The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 89

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Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Become Obsessed — Episode 89
As Woo Ju, Hwa Ryeon, and Yeon Woo rose from their seats and walked toward the Stone Statue, no one watched them go.
Though surely someone should have noticed.
“Hmm.”
Hwa Ryeon’s eyes narrowed at the sight. This was certainly not a normal response.
It wasn’t long before they arrived at the Stone Statue.
“It really is out of place.”
“Now that we’re close, I’m wondering why we didn’t spot it immediately.”
It made sense, perhaps, but the Stone Statue clashed entirely with the Cafeteria’s atmosphere.
Utterly incongruous, one might say.
For one thing, it showed fine cracks across its surface from age, and moss had begun to grow on it as well.
“Should we call the others over and take a look?”
Woo Ju asked Hwa Ryeon.
She glanced around the Cafeteria before responding.
“No. We don’t know what kind of ripple effect might occur. Let’s examine the Stone Statue first.”
“Understood.”
She had a point.
It could be the sort of aberration that grew stronger the more people became aware of it.
“So, do you notice anything unusual?”
This time the question was directed not at Woo Ju, but at Yeon Woo.
Of the three, Yeon Woo’s eyes were the keenest. After all, hadn’t she been the first to sense the Stone Statue’s presence?
“Hmm.”
Yeon Woo had been staring hard at the statue even before Hwa Ryeon spoke, and at the question, she opened her mouth carefully.
“It’s just… I don’t think this is only here.”
“What do you mean?”
“Like, it feels like somewhere else is overlapping with this place? I can see it faintly, like it’s bleeding through.”
“Hmm. Overlapping with another space?”
Hwa Ryeon murmured softly.
“If it appeared suddenly like that, it could be. More like a Projection than instantaneous movement.”
At the professional-sounding explanation, Woo Ju simply nodded and examined the Stone Statue more carefully.
The statue stood in a posture as though praying, but upon closer inspection, one could discern a faint smile playing across its face.
While this was happening, Hwa Ryeon and Yeon Woo spent some time studying the statue and exchanging theories—seemingly trying to guess why it had appeared and what its purpose might be.
Yet no conclusion was reached at that moment.
There simply weren’t enough clues to go on.
“I think we’ll need to request assistance from the production team.”
“Should we wait here for now then?”
“Yes. You and Yeon Woo stay and keep watch. Whatever you do, don’t leave anyone alone.”
Hwa Ryeon left to request help in person, while Woo Ju and Yeon Woo pulled up a pair of chairs at a slight distance from the statue and sat down.
One by one, people began slipping out of the Cafeteria.
Normally, many lingered there even after finishing their meals, but today was different.
Perhaps because there simply weren’t many people about to begin with, the cafe emptied quickly.
“Soon it’ll just be the two of us.”
“That’s true.”
Woo Ju looked around the emptying Cafeteria.
Since he was used to seeing it packed with people most of the time, the barrenness of it now felt strangely unfamiliar.
“How was your time away? How did things go?”
As the silence stretched on, Yeon Woo ventured a question.
Woo Ju turned to her and replied.
“Well, things didn’t quite go according to plan at first.”
Woo Ju told her about the various things that had happened while he was carrying out the operation in Japan.
“…But in the end, everything wrapped up well.”
“That sounds incredible!”
“It was. I didn’t expect things to unfold one after another like that.”
As they chatted away like that, the Cafeteria finally emptied completely.
Just the two of them remained.
The conversation gradually tapered off, and soon silence settled in.
“Hmm.”
Woo Ju crossed his arms and gazed steadily at the statue.
Since it had first appeared, the statue had shown no sign of doing anything.
Yet ever since Yeon Woo had alerted him to its presence, Woo Ju couldn’t help but find his attention drawn to it.
It wasn’t fear or anxiety — more like an irritation that wouldn’t stop nagging at me.
That was why Woo Ju had decided to stay behind. He couldn’t identify the source of that gnawing unease.
Then, at that moment.
“I’m sorry, but would it be all right if I stepped away for just a moment?”
“Hm? Oh, sure.”
Yeon Woo looked visibly flustered, so Woo Ju nodded at once.
The moment she received permission, Yeon Woo bolted away, and Woo Ju fixed his gaze back on the Stone Statue.
Nothing had happened yet, but he couldn’t afford to let his guard down.
Wasn’t there a pattern that kept repeating?
The kind where it stayed dormant when others were around, only to reveal its True Form the moment the two of them were alone.
Woo Ju kept the Iron Pipe resting across his knees, ready to strike the instant the Stone Statue moved.
Then, at that moment.
Whishhh.
A faint scraping sound reached Woo Ju’s ear — something dragging across the floor.
He examined the base of the Stone Statue and confirmed it had shifted, ever so slightly.
He’d memorized the statue’s position using a marking on the floor, so he caught the movement immediately.
Woo Ju smiled at the Stone Statue and spoke.
“So you only act when we’re alone?”
Of course, the Stone Statue didn’t answer.
But Woo Ju hadn’t expected it to.
He’d already lifted the Iron Pipe the moment he opened his mouth.
Without waiting for a response, Woo Ju swung the Iron Pipe toward the statue.
But in that instant.
Whoosh!
His body lurched forward as if yanked, and his feet found nothing beneath them.
Driven by pure instinct, Woo Ju swung the Iron Pipe.
Crack!
Something crumbled with a sickening sound, and the landscape around him warped.
A twisted, impossible landscape.
Woo Ju felt a wave of vertigo and furrowed his brow.
