We Do Business In Full Auto [EN]: Chapter 8

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Social Trash (2)

A bench overlooking the city of Seoul.

I bought a pack of cigarettes from the supermarket and came up here.

It was my own little sanctuary, a bit far from home, where I could freely space out.

The bench was falling apart, and the path was terrible, so people didn’t come here often.

“Hoo.”

I blow away today’s frustration with the cigarette smoke.

There were about 10 cigarette butts on the ground.

I quit smoking about six months ago because I really didn’t have any money back then. But when things get really tough, I smoke one. It’s been a while since I chain-smoked like this, though.

I feel a little calmer now.

“How should I mess with these bastards so that it’s well-known that they’ve been properly dealt with?”

I’ve been thinking about that for 30 minutes.

I don’t know about when I was weak, but now I have power.

I can control evil spirits and raise skeletons and zombies. However, I don’t use zombies because of the terrible smell.

When did I get involved with loan sharks?

I took out a loan six months ago.

My business failed a year ago, and I ended up living in monthly rentals. Eventually, I ate into my deposit and turned to loan sharks.

I borrowed ten million won [approximately $7,500 USD], and it doubled in six months.

Isn’t the legal maximum interest rate 24% now? How can there still be companies like this? They weren’t ordinary people; they were illegal high-interest lenders run by gangsters.

They’re evil people who suck the blood of those who have fallen to the bottom and have no chance of recovery!

“I even gave them a body relinquishment form, so could they be…?”

It was a body relinquishment form with no legal effect, but those kinds of evil people might sell the organs of people who can’t repay the money.

That’s what it seemed like from the way they were talking today.

“There must be victims.”

Once I got to that point, I started to imagine how to get revenge.

What if they recently killed someone?

A person who dies unfairly always becomes a vengeful spirit. People sometimes call those vengeful spirits evil ghosts.

Those dead souls usually wander around the afterlife, mostly in the place where they were secretly buried, the place where they were unfairly killed, or a place they frequented. I heard that from Sujeong.

So, wouldn’t there be a few of those vengeful spirits in their office?

I was deep in thought when I felt a warm energy behind me. It seems to be Sujeong, with her silver hair.

“I wonder who this could be?”

“Want to guess?”

“Seeing those sand-like hairs, it must be my daughter!”

“Yeah!”

I turned around and hugged Sujeong.

As expected, my daughter is a great comfort at times like this.

Of course, I was also worried about my wife.

“What’s Mom doing?”

“She’s resting. Sujeong said she wanted to go for a walk with Dad.”

“Good job.”

“Dad, I overheard you vowing revenge earlier, is that right?”

“Of course. I’d love to catch them all and kill them, but I’m hesitant to commit murder unless it’s a perfect crime. So, I’ve been thinking about digging up their weaknesses and spreading them around.”

“For example?”

“When I took out the loan, I gave them a body relinquishment form. So, wouldn’t there be someone who was killed? If not, someone they killed in a power struggle within the organization.”

“That’s possible!”

I wondered if this was something I should be saying to my daughter.

But Sujeong wasn’t an ordinary child. Anyway, I needed Sujeong’s help to learn the magic related to it.

Sujeong thought for a while and then slapped her knee.

“Then we can just ask them, right?”

“The vengeful spirits wandering in the afterlife.”

“Correct!”

“As expected, my daughter is smart. She understands my thoughts well.”

“Hehehe. I’m Dad’s supporter, right?”

“Let’s go! I don’t think I can sleep tonight without getting revenge.”

“Yeah! Let’s go punish the bad guys!”

Thankfully, their office is in Mangwon-dong [a district in Seoul].

It was a big mistake to just grab a business card that was handed out near my house and call them because I was in such a hurry.

Of course, I had already maxed out all of my credit up to the third financial institution at the time, so there was no other way. How desperate was I to give them a body relinquishment form without hesitation?

Sujeong and I walked to the vicinity of the office.

“Wait a minute.”

“Why?”

“I was wondering if we should stand in the blind spot of the CCTV.”

“Oh, my daughter. You’re smart.”

What I’m about to do could lead the police to suspect me. So, it’s better to avoid CCTV as much as possible.

Since it’s a place that will be demolished anyway, there are many blind spots in the shantytowns and back alleys, but it’s still better to avoid them as much as possible.

I look into their office.

[Piggy Daddy Daily]

“You bastards. Why are you using the title ‘Daddy’? Are you the father of pigs?”

“I can see vengeful spirits.”

Two vengeful spirits were seen wandering around the office.

Sujeong taught me the hand seals.

It was a 2nd Circle hand seal magic, something Sujeong couldn’t do. Whether it’s because her heart isn’t mature enough or because she really doesn’t have the talent, Sujeong couldn’t reach the 2nd Circle. She’s stuck right before the 2nd Circle.

A communication magic is cast to question the spirits.

The dark magic flowed out of my heart, calling in the wandering souls.

