The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

70.

About an hour after following the arrows.

The arrow that kept pointing forward slowly turned to the side.

This means that you have reached your destination.

“But here…”

The surrounding area was a residential area with shabby houses and villas.

To a place not too far from the abduction site.

According to the data shown by Lee Seong-min, it was also an area where the whereabouts of the criminal vehicle that was being pursued was unclear.

Maybe that’s why, the arrow was pointing inside the narrow alley, not the big road.

You said you moved to avoid CCTV, so did you move that way?

“·······”

Could there be a culprit in there?

Or if there are clues leading to it, I don’t know.

So I decided to park my car nearby and walk to my destination.

If the kidnappers find the police, they don’t know what they’re going to do.

So, now the clothes were ordinary clothes, and the car they rode was also a regular vehicle used for hiding.

It was all to avoid being noticed by the criminals.

I continued walking down the alleyway following the arrow.

“hmm···”

Then we arrived at a place about two blocks further down the main street.

A narrow street with three-story villas facing each other.

Could it be that there is a culprit in this villa?

Think about that for a moment.

Soon something highlighted came into my eye.

however.

“…what is that?”

that was a bit odd

It was neither a person nor an object, but a living bird perched on a power line between villas.

That bird is not the culprit.

So is that a clue?

I looked at the bird suspiciously.

A bird slightly larger than a pigeon and covered in black all over its body.

It was a crow.

Now that I look at it, I can see a level indicator above its head.

5 levels.

Normal animals don’t have level markings, so that meant that it wasn’t an ordinary crow.

But even if that’s a clue, what are you supposed to do?

can i kill it?

But you can’t take out a knife and breathe fire in a place like this in broad daylight.

That’s why I can’t fly and catch it.

After thinking about the method for a while, I came up with an answer from an unexpected part.

“I didn’t know you could use this like this…”

I forced the division of the Suzaku into my body.

Then, the power of one of the four gods settled in my body.

The legend of Suzaku who rules the flames and the south.

But among them, what I wanted to use was one of Suzaku’s unique skills, ‘King of Winged Things’.

Even in this world, kings, or lords, always had the ability to lead their own race.

If that’s the kind that the Lord is supposed to rule, let alone rebel, it’s the ability that was called the king’s power that makes it impossible to even question the order.

And Suzaku is also a being with a tradition of being the king of all flying beasts.

So even if he didn’t have the skill, he decided that he would have a similar ability, such as commanding birds.

“hmm···?”

But does it work?

The crow, who had not even been aware of my existence until a while ago, lowered its head and stared at me as I commanded Suzaku.

It was a success as far as getting attention.

Then this next…

After thinking for a moment, I raised my voice.

“Come down here.”

Even as I spoke, I didn’t expect much that my words would work on that bird’s head.

There was no other way, so I tried.

It’s not even a parrot, how does that guy understand my commands?

But to my surprise, as soon as I finished speaking, the crow moved.

The crow spread its wings and slowly descended in front of me, then sat down on the ground.

Even that was not enough, the crow bowed its head to me.

like bowing.

“oh···”

this works

I was honestly surprised.

I’ve heard that crows are smart, but are they so polite?

“hey. If you understand what I am saying, raise your head and answer me.”

So I tested the hoodie one more time.

Then he immediately raised his head and cried.

“…so smart.”

I looked at the crow suspiciously.

This is a human, not a bird.

Only then did he notice that there was a stain on the crow’s wing.

“What is buried?”

At first glance, it looked like a paint stain.

But upon closer inspection, it was a flower.

Three flowers smaller than a fingernail grew, one on each wing and one on the back.

Flowers that are red, yellow, and pink, respectively.

Seeing that the crow didn’t fall off even after flying or shaking it off, it seemed that the crow was rooted in the body.

“no way···”

After seeing that, I was sure.

It wasn’t just an animal, it was something else.

I immediately took out my phone and called team leader Seo In-na.

What a crow with flowers is, I’ve never heard of.

However, team leader Seo In-na had quite extensive knowledge in the field of exorcism.

If this crow really had anything to do with demons, there was a good chance it knew about it.

“Uh, Inspector Kang. What’s going on?”

Fortunately, Seo In-na answered the phone right away.

And I explained the situation to her.

Then, Seo In-na’s voice rose slightly.

“A crow with three-colored flowers? So you’re saying you found Margot the Crow?”

As expected, the manager seemed to know something.

