Chapter 44 – 3. Janghwa Hongryeon (4)
“You want to know about ghosts?”
“Okay”
Cashwin was really looking at YuRia with an expression full of eagerness for new knowledge.
“Of course, there is no magic related to the soul among magic, but in fact, this is not magic that came from real souls or ghosts, but only from studying the undead, and it wasn’t a proper study.”
“In other words, ghosts are ghosts, but what you really want to know is about the soul.”
“For now, it’s about ghosts first, but in the end, that’s right.”
At Cashwyn’s words, YuRia hesitated and organized her thoughts for a while.
YuRia, who was pondering for a while on how to explain her story, summarized her own knowledge in the best possible way.
“Didn’t I say before that the world of the dead overlaps the world of the living?”
“Yes. We talked about salt, flint, charcoal, and mistletoe at the inn.”
YuRia took out one of her coins from her arms.
“The space of the living and the dead is like a coin in some sense. They are in the same space, but in a completely different space. Infinitely close yet infinitely far.”
The coin she had just pulled out was a fairy tale, so Yuria pressed the center of her coin as it was.
“What if there is a hole like this?”
“Huh?”
It was surprising that she had squeezed the center of the coin with only the power of her fingers and left a hole, but that was over for now.
Seeing the hole where the front and back sides were mixed and the boundary blurred, Cashwin groaned.
“Could it be that the two worlds are mingling?”
“Yes. As a result, the dead can appear this way. This boundary is much stronger than you think, but it is also surprisingly easy to break.”
“For example?”
“Calling. It’s not easy by any means, but it’s very difficult for the dead to cross over to the world of the living. Compared to that, it’s relatively easy for the living to call the dead. I can call them into this world with the feeling of opening the gates to come. “
“In other words, if there are ghosts, does that mean that someone brought them into this world?”
“There is a way to pay a huge price for yourself even if no one calls you. But the price is really beyond imagination. Nothing you can imagine is nothing compared to that price.”
“…”
“If the grudge is too deep, you’ll have to endure even that…”
Cashwin was just quietly silent.
“Or. There are cases where even after dying, they do not cross over to the world of the dead. This may be less than crossing the wall at all, but it is an act that requires a considerable price to pay. It is a violation of the rules of this world.”
“So, what’s the case with that lady?”
“It was there from the beginning”
The flow of conversation stopped for a moment, and then Yuria opened her mouth again.
“There is a huge price to pay for crossing the boundary or remaining without going to the place you need to go.
“There are a lot of evil spirits for that kind of thing?”
“That’s the scary thing. Seeing them run amok while losing their own reason is what they say. They’ve already lost sight of themselves… If this happens, they won’t be able to find rest forever.”
“But there are exceptions to this as well. People themselves give up their protection or pay the price instead. There are various ways.”
“You pay the price of transcending that imagination instead?”
“When a living person pays the price instead, the shamanism becomes very light. However, apart from the heavyness and lightness of the price, it doesn’t change that these actions are extremely dangerous.”
Yuria’s explanation continued.
And the end was this.
The dead. And don’t try to understand the world of the dead and don’t let it know.
It is like opening the door to this world to the dead on their own, and giving up their own defenses.
It’s like paying the price they should have to pay without knowing it.
“No! Then you have to explain that first!!”
At that, Yuria simply laughed.
“It’s okay. The explanation I gave wasn’t a proper explanation. It was thoroughly painted with analogies and metaphors, and it wasn’t a proper explanation.”
“…”
“So don’t go further than what I told you. If you don’t have the ability in the first place, it’s best to stay away from them.
At YuRia’s words, Cashewyn let out a sigh.
“Okay, so what did you talk to the girls about?”
At Cashwynn’s words, YuRia opened her eyes round and looked at Cashwynn with a startled expression.
“How do you know?”
“You, who care so much for Loa, are not the kind of children who would jump directly into things that would make you dirty, even if you don’t harm Loa. There must have been something.”
Her own body is Yuria, who said Roa’s.
There’s no way a guy who thinks it’s his fault for someone else to use his body dedicated to Loa can’t have done something normal.
Yuria was silent at that.
“So, what were you talking about?”
“I will exercise my right to remain silent. Even without it, my suffering is already too great.”
“…”
Roa was just looking at Yuria with a very worried expression, restless next to her.
“Don’t worry too much about Roa.”
“Sorry…”
Yuria quietly closed her eyes with a very sad expression.
For some reason, she couldn’t ask Yuria anything more.
Roa, who followed YuRia to her haunted house today, had already followed YuRia to this place several times, but she felt a creepy feeling for some reason.
It took some getting used to, but I never got used to this feeling, as if a strange chill was seeping into her bones.
“Why is the haunted house so creepy…”
“That’s because it’s full of negative energy. In terms of scope, the house is a limited area, but in terms of the energy density, this place is overwhelmingly higher than the village.”
YuRia, walking ahead, was looking at her somewhere with dimly shining eyes, wondering if she was looking at something.
