episode_0049

When we arrived near Soyeon Station, we looked around the residential area. According to a newspaper article, the murder of the mother and daughter in Soyeon-dong occurred at a house near the station. As you explore, you may find a house with a story.

“There are a lot of houses to see. There is also an apartment.”

“Let’s investigate separately instead of moving together. If you find anything, contact me.”

“Sera, where do you want to take charge?”

“I’ll go towards the apartment complex.”

There were quite a few houses in the residential area. Sarah and I started investigating separately. That way, I could scan the residential area twice as fast.

Sarah left towards the apartment complex.

I talked to the residents living in the neighborhood.

“Hey, uncle.”

“Yes?”

“I heard that a murder case involving a mother and daughter occurred in this neighborhood a long time ago. Do you know which house you woke up in?”

“I don’t know because I’m not interested. Well, I heard that there was a terrible murder case… .”

It was an incident that occurred in 2006. Now that so much time has passed, it is natural that residents do not know much about it. I continued to look around the residential area. Time passed and it was late afternoon. Around dusk, I was able to spot a suspicious house on the street.

‘Is it an abandoned house?’

A single-family home was seen in a remote area of a residential area. The condition of the building was serious. Most of the windows were broken so it was dangerous. When I looked inside from a distance, I saw a lot of mold growing on the wallpaper of the house. It seemed like a building that had been abandoned for quite some time.

What is that house?

I had a strange feeling, but I didn’t get closer. As I looked around, I saw a small supermarket in a nearby alley.

I went inside the supermarket. An elderly woman was running the store.

“Hello.”

“Welcome.”

How should I ask about the abandoned house? Residents living nearby may be reluctant to tell bad stories. I talked to the lady in passing while buying a pack of gum.

“Hey, lady. I have something to ask.”

“What?”

“There is a house near here. A house with all the windows broken.”

It was the moment when I spoke up.

For some reason, the lady seemed a little uncomfortable.

“Student. Why are you asking that?”

“No, I’m not just asking because I’m curious. My parents are preparing to move to Soyeon-dong. I was looking for a house and there was a big house over there. I think it would be okay if I just changed the wallpaper and installed a window… .”

In fact, the abandoned house was okay if you look at the overall frame of the building. It seemed like with some proper maintenance, it would be a nice house to live in.

When I explained that my family was planning to move in, the lady showed no sign of discomfort.

Instead, the super lady was embarrassed.

“Boo, are you going to move into the house over there with your parents?”

“Because my parents like the house. I’m a little anxious, but I can’t help it. I have to follow my parents. Goodbye.”

I pretended to casually leave the store with the gum I purchased. It was right then. The super lady urgently called me.

“No. Not in that house.”

“Why?”

“Student. I’m telling you this because I look young and pitiful… . Everyone who lived in that house went crazy. Everyone was talking about seeing something strange in the house and eventually ran out.”

“Are you sure?”

I looked surprised. There was no one else in the store except us. The lady continued speaking in a quiet voice.

“That house is actually… . This is a house where three people died a long time ago. Some crazy woman killed her mother and daughter over there. That crazy woman was also killed by her mother’s husband. After that, it became uninhabitable. If you try to live there, everyone goes crazy.”

“Wow.”

“Tell the student’s parents. They say no to that house.”

“Okay.”

I came out of the store.

A crazy woman killed her mother and daughter. The woman was also killed by her husband. It was clear just from hearing the story.

I found out the location of the house where the Soyeon-dong mother and daughter murder case occurred. The abandoned house I found was a haunted house. I immediately took out my cell phone and called Sarah.

[hello?]

“Oh, Sarah. I found the house where the incident occurred. It’s near the local supermarket. Come here.”

The call has ended.

Sarah arrived where I was after some time.

By the time we joined, night had already fallen.

“Jinwoo. Did you find the house? Where are you?”

“It’s the house over there.”

“It wasn’t the apartment.”

I showed Sarah the abandoned house. After that, some more time passed and dawn came. There was no one wandering around the residential streets anymore. It was a good time to sneak into a haunted house.

“Let’s go.”

Sarah and I gathered our equipment and entered the haunted house. Most of the windows were broken, so getting into the house itself wasn’t difficult. We removed the glass from the window frame, climbed over the window frame, and entered the house.

The place we arrived was a room in a haunted house. Sarah next to me turned on the flashlight to illuminate the surroundings. It is a room with a bed. There was no full-length mirror in sight.

“I guess there’s nothing here.”

“I’ll open the door.”

I opened the door carefully. The moment the door was opened, the view of the living room was visible. But we had no choice but to pause for a moment in our progress toward the living room.

“Well, what is it? Why is the floor like this? ?”

“It feels like a trap has been set.”

There were shattered mirror fragments everywhere on the living room floor. Pieces of glass fell from the broken window, as well as countless mirror fragments. All of those fragments illuminated the surrounding landscape.

“Didn’t the people who lived in the past do this because they were possessed by ghosts? People smashed the mirror and left it on the floor.”

Sarah asked me with a puzzled expression.

“Why do people do that? Are you afraid of the ghost reflected in the mirror?”

“It’s the opposite. Mirror ghosts harm people in the mirror. You can use more power in places where there are a lot of mirrors. So, I placed mirror fragments in the house to attract people.”

“Ah… That would be correct.”

