Heo Gunpil Center - Chapter 120



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Episode 120. The Beginning of Autumn: Salty and Sassy (5)

“Where the hell are you?!”

The Centa-wons raced quickly through the factory, searching for the magic item. Even though their senses were sharpened by the ghosts that filled the factory, they could not sense the location of the magic item.

“Boss, it is certain that the magic energy flew from here!”

Rose Mi, who had been looking around, pushed the bricks that had been piled up with her feet.

On the opposite side of the warehouse, there were only empty black bags, bricks, and pieces of concrete that had fallen from the outer wall. There was nothing behind the easily pushed bricks.

“Ugh, if you can summon it just by calling out its name, then you could have done it quickly, wouldn’t that be nice?! You can summon it just by shouting ‘Prayer of the Shinrang!’!”

Kim Min-soo searched every nook and cranny and complained.

Rattling!

In an instant, the sound of metal hitting metal echoed through the wall.

“What was that noise over there just now?”

It was more like a space that the staff pretended not to notice or pay attention to rather than a wall. To be exact, it was inside an iron door attached to the wall. Inside the small door the size of a trapdoor, there was a ghostly atmosphere.

“… … .”

Pi Ju-hee, who walked closer, frowned. As she put her arm into the darkness with her hand flowing with magical power, the ghost energy oxidized and disappeared.

“… … I found it.”

And inside the iron door where the spirit had disappeared, I found the tip of my magic weapon covered in white powder.

“Is this an incinerator?”

Rosemi recognized the object that she would see at a funeral. It was clear that the Ssangryongpa members had applied heat to burn the magic item. The magic item was not something that would be burned and disappear in such a shallow way.

“……huh.”

The three staff members noticed the identity of the white powder that filled the incinerator, but did not mention it. They pulled out the magic wand so that not a single particle of powder would be blown away by the wind. The magic wand that had been heated to an extremely high temperature did not have even a single trace of soot.

“Miss, no miss! This is not it?!”

And as soon as Jang Mi grabbed the magic wand, she staggered. Her magic wand resonated.

“Hey human! You just come!”

The same was true for Pi Ju-hee. Even though they did not release any magical power, their magical energy cried as if it had been in contact with magical power.

“… … This is a big problem.”

“It’s really twisted.”

The two of them were kissing. It was clear that when they finished and moved to their own space, they would be beaten to death.

“… … .”

On the other hand, Kim Min-soo’s legal system.

quiet.

“Shall we go now?”

The two employees nodded at Kim Min-soo’s words.

* * *

The talisman made of the true name of the Beom Do-ryeong fell to the floor.

“Ugh.”

Rosemi retched.

The staff members who were swept up in his memories… realized that not all the memories they glimpsed while performing the ritual were sublime. Among them, there were dirty and ugly things that existed like a double-edged sword.

“client.”

“… … .”

“hey.”

Geonpil, who was frowning along with his employees, patted Jincheol on the shoulder.

“… … Yes, yes? Why is that?”

A burst of light, a blindingly bright light.

Baek Jin-cheol, who had just witnessed Je-ryong for the first time, stood there as if he was possessed by something. He had difficulty maintaining his sanity as he continued to witness scenes that were beyond the information value that his brain could process.

“It’s nothing special, but please take good care of what you have in your chest.”

Heo Geon-pil said this as he passed over the iron door in the room where he was locked up. However, judging that it would be difficult to see the opposite side where Yong In-yong and the organization members were standing due to the pipes that had sunk down like a wall, he came out again and struck the concrete wall.

Boom, boom, boom, thud.

A few punches from him can easily destroy a thick concrete wall.

“… … .”

Fortunately, Baek Jin-cheol wasn’t surprised by this point. If he was surprised by all the things he saw today, he wouldn’t be in his right mind.

“reel?”

The reason Heo Geon-pil climbed over the concrete wall was to find Yong In-yong.

… … But it wasn’t there.

Under the pipe where Yong In-yong should have been placed, there was only enough space for a person to fit through.

“Where did this kid go―”

“Quotation!”

Before he could finish speaking, Geonpil found his whereabouts, and it was from Jincheol.

