episode_0016

I slowly got a sense of what it was like to exorcise a ghost. No matter how hard I swung my sword, I couldn’t kill the severed head ghost. You can only hinder the actions of a ghost by giving it a spiritual shock.

To extinguish a ghost, you had to find the source of its power and eliminate it.

“You know what to do, right? Burn it!”

Sarah pointed toward the master bedroom. I knew what I needed to do without having to say anything.

Go into the master bedroom and burn the hair that has the ghost in it.

To do this, you had to break through the severed head ghost blocking the door.

“You have to burn your hair!”

He grabbed his sword and rushed towards the door of the living room. The severed head ghost reacted to my movements and flew towards me at breakneck speed. The scattered hairs wriggled like snakes and tried to grab me.

━━Ihihihihihihi!

There is not just one thing that needs to be cut. The ghost’s hair split into several pieces and attacked me from all directions.

It was difficult to cut it with just one military knife, but fortunately, Sarah was by my side.

Sera nimbly swung the sword and cut off the ghost’s hair. It was hard to believe even when I saw with my own eyes how strength came from that delicate body. But there was no time for admiration. I also had to cut hair flying from all directions.

“Jinwoo!”

It was when the two of us were dealing with a severed head ghost.

“Go into the room!”

Sera approached the severed head ghost. The ghostly hair, which kept growing no matter how much she cut it, flocked to Sarah as she protruded forward. As many as eight strands of hair attacked, but Sarah evaded the attack with agile movements. I had found a place to hide in the darkness.

Sarah reached the severed head ghost floating in the air.

Swish! The sword stabbed vertically pierced the jaw of the severed-headed ghost.

The severed head ghost disappeared like a ghost.

It was right now.

The severed head ghost blocking the door disappeared.

I ran as fast as I could and entered the dark master bedroom. I illuminated the living room with the uneasy, swaying light of the flashlight. I’ve been to Ayoung’s house before, so the layout of the master bedroom was familiar to me. It was a room with a large closet.

‘Where is it? ‘Where’s the hair?’

Just 3 seconds.

As three seconds passed, my eyes quickly scanned the room. It did not appear that the broken Shinju complex had been cleaned up by Ayoung’s family. However, judging from the severed head ghost guarding the door, the hair was definitely in this master bedroom.

‘Is it a closet?’

I quickly opened the closet. My intuition was right. Inside the closet was a transparent plastic bag containing the corpse’s hair.

“Found it… !”

I took the hair out of the plastic bag. It was when I was trying to light a fire with a Zippo lighter along with dried mugwort.

Suddenly, I felt a chill. I turned my head and looked back.

The decapitated head of a man appeared silently from behind.

Twisting hair and red, bloodshot eyes emerged from the darkness.

━━Ihihihihihihihi!

The severed head ghost tried to strangle me by blowing off my hair. At that moment, I rolled on the floor with all my strength. The ghost’s hair stretched out and brushed my neck.

It was a relief.

Because I had thought about it in advance, I was able to react in a timely manner.

I have already seen that a ghost does not die even if it is stabbed with a sword.

I thought that if that guy showed up again, he would definitely target me.

Because I had corpse hair.

“Are you feeling unfair? Was it so unfair that you couldn’t kill someone?”

I got up from my seat and turned on the Zippo lighter. With one hand, I held the bag containing the hair and the mugwort, and with the other hand I grabbed the lit Zippo lighter. The severed head ghost was glaring at me with eyes that threatened to kill me.

A ghost who killed his parents and committed suicide. As if killing his parents wasn’t enough, he became an evil spirit because he felt unfair for not being able to kill his older brother.

It is an evil spirit that cannot be saved.

“Did you feel good playing with people? Did you feel like you were a god because I caused a power outage in your apartment?”

Memories of the past flashed through my head.

I thought of my father who passed away from an unexplained heart attack.

Supernatural things have always been like that.

He arbitrarily took people’s lives as if he were a god.

Do you have resentment in your heart?

I was the same person who harbored resentment.

My father’s death was my sorrow.

If there was a supernatural being that killed my father, it would be something like that.

People who kill healthy people and don’t feel any guilt!

“But no. Because you’re just a ghost playing pranks.”

━━Chijijik!

I burned the hair and mugwort with a Zippo lighter. A vivid flickering flame was attached to my hair. The Zippo lighter my father gave me as a gift had powerful firepower. The hair instantly became brighter.

