episode_0178

Immediately after the emotional reunion.

We escaped Jongno-gu and came to a cafe.

A cafe was the perfect place to escape the heat and have a long conversation.

“That kind of thing…”

Let’s slowly tell him what happened to us. Lee Hwan nodded with a sad expression.

It seemed like he felt like it was his fault in all of this.

Whenever we laughed and told stories about how much we had suffered, Hwan would bow his head and say that it was harder for him than we did.

Actually, we were laughing, saying that something like that happened too.

When Lee Hwan looked at the floor as if he had committed a sin, Sophia eventually stepped forward.

“Mr. Lee Hwan.”

“…Sister.”

Sophia slowly patted Yi-Hwan on the shoulder.

Warmly.

“It’s not Lee Hwan’s fault.”

“…Sister…!”

As if he had been saved by Sophia’s kind words, Yi-Hwan looked at Sophia with admiration.

At times like this, it felt like Sophia was a nun.

A single word relieved a man of his guilt.

That wasn’t something you could imitate or copy.

It was possible because it was Sophia.

This was only possible if you had a voice and facial expression that put the listener at ease.

But the image on the hotel bed kept coming to my mind.

That appearance that only I know.

How can I have impure thoughts after seeing this loving scene?

Is this what it feels like to sin?

“…But, nun.”

“Huh?”

Lee Hwan slowly looked at us both in turn.

The two of us sitting next to each other.

“… You’re sitting over there.”

“Ah.”

Lee Hwan said with an awkward smile.

Come to think of itㅡ

Sophia and I looked at each other at the same time.

After being stuck together for almost a day, it felt natural to sit next to each other.

When we entered the cafe and sat down, we sat next to each other without much thought.

Sophia answered with an awkward smile.

“Ah… I’m used to it…”

“In one day…”

Lee Hwan made a complicated expression at that answer.

Well, from Lee Hwan’s perspective, it can be said that he feels wronged.

Because in just one day, it will seem like we have become closer than you know, even though we have been together for months.

Actually, it might be closer.

At least I didn’t call Sophia a nun.

“Ahaha… Oh, that’s right!”

Sophia handed me a piece of paper.

While escaping Jongno-gu and heading to a cafe, Lee Hwan and Sophia stopped by somewhere for a moment.

On the surface, it looked no different from a real police station.

I heard that there is a ghost story department inside the police station.

I went in there to tell them that the exorcism of the ghost story was complete.

Looks like that wasn’t all.

[Ghost Story Management Headquarters Contract]

“This is it.”

It was a contract to become a full-fledged exorcist.

Originally, you had to get a license and take an exam.

They say that the Ghost Story Management Headquarters itself exists between a government agency and a public enterprise, so the competition is fierce.

However, there is a way to pass the exam and competition without going through all the other processes.

That’s exactly what I did to exorcise ghost stories.

“Since I solved two ghost stories, I was able to negotiate the conditions as well as an exorcist with several years of experience.”

Lee Hyun said that he tried hard to negotiate.

Sophia next to him nodded as if acknowledging the effort.

“Oh…”

I accepted the contract and exclaimed in admiration.

Not only was the salary much higher than I expected, but the benefits provided were also great.

Looking at the benefits, it felt like looking at the benefits of a new credit card.

From airline mileage to discounts at big box stores and gas stations.

There was a long list of benefits that might be of some help.

Actually, I didn’t think these benefits would be of much help to me.

I’m not going to live here my whole life.

What caught my eye more than the benefits was the power.

“What are the Ghost Story access rights?”

“”Ah.””

When I read the words written on one side of the contract, both of them gave a short response.

Then Lee Hwan took out his cell phone.

“It’s something like this.”

“…This is.”

I looked at my phone and saw a red dot on the map.

“This red dot is a ghost story.”

“…Is it also printed here?”

I pointed to the cafe we were in.

“Don’t worry. The ghost stories shown here are helpful to humans. If you look closely, the color is orange.”

Looking at it again as Lee Hwan said, the color was a little different from the other red dots.

By the way, it’s a ghost story that helps humans.

Lee Hwan smiled at my slightly sullen face.

“Ghost stories aren’t necessarily harmful to humans.”

“…Really?”

Up until now, I didn’t really believe it because all the ghost stories I’ve encountered have been directed at me.

Then Sophia, who was sitting next to me, turned towards me.

At Sophia’s sudden movement, I also turned my head and looked at her.

Sophia’s face and beautiful nun’s habit came into view.

Sophia carefully put her hands behind her back and showed off her clothes.

…It was a scene where I couldn’t tell if she was showing off her clothes or her chest.

Probably clothes.

Her overwhelming body just steals the spotlight.

“Ugh, ugh! That…oh, look at the clothes.”

“Oh, yes.”

I came to my senses at Hwan’s cough and looked at Sophia with the purest eyes possible.