“Ha, haha… ahaha… … .”

The quote was standing there, his whole body in tatters, his limbs shaking. He didn’t lower his outstretched arm, even though his shoulder looked like it had completely torn ligaments.

“Put the gun down.”

Because he was holding a gun.

The gun was pointed straight at Baek Jin-cheol’s head.

“Me, hehe. Why me?”

Clear eyes are visible through the hazy, dusty face of the dragon.

At those eyes, all three employees at the center couldn’t rush out.

“Actually, I didn’t want to say this to the class president either… … .”

He slowly stepped back, stepping on the fallen members at his feet.

“The priests… said it wouldn’t work.”

Don’t worry though.

He said.

“I won’t shoot unless you catch me.”

The quote seemed to be trying to get out, even if it was alone.

Jincheol swallowed hard. No matter how much Geonpil deflected the bullets, there was no way he could do it from this distance.

“You need to be reprimanded now. Since you’re using a shitty method to lift the curse, if you go outside, other people will get swept up in it too.”

I wonder if he was aware of that fact.

Holding the Dharma sword and crossing his arms, Geonpil stood against the wall, as if observing the situation.

“Haha… I… .”

“Oh, come to think of it, you don’t care about that kind of thing, do you?”

When he taunted, his staff shook their heads as if to tell him not to provoke the citation.

“What a shame.”

But Geonpil, who had his back against the wall, continued talking as if he had no intention of stopping.

“I am-”

I’m the kind of person who can’t stand to see that happen!

He threw the magic weapon. The magic weapon, which was as fast as a bullet, passed right through In-yeon’s arm. In-yeon missed the gun. At the same time, they fired.

bang!

The gun was still aimed at Baek Jin-cheol, although the height had dropped and the bullet was still aimed at him.

Sigh.

The gun is locked in place.

Not on his forehead, but on his heart.

Jincheol’s body fell backwards.

“Tongue, Detective!”

“Detective!”

The staff ran to Jincheol. In-yong, holding the broken arm, opened his eyes wide and looked at Geonpil.

“Ha, ha?! Just now… you killed him?”

The bullet hit him square in the chest.

Unless he was rushed to the hospital by ambulance, his chances of survival were nil.

“……die?”

This death was clearly partly Geonpil’s fault. But he just snickered.

“who?”

Jincheol, who was shot in an instant, got up as if nothing had happened. The employees who were running around not knowing what to do were surprised instead.

“Detective?!”

“uh?”

Baek Jin-cheol didn’t shed a single drop of blood. Unlike Yong In-yong, his body was intact and unscathed.

“I aimed right.”

Geonpil, who had moved his shoes towards Jincheol, took an object out of his jumper pocket. At the same time, the bullet that had been in contact with the object fell to the floor.

Police ID.

It was a police ID card proving the detective’s identity. However, it wasn’t Jincheol’s; it belonged to the deceased Chief Jo.

Even though he had blocked the bullet from piercing Jincheol’s heart, his police ID was intact.

The three employees began to think.

Baek Jin-cheol did not escape the near-death experience with Yong In-yong even though Kim Min-soo judged that four days was the Maginot Line.

Why would that be?

Even if a police ID card is made bulletproof, it is impossible for it to be unscathed.

If so, there is only one answer.

“You’re a ghost… I see.”

Pi Ju-hee, who was the first to recognize the identity, muttered.

“Yes. That too, what we have been desperately waiting for… ”

Gunpil threw the talisman he was holding with his fingers up. He put the talisman he took out of his pocket on top of it―

“It’s the ghost of a level 4 ghost!”

The ghostly energy flowed out explosively from the police card that was less than a palm’s length. The momentum was that of a private-grade ghost. The ghostly energy that flowed out rushed towards In-jeong in an instant!

Kwaaaa …

The iron plate of the ventilation shaft, which had been firmly attached to the center, fell down without a trace. Half of the quote’s body was crushed by the iron plate. He screamed in pain.

“Ouch, AAAAAHHH!”

It wasn’t just physical pain.

“Lord, Lord, kill me! I’d rather die—”

Jincheol took a step back.

He was suffering from something more than that.

