6 – The story of a childhood friend who sees ghosts #6
A dark night.
The yard of a shaman’s house with a flag fluttering in the wind. It was already a gloomy atmosphere, but now the only people here are children.
The kitchen knife that Sera is holding.
A bowl filled with smelly miso soup.
These were the tools needed when biting a ghost.
“Joo-hyuk, sit in the yard. You can sit upright on the mat over there.”
“Ugh… Ah, okay.”
From the moment he came out of the shrine, Joo-hyuk seemed to start feeling sick again.
Joo-hyuk, who did not have a good complexion, did as Sarah told him to do and sat down on her mat.
“Jinwoo. You are holding on to Joo-hyuk. All you have to do is hold on to Joo-hyuk so that he cannot move while the object bite is in progress.”
“Okay.”
I walked up to Joo-hyuk and tightly held his shoulder while he was sitting. Then Sarah brought a bowl full of soybean paste soup and placed it near Joohyuk. The smell of savory soybean paste soup wafted out and tickled the tip of my nose.
“Sera, let me ask you something. Are you trying to stimulate the ghost possessed by Joo-hyuk with the smell of soybean paste soup? Because ghosts are usually hungry and are fascinated by the smell of food.”
“That’s right.”
“The kitchen knife is used to chase away irritated ghosts. You spin the knife over your head and then throw it towards the front door, right?”
“That’s correct. Do you know a lot about biting ghosts? You must have heard a lot about it somewhere.”
Bite an object.
It was a ritual to stimulate the ghosts with the smell of food and scare them away by threatening them with a kitchen knife. As expected, the moment the ritual began, Joo-hyuk, who had been possessed by the ghost, responded.
“I’m hungry.”
Juhyuk smelled the soybean paste soup and suddenly muttered to himself.
However, Joo Hyuk’s voice was completely different from usual.
“I’m hungry….”
Joo Hyuk’s voice became thin as if he was imitating a woman. Joo-hyuk, who always had a rough voice, suddenly started imitating a woman. He was quite creepy, but he couldn’t afford to be scared.
Right now, Joo-hyuk tried to throw his head towards the soybean paste soup in front of him.
━━Swish!
I quickly grabbed Joohyuk’s neck. He put his arm around his neck to prevent Joo-hyuk from touching the soybean paste soup. Anyway, my role was to catch Joo-hyuk.
“Hold on tight!!”
Se-ra shouted sharply and brought the kitchen knife close to Joo-hyuk’s head. The moment a kitchen knife was put in front of him, Joo-hyuk screamed and struggled. The scream he was making now was also an imitation of a woman.
“aaa!!”
Joo Hyuk’s screams imitating a woman rang out in the yard.
Sera twirled the kitchen knife above Joo-hyuk’s head. I can’t tell you how many times my heart sank as I turned the kitchen knife in circles around her. Because the eerily shining kitchen knife narrowly grazed Joo-hyuk’s head.
“Go away! No, if you go away, I will slit your head with a large knife and throw you away!”
A whopping 10 times.
This was the number of times Sera turned her kitchen knife while reciting the spell to ward off ghosts. All this time, I felt like I was dying holding on to Joo Hyuk. Since the child was already very large, it was difficult to hold him for a long time.
“Go away!”
The act of twirling the kitchen knife has ended. Sarah threw her kitchen knife towards the wide open gate. The kitchen knife flew in a parabola and snapped! It fell on the yard while making a sound.
“Hold on! You have to throw the knife again!”
You have to throw the knife again.
The sword that fell on the ground had to be pointing towards the gate to be successful. If it was pointing in a different direction, it meant that the possession had not yet been lifted. The first kitchen knife Sarah threw was pointing toward the inside of the house.
━━Hwiik!
Sera retrieved the fallen kitchen knife and threw it toward the front door again. This time, the kitchen knife pointed in the wrong direction. Even though he was clearly trying to point towards the gate, his direction was changed by an unknown force.
“That’s it! I threw it right!”
This was when the process of retrieving and throwing the kitchen knife was repeated five times.
Finally, the kitchen knife bouncing on the ground pointed precisely toward the gate.
“Huhhhhh…!!”
At that moment, Joo-hyuk, who had been imitating a woman, finally came to his senses. Finally, my original voice came back and I stopped struggling. Of course, I haven’t relaxed yet. I couldn’t tell with my own eyes exactly how the situation was going.
Has the possession been lifted or not yet?
I had to ask Sarah directly about seeing ghosts.
“Sera! What happened to the ghost?”
“Joo Hyuk kicked it out of his body. The object bite was successful.”
“Well, then it’s all over? It means the possession has been lifted.”
The possession has been lifted.
So does that mean the exorcism is over?
The yard, which had been noisy due to the sound of swords and screams, became deathly quiet.
The yard was filled with silence, as if everything had ended.
It was when I took my hands off Joo-hyuk’s body and felt relieved.
Sarah, who was staring blankly at the front door, blurted out her words.
“The possession has been lifted, but it seems too early to feel at ease.”
“What, what?”
“We expelled the ghost from Joo-hyuk’s body. However, there is no guarantee that the evicted ghost will not come back. Because biting a ghost is a ‘ritual to scare the spirit.'”
A ritual that scares you?
When I thought about it, biting the ghost was not a ritual that extinguished spirits. It was just a ritual to scare them away. This means that if the scared and driven out guest harbors a malicious heart, he can return to this house at any time.
“Are you saying the ghost is coming back?”
“Yes, I can hear it coming back. It seems to be coming towards us from beyond the gate. We better prepare our hearts. This time, the ghost will definitely reveal itself to us.”
In the dark yard, Sarah looked at the wide open gate and spoke briefly.