“What is it? Margot Crow?”

“It’s a crow that Grandma Margo raises, so I call it Margo Crow.”

Grandmother Mago was one of the goddesses of the local religion.

that means…

“Then is this a monster?”

“It’s not a monster. It is, so to speak, a spirit. Although related to demons, it does not harm humans. Inspector Kang, you know the story of Princess Bari, right?”

Then, Seo In-na gave a brief explanation about the Margo Crow.

Princess Bari was looking for a way to the underworld to save her parents.

Grandma Mago gave Princess Bari several tasks.

After a while, Princess Bari, who has completed all of her duties, is told by Grandma Mago the way to the underworld as promised.

And it was Grandma Mago’s crow and magpie who were ordered to guide Princess Bari.

Among them, it is said that the crow was holding a three-colored flower branch necessary to enter the underworld.

“…That’s the tradition of the Margot Crow.”

I barely understood the story.

But still, I couldn’t figure out why this was a clue to the case.

It’s good to have found a spiritual object, but what else is there?

“Then could this have anything to do with the kidnapping case?”

“there is. Because of the tradition of leading the living to the underworld, Mago Crows will kill the person they saw when the death is near. foretold its death.”

“Death?”

“okay. So, if the Margot Crow found by Inspector Kang saw the abducted girl, he might have foreseen the place where the girl would die.”

Is that why you threw this crow as a clue?

But I couldn’t be more happy.

It meant that the death of the abducted child was close.

“The way to find out that in Margot Crow is to go. Just give Margot the food she wants and tell her the name of the girl.”

Seo In-na added that at the end.

The call ended there.

food you want

I’m glad it’s not a difficult request.

Meanwhile, Margot Crow was still waiting for me in front of me until the call was over.

I opened my mouth to that admirable fellow.

“Okay, what do you want to eat?”

***

“sh*t···!”

It was still midday, but a man murmured in a dark room completely blocked from sunlight by thick blackout curtains.

His bloodshot eyes stared at the TV, the only light source in the room.

There, a recorded video of a child abduction case, which has recently become a hot topic, was playing once again.

In the video, the moment the man appeared on the playground and snatched the girl, several panels screamed.

“Damn, damn, damn!”

He didn’t like the shrieking sound, so the man convulsively cursed at it.

However, no matter how much he cursed at him, his uneasy mind did not disappear at all.

How did this happen?

He chewed his fingernails and reminisced about the past.

His life was not smooth from the beginning.

Since I was young, my family has been poor, and I have been involved in various crimes since I was a student using that as an excuse.

Then he ended up in prison, but lately he was barely surviving by working as a delivery driver.

However, there was something that shook his life once again, and that was gambling.

He quickly became irritated with the life of living by working normally.

To express this, I started gambling.

It started off so easy, but he quickly fell into gambling and ended up in huge debt as a result.

“Damn it…”

It was definitely the impulse of the moment that he thought of kidnapping.

That day too, he delivered food as usual, feeling as if he was strangled by a huge debt.

However, the place he had to ship that day was a high-end apartment.

An apartment that he had never stayed in for even a second in his entire miserable life.

He rang the doorbell and waited for the door to open.

Then, after a while, the door opened.

In the moment of receiving the delivery food, he looked inside through the crack in the open door.

For some reason, at that moment, it looked like heaven to him.

Unlike the reality he was in, it was a place where he seemed to have no worries or worries.

But soon the door closed and he was thrown back into the cold reality.

As he gazed at the closed door, his anger welled up for no reason.

What they have never had in their entire lives, why do they have it so casually?

The anger intensified, especially when I saw the ignorant children coming down from the apartment and playing in the playground.

I was just angry.

They will live a completely different life from their own just by the fact that they met their parents well.

Unlike myself, who has no choice but to come here as a delivery driver, they will become the owners of this heaven without doing anything.

So he began to hate children, and that hatred intertwined with real problems and reminded him of the crime of kidnapping.

So he made a plan from that day on.

Using the characteristics of a delivery driver, he visited the apartment complex and inspected the site.

Also, with the money I didn’t have, I even ripped off a stolen car from a fence.

They searched for escape routes and temporary shelters after the kidnapping.

Perhaps the most meticulous and zealous work in his life.

So this will definitely work, he was sure even the moment he kidnapped the child.

but.

“You bastard dog…!”

It was destroyed by the hand of a child he hated so much.

At first, I thought I would quietly get money and finish it.

