Chapter 116 – 116. The Living Fetish

“Yes, Eunji. You should do it if you want to.”

“Thank you, brother.”

Eunji smiled brightly. She said that now she would have a ghost in her body, but she had no fear. Well, when she’s by my side, she sees all the weird guys, so she might have developed a tolerance for those types of beings.

Right now, in the yard where the gods are playing, the monster is a big deal. Moreover, because Hwa-yeong’s habitual bragging about her vulva has already heightened her venom, Eun-ji was excited at the thought of accepting the oni right away and having sex with me.

She looked around and saw no other applicants. She honestly thought that if no one applied, she would experiment with Sora Nanase’s sister, Hiro, her step-brother, as her sacrifice, but she’d give her a chance now that Eunji came forward and gave it to her.

‘I should be able to succeed without much trouble…’

I am anxious even after allowing it. Now that I realize that my lucky number of 666 doesn’t just bring me luck. I was very afraid that Eunji might go wrong.

‘Still, I can’t stop a guy from expecting that much…’

Her party, Eun-ji, has already made up her mind. As the owner of Eunji, I must be determined. Soon I shouted at the oni with flashing red eyes.

“I will accept your offer.”

[Good night. Those who have the heart to shoulder me, come forward.]

At Oni’s sullen voice, Eunji swallowed her saliva and took a step forward.

I followed Eun-ji, not letting go of my tension, in case the monster might grab her and take her as a hostage or kill her. If I’m by your side, I’ll be able to save you right away.

[Say your name.]

The oni asked in an intimidating voice. Eunji answered with a slightly trembling voice.

“This is Eunji Lee.”

Soon, the Oni, who had been hiding in the depths of the darkness, walked right in front of the shrine maiden’s light. She wasn’t fully visible yet. Beyond the darkness, even with his altered vision, he could not see.

The darkness did not disappear even after using the skill, as if it was surrounded by some kind of barrier.

[Good night. You are now my sealed body. You can use my power, and you will be able to communicate with me. Instead, you should give up being human and take refuge in Manma. Your life will be twisted Do you have any objections?]

The oni asked as if to warn them that they would never be able to return to their normal lives again. But I wonder if there was such a thing as a normal life in the first place. The world has already become a mess and everyday life has become extraordinary.

Perhaps it was the same thought as mine, Eunji smiled and answered the oni’s question.

“No.”

The oni stretched out her arms into the space where the shrine maiden’s light shone. The oni’s palms were engraved with grotesque patterns, which seemed to be the reality of the seal.

[Then let’s start moving the seal. Hold my hand.]

The voice was so neutral that it was difficult to distinguish between the genders, but as they approached the boundary, it became clear whether they were male or female. Oni, she was a much smaller woman than I expected. She also had a strange mask on her face and a kimono that had faded black over her body like a cloak.

[It takes about an hour to put me sealed in the shrine back into the body of ‘Human Lee Eun-ji’… In the meantime, hold my hand and meditate… If you let go of your hand, the ceremony will fail. I’ll run amok and try to kill you. The human Lee Eun-ji will also go out of her mind.]

An oni giving a chilling warning just before the ritual begins. I was furious because I dared to hurt Eunji’s comfort and said while glaring at him.

“I won’t let you go if you act nonsense. It will be good for you if you go straight ahead.”

[Don’t worry. You are like a savior to me. As long as I can get out of this rotten place right away, I can do anything. So.. Please keep us safe for an hour.]

“You want me to protect you?”

[Okay. For an hour… All sorts of miscellaneous things from the forest that sucked my spirit power… Come here. It’s fortunate that there are many people with the power to deal with Lee Mae Mang-ryang…]

“What is that…”

[Guests have already arrived… Then the remaining 1 hour… Please take good care of me.]

After saying that, Oni and Eunji closed their eyes. When I call, there is no answer, and it does not move. All of a sudden, me and the rest of the party ended up playing an unexpected defense game.

At least, it was comforting that they had enough magic power thanks to everyone recovering properly before entering the shrine.

“Hey!!! Hotaru!! Talk to the Japanese!! It’s a defense game!! All the monsters of the forest will come here.”

