Myst, Might, Mayhem (Novel) - Chapter 42 - Dangerous Visit (4)
Chapter 42 – Dangerous Visit (4)
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Translated by Jinmu
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-…….?
What was that supposed to mean now?
“You’re curious what a shikigami is,
aren’t you? To put it simply,
a slave ghost? Yes.
Thinking of it that way should do.”
“A slave ghost?……Ha!
Sentient creature, do you wish to die?”
Blue Spirit glared at Mok Gyeong-un and
raised her voice.
At that, Mok Gyeong-un lightly waved his hand and
corrected himself.
“Let’s just say it’s a ghost
that has to cooperate with me.”
-………
“Ah. I suppose you can’t speak. If I open it,
are you just going to keep cursing?”
Gochan shook his head violently.
“How obedient. Then you may speak again.”
-Ah?
At Mok Gyeong-un’s command,
Gochan’s voice came out again.
At that, for a moment Gochan was thrown into
confusion over how he was
supposed to accept this situation.
Once he died,
he had thought there would be no more reason
for him to be pushed around by this fellow,
so he had cursed him to his heart’s content.
But now he had to obey this
fellow’s commands even after death?
‘……….Fuck.’
The curse rose naturally in him.
Of course, it did not come out through his mouth.
Once he realized that Mok Gyeong-un could
control him with no more than a single word,
he became afraid of him.
‘Just what is this bastard?’
He had indeed witnessed strange scenes several times.
But he had never imagined he
possessed such an absurd ability.
To think he had the power to subjugate even the dead.
To him, Mok Gyeong-un said,
-“In any case,
it’s good that Guard Gochan and
I will continue together from now on.”
-………
Good?
-Did he think he would feel good
about being used by him even after death?
It went beyond leaving him conflicted and
became agony.
“Hm. Do you dislike it?”
-……….
“So you do dislike it.
-Then shall I simply let you go?”
At those words,
Gochan looked at him with eyes lit by interest.
He had thought the fellow
meant to use him even after death,
-so was he actually going to let him go?
To Gochan, who looked on with expectation,
-Mok Gyeong-un glanced toward Blue Spirit and said,
“I do not yet know the
occult art to release a shikigami,
but is there no other method to free him?”
“If this one knew that,
-would this one be in such a state?”
“I see.”
-“Or if he wants it that badly,
just forcefully exorcise him.”
-At those words, Gochan asked in puzzlement,
-Wh……what is exorcism?
“It means forcibly driving off a spirit, brat.”
-…….Driving it off?
Then does that perhaps mean dying?
“Probably.”
-I’m already dead.
-“If you die further than that, you’ll be extinguished.”
-……..Are you saying I would disappear completely?
-“That’s right. You’d vanish completely from the world.
Who knows, there might be something after that,
but this one has never experienced it,
so this one doesn’t know.”
At those words, Gochan’s face grew stiff.
He had wondered whether, if Mok Gyeong-un released him,
he would go someplace like the next world.
-But from what was being said now,
it sounded as though they meant killing him,
the soul itself.
-In that instant, Gochan became afraid.
Even now, as a soul after death,
the very state itself was terrifying, and
the concept of disappearing
completely stirred up tremendous fear in him.
That was why, perhaps,
-Y-Young Master!
Gochan dropped to his knees before Mok Gyeong-un.
Then he bowed his head and pleaded.
-I….I spoke rashly. Because I had just died and
my mind was in chaos over not knowing what was what,
this humble subordinate was rude to the young master.
“Hm? I thought you didn’t want to stay with me?”
-No! I absolutely wish to remain with the young master.
To say I do not wish it would be an outrageous thing.
Though I died like this,
I have gained a further chance to remain with you,
so I will serve with all the strength of dog and horse.
It was a swift reversal of attitude.
-Even if he was dead,
Gochan feared any further change at this point.
At that sight, Blue Spirit clicked her tongue.
-Tutuk!
Then Blue Spirit frowned.
Noticing that expression, Mok Gyeong-un asked,
“As expected?”
-At that question,
Blue Spirit muttered in a
voice overflowing with irritation.
“So this one can’t even endure this.
-This one thought she might be a little better,
but what a useless wench.”
