I’m the Only One Who Can’t See Ghosts

34 – Gwiwang Yu Ha-jin (1)

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After the day of the Eye Awakening, a new part-time job was created.

The name of this part-time job is the high-risk delivery job.

If an area has a bad aura or contaminated energy veins, it is classified as a high-risk area where ghosts frequently appear. The part-time job that delivers goods through these high-risk areas or even inside them is the high-risk delivery job.

For each delivery, the pay ranges from a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 40, so there is no better part-time job in my situation where I can’t see ghosts.

Of course, there is less demand for this job compared to regular delivery jobs. That’s why whenever I see this job, I quickly apply for it.

But today was a bit strange.

The customer said they would give 60.

They don’t even pay over 40 for deliveries to slightly dangerous places?

“They said they’ll give 60?”

“Yeah, 60. If you safely deliver this box, I’ll give you 600,000 won. Easy, right?”

“Well, it’s good, but…”

I scratched my head and looked at the box.

It wasn’t particularly big or heavy.

It was just unusual because it was a black box without any shine.

“I don’t have to deliver to somewhere like beyond Gyeonggi Province, right?”

“No. No. It’s on the outskirts of Seoul. You know that place near Gwanak-gu? Just deliver it there. Please, make sure to deliver it.”

Make sure to deliver it.

This is an implication.

It’s a bit more obvious than the implications my younger sister uses.

But why is this crazy guy suddenly implying to me?

Of course, I’ve often fallen for cheap implications like this, compared to my younger sister.

Hm, suspicious.

I slowly looked at the box.

“What is this, a bomb?”

“No, in an age where you can blow up flesh, what use is a bomb?”

“Huh? What did you say?”

“Oh, nothing. Never mind.”

Am I supposed to discriminate between lukewarm rice and hot rice?

In a month, the budget will be so tight that I won’t even be able to eat lukewarm rice. I had to find a way to make money somehow.

And if I reject this app-based part-time job, my reputation on the app will plummet. I already struggle to make a living with part-time jobs; I can’t shoulder that kind of risk.

Even if they threaten me, it’s probably just going to be a ghostly threat.

I hopped on an electric kick scooter with good cost-performance to go to the outskirts of Gwanak-gu.

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Nothing eventful happened on the way to the outskirts of Gwanak-gu.

Honestly, I was curious about the contents in the box, so I shook it a little, but other than a rattling sound, there was nothing strange.

“It’s peaceful.”

I entered the abandoned building-shaped factory in the outskirts of Gwanak-gu according to the instructions in the note. And then I was supposed to deliver this to B1 floor by taking the elevator.

“The elevator is huge.”

As written in the note, there was an elevator.

Since it used to be used in the factory, the elevator was larger than I imagined.

When I pressed the B1 button on the elevator, it started moving slowly with a creaking sound.

To earn 600,000 won for such a trivial task.

Am I lucky today?

With a clunking sound, the elevator doors opened. And in front of me, a corridor that resembled a white research facility unfolded. In front of that, there were three people wearing protective suits.

“Finally, you’ve arrived.”

“Yes, is that the soundproof material? The distinguished one paid attention to it.”

“As a material that materializes the acquired divinity, it possesses a mechanism similar to the Divine King (귀왕).”

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The men in protective suits were uttering something.

It was a bit annoying, but I had to keep quiet since I wouldn’t get paid if I didn’t.

“Well, what about that man?”

“That little gambler? We’ll use him as an experimental subject. Probably, due to transporting the soundproof material, most of his abundant soul has evaporated. A soulless body that has lost its soul can be used anywhere.”

“But wait, it’s only used to transport the soundproof material until the body completely collapses. Soundproof material is a substance that cannot be used by any living human other than me.”

Experimental subject? A soulless body that has lost its soul? Until the body completely collapses?

What a stroke of luck today.

Yoo Hajin was deceived again today.

I silently opened the black box.

“Hey, wait. What are you doing?”

“Why is that able to move?”

“Don’t say such nonsense, put on the earphones related to the energy now! The extreme sound is being released!”

Inside that box, there were blue glass-like pieces.

They seemed easy to break with my hand.

I feel like something like this has happened before?

But I didn’t have any other sharp objects.

“Just shut up and give it to me.”

Give me back my 600,000 won, you bastards.

If you don’t want to see this glass piece break.

At the very least, I had to recover the time wasted today and the cost of the electric kickboard.

I looked at the glass piece and glanced at three researchers. Two of them had already collapsed with seizures. The remaining researcher was barely standing, holding on to some charm.

“To catch the extreme sound with bare hands. Only the peak of resonance can show such a miracle. If it’s called the peak of resonance.”

“I don’t want to mix words with you idiots. Just give it to me like we agreed.”

“S-Seriously, I didn’t expect you to come personally. Your Majesty the Ear King.”

I glanced at the glass piece I had grabbed.

It seems that ordinary humans can’t hold onto this thing.

Was it an artifact that only the powerful demon Ear King could catch?

But I have no qualms about scamming these idiots. From now on, I am Ear King Yoo Hajin.

I spoke to the researcher with the most stern expression I could muster.

“Yeah, I am the Ear King. I don’t want to mix words with humans, so just give me what we agreed on.”

“Naturally, I’ll give you what we agreed on. How could we break a promise with Your Excellency? Then, please come inside.”

