My Girlfriend Is a Shaman

16 – Shinju Complex #6

I slowly got a sense of what it was like to exorcise a ghost. No matter how hard he swung his sword, he could not kill the severed head ghost.

To extinguish a ghost, you had to find the source of power and eliminate it.

“I understand everything you said earlier! No matter how much we cut, we’ll only get tired!”

“You have good understanding. Then we know what we should do now.”

Sera pointed toward the master bedroom. I knew what I needed to do without having to say anything.

Going into the master bedroom and burning the hair containing the ghost.

In order to do that, you had to break through the severed head ghost blocking the door.

“I need to burn my hair.”

I grabbed the military sword and rushed towards the door of the master bedroom. The severed head ghost reacted to my movements and flew towards me at breakneck speed. The scattered hairs wriggled like snakes and tried to grab me.

━━Ihihihihihihi!

There is not just one thing that needs to be cut. The ghost’s hair split into several pieces and attacked me from all directions.

It was difficult to cut it with just one sword, but luckily I had Sarah by my side.

Sera nimbly swung the sword and cut off the ghost’s hair. It was hard to believe even when I saw with my own eyes how strength came from that delicate body. But there was no time for admiration. I also had to pry away hair flying from all directions.

“Jinwoo!”

It was when the two of us were dealing with a severed head ghost.

“You go into your room and burn your hair!”

Sarah bent down and ran towards the severed head ghost. The ghostly hair, which kept growing no matter how much she cut it, flocked to Sarah as she protruded forward. As many as eight strands of hair attacked, but Sarah evaded the attack with agile movements. I had found a place to hide in the darkness.

Sera reached the severed head ghost floating in the air above her.

Poof! Serah’s martial sword stabbed her vertically and pierced the jaw of the severed head ghost.

The severed head ghost disappeared like a ghost.

━━Tap, thump, thud!

It was right now.

The severed head ghost blocking the door has disappeared.

I ran as fast as I could and entered the dark master bedroom. I illuminated the living room with the uneasy, swaying light of the flashlight. I’ve been to Ayoung’s house before, so the layout of the master bedroom was familiar to me. It was a room with a large closet.

‘Where is it? ‘Where’s the hair?’

Only 3 seconds.

My eyes quickly scanned the room as three seconds passed. It did not appear that the broken Shinju complex had been cleaned up by Ayoung’s family. However, judging from the severed head ghost guarding the door, the hair was definitely in this master bedroom.

‘Is it a closet?’

I quickly opened the closet. My intuition was right. Inside the closet was a transparent plastic bag containing the corpse’s hair.

“I found it…!”

I took the hair out of the plastic bag. It was when I was trying to light a fire with a Zippo lighter along with dried mugwort.

I suddenly felt a chill. I turned my head and looked back.

The decapitated head of a man appeared silently behind me.

Twitching hair and red, bloodshot eyes emerged from the darkness.

━━Ihihihihihihi!!

The severed head ghost tried to strangle me by blowing off my hair. At that moment, I rolled on the floor with all my strength. The ghost’s hair stretched out and brushed my neck.

It was fortunate.

I was able to react in a timely manner because I had thought about it in advance.

I have already seen that a ghost does not die even when stabbed with a sword.

I thought that if that guy showed up again, he would definitely target me.

Because I had hair from a corpse.

“hahahaha…!”

I smiled while holding the bag containing the hair in my hand. That ghost’s life was in my hands.

The thing that turned off the power in the apartment and made people tremble with fear was no longer scary.

“Are you unfair? Are you that unfair because you couldn’t kill someone?”

I got up from my seat and turned on the Zippo lighter. I held the bag containing the hair and the mugwort with one hand, and the lit Zippo lighter with the other hand. The severed head ghost was glaring at me with eyes that threatened to kill me.

The name of the ghost is Shin Young-su.

A man who killed his parents and committed suicide. As if killing his parents wasn’t enough, he felt unfair for not being able to kill his older brother’s family, so he became an evil spirit.

It was an evil spirit that could not be rescued.

“Did you feel good when you played with people? Did you feel like you were a god when you caused a power outage in the apartment? No one could touch you during that time!”

Memories of the past flashed through my head.

I thought of my father who passed away from an unexplained heart attack. Supernatural things have always been like that. As if he were a god, he arbitrarily took people’s lives.

Do you have resentment in your heart?

Whatever that is!

I was the same person who harbored resentment.

My father’s death was my sorrow.

If there was a supernatural being who killed my father, it would be someone like that.

People who kill healthy people and feel no guilt.

“But no!! You’re just a ghost playing pranks!!”