“Ghosts are coming.”
At that moment, the iron gate rattled violently. A strong wind blew, causing the trees near the house to shake eerily. I couldn’t calm down as I stared at the front door. So doesn’t that mean that a ghost will appear before our eyes now?
Ghost.
Until just three weeks ago, ghosts looked like pitch-black shapes to my eyes. Because the ear gates were still closed, it was impossible to see the ghost clearly. I thought it would end with me seeing the same pitch-black shape this time.
The prediction was wrong.
That night, I saw a ghost directly. I ended up seeing a ghost, not just a pitch-black figure.
━━Tap!
I saw a girl beyond the wide open gate. She was a terrible looking girl with broken arms and legs. She’s not even standing still. The girl had flipped over her body and was crawling on the ground with her bent limbs.
“Ah, ah…!”
That was the appearance of a ghost.
The face was the same as Eunseo, who died 10 years ago.
I never thought I would see the true nature of a ghost here.
It felt like the ear gates in my body had opened a little. It was thanks to experiencing psychic phenomena next to Sarah.
I was more nervous than ever.
I didn’t even have time to express my impressions.
━━Sleep! Widely! Slurp! Widely!
The girl ghost immediately crawled on the ground and entered the yard. The sight of her turning over and crawling towards us, dragging her back, was truly fantastic.
“Jinwoo.”
At that time, Sarah called me.
“There is a way to completely chase away that ghost. All you have to do is hold up a kitchen knife again and scare it while reciting a spell. If you scare the ghost enough to feel fear, you will be able to scare it away.”
“You mean I can scare you with a kitchen knife?”
“Yes. The fact that it came back to our house means it’s not scared yet.”
Sera pointed to the kitchen knife that had fallen in the middle of the yard.
And then, unexpected words came from Sarah’s mouth.
“Why don’t you try scaring the ghost once?”
Me?
Are you telling me to scare the ghost? I was very nervous because this was the first ghost I had ever seen in my life.
“Yes, you can do it, right?”
“Of course I can do it. But you said you wanted to see ghosts. If you want to see ghosts, don’t you have to know how to exorcise them?”
If you want to see ghosts, you have to know how to exorcise them?
If you think about it carefully, this is true. If you go around seeing ghosts without the ability to exorcise them, it would be perfect to die.
“What do you want to do?”
Sera smiled as she looked at me.
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“You’d better decide quickly. Are you going to step forward yourself, or are you a coward and leave everything to me?”
“Ugh…!”
Sera was right next to me urging me on. She had no time to hesitate. Even during this time, the girl ghost was crawling towards Joo-hyuk at high speed. The girl ghost has not yet given up on having Joo-hyuk as her companion in the underworld.
“Okay! I can do it!”
I hated being a coward. I clenched my teeth and ran forward. She picked up her fallen kitchen knife and aimed it at the female ghost crawling around the yard.
“Stop! No, this isn’t it! Just go away! No, if you go away, I’ll slit your throat with a large knife and throw you away!”
I recited the spell as instructed, but the girl ghost did not stop crawling.
Before I knew it, the girl ghost came near me.
“Pfft!”
While breaking out in a cold sweat, I instinctively swung the kitchen knife at the girl ghost. But it was a meaningless action. Because the kitchen knife I swung only passed through the girl’s ghost like her phantom.
“Ka, the knife just passed through!”
The kitchen knife passed through the girl’s ghost’s body in vain. Even though I cut her body, there is no sense of cutting at all, as if I was cutting through her air. Sarah, who was watching behind her, shouted to me.
“Of course they’ll pass because they’re ghosts! It’s not the sword that ghosts are afraid of! It’s the energy of the person holding the sword! Shout out the spell as if you’re going to kill them!”
It was a complicated statement, but what Sarah asked of me was clear.
The idea was to scare the ghosts with a spirit that seemed like it would kill them, with a sincere desire to live.
━━Let’s play together! Let’s play together!
In the blink of an eye, the girl ghost came right in front of Joo-hyuk.
The girl ghost grabbed Joo-hyuk’s arm.
“Ugh!”
Joo-hyuk screamed when his arm was grabbed while he was trying to run away. If I left it alone, I would be possessed again. What happened at the crosswalk today flashed through my mind.
The loud sound of a truck horn.
Me and Joo-hyuk almost died on the crosswalk.
The moment I remembered what happened back then, my anger surged all the way to my head. I couldn’t stand it because I hated the spirit who almost killed a person and still behaved viciously.
“Park Eun-seo…!”
I called the name of the ghost. Only then did the girl ghost turn her head and look at me.
“If you harbor resentment and become a ghost, quietly disappear into the underworld! Do you think you can do anything? Because you died because you harbored resentment! Do you think you can torment the living as you please? You bastard!”
The girl ghost stopped shaking Joo-hyuk. Then he continued to look at me with an expressionless face. It was a creepy sight, but I didn’t back down. Rather, he shouted in a voice filled with evil.
“Go away! No, if you go away, I will slit your head with a large knife and throw you away!”
Whether you are a grudge-bearing ghost or anything else, you have no right to go around killing people at will. Are you so deep in resentment that you can’t leave this world? So what should I do! Why do we have to suffer helplessly like dead people’s toys?
I approached the girl ghost and aimed the kitchen knife in her hand.
After reciting the spell to the end, I looked at the girl ghost. This time, the spell worked because it was filled with the right emotions. The expressionless face of the ghost slowly distorted.
At that moment, I could feel it.
This ghost is scared.
He was frightened by my energy holding the sword.
I made eye contact with the terrified ghost and spoke softly.
“Get away from my friend right away. Before I kill him.”