KTC | Chapter 4

“Okay, enough with the melodrama.”

Choi Seonwoo placed a crucifix where it could be easily seen from the bed.

“I told you earlier, didn’t I? Just watch from there and absolutely do not come closer.”

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After reminding Chairman Seo once more, Choi Seonwoo set down his Angela bag and backpack on the floor. He took a flask, no, a holy water flask from the backpack and looked at Angela.

“Stay right there quietly.”

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Responding with a meow, Angela jumped up next to the crucifix on the desk before Choi Seonwoo even turned around. Although smart, telling it to stay still just wasn’t in a cat’s nature.

Leaving Angela behind, Choi Seonwoo strode forward. As he approached the bed, Seo Jihan’s vacant eyes dimly looked up at him.

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“I’m really busy, so let’s wrap this up quickly. Elder, what is our young master’s name?”

“It’s Jihan. Seo Jihan.”

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Choi Seonwoo paused briefly, a sudden seriousness crossing his face. However, that moment of hesitation was fleeting.

“Does he have a baptismal name?”

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“John.”

“…I was just asking. Why does he have a baptismal name?”

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“My daughter-in-law was a devout Catholic.”

It sounded like he had been baptized as an infant. Choi Seonwoo flicked his thumb to open the lid of the holy water flask and began to sprinkle it around Seo Jihan while speaking.

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“Hello, Brother John. I’m Father Choi Seonwoo Michael.”

Choi Seonwoo leaned down and traced a cross on Seo Jihan’s forehead. Seo Jihan, completely drained, showed no response, his eyes closed.

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A bitter medicinal smell wafted from Seo Jihan’s slightly parted lips. Many who claimed to be possessed actually had mental illnesses, and judging by that, medicating him with psychiatric drugs was not a bad decision.

Choi Seonwoo suddenly climbed onto the bed and sat on Seo Jihan’s stomach. Then, with a sudden realization, he turned back to look at Chairman Seo standing in the doorway.

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“I have some bad memories, so I need to confirm beforehand, during the exorcism, physical contact like this might happen, you won’t object, right?”

“Do whatever you need.”

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Chairman Seo nodded, unable to hide his confusion. To him, such physical contact between men seemed trivial.

“Good. Then I’ll continue.”

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Choi Seonwoo gently pushed up Seo Jihan’s thin eyelids with his thumb. The pupils, suddenly exposed to light, painfully wandered before finally stopping.

“Ah…”

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Seo Jihan uttered an inexplicable gasp. As their gazes met directly, his pupils dilated, a storm of emotion, either thrill or fear, swirling within. The trembling soon turned into full-body convulsions, and the bed shook violently.

“So, what’s the name of the vile creature haunting our Brother John’s body? Shall we start by calling it out…”

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However, Choi Seonwoo’s cheerful tone quickly died down. His eyes, wide with shock as he flipped Seo Jihan’s eyelids, could not hide the astonishment as a torrent of stories began pouring into his mind.

Gasping for breath, Seo Jihan, like Choi Seonwoo, froze completely.

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Time seemed to stop as a dreadful silence stretched on. Only their gazes fiercely clashed in the air.

Possession¹.

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In that moment, Seo Jihan suddenly tilted his head back. Just inches apart, he sinisterly smiled.

“Michael?”

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“…”

“It’s funny. Someone as close to a demon as you, called by such an archangel’s name.”

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The voice, not belonging to Seo Jihan, seeped into Choi Seonwoo’s ears, piercing his soul. The breath reeked of rotting flesh. A sudden headache surged like a tidal wave. He couldn’t help but furrow his brows, yet didn’t look away.

“Hehe… Are you, perhaps, a priest who worships demons?”

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Seo Jihan’s lips moved closer. The skin of their lips barely touched, like a wisp of cotton.

“If so, behold my grand deeds. Worship and praise me, child of the demon.”

