The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 84

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Chapter 84
Woo Ju winced at the ear-piercing scream, a dull throb blooming behind his eyes.
But it was manageable—barely.
“Ugh.”
“Ngh—”
The moment the screams erupted, the others stumbled and clutched their heads.
Boom!
At the same instant, a violent tremor radiated from the center of the Sealing Circle ahead.
Though Woo Ju had only just arrived on scene, he grasped immediately what it meant.
Kato had sabotaged the Sealing Ritual the moment he saw them arrive.
Somehow, he’d even manipulated the personnel participating in the ritual itself, driving them to scream with cursed power.
Quick thinking, he had to admit.
But they responded just as swiftly.
Whoosh—!
Ray deployed the Barrier she’d prepared on the way up, albeit a fraction behind schedule.
The throbbing pain that had been drilling through Woo Ju’s skull vanished in an instant.
The others, too, seemed to recover somewhat, their expressions easing as they refocused ahead.
Mizuki spoke up moments later.
“It appears he pre-emptively placed a curse on everyone participating in the Sealing Ritual.”
Indeed, none of those involved looked remotely normal.
They continued emanating curses even now.
Yet everyone remained composed.
Even without knowing every detail, they’d anticipated that the ritual participants might be neutralized—or could be.
So they quietly prepared for the next phase.
“Ray.”
“Yes.”
Mizuki and Ray immediately began their preparations to interfere with Kato’s sorcery.
Ray sketched the pattern, drawing on her deep understanding of Barriers, Sealing Rituals, and Sorcery itself.
Whoosh!
Mizuki channeled power into it.
In operations like this, she usually took point—but this time, she’d agreed to serve as the energy source.
Because there was someone here far better suited to the vanguard role than anyone else.
“Then, I’m going in.”
That someone was Woo Ju.
The moment the others began their preparations, Woo Ju summoned a mask from the air and pressed it to his face.
His vision warped, then clarified with sudden sharpness.
The illusory separated from the real; the corrupted distinguished from the pure.
Through the mask, the world appeared transformed.
Around Kato, layers of pale luminescence were stacked like gossamer veils.
From that light, thin threads extended outward, connecting to the people around him.
By pure instinct, Woo Ju knew these were the threads controlling them.
But the threads didn’t end there.
They also ran backward, toward what was presumed to be Shutendouji’s sealing point.
That particular thread was thicker still, and light pulsed constantly down its length.
As if channeling energy itself.
“Right.”
Woo Ju crouched low.
As always, thinking things through wasn’t his role.
That was work anyone could do.
So Woo Ju took on the task that others could do as well—but he did it best.
“I’ll engage first, then.”
“Go.”
The moment Hwa Ryeon gave her assent, Woo Ju’s body launched forward like an arrow loosed from the string.
Boom!
His form tore through the air in a blur, reaching Kato in the span of a heartbeat.
Kato had known he’d be approached, but hadn’t anticipated such speed—his reaction came just a fraction too late.
Whoooosh!
Woo Ju swung the Iron Pipe down at him.
Kato, merely human flesh and bone, looked as though he’d shatter under even a single blow.
Crash!
But just before the iron pipe pierced his body, the layer of light enveloping him made contact with the pipe.
At the same instant, with a deafening screech, the iron pipe didn’t drive forward—it was pushed back.
Woo Ju’s eyes widened at this phenomenon he’d never encountered before, yet instead of retreating, he poured more force into the blow.
Crack!
Golden patterns suddenly blazed across the iron pipe’s surface, and the pipe that had been repelled surged forward once more.
Screeeech!
With a sound like an awl scraping against steel, the layer of light wrapped around Kato began to warp and buckle.
Kato’s face twisted the instant he saw it.
Gone was the composure he’d displayed only moments before.
He knew, of course.
He’d heard long ago that an agent from the Korean Inspection Bureau had come, and that this ally’s strength was far from ordinary.
Yet the information Kato could access had its limits.
The Inspection Bureau was a foreign organization after all, so shared data was restricted, and the “ally” had died so pathetically that no proper intelligence had been gathered.
So Kato had cobbled together various scraps of information and estimated things would be roughly at this level, preparing accordingly.
And what Woo Ju had just displayed far exceeded Kato’s expectations.
A grunt escaped his lips.
Still, that didn’t mean Kato was so inadequate he’d fall to a single blow.
Kato shed part of the layer enveloping his body and Teleported to another location.
Woo Ju’s eyes narrowed as he watched Kato suddenly widen the distance between them.
‘I’ve never seen anyone use an ability like that before. But it doesn’t change anything,’ he thought, advancing regardless.
Woo Ju kicked off the ground again and charged forward. His role was to keep pressing relentlessly, to give Kato no opening for further tricks.
“You stubborn beast!”
Kato, naturally, didn’t simply accept the same tactic twice.
Before Woo Ju could close the distance again, he unfolded his Sorcery.
Normally an Incantation this demanding would take considerable time to prepare, but now—it was possible.
This place was the stage he’d spent days carefully constructing.
A strange warping sound filled the air.
Woo Ju, charging in a straight line toward Kato, suddenly saw the landscape before him twist and distort.
Reflexively, he swung the iron pipe, but this time the weapon couldn’t solve the problem.
It was less a Barrier stopping him and more an illusion.
When clarity returned, Woo Ju realized Kato had put even more distance between them.
Kato, watching his opponent from farther away, calmly began chanting the next Incantation.
