Chapter 138 – Episode 138
Somin is now somewhat accustomed to life in Europe.
She continued to attend the church where she met Daniel and prayed for her father, Gu Byeong-Hwon, who remained in Korea, and for her benefactor, Jun-Hyeon.
But a few days ago, she started having strange dreams.
She had a dream about the devil.
A dream where the devil’s black, hairy hand enters one’s groin. Then, at some point, a hard protrusion protruding from the devil’s body even entered his body through his genitals like a tentacle.
It was too vivid to be considered a dream and too unrealistic to be considered reality.
Somin tried hard to shake off this nightmare, but it was no use. The priests shook their heads and even the psychiatric hospital said there was nothing they could do about it. He just told me to think only good and positive thoughts. Although she sometimes encouraged sex with her lover, the only person on Somin’s mind was Junhyeon. She couldn’t even imagine having sex with someone else.
So Somin, feeling like she was grasping at straws, decided to visit a Korean shaman living in France.
The shaman who is said to be retired was an old woman over 70 years old.
In the past, he was rumored to be brave and made a lot of money, so now he could build a house in Europe and play and eat.
“So what brought you here?”
The old woman, who had no greed for money, spoke coldly to Somin.
“I’m having a nightmare.”
“If people with nightmares came to visit me, I would stand in line from here all the way to my hometown, you bastard.”
“…”
When the old woman saw Somin looking sullen, she crossed his legs and said, as if she wanted to hear what he had to say.
“Just talk about it somewhere. “I wonder what a great dream I had.”
Somin spoke quickly as if she had been waiting.
“It’s a dream about a devil… I have a dream every night about being raped by a devil.”
“Is it vivid?”
“Yes. It was very vivid.”
The old woman listened to the story and her expression suddenly darkened. Then he suddenly took out a cigarette from his chest, put it in his mouth, and lit it.
Somin looked seriously at each and every action of the old woman.
“Life in a foreign country is not suitable. If you think it’s not a big deal, you’ll feel at ease. But I guess that’s something that keeps bothering you.”
“Ah… Is that so…”
As expected, this time it was all in vain.
It was frustrating because no matter where I looked I couldn’t hear any good alternatives.
‘I thought there must be some reason why I keep having the same dream…’
Just as I was about to give up and go back, the old woman opened her mouth again.
“What does the devil look like? “Let’s just listen to the story.”
“Hmm… Actually, I’m not sure if he’s really a devil. Maybe they just think I’m the devil. “Because they have black skin, hair, and they bully me.”
“Yes, that might be possible. So what does it look like?”
“It has three eyes. It had only the whites of its eyes, and between its eyes there was an eye as big as all of its eyes combined. I couldn’t see any legs, but a huge protrusion came out like a tentacle and raped me. As I said before, the body is full of hair.”
“…Hmm.”
After sighing once, the old woman got up, found something on the bookshelf, and took it out. He put down the large old book on the table, but it was so dusty that as soon as he put it down, white dust filled the area.
Even though Somin was chortling, she closely observed the old woman’s every move.
The old woman, who was roughly turning page after page of a bookcase that seemed ready to fall apart, stopped at a certain point and motioned for Somin to come closer.
“Is this the devil you spoke of?”
“Uh…”
Somin looked in the direction the old woman was pointing. There was a painting that looked like a black and white photo, but it was difficult to see because it seemed to be a painting for other paintings, not for that subject.
It seemed to be a group photo of college students from some university, but it was pointing to a very small black shadow drawn in the next corner. At first, I really thought it was just a shadow.
But Somin, who looked closer little by little, got scared and sighed.
“Ah..!”
He didn’t even answer yes and just backed away.
It was exactly like the one from the dream. It was faint, but clear. And Somin still felt the same goosebumps that she felt in her dream. It was as if the devil was scanning his body hers.
The old woman put out her cigarette in the ashtray and then sat down again.
“There is a reason why I left Korea and came here. A big disaster will hit Korea sooner or later. “If you came here without knowing, you were truly chosen by God.”
“Disaster?”
I was even more horrified when it fell exactly as Daniel had said.
“Yes, disaster. Why would I leave my hometown alone and take refuge here?”
“Well, what about the family..?”
“Where is your family? Ever since I was young, I’ve been obsessed with it, and I’ve always been a shaman, so I wonder what kind of crazy person would marry me just because I retired. My relatives don’t even consider me family. “I feel so embarrassed when I think about what those guys did to me.”
