I’m the Only One Who Can’t See Ghosts

54 – Mireuk-gyo (4)

Why did the person who knows that discard his younger sister? I couldn’t help but flinch upon hearing that.

No, I didn’t want to discard her. I just didn’t want my younger sister to become like our mother. I’ve never wished for Harin to become like that, even once.

I closed my eyes and bit my lip.

This wasn’t the time to be tangled up in such questions.

What was certain was that the voice knew who I was. It could say such things because it knew that I was Yoo Hajin, Harin’s older brother.

“Who are you? You.”

“Why don’t you try to guess?”

The voice from the speaker continued.

It was so distorted that I couldn’t even guess whose voice it was.

“Even though they asked you not to ask about psychic abilities, you came all the way here. Even though they told you not to be close to psychics, you talked familiarly with Makju. Why do you always ignore what they say?”

Yeah, Harin said that.

But who would know that phrase?

There was someone next to Harin when he said that. An annoying pervert who was following after Harin and making obscene gestures.

“You’re Joo Cheol, right?”

“Ahahahaha. Did I get caught?”

No one else but Joo Cheol created these crazy guys who beg to see Harin’s underwear and who knows about Harin and me.

The screen flickered for a moment and then showed someone’s face.

“A middle-aged man with disheveled hair. It was the face of Jucheol.

“Glad to meet you, Majon. It’s nice to see your face contorted.”

“You son of a b*tch.”

His hot head instantly cooled down.

Mireukgyo, that’s the religion he created.

Of course, there are no fools in Mireukgyo.

Is Yu Hajin going to betray us again today?

I felt the darkness within me and spoke.

“Where were you? Did that crazy bastard end up betraying my brother and creating a religion?”

“Betrayer? It’s a sect voluntarily created by people who admire their own grandeur. Please respect it.”

Thud, thud, thud, thud.

At that moment, the fanatics behind me bumped their heads.

To the point where their foreheads cracked.

“Why, why are they like that?”

Startled, I murmured, and Jucheol spoke as if he were familiar.

“A noble being has appeared, so it’s impossible to contain the worship. It’s natural, like the grass shaking when the wind blows. Don’t worry about it.”

“You.”

I took out the darkness.

Honestly, I knew. I mean, Jucheol was not just a simple pervert. Among the countless people who came to meet him, he treated Jucheol and that woman with special treatment.

Allowing her to sit next to him or stroking her head when she kneeled in front of him, he received special treatment in a strange way.

He treated politicians and chaebols casually.

But even so, he treated Jucheol and that woman differently.

So, subconsciously, I acknowledged that Jucheol and that woman were extraordinary people.

But I never thought that just by creating such a huge secret religion and revealing their appearance, they would crack people’s foreheads and knock them out.

I didn’t expect them to be such powerful beings.

So I cautiously asked.

“You, what are you, like the chosen one of heaven and earth?”

“The chosen one of heaven and earth? Ahahahaha. To compare me to those things.”

Jucheol coldly laughed as if he found it amusing.

“Majon, you should have listened to your own words. You’re truly ignorant.”

“Fine, I don’t know anything. So let me ask you just this one thing. Is Harini alive? If Harini, a strong psychic admired by psychics like you, is still alive. Looking at you now, it seems like Harini is also a truly powerful psychic. Such a psychic wouldn’t be killed just because she burned down a house. That’s unlikely.”

Ju Cheol, who had been listening to me ramble, spoke.

“In their realm, life and death have no meaning.”

“For f*ck’s sake, stop speaking in riddles! Where is Harini?!”

“She is in a place you cannot reach. From what I see now, your realm is clearly a stage of individual realization. It seems you haven’t even completed the first stage of a practitioner, the state of solitude (獨覺), so what could you possibly do with such power?”

Ju Cheol replied.

“You know nothing. That’s all that yourself desires. To simply live happily as an ordinary person, like yourself. To be loved so much by that person. I envy you.”

Suddenly, the entire underground space shook.

As if echoing Ju Cheol’s anger.

Damn, was Ju Cheol such a strong psychic?

“I’m curious. Why did people undergo spiritual awakening? What is the purpose of heaven and earth? What will psychics discover as their realms become higher?”

Ju Cheol spoke.

“It has been twenty thousand years since the birth of humanity, but why is your history not even surpassing mere ten thousand years? Did your ancestors spend ninety thousand years simply hunting and living? Or did periodically occurring events reset human civilization?”

I could feel Ju Cheol’s anger growing.

“Do you wonder about my, our true nature? We were nothing but a fierce wind that blew until the end of an era. We were merely scorching wildfires and raging waves. Until that person gave us a name, we were just storms that washed away impurity.”

Ju Cheol looked down at me and spoke.

“But you, due to their aura as your reason, have monopolized their love. We are jealous of you, Yoo Ha Jin.”

Ju Cheol reached out his hand.

Yet, only the room shook and nothing happened to me.

Seeing that, Ju Cheol let out a bitter laugh.

“Hah, so you have already begun your awakening as Mara. I didn’t expect my powers to not work already. That must sadden them.”

