episode_0064

The bird that fell to the ground with a hole in its head did not even move.

I touched Gohyeokjo’s body here and there and confirmed that it was definitely a corpse.

“Phew.”

Even I, who fell from a high place, was not in good shape. Now, if I used more Geumgangjeo, my energy would have been sucked to its limit and I could have passed out. I dragged my shaky body and entered the store.

Inside the store, where the furniture was smashed, Sarah was seen engaged in a chase with Bidouman’s body.

Bidouman’s head, which had been flying in the air, was rolling on the floor, completely charred. It seemed that Sera struck the electric shock with her diamond sword and burned the head that was in the way. While I was fighting to the death with Goheukjo, Serra was also cornering Bidouman.

Serah, who was fighting with Viduman, saw me and asked.

“What happened to Gohyeokjo?”

“I got rid of it.”

The surviving body of Bidouman was still running around inside the store.

I chased the body of Biduman, who was running around with Sarah, as if catching an animal. In a corner of the store, Bidouman’s torso held up a Chinese sword and made a last stand against us. I swung my military sword and cut off Biduman’s wrist, which was holding a Chinese sword.

Suddenly! Bidouman’s severed wrist flew away, spattering blood. The Chinese food knife I was holding in my hand fell to the floor. Bidouman no longer had the means to resist. I ran forward and grabbed Biduman’s torso with both arms.

“Now! Quick!”

Only Bidhu was caught by me and ran wild. Sarah untied the towel tied to her arm and covered Viduman’s empty neck. As written in the Biduman legend, we were using the method of extermination by choking the Biduman’s neck.

The moment the towel was wrapped around Biduman’s neck, something strange happened.

Bidouman’s head, which was lying on the floor, let out a voice that sounded like it was in pain.

“… … Noood

It sounded like the voice of someone who was strangled and couldn’t breathe. Bidouman’s body, which was struggling hard, gradually stopped resisting. The extermination method written in the Biduman legend was surprisingly true. Viduman could not breathe because his empty throat was blocked.

Sarah, who was blocking her throat, spoke to me with a puzzled expression.

“You really can’t breathe. How is this monster breathing normally?”

“Isn’t it sending air like Wi-Fi to the hair that falls on the neck?”

“Wireless breathing? Does that make sense?”

“There is no other way to explain it. Does it make sense for a person to turn into a bird?”

“That doesn’t make sense either.”

The bodies of monsters were amazing in many ways. Why can’t a fallen head breathe if it blocks the throat? Sarah and I talked, but we couldn’t figure out the exact reason. Meanwhile, Bidouman’s torso, which was being held by me, became limp and no longer moved.

“It’s not moving anymore? Dead.”

Bidouman’s head rolled back his eyes and he no longer moaned. He had been suffocated to death with a towel. Sarah and I placed the corpse of Bidouman on the floor and took a breath.

“Phew… It’s over.”

“Jinwoo. You said you killed Goheokjo, right?”

“There’s a body outside. Before killing it, I flew with it and it was no joke.”

“What? Did you fly in the sky?”

“Somehow it happened like that.”

The monster hunt is over.

A female student tied with a rope was staring at us from behind. She was a female student who would have been eaten by monsters if she had been a little late.

“You’re blind, right?”

When I asked, a female student named Sogyeong nodded.

“Now that everything is over, you can rest assured. I’ll let you go.”

We approached the blind man, untied the ropes that bound his body, and removed the duct tape from his mouth. The rope was loosened, but the blind man was unable to get up for a while. It seemed like he had been tied up for a long time and had difficulty moving.

“My brother and sister… Who are you?”

Still, we were able to have a conversation.

The blind man spoke to us with a confused expression.

“These are the people who came to save you from monsters. All you need to know is an exorcist.”

“Exorcism, exorcism… ? Did such people really exist?”

“It’s here.”

I raised my finger and pointed at myself and Sarah. Sarah smiled and waved to the blind man. When introducing us to others, it was easiest to say that we were exorcists.

“There really was an exorcist… .”

He was a blind man who saw with his own eyes the process of us exorcising a monster.

The blind man nodded as if he understood.

“Blind child. How have you been here so far?”

“The monsters gave me a little something to eat… . The monsters my brother and sister killed. They say I have to stay fresh and alive… .”

“They are terrible people.”

It was said that the monsters provided food for the blind man. The purpose was to keep them fresh and alive so that they would not starve to death. The blind man spoke to us in a sobbing voice.

“I thought I was going to be eaten by monsters like this. There was a time when I screamed outside before my mouth was covered… No one came… .”

“Probably not. Because this is a ghost road.”

