episode_0084

Sarah and I went to a Buddhist supply store in Jamsil and purchased the items needed for the soul saving ritual.

An organic bowl to be used as a soul vessel, cotton cloth, white paper, and a hondae made by cutting down raw trees.

That wasn’t all that was needed for the ritual.

Rice and salt were also needed, but there was no need to purchase them separately. Rice and salt were things we always carried with us because they were often used in shamanic rituals. There would have been enough in the duffel bag left in the motel room.

“You got everything, right? Let’s go back.”

“Yes.”

Sarah and I shared the purchased items and returned to the motel. As I walked down the street on my way back, Sarah made fun of me with a stern look on her face.

“Baby! So what were you trying to watch on the adult broadcast earlier?”

” I tried to, but you stopped me. ”

“But there must have been something you wanted to see, right? Call me your favorite tag, baby.”

“What are you talking about?”

“MILF? Hentai? Maid?!”

It was Sarah who sang a tag that I would like with her clear English pronunciation.

I honestly felt mortified while watching Sarah teasing me non-stop next to me.

If you stay alone in a motel room, you can watch some adult shows.

Only men who don’t go on school field trips and watch pornographic things on TV with their friends late at night should throw stones at me. This means that you should not look down on the curiosity of high school boys. When you press the button, a channel with naked sisters appears. Do you tolerate that?

“Sera Kang. You don’t understand the feelings of high school boys.”

“Pervert.”

As I walked and exchanged diss comments with Sarah, I eventually arrived at the motel.

We went into the motel room and prepared a soul saving ritual with the items we had purchased.

There was rice in my backpack.

I took out the rice and put it in a soul bowl.

Sarah took out a pair of scissors and cut a 15cm piece of white paper into the shape of a person. It was a paper doll to be placed in a soul vessel. That paper doll was going to go on top of the soul bowl I put rice in.

One question arose.

Originally, I heard that in order to carry out the soul rescue ritual, you had to know various information about the ghost, such as the drowned person’s name, date of birth, and date of death.

However, we had no idea about the identity of the snail in the Han River.

I was wondering how I would save my soul in this situation.

“Sera. But you don’t know who our murderer is. I don’t know the name, the date of birth or the date of death, so can I save the soul?”

“It is possible.”

Sarah nodded with a confident expression.

“The identity of the deceased is to be found out in order to accurately summon the soul of the dead person. A piece of paper with your name or date of birth written on it can be said to be a sign that guides you. Then, if you can lure them in with something else, there’s no need to know their identity, right?”

“You’re trying to lure the murderer with something else?”

“There is a special scripture that attracts evil spirits like a magnet. It’s called the Sutra of the Soul, and if the object on which this is written is nearby, the evil spirits will stick to the paper.”

Somehow, Sarah seemed confident, but she had a method. As she was well versed in shamanism, she knew the sutra that attracts the spirit of shamanism like a magnet.

In short, it is a bait to catch wild fish.

“It will take some time to write down the scriptures. Just writing it down doesn’t make it effective; you have to put sincerity into it.”

“How long does it take?”

“About two hours.”

Sarah took out a brush, wrote a scripture on a piece of paper, and said a prayer. It was amazing to watch my childhood friend write down scriptures in squiggly Chinese characters.

In the meantime, I tied the cotton cloth tightly to the wedding band. The hondae, made from cutting down a live tree, played a similar role as a fishing rod in the soul-receiving ceremony. By holding on to this bandage, the spirit of the beast was lifted to land.

Two hours have already passed.

“That’s it. I finished it.”

The prayer is over.

Sarah handed me a piece of paper with a scripture written on it.

“You can put this in the soul bowl. Put a handful of rice on top of the paper doll and top it with this. It just needs to be at the top of the bowl.”

“Okay.”

I put rice in a soul bowl and placed a piece of paper with a scripture written on it. Afterwards, I closed the lid of the soul vessel and tied it tightly with a cotton cloth. This is to prevent the contents inside the bowl from spilling out.

Now the fishing rod and bait are ready.

All you had to do was go ghost fishing at night.