“…”
But I wondered what the reason was for saying that now. What does this have to do with Somin’s dreams and the disaster that will befall his hometown?
“The devil’s touch remains in you.”
“Yes?”
“The devil’s remnants remain in his body her her her. You even want that touch. That’s why your subconscious is desperately seeking that touch, even appearing in your dreams. Do you remember which guy you slept with in Korea?”
If you slept… No one comes to mind except Junhyun. He slept with Taehoon a few times, but he never desperately waited for his touch of her. It was a memory he didn’t even want to think about, so he wasn’t worth including as a candidate.
Then it was really just Junhyun. But that doesn’t make sense. Daniel said that only Jun-hyeon was the one who could prevent the disaster, and he had helped him too much for him to say that Jun-hyeon was the devil. He healed my father’s leg as a saint, so how can we dismiss him as a devil?
“I guess there is someone who guesses.”
“But not him.”
“Under! I heard the devil is going around talking about being the devil. Yes, this is a very old yearbook. It’s not my photo. But the funny thing is, I remembered that the person who brought me this album at the time had “A request similar to yours.”
“Ah…”
That’s why I showed you this album. But what does this have to do with disaster?
“Probably no one alive today knows that fact.”
“What is the truth?”
“I mean, this yearbook is the last yearbook this school has ever produced.”
“..!”
Somin was so eerie that he couldn’t sit still, from the tips of his feet to the top of his head. He jumped up and just looked at the old woman with a shocked face.
“He was crying and making a fuss, saying that the devil from his dream he was here, but his friends who came with him did not believe him. I’m a high school student who just graduated, and I’m upset because my friends don’t believe me… It doesn’t seem like I’m lying when I’m angry because I feel unfairly treated. So, at the end, I told him not to come with his friends and to come alone. But there was no way for those students to return. Because they are all dead.”
“That can’t be possible…”
“Sorry. “It looks like you’re possessed by a ghost.”
“Well, then what should I do?”
“What should I do… I have to kill that demon. Otherwise you will die.”
“…Is there no other way?”
He could not kill Junhyeon, his benefactor, and it made no sense to kill someone even if he wasn’t his benefactor.
“Would I have left my hometown any other way? “That devil is the source of the destruction of Korea!”
“It doesn’t make sense…”
“It doesn’t make sense… Well, if it doesn’t make sense, then there’s nothing left for me to do. Now go ahead. And don’t come back again.”
Somin left the old woman’s house. And then he muttered without realizing it.
“It doesn’t make sense… It doesn’t make sense… It doesn’t make sense… “
There was no way that Junhyun was the devil.
Even if you think about it this way or that way, it doesn’t make sense.
And it doesn’t make sense that something like this would suddenly happen to him. Why did he suddenly start having such dreams at this point?
I really need to know the truth about this.
Somin thought sincerely.
If you continue like this, you will die and Korea will also perish.
I knew one person who could exorcise the devil.
It was Daniel in Korea.
‘I guess I have to go back to Korea.’
So Somin immediately gave the money to her agency and booked a flight to Korea.
*
I opened my eyes a few days later after failing to get rid of Grace’s colorful mole.
In my head, I thought I had only slept for one night, but when I woke up in the hospital, they said I had been lying unconscious for 7 days.
When I opened my eyes, all the familiar faces were gathered next to the bed.
Jin A-young, Seo-ah, Yeon-du, Lee Seol, Yoo-young, Do-ha, Chiyo, Grace. And in the back was Choi Won-jae, and in the corner, Han Seo-yeon was standing with her arms crossed. There was no Daniel.
When I opened my eyes, the women went crazy.
A mixture of half-joking and half-serious comments poured out, such as that my brother had finally woken up, that I thought the boss was going to die, that I couldn’t die before opening my second store, and that my only wish was to receive one paycheck.
I just stared at the ceiling.
Why on earth did this happen to me? Why was I unconscious for 7 days? No matter how I thought about it, it was because of Grace’s birthmark. A shock as if thrown out. And after that, I lost strength and lost consciousness.
‘I need to find out more about this.’
“Ouch!”
I thought someone would get hurt in all the fuss, but Do-ha, who was the most foolish person, grabbed my wrist and felt pain.
“Doha, are you hurt?”
“Look where you are.”
“I think my muscles are a little shocked. Ah, apo…”
Uh? Are you hurt?
I felt like my heart was sinking for a moment.
‘If the muscles were surprised, they would have contracted. But why can’t I see the red dot at all?’
Lost… The ability?
