Ji Yu-ri was about to retort that when would she ever have to look for a ghost, but she shut her mouth.
Even if she said it, he wouldn’t listen anyway.
[๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก: <๐๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ>]
[๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ก ๐๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐]
“Boss, it’s not working.”
“Then it’s not a ghost. Try putting in monsters instead. Ghost, wight. Gargoyle, lizardman. Things that people might mistake for ghosts.”
“Every time I search for one, my magic power is drainedโ no, I’ll do it.”
Ji Yu-ri followed Siwoo’s orders, gritting her teeth.
Since it had come to this, it seemed best to figure out the cause quickly and leave this place.
However. . .
“Nothing is coming up.”
There were no monsters found.
She had searched for almost ten different types.
“Really? Then let’s try other monsters. There are still 30 more things that could look like ghosts.”
Siwoo’s nonchalant reply.
If it had been Sung Chang-won or Ha Jun-tae, she would have thrown a tantrum as she pleased, but Ji Yu-ri calmly swallowed her anger and calmly explained.
“Boss. . . I’m going to die. Do you know how much magic power this takes?? I’ve already used up a day’s worth.”
Siwoo stared at her.
Was searching that difficult?
“You used up all your magic power?”
“Yes. I’m almost at the bottom now.”
“Then you stay here. I’ll find it myself.”
“. . .What??”
“I told you to rest. You must be tired.”
“Why! Why are you leaving me behind!! What if a ghost appears while I’m alone!!! This is revenge, isn’t it!!”
Ji Yu-ri clung to Siwoo’s trousers as if she would grab them even if she had to, and shed tears pitifully.
“Then do you want to go back to the car?”
“No way!! How can I go alone!!”
“You’re a hunter. . . No. Let’s go together.”
Siwoo patted Ji Yu-ri’s shoulder and decided to take her with him.
He had offered to let her go to the car out of consideration.
‘๐ฝ๐ช๐ฉ ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฃ’๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ฃใ ก.’
Rather than something happening to her, it would be better to take her with him.
“Don’t run away.”
“Of course!! Liar!!”
Ji Yu-ri clung even closer than before, like a cicada on an old tree.
She was so scared that he couldn’t say anything.
Siwoo searched here and there with a flashlight.
Broken stretchers, blood-stained patient gowns, torn documents, and bottles of alcohol were scattered in every room and hallway.
“There’s nothing in the treatment room or the second floor ward.”
He dragged Ji Yu-ri along like a puppy, who could barely keep her eyes open.
“The operating room is unusually clean. Is that brain matter and organs?”
“Kyaaah!! D-Don’t explain it!!”
“You write the report. . . No. The others will write it.”
The only place left was the annex.
As they walked through the fourth floor corridor to the annex, they saw iron bars crossing the center of the corridor.
‘๐พ๐ก๐ค๐จ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ โ๐๐ค ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐ง๐ฎ’
“This looks more fun.”
“Shutใ ก!”
Creak, creak.
Before Ji Yu-ri could even open her mouth, Siwoo tore the iron bars off with ease.
ใ๐๐๐๐ค ๐๐ค ๐๐ ๐๐! โ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ค๐! โ๐ ๐ค๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐!ใ
‘๐๐๐๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช ๐ก๐๐๐ง๐ฃ ๐จ๐ช๐๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐๐จ.’
For reference, Pre had been reading the books on the bookshelf while Siwoo was asleep.
He could live without sleeping anyway, so he did whatever he wanted.
“. . . . . .”
Ji Yu-ri, who was about to shout not to open it, shut her mouth at Siwoo’s monstrous strength.
“What are you doing, hold on.”
Siwoo reached out to her, who was a few steps behind him.
“Yes- let’s go.”
Ji Yu-ri, who had once again become as sticky as gum, followed him obediently.
Unlike the main building, the closed ward was much less cluttered.
However, the gloomy atmosphere and chilling silence were even thicker.
Creakโ
He opened the doors of the solitary confinement-like ward rooms one by one.
Claw marks were all over the walls, and various voodoo symbols were drawn in blood, as if a strange religious ritual had been performed.
“H-Here too it seems like there’s nothing. . . Please let me out! Boss!! Please!!!”
Ji Yu-ri was on the verge of fainting.
She had prided herself on being a Hunter who had done all sorts of difficult things, but at this moment, all that hardship seemed laughable.
“Boss. . . Sob, sob.”
Tears finally burst out.
“You cryโ okay. Let’s go, let’s go.”
Siwoo was very flustered.
He would rather deal with someone who was aggressively attacking him or being arrogant.
He didn’t know how to deal with this kind of opponent, even as a hunter.
Siwoo patted Ji Yu-ri’s shoulder and soothed her like a little child.
“Yes. Good girl, let’s go. I’ll buy you ice cream.”
“I. . . Sob, a child. . . Sob, no.”
“Then you don’t want to eat it?”
“I’ll eat it. . . Sob.”
Ji Yu-ri suddenly stopped crying as she spoke.
Over Siwoo’s shoulder.
A huge shadow with long, flowing hair and gleaming red eyes.
At the sight of her trembling like a person who had lost her mind, Siwoo reflexively twisted his elbow back.
Thud!
What was destroyed by his elbow was not the strange figure, but the wall of the ward.
That meant,
“Did the attack go through?”
As soon as he finished speaking, the large figure slowly revealed itself, twisting its body strangely.
“Sob. . .”
“What is that.”
It was over 3m tall, with long arms and legs.
Long, rough hair that reached down to its knees, a jet-black one-piece dress.
And a grotesque face with only one eye.
‘๐๐ฉ’ ๐ฌ๐๐จ ๐ฃ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ช๐ข๐๐ฃ ๐ฃ๐ค๐ง ๐ข๐ค๐ฃ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ง.
“R-R-Run. . . B-Boss.”
“It doesn’t have a nose or a mouth. Where does it eat? Or does it eat through its anus and spit it out through its anus?”
ใ๐๐ฅ’๐ค ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช! ๐ ๐๐ ๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐๐ช ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐ค๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐!ใ
In the midst of this strange conversation, The ghost with bulging eyes jumped in on all fours.
A gait resembling that of a wild animal.
โใ ก!!! ใ ก!!
The sound of metal scraping in its throat echoed through the corridor like a scream.
Siwoo concentrated his magic power in his palm and formed a magic circle by drawing formulas and characters.
Zzzzt!!
The skill, which was cast at an incredibly fast speed, blocked the center of the corridor with a huge ice wall.
The moment he thought it wouldn’t be able to approach any further.
ใ กโฆใ กใ กโฆใ กใ ก
A terrible sound shook the ice wall, and the ghost popped out from it.
Its red eyes flickered from side to side before it flew towards Ji Yu-ri, who was sitting on the floor.
As its two long forearms stretched out to grab her,
“Whew.”
Siwoo moved like lightning and wrapped his arms around her from behind.