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The next moment, Seo Jihan’s eyes turned completely black, a stormy inferno flowing through them. It felt as if a fire had been lit somewhere in his head, a fierce spark ready to consume all his heavily guarded sins.

Nausea hit. Choi Seonwoo clumsily stepped down from the bed and turned a cold gaze back towards Chairman Seo, who still stood anxiously by the door. Choi Seonwoo’s lips split unpleasantly red.

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“Brother Theodore, you lied to me.”

“…”

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“Your grandson isn’t just suffering from inherited burdens; he has accumulated his own as well. You knew this, didn’t you?”

Chairman Seo was about to respond, but Choi Seonwoo cut him off.

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“The problem doesn’t end there. Even if you had left him alone, he would have struggled his whole life, but you, brother, are the one who brought him to this state. Tell me, what exactly did you do to him?”

Choi Seonwoo’s eyes were filled with unmistakable contempt.

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This would be the first confession Choi Seonwoo heard under Theodore’s name. Despite being interspersed with self-pity, please listen to it until the end.

“After liberation, the only thing important to me was money. Fortunately, I had a knack for sniffing out money-making opportunities, so I aggressively bought up lands that were nearly wastelands, thus managing to end my life of scavenging through trash and filling my stomach.

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“Even when I started to be known as a cash-rich man, or ‘money master’, I had no interest in anything but money. Establishing companies or expanding businesses, that was for educated people. What would a guy who couldn’t even finish elementary school because he was busy scraping together small change know about running a business?

“Well, being that uneducated, I couldn’t read the times…

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“Have you heard of ‘reds’? Back then, being labeled a red could shatter a whole family.

“One day, without understanding why, I was dragged to the Korean CIA. They accused me of being a red. I denied it, but they wouldn’t even listen. They laid out chilling torture devices and said, ‘If you resist, not even your family will be safe.’

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“What could I do? I had to prostrate myself. But acknowledging I was a red meant not only my death but my family’s too, so I begged them to tell me how I could prove my innocence, saying I would do anything.

“Then they said, ‘Swear allegiance to the Supreme Leader to prove you’re not from North Korea.’ Sounds nice, swearing allegiance, but in the end, they just wanted to plunder my blind money.

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“The answer was already decided. Most of my wealth, aside from a few properties, was in cash equivalents, so I handed it all over. Only then was I released; cleared of charges. Whether they were showing mercy or they saw more use in me, they didn’t even take the real estate.

“I never dreamed of revenge. I just endlessly repeated to myself that to protect my own interests, I had to cling to power. They didn’t turn me into a devil; I chose to become one for my own safety.

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“That’s how I got here. Paying off politicians with money earned at murderous interest rates, funding thugs to move the political pawns, and after the dictatorship fell, I repeated the process to hold leverage over the politicians.

“I’m not making excuses for my life. I’m clearly a monster created by the times, and although I haven’t killed anyone directly, I know too many have committed suicide because of me.

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“But I swear, if I had known that my deeds would pass down to my son and grandson, I would have chosen differently. I simply thought that if I lived as a scoundrel, my son and grandson could live comfortably.

“My son and Jihan, I raised them without ever showing them anything dirty. Yet, one day my son began showing signs of mental illness and eventually hanged himself from a tree I cherished.

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“My daughter-in-law and Jihan witnessed it. And soon, my daughter-in-law lost her mind too.

“After she was gone, I had to protect Jihan at all costs. I sought out every renowned shaman for rituals and exorcisms; attached bodyguards wherever he went.

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“Fortunately, since he was so young when he lost his parents, Jihan didn’t really understand permanent separation. He sometimes showed symptoms of sleepwalking but nothing severe, and he didn’t exhibit the psychiatric symptoms that afflicted his parents. He seemed to be growing up bright and happy.

“It was a few months before Jihan’s eighteenth birthday. Out of the blue, he said he wanted to see the ocean. It was right before an election, and I had a lot on my mind. I sent him on a seaside trip with just the bodyguards.”

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