My Girlfriend Is a Shaman

28 – Jangsan Beom Hunting #4

‘Jaws of Jangsan Beom.’

According to his father’s record, Jangsan Beom’s vital spot was his chin.

━━aaah!!!!

The Jangsan tiger, with the knife stuck deep in its jaw, let out a scream-like cry. Before he could counterattack with his front paw, I quickly let go of the handle of Gunung’s knife and stepped back. Perhaps it was true that the record that his chin was a critical point was true, but Jang San-beom could not catch up with me.

He was just struggling and making horrifying cries.

“Jinwoo! You’re alive!”

Sera came to me. Sarah looked surprised when she saw me, who had almost had my head bitten off by Jangsan Beom just moments ago.

“You! I was surprised when you suddenly stopped!”

“I didn’t just stop, I was looking at the fur and became possessed for a moment! I heard that I had a strange dream while standing up.”

“Anyway, I came to my senses before it was too late!”

We took a moment to catch our breath and watched Jang Sanbeom’s actions. Jangsan Beom, with a knife stuck in his chin, was wriggling his whole body and wreaking havoc. It seemed difficult for us to approach him because he was running wild.

“But what do we do now? The man-eating monster keeps running rampant?”

“Wouldn’t it be better to just watch it for now? Let it run wild and end it when it gets tired of its own efforts.”

“It might be safe.”

Sarah and I decided to watch Jangsanbeom. The Jangsan tiger, which was running wild, eventually stopped and fell limp on the floor. He thought it would be okay to finish it soon.

It was right then.

The ground shook loudly behind us, as if an earthquake had occurred.

━━Roaring!

“Huh?”

I quickly looked back.

The place where the shaking occurred was the hosik gun we had made. Clearly, after the spell was completed, something strange was happening in the quiet Hosikchong. Sarah next to her looked at her gun with an embarrassed expression.

“Sera! Why is that shaking…?”

When I asked, I heard Sarah’s answer.

“Perhaps the seal on the ghosts is being released.”

“Bo, the seal is being released?”

“Think of the number of spirits contained within that. As many as twenty spirits are trapped in the Hoshikchong. There is no way the seal can be maintained forever.”

“Ah…!”

“Of course there would have been a time limit.”

The hosik gun we made had a time limit. It seemed that the number of spirits was so large that it was impossible to seal it for a long time. Sarah and I broke into a cold sweat as we watched the gun shaking uneasily.

“Why is time running out now?”

“We have to kill them before they come out! It’s Jangsan Beom’s jaw! We have to burn its jaw quickly!”

Hosikchong slowly collapsed.

Soon the seal would be lifted and the ghosts would be liberated.

We clearly injured Jang Sanbeom’s jaw and freed the spear spirits. The ghosts were no longer slaves to Jang Sanbeom, but free spirits. However, being free never meant that the ghosts were safe. Rather, it was more dangerous.

These are spiritual people who must have harbored a bitter grudge after being bitten by a tiger and dying.

Will he really try to attain Buddhahood quietly?

Rather, it would be more likely to go crazy and attack people.

“I’ll start by spraying oil!”

Sarah quickly pulled out her oil can from a nearby duffel bag. She was the oil she brought to burn unclean things. The unclean object that had to be burned now was Jang Sanbeom’s chin. Sarah quickly ran over and sprinkled oil on Jangsanbeom’s limp head.

━━Boom!

At that moment, the gun exploded with a loud noise. Stones piled up in the shape of a tomb were thrown in all directions. The ghosts that had been sealed in the Hosikchong until now came out of the tomb.

━━hehehehe!!

The laughter of the ghosts echoed from the mountain. Clearly, those spiritualists were not in their right mind. The 20-year-old ghosts came out with deadly intent and came towards Sarah. It wasn’t just the two of us that the ghosts were targeting.

“Huh oh oh oh!”

Nam Hong, who was kneeling on the floor and reciting a prayer, screamed.

“Uncle Nam Hong!”

