Chapter 89
Chapter 89
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 89
Chapter Title: The Devil Journeying with the Evil Ghost (5)
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“Damn it. Too late to go out the window. No choice. Let’s take another route.”
The magpie pecked at Dong-su’s ear as he tried to reach into the darkness.
“Ow, that hurts! Jjang-gu, spit it out straight! Or I’ll break your ribs and pierce your lungs.”
Frightened pale by Dong-su’s threat, Jjang-gu spilled everything.
“It was Agwi! Prosecutor Sung Woo-yeol, chief of the Western District Prosecutor’s Office, is the cousin of Sung Woo-jin, the puppet boss who betrayed the Ma-gwi faction. Agwi said if we get rid of Baek Dong-su, since I’m a first-timer, he’d get me prosecuted for just four years on manslaughter. Please spare me.”
Dong-su figured this time Jjang-gu was telling the truth.
‘That greedy Agwi could betray Ma-gwi hyung and me to pull something like this.’
He glanced at the magpie, who said nothing.
“You, if that’s not true, I’ll come back and twist your neck. Got it?”
Jjang-gu nodded vigorously in response to Dong-su’s question.
“Yes, it’s true.”
“Rookie! Just in case, let’s pluck one of his eyes and I’ll eat it. If he says the same even after losing an eye, then it’s really true.”
The magpie, who had been quiet, suddenly declared he’d pluck out Jjang-gu’s eye and eat it. Jjang-gu panicked and begged the magpie.
“It’s really true. Spare me. Everything’s true. Don’t take my eye.”
The magpie ignored Jjang-gu’s pleading and spoke to Dong-su.
“Seems true. Let’s get out of here quick.”
With that, the magpie slipped out through the small food slot in the punishment cell’s iron door and into the hallway.
Dong-su released Jjang-gu’s collar and followed the magpie, passing through the iron door like it was thin air, into the hallway.
“You eat human eyes too?”
Dong-su cautiously asked the magpie perched on his shoulder.
“What would I do with eyeballs? My stomach’s delicate—I don’t eat just anything. Idiot! Hurry up and get out of here. Wirinom will come looking for us. It’s urgent! Don’t hide your body—run down this hallway.”
Having taken pointless abuse from the magpie, Dong-su hustled down the hallway.
His unguarded sprint through the hall would be caught on CCTV, and the patrol team would swarm soon enough.
Dong-su had no idea what the magpie’s plan was but followed along for now.
* * *
“Why’d you tell me to expose myself like that?”
Six all-black patrol guards, looking like crows, brandished their batons and surrounded Dong-su at the end of the 8th ward lower hallway.
“Rookie, Wirinom’s close by. We throw the humans at them as bait and slip out! Don’t kill them—lure as many as you can and head to that diagonal passage.”
Thinking the magpie was one clever bird, Dong-su headed for the diagonal passage.
“Isn’t that a bit cruel?”
“Shut up!”
The patrol team battered Dong-su with their batons, but he ignored them and moved slowly forward.
“Wirinom’s over there. That’s him!”
A massive man in a black suit, with wild hair like a lion’s mane, stood at the entrance to the diagonal hallway the magpie pointed out.
Two patrol guards who’d been blocking Dong-su approached Wirinom.
He must have looked suspicious, naturally.
Dong-su smirked at how easily Wirinom—the one the magpie had hyped up so much—had revealed himself, then stepped forward.
To keep the two patrol guards from reaching Wirinom, Dong-su extended both arms, grabbed one by each shoulder, and flung them backward.
“You Wirinom? They say you’re something special. We need to pass through here to get out, so make way, will you?”
Dong-su stood before Wirinom, chin raised, after tossing the two guards.
Wirinom, whose head loomed a full head taller than Dong-su’s, looked down at him, then silently stepped aside, clearing the path.
The path opened too easily, leaving Dong-su flustered and baffled.
“What’re you doing? Run! No time. Go!”
The magpie flew ahead of Dong-su, shouting.
Snapping to at the magpie’s urging, Dong-su chased after it down the hallway.
Even as Dong-su and the magpie sprinted to the end of the passage leading outside, Wirinom didn’t budge an inch.
“Why’s that guy just standing there? I thought he was recovering energy by eating stray ghosts.”
Dong-su called out to the magpie flying ahead as he ran.
“No idea why. Here! This room’s where new inmates get their physicals. There’s an exit to the outside! Open it quick.”
The magpie hovered before a door at the end of the left hallway, urging him on.
Dong-su charged up and kicked the door flying open with his left foot, leaping inside.
* * *
Bang!
Dong-su burst into the physical exam room, only to be seized by some unknown force and slammed to the floor.
“Gah! What the hell? What is this?”
Dong-su shook his head and stood, then asked the magpie in shock at whoever had thrown him.
It was a massive gorilla with black fur, a flat nose, and lumpy muscles.
