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568 – The Medium of Evil Spirits

568 – The Medium of Evil Spirits

We prepared to attack what might be a haunted house.

I maintained my bow and arrows, and the children checked their equipment in their own ways.

Levinas, feeling that the prepared equipment was insufficient, began to make equipment for Exorcism himself.

“Wanga, look at this. It’s an amulet Levinas made.”

A Horned Rabbit punching is drawn on a yellow rectangular piece of colored paper.

It felt like Levinas’s amulet would punch if a ghost appeared.

“Wow, if we have this, I won’t be scared even if a ghost appears.”

“Yeah! Levinas will draw a lot and give one to everyone!”

Levinas repeatedly drew the same picture.

Bomi showed interest in the sincere drawing.

“Levinas! I want to draw an amulet too!”

“Okay! Here, Levinas will give you colored paper to use!”

Bomi started drawing something on the colored paper Levinas handed over.

I thought she was drawing a picture, but it turned out she was writing in English.

‘Frog···?’

Our Bomi knows how to write frog in English.

Did she study how to write it in English because it’s her favorite frog?

But how does a frog Exorcism ghosts?

I pondered the connection between frogs and Exorcism, but the answer was elsewhere.

“Gaeul, Gaeul.”

“Heck···?”

“This is an amulet I made, and if a ghost comes out, stick it on your forehead.”

“Ick?”

“Yeah. It means brave, and if Gaeul is wearing this, even ghosts will be scared and run away, right?”

“Woo-ack!”

Gaeul liked that it meant brave, so she taped the amulet to her forehead.

Our Gaeul, who is always tricked by Bomi.

“Ahem.”

Gaeul, with the word frog on her forehead, lifted the Wooden Caliber high.

Regardless of the amulet, Gaeul did look brave.

“Juin otte?”

How is it?

Should I tell her the truth?

Looking at Gaeul, who likes it, it was hard to tell the truth.

“Um···”

It was the moment I was hesitating about whether to tell the truth or a lie.

Behind Gaeul, Bomi raised her finger to her lips.

“Shhh.”

Is she suggesting we trick her a little?

I don’t want to trick our Gaeul.

In this situation where I couldn’t do either, there was only one thing I could do.

“Oh, right. I have something to do downstairs, so I’ll go down for a bit. Is that okay?”

To run away without taking anyone’s side.

This was the best I could do.

**

It didn’t take long to decide who would go to the abandoned house with us.

I just had to think of someone brave who could protect the children and not be afraid of ghosts.

Among our family, Choi Jin-hyuk was the most qualified.

Fortunately, he had some time, so Choi Jin-hyuk decided to join us.

“Are you ready?”

“Yes.”

We got into the car that Choi Jin-hyuk had prepared.

Perhaps because there were more children, all of our family’s cars were now vans.

The car looked big and sturdy, so it seemed safe even if there was an accident.

“So, where exactly is the destination?”

“I’ll tell you!”

Bomi sat in the passenger seat and guided us, while we sat in the back and chatted lightly.

“Gaeul, what did Gaeul bring?”

“Ick.”

An ant doll that became a Divine Beast and the Wooden Caliber.

Both were weapons that were highly effective against ghosts.

When I stroked her head, praising her for preparing well, Gaeul took out a frog amulet from her pocket.

“Oh…”

Did she like the frog amulet that Bomi made for her?

The most important thing is that she’s satisfied.

After chatting with the children like that, we arrived at a secluded mountain path after a long time.

“This is…”

A small clearing on the mountain path.

Next to the clearing is an old abandoned house.

The roof was made by adding thin iron plates, and the exterior paint was peeling off, revealing the inside.

The size was small enough to be filled if all of us went inside.

“Wow, it’s a haunted house that looks like ghosts will really come out.”

“Yeah. Real ghosts come out here. But we have to wait until night.”

“It’s still a bit early for the sun to set, so let’s rest here while we wait.”

We organized the things we had brought.

Choi Jin-hyuk looked around the building with something that looked like an item.

“What is that?”

“It’s a sensor, and it seems like there’s definitely something here.”

“Oh, I see…”

If Choi Jin-hyuk says there is, then there really must be something.

I started to feel nervous.

“Okay, everyone, let’s play until dinner.”

“Okay!”

**

As the sun set, our tension only increased.

When the sun met the edge of the horizon, we decided to enter the abandoned house.

“Wanga, shouldn’t Levinas cover his eyes?”

“Yeah. It’s better to do that.”

Levinas covered his eyes with his ears, and Haneul attached the Horned Rabbit amulet that Levinas had drawn to his Mechanical arm.

He seemed relieved just by attaching the amulet and sighed.

“Bomi, when will the ghost come out?”

“When the sun sets, from that window… Oh?!”

“Why?! Why?!”

Could it be that a ghost has appeared?

I hurriedly looked at the window.

But all I could see outside the window was a dark landscape.

“Unfortunately, there’s nothing there.”

“Tch.”

I snorted at the prank that came in a tense situation.

Then Bomi pointed out the window, as if to tease me again.

“I won’t be fooled twice?”

“No, there’s really something there this time.”

“Hmm.”

With suspicious eyes, I looked out the window.

