My Girlfriend Is a Shaman - Chapter 49

49 – Getting to know your future spouse #6

Arriving 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 look at. There are also apartments.”

“Let’s investigate separately instead of moving together. Call us if you find anything.”

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

“I’ll go toward 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.

Sera left for the apartment complex. I searched mainly villas and single-family homes.

I talked to the residents living in the neighborhood.

“Hey, man.”

“Yes?”

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

“I don’t know because I’m not interested. I heard 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 house 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 felt strange, 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 spoke to her lady in passing while buying a pack of gum.

“Hey, ma’am. I have something to ask.”

“What?”

“There was a house near here. The house had all the windows broken.”

It was the moment I spoke.

For some reason, the lady seemed a little uncomfortable.

“Student. Why do you want to ask 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’s a big house over there. I think it’ll be okay if I just change the wallpaper and put in some windows…”

Actually, 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 told her that my family was planning to move in, the lady did not show any sign of discomfort.

Instead, the super lady was embarrassed.

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

“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’m young and look pitiful… Everyone who lived in that house went crazy. Everyone started talking about seeing strange things in the house and eventually ran out.”

“Really?”

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… A house where three people died a long time ago. A crazy woman killed her mother and daughter there. That crazy woman was also killed by her mother’s husband. Since then, it has been uninhabitable. That’s it. If you try to live there, everyone goes crazy.”

“Gasp.”

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

“I understand.”

I came out of the store.

A crazy woman killed her mother and her 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 mother and daughter murder case occurred in Soyeon-dong. 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. Please come here.”

The call has ended.

Sera arrived where I was after some time.

It was already night when we joined.

“Jinwoo. Have you found the house? Where is it?”

“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. Beside me, Sarah turned on her flashlight to illuminate her 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.

“What, what? Why is the floor like this…?”

“It feels like a trap has been set.”

The floor of the living room was littered with shattered mirror fragments everywhere. Pieces of glass fell from the broken window, as well as countless mirror fragments. All of those fragments illuminated the surrounding landscape.

“Isn’t that what the people who lived in the past did because they were possessed by ghosts? They smashed the mirrors and laid them on the floor.”

Sera asked me with a puzzled expression.

“Why do people do that? Are they afraid of ghosts reflected in the mirror?”

“It’s the opposite. The mirror ghost harms people in the mirror. It can use more power in places where there are a lot of mirrors. That’s why it bewitches people and spreads mirror fragments in the house.”

“Ah… I guess that’s right.”

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 you fall on the floor, you’ll be in big trouble. Be careful.”

We carefully made our way to 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.

“Over there!”

Sarah shouted, shining her flashlight in front of her. 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.

Standing behind us was a woman dressed in blood-red clothes. A woman with her long flowing hair smiled an evil smile 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. Her hands, with her 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.

“Jinwoo! Let’s break the mirror.”

Sarah threw her lump of rock salt at 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 slapped Sarah’s wrist as she tried to throw her lump of rock salt.

━━Tap!

Sera’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.

“Ugh.”

The 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 martial arts knife exactly at the spot where the woman appeared in the mirror. The sword of Gunung only cut through the air in vain. The woman’s image in the mirror was distorted, but she did not stop her actions.

‘Doesn’t even the military sword work in the 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 reality, 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. Her 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 the nape of Sarah’s neck.

Sarah was forced to hold on by putting strength on her arms.

“Jinwoo…! Now!”

Sera 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.

This was when the tip of her 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, which was about to stab her, stopped. A lot of mirror fragments flew out. I took Sarah with me and took a step behind her.

“Now the real thing comes out.”

“Jewoong, you have to use Jewoong.”

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

A woman’s shredded body came out from among 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.

━━Heeheehee

A woman in red ran towards us.

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

Jewoong crashed into 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 the soul, the 30cm-sized Jewoong swallowed the woman’s entire body.

“It’s done! It was successful.”

“It’s amazing. It’s truly haunted.”

Sera, who saw the same scene from the side, let out an exclamation.

Her 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 the doll’s head.

I grabbed the military sword and approached Jeung who had fallen to the ground.

It was a 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. People lost their lives because of this ghost.

“Goodbye.”

I slashed my sword at Jewoong.

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