Five spear ghosts clung to Namhong.

The ghosts grabbed Nam Hong’s arms and legs and even strangled him.

“Queuuu…

If you leave the ghosts alone, Namhong will die.

I wasn’t in a leisurely situation to think about things like attaining Buddhahood.

I took out the Zippo lighter and turned it on.

In front of me, Jang Sanbeom was lying limp on the floor with a knife stuck in his chin.

Without hesitation, I threw the Zippo lighter towards Jang San-beom. The Zippo lighter, which flew in a parabola, hit Jang San-beom’s head and ignited a fire.

Jang Sanbeom’s head was burning brightly. His pure white fur and hideously distorted face were engulfed in fire. In an instant, the fire spread to their chins, and the rampaging spear demons let out painful screams.

Sarah and I threw rolled up mugwort at the burning Jangsanbeom. When mugwort, which drives out negativity, was burned and smoked, the ghosts could no longer hold out.

━━Kyaaa!!

In the end, the twenty ghosts disappeared where they were. It disappeared and was never seen again.

The mountain became quiet. In the surrounding area, only the sound of the corpse of Jangsan Beom being burned to the ground could be heard. Jangsanbeom and Changgui, who had been threatening people, met their end. Sarah and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Phew….”

“Whew.”

It felt like waking up from a nightmare.

An overwhelming sense of relief that I had survived filled my heart.

The voice of Nam Hong, who almost died but survived, rang out from behind.

“Huh…! Huh…!”

“Uncle Nam Hong! Are you okay?”

“Gwae, it’s okay!”

There was a red mark on Nam Hong’s neck as if he had been truly strangled. Really, if I had been just a little bit late, something big would have happened. Nam Hong asked us while catching his breath.

“Is it all over now? Is it true that all monsters and ghosts are over?”

“It’s all over. We burned Jang Sanbeom, who can be said to be the culprit here.”

“Then what about the villagers?! What happens to them?”

There were still residents in Mugok Village at the bottom of the mountain who were possessed by ghosts. But there was no need to worry. Sarah, who knows a lot about spiritual phenomena, answered.

“The villagers will soon come to their senses. Since Jang Sanbeom and the ghost are gone, there is no reason for them to continue to be possessed. Of course, their memories may be lost little by little. But there is no particular problem in their lives, so don’t worry.”

“Ah, you can rest assured…!”

The villagers’ spirit will return.

Nam Hong shed tears after hearing Sarah’s words. They were tears of emotion. He was an elderly middle-aged man, but he was crying in front of students like us. That’s how much Nam Hong wanted to save the villagers.

“Guys! Thank you!”

Nam Hong bowed his head to us and expressed his gratitude. The middle-aged man’s words of gratitude truly contained a long period of time. He was Nam Hong, who had been living alone in a village possessed by ghosts for a long time. There was also a man-eating tiger living in the mountain. Now there were no more ghosts or Jangsanbeom.

“Thank you so much…! You are the benefactors of our village!”

Nam Hong said thank you with all his heart.

*

It was after taking a short break.

Jinwoo and Sarah recovered the traces of the Jangsanbeom on the mountain.

If the burning body of Jangsan Beom was left alone, a forest fire could break out.

Jinwoo and Sarah scooped up dirt with a shovel and sprinkled it on Jang Sanbeom’s body before it was too late.

After putting out the fire by sprinkling dirt, the charred body of Jangsanbeom was buried deep in the ground. Nam Hong helped bury the body, so it didn’t take long to clean up the scene.

“Sera, I’m tired, so let’s sleep first.”

“Yes.”

Although they succeeded in hunting Jangsan Beom, Jinwoo and Sarah still had work to do. The task was to find Jinwoo’s father, who had been seen on Chilryongsan Mountain.

However, while hunting Jangsanbeom during the night, my stamina was low.

It would have been better to sleep overnight and search in the morning.

“You guys worked hard!”

“Mister Namhong also had a hard time.”