Then, I made eye contact with a man staring at us with a scary face from outside the window.

“Nyaaaak!”

“Heo-eok!”

Because I was relaxed, I was so surprised when I made eye contact that I jumped up.

Levinas, who was clinging to me with his ears and eyes covered, was also surprised when I jumped up.

“It’s a ghost!”

“Jjuing!”

“L, Lord…!”

Translucent and bluish skin.

Even the expression that looked wronged, which anyone could recognize.

I could tell at a glance that it was no ordinary ghost.

We gathered in the corner of the room far from the window, hugging each other and trembling.

Only Bomi, who had experience, and Saebyeok and Choi Jin-hyuk, who weren’t very scared, were unfazed.

“What should we do?! Should we go outside first?!”

“No, it’ll be a disaster if we go out.”

Choi Jin-hyuk grabbed my shoulder as I was panicking.

Thanks to him, my pounding heart started to calm down little by little.

“It’ll be a disaster if we go outside?”

“Yeah. Another guy is waiting outside the door. It seems like they’ll harass us if we come out of the house like that.”

“Eh.”

There wasn’t just one ghost?

Were they doing a pincer attack?

We almost got into big trouble if we went out the door without knowing.

I looked back at Bomi with surprised eyes.

“Bomi, how did you know he was inside the house?”

“Me? I just thought it was a drawing.”

“Ah.”

That’s right.

She said she just thought it was a drawing and slept in the house.

I’m glad Bomi didn’t run away after seeing the ghost.

It was the moment I sighed in relief at Bomi’s past misunderstanding.

“Yak!”

Gaeul, raising her eyebrows, bravely walked towards the door.

Then, without any hesitation, she opened the door.

-······!

A very grotesque-looking guy was standing in front of the door that Gaeul opened.

It was a terrifying guy with his mouth torn to his ears, and he was grinning grotesquely at Gaeul, who opened the door.

“G, Gaeul!”

It was the moment the guy stretched out his big, long hand towards Gaeul.

Gaeul showed her palm to the guy first.

-······?

“Jyangkka!”

Gaeul, who shouted time, meaning to wait a moment, took out an amulet from her pocket.

It was the frog amulet that Bomi had made, and Gaeul immediately stuck it on her forehead.

-······?

The guy who saw Gaeul with the frog amulet on her forehead tilted his head.

Perhaps because he was an Evil Spirit, he was flustered and looking at his ghost friend.

“Woo-ack!”

Did Gaeul think that was the effect of the frog amulet?

She jumped for joy as she watched the ghost stop.

“Oh…”

Our Gaeul’s innocence even stops Evil Spirits.

I forgot my fear and admired her purely.

Choi Jin-hyuk also watched Gaeul and then looked around, saying.

“It seems like this house has become half Dungeon-ized.”

“Dungeon-ized? Does that happen?”

“Often. Is it because it hasn’t been discovered until now because it’s only activated at night?”

“Th, then until now, many people have been…”

“Maybe not. There are hardly any people who come to sleep in abandoned houses like this in the middle of the night.”

“Hmm.”

If it were me in the past, when I lived without a house, I would have just slept here.

But that’s not a normal case.

Choi Jin-hyuk’s words seemed right.

But how should we deal with the ghost?

I took advantage of the ghost’s stopped state to research a strategy.

“If the ghost doesn’t come in first, isn’t this house a safe zone?”

“No, it doesn’t really look like it. Rather, this house is the ghost’s medium.”

“The house? Then should we purify the house?”

Whether we should purify the entire house or something in the house.

Because I didn’t know much about Evil Spirits, I couldn’t know exactly.

As I looked around the house and groaned, Haneul pulled on my sleeve.

“Lord…! I have a way…!”

“You know how to purify it?”

“Yes…! Let’s go outside…!”

Haneul, who swallowed hard, looked at the door where the ghost was.

Shwok- Shwo shwoshwok-

Gaeul was showing off a finger-cutting magic trick to the ghost at the door.

The ghost was mesmerized by the finger-cutting magic trick and was only looking at Gaeul blankly.

“Everyone, run outside…!”

At the same time as Haneul’s shout, we ran out of the building.

Shwok- Shwo shwok-

Gaeul, who was doing the finger-cutting magic trick, was also taken outside.

-······!

Did they think we were running away?

The Evil Spirit, who came to his senses, started chasing after us.

But Haneul, who was thought to be running away, stopped halfway and looked back at the ghost.

-······?

The Evil Spirit, who was flustered by the sudden stop, and Haneul’s Mechanical arm, moving click-clack.

This is…?

Before I could stop Haneul, Mana began to condense in Haneul’s Mechanical arm.

Haneul doesn’t know how to handle Mana yet, so he can’t shoot a beam by himself, right?

When I looked closely in surprise, Haneul was holding an item filled with Mana in his other hand.

“Haneul…!”

Kwaaaang-!

A white beam of light flew from Haneul’s hand.

The beam accurately hit the abandoned house and shattered it into pieces with an explosion.

“Nyaaak!”

I was so surprised by the huge explosion that I jumped up.

-······?!

The Evil Spirit’s eyes widened so much that they popped out.

No, his eyes really popped out.

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