“Is it me?! Ah..!! Minna!!敵が来てるよ!! (Enemies are coming!!)”

The cries of panicked Japanese people echoed throughout the shrine. I ordered them one after another. Get away from the entrance of the shrine, come inside and gather together.

And Hotaru and Hakubo shouted to open a barrier surrounding Eunji and the Oni immediately. If the two are attacked and the ceremony ends, it will be catastrophic.

Then, as we finished preparing for battle, someone walked into the entrance of the shrine.

“Ah! You are all here!! I’ve been looking for it for a long time!”

He was wearing a torn suit. Also, an old rope that had not been able to withstand the years and had broken was hanging from his neck. Even his face was extremely pale, and everywhere he looked, he looked like a dead human being. He is a missing person in the forest. He pretended to be a living person, but he didn’t seem to change his appearance just because he came here in a hurry.

‘As the oni said, all the miscellaneous things clinging to the forest are starting to gather at the shrine.’

After washing my face in a dark mood, I shouted to Harin, who was wagging her tail, as if she wanted to run right away.

“Harin! Kill that bastard!!!”

Harin, who ran forward in an instant at my cry, took out his blue fingernails and tore the guy who was trying to crawl into the shrine.

And at the same time, the door of the large shrine was half-bursted out, and numerous beasts and immortals rushed into the shrine.

It was too many for Harin to handle alone.

“Aaaaa!!!”

Harin let out a beastly roar of madness and stood at the forefront, tearing apart the beasts pushing into the shrine. Harin couldn’t stop the monsters flying through the air.

“OMG!! Kuso!!!”

“Genbu cine!!!”

Behind her, her other companions supported her. In particular, the newly recruited Heretic Inquisitor Hayato frantically wielded a cross and detonated the heads of the monsters that had invaded the shrine.

But he was crying bitterly. Even though he was weeping in fear, he was brandishing the cross as if he needed to get rid of it faster because he was afraid.

“Oh no!!! You fucking converts and bastards!!!! Everyone die, Gire!!!”

Lee Joo-ha caused a fire and burned the monsters who had bypassed and pushed in at once.

Also, she suddenly turned into her Sammiho, and her Harin went to her side and helped her. As the wolves and foxes mingled to tear and burn the hideous beasts of the forest, no more physical monsters could enter the shrine. However, both seem to consume a lot of mana.

“Lord, Juna!! How long do we have to fight?”

“1 hours! Noona, I want you to hold out for an hour!”

“What!? Ha, for an hour!?”

Embarrassed by my cry, Heesun noona bit her lower lip and summoned the roots of her tree to catch and crush the missing people trying to reach Eunji. Also, the spirits floating around her entered a power contest against her monsters.

‘There are so many of them.. Are all the monsters in the forest crawling… Crazy.. Why do monster waves always seem to occur only where I am…’

I too joined the battle and killed the beasts that surged upon me. There were so many of them that if Harin and Juha continued to fight, they would see blood. I think we should send them back and put the samurai guy, Rin, and Hayato in the front. Then the beasts can fend off it.

The real problem is the monsters. If you want to catch and kill monsters who don’t have physical reality, you have no choice but to use magic.

‘Can I fight while protecting everyone by myself…?’

The jet-black wheel and the dark moth are also dead, so it is impossible to summon them for a day.

As she was contemplating what to do, Lee Eun-ha’s body, which had been laid next to Eun-ji, began to tremble. Soon after, the woman who had been asleep ever since she found them in a concrete building opened her eyes.

“Ah… Ah… Unnie… Unnie… Where are you…”

A strangely bleak voice flowed from Lee Eun-ha’s mouth and spread low in her shrine. It was a voice that gave goosebumps to those who heard it. And Lee Joo-ha, who heard Lee Eun-ha’s voice, reacted.

“Eunha!!! You woke up!!”

In the midst of this, I saw Lee Eun-ha standing up from the spot where she was lying at the moment Harin tore apart the forest beast to death, and I screamed at her.

“Hey!! Move!! Concentrate!!!”

“Ugh, Eunha!!! Got it!!”

By my command to migrate, the battle resumed. I cautiously approached Lee Eun-ha, who had just woken up.