Of course, what I said was a guess. But there was nothing in this house that could be called a safe zone. Mirror fragments were illuminating the surroundings from all directions. It was a good environment for the ghost in the mirror to run amok.

“Anyway, if I fall on the floor, I’ll be in big trouble. Be careful.”

We cautiously made our way into the living room. Every time I stepped on a mirror fragment on the floor, a dangerous crunching sound rang out. Fortunately, we were both wearing shoes, so there was no risk of hurting our feet.

“There you are!”

Sarah shouted as she pointed the flashlight at the front. I looked at the place where Sarah illuminated. I saw a large full-length mirror standing near the entrance of the living room. The full-length mirror reflected the interior of the living room. Of course, we also saw ourselves in the mirror.

“That… .”

It was the moment I looked into the full-length mirror. We were momentarily taken aback. We weren’t the only ones seen in the mirror.

Behind us stood a woman dressed in blood-red clothes. A woman with long flowing hair smiled evilly between us. That was the scene reflected in the mirror.

From the moment we entered the living room, the woman was already with us. I almost looked back for a moment. I barely stopped turning my head and looked ahead. That was just the scenery reflected in the mirror. There is no one behind.

The woman in the mirror extended her hand towards us. A hand with long fingernails tried to grab our hair.

“Damage!”

Sarah and I quickly fell to the sides. In the mirror, the woman’s nails grazed my shoulder. It wasn’t really a swipe, but I felt a goosebumps sensation on my skin.

Sarah threw a lump of rock salt towards the full-length mirror. But the woman in the mirror did not leave us alone. A woman appeared from the mirror fragments on the floor. The woman in the mirror hit Sarah’s wrist as she tried to throw the rock salt.

━━Tap!

Sarah’s hand flew out in the air. A chunk of rock salt flew to the wrong place and broke. I also threw everything I could get my hands on towards the full-length mirror. These were miscellaneous items left unattended in a haunted house. But every time I tried to throw an object, the woman in the mirror interrupted me.

“Qu.”

A woman pushed me in the mirror. My body was pushed out of reality. I almost fell on the floor littered with sharp mirror fragments. I managed to keep my balance. The miscellaneous things I threw at the full-length mirror fell in the wrong direction.

I swung my sword precisely at the spot where the woman appeared in the mirror. The sword of Gunung only cut through the air in vain. The woman only distorted the image in the mirror but did not stop her actions.

‘Doesn’t even a martial arts knife work in a mirror? ‘How on earth did you become a ghost?’

Only women could interfere with the world reflected in the mirror.

Even if we swung the military sword in real life, it had no meaning. Even if I tried to throw an object, I couldn’t throw it well from a distance because of the obstruction.

“Let’s get closer.”

Sarah and I grabbed our weapons and advanced towards the full-length mirror. Once I got close, I could throw the object accurately. The good news was that there was only one woman in the mirror.

The woman with one body in the mirror could not attack us at the same time. When one was attacked, the other was free for a moment. Of course, whenever I tried to throw something, it would recognize me like a ghost and interfere.

It was the moment we approached the entrance where the full-length mirror was located.

The woman in the mirror grabbed Sarah’s hand from behind.

“Ugh… !”

It was Sarah’s hand that was holding the military sword.

In the mirror, the woman grabbed Sarah’s hand and pulled it towards her. The hand moved in a dangerous direction. The sword flew towards Sarah’s neck.

“Ugh.”

In the nick of time, the sword came to a stop in front of Sarah’s neck.

Sarah was forced to hold on by strengthening her arms.

“Jinwoo… ! Now is the time!”

Sarah shouted at me. Now was the opportunity, as the woman in the mirror was holding Sarah. My body was completely free. I made a quick decision and threw the tonfa towards the full-length mirror.

The tip of the knife was about to stab Sarah’s neck.

The tonfa flew like a boomerang and hit the full-length mirror. The mirror shattered and fragments flew everywhere. At that moment, Sarah’s hand that was trying to stab herself stopped. A lot of mirror fragments flew out. I took Sarah and took a step back.

“Now the real thing comes out.”

“It’s Jewoong, you have to use Jewoong.”

The full-length mirror was shattered, but the exorcism was not yet over.

A woman’s shredded body emerged from the fragments of the shattered full-length mirror. The body pieces that looked like chunks of meat came together and formed the shape of a woman wearing red clothes.

The object that the ghost resided in was smashed.

The time has come to use Jewoong.

━━Hee hee hee

A woman in red ran towards us.

I threw a spear at the woman who was running like crazy.

Jewoong collided with the woman’s forehead.

Then something happened that was hard to believe even after seeing it with my own eyes.

The woman’s body was sucked into Jewoong.

As if absorbing her soul, the 30cm-sized Jewoong swallowed the woman’s entire body.

My father’s record was true. The ghost that contained the object was destroyed and came out. When I threw a human-shaped doll, the ghost was sucked in.

Now there was only one thing left to do.

Cutting off the doll’s head.

I grabbed the military sword and approached Jewoong, who was on the ground.

It was Jewoong with Lee Eun-sook’s name written on it.

Jewoong’s body swelled like a balloon. The ghost trapped inside the straw doll was struggling. It was a terrible ghost that struggled until the end.

“Go to hell!”

He slashed his sword at Jewoong.

A sharp sword cut off the head of Jeung, who was possessed by a ghost.