The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 41

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Disaster-Class Artifacts from Urban Legends Show Obsession — Chapter 41
Woof! Woof woof woof!
Happy barked away.
“Get lost already!”
Bang! Bang bang!
Ujoo swung at Smile’s legs with relentless effort.
Whoooosh!
Chae Wol continued deploying the Mass Talisman Release Service with her remaining talismans.
-Ahhhhhhhhh!
As a result, Smile careened and spun about wildly, bellowing in furious rage.
Pain? It wasn’t quite that.
This was pure, unadulterated anger.
Ujoo could have kept pummeling Smile indefinitely—it would have been satisfying—but he was someone who knew when to stop.
“Let’s go now!”
Since they weren’t going to finish this properly, it was time to slip away.
Woof!
Just then, Happy flattened himself against the ground and barked toward Ujoo.
Ujoo understood instantly what that meant.
“You want us to ride on your back?”
Woof!
-My friend! Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend! Friend! Where! Why!
Even as Smile stumbled again and reached out his arms, Ujoo ignored him and climbed onto Happy’s back alongside Chae Wol.
Tap!
Without hesitation, Happy pushed off the ground and bolted toward the exit.
Perhaps because Happy had lived beneath Smile all this time, he navigated the twisted maze of passages without difficulty.
His speed exceeded what Ujoo could have managed guiding him.
Thud, thud, thud!
Smile pursued again with a terrible visage, but the gap between them only widened, never closed.
Meanwhile, Ujoo kept glancing back over his shoulder.
‘Why isn’t he coming?’
Ryu Seon Dam, whom he’d told to leave first earlier, still hadn’t appeared.
What with his True Form appearing and all—had something happened to him?
No matter what, leaving this place without him left a bad taste in his mouth.
As he pondered this while the exit drew steadily closer,
-Shriiiiiieeeeeeeek!
Suddenly, a black wave surged up from somewhere far behind.
Ujoo’s expression darkened at the vicious aura radiating from that wave.
It was far more intense than the energy coming from Smile, who was still chasing them.
-Uuuu.
Shortly after, Smile was swallowed by that wave.
And the wave swelled even larger.
Only then did Ujoo grasp what the wave truly was.
‘So that’s his real form.’
What he’d thought was the True Form wasn’t actually the True Form at all.
That black wave—that was Smile’s full power.
‘No wonder he didn’t even flinch when we kept beating on him.’
This was, in essence, a matter of approach.
Not the sort of thing you’d solve with a steel pipe, like what had happened in the Underground of some meditation center.
Perhaps it would have been better to go at it with the Necronomicon from the start.
Like in the Underground of that meditation center.
Well, they’d never come here to defeat him anyway, so they hadn’t considered it.
After taking in the sight of the black wave, Ujoo turned his head back forward.
“Whoa, you scared me!”
Ujoo was startled by something he saw ahead.
“I apologize for the scare.”
There stood Ryu Seon Dam right before them—without a sound, without warning.
“I thought it would be good to slip out now, so I came to meet you. Shall we go?”
“Yes, of course. Ah—would you prefer not to ride with us?”
“I’m fine as is.”
Whatever had transpired, Ryu Seon Dam’s appearance was anything but unscathed.
His body bore deep wounds, and his clothes were stained with blood.
Yet his face remained utterly composed.
“Happy, let’s go!”
Ujoo decided not to ask about it and instead focus on escaping this place.
If that wave caught up, it would become very troublesome.
Tap-tap-tap!
Happy bolted forward with Ujoo and Chae Wol on his back, while Ryu Seon Dam ran lightly in pursuit.
—Geeeeaaaarrrggghhhh!
An unbearable voice echoed from the wave behind them, but no one acknowledged it.
The wave’s speed was considerable.
But no matter how fast it was, it couldn’t match the speed at which they reached the door.
“Breaking through as we are!”
Ujoo crashed through the door while still mounted on Happy’s back with Chae Wol.
Whoooosh—!
At that moment, a brilliant light burst forth. Ujoo felt his body lift into the air.
He instinctively braced himself, but the pain he expected never came.
Thump.
Instead, his feet touched the ground naturally.
His vision cleared around that moment.
Ujoo reflexively looked around and realized he had returned to the location before entering Smile Park.
“We’re… back.”
“Indeed.”
He could confirm that Chae Wol and Ryu Seon Dam had both returned safely as well.
But they weren’t the only ones to have escaped from Smile Park.
Woof!
Ujoo turned his head and startled.
There was a dog at his feet.
And it looked distinctly familiar.
“Happy?”
Woof!
The dog wagged its tail cheerfully in response to Ujoo’s call.
It really did seem to be Happy.
Ujoo regarded Happy with curiosity and spoke.
“Your heads have shrunk!”
True—while the creature had reduced to a normal medium-sized dog’s body, its three heads had become just one!
Ryu Seon Dam observed this from beside him and spoke.
“Returning to reality must have affected it. Maintaining that form requires energy expenditure, after all.”
“Ah, so it’s something like power-saving mode?”
“Exactly. That’s an excellent analogy.”
Ujoo felt somewhat relieved by Ryu Seon Dam’s words.
He had been worried that something was wrong and the two heads had disappeared.
Ujoo patted Happy’s head and then looked forward again.
An object used to enter Smile Park lay before them.
They had escaped safely, but Smile, the park’s owner, remained intact.
