Ch.175175 – The Snake’s Tail 4

# 175 – The Snake’s Tail # 4

“Aaaaaaaaaah!”

As I opened the door, a woman who had been waiting at the entrance lunged at me with a blood-curdling scream.

Flash-

When the kitchen knife in her hand gleamed menacingly, I was so terrified that I stumbled backward and fell.

Thud-!

I’m going to die just like this.

Just as I thought that, Kwon Sua grabbed a flowerpot next to her and struck the woman’s head.

“Master Yeongwon, be careful!”

Thwack-! Crash-!

“Ack!”

The woman screamed.

The mask she was wearing cracked.

The mask, which had eyes painted on it, was covered with bushy hair that looked like human hair, resembling a lion’s mane.

Crack-!

The clay mask finally shattered.

“Eeeek, my maaaask!”

If there was anything unusual about her revealed face, it was that she had two moles under her left eye.

It was a feature you couldn’t forget once you saw it.

That face was identical to the woman I had seen in the corridor last night.

The cleaver woman who attacked me on the first floor.

The woman who was beaten to death by Yu Dahui with a wooden block.

This place was that woman’s house!

“Kim Mi-ryeong. This is your house.”

Ms. Hong Miri addressed the woman as if she knew her.

Were they acquainted?

The woman pointed her knife at us while nervously glancing around, looking extremely anxious.

There was no telling when she might go crazy and lunge at us again.

“Teacher, do you know each other?”

Jeongseok, who couldn’t contain his curiosity, asked.

Soon Ms. Hong Miri spoke.

“Anyone who should know, knows. Haven’t you heard that politicians visit famous virgin shamans to have their election chances predicted during presidential and local elections? The famous virgin shaman they’re talking about is her.”

Politicians seeking out shamans for fortune-telling instead of looking after people’s welfare.

I wondered if that was acceptable for our country.

This wasn’t ancient China where they divined with oracle bones.

“When I was still in school, when Oseong Chairman Kwon Oseong was running the orphanage, she used to come visit with her younger sister. She has an inflated ego but no real skill. Her sister was nice though.”

“Shut up! You’re all guilty of breaking and entering! I’m calling the police!”

“Neither the dragon’s tail nor the snake’s head, just a snake’s tail. Sami. Her nickname was Sami-ryeong. I heard she’s been making money appearing on weird variety shows lately, but I didn’t expect her to approach Kwon Sua.”

“Variety… Ah, come to think of it, I filmed a variety program at a haunted house last summer. There was a woman who came as an expert, and it was this woman! I just remembered!”

So this woman had connections with Kwon Sua and Ms. Hong Miri.

She also had connections with me and Dahui. Though it seems I’m the only one who remembers that.

She had tried to kill me.

What did she say back then?

—If you capture and control the ghost guarding such a place, you can make money and gain fame. My spiritual power would increase too, right? Then those politician bastards would come back to me—

She was the woman who tried to capture ghosts in the corridor like they were Pokémon. Wouldn’t her reason for trying to harm Kwon Sua be the same as her motive for committing evil in the corridor?

“Sua, you’re someone who can see, aren’t you? You knew there was a ghost in that haunted house. You deliberately avoided the refrigerator where the ghost was hiding. Give me your eyes! Your eyes! The eyes that can see!”

The virgin shaman Kim Mi-ryeong was completely insane.

I wondered how a person could be like this, but then I thought she must have accumulated “quirks” after being beaten to death by Dahui last night.

This woman is practically possessed by a ghost.

“I don’t want to see them either!”

Scurry-

Kwon Sua hid behind Ms. Hong Miri.

“If I could choose, I wouldn’t want to see them!”

I could sympathize in many ways.

What’s so good about seeing ghosts and such? If you’re going to see things, wouldn’t anyone want to see only beautiful and pleasant things?

Like beautiful hills. Like spring when flowers bloom. Like seeing my reflection in the eyes of a lover who turns to face me, away from life’s terrors.

