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Chapter 7 - Let’s Learn Magic (4)
Chapter 7: Let’s Learn Magic (4)
TL/ED – Enuma ID
When I contacted him, the man who had posted the night security part-time job ad spoke in an urgent voice, saying he would pay the taxi fare so please come quickly, and I arrived in front of the building he mentioned.
Since it was a building where a ghost appeared, I thought it would be an old abandoned building on the outskirts.
But it was a common building you could see anywhere near the University district bar street, made up of a first-floor cafe, a second-floor PC cafe, and third and fourth-floor reading rooms.
Wӗb̊n о v̈ ӗ l̀ Е̄n̊u mа̃
However, neither the cafe nor the PC cafe seemed to be operating, as the lights were turned off.
As I was looking up at the building and scanning it.
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The man who had posted the security part-time job ad approached. A man in his forties who looked ordinary. In contrast to the good clothes he was wearing, his tired-looking skin and hollow eyes stood out.
“You are Kim Yo-han ssi who contacted me, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“I posted the ad in a hurry, so thank you for coming. The previous guy ran away on his own without saying anything, so I was in trouble.”
Е n ǔm â
The man spoke with a smile to lighten the mood, but his speech was fast, and his eyes looked anxious somewhere.
Anyway, after listening to his story, the man’s name was Park Cheol-min, and he was the owner of this building, directly operating the PC cafe and the reading room.
“Even though I call it security, I’m just using that expression for convenience, it’s not something professional. It’s similar to standing night watch or being on duty. Have you been to the military?”
“No, I haven’t. But I think I roughly know what it feels like.”
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Since I was an orphan and did not go to the army, but I did not bother to say that. (TL: Orphans are excluded from exempted compulsory military service in South Korea)
As I followed Cheol-min up the stairs, I quietly glanced at the tightly closed entrance of the PC cafe.
W.еb nӧv́ el̀. Е ñü.m̂а̌
Ten o’clock in the evening was late, but it was never a time for a PC cafe to be closed.
Well, if you say it’s the owner’s choice, there’s nothing to say.
Perhaps sensing my gaze, Cheol-min muttered unnecessarily and spoke.
“Ha… well, these days there are pointless rumors going around, so business isn’t doing well.”
“Rumors?”
“That it’s a building where a ghost appears.”
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Cheol-min spoke as if it were nothing, but still his words were fast and anxious.
“That’s why I put someone on part-time security. Drunk university students wanting to see a ghost or people with nothing to do try to come in on their own….”
Cheol-min tried to say something more but stopped, and we arrived at the third-floor reading room office.
Since people were not using it, some dust had piled up, but the office itself was fine.
“The work you’ll do is simple, Yo-han ssi. Sit here and watch the security camera footage to see if anything strange happens, and occasionally patrol the third and fourth-floor reading rooms. The flashlight is here. You must absolutely not run away or quit in the middle. You have to properly stay right here in this place until six in the morning tomorrow. You understand, right?”
After entering the reading room, Cheol-min’s words were now almost pouring out.
W.êb̂ ñ о̇_v̇ е l̊ Е ñ um̈ а́.
His eyes could not stay still and wavered, and it was obvious that he wanted to get out of here immediately.
At that sight, my eyes naturally narrowed.
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…Well, I also have the purpose of the Holy Water experiment, so it doesn’t really matter.
But you’re showing too obviously with your whole body that ‘There’s a problem with this building. I’m hiding information!’
I understand why the part-timer ran away. If you don’t run away, you’re stupid.
Anyway, Cheol-min left as if fleeing.
Ŵ е̇b̆ nо̂ v̄ē l̀ Ё n̂ūm а̌
I was left alone in the silent reading room office, staring at the gray-tinted security camera screens.
There were a total of six security camera screens, and on any screen, there were only dark reading room corridors and desks and chairs. It did not look like there was any particular problem.
“Come to think of it, I think there was a genre of horror games where you check security cameras like this.”
It was natural for it to be quiet, but an unpleasant silence hung in the air.
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And then.
Thwack, thwackthwackthwackthwack! Clang, clang!
W еb̈nо̂ v̀ е̌l̇ Е̇ńumа
Suddenly, I heard the sound of someone rapidly coming up while banging on the stair railing, loud enough to be heard inside the office.
“-!?”
Startled by the sound, my eyes naturally widened as I looked at the security camera screens… but nothing was visible on the stair side.
“……….”
But thinking about it, even if there was something, it would be a problem.
From a part-timer’s perspective, the scene of a drunk person banging on the railing and crazily running up the stairs is horror enough.
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Ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling
As if continuing, the screen captured on the screen next to the surveillance camera that captured the stairs.
