The Calamity-Class Artifacts in Ghost Stories Are Obsessed with Me - Chapter 99

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Catastrophe-Class Relics in Urban Legends Obsess — Episode 99
Woo Ju’s brow furrowed.
Something solid had struck the iron pipe and crumbled under the impact, the sensation traveling clearly through his fingertips.
If the target had been a monster, he wouldn’t have blinked—but now, Woo Ju couldn’t be certain.
He could only watch the situation unfold, tense and alert.
Then, moments later, the darkness veiling his eyes began to lift gradually.
Only then could Woo Ju make out what lay scattered at his feet.
“A stone statue…?”
It was a stone statue.
Shattered into fragments beyond recognition of its original form.
“Good work.”
A familiar voice came from beside him immediately after.
It was Chung Woo’s voice.
Only then did Woo Ju release a breath of relief and speak.
“That last one—that’s what you mentioned, isn’t it?”
“Yes.”
Chung Woo nodded and wiped the sweat from his brow.
“Its resistance was far stronger than I anticipated. I thought I could break through the interference and deliver a clear message, but it seems I miscalculated. That was my mistake.”
“No, it wasn’t.”
Woo Ju shook his head.
Without his help, wrapping things up so cleanly would have been nearly impossible.
To be honest, even in those final moments, he’d struggled to distinguish what was truly Chung Woo’s voice from what was the enemy’s interference.
“At any rate, it seems this must be the one.”
“Yes, provisionally. Still, we should conduct further investigation just to be safe.”
Perhaps because they’d already been deceived by it once, Chung Woo examined the scattered stone fragments carefully, muttering incantations under his breath as he surveyed the surroundings.
Only after nearly thirty minutes of investigation did Chung Woo speak to Woo Ju.
“It appears we’ve disposed of it properly. I don’t sense anything more.”
“That’s a relief.”
This time Chung Woo nodded at Woo Ju’s words before opening his mouth again.
“I think it would be best to call in the headquarters investigation team first. It’s better to conduct a more detailed examination. We’ll need to recover the statue’s fragments as well.”
“Understood.”
Originally, he’d wanted to handle things adequately at his own level, but circumstances made that difficult now.
It was clear that someone had deliberately targeted Woo Ju with an attack.
Though he’d managed to repel the assault itself, it was hard to believe this was the end.
The statue itself didn’t seem to be the agent behind the attack.
And the fact that it was a “stone statue” troubled him particularly.
The person who’d launched a terror attack on the Inspection Bureau not long ago had also used a living stone statue as a tool, hadn’t they?
At the time, it happened that Woo Ju was at the exact spot where the statue appeared, allowing them to resolve the situation without major damage.
‘Perhaps that was also aimed at me.’
Given that it had appeared precisely when Woo Ju was at the restaurant, it wasn’t an entirely baseless speculation.
“I think it would be best to discuss that angle in detail as well.”
Chung Woo agreed, apparently finding Woo Ju’s concern sufficiently persuasive.
Within minutes, the person in charge of Spirit Removal Work arrived.
The Inspection Bureau hadn’t acted yet—these were the personnel who’d been called from the administrative office earlier.
Though they’d already found and eliminated the cause, they’d requested Spirit Removal Work just in case.
The investigation team sent by the Inspection Bureau arrived as the Spirit Removal Work was nearly complete.
“We’ll conduct a thorough investigation of this matter.”
They carefully collected the statue’s fragments and said they would share the results immediately once the investigation concluded.
Chung Woo left partway through.
Woo Ju thanked him several times and even sent him a text message afterward.
Thus the sudden commotion came to an end.
* * *
The next day.
The moment Woo Ju arrived at the office, Baek Ho approached him.
“Quite the scene last night, I hear?”
“Ah, yes. You heard about it?”
“Of course. The team leader told me as soon as I got here.”
At those words, Hwa Ryeon, who had greeted Woo Ju and kept her head buried in documents, lifted her gaze.
“Once everyone arrives, we’ll go over it once more. It’s something we need to be careful about.”
“Understood.”
“So, what exactly happened?”
“Well. I’ll explain when the others arrive. The team leader seems to be planning to explain then too.”
“True enough. Repeating it over and over will just tire us out.”
Baek Ho didn’t press further and immediately turned his attention back to his own papers.
About ten minutes later, when everyone on the team had finally arrived.
“Last night, Officer Woo Ju was attacked after leaving work.”
At those words, the team members looked toward Hwa Ryeon with confused or startled expressions.
To them, Hwa Ryeon continued in a composed voice.
“The attack took place inside his home…….”
Hwa Ryeon gave them a detailed account of last night’s events, occasionally asking Woo Ju for clarification.
After the rather lengthy briefing concluded.
“It appears clear that this was a deliberate attack targeting Officer Woo Ju, and we believe it may be connected to the previous terrorism incident.”
Hwa Ryeon paused briefly, scanning the team members one by one with her gaze.
“For that reason, I’d like everyone to heighten your vigilance from today onward.”
“Yes!”
“Understood!”
After explaining thus far.
Hwa Ryeon tapped her fingers on the documents arranged on her desk as she spoke.
“Now then, everyone come get one copy of these documents and review them.”