But such persuasion wouldn’t work.

The shaman Kim Mi-ryeong lunged at us with her knife. And she slashed Ms. Hong Miri’s neck, completely severing her head!

“Aaaaargh!”

Thud- Roll-

Ms. Hong Miri’s head rolled across the floor.

Bong Jiyeon was horrified at the sight.

“Oh my god, what the fuck is that!”

“Aaaaah!”

Super-coward Jeongseok also screamed, and I was so scared I felt like smashing my head on the floor and breaking into a breakdance.

But Kim Mi-ryeong laughed triumphantly, “Hahaha—”

“You orphan girl with no parents! I should have done this sooner! You all come here too!”

“Everyone run! Run! We need to stay alive!”

I squeezed out all my mental strength to shout.

If we stay here, we’ll be stabbed to death by this crazy woman. She was a real psychopath. The problem was that a hairy ghost had appeared and was blocking the entrance.

“Hello?”

Because of the hairy ghost, we were completely like mice trapped in a jar.

Kim Mi-ryeong grinned widely at the sight.

“So you can all see it too. I’ll have to pluck out your eyes as well! Fools! Walking right into my trap! I’ll pluck out your eyes and boil them to eat!”

“Crazy bitch!”

“Go after Kwon Sua!”

“Hello?”

The hairy ghost crawled on all fours toward Kwon Sua. Targeted by the evil spirit, Kwon Sua trembled as if she was about to faint, shaking violently in every way possible.

I needed to help Kwon Sua.

As I was thinking this, Kwon Sua spoke as if she had made up her mind.

“I’ll lure the ghost to the corner room, so everyone escape.”

Was she volunteering to be bait?

I couldn’t believe the timid Kwon Sua would show such courage.

“Hurry!”

Dash-!

Kwon Sua ran to the corner room.

But the hairy ghost was faster. Bizarrely running on all fours, the ghost caught Kwon Sua and began strangling her without hesitation.

Gaaack-

Kwon Sua fell to the floor, struggling desperately. She thrashed her arms and legs and shook her head, but the hairy ghost showed no mercy.

Thud-!

Just then, a man appeared from somewhere and pushed the hairy ghost away.

It was Kwon Sua’s father. When the hairy ghost saw Kwon Sua’s father, it reached out to grab him, which allowed Kwon Sua to gasp for breath.

“Dad!”

“You crazy bitch! Go after Kwon Sua! Stop eating ghosts! Go after Kwon Sua! You useless girl!”

The situation was chaotic in many ways.

Slip-

Just then, I saw Dahui take out a thick wooden block from her bag. It was Pastor Cheon Aesu’s nameplate. I had seen what Dahui could do with that thing in early access last night.

It was okay since that was a “dream,” but if such a thing happened in reality, it would be truly horrific.

I had no choice but to shout.

“Go, Giganoto!”

—Boomboo-boompow—

Fwap-!

# # #

Kim Mi-ryeong was frantic.

There were so many eyeballs, but she couldn’t acquire them.

This was all because of her stupid sister.

“You useless girl! I told you to chase Kwon Sua!”

Kwon Sua was a girl with excellent talent as a Watcher.

If she plucked out those eyes and crushed them to make a special eye mask with the blood, Kim Mi-ryeong would also be able to see the secrets that shouldn’t be seen by lifting the veil of the universe and truth.

But her sister was too useless.

“Hello?”

Her sister was too kind.

Even after breaking her limbs, starving her to death, and feeding her to ghosts, she only became a mediocre vengeful spirit.

Kim Mi-ryeong had little talent for “seeing,” but she had excellent ability to rank ghosts, so this was an accurate assessment.

At this rate, it was clear she would be no match for the evil spirits at Yeongji High School.

‘I guess I have to step in myself…’

Kim Mi-ryeong gripped her kitchen knife.

Just then, she felt a strange sensation.

A feeling like ants crawling all over her body.