Since they had so much money, I thought it wouldn’t take long to extort it.

But now it wasn’t.

Before he even contacted Chae’s parents, his crime was already on the media.

After a day of hesitation, now all the news is a video of him, and articles are pouring in that hundreds of police are looking for him.

I couldn’t even call my parents anymore.

He wasn’t stupid either.

There was no other way to get the money now.

So his gaze turned to the corner of the room.

There was a little girl who was sleeping on a sleeping pill.

It’s been three days since I’ve been locked up in this hideout.

But in the meantime, the man couldn’t sleep a sigh.

I couldn’t sleep.

I felt like I was about to kick that door and the police would come in.

“nice···!”

It felt like my chest was blocked by the pressure.

I couldn’t even breathe properly.

I felt like I would go crazy at this rate.

No matter how much I think about it, there is no way out. This was just wasting time.

He couldn’t have been here forever.

Now the prepared food and the sleeping pills to put the child to sleep have run out. I had to go outside now.

But… I just couldn’t get out.

So his eyes sank deeply.

The pupils were empty, like the pupils of a corpse.

Then all of a sudden

The intent to kill flashed within him.

“·······”

His gaze turned to the child.

And that gaze goes on and on.

Concerned that the flight would be prolonged, I headed for the petrol canister I had prepared.

“Yes, I will die anyway…”

I won’t die alone

Thinking so, he reached out his hand toward the red oil barrel.

***

“Cha-Eak”

I was moving by car following the flying Margo Crow.

The food the crow wanted was none other than shrimp snacks.

A little while ago, when I asked what I wanted to eat, the crow casually flew to a nearby convenience store.

Reluctantly, I put a hoodie on my shoulder and went into the convenience store.

I didn’t have time, so I let him choose what he wanted.

Thanks to that, I think I saved a lot of time, but I still can’t forget the surprised look of the convenience store clerk.

I’m glad I’m not wearing a police uniform.

If it weren’t for that, it would have been rumored to be a Druid cop.

“·······”

Anyway, the shrimp snacks I bought, and those in large quantities, were still in my car.

The crow understands the language but doesn’t know how to speak it, so it flies to show you the way.

The sweets were to be paid for upon arrival at the destination.

It’s already been two hours since the crow guided the way.

It was only when the sun began to set that the crow stopped flying and perched on a telephone pole.

“Is it near here?”

“Cha-Eak”

Don’t go straight to your destination, stop once when you’re within walking distance.

It was just as I ordered.

So I got out of the car with a shrimp snack.

“You’ve come quite far.”

I looked around.

The neighborhood was a place where small factories and warehouses were concentrated.

Because of that, there is a lot of loud noise, but not many people come and go quietly.

Thinking of hiding in a place like this?

“Then keep going.”

At my words, the crow flew up again.

And indeed, after walking for about five minutes, the crow circled over a building.

It was an old one-story warehouse.

It was at the end of this shabby factory area, and there were only hills behind it.

Sounds like a good place to hide something.

“that···!”

I said looking at the car parked next to the warehouse.

The entire car was covered in vinyl, so I couldn’t see the license plate number.

It was obviously the same type and color of the vehicle in the crime video.

“It looks like you came here well.”

That time when I was trying to think about what to do now.

“Cha-Eak”

I heard a crow cry right next to me.

Before I knew it, a margo crow had landed next to me.

“Yes, good job.”

You have to give something.

I tore off the shrimp snack and handed it to the crow.

Because it was a large-capacity snack, there was a zipper bag at the entrance.

He looks smart, so if you rip off the plastic, he will open and eat that much on his own.

“Cha-Eak”

Then, as if thanking the crow, Margo let out another cry, grabbed the shrimp snack with both feet, and flew into the sky.

It looks heavy, but it flies well.

I looked at the back of the crow like that and took out my smartphone.

I decided it would be better to call in another cop than to subdue the culprit myself.

“Team leader… No, the analysis team would be better.”

While muttering that, I looked for the phone number of Seongmin Lee from the analysis team.

But right before I try to call.

“hmm···?”

Somewhere, burnt smell was pouring out.

Is it on fire?

A thought suddenly crossed my mind.

I immediately looked back toward the warehouse, and it was as expected.

Black smoke was just rising from there.

“That bastard-”

I spat out curses at the culprit I didn’t even know his face.

The guy set it on fire.

I ran towards the warehouse without thinking deeply at the glimpse of red flames.