Everyone stood up at her words, and Woo Ju likewise went to collect his copy.
The documents were a compilation of several recent incidents.
Tatarigarni, Hyakki Yakko, Mute School, Geum Ok Nyeo, Inspection Bureau Stone Statue Terrorism. And the cases that came before.
“These are cases that occurred after the incident surge escalated, filtered to show only those confirmed to have been orchestrated behind the scenes.”
Hwa Ryeon offered a brief explanation once everyone had taken their copies.
“Though these cases have already been thoroughly investigated, review the relevant materials once more in case anything was overlooked.”
“Yes!”
Woo Ju acknowledged and shifted his gaze back to the documents.
As he reviewed them, most of the content was already familiar.
That made sense—nearly all of them were operations he’d participated in.
He’d rarely missed out on the major incidents, after all.
Though there were a few exceptions.
For instance, one case that appeared roughly midway through the documents.
‘The Human Disappearance Incident.’
It was an event where humans walking along a particular street suddenly began vanishing simultaneously.
That case had been handled by three people—Chung Woo, Baek Ho, and Ryu Seon Dam—who spent a full week on it before finally managing to resolve it.
In the process, they rescued dozens of people and discovered traces of deliberate human intervention.
However, unfortunately, they never identified who that ‘someone’ was.
The malevolent entity had already cleanly erased its traces and disappeared.
The final case in the documents was similar.
It was a case labeled simply ‘Go Mansion’—one that Chung Woo and Chae Wol had been deployed to together.
An old mansion where people were invited, and those who went there all experienced terrible things before returning, triggering the Inspection Bureau’s sensors.
It was a place carefully constructed by a pseudo-religious cult, layered with so many urban legends that it had effectively become a Demonic Realm.
Even the cult members who originally designed it had lost control and long since been consumed by the mansion.
‘The latter doesn’t seem to be connected, at least.’
If anything, the former one had a similar feel to the other cases Woo Ju had been deployed to.
Of course, there still wasn’t evidence to link all these incidents together.
They were merely suspicious based on several common characteristics.
“Hmm.”
After finishing the documents, Woo Ju went back to the beginning.
As expected, nothing immediately stood out—no obvious gaps or points that caught his attention.
If something like that existed, someone else would have found it first.
The investigative team that had compiled these documents from various materials and evidence was elite among elites.
They’d probably assigned the review to the field personnel hoping fresh eyes might spot something new, though the odds of any real breakthrough seemed slim.
“Huh?”
Then again, sometimes those slim odds did pay off.
While re-reading the documents, Woo Ju noticed something and furrowed his brow.
Across from him, Baek Ho asked in a quiet voice.
“What?”
“This Human Disappearance case here.”
“What about it?”
Baek Ho leaned forward with a question, and Woo Ju held out the documents to him, speaking as he did.
“This Human Disappearance Street. Now that I think about it, I’ve heard of it before, actually.”
“What?”
Baek Ho looked startled at those words, then his expression shifted to confusion as he spoke.
“So what is it? You were in Japan when that case happened, weren’t you?”
“Ah, yes. But there were rumors about this place back then too, you see.”
The street where the human disappearances had occurred happened to be near where Woo Ju had lived years ago.
Woo Ju spoke as he searched his memory from that time.
“It was about two years ago, I think. Around that time, several people who were walking around that street for about a week went missing—they even put up banners and everything.”
At that, not only Baek Ho but Chung Woo spoke up as well.
“Two years ago, exactly?”
“Yes.”
“That’s odd. This incident started happening exactly a week before the investigation began.”
“And it was also a case involving a separate malevolent entity.”
Which meant that someone had done the exact same thing years before.
“But I’ve never heard of such a case.”
“We couldn’t find any record of it in the existing database either.”
Yet the Inspection Bureau had no records whatsoever of such a case.
In other words, it was highly likely they’d overlooked it completely back then.
“Hmm.”
“The Inspection Bureau does miss cases from time to time. It’s impossible to catch and resolve everything quickly, after all.”
“True. But this time there was clearly a perpetrator involved. If the same person committed the same crime, it might be worth investigating the past incident.”
While there were no internal records at the Inspection Bureau, from two years ago there would surely be people who remembered what happened then.
“Oh! Now that you mention it, I heard that one of the missing persons actually came back much later.”
Moreover, if there was even a survivor from that incident, it was certainly worth investigating thoroughly.
In the middle of their conversation, they looked at Hwa Ryeon.
Hwa Ryeon, who had already looked away from the documents, nodded and spoke.
“It’s definitely worth investigating thoroughly.”
With that, she immediately selected the personnel right then and there.
The ones being deployed were Baek Ho, Yeon Woo, and Woo Ju. These three.
Baek Ho because he had been involved in this particular case before. Yeon Woo because her special detection ability was deemed necessary for this work.
And Woo Ju because he had lived in that neighborhood in the past and would be of help no matter what situation arose.
“Then, we’ll be off.”
Thus the three of them finished their preparations at once and left the Inspection Bureau, traveling by car to conduct their investigation.
To the very street where Woo Ju had lived long ago.
Continued in the next episode ▶
Urban Legends and the Obsession of Catastrophe-Class Relics
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Lee Se-gye
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May 26, 2026
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