“Just now… what did you do to him?”

“I told you. A ghost of a higher rank must make all the spirits and powers of the ghosts of lower ranks his own before he can be exorcised so that there are no aftereffects.”

Geonpil shrugged.

“Well, actually, it’s just a superficial reason.”

“… … .”

“I need to know.”

“……what?”

“The punishment you will receive in the future will be thousands, tens of thousands of times more than that pain?”

His dark pupils contained not a single lie.

Jincheol’s eyes trembled as he faced the truth.

“But shall we stop here?”

Geonpil sighed and took the sword out of its scabbard.

“Not for him.”

The tip of his sword was not pointing at a quote.

“For him.”

A single camellia flower is fluttering.

* * *

“receive.”

Manager Cho handed a white envelope to Jincheol, who was smoking a cigarette.

“What is it?”

“It’s nothing special.”

There were dozens of bills in the envelope. That was quite a large sum of money.

“Use it as an extra for the first birthday party.”

“… … I don’t accept this.”

“I took it when it was given to me. Is there anyone in the Republic of Korea who doesn’t know that the salty country is poor?”

He forcefully shoved the envelope into Jincheol’s pocket as he tried to return it.

“Ah, that guy is really…!”

“You really should say thank you like that, kid.”

Manager Cho snatched the cigarette from Jincheol’s mouth. He stubbed out the cigarette and threw the butt into the trash can.

“For the sake of my daughter, I’m quitting smoking now. I don’t know how precious life is, so I’m going to live a long life.”

“… … .”

Jincheol got angry.

life?

“… … Why do you go when you know your life is at stake?”

Jincheol knew where Manager Jo was headed.

“It’s something that hasn’t even been approved by the chief, so why are you so curious…!”

“So I’m going.”

“what?!”

“We have to catch those bastards, we’ll save a few more precious lives.”

That was the kind of person he was.

“right.”

Chief Cho took his police ID out of his pocket and handed it over.

He said this.

“Please take care of it for a moment.”

While I’m coming back.

* * *

“… … Sigh… Sob… … .”

Tears flowed helplessly down Jincheol’s dark-bearded chin.

Eyes with burst veins, a nose swollen and red, lips cracked until they tasted like blood.

“Ugh… … .”

He couldn’t walk, so he crawled. He had to crawl.

He grabbed the talisman that had fallen to the floor. It had not burned or been soaked in water. However, Jincheol, who could not have known this fact, held the talisman very gently. If he had held it with even a little strength, it might have torn.

“… … I didn’t do it.”

Jincheol barely managed to utter one word.

“I didn’t say you’d come back like this… … .”

And I cried.

I cried while repeating those words over and over again… … .

“Half…blind.”

At that moment, a voice called out to Jincheol.

“… … I, I’m sick… … .”

It was a quote.

He was twisting his limbs on the iron plates.

“If I get caught like this… I’ll never see the class president again… … .”

To get the body out.

“Tolerant.”

Jincheol slowly lifted the iron plate. Was it an illusion that one corner of In-yeon’s mouth slightly went up?

“you……”

no.

“At this moment, you are under emergency arrest on charges of murder and strangulation.”

“Hey, captain?”

Jincheol handcuffed In-yong’s hands.

Just as his old seniors and colleagues taught him.

“wait for a sec.”

It was the moment when Jincheol was about to put handcuffs on my wrists.

“Let’s just let him run away.”

“……what?”

“You should realize it too.”

When Jincheol didn’t even put handcuffs on, Injeong crawled to the door with one arm and one leg.

“There was no place to run to in the first place.”

And finally I looked out the spiral door.

“Fuck, ha, ahaha, shit, sh-s-baal… … .”

“Come out! Charge in!”

“I came from HBS!”

Flashing siren lights and camera flashes.

Police cars, ambulances, and broadcast vehicles lined up in a line.

Even though Jincheol didn’t call for anything to be resolved, there was no room for any member of the organization to escape.

“no way…!”

Whoosh, Jincheol turned around in a hurry.

The centaurs who had been standing inside the factory just a moment ago were nowhere to be seen.

The pitch-black darkness was receding, and sunlight was coming in.