For that reason, they couldn’t be entirely at ease even now that they’d escaped.
It was at that moment that Ryu Seon Dam spoke again.
“You needn’t worry about Smile. Look closely.”
“Look closely?”
Ujoo examined the object before him carefully upon hearing this. And soon he understood why Ryu Seon Dam had told him to look.
From close up, he could see spider-web-like cracks spreading in all directions.
“Is it… broken?”
“Precisely. That creature is quite powerful, but it cannot wield its strength recklessly without cost. It likely tried to break through by force after we left, and failed.”
“I see.”
Ujoo nodded.
Ryu Seon Dam also explained that Smile Park itself would likely shut down for a while.
With such reckless use of power, the aftereffects would be severe, he said.
“So it’s over then.”
Ujoo spoke with a strange feeling washing over him.
Somehow, despite escaping safely, he didn’t feel purely joyful.
He’d spent the entire time inside running and hiding from Smile, barely managing to escape.
I’d handled the target I was tracking, but it wasn’t exactly a clean finish.
“Feels incomplete, doesn’t it? I mean, we dealt with them, but there’s nothing to show for it.”
You could call it a dissatisfying conclusion.
“No, that’s not right.”
“Hm?”
But Ryu Seon Dam said otherwise.
“Of course I collected everything that remained.”
With those words, Ryu Seon Dam held something up for me to see.
It was a transparent glass bottle, and inside it sloshed something like a dark liquid.
“I plan to interrogate this one thoroughly.”
“……Is that possibly……?”
“Yes.”
I fell silent for a moment, then nodded.
“That works out well!”
I had no idea how he’d managed to scrape together that “remnant,” or what method of interrogation he had in mind.
But did I really need to know the details?
“Well then, let’s go get some rest.”
That’s how the search operation came to an end.
Woof!
And I’d made a new friend in Happy.
* * *
After the underground operation wrapped up,
I was granted a day off.
But even with a day off, I couldn’t roam freely outside.
There were people after me, after all.
So even on my rest day, I had to stay within the Inspection Bureau building.
Not that I minded—I wasn’t uncomfortable or particularly bored.
Woof, woof!
Because I’d made a new friend.
I smiled as Happy bounded back with the ball I’d thrown, tail wagging.
It went without saying, but the Inspection Bureau had taken Happy away for detailed examination.
Even though Happy looked like an ordinary dog now, his true form was actually a three-headed hellhound.
Fortunately, the examination results came back showing no major concerns.
Happy had clearly recognized me as his master.
“But what would’ve happened if he hadn’t recognized me as his master?”
I looked up and asked the person sitting across from me.
It was Baek Ho, my senior from the same department.
Baek Ho answered my question simply.
“What would’ve happened? We’d have isolated him, obviously. If we can’t control him, it’d be extremely dangerous.”
“That makes sense. Still, I’m glad the approval went through faster than I expected.”
At my words, Baek Ho let out a short laugh and spoke.
“Faster? That approval took a meeting that lasted hours. If the Team Leader hadn’t pushed for it so strongly, it would’ve taken days longer.”
“Hm? The Team Leader?”
“Yeah. I’ve never seen the Team Leader speak up so actively before.”
At that answer, my expression grew complicated.
I never would’ve expected Ryu Seon Dam, the Team Leader, to step forward and actively advocate for Happy.
‘Did Happy win him over?’
I tilted my head slightly, then reached over and stroked Happy’s head.
Either way, it had worked out well for me.
Happy had helped me escape that place, and regardless, I’d come to like him quite a bit.
‘The more I look at him, the more he reminds me of that dog I had as a kid.’
Baek Ho spoke as he watched.
“Anyway, take good care of him. Don’t ever take him outside the building.”
“Of course, I know that. But how much longer am I restricted from going outside?”
“Hmm. We’re still investigating that situation. We’ve already got a rough idea of which side made the move, so we should have it wrapped up by the end of this month at the latest.”
“I wish I could help out with that too. It’s a shame I can’t.”
“That’s unlikely to happen. You’re the one they’re after.”
I could only nod at Baek Ho’s words.
I’d already been attacked once.
Still, it was a relief to hear things should be resolved by the end of the month.
No matter what, staying in the company building for months on end would drive anyone stir-crazy.
“Oh, and tomorrow you’ll be working on something with me.”
“What sort of work? It’s not taking me outside the building, is it?”
“It’s managing artifacts within the company. Originally it’s the Development Team’s responsibility, but they speak very highly of you.”
“The Development Team does?”
“Yes. Your talent is exceptional. Don’t worry—it’s not particularly difficult work.”
“Understood.”
The conversation ended there.
“Well then, I should be going.”
Baek Ho had only come down for a brief lunch break during his shift.
With Baek Ho heading back to work, Ujoo spent the rest of the day in his room with Happy—playing games, resting, passing the time.
The next day.
As soon as Ujoo arrived at work, he headed to the Development Team with Baek Ho.
“Good morning.”
“Ah, welcome!”
The Team Leader greeted him with a brilliant smile. Without so much as a glance at Baek Ho, the Team Leader turned to Ujoo.
“There’s an artifact you absolutely must see!”
“Me?”
“That’s right!”
The Team Leader produced what he was holding—a book.
A vibrantly illustrated picture book, the kind meant for young children.
Continued in the next episode ▶
Disaster-Class Artifacts from Urban Legends Grow Obsessed
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Lee Se-gye
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