At those words, Gochan looked at her in puzzlement.
That expression and
that way of speaking were too
different from Ha Chae-rin’s.
What in the world was it?
-Tutuk! Tutuk!
As he watched,
black veins bulged around Ha
Chae-rin’s neck where she had been raging.
Then Blue Spirit, within Ha Chae-rin’s body,
let out a deep sigh,
-Srrr!
And then emerged from that body.
-Thud!
Ha Chae-rin’s body fell
facedown to the floor like a corpse.
At that moment, Gochan froze like ice.
He had wondered what was going on, but
-Blue Spirit emerging from Ha
Chae-rin’s body was a shock in itself.
‘W-what is this?’
Among resentful souls,
one could clearly distinguish the rank between them.
Just as humans had the five senses,
resentful souls had substitute senses of their own.
Those senses were warning Gochan.
That this was a monster beyond imagination.
-Hwaaaaaaa!
-It was enough to make him think he could see an
illusion in which all sides were stained with blood,
-the walls collapsed, and even the ground split open.
No matter how one looked at it,
-this was not merely an ordinary resentful soul.
Then Blue Spirit raised one eyebrow and said to Gochan,
-Aren’t you going to lower your eyes?
At those words, Gochan trembled and then
lowered his head slightly.
At that, Blue Spirit snorted and said,
-A brat who just died and
whose corpse still hasn’t lost its warmth dares
stare fixedly at this one’s august countenance?
-…….M-my apologies.
-Gochan’s heart grew heavy once more.
He had thought that a body of that
level should be able to handle Blue Spirit,
-but
in barely two gak the flesh failed to endure and
-cracks formed in it just like
in the bodies of the servants.
But that was not so.
Even after death,
-a gap in power still existed in that world,
and he was no different from the weak within it.
As that was happening, Mok Gyeong-un said,
“What a pity. I thought it was quite a suitable body.”
-This one didn’t expect much from the start.
“Is that so?”
He clearly remembered her having liked it very much.
Where else would one find the body of a
young woman who had reached the peak realm?
-He had thought that a body of that
level should be able to handle Blue Spirit,
but
-in barely two gak the flesh failed to endure and
cracks formed in it just like
-in the bodies of the servants.
“It can’t be helped. What a pity,
but this body can simply……”
-What is there to pity? We can put it to use.
“Pardon?”
-In any case, since his rank dropped and
in the state of a resentful soul he’s not much use,
just give it to this one.
At those words,
-a strange light came to Mok
Gyeong-un’s eyes as he looked toward Gochan.
At that, Gochan tilted his
head with an uneasy expression,
-wondering what she meant.
-Why me all of a sudden?
Then Blue Spirit suddenly
-strode over in front of Gochan.
-Sreuk!
Overwhelmed by the pressure,
Gochan instinctively tried to back away,
but Blue Spirit snatched his throat and
shoved him somewhere.
-W-why are you doing this…..
-Quit babbling and get in.
Opportunities like this are rare for a newcomer.
-Pak!
It was Ha Chae-rin’s body,
lying facedown like a dead person on the floor.
-W-wait?
-Srrrreuk!
At that moment, Gochan’s resentful soul,
-regardless of his own will,
was forcibly pushed by Blue
Spirit into Ha Chae-rin’s body.
-Ha Chae-rin’s body lying on the floor twitched and
moved wildly.
-Watching it with his arms folded and
his gaze indifferent, Mok Gyeong-un said,
-“Hm. Will it be all right?”
-This one doesn’t know.
-This one cleared out even the ego first,
so even with a lower rank he
-should be able to take control quickly.
-“Is that so? Still…….”
He was not sure whether this was really all right.
As he was thinking that, Ha Chae-rin,
who had been convulsing as though suffering by herself,
suddenly raised her upper body with a jerk and
-then spoke with bewildered eyes.
“W-why all of a sudden…….Huh! What is this?”
He could not hide his shock at his own voice.
Then, lowering his head to look toward the chest area,
he became even more horrified.
“W-what in the world is this?”
No matter how he looked at it, this was a woman’s body.
To him, Mok Gyeong-un shrugged
as if it could not be helped and
said,
“Yes. It seems you’ll have to work in that body now.”
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