The bell of the fourth-floor reading room door rang like crazy.
Even though the door was still closed.
At that sight, I let out a small sigh.
“Huh….”
W еb̆ n о̃.v é l̃. Еn u mа
It was true that I had come prepared for the Holy Water experiment, but the overly blatant scene made me let out a sigh on its own.
Still, it was not that scary.
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I reached out and turned off the power to the security cameras.
I stood up from my seat and took out the Grimoire from my bag instead of a flashlight, gripping it in my hand.
After all, I too had something invisible.
Thud, thud.
Wе̂ b̂ n о̂v̊ ёl _È_nu m̌а
I left the bright office and climbed the stairs where darkness had settled.
Because I was bringing along one monster.
When I opened the door of the problematic fourth-floor reading room and went inside.
Ding-a-ling.
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A chair greeted me.
Rattle… rattle…
Е.n̊um а̄ . і d
In the dark reading room corridor, a wheeled chair slowly approached me.
“……….”
You’d faint from shock….
A wild Ghost appeared!
So I decided to call one as well.
“Grizzly, come out.”
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“Haaah…!”
At the owner’s call, the Invisible Vampire who had been waiting inside the Grimoire came out and exhaled a cold breath.
Although not visible, an overwhelming presence filled the space.
Rattle…!
Toward the chair that was clearly hesitating.
Hwik.
E nŭ mа́ . і̇ d
Grizzly’s arm stretched out and then snatched and grabbed something.
It was now something faint and smoke-like that I could see even with my naked eye.
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Depending on the viewing angle, it even looked like a human face.
“Gyaaah.”
And just like that, Grizzly bit into and tore at the part that looked like the face of the pale something.
Crunch-crunch.
W̄ e b̂ no̊ v̈ë l Е n úmа̊
That was the end.
The pale ghost lost its strength, broke apart, scattered, and completely disappeared.
“Gyaa?”
Grizzly looked around, opening and closing his mouth as if trying to eat the scattering pale smoke, but it was useless.
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Because it had completely vanished.
‘…Somehow it’s like a raccoon that washed cotton candy in water.’
Wеb n̆ о v̌е̊ l̊ Ѐ n̄u m̆_ä
As I was having that thought.
Three pale somethings moved swiftly, flew past me and Grizzly, and headed toward the door.
“Grizzly, don’t touch them.”
It was good to know that Grizzly could deal with ghosts easily.
But this time, the objective was the experiment with Holy Water.
Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling.
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I approached the pale ghost that was ringing the bell like crazy.
I opened the water container hanging from my waist and took out the hyssop that had been soaked in Holy Water.
For convenience, I called them ghosts or spirits, but I did not think those things were human souls.
After all, I paid tuition and even studied philosophy.
…Although I don’t know why I learned this.
Anyway, borrowing the words of my teacher, Plato ssi, whom I like very much.
Ẇеb̀ńо̌ v̀ӗl Е́ n̈ ů m̆ а̀
The human body and this world are nothing more than skin that confines the soul.
When a person dies, the soul goes to the true correct world, the realm of Ideas.
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Therefore, what remains on this land is not the soul.
But the byproducts of the psyche, residual thoughts, data.
I swung the hyssop and sprinkled water droplets onto the pale ghost blocking the front of the door.
When Solomon, son of David, lifted the hyssop, this became the hyssop of Holy Water.
Е n um̂ а . i̇ d̃
The droplets of Holy Water touched the pale smoke.
And that was the end.
There was no ‘chi-iik’ sound of something being burned, nor were there agonized screams.
It simply lost its strength, scattered, and disappeared.
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The bell sound no longer rang.
Ding-a-ling.
Е n um̊ а̃..і̆ d̈
I opened the door and came out, then looked up at the stairs leading to the rooftop.
Without hesitation, I climbed the stairs. There was no fear.
It was not that I was particularly fearless, but because I had the ability to resist.
A strong Familiar, the knowledge of the Grimoire, Magic.
Darkness was no longer a place where something unknown hid from me.
Thud, thud, thud.
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I climbed the stairs and swung the hyssop at the two pale smokes gathered in front of the rooftop door.
This time as well, that was the end.
Thus, the series of incidents that had worn down a male building owner and spread rumors around that it was a building where ghosts appeared were resolved by a few drops of salt water made by chanting a spell.
I took a light deep breath.
“Hoo….”
Feeling a comfortable quietness rather than an unnatural eerie silence.
W̌ ě b̃n̈о̊v̌ ẽ l̄. Enum̀а̀
I finally understood the discipline of Magic a little.
Just as Edison and Nikola confined God’s lightning and used it as energy.
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A field that can plunder and exploit strange phenomena and the uncanny.
That was Magic.
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