The Ex-Hero Is Too Good at Exorcism

The 4th day since the waiting state with no commitment continued.

I went to the instructor’s office at Lee Soo-yeon’s call and heard unexpected news.

“So…you want me to investigate further?”

“yes. It happened.”

Lee Soo-yeon told me about the circumstances before and after.

The traces I found belong to the Mine that the police have been chasing for a long time.

And the reason for entrusting the investigation to me is that I’m worried that Mine will notice the chase or something.

“Then, is this also going into practice?”

Are you going to pamper me for free? In response to my question, Suyeon Lee shook her head.

“no. This is a formal request for cooperation from the police. Of course, if you don’t like Kang Jin-woo, you can reject it…”

“You don’t have much of a recommendation.”

“you’re right. If you are thinking of becoming a police officer in the future, even if you fail to arrest Mine, you will have a lot to gain.”

That’s right.

This must have been suggested by the top of the police force, so if you dare to refuse it, you will only save yourself a lot of damage.

Besides, I didn’t even have a quest.

I expected that I had to move myself from the moment I saw the quest goal anyway.

So I nodded.

“Cooperate. Then what should I do first?”

“There are two cases that we have selected. First of all, you can look at the site survey there. What is that…”

As soon as my permission was granted, Lee Soo-yeon continued to explain the incident as if she had waited.

One is a case of disappearance that takes place in an abandoned building on the outskirts of a provincial town.

Another was a drowning incident on the beach.

“The first thing you need to deal with is the drowning case.”

“I don’t mind anything, but is there a reason?”

“yes. In fact, this is a case currently being pursued by trainees at the training center. It was assigned as an assignment for field practice.”

Are the trainees involved there as well?

If that’s the case, I should have asked you to deal with it first.

“In addition, the upper management judged that Mine may be identifying the trainee. So, excluding trainees can arouse Mine’s suspicion, so I’m going to have them help with the investigation along with Mr. Kang Jin-woo…”

After hesitating for a moment, Lee Soo-yeon let out a small sigh.

“That person belongs to Class C.”

It’s class C.

I never thought I would relate to them in this way.

Next, Lee Soo-yeon showed the personal information of the C class members on the tablet.

It was a woman named Jeong Eun-mi.

In the picture, she just stares into space with empty eyes.

no facial expression

But this face… it was a face I remembered seeing in education class.

The appearance, to put it bluntly, is not ugly.

The sharp rise of the eyes made the impression proud, and the distinct features created an alluring atmosphere.

But underneath the picture was a list of the crimes she had committed.

12 people in total.

She was a serial killer who killed 12 people.

“Are you all right?”

Lee Soo-yeon said with a worried look.

Do you think I will reject it?

However, I didn’t have any objection to the C class members.

After all, it wouldn’t be strange if I was also in Class C.

What about a serial killer who killed 12 people?

The number of people who died at my hands was so many that it would be foolish to count them.

“It’s okay, that kind of thing.”

“Of course, there will be watchdogs for protection. Since the head of the training center assured me that there is nothing to worry about safety, he must be quite an excellent person.”

“That’s great. Then I will come back safely.”

I replied and promised to cooperate with the investigation.

and that afternoon.

I immediately moved to Pohang, the scene of the incident.

“·······”

When I arrived, the site was a beach with a breakwater.

There seemed to be a series of recent drowning accidents here.

Originally, the vicinity of the breakwater was famous for its fishing grounds.

So it could be simply a death by foot, but the basis for determining that there was a connection with the horse was the frequency of the incident.

At most, accidents occurred once or twice a year, and more than 10 people died in the last two months alone.

It was obviously a strangely high number.

“It’s wide, but it’s wide.”

Is it because it’s on the coast?

The area where the number of people is being controlled by the police seemed dozens of times wider than the mountain road I had been to a few days before.

In other words, I had to find that cross again here.

I didn’t feel very frustrated.

It was because the quest window was flashing as soon as I arrived at the scene of the incident.

And when I opened the window, it was the same.

The navigation function was also available this time.

It also means that you just have to follow the arrow.

Can I just do this every day?

As I was thinking about that, someone approached me.

“hi? Are you Jinwoo Kang?”

It was Jung Eun-mi who spoke to me with a light smile.

