The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

87.

“It’s a lily… ”

I looked up at the third floor window of the Lily House

There is still nothing visible from the entrance except for the faint reflection of the moonlight on the windows.

From the outside, there is not much difference from daytime.

but… Why?

The atmosphere of the crown of lilies that I could see had definitely changed.

A sense of incongruity, as if looking at the hidden entrance of the station.

So I turned my head to Choi Eun-young, who was standing next to me.

“Let’s go over there. Call the summons in front of the building.”

Choi Eun-young nodded at my words and took out her sketchbook.

And as I ordered, Choi Eun-yeong, who stood at the entrance of the building, summoned a summons.

The one she called was the Salamander she had seen many times before.

However, this time the salamander was not called for battle.

“Light the inside of the building.”

At Choi Eun-young’s words, Salamander set herself on fire.

Immediately after that, the inside of the building was brightly lit and the darkness was peeled off.

We soon noticed a change in the crown of the lily.

“Inspector… This… ”

Choi Eun-young opened her eyes wide and said.

The Lily Crown was no longer an old wooden building.

The walls and ceiling, which had just created an antique atmosphere with traces of the years, were much cleaner.

And the chandelier hanging from the ceiling, which was no different from an antique, sparkles as if it were new.

Only the interior of this crown of lilies seems to have gone back in time.

“Are you recreating the past?”

I recalled what I had seen in the reference material.

It is said that it is not uncommon for Jibakuryeong to project the environment during his lifetime.

So, no matter how physically you destroy the so-called cursed house, which has been encroached on by the Earth Spirit, it is useless.

If there is a new building there, even if there is not, the cursed space will be reconstructed the moment the Underworld Spirit reappears.

“Is there a decree?”

“As expected.”

I answered Choi Eun-young’s question like that.

The police identified Ji Park-ryeong as a family member who committed suicide here about 30 years ago.

And there is nothing strange about the current state of the lily, even if you think of it as it was 30 years ago.

In the end, it is said that it is going as expected.

In response, I took out my weapon and climbed the stairs.

The arrow was pointing upward, and even if there was no arrow, there was only one place for the Earth Spirit to stay anyway.

The very last room on the third floor.

After the owner came to live in the Rose Pavilion, it must have been that the spirit of Earth was dwelling in the room due to the mirror phenomenon.

“Go right in.”

“yes!”

I immediately opened the third floor door.

It was also very different from what it looked like during the day.

It is not just a desolate room that has been neglected, but a landscape where you can feel the sense of life with various furniture and clothes.

And in the middle of such a room, a woman who looked like a high school student was standing around in her school uniform.

Its identity was, of course, not human.

The spirit detection skill has already been sensing that for a long time.

“ah… ah… ”

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Ji Park-ryeong turned her head this way with that sound.

A grotesque sight with the body still standing, only the face turned 180 degrees and facing this way.

“aaagh!”

Then Ji Park-ryeong sighed.

I immediately activated the Light Sword skill.

The level of the spirit is 32.

However, since it is a terrestrial spirit within its own domain, it must have much more power than its level.

Having judged that, I rushed at the spirit without losing my guard.

right after that.

“It’s dangerous!”

Along with Choi Eun-young’s voice, ropes came out from all sides of me.

Strings with tight hanging knots at the end come flying to break my neck like living snakes.

In response, I wrapped the star cloud sword in flames and scattered the torch around.

Then, the ropes surrounding me quickly burn up like the wick of a firecracker and disappear.

“Aagh!”

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Ji Park-ryeong, who was destroyed by the attack in the blink of an eye, suddenly raised her claws.

Then, those bloody claws protruded nearly 50cm, and quickly became an excellent weapon.

Surprisingly, it’s a spirit that is also well versed in close combat.

Then, Ryeong moved like a cat, kicked the ground, and climbed the wall.

Even so, the bloodshot eyes on that bent neck remain fixed on me and do not move.

A gaze mixed with resentment and remorse.

Before long, the spirit lifted its claws and attacked me like a beast rushing at its prey.

But this was the opportunity I had been waiting for.

Even if it’s an earthbound spirit in my realm.

Attempting melee combat was suicidal.

“Kia-”

A single stroke of the white sword severed the soul.

Even before Ji Park-ryeong’s deathbed disappeared, the sword’s holy fire swallowed him.

Without a single drop of ash, the anima dissipated in the air.

“also… !”

Choi Eun-yeong muttered as she looked at my star cloud sword with sparkling eyes.

Seeing that burdensome gaze, I canceled the light sword skill and inserted the sword.

On the other hand, at the same time as the disappearance of the spirit, the illusion surrounding the crown of lilies collapsed.

It reproduces the scenery of 30 years ago, but gradually fades and returns to its original form.

“… Is it over?”

I muttered that and checked my surroundings.

