I’m the Only One Who Can’t See Ghosts

48 – Defective Food (1)

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There was a prodigy in this neighborhood.

It wasn’t because he excelled in his studies.

It wasn’t because he was good at sports.

In this day and age, we don’t call such kids prodigies.

Only those with strong psychic abilities are called prodigies.

And this boy called Gujeon was a prodigy of this era.

How much of a prodigy was Gujeon?

It didn’t take many words to describe his prodigiousness. Just saying that Gujeon attended Cheonji Academy was enough.

Cheonji Academy, the only educational institution operated by the best psychics in the world, the Cheonji, which is the world’s best psychic organization, can only be attended by psychic prodigies.

“Haah.”

However, the prodigy boy’s expression looked gloomy.

“I need to work more as a food delivery driver.”

It was all because of money.

Even though the tuition at Cheonji Academy was free, the items used within the academy, such as amulets and charms, were not free.

Well, to be precise, basic amulets and charms were provided, but to avoid failing grades, better amulets and charms were needed.

And those items were very expensive.

To the point where his only family, his older sister, had to take on debt.

Gujun felt a deep sense of pity for himself for barely avoiding failure and apologized to his sister in his heart. Gujun took a deep breath and stretched his shoulders before muttering,

“Sister, I’m home.”

The house was quiet.

“Did they go out to work?”

Gujeon headed to the kitchen, thinking that they could prepare dinner. The kitchen was a small space with only one electric stove and a sink. Gujeon chuckled to himself, thinking that it was too grandiose to call this place a kitchen.

Gujeon opened the cupboard.

There were retort food items stacked inside.

“What is this? Oh, it must have been what I received earlier.”

Sometimes, the relief organization that went around the poor neighborhoods would give out these kinds of things. I’ve heard that it’s some kind of religious affiliated relief organization.

I remembered when my sister proudly brought back a box of relief food. Perhaps the food inside that box was these retort food items.

Gujeon’s gaze turned towards the cupboard.

What should I eat?

Curry seems like a good option after all.

Let’s go with the concept of using leftover vegetables and meat.

Gujeon took out two packets of curry from the cupboard. While taking out vegetables and meat from the refrigerator, something caught his eye.

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[Food Type] Curry, Retort Food

[Net Weight] 200g

[Expiration Date] Until the date indicated on the top

Wheat flour, dextrin, 12% curry powder [turmeric 31.95%, coriander, cumin, fenugreek, fennel, rosemary, bay leaf] blended cooking oil, palm stearin oil, refined salt, corn starch, compound seasoning, tomato powder, cream powder, sugar, spicy seasoning extract, fruit sauce powder, black pepper powder

—-

That was the ingredient list for the curry.

Why did the ingredient list for the curry suddenly catch my eye?

“What is fenugreek?”

Gujeon smirked and looked at the curry next.

—-

[Food Type] Curry, Retort Food

[Net Weight] 200g

[Expiration Date] Until consumed

Wheat flour, dextrin, 12% curry powder [turmeric 31.95%, coriander, cumin, fenugreek, fennel, rosemary, bay leaf] blended cooking oil, palm stearin oil, refined salt, corn starch, compound seasoning, tomato powder, cream powder, sugar, miscellaneous extract, fruit sauce powder, black pepper powder

—-

Something, something felt off.

What does it mean to eat until the expiration date?

Just an extract? What did they extract?

Gujun felt a sense of dread and looked at the trash can.

There was a curry bag in the trash can, already eaten and thrown away.

Gujun stared at the curry bag as if possessed.

—-

[Type of Food] Not curry

[Net Weight] 200g

[Expiration Date] Until you die

Powder, agraph, 1% curry powder [turmeric, coriander, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, cumin, dark heart] mixed edible oil, palm sterarine oil, truth, corn powder, end, tomato powder, looking, sugar, just extract, eat, black pepper powder

—-

“What is this?”

Gujun, surprised, threw away the curry bag that was already opened.

The packaging was normal, but the ingredient list was strange.

As if it had been contaminated with auditory hallucinations.

Thud- Thud-

At that moment, strange sounds came from the bathroom.

The boy, startled, turned towards that direction.

“Wait, if the curry bag is already opened…”

It meant that someone had already eaten this curry.

And the only ones living in this house were himself and his sister.

That means…

“Sister!!!”

Gujun hurriedly ran to the bathroom.

And opened the bathroom door.

And 1 second later, he wanted to close the door again.

Because his sister was banging her head against the wall as if she had gone crazy.

“Sis, sis.”

“Look. Look. I see ghosts. A completely different ghost from the ones I’ve been seeing.”