‘What is this?’
The space itself seemed distorted, wrong somehow.
It felt like he was seeing two spaces overlapped at once.
At first he couldn’t adjust to it and blinked rapidly, then closed one eye, and only then did his vision clear.
When he opened only his left eye, a Dark Space came into view.
It was so devoid of light that he could barely make out what was around him.
But on the other side, the Cafeteria was still visible.
In the Cafeteria, the Stone Statue stood directly before Woo Ju. But while its gaze had been downcast before, now it stared straight at him.
‘Wait. What did they say earlier?’
Woo Ju suddenly recalled part of a conversation between Hwa Ryeon and Yeon Woo.
Hadn’t Hwa Ryeon said something? That this Stone Statue seemed to exist across two overlapping spaces.
If that was the case.
Boom!
Woo Ju swung the Iron Pipe again.
Whoosh!
But the Iron Pipe cut through empty air.
Even though the Stone Statue was clearly right in front of his eyes in the Cafeteria, his blow passed through nothing.
Frustrated by the incomprehensible situation, Woo Ju furrowed his brow — and then it hit him. Something that might help.
The Bangsang-si Mask.
Tap.
He reached into empty air and the mask came naturally into his hand.
Woo Ju put it on immediately and looked ahead.
Then his vision in the pitch-dark space shifted.
Though still dim, he could now make out the outline of objects.
“Ah.”
And Woo Ju soon discovered something.
Debris scattered at his feet.
At first he couldn’t tell what it was, but looking closely, he could guess its nature.
‘Could this be fragments of the Stone Statue?’
It seemed right.
Though shattered into fragments, parts of it resembled the stone statue in the cafeteria.
Only then did Woo Ju realize what the sound he’d heard earlier actually was.
When he’d swung the iron pipe while feeling his body float upward, the stone statue on this side had shattered.
But the one in the cafeteria remained intact.
‘Or did it? It’s not exactly undamaged either.’
Woo Ju blinked one eye again and looked toward the cafeteria.
The cracks that had run across the statue had grown even deeper than before.
By all appearances, the destruction of the statue on this side had dealt damage to the other one as well.
‘But what’s happening right now?’
After piecing together that much, Woo Ju rolled his eyes and surveyed his surroundings.
He understood that the stone statue existed in both spaces, overlapping.
But why had he ended up in a similar state?
The most obvious suspect was the statue itself.
Hadn’t this happened right after he’d noticed the statue moving and threatened it with the iron pipe?
‘But why?’
What had the statue been trying to accomplish by pulling him into this space?
Why did the statue in the cafeteria only glare at him and do nothing more?
As Woo Ju pondered this, a possibility occurred to him.
‘Did something go wrong when I destroyed that statue?’
Though it was his own thought, it felt remarkably convincing.
If the purpose wasn’t to show him this space, then the statue must have drawn him here with some other objective in mind.
Hmm.
Woo Ju fixed one eye on the stone statue in the cafeteria and carefully began to move his feet.
This proved far harder than it sounded.
He had to move while watching both spaces simultaneously.
Moreover, he couldn’t let the statue slip from his view, so his movement was severely restricted.
After wandering a bit, Woo Ju came to a halt.
He’d decided that continuing to explore the dark space this way would be impossible.
But just then.
“Senior?”
A familiar voice reached his ears.
Yeon Woo, who had briefly stepped away on urgent business, had returned.
Yeon Woo approached Woo Ju quickly and spoke.
“Are you alright? What’s your condition?”
True to her keen eyes, Yeon Woo had immediately grasped that something was amiss with Woo Ju’s state and approached rapidly to ask.
“I think something’s happened to me.”
Woo Ju opened his mouth to answer, but bewilderment crossed Yeon Woo’s face.
“Your voice… I can’t hear it.”
At those words, Woo Ju realized his speech wasn’t reaching her properly.
It seemed his condition was abnormal in multiple ways.
After a moment’s thought, Woo Ju discovered that gestures did transmit, so he simply pointed at the statue.
Yeon Woo understood what Woo Ju meant from that alone.
“The statue did something, didn’t it? Should we get out of here quickly?”
In response, Woo Ju gestured to his own eyes, then pointed at the statue.
Yeon Woo understood that signal too.
“Right. I’ll keep watching the statue.”
With that, Yeon Woo took her position directly beside Woo Ju.
Though she wore the Bangsang-si Mask, making it impossible to tell exactly where her gaze was directed.
Then Yeon Woo spoke again.
“I think the statue did something earlier.”
Woo Ju couldn’t answer, but Yeon Woo continued.
“I was certain I shouldn’t leave this place. But suddenly I felt like I had urgent business. And then I thought I’d just pop out and come right back.”
Hearing this, Woo Ju felt a chill run through him.
Hadn’t Hwa Ryeon specifically said that neither of them could leave?
Yet when Yeon Woo mentioned stepping out, he’d nodded thoughtlessly.
It wasn’t mere carelessness. In a normal state, there’s no way he could have forgotten a warning Hwa Ryeon gave just ten minutes prior.
The statue’s influence had been at work from that moment on—in a most subtle fashion.
And there was something else.
“Why hasn’t the team leader come back?”
More than twenty minutes had passed since Hwa Ryeon left. She should have returned long ago.
Something feels off.
Continued in the next episode ▶
Catastrophe-Class Relics from Urban Legends Obsess
Author
Lee Se-gye
Publishers
Kim Seok-hwan, Choi Se-ra
Published by
Grae Publishing
Contact
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Publication Date
May 26, 2026
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