod.
The sight was, to exaggerate only slightly, like watching a single ant fell a human with a stick as thick as its own torso.
It was utterly absurd.
Boom……!
Thud, thud!
Yet this impossible thing was actually happening before his eyes.
The middle-aged man forgot his plan to glance briefly and return, standing transfixed as he watched the scene unfold for a long while.
Thud, thud-!
He snapped back to awareness only when he spotted another giant charging toward the fray from this direction.
His survival instinct rekindled, the middle-aged man descended the stairs at a hurried pace.
“Gasp, huff.”
After catching his breath for some time, he pushed open the karaoke door and entered.
“Are you all right?”
The moment he came down, everyone in the Frog Karaoke turned to stare at him.
Half their expressions were worry. Half were burning with curiosity about what was happening outside.
The middle-aged man tried to tell them what he’d seen, but felt his words stick in his throat.
No matter how he thought about it, the sight he’d witnessed felt like a dream.
Was it really possible for that to happen?
But the intensity in everyone’s eyes kept growing, and eventually the middle-aged man had no choice but to speak.
“That is, well.”
After deliberating carefully, the middle-aged man spoke to them haltingly.
“Someone is fighting with giants. I mean, a person.”
At those words, confusion and bewilderment flickered across the others’ faces.
They looked as if they had no idea what the middle-aged man was talking about.
But the middle-aged man was not disconcerted or surprised by their expressions.
He simply emphasized it once more.
“I’m serious. Someone really is fighting a giant up there!”
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Woo Ju saw it all.
The giants pouring down on him endlessly.
Giants that fell only to rise again, no matter how many times he struck them down.
It was a sight that would inspire terror in anyone who witnessed it.
Truth be told, even a single giant was a monster that ordinary people could never hope to contend with.
Immense mass and physical prowess. And each of the giants possessed bizarre and peculiar powers besides.
The first one he’d faced had sprouted hundreds of eyes across its torso, crushing him with their weight, while another had let out a piercing shriek that clouded the mind the moment he heard it.
So when Woo Ju found himself surrounded by nine giants, he’d anticipated a difficult battle.
But the actual fight unfolded somewhat differently than expected.
“Take this!”
Boom-!
One of the giants took the Iron Pipe Woo Ju swung directly to the head and flew backward in a sharp arc.
Normally he would have rushed in again to land additional strikes, but instead Woo Ju launched himself in a different direction.
Certainly, fighting giants wasn’t an easy task.
Hadn’t he needed to fight with everything he had when facing even just the first one?
But once their numbers exceeded two, he’d changed his strategy entirely.
‘This is actually doable.’
He’d simply keep running and land hits as opportunities came.
That’s what he was doing now.
The giants chased Woo Ju wildly, each one taking a blow before crashing down.
Of course, they’d rise again shortly and charge forward, but by then he’d already put considerable distance between them.
By ordinary measures of stride length, it should have been impossible—but Woo Ju’s superhuman physical abilities made it possible.
And so Woo Ju found himself herding every giant in the vicinity along with him.
Surprisingly easily, at that.
Still, that didn’t mean he was entirely at ease.
‘It’s about time.’
What worried him wasn’t the giants—it was the Building.
Quite a bit of time had passed since they’d entered, yet there was still no signal, and he was beginning to grow uneasy.
According to the previous reports, dangerous things had been positioned around the Corridor, as if standing guard over it.
Of course, Baek Ho could handle most things, but…
Whoosh—
It was right as Woo Ju was having that thought.
Suddenly, something began to ripple from deep within the Building.
Crash!
After lightly sidestepping the palm strike of the giant charging at him from behind, Woo Ju looked back toward the Building.
Whoosh!
He hadn’t been mistaken.
A strange rippling continued to emanate from the Building.
‘Got it!’
Woo Ju knew what phenomenon this was.
The Corridor was collapsing.
In other words, those who’d gone into the Building had succeeded.
All that remained was to wait for the Corridor to fully crumble and pull them back outside.
Whoooosh—!
Soon the rippling grew more intense.
He traded blows with the giants for a while longer.
FLASH—!
A searing light burst forth from the Building, engulfing the surrounding area.
At the same moment, Woo Ju felt his body being pulled toward something.
Rather than resist, he bounded lightly upward and went with it.
Then his body began moving faster and faster.
Upward. Higher.
Now he was being drawn back out.
But then.
Suddenly something caught his eye.
A dark shape.
Woo Ju sensed instinctively that the shape was looking directly at him.
And the moment he saw it, a flash of intuition struck him.
‘That’s the one!’
He couldn’t say why.
He simply felt it the instant he saw it.
That this shape was connected to whoever had caused all this. Perhaps even was that person.
It might have been an absurd thought, but it could also have been a gut instinct operating on a deeper level.
In any case, the shape observed him with perfect calm.
As if trying to memorize his face.
And Woo Ju didn’t like that one bit.
So he acted before he thought.
Whoosh!
Even as he was being pulled upward, he drove toward the shape.
The shape looked at him then as though sneering—the way one might regard someone attempting the impossible.
But when the distance between them actually began to close, the shape flinched visibly.
Of course, all of this could have been Woo Ju’s imagination.
But he continued toward the shape regardless.
And just as he was about to reach it—
A voice came.
—That makes no sense…….
In the next instant, Woo Ju’s hand moved like lightning, brushing past the figure.
Unfortunately, by a hair’s breadth, the figure slipped from view.
Yet it was not entirely without gain.
A small cloth fragment remained in Woo Ju’s hand.
Continued in the next chapter ▶
Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Obsess
Author
Lee Se-gye
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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