At that moment, someone was felt from behind.

It seemed like someone had arrived just now.

Turning around, I saw a mask woman bowing to Ju Cheol.

“Master.”

“Have you come?”

Ju Cheol reached out his hand.

Then the masked woman quickly got up.

“Subdue him. Use physical force as your main approach.”

“I will obey.”

And Ju-cheol looked at me with a hateful expression on his face and said this.

“Yu Hajin. If only you had a little more enlightenment, Harin would never have ended up like that. Of course, Harin didn’t expect that, but still.”

And as he turned around, the screen went black.

Only silence remained in the room.

But I couldn’t take a single step from there.

I really didn’t know anything.

And I didn’t even think about growing my abilities.

Because I was an incompetent person with no potential.

But why did Ju-cheol say such things?

“Because my enlightenment is low, Harin ended up like that? But I have psychic abilities…”

Ju-cheol could have just said it without meaning anything. But those words about Harin ending up like that because of my low enlightenment continued to haunt me.

In that moment, a white hand was touching my bag. The hand discreetly opened the zipper and tried to take out Harin’s underwear.

“This crazy bastard!!!”

“Tsk.”

I swung my black candle around and slapped away that hand.

When I turned around, it was indeed the Masked Woman’s doing.

As the Masked Woman removed her own mask, she spoke.

Surprisingly, the Masked Woman’s face was beautiful.

Just like a villainess in a period drama.

The Masked Woman said,

“You don’t have the relic that a disgusting human like you would possess.”

“Someone as perverted as you wouldn’t have it either.”

At that, the Masked Woman laughed and made a deal.

“If you manage to reclaim it by force, then fine.”

“I won’t be reclaiming it, I’ll be stealing it.”

Then, the concrete wall twisted and transformed into thin shards that floated up. They were incredibly sharp-looking shards.

“Master said to focus on physical strength, but this is suppression. It means I’m not supposed to kill you, right?”

Those thin shards poured down like rain.

Most of them I could fend off with my black candle, but a few were impossible.

And so, those few grazed past my arms and legs.

Approaching that woman was out of the question, all I could do was move quickly and avoid her.

Do I really have powers?

Now, I had no choice but to believe those words.

I shouted with skepticism.

“Activate principles.”

Still, nothing changed.

“Sensory perception.”

I felt nothing.

“Physical manifestation.”

Naturally, there was no change in my body.

So, I murmured the last word.

“Divine descent.”

And nothing descended from the heavens. My last hope was shattered. I couldn’t even trust the memories that I couldn’t confirm as dreams or not.

Damn it.

What kind of power do I have?

In that moment, I felt something on my legs. It was like shackles. The concrete fragments I had shaken off had suddenly gathered and attached themselves to my legs.

Upon seeing that, the masked woman laughed.

“You ran around so energetically, but you didn’t look down.”

As the countless concrete fragments aimed at me from all directions, I recalled something that had happened in the past.

My mother, in pain, was the first one to fall asleep. She fell asleep while I, the youngest child, made talismans until late at night, taking her place. I had sat next to her, thinking of helping.

“Do you want to draw talismans too, Oppa?”

The child had said that.

I nodded and said this.

“But I can’t see ghosts. I’m just an ordinary person. Can I still make talismans?”

“It’s not ghosts, it’s spirits. And even ordinary people without any powers have souls. That’s why even ordinary people without any powers can make talismans and repel evil spirits. As long as they have offerings.”

“Offerings? What are they?”

The child said with an expressionless face.

“No, Oppa, don’t try to learn about this world.”

“Tell me! You always tell me not to try and learn about this world. Why can’t you say anything else?”

In that moment, something caught my eye.

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The wound on the child’s hand landed in their hand.

Blood was flowing from that hand.

“Wait, you, is this blood by any chance?”

“I couldn’t help it, I had to make a powerful talisman.”

“It’s a wound, a wound. Where’s the bandage? Seriously, it’s so annoying. Are you trying to be like mom too? Mom has been acting strange lately!”

The child said this as they saw me flustered.

“Criminals can wield supernatural abilities by using blood. Blood is the best means to use the soul. So, brother, don’t worry too much…”

“How can I not worry? How? Both grandma and mom…”

As I choked up, the child added an excuse.

“In this world, things like this are normal. Using chicken blood is so common. People who have no way of facing ghosts and spirits also use blood to fight them off. So, brother, don’t cry.”

The child said so.

They said criminals can use abilities similar to supernatural powers by using sacrifices. Among them, the best sacrifice is one’s own blood.

I dipped my hand in the blood coming out of the wound.

In that moment, I saw pieces of concrete flying in my eyes.

If I get hit by that, I’ll either faint 120% or die.

Now, with the feeling of being at my wits’ end, I smeared the blood on the black incense.

Please, if I have a supernatural ability,

Activate it now!!!

Then, the black incense seemed to darken even more.

And my vision changed.

I was now looking at a dark plain.

Someone was standing in that distant dark plain.

Someone who was standing in the plain spoke.

“Future generations.”