━━Chijijik!

I burned the hair and mugwort with a Zippo lighter. A vivid flickering flame was attached to my hair. The Zippo lighter my father gave me as a gift had very strong fire power. The hair instantly became brighter.

━━Ahh… !

Even though my hair was burning before my eyes, the severed head ghost could not approach me. Before I knew it, the severed head ghost was looking at me with eyes full of fear. I opened my eyes wide and my head trembled like an aspen tree trembling.

━━aaa!!

The severed head ghost screamed.

As the corpse’s hair was burned, the ghost’s hair also turned black as if it were burning.

I put the hair and mugwort on the floor. The hair that caught fire quickly turned to ashes along with the mugwort.

A faint smoke and the strong smell of burning mugwort lingered in the room.

The moment all the hair was burned, the severed head ghost disappeared on the spot.

Ghosts no longer appeared before us.

*

“Are we really sure we’ve had an exorcism now?”

After the exorcism was over, I only relaxed after hearing a clear answer from Sarah who came into the room.

It was necessary to confirm whether the ghost was truly extinguished by burning the hair.

“That’s right. The severed head ghost disappeared because you burned the corpse’s hair. You can believe it because I can’t even see it.”

“Really? I’m glad.”

Sarah, who had seen ghosts for a long time, could believe her words. She asked because it would be troublesome if the ghost she thought had disappeared came again. Isn’t there a saying that you have to pound on a stone bridge before crossing it?

━━Tuk!

Sarah pressed her switch and turned on the fluorescent light in her master bedroom.

Then, surprisingly, the light came on in the house, which had been without power just moments before.

“Huh? Is the light coming on?”

“Because we exorcised the severed head ghost, all the strange phenomena that were happening in this house have ended. The room smells like it’s burnt, so we need to ventilate it first.”

Sera opened the window of the master bedroom. The smell of burnt fire and thick mugwort that was lingering in the room was blown out by the wind. The floor where her hair had been burning just moments before was charred black. Fortunately, the fire did not spread anywhere else and the floor ended up being completely black.

“I think I’ll live now.”

I sat on the floor and rested.

Sera looked at me like that and smiled faintly.

“I was watching you earlier. You were dealing with the severed head ghost alone in the living room.”

“Were you all watching?”

“Yes. I was going to help you burn your hair, just in case. But there was no time to help you at all? You took care of it all by yourself.”

In fact, Sarah seemed to be planning to help me in the living room.

But before she could help, she said, I had burned the corpse’s hair, so there was nothing left to do.

“Do you remember the last time? When the severed head ghost saw you and got scared.”

“Why is that?”

“It was a very surprising thing. It wasn’t even like I was biting an evil spirit, but the evil spirit saw the living person and got scared. Even if you are a shaman who has trained for a long time, it is impossible to scare away the evil spirit without using magic.”

Hmm… ?

It’s basically impossible to scare away evil spirits without witchcraft?

The severed head ghost was clearly frightened when he saw me.

I didn’t use any special magic.

“Then what did I do?”

“It means that you have an exceptional amount of positive energy compared to others. Just the words that come out of your mouth are comparable to witchcraft.”

Yang Ki refers to the energy that drives out ghosts in a person’s body.

It was a word that sounded strange in many ways.

For the first time, I realized that there was a lot of yang in my body.

Sarah added her words while looking at me with interest.

“I heard you’ve been wandering around abandoned houses and haunted houses a long time ago? But why do you think you’re not possessed by ghosts and are in good health?”

“Is that because it has a lot of energy?”

“That’s right. Because you have a lot of positive energy, ghosts won’t touch you. Who would touch you when there’s a scary-looking guy walking around? Of course, from the ghost’s point of view, it means that you look scary.”

“Aha….”

I once again learned why I was fine. There was a reason why my body was fine even though I had often visited abandoned houses and haunted houses to see ghosts. The ghost was avoiding me.

“Hey, there was a girl’s ghost playing pranks in our class at the beginning of the semester. Is it possible that she wasn’t the only one playing pranks on me?”

“That’s also because of Yang energy.”

Is that what happened?

The question has been resolved.

“It’s a blessed talent. It’s okay to be happy.”

“No…! It’s a blessing, isn’t it? I have so much energy that I won’t be able to see ghosts.”

“Others will think of it as a blessing, my friend.”

Sera said with a smile that having a lot of energy is a blessed talent.

But from my perspective, it wasn’t necessarily a very happy event.

If ghosts avoid me, doesn’t that mean I’ll see less ghosts?

It’s ironic for me who wants to see them.