-It’s unfair…

-Hngh… It’s unfair…

They were all crying out that it was unfair.

A black magician could see vengeful spirits and talk to them if they wanted to. That should be considered a unique skill.

But it wasn’t easy to talk to spirits who didn’t want to talk. The Spirit Control Technique allows the caster to communicate with spirits at will. It has a so-called coercive nature.

One spirit was a skinny woman, and the other was her husband.

Did these guys kill the couple together? Then what about the kids?

That’s why spirits turn into vengeful spirits.

“Now, tell me. What’s so unfair?”

I interrogate the souls that have turned into vengeful spirits.

Seeing them shedding tears of blood makes me realize that they couldn’t close their eyes even in death. I understood roughly, though.

-My baby… My baby…

“Tell me properly. I might be able to get revenge for you.”

-They killed them… They…

The evil spirit starts to talk while crying. I used magic because they were far away, but if there were no CCTV, I would have gone and talked to them, and they would have told me everything.

According to the woman, her husband’s business went bankrupt when the financial crisis hit.

After the bankruptcy, they moved from house to house to avoid the creditors, and the situation worsened.

Six months ago, they had a baby, so they were very poor.

The problem was that the newborn baby wasn’t normal either. She had a rare disease that required treatment, so they used the remaining deposit and took out loans to start treatment.

In the process, Piggy Daddy Daily was involved.

They borrowed a large sum of money from Piggy Daddy Daily. It was over 100 million won [approximately $75,000 USD], and in the process, the woman and her husband handed over a body relinquishment form.

The large sum of 100 million won was used entirely for treatment, and the child barely recovered. However, the debt collection started when they were starting a new life in a small studio apartment.

The husband did all sorts of manual labor and worked as a chauffeur to pay it back, but it’s not easy to work in this economy.

It wasn’t enough to pay the interest, and the debt grew.

One day, the guys who came to the studio apartment kidnapped the couple, leaving the baby in the house.

After that, things happened that humans couldn’t do.

All of their organs were taken in a dirty operating room connected to a secret space in the office. Then they were secretly buried in a nearby mountain.

Then what about the child?

The child, who was just over a year old, starved for several days before being discovered by a neighbor and taken to the hospital, where she died.

“…”

I was shocked by the story and suddenly checked Sujeong’s complexion.

Is Sujeong allowed to hear this kind of thing? It’s like a story from a movie, and it’s quite intense…

Sujeong’s eyes turned cold.

My daughter’s sensitivity is only shown to her family. She was angry and sad about this like an adult.

“Dad. Those guys are no good. Cleaning them up is good for this society.”

I already had a plan in place.

No matter how smart Sujeong is, I have more social experience. I figured out how to completely rip them off.

“I’ll help you get revenge. Where are the bodies buried?”

My tone was softer than before.

The energy surrounding the vengeful spirits was also weaker than before. That’s probably because they were grateful to me.

-Over there…

Sujeong and I went up to a nearby low mountain.

A terrible energy was felt in this mountain. An energy that seemed impossible to purify.

Unexpectedly, a training place was also created. Of course, it would be a place I could only come to after this incident calmed down.

The bodies seem to be secretly buried under the tree.

The vengeful spirits were looking down at the place where the bodies were buried. They were still shedding tears of blood. The memories of that time must be coming back to life.

It was a scene that would have made me run away in fear in the past, but now I even feel sorry for them.

I make hand seals to raise the zombies.

“Create Zombie.”

Sss sss sss!

The appearance of the zombies that rose up like that was gruesome.

They had no eyes, and their bodies had roughly sewn marks. And they’re both naked. Should I cover them up?

No. This state is good for being more shocking.

The setting is that the bodies themselves got up and collapsed in the office because they were so wronged. Of course, I have to avoid CCTV.

I told the vengeful spirits in advance.

“All I can do is move your bodies to their office. When the police raid, everything will be revealed. Your bodies will have fingerprints, and the office will have illegal medical facilities and even scraps of paper. A joint investigation headquarters will be set up, and their organization will be dismantled. Everyone will be sentenced to at least life imprisonment or death.”

The vengeful spirits bent over in a perfect posture.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

“I’m sorry your child died. The sentence for that will probably be added as well. I want to kill them all, but I can see that I’ve done all I can by having them judged by the law.”

-That’s enough.

-I can leave this world.”

“It’s a little lacking… That’s how the law is. Sujeong. Is there a way to torment them more?”

“Yeah. There’s a way to torment them very miserably.”

“What is it?”

“It’s something that’s possible because Dad has reached the 2nd Circle. It’s a magic that allows the vengeful spirits to torment the person in their dreams, and if the vengeful spirit wants to, it can even drive the person crazy.”

I realize the power of black magic again.

This was something that could accumulate a tremendous amount of karma depending on how it was used.

“…That’s what they say. Do you want to try it?”

The vengeful spirits were nodding their heads like crazy.