“There’s still some time left.”

Sarah said while looking at the clock on the wall.

It was now six o’clock in the afternoon.

Since the soul saving ceremony was scheduled to be held at night, there was still some time left.

What would you like to do in the meantime?

“Jinwoo. What should we do to spend our time?”

After thinking about it for a moment, I remembered what I should do now.

It was to sleep beforehand.

“Let’s close our eyes now. If you go to save your soul at night, won’t you be able to sleep? I think it would be better to sleep now.”

“I guess so.”

“I’ll set the alarm for three hours later.”

I took out my phone and set the alarm.

In the motel room, there was a large twin bed that two people could lie down on.

There was only one blanket and two pillows side by side.

Sarah and I covered ourselves with a blanket and lay down side by side.

Suddenly, the remote control was in my hand. The remote control that I threw away in surprise earlier fell where I was lying.

Maybe Sarah could secretly watch TV while she was asleep.

But I thought it would be better to quit.

I’m not crazy enough to watch adult shows next to my sleeping childhood friend.

If Sarah wakes up while watching it, I won’t be able to handle the embarrassment.

Let’s just sleep.

I put down the remote control and quietly closed my eyes.

We fell asleep.

*

How much time has passed?

I couldn’t sleep deeply and had no choice but to wake up in the middle of the night.

This was because there was a loud rustling noise coming from the seat next to me.

‘… … What time is it?”

I opened my eyes tentatively and looked at the clock on the wall. It was still eight o’clock in the afternoon. There was about an hour left until the alarm went off.

“Haam… Is it Sarah?”

I yawned and called Sarah.

Sarah, who was sleeping next to me, suddenly woke up and was standing at the motel window. The rustling sound I heard earlier was the sound of Sarah moving. Sarah, who was standing by the window, had her back turned and was staring out the window, wondering what she was looking at.

“Hey, Kang Sera. What are you doing if you’re not sleeping?”

I called the name again, but got a completely wrong answer.

“It’s me. Mr. Jinwoo.”

As soon as I heard that soft voice, I was so startled that I fell asleep.

I quickly got out of bed.

The person standing at the window now was not Sarah.

It was Hongryeon.

“Has the fairy come?”

“Yes.”

“Are you suddenly possessed again? Please turn on the blinker and come into Sarah’s body.”

“If my brother has a blinker on his body, I would like to turn it on.”

As always, Hongryeon’s contact was sudden. This has already happened several times, but every time I see Hongryeon that suddenly appears, my heart beats in surprise. Suddenly having my childhood friend’s soul replaced was not something I could easily get used to.

Still, it worked out well.

Now we were working. I didn’t know if I could get Hongryeon’s help when exorcising the ghost.

‘The last time I got help, it was amazing.’

The mysterious power that Hongryeon showed when defeating the Grim Reaper was no joke. She was a fairy with great power, enough to bring the Grim Reaper to his knees with a single wave of her hand. There was nothing to worry about if Hongryeon herself took the initiative in killing people in the Han River.

I asked Hongryeon for help.

“Fairy. We are currently working on the Han River… .”

“Work? Let me take a moment to see what you were doing.”

There was no need for a long explanation.

Because Hongryeon was able to read Sarah’s memories.

Hongryeon read the memories by placing her finger on her forehead and recited what had happened so far.

“Ah. A few days ago, someone drowned in the Han River and died? While investigating with my younger brother, we found out that it was the work of a criminal. I’m planning to hold a ritual to lift the soul from the Han River tonight.”

“Yes.”

It was accurate without a single mistake.

Hongryeon was so accurate that it even brought up embarrassing memories.

“And Jinwoo tried to watch adult broadcasts at the motel. Then I was caught by my younger brother.”

“… … Yes.”

There is no need to read these memories.

“I think I had bad luck. Mr. Jinwoo.”

“That’s right.”

It was unfair to suddenly hear about adult broadcasting.

If you were born a healthy man, wouldn’t you be able to watch pornographic things when you’re alone? It’s like a man’s instinct. If you’re a childhood friend, shouldn’t you understand?