Beep-beep- The researcher hurriedly pressed the keypad behind him. Damn it, I might be a little crazy, but I’m not crazy enough to enter such a suspicious research facility.

“Don’t want to go in? Just give me what we agreed on here.”

“Your Excellency, that is an item that can only be received inside the facility. You know that, don’t you? Please show mercy.”

The conversation started to deviate. I just wanted to receive the money, not something that Your Excellency the Ear King should receive.

There’s no choice. I’ll just have to escape.

600,000 won? Just treat it as if you’ve thrown away some bitcoins.

I was thinking this way as I took a step back from the researcher. Suddenly, the door to the research facility opened, and the guards in full riot gear poured in.

Even the guards’ waist-dancing appeared to be done with rifles in hand.

“Intruders!!! Black. The air is very heavy. Everyone, activate your Yangki!”

“Everyone, prepare for battle!!! Wud, this is madness. Is this a high-level demon possessing someone? How can a demon possess a physical body like this?”

In fact, the guys who looked like they were from the rear were aiming their rifles at me. This was really getting out of hand. Why carry around such crappy weapons in the era of intellectuals?

But it was the researcher who saved me.

“Wait!!! What are you all doing??? Listen carefully!!! Please, please have mercy, Your Majesty!!!

No, there’s nothing to forgive.

Can’t I just go home?

“I see. Since you’re busy today, come back another time.”

“No, Your Majesty. Didn’t you order us to bring the item as quickly as possible? We are here to deliver the promised item to Your Majesty’s hand. Here, I will give it to you now.”

“But, I am…”

“The name of the demon is absolute, and as followers of the Demon King, we will never forget that fact. You must not forget to give the demon his points.”

I could tell from the way he was talking that if I tried to escape from here, these guys would definitely suspect that I wasn’t the Demon King. I was already worried that they might have noticed that the elevator door was closing late and opening late, and that they might think I was just trying to avoid the guards on the first floor.

I was in a real bind.

There was no way out of this.

“Announce it.”

First and foremost, I had to escape from here. I’d just have to take the item that I was supposed to give to the Demon King and make a run for it.

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The research facility manager felt as if his heart was about to burst.

The Demon King, the ruler of the evil spirits that corresponded to the celestial spheres. A divine being that had obtained a physical body. That existence was right in front of him.

Hiding his fear and trembling,

the research facility manager slowly introduced the research facility.

“This is the experimental subject storage room. We store the experimental subjects obtained from various parts of Seoul here. Mainly, we receive them from religious organizations that worship celestial beings or demons.”

There were no exceptions; all the experimental subjects, captured from across the Korean Peninsula, were paralyzed with fear, staring out from the windows. The research facility manager coldly looked down on them before slowly examining the Demon King’s appearance.

The Demon King was truly enraged.

He was still full of hatred for humans.

“No, these little bastards.”

He even spat out his venomous words against humans inadvertently.

Is this what being noble is? Such wickedness.

The director of the lab looked at the noble with admiration.

“If you can’t solve the problem, I can provide you with a few of the test subjects. You can even kill them for fun.”

“Y-You… you… you damn bird. Hurry up and tell me the password to that room before you leave.”

The director politely gave him the password.

“Now, let me introduce you to the next place.”

The next place the director introduced was the most heavily protected prison in the facility. There, a woman knelt naked, bound by dozens of gray ropes.

“That woman is the gatekeeper of the Ki Gong Moon and the chief investigator of the Ki Gong Clan, Ki Ri-yeon. She’s a criminal who killed the noble kings and wounded the noble progenitor just to protect humans. If it weren’t for the betrayal of the Ki Gong Clan and Ki Gong Moon ten years ago, it would have been impossible to capture her alive.”

The director added some words to gain points from the noble.

“Often, the noble entourage who visit our research lab will repay what she did to them and leave. If you promise not to kill her, I will tell you the password to that room…”

“Huh, just shut up and tell me the password already!”

To think that his face could get so furious.

Clearly, he was an ancient noble who resented Ki Ri-yeon.

The director, who had become someone who looked at the noble with admiration, bowed his head and told him the password before moving on to the next place.

There was a room. In that room, there was something that looked like a dying animal and its offspring, both bound by the same gray ropes as Ki Ri-yeon, suffering.

“This facility is an experimental site for taming divine beings. If the baby divine being listens well, it takes care of its mother. And if the baby divine being doesn’t listen, we gradually cut off parts of the mother’s body as a reward and punishment system to tame the divine being.”

At that moment, a white light flashed, and the left leg of the half-disappearing animal was thinly cut off.

Seeing the mother being cut off, the baby divine being screamed insanely and scratched the wall.

In that moment, Gwiwang Yu Hajin and the baby divine being locked eyes.

“Grk.”

Seeing that, the noble made a peculiar sound, as if he was enjoying it. Truly, the noble was a cruel existence worthy of admiration.

“Tell me the password for that room too. Quickly.”

“Oh, are you planning to take the blood or skin of the divine being? We have to give you at least that much sincerely. The password for that room is…”

That way, the director and the noble arrived at the last room.

“Well, this is the most important facility in our research lab, where we restore the leader of the Heavenly Demon, the Flame Spirit. And today, I am truly happy to introduce this restored Flame Spirit to you, Your Highness.”

With those words, the director opened the giant door.