She said it as if greeting an old friend.

So I also reacted as if I was meeting an alumni I had met for the first time after graduating from elementary school.

“Are you Jeong Eun-mi?”

“You were right too. Nice to meet you.”

Jung Eun-mi asked for a handshake with a playful face.

I had no reason to refuse, so I held his hand.

It was a little surprising.

When I looked at Eunmi Jung from afar, and when I saw her photos.

Because I never imagined she would be like this.

It was such an empty eye.

It was a gaze that looked straight at the futility of nothing and couldn’t contain anything but that futility.

And the commonality of those guys I’ve seen is that their personalities are also brick-like, just like their eyes.

“Uh, are you shaking hands? Are you quite brave?”

Jung Eun-mi laughed as she giggled.

Her eyes were still dry, like plastic.

But at the same time, her demeanor was lively and confident without any falsehood.

It was like seeing a noble lady who grew up without a single hardship since she was a child.

It was such a contradiction that I couldn’t shake off the sense of incongruity when I was watching it.

So I put that evaluation in my mouth.

“You are quite peculiar. I didn’t know you’d be like this.”

“Is it unusual? I? He’s a serial killer, so that’s unusual.”

Jung Eun-mi said that as if joking.

He did not feel that he was trying to hide his crimes, nor was he trying to show off.

I’ve never even seen this type of human being.

but.

I knew this type of demon well.

“Are you sure you’re a vampire?”

“vampire? Are you talking about vampires?”

“huh. You look just like them.”

Vampires live long.

So they had a keen understanding of the boredom and boredom of life.

Because of that, their eyes always pointed to nothingness.

Every day, they behaved as if they had no will to live.

However, at the same time, they harbored the madness peculiar to demons.

So they moved as if they had found the meaning of life, which was not there when killing humans.

from that point of view.

This woman named Jung Eun-mi looked a lot like a vampire.

Unintentionally, I wonder if I really am a vampire, to the point where I want to test it.

“This is the first time I’ve heard that word…?”

But maybe you didn’t understand what I was saying?

For the first time, Jung Eun-mi put on a puzzled expression.

no, what

That, of course, I couldn’t understand.

But since it was irrelevant, I got to the point.

“How far did the investigation go?”

I said it as if I was urging.

Then, Eunmi Jeong spoke confidently with a relaxed smile.

“nothing.”

“·······”

“Ah, didn’t that mean we were playing? I’ve been looking for traces of the devil from the beginning to here for several days already. I tried hard, but it just didn’t yield anything.”

yes, it must have been

It’s not like we were given a month of field practice for nothing.

So I nodded my head at Jung Eun-mi’s words and quietly turned on the navigation function.

I could see the direction I had to go.

“You know my ability, right?”

“then. you are famous Spiritual power detection, right?”

be famous

I would have felt better if it had been the same at other times.

It was strange to hear it from the mouth of a serial killer.

I wanted to ask what exactly does being famous mean?

“I envy you. I wish I had that ability.”

“Your ability is quite usable.”

I already knew Eunmi Jung’s abilities.

It was because the contents were thoroughly recorded in the personal information Lee Soo-yeon gave.

Eunmi Jung’s ability is ‘Parasite’.

It was a rather terrible superpower that injects bug eggs into the target, gnaws at the body, and eventually kills it.

So she used a unique type of bow.

Because her worm eggs can also be loaded into arrows.

Also, the shape of the bow looks like a bow used in archery.

However, based on the grip in the middle, the upper part had a blade, and the lower end had a handle.

It was intended to be used as a sword after shooting with a bow.

It was an unimaginable form in another world, but modern science and technology seems to have made it possible.

“But I don’t like it. I prefer something fancy.”

“That’s gorgeous enough. I just watch.”

“Still, it’s cool to have something like a beam going out. I want to shoot a gun like that girl in Class A. My eggs can survive bullets.”

The ability of the girls in class A that Jung Eun-mi says is paralysis poison.

In terms of being able to put abilities on weapons, it wasn’t a very different ability from Jung Eun-mi.

However, the reason Jung Eun-mi didn’t receive the gun was probably because she was in Class C.

“done. Let’s get to work.”

“Okay, then where shall we go?”