“It’s like this isn’t the world I know. It’s like being inside the belly of something.”
At Roa’s words as she wrapped her arms around her and rubbed them with her hands, Yuria softly nodded her head.
“That’s an accurate expression. Actually, a place like this overlaps with the semi-spiritual world. That’s why you shouldn’t take anything out of a place like this. No one knows what might be written on it. Of course, I can see it all.”
Yuria picked up a small doll lying on the floor. For some reason, the doll was trembling and Yuria carelessly held her doll’s head with her hand. She grabbed her doll’s body with one hand and bent it, throwing her in two pieces.
A fuzzy, mist-like substance leaked from her doll, and Yuria simply stirred the air with her hand to disperse it.
“Bah, was that just?”
“They chased them far beyond. Where they should be.”
Why? Roa was still afraid of this mansion, but for some reason, it was thought that this mansion, like herself, seemed to tremble with fear for her Yuria.
It’s not a matter of strong or weak. It was the feeling that the very existence of Yuria had a complete mutual advantage over them.
As if we were to be unilaterally dealt with with no effect on the ghostly spirit beings.
On the contrary, for them, Yuria is unaffected by them and can affect them unilaterally.
Just walking around the house after destroying the clutter in the house one by one, the bizarre feeling that hovered around the house gradually began to disappear.
Something dangerous. It felt like a space heading to another world, and the feeling of being in the stomach of a huge monster gradually faded. Finally, in the last room, when I broke the chest of drawers in one corner, the huge house trembled lightly and returned to normal space. .
“It’s over…”
“Yeah. And now it’s about time to bite the bait that ‘they’ also spread.”
Yuria had a very bitter expression on her face.
It seems really unwilling.
Seeing Yuria with such a disgusted expression on her face, Roa quietly hugged her behind her.
“If you don’t like it that much, why not just do it?”
“…”
Yuria looked back at Roa with a very bitter and sad expression.
“Probably, even Loa wouldn’t be able to turn away if she knew their circumstances.”
It seemed that Yuria had already made up her mind.
Looking at YuRia like that, Roa decided not to say anything that would shake her YuRia anymore.
If it was already a firm decision, saying things like this would only make Yuria more painful.
“Ohhh, it’s true. I’ve heard the rumors, but I really didn’t expect it to end so quickly.”
Even though the house was a mess in many ways, the butler who once worked here offered the promised reward, feeling that there was no longer a strange atmosphere in the house.
A 1,200 gold slip, 1/5 of the value that the mansion will be restored to after it has been purified.
YuRia said that although she had made a lot of money, she didn’t look happy at all.
YuRia just stared into the void with a guilty expression on her face.
It wasn’t far away, but Yuria, who was staring at something directly in front of her, nodded or shook her head slightly as if she was talking to something.
“Are there ghosts there?”
“Yes. Two girls with really strange stories.”
“What are those kids saying?”
“I’m saying I’m sorry…”
As YuRia was saying that, faint but white breath came out of her mouth.
What does Roa look like? She did and she looked at her Yuria again, but her breath wasn’t coming out of Yuria’s mouth.
What was it a little while ago? Is it an illusion? Did you see it wrong?
She felt Roa’s concern, but Yuria just quietly closed her eyes.
It wasn’t for money that she was fighting ghosts in the first place.
Although she was converting it with her own power to some extent, most of her yin energy was not converted, and she gradually piled it up inside her hair and pressed it into her body.
The preparations are over now.
Now it’s time for the fish to bite the bait.
The time to get back the karma they brought on themselves was getting closer.
Molkan~
“Kyaat-?!”
When Roa, who had suddenly hugged her from behind, started massaging her breasts, YuRia was so flustered that she couldn’t even move.
What, what!? What is it all of a sudden!?
“It’s a bee”
“Eh? Eh?”
“It’s a punishment for trying to sleep with another man.”
Ooh, uh eh!?
It was so embarrassing to say something like that, but I couldn’t move.
Yuria, who had been crying over her rain for a long time, suddenly removed her hand from her chest and flicked the tip of her nose with her finger. She did and she closed her eyes in surprise.
“I’ve just calmed down a bit.”
“Eh? Eh?”
“Because Yuria’s expression was so serious…”
Only then did Yuria say ah… And I understood why Roa did such a thing.
It was to relieve her own tension and ease her guilt…
“No matter what it is, if it’s a path you’ve already chosen, don’t do it too much. This is the end of my punishment.”
“Loa…”
“Please, I hope Yuria doesn’t get hurt… You’d better be prepared. Her Yuria’s body will not harass her as much as the traces of her other people.”
Even though she thought Roa’s words were mischievous, Yuria, who knew that these words came from understanding herself too well, just quietly buried her head in her arms of Roa.
“Sorry…”
“I can’t say to cheer up when I think about what lies ahead… But please don’t suffer too much…”
“Sorry…”
Even though she was forgiven by Loa and the burden on her heart could be relieved, she couldn’t help but suffer from this.