My sister said with a smile,

“Things that couldn’t be seen. Things that we shouldn’t see. They’re visible. Visible. Visible. Visible.”

Gujun quickly tried to stop his sister, but she was holding a kitchen knife in her hand. Seeing that, Gujun made a decision.

“Sister, snap out of it!!!”

A boy’s scream filled a corner of the villa.

* * *

The boy ran.

Blood was flowing from his arm, but he didn’t care.

“Sister, the seal that has bound you won’t last long.”

The boy unleashed the barrier against the backdrop of a bathroom. It was a barrier that not even a grade 2 demon could easily break through. However, the barrier in the bathroom was gradually weakening.

It wasn’t something his sister, who didn’t know about supernatural abilities, could do. It was strange that she had pierced through her own defense and left a wound on her arm in the first place.

“Why did my sister become like this?”

The boy quickly entered the police station.

Then he explained the situation quickly.

“So, my sister is acting like she’s possessed because of something she ate. Is that it?”

“Yes, please take action quickly.”

“But if someone like you, who is a student at Cheonji Academy, can’t handle it… It’s a grade 2 or higher demon…”

The police officers avoided the boy’s gaze.

And they murmured as if apologizing.

“It’s something we can’t handle. We’re sorry.”

“No, you’re the police!”

“All we can do is end up with more dead bodies by going there. You’re a student at Cheonji Academy, so why don’t you ask the gods of Cheonji instead? Are you telling us to go there and die?”

Instead of answering that question, Gujun left a curse word.

And he ran out of the police station.

“Even if I contact the professors…”

Cheonji’s professors, Cheonji Jiseon and Banseon, didn’t respond to student’s calls. To be precise, they didn’t respond to the calls of students who were close to failing.

Failing at Cheonji Academy meant ruining their lives. These were kids whose families had invested all their resources to graduate from Cheonji Academy. What can these kids possibly say through a phone call?

If they fail, they die.

Please, save us.

Gujun was one of those kids.

However, the laws of heaven and earth are solemn laws.

Therefore, the professors did not respond to the students’ contact.

“Damn.”

Gujeon put his cellphone in his pocket and ran.

He had to seek help from nearby fortune-telling houses or shamans.

It didn’t matter how much it cost.

As long as he could save his sister.

And Gujeon heard these words from them.

“Ah, it’s a huge deal. Give up on your sister.”

“You’re crazy. Your sister is already done. Hey, you, you seem like a pretty enlightened child, but don’t you still understand the situation?”

“You’re a student at Cheonji Academy? But you can’t handle this? There’s no way I can handle something like that.”

There was no one to help Gujeon.

Based on his trembling limbs, it seemed that the barrier would soon break.

If the barrier broke, his sister would go berserk.

He had to go back.

Even if there was a chance of getting stabbed to death by his sister, he had to go back.

“Hey, unlucky little brat! Have you been seeing me a lot lately?”

At that moment, a voice came from behind.

It was the voice of a man he knew.

Gujeon remembered his face.

“He was the person I always bumped into when I did part-time delivery. He looked like a celebrity, but he had almost no enlightenment and couldn’t sell his looks.”

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Gujeon wanted to cling to him even if it was just him.

“Part-time delivery. Doing a high-risk delivery means there’s a way to deal with evil spirits. I-I need to receive his help, even if it’s just that.”

Gujeon shed the tears he had been holding back and said.

“P-Please, please help me.”

“No, Jeona. Why are you suddenly crying like this?”

“My sister is in danger right now…”

Gujeon revealed the story.

Transformed retort food.

Nuna, who said she could see what she couldn’t see.

And the crazy sister.

The man who heard that frowned and got off his electric kickboard. As soon as he saw his expression, Gujeon knew how foolish he had been.

“Just because I’ve only seen your face a few times while working, you think I’m stupid and asked for such a favor. I’m not expecting anyone to help with such a dangerous task.”

Even the police couldn’t help.

He couldn’t afford to hire a shaman or a sorcerer.

But someone like that was willing to help him.

Gujeon quickly wiped away his tears and said, “I’m sorry, just ignore what I said.” Then he ran home, but the electric kickboard followed him.

The man on the electric kickboard spoke.

“So, your sister ate some strange food and said she can see ghosts now? Wait, you can see ghosts like that??”

Why, why is this man following him?

Gujeon didn’t understand anything.

“Get on, kid!!! Let’s go to your house right now!!!”

Why? Why would he just help with this?

Gujeon, sitting at the back of the electric kickboard, cried like a child, not knowing the reason.

So he didn’t know that Yu Hajin, who was controlling the electric kickboard, had an excited expression.