Jinwoo and Sarah returned to the bed and breakfast with a duffel bag and slept.

The two got up when morning dawned and returned to Chilryong Mountain.

While walking along the road, I ran into a guesthouse lady and other residents in the village.

However, the residents of Mugok Village no longer attacked the two people.

This was because everyone was slowly coming to their senses.

Today was the last day of the trip.

Sunday morning.

Jinwoo and Sera searched Chilryong Mountain from the morning.

We searched together for a day, but we couldn’t find Jinwoo’s father. In the first place, Chilryongsan Mountain was so large that it was impossible to complete the search in one day. Perhaps Jinwoo’s father could have left for another area in the past few days.

The sun had already set and it was time to go home.

Jinwoo and Sarah went to the management office of Chilryongsan Mountain and asked Namhong for a favor.

“If you see the person in the photo here nearby, could you please contact us?”

“Is this the person you said you were looking for? If I see this person, I will contact you right away.”

“Thank you.”

“I am more thankful! I will hold on to you so that you can’t go anywhere. As long as I can see this person.”

It was time to return home, but the search for Chiryongsan Mountain was not a failure. Nam Hong promised that he would contact Jin Woo’s father as soon as he saw him. In the first place, Nam Hong was the person who managed Chilryongsan Mountain. He deserved to be entrusted to Nam Hong with the task of searching the mountain.

And so the three-day, two-night trip came to an end.

Jinwoo and Sarah returned to Seoul by KTX in the late afternoon.

The two had a conversation on the way home.

“In the end, we couldn’t find your father.”

“Still, I’m satisfied because I confirmed that my father is wandering around the world. We’ll be able to meet again someday.”

I was on my way home by train.

Sera suddenly had a question and spoke to Jinwoo.

“That’s right! When I was hunting Jangsanbeom. Didn’t you say you had a dream while standing up for a moment?”

“That’s right.”

Sera recalled the time when she and Jinwoo hunted Jangsanbeom.

At that time, Jinwoo said that he was fascinated by the pure white fur and had a dream, albeit briefly.

Curious about what kind of dream he had, Sarah asked Jinwoo directly.

“What did you dream about?”

“It was a dream where I was taking a class in a classroom. But when I looked closely, I saw that you were not in the seat next to me. I knew right away that it was a dream because there was no one who should be there all the time.”

It turned out that Jinwoo had a dream of taking classes in a classroom.

He said he realized it was a dream because Sarah was not in the seat next to him.

“Wow, you’re quick-witted.”

“It can’t be reality without you next to me, right? Of course it must be a dream.”

“Huh!”

Sera nodded after hearing the contents of the dream.

“That’s right.”

When I first heard about the dream, Sarah didn’t think much of it.

It was just an interesting story.

But the more the story came to mind, the more various thoughts began to appear in Sarah’s head.

‘No, wait a minute! He realized it was a dream because I wasn’t next to him… ?’

Another thought occurred to me.

‘A situation where I’m not next to you can’t be real?’

Sera’s head began to spin rapidly. Among the stories she heard from Jinwoo, the parts that particularly stood out to her were connected arbitrarily. She said things like she realized it was a dream because Sarah wasn’t there, or something like that couldn’t possibly be real.

‘Kim Jin-woo realized it was a dream because he had no childhood friends. A world without childhood friends cannot be real. There should always be a childhood friend next to this guy….’

Thoughts were connected as one.

Jinwoo sitting next to her didn’t have any thoughts, but his expression didn’t catch Sarah’s eyes at all.

Jinwoo’s breathing in a daze seemed to have a special meaning in Sarah’s eyes.

Sarah drew her own conclusions.

‘Then doesn’t that mean you can’t live without me? It means that I can never live without my childhood friends….’

For a moment, Sarah’s face felt hot.

Heat rose in her cheeks, and she quickly lowered her head.

A word passed through Sarah’s head.

Green Light.

Signs that a childhood friend shows affection for you.

‘Isn’t this a green light?’