My Girlfriend Is a Shaman

31 – The Boy of Urban Legends #3

Joohyuk promised to show me what the gift was after school.

“Joo Hyuk, can’t you just show me now?”

“There are too many onlookers to show it right now. I’ll show it to you after school.”

Joo Hyuk wiped his red hands and pointed to the students gathered around him. There were definitely too many students gathered together, so it wasn’t a situation where they could have a comfortable conversation. The students were whispering with surprised eyes as they looked at Jinwoo.

“…You beat the national judo team with strength? Does this make sense?”

“Aren’t those two playing together?”

“Lee Joo-hyuk seemed too sincere to say he was just playing it off…”

“But the curly-haired boy over there is really handsome. He looks like a celebrity.”

From now on, it seems like there will be various rumors going around at school about Jinwoo.

A male student defeated a national judo player in arm wrestling.

“Oh, I want to see the gift.”

“I’ll show you.”

The bell rang and Joo-hyuk returned to his classroom.

All the students who were watching went to their classrooms as it was time for assembly.

Soon the teacher came in, called attendance, and class began as usual.

Time passed and it was after school.

Jinwoo and Sarah met Joohyuk and went to a cafe near the school.

They ordered menus from the waiter and sat down at the seats by the window.

“Customer order number 312! Americano and iced tea have arrived.”

The drink I ordered arrived.

Joo-hyuk took a sip of iced tea and then he started talking.

“What I received as a gift from a Japanese fan was a spirit photo. He said it was actually a photo he had taken of a ghost, so he sent it to me by international mail.”

“Are you talking about Yukio? You’re saying the photo was taken by him himself.”

“You can say that.”

Jinwoo asked Joohyuk with a puzzled expression.

“But why does a person called a fan send me a psychic photo as a gift? Isn’t he a bit strange?”

“Yukio isn’t a strange person! He’s just a person who is interested in mysteries. He called me and said he would send me a valuable item. He said it was a psychic photo of a ghost. That’s it.”

Joo Hyuk took out a photo from his bag.

“It’s a picture of the Inunaki Tunnel.”

“Oh!”

Inunaki Tunnel.

The moment Jinwoo heard that, he became interested. The Inunaki Tunnel was one of the largest psychic spots in Japan. There are countless eyewitness accounts of ghosts, and it was a place where terrible murders occurred in the past. It would be no exaggeration to say that most fictional ghost stories related to tunnels were based on the Inunaki Tunnel.

It was rewarding to win the arm wrestling match.

Jinwoo nodded his head while looking at the photo.

Serra, sitting next to me, also stared at the photo of the tunnel.

“It’s a nice gift.”

“Right? I thought you would be interested.”

“I wanted to go here at least once before I die.”

“…hahahaha.”

When it comes to the Inunaki Tunnel, Jinwoo has also seen quite a few photos posted on the Internet. However, among the photos on the Internet, there were very few that properly captured the appearance of Yeongga. If this photo really had a spirit stamp on it, it was a valuable item to Jinwoo. You will be able to check in advance what lives in the place you plan to visit someday.

“This photo was taken by Mr. Yukio from the tunnel entrance.”

“I’ll take a look.”

“I’ll see you too, Jinwoo.”

Jinwoo looked closely at the photos of the Inunaki Tunnel with Sera.

“Hmm.”

The photo showed the inside of a dark tunnel. The person who took the photo must have used a flashlight to illuminate the tunnel, and a faint light was illuminating the inside of the tunnel. At first it was just a dark landscape. However, as Jinwoo continued to look, the visible scenes began to change.

“…….”

Strange things were visible deep inside the tunnel. It was the shape of countless spiritual songs that were pitch black and swaying. The number was very large.

‘How many are there?’

The number of spirits that could be clearly seen was as many as twenty. Including the ones swarming in the back, I couldn’t even guess how many spirits there were. Jinwoo spoke to Sarah, who was looking at photos together.

“Sera, can you see it too?”

“…I’m looking at it. It’s a huge number! I can’t believe it’s a photo of the afterlife, not this world.”

It was a place that could be called Magul.

Jinwoo’s whole body felt cold just by looking at the photo.

He needed to be well prepared if the day came that he would go to the Inunaki Tunnel.

“Why are the spirits tied up in the tunnel? Is the land itself cursed?”

“Maybe there’s a monster living in the tunnel.”

Jinwoo and Sarah had a conversation, but they couldn’t figure out the identity of the tunnel just by looking at the photo.

I just knew that it was too dangerous an area to travel to right away.

7 P.M.

As we talked about the identity of the tunnel, time flew by.

It is time to return home.

Joo Hyuk gave Jinwoo a photo of the Inunaki Tunnel as a gift.

“Jinwoo. If you want that photo, take it.”

“I’ll take it.”

“Wow! You took it right away without even thinking about it… Aren’t you scared when you look at the psychic photos?”

“But we still have to solve the mystery.”

After giving the photo, Joo Hyuk went home first.

