My Girlfriend Is a Shaman

45 – Getting to know your future spouse #2

[When can we meet? I also live in Seoul, so I can easily get there from Guro-gu. I hope we can meet within this week.]

I quickly sent a message to the female member who reported it before she changed her mind.

The answer came back in a message from a female member.

[I’m a high school student, so we can meet after school.]

[Then let’s meet this Friday. Please choose a place to meet.]

[Good Friday. Let’s meet at Blooming Coffee Shop in Soyeon-dong, Guro-gu in the evening. In the first place, the accident occurred at my brother’s house in Soyeon-dong.]

I succeeded in making an appointment to meet a female member on the spot. We met in Soyeon-dong, Guro-gu, where the accident occurred. Guro-gu was an area adjacent to Seungcheon-gu where we lived. I was able to arrive right after school.

[I will take a friend with me when I go there. I am a female shaman.]

[Does Jin have any friends who are shamans? That’s amazing….]

[Yes, I am a friend who sees ghosts.]

[Okay. I really want to meet you and have a conversation. No matter how much I tell the police, they won’t believe me. People say I’m just seeing something wrong in the mirror, but that’s not true. To begin with, there had been strange accidents in the neighborhood where my brother lived in the past. These are accidents related to mirrors. I will tell you more details when I meet you in person.]

Have there been strange accidents involving mirrors in the past?

I still didn’t know specifically what he was talking about.

You will find out if you meet in person and talk.

“Sera!”

It was after I had finished exchanging messages with a female member.

I woke up in the living room where the computer was. It was to let Sarah know that an interesting job had arrived.

“Why?”

An answer came back from afar.

I went out to the living room.

“Hey, where are you?”

“I’m at the shrine.”

I went to the shrine built within Hyehwadang. In front of the altar in the shrine, Sarah sat in her seditious posture.

What were you doing here?

I was curious, but I first told Sarah the news.

“Sera. I have a job.”

“What happened? It couldn’t have been just an accident, right?”

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“It wasn’t just an accident. A man attempted suicide in Soyeon-dong, Guro-gu. Before attempting suicide, he was experiencing a ghost story about knowing his future spouse. That’s necromancy.”

“Ah, seeing the future with a sword in your mouth? That’s necromancy, right?”

“Yes. If you think about the original, it is a necromancy that has been around for quite a long time.”

Know your future spouse.

It was a ghost story about necromancy, using the power of ghosts to see the future.

Sera said while looking at me.

“The original is Bloody Mary. When the Bloody Mary ghost story was translated into Korean, the name given was Knowing Your Future Spouse.”

“That’s right.”

In fact, the original version of this ghost story was a European ghost story called Bloody Mary. After 12 o’clock at night, if you look in the mirror and say ‘Bloody Mary’ three times repeatedly, the image of a woman will appear in the mirror. When she asks the woman what her future holds, she answers. Sometimes, when a woman appears with a weapon, the person who shouts bloody mary is brutally murdered.

This Bloody Mary ghost story was the original. Because it is a world-famous ghost story, translations exist not only in Korea but also in many countries. In Korea, this ghost story was translated into the ghost story ‘Knowing Your Future Spouse.’

During the translation process, a transformation occurred in the necromantic ritual. Instead of saying bloody mary, you stand with a knife in your mouth. It was not known exactly why it was transformed like this.

I personally thought this.

Isn’t there a time when shamans performed a ritual with a knife in their mouth? It was an item called an Ipkal. Wasn’t the Bloody Mary ghost story influenced by shamanism when it came to Korea? Then, the act of putting a knife in one’s mouth can be understood in a magical way.

Well, this was my personal opinion.

There was no particular evidence.

I continued to tell Sarah the story of the accident. After experiencing the ghost story for himself, the man turned his back on the mirror. Then the mirror was not reflecting the back, but was looking forward. Afterwards, the man was found unconscious in the bathroom after cutting himself to the point of death.

Sarah listened to my story and nodded her head.

“It’s definitely something we should look into. But where did you hear that?”

“The man’s younger sister is a member of the mystery site. Her younger sister directly posted the information on the bulletin board. While staying at her brother’s house that day, the informant also witnessed a strange phenomenon.”

“Ah…”

“I made an appointment to meet with the informant this Friday. Are you going too?”

“I’ll go with you.”

Is there a saying about going to Gangnam with a friend? As expected, Sarah never left out when I told her I was going to investigate a mystery. So she told the informant in advance that one more friend was going.

The appointment has been completed.

Because today is Thursday, I could meet with the informant tomorrow.

I asked Sarah what I was curious about.

“Sera. But what were you doing in the shrine?”

Sarah pointed to her altar.

A silver bell was placed on the altar of the shrine.

“I was looking at that for a moment.”

“It’s a bell, right? Why is that?”

“I’m sick of that silver bell. I haven’t used it until now, so I haven’t taken it out.”

A new thing?

