An Exorcist Magical Girl! – Chapter 141

Author: Dakku-san

When I arrived at the fifth grade classroom, Hae-yoon was leaving the classroom. She opened the front door, made eye contact with me, and then stumbled back in anger.

“Se-senior?! Where are you going? It’s dangerous for you to wander around now!”

“I’m not.”

Kim Hae-yoon sulked as she asked her where she was going.

One of the yellow-haired students who had been watching her came over with a similarly worried expression. There are only two people in this classroom, Kim Hae-yoon and the yellow-haired student.

Apparently there were three of them in the fifth grade class, but where did the other one go?

“Oh, Idamin was with me earlier, but she went to the bathroom and didn’t come back.”

Kim Hae-yoon, noticing my look, explained quickly.

“She didn’t come back? For how long?”

“About five minutes… We should have moved in together, but she’s right next door anyway, so I thought it would be okay…”

“I read your texts, no reply, look. One person disappears and you don’t say anything.”

The yellow-haired student interrupts and shows me her cell phone screen.

Wow, what great timing.

“You guys stay here, I’ll go get her.”

I hurry to the bathroom. I can’t help but notice that if a monster had attacked me, it would have made a loud noise. She doesn’t seem like the kind of kid who would be too distracted to play with a surprise camera in such a serious situation, and she certainly wouldn’t pass out in the bathroom.

Once I’ve eliminated all the crazy theories, it comes down to one answer.

“She’s possessed.”

As a friend of mine with weak elemental energy, this was a very real possibility.

As expected, there was no one in the bathroom. However, there was a cell phone under the sink, as if to prove that Idamin had been there. The chat room screen was on.

“It’s…, and that’s why one person disappeared right away.”

What was Idamin obsessed with?

There’s no way a mere ghost, no matter how weak, could possess a living person. If not a head collector, then at least a frog cosplay ghost from the second science lab.

I don’t think she was possessed by a monster’s spirit, otherwise we would have heard about the deaths sooner or later…

If a monster’s spirit possesses a person’s mind, it’s a purely spiritual effect of their instinct to fulfill their hunting habits in life, not some other bizarre purpose like a head collector.

By the way, Idamin really needs to change schools.

I’ll have to find her, talk some sense into her, and then offer her a transfer.

Next to the bathroom was a staircase.

I pressed my face against the staircase wall and listened to the ghosts lurking inside. When I opened the door as wide as I could, I could hear everything from unintelligible mumbling to screaming.

“Funny! Funny! Did you see the look on his face? It’s so funny!”

“Kihit, kihit, kihit…”

“You’re such an idiot, you idiot, you idiot!”

“Me too, I want a magpie. I want a magpie! A magpie who will do everything I say! A magpie that plays with me!”

“Kaaaaa, kaaaaa, kaaaaa, kaaaaa, kaaaaa…”

The ghosts were still watching Idamin’s mesmerized movements, but they couldn’t tell where she was from her foodless chatter.

“Where did that “bird” go?”

I asked.

The chattering voices were suddenly cut off.

“…….”

“Did you tell us? Did you just tell us?”

“Did you talk to us? Really?! Did you talk to us? Did you talk to us?!”

After a moment of silence, they begin to chirp in unison, as if mocking me.

“I won’t tell you. Ahaha! I won’t tell you! Ahahahahahaha! I don’t want to know, ahahahahaha!”

“That’s right, I don’t have to answer if you ask! I don’t have to answer if I don’t want to! Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

Oh, this sucks.

I want to hit them one by one, but they’re all in the wall, so I can’t..,

But I can, can I?

I suddenly remembered that when I was out of my body, I could walk freely through walls and floors.

“Imagine pulling your body out and pulling your soul straight out. Focus on the feeling of your soul leaving your body. Up to the top of your head like this.”

Still not quite sure what she was asking me to do, I grunted as I tried to pull my soul out of my body.

No, struggling is an understatement. I didn’t really strain or do anything, but I concentrated on the feeling of something pulling at the top of my head, just like Seo Jun had told me, and my eyes naturally went up.

“Seo Jun, is this true, is this true, is this true?”

I was about to pull out my own hair, wondering if I was pulling out real hair.

Yuck.

A transparent arm appeared in front of my half raised right arm. My right arm soon lost feeling and hung limply.

“Oh…?”

Only a tiny fraction of my soul had escaped my body.

One arm was the limit, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get more.