I felt like Hongryeon would understand my unfair feelings.

I immediately approached Hongryeon and complained.

“Fairy! Please listen to me. Honestly, shouldn’t Sarah understand? A man can watch some dirty things. Please give the fairy some kind advice to your younger brother.”

Honestly, if it had been another woman, I wouldn’t have asked you to understand.

However, Hongryeon was a spirit that had lived much longer than a human.

I thought she would have a good understanding of men’s desires.

“Well, ”

what?

The reaction is different from what I expected.

Hongryeon couldn’t easily continue speaking after hearing my complaint.

“I don’t know what to say to my younger brother. Actually, I don’t know much about vulgar things.”

“Is it vulgar?”

“I am a governor of equality between men and women.”

Suddenly Hongryeon’s cheeks turned red.

The fairy was stuttering and embarrassed after hearing the man’s troubles.

“Why don’t you know that? He is a spirit who lives much longer than humans.”

“Do you need to know anything about poetry and spirits? If you were born as the daughter of His Majesty Sangje, you must maintain chastity.”

No joke, Hongryeon was truly a pure fairy. Although I have lived much longer than humans, I did not know much about the hardships of men. Because of his noble status, he seemed to have to maintain chastity.

So you’re a princess like a flower in a greenhouse?

For some reason, I felt embarrassed by the dirty talk about spirits.

“I’m not sure, but Jinwoo, you wanted to watch an adult broadcast, right? I will try to understand Jinwoo’s feelings.”

“There is no need to put in effort.”

I tried to talk to Hongryeon to get comfort, but I couldn’t find anything.

I was just embarrassed for no reason.

“Let’s talk about something else. Can you help me get rid of the water demon? I think it would be good if the fairy came forward in person like last time.”

I changed the subject and went back to talking about work.

I asked for help, but Hongryeon somehow shook her head.

“I can’t come out myself this time. I think Jinwoo and Sera will have to resolve this.”

“Why?”

“As you know, even if a spirit is a spirit, it cannot grant an unlimited number of people’s wishes. You can only have your wish granted if you accumulate the right amount of karma. In my case, my wish can be granted based on good karma.”

It was a story I had heard from Hongryeon before.

Even gods could not give people treasures or grant wishes at will.

Because if that happens, the world will become dizzy.

The gods had rules.

The rule was that rewards could only be given to those who had accumulated worthy karma.

“The last time I negotiated with a listed car company to save my younger brother, it was quite big. This means that Jinwoo and his younger brother’s accumulated karma, as much as they helped at that time, was wasted. If I want to step forward again, the two of us must accumulate more good karma.”

There was a reason why Hongryeon couldn’t help us directly.

A lot of the karma that Sera and I had accumulated during that time was used up when dealing with the Grim Reaper.

In order to use the mysterious power of Hongryeon for exorcism, one had to accumulate good karma again.

“So you’re saying you can’t help with anything? It’s a shame.”

“That’s not necessarily the case, but I can at least make a helpful prediction.”

“A prophecy?”

“Because helping in the form of prophecy does not require much karma. It is not for nothing that the gods have told the people of this world to do this or that through oracles since ancient times.”

“Hoo.”

It seemed like he could at least predict what would happen in the future.

Hongryeon gave me a prophecy.

“Soon, someone will drown in this building. If Jinwoo helps, a dying person may come back to life.”

However, the content of the prophecy was unusual.

“People die here?”

“That’s right. I’m almost done with the reception, so I have to go back. See you later.”

The call ended before I could ask specifically who was going to die.

Hongryeon’s soul left Sarah’s body.

“Ugh… .”

Sarah, who had been staggering, frowned and stood in place.

I quickly spoke to Sarah, who had come back to her senses.

“It’s strong, right?”

“It’s me.”

“Did you just hear the fairy’s prophecy? They say someone dies in a motel?”

“Let’s find it first!”

Sarah and I ran out of the room.

I’m not sure what you mean by drowning in a motel.

However, I decided to search the motel first.

We ran through the hallways, looking for an unknown drowned person.