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Chapter 29 - Owner of the Grimoire (1)
Chapter 29: Owner of the Grimoire (1)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
After experiencing an unexpected incident at the weekend farm, where he’d just gone to get some parchment.
Yo-han arrived at his small one-room apartment, exhausted.
He washed up with warm water and lay straight down on the bed.
W̃ е bńо v̈ е ĺ Е nu mӓ
“Ah… so tired.”
Maybe it was because he’d finally arrived at a place where he could rest. All the tension he’d been holding suddenly melted away.
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He just wanted to fall asleep like this, but…
“……….”
He had to eat dinner. Going to sleep without eating would be bad for his health.
Dragging his tired body up, he rummaged through the kitchen for something to eat.
Ë n u̇ m̊â
His body was worn out, but…
‘…Maybe it’s because I saw so many corpses today? I don’t have an appetite.’
The image of the piles of corpses torn apart by Grizzly under his command flickered in his mind.
As expected, grotesque stuff really wasn’t for him. It killed his appetite.
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Bad for mental health, too.
Maybe it sounded strange to say he’d lost his appetite after killing dozens of people and reflecting on how disgusting it all was.
Е ṅ u̇ m̆ а
But what could he do? They were dead, and he was alive.
As long as you’re alive, you can’t escape eating and sleeping.
‘When it’s cold, I’m cold. When I starve, I get hungry. Fucking hell.’
After thinking for a moment, he took some noodles out of the cupboard.
“Hmm… should I just eat soy sauce noodles?”
They were kind of bland, so he didn’t really like them, but they weren’t bad when you had no appetite.
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He filled a pot with water and waited for it to boil, playing music on his phone in the meantime.
Green Day – Bang Bang.
Ddan-ddaran~ ddan-ddaran~ ddanddan-ddan~!
I get my kicks and I wanna start a rager.
As the guitar sounds and lyrics blasted,
He made dipping sauce for the noodles. Not that it was anything complicated, just really simple.
Е nü ṁ à .і́d
He mixed Japanese soy sauce, tsuyu, bought from the mart with water in a 1:1 ratio and added chopped Cheongyang chili peppers. That was it.
Now, he just had to toss the noodles into the boiling water and hum along to the song while they cooked.
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“Bang, bang, give me~ fame.”
A grown man humming and bobbing to the rhythm alone might look pathetic,
“I am a semi-automatic~ lonely~ boy!”
But it was his own home, and he was alone, what else was he supposed to do? This was how he had fun.
Ĕń ū mа̂
“You’re dead, I’m well fed.”
“Give me death or give me head.”
“Daddy’s little psycho and mommy’s little soldier~!”
Maybe my humming woke him up. Grizzly, who’d been sleeping inside the grimoire, came out.
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“Gyaa?”
Tilting his head from side to side, he hummed along with me.
Е̊ñ u mа̇.ї ď
“Gyagyagya~ gyagya~ gyagyagyagyagya~.”
I burst into laughter at the completely unexpected duet.
“Puhaha~ You’re better than me at singing.”
I patted and scratched Grizzly on the head.
“Gororong~.”
“Since you’re up, want to eat?”
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“Gyaa~!”
Yeah, if we’re eating, we should eat together.
I took some meat and milk from the fridge and prepared Grizzly’s food.
Then, since the noodles were done boiling, I turned off the stove.
I strained the noodles and rinsed them with cold water.
Once the noodles were sufficiently chilled, the soy sauce noodles were ready.
Е̃n̆ u̇m̃ ă
Strictly speaking, it was noodles dipped in soy sauce.
Anyway, when the noodles are cold and the soy sauce is just the right level of salty and spicy, it goes down well even when you don’t have an appetite.
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Chomp chomp~.
Maybe it was because food was finally going into my stomach? Or because Grizzly was eating so well?
My appetite started to come back.
I opened the pack of chuck flap tail beef I’d bought when picking up food for Grizzly, (it’s the cheapest cut), and grilled it in a frying pan.