Since Lee Eun-ha had been unconscious until this point, he could not subdue her and make her her slave. Besides, her condition looks strange and she doesn’t know what she’s going to do.

“Hey, calm down. Hey. Lee Eun-ha.”

But no matter how many times I call, there is no answer.

There was no light in Lee Eun-ha’s eyes. She just blankly stood with her mouth open, muttering her own words that didn’t make sense to her. She doesn’t know if it’s the aftereffects of being devoured by Bako Kotori or what.

She doesn’t respond much when I try to use the flesh that fills up, thinking she may have injured her head, and when I grab her and shake her body, she doesn’t respond at all. She just stared into her empty space and muttered something over and over again.

‘Should I catch him and beat him to submission… But what are you saying…?’

Maybe she was muttering clues that would get her out of this strange state. I put her ear to Lee Eun-ha’s mouth.

“Not enough. Not enough not enough not enough not enough not enough.”

I don’t know what the hat is lacking. There is no way to solve it, and her enemies keep pushing in, but she is only paying attention to Lee Eun-ha and is unable to observe her condition. She said yes, but when she got beaten up and then it got worse, she had no real answers.

So while she was contemplating whether leaving it alone was the answer, she suddenly took a deep breath.

Very, very deeply.

As if trying to inhale all the monsters that entered the shrine.

“Whoa whoops!!!!”

In fact, all the monsters that were flying through the air and playing with her party were sucked into Lee Eun-ha’s mouth by the vast suction power.

In that way, Lee Eun-ha began to inhale all the Lee Mae-mang-ryang that had attacked the shrine. It was like a mad vacuum cleaner sucking up all the black smoke.

“Kiaaaaa!!!!”

“Uuuuu!!!!”

“Kiiiiisaaaaamaaaaa!!!”

The cries of the monsters resounded throughout the shrine. It was so terrifying that the monsters who had crept into the shrine were startled and started to run outside. It was the same with beasts and missing persons.

‘Possession Warrior? No, it looks like a much more amazing class than that..’

A human who was fused with Kotoribako. She might have awakened as a Possession Warrior like Lee Hoon. Or maybe you got a similar or higher level job…

“Hey, Eunha Lee. Gwa, are you okay…?”

In an instant, all the monsters were wiped out. Everything was sucked into Lee Eun-ha. Also, in the process, most of the weak-intelligence Lee Mae-mang-ryang, who tried to attack the shrine, all fled in fear.

I don’t know if this is good luck or bad luck. It feels like carrying a ticking time bomb.

“Ugh… Uh… Ooh…”

Lee Eun-ha covered her mouth as if something was about to come out. She held her mouth shut as if holding back vomiting, digesting the beings rampaging in her stomach. Her body swelled up moment by moment, and then she shrank again. It seems to be something beyond human…

“Knock it off…”

Soon she removed her hand from her mouth and she burped and sat down on her floor. Black smoke slowly escaped from her mouth.

At that time, Yang Ji-sang, who had kept her mouth shut until this point, opened her mouth.

[Master. That…]

“What? Why? Do you know what?”

[That woman… To be human… Rather close to a fetish…]

“Fetish..? Magatok? A bronze mirror?”

[No… Not the kind of thing that unlocked the gentleman’s seal… A real fetish. It’s something used for magic.]

“You mean a person turned into a fetish?”

[Yes… That… It’s like a living Kotoribako… How a human body can hold so many ghosts and monsters… That woman’s inside is no different from a battleground right now.]

Saying that Lee Eun-ha’s inside has now become an arena of competition with monsters, Yang Ji-sang brought up her story about her loneliness.

Solitude, after driving poisonous insects into a jar and making them kill and eat each other, if one remains, it is called loneliness.

Lee Eun-ha is now a solitude jar in the form of a human and has just swallowed the former demons, creating its own solitude, she said.

It smells inexhaustibly dangerous.

I moved closer to Lee Eun-ha, who was still belching blankly.

First of all, I need to take a picture of the slave brand.

I hit the forehead of Lee Eun-ha, who was staring blankly at me.

I don’t want the monster to flow back after hitting me badly… I plan to beat him in moderation and make him surrender.