━━Ahh… !

Even though my hair was burning before my eyes, the severed head ghost could not approach me. Before I knew it, the severed head ghost was looking at me with eyes full of fear. My eyes were wide open and my head was shaking like an aspen tree trembling.

━━Aaaa!!

The severed head ghost screamed.

As the corpse’s hair was burned, the ghost’s hair also turned black as if it were burning.

I put the hair and mugwort on the floor. The hair that caught fire quickly turned to ashes along with the mugwort.

A faint smoke and the strong smell of burning mugwort lingered in the room.

The moment all the hair was burned, the severed head ghost disappeared on the spot.

Ghosts no longer appeared before us.

*

“Sera. Is it really true that we did an exorcism? The ghost won’t appear again, right?”

After the exorcism was over, I wanted to get a clear answer from Sarah.

It was necessary to confirm whether burning the hair had truly extinguished the ghost.

“That’s right. Since you burned the hair, the severed head ghost has been banished. You can trust me because I can’t even see it.”

The words of Sarah, who had seen ghosts for a long time, were trustworthy. I asked because it would be troublesome if the ghost that I thought had disappeared attacks again. Isn’t there a saying that you have to pound on a stone bridge before crossing it?

━━Tuk

Sarah pressed the switch to turn on the fluorescent light in the main room.

Then, surprisingly, the light came on in the house where the power had been blacked out just moments before.

“The light is on?”

“Now that the severed head ghost has been exorcised, all the strange phenomena have ended. There is a burnt smell in the room, so I need to ventilate it first.”

Sarah opened the window in the master bedroom. The smell of burnt fire and thick mugwort that was lingering in the room was blown out by the wind. The floor of the room, where hair had been burning just moments before, was charred black. Fortunately, the fire did not spread anywhere else and the floor ended up being completely black.

I felt like I was going to live now.

I sat down on the floor and relaxed.

Sarah looked at me and smiled faintly.

“I was watching you earlier. You were dealing with a severed-headed ghost alone in your living room.”

“Did you all see it?”

“Yes. I was going to help you burn your hair, just in case. But there was no time to help? You solved it all by yourself.”

Earlier, Sarah was planning to help me in the living room.

But before I could help them, I burned the corpse’s hair, so they said there was nothing left to do.

“Do you remember the last time? The severed head ghost was scared when he saw you.”

“Why is that?”

“It was an amazing thing. It wasn’t like I was bitten by an evil spirit, but the evil spirit was scared when it saw the living person. Even if you are a shaman who has trained for a long time, it is impossible to scare evil spirits without magic.”

hmm… ?

It’s basically impossible to scare away evil spirits without witchcraft?

The severed head ghost was clearly frightened when he saw me.

It wasn’t like I used any magic in particular.

“Then what did I do?”

“It means that you have more positive energy than others. Just the words that come out of my mouth are comparable to a spell.”

Yang Qi refers to the energy that drives out ghosts in a person’s body.

It was a strange-sounding statement in many ways.

For the first time, I realized that there was a lot of yang in my body.

Sarah looked at me with interest and added,

“I heard you’ve been frequenting abandoned and haunted houses since long ago? But why do you think I’m not possessed by a ghost and my body is fine?”

“Uh. Is that because it has a lot of energy?”

“That’s right. Because you have a lot of yang, ghosts won’t touch you carelessly. There’s a scary-looking guy walking around, so who would mess with him? Of course, it means that it looks scary from a ghost’s perspective.”

I once again learned why I was fine. There was a reason why my body was fine even though I had often visited abandoned houses and haunted houses to see ghosts. The ghost was avoiding me.

“Hey, there was a girl ghost playing pranks in our class at the beginning of the semester. Is it true that you didn’t just play pranks on me back then?”

“It’s because of Yang energy. There is a lot of energy.”

Was that how it happened?

The question has been resolved.

“It’s a blessed talent. It’s okay to be happy.”

“No, it’s a blessing, right? If you have a lot of yang, you won’t be able to see ghosts.”

“Fool. Others will think of it as a blessing.”

Sarah said that having a lot of energy is a blessed talent.

But from my perspective, it wasn’t necessarily that happy.

If ghosts avoid me, doesn’t that mean I’ll see less ghosts?

This is ironic for someone like me who loves to see ghosts.