This is a bond she can never take off as long as she loves Loa herself.
Relations with non-Loa are like torture to me.
“Excuse me. Are you that little-known ghost slayer by any chance?”
On our way back to the street, we were briefly stopped by a person blocking our way.
“Please get out of the way. If it’s your business, go through the magicians in our group…”
“Couldn’t you give me a little time on this? To invite you so politely.”
The brows of Yuria and Roa twitched a little.
Be polite
Although the words were polite, the actions were not polite at all. The act of cleverly blocking the front and forcibly telling what he wanted to say was very rude.
“Please step out of the way. We have nothing to say. Again, we ask that the wizards in our party deal with the matter.”
“No, no. We have business with you, non-magicians. Please do not refuse our invitation.”
YuRia’s expression subtly distorted at the invitation so persistently.
“Please move away. Yuria is in trouble!”
“You can give me a confirmation here.”
“Then I’ll refuse, please get out of the way”
Even in the face of Loa’s resolute refusal, he did not give in at all. He was still taking cunning steps to block Roa and Yuria’s way.
“Why don’t you think about it a little more?”
Looking at it, I noticed that people around me began to increase one by one.
Have you been very determined and prepared? This was a little tricky.
“Loa…”
“Yeah, I’m feeling it too”
He still has a polite smile on his face, but he has a very jingling look and a polite tone.
“This is embarrassing. I asked you so politely, but you refused so coldly. You are really rude.”
“…”
Something was so strange
It was the wrong side, but it kept changing as if this side was at fault.
“This is how nobles do it, Loa…”
“It’s too much… This is really too much…”
People who appeared from the surroundings surrounded Roa and Yuria completely.
“Catch them. They are the ones who dare to refuse the count’s favor and disrespect the count’s family.”
No matter how you look at it, Roa gnashed her teeth at the sight of those who seemed to be bad people who were invisible to people from aristocratic families, as if they were salivating at Yuria.
“Something, something, is there no way? Are these people really nobles?”
“Ah”
Yuria’s expression brightened a little as if she had thought of something.
“How dare you impersonate the count’s name! I will capture all of you and hand you over to the coffin.”
Is it right to say this even after I say it? She wanted to, but before Yuria could say what her opponent was saying, she began to use her hand hastily.
As she was not familiar with such aristocratic or aristocratic manners, the more time she gave her, the more disadvantageous Yuria was. He had to dig into this gap as much as possible and knock them all down before he could make any more excuses.
The man in front of him tried to say something, but Yuria’s palm touched his stomach first.
Peroong -!!
There was a sound like a leather drum being torn, and his body bounced and flew, colliding with the people behind him, and five or six of them fell and rolled at the same time. Seeing her like that, the others who were around her also tried to see her with her expression changed, but Yuria’s actions came first.
Bubbeobubuck -!!
Bing and spinning, in an instant, just like him a little while ago, he slammed his palm into the pit of the stomach and blew away his body with a bang.
“Loa! Let’s run away!”
“Huh? Uh huh!”
Urgently, Roa held Yuria’s hand and quickly passed between them who had fallen here and there and couldn’t come to their senses.
Fortunately, no one was seen chasing them.
“Is this okay?”
“Perhaps there will be retaliation. But the cause we put forward before we ran away was the honor of the nobility. We won’t be able to crush it openly.”
Yuria gritted her teeth.
Not yet.
Not yet. Shouldn’t have been caught yet.
It had to be an official invitation through the front, not an informal invitation through such a back side.
To alleviate their resentment, it must be.
And not to do great harm to Loa.
Even to prevent herself from getting dirty more than necessary.
And that night.
At last the thing to come has come.
“Hey Yuria. This is an official invitation from the Countess?”
The invitation was clearly signed by the countess, as well as the count’s seal on the sealing wax.
“I finally took the bait”
YuRia put a smile on her lips when she saw the big fish who had definitely taken her bait.
But on the other hand, her heart ached at the definite future that was coming soon.
Now that the thread has gone through the eye of a needle in a predetermined future, it is no longer one of many possibilities, but a definite future.
She also had the humiliation she deserved. The downfall of the Countess.
Now it’s your turn to catch it.
She is very strong, and if she goes wrong, she can seriously injure herself.
She was about to have her belly tucked into her long, pointed snout, but she had no intention of letting go of her fish once caught.
She should have suffered so much pain from her fierce counterattack, but since she had already forgiven Roa, who was in fact the only stumbling block in her heart, Yuria boldly took the plunge.
Opening the invitation, Yuria simply smiled.
However, it was ironic if it was ironic that she was doing well as she wanted and that she couldn’t just be happy.
“I’m sorry, Loa… Now the future is fixed.”
“…”
“Let’s respond to the invitation. The fish finally got the bait.”
YuRia’s words made Cashwyn worried.
Which one actually bit the bait that was sprinkled?
Each other threw bait at each other.
Even the uneasy thought that the bait was not taken by each other came into my mind.