The spirit detection skill was quiet, and there was no special level display in sight.

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Jibakryeong means completely exorcised.

I wanted the case to end like this.

“hmm?”

For some reason, there was a small drawer with a highlight on one side of the room where the Earthquake Spirit had disappeared.

At this, I tilted my head and approached it.

That little drawer is one of several small pieces of furniture left unattended in this room.

So I didn’t pay much attention during the day… Is there something in it?

With that thought in mind, I rummaged through the few drawers.

Then, a key with a small name tag was found in the drawer in the bottommost compartment.

What was written on the name tag was the word basement.

“The cellar key?”

I definitely remembered seeing the basement in the structural diagram of the villa in the case materials.

However, I didn’t bother to go there because I thought it wouldn’t have much to do with Ji Park-ryeong.

However, the arrow guiding the progress of the quest was clearly pointing down.

The case was not over yet, and the next clue was in that basement.

“Inspector Kang?”

Looking at me standing with the cellar key, Choi Eun-young asked.

I finished all my work, but I was standing there asking what I was doing.

So I told her what to do next.

“I think we should go to the basement.”

“cellar… What?”

“That’s it, let’s move.”

I don’t know why you go to the basement, or what’s there.

Fortunately, however, Choi Eun-young did not ask the reason and immediately followed my words.

So we moved towards the entrance to the basement.

The entrance to the crypt was one in the Lilies and the Roses.

And the cellar opens below the two buildings and a garden in the middle.

It also served as a passage connecting the crown of roses and crowns of lilies.

I checked the door leading to the basement on the first floor of the Lily Hall.

It had a lock on it, and the cellar key I had fit into it.

So we opened the lock and went into the basement.

OK,

“… … ”

An unusual smell hit my nose first.

that… The foul smell of rotting blood and corpses.

In response, I drew my sword again. Choi Eun-young also turned into a very nervous face as she held up her sketchbook.

We put the Salamander first.

Then, the scenery of the cellar was revealed by the salamander’s flame.

There were junk that had been neglected for a long time.

“… … ”

We advanced slowly through such a cellar.

The smell of blood and corpses became clearer as we approached the rose crown from the lily crown.

And when I almost reached the rose garden.

We were finally able to confirm the true nature of the smell.

What was there was a rotting corpse.

Fortunately, it hadn’t completely decayed, and I was able to recognize its face.

That’s the owner of this villa who went missing recently.

The woman, in her mid-thirties, was sprawled on the basement floor with one eyeball sunken.

“Inspector Kang, that… !”

“… stop.”

I stopped Choi Eun-young from approaching the corpse.

Because the body was not alone.

“There is a monster.”

What I was pointing at was a bisque stone held by a dead corpse.

Like its owner, it had a level mark on top of its head, with one eye socket broken.

Its level is 12.

It was a monster commonly called a cursed doll, but it was a much lower level than I thought.

That means… Could it be that he was just born?

However, there was something peculiar about the monster.

Right away, the highlighting to display the clues to the quest was applied to the monster.

“You mean you can’t kill me?”

While I was muttering that, something suddenly flew from the side.

It was a stone the size of a fist that had been mixed up in the junk in the basement.

It didn’t fly that fast, so I easily cut it off with my sword.

Then, this time, a piece of wood flew from the other side.

Poltergeist.

It was something like telekinesis that cursed dolls often use.

But perhaps because of my low level, the doll’s attack did not pose any threat to me.

It might have been dangerous for an ordinary person.

For me, it was easy to dodge and dodge poltergeists, which are just as good as people throw them.

However, I didn’t intend to be beaten like this, so I walked towards the doll.

Then, the doll ejected several objects at the same time as if in a fit of madness.

However, it was impossible for an attack of this magnitude to become a threat simply because the number increased.

Hwareuk!

I started a fire and burned them all at once.

Then, he grabbed the doll from the bosom of the corpse with his hand and lifted it up.

Then the bisque doll struggled in my hand, but when I put the energy of flame on the sword again, it became quiet like a ghost.

“… It’s strange.”

Looking back at the corpse and the doll, I tilted my head.

That corpse was clearly the owner of the villa.

however… Why is the body of the owner of the villa here?

If that woman was killed by the Jibak Spirit, the body should have been under the Lily Crown, not under the Rose Crown.

The mirror effect that would have summoned the Underworld Spirit didn’t just stop at summoning it.

Existence outside the mirror, of course, cannot pass into the mirror.

Therefore, the mirror effect also serves as a barrier that prevents Ji Park-ryeong from escaping from the crown of lilies.

So, unless the owner of the villa broke this and walked through the mirror himself.

It was unacceptable that Ji Bak-ryeong, who used the Lily Hall, especially the room on the third floor, came all the way to the basement of the Rose Hall and murdered the owner.

Then the rest of the possibilities… is this a doll

“… … ”

I looked around with such a question.