“Ghost Road… ?”

“It’s a mysterious space that only ghosts and monsters can enter. It’s hard for living people to come in here.”

“Well, then how did your brother and sister come in?”

“That’s because we are exorcists. I know a separate way to enter the ghost road.”

“Ah… .”

I took out the flyer I had in my pocket and showed it to the blind man.

It was a leaflet that the blind man’s mother was handing out on the street.

“Mom was looking for you outside.”

“Mom… .”

The moment I started talking about my mother, Sogyeong stumbled and tried to get up. However, he seemed to have no strength in his body and fell to the floor even when he tried to get up. I said to the blind man.

“If you can’t get up, I’ll just carry you on my back.”

“Thank you… .”

“Let’s clean up after a while and then go out together. I’m waiting.”

We cleaned up briefly before leaving. The task was to cut the corpses of monsters into small pieces and kill them. Sarah and I gathered the corpses of Goheukjo and Biduman inside the store and cut them with swords.

I carried the blind man on my back and came out of the store.

I left the luggage I was carrying with Sarah.

But Sarah, who had packed her bags, did not follow me.

Sarah remained inside the store, rummaging through the items.

“Sera! What are you doing if you’re not coming?”

“You take the blind man first. I’ll stay here and take a look at the monsters’ stuff. There might be something strange there, right? Because this is a hideout for monsters.”

“I don’t see anything very interesting?”

“But if you look for it, you might find it. Since you worked hard, you should take home the loot.”

“That’s right.”

This clothing store on Ghost Road was a hideout for monsters. If we searched inside, we might be able to find some strange items that the monsters had. I was able to understand Sarah’s actions in conducting the search.

“Okay. I go first.”

“I’ll contact you when I find something.”

I took the blind man to the place where the entrance to the ghost road was.

The wall was illuminated with a bronze mirror and the ghost escaped out of the way.

When I came out, the day was already bright.

“Blind child. Where is your house?”

“Just go straight down that road.”

It is early morning, when the sun is rising.

I took the blind man to his house.

It was time to return the child to his mother.

*

I moved along the path the blind man taught me. Then we arrived in front of a villa building in a residential area of Chinatown.

“This is room 302. Oppa.”

“We’re here.”

This was the house where the blind man lived. I carried the blind man up the stairs and rang the doorbell. Soon the door of the house opened and the blind man’s mother walked out.

“Who are you… ?”

I saw a woman with a haggard face. She was the mother of a blind child who was looking for her lost child by distributing leaflets on the streets. I spoke to the woman.

“Hello. I brought the missing child.”

“Yes? A missing child?”

“Look. The blind man is here.”

The woman was so distracted that she couldn’t even see straight ahead.

Only then did the woman raise her head and look at the blind man I was carrying.

“Ah… !”

At that moment, the woman screamed in surprise, and the blind man who was carrying me called out to his mother.

“Blind… !”

“Mom… !”

I put the blind man I was carrying on the floor. The blind man was held in the woman’s arms.

“Mom! My older brother and a certain older sister saved me. They said I saved them from strange monsters.”

“Monster? Are you talking about the kidnapper? Anyway, I’m glad… ! I’m so glad!”

The woman holding the blind man bowed her head to me and thanked me.

“Thank you!”

“I need to explain what happened so far.”

I went inside the house and explained to the woman the secret of the disappearance. The fact that it was monsters that kidnapped the blind man. The woman looked embarrassed after hearing my story.

“Not just a kidnapper, but a monster… You said it was?”

“Yes. The monsters were kidnapping children. Of course, you can just explain to the police that the blind man just ran away from the kidnappers.”

“It might be easier to explain it that way.”

I decided to have a reasonable conversation with the woman. In any case, the woman had no way of explaining to the police about monsters or the mysterious space called Ghost Road. I didn’t want to get involved with the police by trying to explain a supernatural being. It was easier for both parties to prepare an explanation based on common sense.

“Thank you so much for saving my child.”

“Thank you, brother.”

In this way, the suspicious disappearance case taking place in Chinatown was solved.

I separated from the mother and daughter and came out of the villa building.

After some time, Sarah received a call.

I took out my cell phone and received a call.

“Uh, Sarah.”

[What happened to the blind man? [Did you take me to mom safely?]

“You took me well. how about you? Did you find anything interesting?”

[uh… I did find something interesting. But it wasn’t like Geumgangjeo, there was a strange letter.]

“Strange letter?”

Sarah said that while searching the monsters’ hideout, she found a strange letter.

Sarah’s voice came through the phone.

[Come to Incheon Station now. Because I’m going that way. I’ll show you what I found there.]