Well, it was enough for now. Maybe it was better than a complete disembodiment.

I stuck my translucent right arm into the wall and swung it around.

Then I grabbed something cold and pulled it out of the wall.

“Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”

What I caught was the head of a mosquito.

Panic was evident in the blurred lines of its eyes as it was dragged out.

“Where did it go? Tell me. If you don’t want to be thrown to the monsters for food.”

“Oh, downstairs! She went downstairs! Kek!”

“Downstairs where?”

“Well, I don’t know. I don’t even know who took her…!”

Damn, this is useless.

I guess it’s a good thing I narrowed it down to the first or second floor.

“You’re walking really slow, I’ll catch up in no time, kek! Kek!”

I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and shook him, and he whimpered, so I shoved him back into the wall.

I have to repeat this every time I go down a floor.

At the stairwell on the second floor, I plucked the gnat out of the wall exactly as I had just done.

“Did you see a girl walk past?”

“Yes, yes, yes, look, I saw her…!”

This time it was a polite ghost.

“Where did she go, is she on this floor or not, just tell me that.”

“No, she’s not here, she went down here a while ago, she went downstairs!”

The search for Idamin quickly narrowed down to the first floor. I checked before going to the fifth grade classroom and was relieved to see that there were no monsters on the first floor.

The ghost’s slow pace proved true, and as I descended to the ground floor, I spotted Idamin.

Idamin was just turning a corner in the hallway, moving shakily.

The way she was walking, she looked like she was in a trance. Her stumbling was obvious from a mile away.

I thought to myself, “Man, she’s just possessed on a day like today…”

Once a person has been played by a spirit, it’s easy to get twisted like never before. In Idamin’s case, it started when she was hypnotized by the song of the head collector.

The reason why the Head collector didn’t give her a stern warning when she was done was because she didn’t realize that she would be so easily twisted.

I thought it would just be a case of getting stuck with scissors and getting sick. Even Kwon Yuri and Yang Ji-won, who were the most affected by the ghosts in the first and second place games, were only more sensitive to their manifestations for a while.

‘You really need to transfer schools, Idamin.’

‘If you’re this weak, you’re not going to have a good time at this school.’

By the way, I don’t know what kind of bastard would have the audacity to possess a person when most ghosts are scared to death.

If I follow her, I can see what the ghost is like, but I don’t know what effect it might have on her soul if I let her get any closer to it.

‘Yes, let’s wake her up now.’

Instead of trying to figure out the ghost’s identity, I decided to run over and punch her in the back of the head.

“Hmph…!”

‘It hurts, doesn’t it? I’m sorry, but I can’t help it. It’s the only way to be sure.’

Idamin’s unfocused eyes came alive.

“Do you remember what happened?”

“Uh, someone just called me…”

“How did they call you? Did they know your name or was it a song or something?”

“Oh no, it was just something about being alone and scared…”

I push her and she answers, but it’s clear that she doesn’t know why she’s here or who the person in front of her is.

“I’m Baek Iri from second grade, and your friends said you went to the bathroom and didn’t come back, so I came to look for you.”

“Oh, right… yes, I did go to the bathroom!”

Apparently, the moment she entered the restroom, her memory went blank.

“Then why am I here?”

“Because you’re possessed by a ghost.”

“What?”

Her eyes widen in surprise for a moment, but then she realizes what’s going on and looks resigned.

“Is it me or is it the school…”

I think she was aware that her energy was weaker than others. It’s even stranger that she didn’t realize she was particularly vulnerable to ghosts while attending a haunted all-girls high school.

“Let’s just say it’s school for now.”

If it weren’t for the all-girls school, I wouldn’t have to deal with a head collector, and if I did, I’d probably just have a few nightmares in my sleep.

“Uh, Senior, what happened to my friends?”

Still not convinced that this isn’t a dream, Idamin asks about her friends as soon as her confusion subsides a bit.

“Don’t worry, they’re hiding in your classroom. Oh, and take this.”

I handed her the cell phone I picked up from under the sink.

“It fell in the bathroom.”

“Oh, thanks…”

She takes the phone, still dazed. Like someone who just woke up.

“You should call your friends with an emergency call.”

“Oh, right. Yeah!”

Finally realizing what she has to do, she fumbles to unlock her phone.

Still not fully awake, she dials the number without thinking, then realizes, “Oops!” and panics as she hits the back button.

“Uh-oh, uh… I almost got in trouble. I almost called.”