Is there anything strange about your clothes?

But no matter how much I looked, I couldn’t feel anything strange.

By the way, I asked Sophia why she continued to wear the habit even though she had stopped being a nun.

Did you say that the clothes were definitely resistant to ghost stories?

As I thought about it, Sophia told me the answer.

“This nun’s habit is actually one of the ghost stories.”

“…This is it?”

“Yes.”

It is said that the outfit Sophia is wearing is also a special outfit that has been enhanced with the ghost story’s powers.

I thought ghost stories weren’t necessarily harmful.

This nun’s habit, despite being a ghost story, is said to have the ability to block ghost attacks.

This phone’s app and the nun’s habit that Sophia is wearing are both things close to ghost stories, so access to ghost stories is required.

“If you have permission, you can borrow one or two ghost stories.”

The right to rent out ghost stories in the form of objects.

It was attractive.

“Umm…”

If I do it right, it might fill a spot in my inventory.

“Please review the contract carefully and submit it later…”

“I will.”

“Yes?”

He answered before Lee Hwan finished speaking.

Anyway, the role I was supposed to play in this world was that of an exorcist.

There was no reason to refuse when they offered me good terms.

“…Excuse me, can I have a pen?”

“Ah, yeah, here it is.”

Lee Hwan looked at me with a blank expression, probably not expecting me to accept it right away, and then belatedly handed me the pen in embarrassment.

While I was signing, Sophia was looking at me with a big smile on her face, as if she was excited about something.

“Please take care of me in the future too.”

“…Okay.”

If we do the same exorcist work, we’ll probably run into each other a few more times.

I never thought you would want to meet me.

“I’ll submit this for you. I have to go to the headquarters for a ghost story anyway…”

“Can I get the app in advance?”

After finishing the contract while sitting like that, I asked Hwan Lee while I was at it.

Lee Hwan nodded readily, asked for my phone number, and sent me a link.

As soon as I touched the link on my phone, the app started downloading naturally.

The installation was completed surprisingly quickly.

I heard later that it cannot be deleted.

It was a creepy app.

“With this, you can avoid most ghost stories.”

Sophia said so with a smile.

“…That’s right.”

But I had no intention of avoiding ghost stories.

Why am I avoiding my hidden quest, or the elixir that is full of yin energy?

In addition, the ghost stories that appear in this app are said to only display ghost stories that have real facts, unlike the previous hotel ghost stories that teleported you to a strange place.

That it has substance.

It was said that physical exorcism was possible.

It had already been proven that my martial arts were strangely effective against ghost stories.

“You have to avoid it well.”

I fiddled with the app, lying to reassure Sophia.

First of all, the ghost stories in this area, Jongno-gu, were the target.

***

Hurup.

“Hmm.”

It seemed like it had been a long time since I had had freshly brewed hot coffee, rather than cold coffee.

Ghost stories from Jongno-gu.

His position was that of a manager there.

When there are a lot of people, there are a lot of ghost stories, and this was always the case in Jongno-gu, which is always busy, but today was an exception.

Actually, there were days like this sometimes.

A day when ghost stories are unusually quiet.

On days like this, both the ghost story and the people kept quiet and enjoyed their leisure time.

I also drink coffee, and although I’ve always been busy and only had delivery food, I went out to eat for the first time in a while.

The leisurely morning passed and the afternoon came, but it was still quiet with the ghost story.

“…Todayㅡ”

“Shhh!”

“Why, why are you like that?”

As soon as the new recruit who had just entered the ghost story department opened his mouth, the senior who was one year younger than the new recruit standing right next to him was startled and made a gesture with his finger telling him to be quiet.

How loudly he screamed.

A threatening snake-like sound came out of his mouth.

“You… Were you trying to say you had free time today?”

“How, how about that…”

“Don’t you know that words like “free” and “laid-back” are banned in the fire department and the ghost story department?”

Beep beep beep

Just as I was about to speak, the phone rang.

“Hey! Look at that!”

“Ah, no, this time it’s my senior…”

The two argued for a bit, and eventually the senior answered the phone.

He watched the scene from afar and sighed.

In the ghost story department, there were mainly two cases of conversation.

When an emergency disaster story appears, send an emergency disaster text message to citizens, or send an emergency call to an exorcist to suppress the ghost story.

As you might have guessed, most cases involve doing both.

“Yes, yes… Yes? Yes…”

Originally, the calls that came to the ghost story department were mostly from high-ranking officials, so there was nothing to say other than ‘yes’ in response.

The reality is that you have to be a yes man in front of power.

“I… Manager Choi.”

“…What’s going on?”

The senior who had answered the phone then hung up and spoke to me.

“They say the ghost stories disappeared?”

“…Huh?”

It was a missing person’s report of a ghost story I had never heard of before.