Jinwoo and Sarah left the cafe and walked down the street together. The place where the two people naturally headed was Hyehwadang, which could be called home. Of course, it wasn’t Jinwoo’s house, but it was a place that felt like home to Jinwoo as well.

*

It was when I arrived at Hyehwadang.

Going inside the house, Jinwoo spoke to Sarah.

“Sera, I’ll sleep in today.”

“Anyway. Shall I give you food?”

Jinwoo staying at Hyehwadang was a happy thing for Sarah.

It was always a happy thing to hear, but Sarah did not express it outwardly.

Jinwoo shook his head towards Sarah who offered to prepare dinner for her.

“No. I’ll make dinner today.”

“Really? Then I want to eat pasta.”

“Pasta.”

In fact, when Jinwoo and Sarah were alone at Hyehwadang, Sarah did not cook alone. Although she didn’t specifically order it, Jinwoo often cooked on his own. It wasn’t like they had a set duty, but the two of them took turns cooking.

“I’ll make it soon, so wait.”

“Oppa, I’m hungry!”

“Who says he’s my brother?”

Jinwoo went into the kitchen, took out the cooking utensils, and started cooking. Jinwoo came and went to Hyehwadang as if it were his own home, so he knew where everything was. He even knew about the types of ingredients in the refrigerator. Because Jinwoo and Sarah had purchased the ingredients by going shopping together.

━━Bubble!

Jinwoo boiled noodles and then made seafood pasta with clams and squid.

Meatballs and vegetable salad that go well with pasta.

The cooking was completed with stir-fried mushrooms with a fragrant smell. For the rest, I just had to take out the side dishes I had stored in the refrigerator.

“Let’s eat.”

“Yay.”

The dishes prepared by Jinwoo were placed on the table at Hyehwadang. Sarah sat down at her table and started eating seafood pasta. It was the moment Sarah rolled up the pasta filled with seafood and put it in her mouth.

Sera thought while eating pasta.

‘It’s delicious.’

Not only was there a pod on my tongue, but the pasta Jinwoo made was really delicious. Even though I thought it wasn’t a boy who did the cooking, but a skilled housewife, I could almost believe it. Sarah also tasted meatballs, salad, and stir-fried mushrooms.

The meatballs gently melted on my tongue.

The freshly stir-fried mushrooms had a rich flavor.

The salad was well mixed with vegetables and sauce.

The words “Delicious” Naturally flowed out of Sarah’s mouth.

“…It’s delicious.”

It wasn’t the first time she felt this way.

Every time Jinwoo cooked, Sarah always had a satisfying meal. The first time she ate the dish Jinwoo made, Sarah remembered being quite surprised. From a young age, the boy was good at cooking.

“You like pasta.”

“No, it’s just delicious.”

“Okay, eat a lot.”

After a while, the meal was over.

After washing the dishes, Jinwoo and Sarah watched TV together in the living room.

The finishing time was 9 p.M.

The nine o’clock news was broadcast on the TV channel.

“Watch the news?”

“No, I’m going to watch a movie.”

Jinwoo and Sarah did not often watch the news on TV. Anyway, if it was something that was going to be on the news, you could find out about it on the Internet.

Sarah held her remote control and tried to change it to a movie channel.

But she stopped changing the channel because of what was coming out of the news.

[This is urgent news. A stabbing incident occurred at a camping site in Cheonggyesan, Seoul. This is an incident in which 12 people were brutally murdered at a camping site. Reporter Kim, first, please explain how the incident occurred.]

A stabbing incident occurred in Seoul.

It was such a heinous crime that it was being covered as breaking news on the news.

The screen showing the anchor moved to the reporter at the scene.

[Yes. Around 7 PM today, an unknown assailant brandished a weapon at a camping site in Cheonggyesan Mountain. The male-looking gunman was wearing a pure white traditional mask, so his identity could not be confirmed. 12 People died while swinging weapons while going to and from the campsite.]

[Because it was a camping site, there must have been many witnesses. What is the current situation?]

[Yes. Currently, the criminal is running away after killing more police officers. The direction in which the criminal is fleeing is expected to be toward Gwangmyeong City. Residents near Seoul are requested to pay special attention.]

[It’s a stranger wearing a traditional mask. Has anything been confirmed through additional investigation?]

[The identity of the gunman has not yet been clearly revealed….]

Breaking news about a murder case continued to flow on TV.

The gunman who brutally killed people has not yet been caught by the police.

It is said that he even killed an armed police officer and escaped leisurely.

“Did you kill someone while wearing a mask?”

“Wait a minute…!”

Jinwoo was watching the news when he suddenly remembered an important fact.

“If it’s in Gwangmyeong City, it’s near my neighborhood.”

“That’s right. It might come our way.”

Seungcheon-gu, where Jinwoo and Sarah lived, was very close to Gwangmyeong City. To get from Seoul to Gwangmyeong, the fastest way was to go through Seungcheon-gu. The moment Jinwoo and Sarah noticed that fact, they looked outside through the window. I saw a dark neighborhood scene.

That’s how the evening went by.

There was no news that the assailant wearing the pure white mask had been arrested.

Even the next day.