It was referring to an object in which a god resides. It was an item that was like a link between a medium and a spirit. The gunman we faced last time also had a fresh white mask. I remembered that the snake spirit residing in the mask was giving strength to the monster.

Was that silver bell a new item for Sera?

Even so, Sera had never summoned her spirit with silver bells. It was a bell that she had never carried even when she went exorcism together. For the first time, I realized that I was sick of Sarah.

I had a strange feeling.

If she possessed a divine object, wouldn’t that mean that Sarah could summon a divine spirit like a monster? It would be a great help if I could call on a god, so I wondered why I was bringing it up now.

“You had a spirit, but why didn’t you use it? Aren’t you able to summon a spirit too?”

“I didn’t use it because I couldn’t call it. The spirit I need to serve has not yet resided in the bell. Right now, it’s just a bell. The contents are empty, so it doesn’t make a sound.”

Sera held the silver bell in her hand and shook it lightly. Even if the bell was shaken, it made no sound at all, perhaps because it was empty. Nothing that could be called a spirit ever appeared before us.

“You can’t call on spirits?”

“It’s a bit long to explain… A long time ago, I received a ritual from my mother. But no matter how much I performed, the spirit I was supposed to serve did not appear. Even after that, the spirit that was connected to me never appeared.”

Sarah told a story about how she once received a ritual from her mother. Naerimgut was a ritual in which a shaman welcomed spirits. However, Sarah said that even when she received the Naerim exorcism, no spirit came to visit her.

“After the ritual, my mother told me what kind of spirit I should serve. She said it was a fairy who had a connection with me in my past life. She said that because she was so high, I had to practice more to serve her. At that time, I also received a silver bell from my mother. “They say that someday, a fairy will reside in this bell.”

Hwayeon Bodhisattva told us a prophecy. It was a prophecy that one day, in that silver bell, there would reside a fairy that Sera would have to serve.

“Fairy…?”

“Yes. My spirit is a fairy. She has a connection with me in my past life and is a high-ranking person. Don’t you think I know who she is?”

Sera asked me.

She had a goddess that naturally came to mind without her having to ask.

Not long ago, we met Princess Hongryeon in a dream from our past life. She was a fairy who appeared in Sarah’s past life. She was also the granddaughter of the Jade Emperor Sangje, so she was a high person. Her conditions surprisingly matched the fairy indicated by Hwayeon Bodhisattva’s prophecy.

“No way.”

“No way.”

Sarah swallowed her dry saliva as she stared at her drops. I could also hear the sound of drool falling. Now I understood why Sarah was looking at the bell. She, Sarah, was trying to guess the identity of the spirit she was supposed to serve.

“Princess Hongryeon may dwell in this bubble. That monster-like woman will burst out of reality this time.”

Goosebumps appeared all over her body. She thought it was over when she woke up from the dream, but it wasn’t. One day, Princess Hongryeon would inhabit Sera’s spirit and descend into her world.

“Crazy.”

She was a goddess who played with us even in our dreams. She could not have predicted how powerful she would become once she revealed her true nature to this world. She couldn’t predict what Princess Hongryeon would do when she appeared in this world.

“Aren’t they going to punish you again when they show up in real life? The princess seems a little angry with you.”

“So! No, you’re angry because I did something. She doesn’t even remember when she was Eun-ryeong, so why don’t you take care of her? If she’s my older sister, shouldn’t you take care of her?”

“Because there are brothers and sisters who do not get along well…”

She heard that there are sisters who bicker and fight. I thought maybe Sera and Princess Hongryeon had such a love-hate relationship. Sarah looked at her drops and let out a sigh of relief.

“What should I do? Jinwoo.”

“How about destroying the bell in advance? So that Princess Hongryeon can’t dwell in it. Since the god hasn’t settled in yet, wouldn’t it be safe to destroy it?”

“If I break the bell, other objects will just turn into gods without my knowledge. If I have a connection with a shaman, the gods will somehow dwell around me. It’s like fate.”

Do you mean that if you break a bell, other objects become new? It seemed impossible to stop Princess Hongryeon from appearing in this world. Then she had to think of a way to control Princess Hongryeon.

“Umm…”

Suddenly a good idea occurred to me.

“The last time we met, Princess Hongryeon wanted to be with you. She tried to trap you in a dream.”

“I think it was a feeling of obsession. I guess they think of me as family.”

“Then how about this? If Princess Hongnyeon is still angry, you offer an offering. You offer an offering to appease her mind. Offering an offering to the gods to ease her mind is a method that has been used since ancient times.”

Offering offerings.

It has been a method used in various tales and myths since ancient times when trying to appease the hearts of gods.

It was like slaughtering a cow or a pig and offering it.

“You mean to appease Princess Hongryeon by offering an offering? I don’t know if it will work out, but it might be worth a try.”

After hearing my suggestion, Sarah nodded her head.

Perhaps we could appease Princess Hongryeon with offerings.

There is a certain level of preparedness.

“There’s no harm in preparing offerings in advance.”

We made a plan for what kind of offering we would prepare and met with the informant the next afternoon.