The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 85

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Urban Legends and Catastrophe-Class Relics: Chapter 85
If the seal had been loosened carelessly, what Woo Ju was doing now would have been foolish.
He’d only be striking at the seal itself.
But now that Kato had blown the seal wide open, everything changed.
Since he couldn’t stop the seal from breaking anyway, the right move was to deal as much damage as possible in the meantime.
Of course, normally even if someone understood that intellectually, acting on it as immediately as Woo Ju did would be difficult.
And Woo Ju wasn’t moving according to some calculated plan either.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
His body simply reacted first, sensing instinctively that now was the moment to strike.
Without pause, Woo Ju swung the Iron Pipe several more times.
Crash—!
A deafening roar erupted from the Seal Site, and an Energy Burst tore outward.
Something enormous revealed itself immediately after.
At first, only its silhouette appeared.
A massive frame. Two horns. An aura so overwhelming it made the mountain shudder.
A yokai that had once shaken the Japanese Archipelago was awakening.
Crash—!
And Woo Ju swung the Iron Pipe at the emerging form once more.
The shape that had barely materialized visibly reeled from the blow.
Kato had broken the seal only seconds ago. In that brief span, Woo Ju had struck multiple times.
It was only then that the others came to their senses and began to support him.
Whoosh—!
Ray immediately began reconstructing her barrier.
The barrier she’d built before had been neutralized when the original seal shattered, but she was rapidly reassembling its remnants into a new barrier on the spot.
It was no simple task, but Ray pressed forward with grim determination.
Difficult or not, it had to be done.
That’s why she was here.
“I’ll help over there.”
Mizuki stepped forward to directly assist in restraining Shuten Doji.
Since the plan to complete the seal swiftly had failed, supporting the effort to contain Shuten Doji was now more practical.
Of course, the others shifted their positions to match the changing situation.
Thud!
And then—
Shuten Doji, now fully freed from the seal, brought his foot crashing down on the earth.
The ground trembled, and an aura far more intense than before radiated outward.
The pressure was so overwhelming it felt as though something heavy were pressing down on their shoulders from above.
Even Kato, who had broken the seal open, couldn’t withstand the weight and dropped to one knee.
Breath hissing out—
But standing directly before that aura, Woo Ju kept his back straight, meeting the force head-on.
His brow was furrowed, suggesting he wasn’t unaffected, but he’d overcome it.
Thud!
Then Shuten Doji suddenly swung the massive wooden club he held.
Without thinking, Woo Ju raised his Iron Pipe to meet it.
Crash!
A tremendous sound rang out. Remarkably, neither Shuten Doji nor Woo Ju was knocked backward.
The others stared in surprise, their eyes widening, and Woo Ju realized something.
‘He’s weaker than I thought.’
Woo Ju didn’t know the true extent of Shuten Doji’s power, but he could see clearly that the yokai was now in a severely diminished state.
Even this collision made it obvious.
The aura radiating from him was so overwhelming that not just the others but even Hwa Ryeon’s complexion had gone pale.
Yet the force when they actually clashed wasn’t of that magnitude.
It was certainly strong, but not incomparably so compared to opponents from before.
If the creature had demonstrated even a tenth of the power its aura suggested, the last exchange would have been quite dangerous.
“This thing is weaker than it looks!”
Woo Ju immediately shared his insight with the others.
They all belatedly grasped that Shuten Doji was in a greatly weakened state.
Intellectually they’d known it, but the overwhelming aura he’d released moments before had prevented them from truly grasping it.
And the fact that they knew so much about Shuten Doji likely contributed as well.
Knowing how dangerous he was in his true form bred hesitation.
But Woo Ju had no such doubts.
He’d skimmed the files, but they’d done nothing to shake Woo Ju’s resolve.
Crash!
If there was an enemy in front of him, he fought. It was that simple.
Roooaaaarrr!
With a deafening boom, Shuten Doji staggered back several steps, then let out a cry like that of a wild beast.
According to the records, Shuten Doji was clearly intelligent and even capable of speech.
But intelligence didn’t mean he’d obey their commands or bend to reason.
Still, no trace of that intelligence showed in him now.
It was yet another sign that Shuten Doji was anything but himself.
“Weaken him as much as we can and re-seal him!”
Mizuki’s sharp voice cut through the chaos.
She’d assessed Shuten Doji’s condition and determined it was weakened enough—they could manage a re-sealing.
Nngh!
Meanwhile, Hwa Ryeon moved with swift precision and pinned Kato to the ground.
Kato struggled, but he’d exhausted himself breaking Shuten Doji’s seal and stood no chance against her.
Gaaaahhh!
As for the corpses Kato had raised, Shinichi had dispatched them all.
They were already weakened as Kato’s power faded, so they hadn’t lasted long.
That left only one.
Groooaarrr!
The incompletely awakened Shuten Doji alone.
Woo Ju grimaced at the ear-splitting roar and raised the iron pipe.
Shuten Doji didn’t retreat—he swung his wooden club to meet it.
Craaaash!
The iron pipe and wooden club collided in mid-air once more.
The impact was catastrophic—the earth itself split open beneath them.
“Just what…?”
Mizuki, moving closer to aid Woo Ju, muttered to herself as she watched.
The Japanese Surveillance Bureau had many talented personnel, but none of them generated this kind of raw force.
And from what she’d seen before, his strength wasn’t merely superhuman—his other abilities were equally inhuman.
