113 – Operation Water Ghost
Swipe to the back, the explanation of the curse is pretty detailed.
*As with all curses, the key is not to touch the curse medium with your hands!
Thank you, a curse that even a toddler can understand. I won’t tell you the subtitle.
I picked up the long book with that name, placed it in the middle of the table, and pointed with my finger at the water ghost’s belief curse.
While you two were reading that part, I decided to think of a plan to mince him.
The approximate identity of the guy I thought of was, of course, a graduate student.
Whether it’s a former job or a current one.
I couldn’t imagine anyone other than a graduate student who had a grudge enough to break the curse on graduate school because he was a person related to the Breeze House, but because he was f*cked up.
As a bonus, the same goes for choosing the type of curse to be related to fatigue.
Just like hiding a tree in the forest, no one will be able to associate it with a curse if you solve it in graduate school, a hotbed of fatigue and insomnia.
Right now, I was thinking about the graduate students looking tired.
Seeing that the plan using low-level curses was carried out at the time of the repair work, he must be a petit bourgeois, familiar with the circumstances inside the school while using his brain.
‘Who is it?’
I’m really curious about your face.
Tok tok.
“Mercenaries.”
Along with the sound of knocking on the desk, I heard the young lady calling in a low voice.
While I was lost in my thoughts, the two of them seemed to have finished reading the book.
The library was not the right place to talk. Priyanian raised his hand and pointed out the door.
As I came out, the librarian’s eyes met.
“……”
“……”
With his eyes still set, he bowed his head to me once and then focused on the book again.
As I passed him and came outside, the street was full of students preparing to leave school.
Among all these people, there is a culprit who cursed graduate school, a hotbed of chronic fatigue.
I feel like my stomach is already being squeezed at the thought of playing the role of a detective who is not even in the middle of the day.
“The one G-House showed me. I think it was right that it was in Breeze Baram. Young lady-nim is of the same opinion.”
Perhaps because there were a lot of people, Priani An, who avoided the word curse, told me the characteristics of the culprit he had in mind.
“If you look at the whitewashed thing, your hands are dull, and if you see that there is no alarm device in the hole, it’s a first-time offender. Looking at the height of the hole there, he’s a man of appropriate height.”
Young lady had a slightly different opinion.
“You can tell from the people we’ve met, but since it’s not a potentially lethal curse, I hope it doesn’t go too far.”
After her words, she asked me.
“What do you think the mercenary should do to catch him?”
Hearing that, I thought for a moment. And soon came to a conclusion.
‘He’s nothing more than a small buntangchung.’
I don’t want to be f*cked by myself, so I’m trying to get others to be f*cked too.
What do you mean, if the guy who is trying to escape is not a buntangchung?
‘I’m not catching the person who sowed the curse. It’s to catch the buntang that sprinkled hate.’
Why do you have a wider range of thoughts when you think like that?
‘Maybe it’s because I’m good.’
Anyway, there is one of three ways to bring out the guy who is still hiding somewhere.
First, burn the entire den where it hides.
Or you can solve the curse as if there is no damage, and the one who wants something will come out on his own and say, ‘I did it, you assholes, listen to me.’ To make them shout.
And lastly, making sure that the sh*t he packed didn’t get deleted overnight and came out to check on him again.
But the first one is withheld.
I don’t have the ability to play pranks on the whole university, and if I do that at the only university in Britian, I’ll have to worry about surviving every day, let alone think about going back to Earth for the rest of my life.
And likewise, the second one was put on hold because his personality is more timid than I thought.
If he was overly self-conscious, he would have already raised the intensity of his curse to raise people’s awareness.
From the fact that the level of the curse was set low so that he could escape at any time, he showed that he would disappear quietly into the forest once the curse was lifted.
So there’s only the third one left.
“Hmm…”
“Why however, mercenaries?”
I struggled for a while.
A third plan will inevitably involve a certain amount of fuss.
If you want to kill a bastard who is messing around, you can’t help it as much as you have to accept it, but it was because you were worried about what to do with that level.
You can’t burn thatched-and-three to catch bed bugs.
So I decided to listen to other people’s opinions first.
“I’d like to hear what others think. Does anyone have any good ideas?”
The two shook their heads. Looking at it, it seemed that there was not much to see.
Inevitably, it seemed like the time had come to use that method.
But to get it right, it took some preliminary research.
“How about we take a walk for a while?”
Prianian raised a questioning voice at my suggestion.
“Suddenly?”
“I’d rather get some fresh air than sit in the library and rack my brain.”
Just then, the university was full of college students starting to leave school.
As there are people everywhere, I can easily find the place I want.
***
A plaza appeared in front of us as we walked.
Looking at the plaza in the middle and the buildings in three directions, people walking out holding books and swords, this place is probably the place with the most floating population in the university.
“There are a lot of people here.”
“Isn’t it probably because it’s the central square of the university? Come to think of it, the building where the secretary used to be was located near here.”
A scribe.
I don’t think this place is bad.
I looked back at the two and said.
“I have an idea. This way.”
After taking the two of them to a remote location, I told them about the plan I had in mind.
Then Prianian put on a somewhat embarrassed expression.
“… Put the curse here?”
I nodded.
“Yes.”
To both of you, I explained my plans in a bit more detail.
-This university plaza is the busiest place in Britian University.
If an unspecified number of people complain of the curse of insomnia in such a place, rumors will spread throughout the university.
He must be inside the university, so he heard rumors that something similar to the curse he solved had spread in the university, so he would definitely come to check the curse of the Breeze Coffin.
We just need to catch him and cut him off.
“How are you?”
Simple, ignorant, but efficient. As far as the plans that have come out so far.
Then Prianian spoke as if he was worried.
“Didn’t the previous book say that you shouldn’t come into contact with the medium of the curse? What if Mr. G-House gets hurt?”
“It’s okay if you move it without touching it.”
Wouldn’t it be better to move it with two twigs? Nothing is impossible for someone who has been using only chopsticks for 28 years.
Then the young lady said as if she was embarrassed.
“Mercenary, that’s a crime.”
“It’s a little prank. Just as he thought.”
“But-“
“Lady, please. Please close your eyes just this once.”
I looked straight at the young lady and said.
She was speechless for a moment.
“I know very well that the young lady has a straight and beautiful mind. However, this is the best way to catch him hiding somewhere while saving the graduate students who are suffering from insomnia.”
“……”
And after a while, the poor young lady looked away from me and said.
“…Really, is there any other way?”
I nodded.
“Yes.”
At the very least, it will be smaller than playing a colorful little prank on the entire university.
Isn’t it better than making a breeze pipe into a fire pipe or a water pipe?
“I just want to protect the water ghost’s faith.”
I don’t know the story he has.
The professor may have severe burns, or he may have despaired of a broken heart, or the professor may have fled to a university in another country and fled with his graduation thesis.
But he wasn’t just trying to f*ck himself, he was making other people uncomfortable too.
If he wants to put other people into the pit of sh*t like that, wouldn’t it be right for the person who discovered it to do so?
I bowed slightly to the two of them. For a little more certain build-up.
“If you have a better plan, let me know. If not, please help me.”
At the earnest request I bowed my head, the two finally nodded.
“…If that’s the case with Mr. G-House.”
“Only this time.”
I raised my head again and immediately moved to execute the plan.
“Well then, let’s move fast. We have a lot of places to stop today.”
***
A few days later.
I was drinking watermelon juice at the university cafe and listening to the conversation of the seat next to me.
“Did you guys hear that rumor?”
It was pretty sweet.