Ŵе b̌ nоv́ е̄ l̊ Ẽ ṅ ùm̈ ӑ
Sizzle-
I ate it straight off the pan. …Seriously, beef is a cheat.
You don’t need any fancy recipe. Just grill it and dip it in some soy sauce or sesame oil, and it’s delicious.
In the end, I had carbs and protein.
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To balance the nutrients, I ate some cherry tomatoes for dessert.
It turned out to be a pretty decent dinner.
E nu̇m̀а
I went to bed early to digest and recover my strength.
…And then, the next day.
I unpacked the items I’d brought from Kim Mi-ryeo’s underground workshop and laid them out on the floor.
I had been mentally exhausted yesterday, so I’d put it off until today.
Now it was time to check the spoils. First, I looked over the bundle of parchment.
Seven sheets of parchment taken from Kim Mi-ryeo’s personal workshop.
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Since I’d even gone to a ranch to find lambskin to make parchment, getting finished parchment made by a wizard was a huge gain.
Now I could finally make a Pentacle.
And the second spoil.
I checked the semi-automatic pistol I’d picked up, since there had been so many dropped in the underground hallway.
I didn’t know much about firearms.
But even I knew this one.
Ě n̂ ũ m̆ а.. і̆ d̂
The most commonly seen pistol in movies and media: a Glock 17.
It had belonged to one of the ranch employees killed by Grizzly. Maybe he died before he could fire it, since all seventeen bullets were still in the magazine.
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“……….”
I stared at the blunt, black pistol.
I’d picked it up, sure, but…
Looking at the raw, deadly form of the gun…
Еnũ m̌ а̃.і̀d
I couldn’t help but let out a laugh in disbelief.
Familiar… and from a pet management accident, to serial murder, criminal concealment, and illegal possession of firearms.
How long had it even been since I became a wizard?
“…My rap sheet is already impressive.”
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Still, I brought it because I figured I might need it.
I picked up the gun and felt its weight in my hand.
Е̃ ñ ů m̈ а
‘It’s light, but heavier than I expected.’
After what happened at the weekend farm, I felt it again, anything could happen in this line of work.
Now that I knew I could summon the grimoire even when it was out of reach,
I could just summon Grizzly in dangerous situations.
But still, I needed something to protect my own body when it came down to it.
That said, since it’s a firearm, once you fire it, the noise makes it hard to hide, and if I got caught with it, the consequences would be serious.
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“Hmm…….”
I narrowed my eyes, recalling the special breathing technique Si-on had shown me.
The best self-defense, even if only temporary, would be learning martial arts that enhance physical abilities…
But I had no way to learn it right now, so there was nothing I could do.
I had exchanged contact info with Si-on, so I could always grit my teeth and ask her to teach me.
But for any reason, getting too involved with the Agency for Paranormal Response wasn’t ideal.
È ň ů m̌á. і.ḋ
It wouldn’t help with keeping my crimes under wraps.
…That’s why I’d just have to search for martial arts the same way I was looking into magic material shops, step by step.
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Returning to the firearm issue, I looked at the Glock again.
‘So how am I supposed to carry this around?’
I subtly turned my head toward the white coat hanging on the wall.
“…Should I just keep it in the inner pocket of my coat?”
Е̊ n ú mа
If you can fit a laptop in the inner pocket of a men’s coat, you can fit a gun too.
The only people who care about putting things in their pockets are fashion models, or it’s just a personal quirk.
I got up and fiddled with the inside of the coat.
Maybe it’d be better to sew a dedicated gun pocket inside the coat.
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Good. That settles the firearm issue for now.
I returned to my seat and checked the last of the spoils.
Ѐn u m̈ а. і̆d̃
It was Kim Mi-ryeo’s blood-soaked hair sealed in a ziplock bag.
I’d taken it because you need an item or a body part for the spirit you want to summon.
I picked up <The Lesser Key of Solomon>.
Preservation of post-mortem memory data. I read the process required for the spirit summoning ritual.
First, I needed to prepare a place suitable for the ritual.