The cursed doll’s main weapon is the poltergeist.

So it was because I thought that if I killed the owner, there would be a weapon around.

And soon I found what appeared to be the weapon.

It was an iron pipe, covered in blood, lying in the back corner of the corpse.

however.

“hmm… ?”

Oddly enough, the shape of the iron pipe was oddly familiar.

It was thick enough to hold with one hand, but in addition to the body painted blue, there was black rubber attached to one end.

Like one leg of a table.

After thinking that far, I realized the identity of that pipe.

Earlier, Kim Chang-yeon, who was holding the pension’s barbecue equipment.

The leg of the barbecue grill he was holding was just like that.

“aha… ”

Only then did I intuit who the culprit was.

Somehow he suddenly turned against me.

Did you think that your crimes would be caught because of me?

then…

I quietly looked for the entrance to the Rose Pavilion with my eyes.

If it’s someone who knows for sure that the body is here.

I wouldn’t want to leave the police investigating this place alone.

And as expected, a red aura swayed behind the door of the Rose Pavilion that had not yet been opened.

I don’t know since when, but Kim Chang-yeon was hiding behind me and spying on this place.

“That bastard… ”

I immediately tried to shoot the flames, but hesitated.

That guy is a common man.

In addition, although this case is also mixed with Jibakryeong and strangeness, if you only look at the victim and the perpetrator, it is a normal murder case in which demons are excluded.

So I calmly inserted the sword and had Choi Eun-yeong bite the summoned beast.

In the basement that was once again enveloped in darkness, I opened my mouth with only the flash on my smartphone turned on.

“Stop hiding behind the door and come out. Kim Chang-yeon.”

Then the guy opened the door and showed himself.

Its face was smiling as softly as it had seen it during the day, but in one hand it held an iron pipe again.

“Did you come for the body?”

Actually, there was nothing to ask.

The fact that he was here was the biggest proof.

Maybe that’s why he nodded his head without hiding it.

“also… It turned out like this.”

“I know. The body should have been hidden elsewhere.”

Kim Chang-yeon’s eyebrows went up as I sighed and let out a sneer.

“I wanted to too. But that got in the way. What the hell is that?”

He pointed to the doll and said.

I hardened my expression when he said that he was already aware of the monster’s existence.

this… Shouldn’t the general public know?

“Did this get in the way?”

“you’re right. I tried every night trying to get it out, but it just didn’t work. Rather, there was a big commotion, and even a police report was filed.”

Listening to it, this cursed doll was bizarre and seemed to have done some pretty extraordinary things.

But regardless of that, I continued.

“This is a recently released security drone. Didn’t you know that too?”

“Security drones? what nonsense… ”

“It’s a security drone. And what does it matter If you’re arrested here anyway, you’ll be in jail. You won’t even have a chance to buy this anymore?”

At my words, his expression subtly distorted.

“Please. It won’t. That’s why I came here.”

Kim Chang-yeon came towards us, clutching an iron pipe.

No matter how much you are a police officer, you come out so ignorant.

Have you been cornered?

It seemed that I was trusting my body that had been exercised a little, but I didn’t even need to step out for that.

“Police Choi, just faint.”

At my words, Kim Chang-yeon’s gaze shifted from me to Choi Eun-yeong.

For a while, he was puzzled by her outwardly fragile appearance.

“Ouch!”

After getting punches into the stomach and the back of the head once, he collapsed to the ground.

Even if Choi Eun-young was not a physical exorcist, her abilities were different from those of ordinary people.

So I took my eyes off Kim Chang-yeon, who had fainted, and looked at the doll again.

A doll that is still highlighted.

I opened my mouth with it in my hand.

“What do you want?”

Even at my words, the doll didn’t even move.

Slightly annoyed, I wrapped the flame around my other hand.

“Then just burn it.”

Only then did the doll point to her empty eyes. Then, he pointed to the sunken eyes of the owner who had fallen behind, and finally to Kim Chang-yeon.

It means… It has not been interpreted as a single thing.

“You want that guy’s eyes?”

The bisque doll nodded as if waiting.

After thinking for a while, I left the doll behind and took out my sword and approached Kim Chang-yeon.

“Police Choi.”

“yes… yes?”

“It was injured in battle. know?”

Realizing what I was about to do, Choi Eun-young held her breath for a moment.

But then she nodded and turned around.

It’s like he didn’t see anything.

Yes, that’s enough.

I cut out one of Kim Chang-yeon’s eyes.

In the middle, Kim Chang-yeon regained consciousness, perhaps because of severe pain, but immediately passed out again.

And I handed it to the doll.

“Can I do this?”

Then, the doll, along with the man’s eyeballs, became a group of light and disappeared.

And what’s left is

“Doll’s Eyes”

– Eyes that see through the invisible truth.

It was a strange item.