It was hardly surprising that Mizuki found herself wondering what kind of monster the Korean Surveillance Bureau had cultivated.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Woo Ju, oblivious to his reputation as a monster, continued trading blows with Shuten Doji.
He thought to himself:
‘The thing’s brutally, mindlessly strong.’
He’d faced no shortage of troublesome creatures, but none came close to this one in sheer force alone.
Now he understood why the Japanese Surveillance Bureau had prioritized sealing over elimination.
Thud! Thud!
Yet despite that, the scales were clearly tipping in Woo Ju’s favor.
With each passing moment, Shuten Doji’s strength began to fade, while Woo Ju remained unchanged.
Slash!
Shinichi, having joined the fray, sliced at Shuten Doji’s body wherever an opening appeared, while Hwa Ryeon released billowing smoke that coiled around him like serpents.
Ahhhhh—!
Finally, Mizuki drew forth a strange puppet and aimed it at Shuten Doji.
Pale forms materialized in the air and pressed down upon his body from above.
As they coordinated their assault, Shuten Doji could no longer counter Woo Ju’s attacks—he faltered and retreated step by step.
It seemed that the moment Ray completed her Sealing Incantation, they would have him trapped.
Nngh, gaaaaaahhhhh!
But the instant they thought they had him cornered—
An aura far more sinister than before erupted from Shuten Doji’s body.
“Watch out!”
Mizuki hurled the puppet directly at him the moment she sensed it.
Crack!
The puppet shattered, and from it emerged a far larger form that shrieked and engulfed Shuten Doji.
Boom!
But it held for only seconds before it burst apart.
Shuten Doji had destroyed it with sheer force.
“He’s making a final desperate move!”
Mizuki’s face had gone even paler as she cried out.
The mechanism was unclear, but one thing was certain: he had suddenly grown stronger.
Mizuki had probably warned him not to face Shuten Doji head-on and to fall back instead.
“Hah.”
But Woo Ju did no such thing.
Instead, he gripped the Iron Pipe even harder, whispering to himself.
‘If I retreat now, the original master will be disappointed.’
At those words, the Iron Pipe vibrated as if in affirmation.
Whirrrr!
And it wasn’t just the Iron Pipe. The Leather Jacket trembled as well, golden patterns blooming across its surface.
The Iron Pipe then answered in kind, the same golden patterns flaring to life.
Woo Ju felt power flooding through his entire body.
“Hnngh!”
Shuten Doji’s gaze, which had wandered elsewhere, snapped back to Woo Ju.
The yokai sensed instinctively that Woo Ju had grown stronger.
And the next moment, neither hesitating, they charged toward each other like lightning and swung their weapons.
Just as they were about to collide—
Woo Ju saw the form of an enormous wooden club overlay the Iron Pipe.
Perhaps that was the Iron Pipe’s true shape.
CRAAAAAASH!
Then a deafening roar and shockwave erupted, sweeping across the entire area with incomparable force.
The people assisting Woo Ju nearby were flung back as if caught in invisible claws.
Only two remained standing their ground.
Shuten Doji and Woo Ju alone.
They stood frozen in mid-swing, staring at each other.
The people who had scrambled to their feet swallowed hard at the sight.
But then—
Thud!
Shuten Doji stumbled and fell forward, catching himself on one arm against the earth.
Meanwhile, Woo Ju remained standing upright on both feet.
In a contest of pure strength, Woo Ju had overpowered Shuten Doji.
“Beginning the sealing!”
And at that precise moment, Ray announced that the Sealing Incantation was complete.
Without hesitation, Ray unfurled the Sealing Incantation toward the kneeling Shuten Doji.
Flash!
Bright light erupted from countless points across the ground and surged toward Shuten Doji.
The residual power from the sealing ritual performed earlier had been gathered and redirected anew.
Shrrrrip!
The light transformed into chains that bound Shuten Doji’s body at multiple points.
Sealing technique so masterful it seemed impossible to accomplish in less than ten minutes.
Grrrk!
But Shuten Doji proved far more resilient than expected.
Weakened as he was and defeated once by Woo Ju, he still had strength enough to strain against the seals binding his body.
Yet Woo Ju still stood before him.
Woo Ju moved to deliver a sharp blow to the yokai’s head to calm his resistance.
Whirrrrrr!
But just before, the bracelet on Woo Ju’s wrist vibrated.
Pandora’s Box was speaking to him.
Woo Ju understood its meaning at once and furrowed his brow.
“You can seal him?”
Whirr!
Pandora’s Box confirmed it could.
Woo Ju hesitated, then raised one arm.
Ray’s condition, still chanting the Sealing Incantation, looked visibly strained.
If left as it was, the seal might not complete, and they’d have to fight from the beginning all over again.
“Contain him.”
So Woo Ju pointed his arm at Shuten Doji and murmured the words.
Click—
With the sound of the box opening, Shuten Doji’s body was drawn toward the void before Woo Ju at terrifying speed.
Terrifying speed indeed.
—GAAAAH!
Shuten Doji resisted to the end, but bound by the chains encasing his body, he couldn’t muster his full strength.
Gulp!
Not long after, the massive form vanished.
At the same moment, Woo Ju felt the will transmitted from Pandora’s Box.
—Delicious! Give me more!
It appeared to have been a most satisfying meal.
Continued in the next episode ▶
Urban Legends and the Obsessions of Catastrophe-Class Relics
Author
Lee Se-gye
Publishers
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
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Grae Publishing
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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