—Boomboo-boompow—

A pitch-black lizard lunged at Kim Mi-ryeong.

Kim Mi-ryeong was greatly startled and swung her knife wildly, making whooshing sounds, but it was difficult to hit the small, agile lizard.

Eventually, the lizard rushed at Kim Mi-ryeong’s sister, Kim A-ryeong, and Kim A-ryeong, despite being a ghost, screamed in terror.

“Aaaah!”

A malicious vengeful spirit screaming?

Kim Mi-ryeong was shocked by the incomprehensible situation.

Then she glared at the boy who had released the lizard and lunged at him with her knife.

“You bastard! Where did you get something like that!”

“Aaaah! I don’t know! Cheonggyecheon! The Cheonggyecheon pet market!”

“Stop lying!”

“Yeongwon! Danger!”

Thwack-!

Her vision flashed.

When Kim Mi-ryeong turned her head, she saw a girl holding something like a solid club, breathing heavily.

Now that she looked, that girl seemed like a shaman.

Even with diminished eyesight, fellow practitioners could recognize each other. The wooden block in her hand smelled of blood, so terrible that it made her grimace.

‘To use such a gruesome thing. This kid isn’t normal. What is this group anyway? What are they doing? They have nothing in common except being young.’

Kim Mi-ryeong had seen many people, from the country’s top politicians to those at the bottom of society.

She prided herself on her ability to read people, but she couldn’t figure out what kind of group these people were.

‘I should get out of here for now.’

She thought she would make her useless younger sister buy time while she escaped.

# # #

A dangerous situation had arisen.

If we stayed like this, Dahui would surely crack that woman’s head like a watermelon.

Or that woman’s blade would skewer us all.

Either way, it was the worst situation.

Just then, the crazy virgin shaman Kim Mi-ryeong dashed toward the entrance.

Was she trying to escape?

But Kim Mi-ryeong’s steps came to an abrupt halt because someone was standing at the entrance.

It was a female student with long hair and slender legs.

“And who are you!”

Kim Mi-ryeong tried to swing her knife at the female student, but the student’s leg whipped around like a lash and struck Kim Mi-ryeong’s side.

Thwack-!

The shaman Kim Mi-ryeong flew through the air and sprawled across the studio apartment’s living room.

“Gack.”

Kim Mi-ryeong let out a short scream and writhed in pain. Like a cockroach that had been sprayed with insecticide. She must have broken several bones.

The terrifying hairy ghost was very sad to see Kim Mi-ryeong like that.

“Sisteeeeer—”

“What is this?”

Yang Juhui frowned as she entered the house.

Whatever had happened, the situation seemed to be resolved, which was fortunate.

“Yang Juhui! Thanks to you, we’re saved! You’re our hero!”

I ran toward Yang Juhui.

I couldn’t believe how glad I was to see her.

Soon Yang Juhui blushed when she saw me.

“What are you saying, all of a sudden? Is this the first time I’ve saved your lives?”

Anyway.

Despite various complications, we were able to subdue the woman who controlled evil spirits without anyone getting hurt. Ms. Hong Miri’s head did roll across the floor, but she wasn’t injured…

When we reattached Ms. Hong Miri’s head, she got up perfectly fine. Seeing this, the shaman Kim Mi-ryeong was greatly shocked and frightened.

“Monster! What on earth are you!”

“You’re the monster. Evil woman who killed her sister and enslaved her. Since it’s come to this, you’ll have to serve as bait to lure the Gandara Shaman. The role of luring the snake’s tail. Perfect for you.”

Kim Mi-ryeong couldn’t say anything and fainted.

The hairy ghost nuzzled its head against Kim Mi-ryeong.

“Sisteeeeer—”

I suddenly became curious.

“Bait role? What role?”

“I told you the key is in the east. The west, guarded by the onmyoji, represents the afterlife. The west symbolizes the corridor in nightmares. In contrast, the east is a metaphor for this world. The true body of the Gandara Shaman is in the basement of the real school.”