“Aaaaaahhh!”
A deep, grinding rumble shook the earth.
And immediately after, the screams of people grew louder as the ground convulsed violently.
At the same time, half-decomposed corpses thrust upward from beneath the soil.
These too had been prepared in advance by Kato.
Bodies refined through ritual over exactly 444 days, 44 hours, 44 minutes, and 44 seconds, buried beneath the ground.
And since these were the corpses of spiritually gifted individuals, they were far from mere cadavers to be ignored.
Yet this side didn’t have only Woo Ju.
Mizuki and Ray were still channeling their power to complete the Sealing Ritual for Shutendouji, and Hwa Ryeon and Shinichi were there as well.
A long exhalation drifted through the air.
As Hwa Ryeon exhaled smoke from the Smoking Pipe she’d clamped between her teeth, the corpses that had risen with such momentum suddenly lurched off in completely random directions.
Thanks to the scattered bodies scattering in all directions, Woo Ju was free to charge toward Kato again.
A sharp whistling cut through the air!
Dealing with the scattered corpses fell to Kato’s responsibility—except it didn’t.
Shinichi, who’d drawn his blade some time ago, moved with lightning speed, his sword flashing in a blur.
With each stroke, the heads and torsos of the enemies in front of him separated and fell.
Though beads of cold sweat rolled down Shinichi’s face, suggesting the energy expenditure was greater than it appeared, he didn’t slow.
If Hwa Ryeon’s interference stopped, the corpses would surely cluster together and block any path to Kato.
So Woo Ju threw everything he had into his next charge at Kato.
Bang!
A deafening crack accompanied an explosive burst as something shattered.
But Woo Ju’s expression remained unsatisfied—Kato had slipped away cleanly once more and started wielding strange Sorceries again.
Yet Kato’s face was no better pleased.
“This monster of a creature…”
One swing of the iron pipe, and his defensive Barrier shattered. Every time Woo Ju approached and swung, the carefully prepared shields exploded.
These were not shields that should rupture so easily.
They were more painstakingly crafted than even those wandering corpses; originally, they possessed strength that even most of the response team’s members coming in force wouldn’t breach easily.
The one truly dangerous factor had been Mizuki, but he’d already sprung his trap on her, and by omitting reports and sowing confusion in the investigation, he’d ensured she couldn’t escape.
“But why!”
Yet Mizuki stood there, completely unharmed.
The corpse and protective barriers he’d so carefully prepared were being dismantled far too easily.
He’d anticipated multiple variables and spent far more time than his original plan called for, preparing everything with meticulous care—and now it was all crumbling to nothing.
If things had gone according to the original schedule, Kato would already have been cleaning up the scene and moving to the next phase.
But now all those plans had fallen through.
Bang!
Crash!
Only two protective barriers remained.
Once those vanished, there’d be no stopping that beast charging in like a wild boar.
That’s right. There was no way out now.
He’d believed that with proper damage control, he could resolve the situation without issue and proceed with his original plan, but looking at how things were unfolding, that possibility had already slipped away.
“Heh.”
So Kato laughed.
Even as his plan crumbled.
He had no choice. He’d already known it all along.
That his fate was cursed. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have lost those dear to him, wouldn’t have fallen into such a wretched state.
It was for that reason he’d quietly harbored the expectation that everything might go wrong this time too.
And so Kato let go of his attachment.
His attachment to achieving his goal with minimal casualties.
“Open.”
The moment he released that attachment, Kato pulled the thread he held in his hand, and with it, the Sealing Barrier he’d been desperately maintaining snapped wide open.
“No!”
“The barrier!”
Mizuki and Ray cried out in alarm.
It couldn’t have been otherwise.
The Sealing Barrier around Shutendouji that they’d been desperately working to reinforce suddenly shattered completely.
It wasn’t a failure of skill. They’d simply misjudged.
They’d assumed Kato had sabotaged the Sealing Ritual, but that premise was wrong from the start.
He’d designed and built this Sealing Ritual himself.
Specifically so it would open again.
So no matter how many holes they plugged, it meant nothing. Kato had possessed the means to throw it wide open from the very beginning.
Rumble-rumble-rumble-rumble!
Then a violent Energy Wave erupted from where Shutendouji had been sealed.
Now even Kato could do nothing about it.
Normally, he would have needed time to gradually wrest control, but now he’d simply forced the door open.
The freed Shutendouji would doubtless go berserk immediately.
That was all Kato needed.
With such a massive charge detonated, the ground would become far more solid.
Given the calamities that lay ahead, this kind of preventative measure was necessary.
Yes. This was for the Inspection Bureau, for Japan itself.
Though he’d been forced to shake hands with suspicious people for this, it didn’t matter anyway—he’d die here…….
He was lost in such thoughts when—
Bang!
A deafening roar tore through the air.
Kato’s head snapped around reflexively.
Woo Ju, who’d been charging at him, now stood before Shutendouji’s seal.
Iron Pipe raised high.
“Get back!”
“It’s too dangerous!”
Though the others urged him desperately to retreat, Woo Ju didn’t turn away.
In that instant, Kato saw exactly what was going through Woo Ju’s mind.
Shutendouji was weakened by the seal.
The longer it spent free, the stronger it would become.
So strike when it’s weakest.
Right now!
“Such madness…….”
Kato forgot his own thoughts entirely, his mouth falling open.
To be continued ▶
Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Become Obsessed
Author
Lee Se-gye
Publisher
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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