I looked over Jeong Eun-mi’s head as she said that.

Her level is 19.

It’s because Monica and Dayoung Kim run wild.

At that level, among the trainees with an average level of 17, it was a level that belonged to the upper ranks.

Power isn’t bad either.

than that…

“·······”

I glanced in the direction the arrow was pointing.

The arrow pointed to one corner of the breakwater.

However, looking inside the breakwater, there was nothing particularly conspicuous.

However, if you widen your view and look beyond the breakwater… you will see a lighthouse protruding across the sea.

Since it was a coastline that was curved in a letter B, the location of the lighthouse was oddly close to the breakwater.

If Mine was really smart, it would be a good place to hide something affecting the breakwater.

Then, after all, what is in that lighthouse?

After roughly setting my destination, I pointed in the wrong direction and said.

“First, let’s investigate this area.”

No matter how much I decided on my destination, I couldn’t head there right away.

For now, I had to pretend to investigate something.

At the same time, you should naturally induce them to look that way.

Didn’t I say that a powerful exorcist was watching over me under the name of an escort?

I didn’t know who it was, but I needed to move carefully to fool those eyes.

I’ll have to mess around with it for at least a day or two.

“good. Then I’ll take this one.”

However, Jung Eun-mi, unaware of my speed, smiled and moved to do her job.

I wondered if it would be difficult to deal with because he was a serial killer.

Not at all.

Rather, in some aspects, there were parts that were more comfortable than the original members.

“Shall I start too…”

I took a deep breath and moved on.

So, the day passed.

It was noon again the next day.

And in that short time, my patience ran out.

“Ah, Mr. I can’t eat it.”

Even though I was going very slowly, I had already looked around the entire breakwater in one day.

Now there is not even the scraps of demons that barely remained here.

Unlike ordinary exorcists, who have to concentrate their senses for a long time to detect spiritual power.

It was because I was walking around with a radar called skill turned on, so the difference in speed was obvious.

Anyway, now I can’t even find a reason to be here.

So I decided to stop wasting time and head to the lighthouse.

“hey! Come and see.”

I called Jung Eun-mi.

In just one day, there was no competition between Jung Eun-mi and me.

It was because she treated me like a friend, so I treated her badly.

“what’s the matter?”

“Anyway, there seems to be nothing on the breakwater.”

“huh? Have you looked around already?”

I nodded.

Then she raised her eyes slightly, expressing surprise.

“Great? You must have been quite a capable man.”

“Rather than that, the question is what to do now. Where do you think Mark would be if he wasn’t at the breakwater?”

“Um…well?”

Jung Eun-mi’s gaze scanned the surroundings.

I didn’t expect her to pick the right answer.

It was just a conversation to naturally bring out the existence of a lighthouse.

but,

“I’m suspicious of that.”

Contrary to my expectations, Jung Eun-mi pointed at the lighthouse across the sea.

There are also a few small commercial buildings on the other side, so I figured I’d point that out.

“···why?”

“If I’m hiding something, I think I’ll hide it there.”

She replied with a strange smile.

After all, do criminals have anything in common?

It was a reluctant sympathy, but it wasn’t bad.

It just happened that we had a good excuse to head to the lighthouse.

“Okay, then let’s go there.”

We headed straight for the lighthouse.

The lighthouse was painted blood red.

We opened the door to the back of the lighthouse and entered.

Then, at a glance, the inside of the narrow lighthouse was visible, and there were only stairs.

After all, if there is anything, it will be on this top.

“Let’s go up.”

I went up the lighthouse with Jung Eun-mi at the fore.

The top of a lighthouse with glass walls on all sides.

As expected, what we were looking for was there.

An inverted cross, engulfed in black thorns, was tucked away in one corner.

“Is that it?”

“That’s it, but…”

However, I couldn’t see the spirit that was supposed to be tied there.

I quickly looked around.

However, there is no trace of the Spirit anywhere.

Where have you been?

It was at that moment that I felt puzzled.

“uh?”

The ground went out without any warning.

There was not even a sound.

It was as if the stairs I was stepping on had suddenly disappeared into space.

Feeling momentary floating, I looked down.

There was a level indicator that popped up out of nowhere.

28 levels?

But I couldn’t do anything even after seeing it, and I fell down.