An abandoned house with no people, a forest, a lakeside, a cave, a garden, a crossroads at night.
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“Hm?”
Everything else made sense, but… why a crossroads?
Reading further, it explained that since you can go in any direction at a crossroads, it holds a symbolic meaning of being connected to the afterlife.
That’s why the best place to summon spirits was a nighttime crossroads.
At any rate, if I couldn’t prepare such a place,
A wizard’s workshop would also suffice.
Еnů m a..i d̈
I slowly glanced around my small one-room apartment.
Could I call this place a wizard’s workshop?
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Still, with the bed and furniture around…
There didn’t seem to be enough space to draw the magic circle required for the ritual.
Maybe I could just draw it small, as long as the proportions were right?
As I was thinking that and reading <The Lesser Key of Solomon>,
Еn úmа. ǐ d
Wuuung- Wuuung-.
<De Vermis Mysteriis>, which I’d casually left on the desk, started vibrating again.
Normally, I would’ve ignored it without a second thought, but…
I put <The Lesser Key of Solomon> down on the desk, stroked my chin with one hand, and stared at <De Vermis Mysteriis>.
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I’d had a hunch before, but after seeing how <De Vermis Mysteriis> tore up the <Cultes des Goules> I was reading last time, I was certain.
These grimoires, they have a degree of self-awareness? Will? Preference?
Е nũ m̌ а̄
Like ego swords in fantasy stories, maybe?
They probably have preferences, things they like and things they don’t.
“……….”
A really dumb thought crossed my mind for a moment. And then…
I had no particular reason not to act on it.
Yeah, whatever. Let’s take a break. This is how I mess around when I’m alone.
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Wuuung- Wuuung-.
I walked over to the loudly buzzing <De Vermis Mysteriis> and picked it up.
Then, without hesitation, I tossed it onto the bed.
<De Vermis Mysteriis> tried to shake violently at the sudden act of tyranny,
But a cold, low voice echoed through the room.
“Shut up, where do you think you’re throwing a tantrum?”
Е̂ǹ um̊a
Wuuung-!?
I approached the bed, mimicking the cold male lead you see on romance fantasy covers.
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I’d only ever seen the covers, so who knows if this was right? But whatever, let’s do it.
I climbed onto the bed.
“Isn’t this what you were expecting from me too?”
I pressed down on the bed next to <De Vermis Mysteriis> with my hand.
Е̄ṅ ŭm̊ а .іd.
“You filthy little grimoire.”
It was the bed version of a “wall slam”.
W-Wuuung…!
<De Vermis Mysteriis> vibrated as if to say it wasn’t some cheap, vulgar grimoire.
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I looked down at the faintly trembling <De Vermis Mysteriis> and spoke in a low voice.
“So how about you stop playing hard to get?”
Е̌.nů m а.ї d
I gently stroked its smooth metal cover with my hand.
“…Show me everything.”
Leaning in, I whispered to <De Vermis Mysteriis> as if into its ear.
“I’ll make you forget your previous owners ever existed.”
…I couldn’t hold it anymore.
‘Keh… “forget your previous owners”, what the fuck is this line…’
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I was the one who did it, but I couldn’t help laughing at how ridiculous it all was.
Ah~ that was fun.
And then, the moment I sat up.
“Huh?”
W-Wuuuuuuung….
The dark iron cover of <De Vermis Mysteriis> began to glow red, like metal heated in fire.
Еn ü m̀ а̀
Padadadadak-!
Pages flipped rapidly as the book opened on its own.
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The text that had been written in an incomprehensible language until now began to squirm and shift.
Transforming into a language I could understand.
I blinked and looked down at <De Vermis Mysteriis>.
No… this was seriously just a hundred percent joke on my part, but now that it was actually showing me everything.
Ė n ǔ m̃ a
I was the one left feeling flustered.
…And over on the desk,
<The Lesser Key of Solomon> fluttered its pages slightly as if tempted to react, but quickly closed itself again,
Then glanced over at <De Vermis Mysteriis> with a look of pure pity.
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