“A gorilla? It’s a lycan! A human who turns into a gorilla. Probably Wirinom’s lackey. He let us pass because this guy was guarding here. Be careful!”
The magpie answered Dong-su’s question.
To Dong-su’s eyes, it looked twice the size of a normal gorilla—a monster gorilla.
“Let’s see how tough you really are.”
Dong-su said as he charged the monster gorilla.
The monster gorilla thrust out its right hand, seized Dong-su’s shoulder mid-charge, hoisted him up, and slammed him down.
Bang!
“Oof! That guy’s got some strength.”
Dong-su, sprawled flat like a frog, got back up and said so.
The monster gorilla grabbed Dong-su’s shoulder again, lifted him, and slammed him down.
Bang!
“Oof! Even as a dead ghost, the pain’s the same as when I was alive.”
The monster gorilla snatched Dong-su up again as he rose and slammed him down.
Bang!
The floor where Dong-su had been smashed cracked wide open.
“Oof! Magpie! What’s gonna happen to me? It hurts like hell.”
The monster gorilla grabbed Dong-su as he stood again.
Dong-su struggled desperately, but he couldn’t match its strength.
Bang!
Dong-su was slammed down once more.
“Oof! Hey! Magpie. What do I do?”
Dong-su asked urgently, but the magpie just flapped in midair without answering.
The monster gorilla seized Dong-su’s shoulder and hurled him down again.
Bang!
“Here it comes! Rookie, roll and dodge!”
At the magpie’s shout, Dong-su rolled on the floor, evading the monster gorilla’s hand.
As the monster gorilla reached again after missing, the outside door exploded open with a roar.
Bang!
Armed police special forces poured into the exam room through the open door.
“Freeze! Ugh! What the—? Why’s there a gorilla? In the detention center...?”
The SWAT team that rushed in screamed in shock at the monster gorilla.
“Now! Get outside quick! Hurry!”
The magpie yelled at Dong-su, who had rolled clear.
The monster gorilla spread its arms wide and lunged at the suddenly appeared SWAT team.
The startled special forces, terrified by its ferocious charge, opened fire wildly.
Dong-su seized the chaos and bolted outside.
Kaboom.
The monster gorilla smashed through the narrow door and wall in pursuit of Dong-su.
“Hey, gorilla! It hurts like hell. Even if my body’s already dead.”
Dong-su said to the monster gorilla chasing him out.
Behind Dong-su, over a dozen calf-sized cat spirits—summoned who knows when—glared fiercely at the monster gorilla and growled.
* * *
The cat spirits behind Dong-su leaped at the monster gorilla.
The SWAT team that had entered the exam room didn’t pursue the monster gorilla but instead poured bullets at something inside.
Rat-a-tat-tat.
Judging by the deafening gunfire, a battle was raging inside the exam room too.
Wirinom must have made it to the exam room.
The monster gorilla didn’t dodge the cat spirits piling on—instead, it took them head-on.
“Rookie, you see Jungle Book?”
The magpie flew from Dong-su’s shoulder up over his head and asked.
“No, why ask that? You a magpie who watches movies?”
Dong-su shot back at the magpie while watching the monster gorilla casually fling the cat spirits aside.
Screams from the SWAT team echoed from the exam room.
“The tiger’s king in there.”
Out of nowhere, the magpie brought up tigers.
As Dong-su looked up to scold the magpie...
The exam room’s outer wall crumbled, revealing a black lion the size of an SUV.
Roar!
Dong-su staggered, losing his balance at the lion’s bellow.
The magpie landed on his head and pecked with its beak, shouting.
“Rookie, snap out of it and run!”
At the magpie’s yell, Dong-su came to and looked up—the magpie was already flying toward the roof of 7th ward.
“Hey! Wait up!”
Dong-su leaped after the magpie toward the 7th ward roof.
“Rookie, don’t stop—keep running! You get caught, you’re lion chow!”
As Dong-su reached the roof, the magpie urged him on like it had been waiting.
Dong-su followed the magpie across the roof, then launched himself toward the 6th ward roof.
Kraboosh.
The 7th ward first-floor outer wall collapsed with a boom, followed by agonized screams from inside.
Kraboosh.
Another roar, and the 7th ward first-floor wall shattered as the monster gorilla burst into the field between 7th and 6th wards.
The monster gorilla had plowed through the wall like a tank.
It didn’t stop, barreling into the 6th ward first-floor wall to chase Dong-su toward the 6th roof.
“That guy’s busting through building walls?”
Dong-su said to the magpie after landing on the 6th roof.
The magpie flapped overhead, relentlessly prodding Dong-su onward.
“Shut up and keep running!”
As Dong-su dashed toward the 5th roof at the magpie’s urging, a massive impact shook the 6th roof.
Kaboom.
The monster gorilla had smashed through the 6th outer wall into the building.
Heartrending screams reached Dong-su as he leaped to the 5th roof—sounds of the monster gorilla trampling sleeping inmates.
Leaping from roof to roof across the Southern Detention Center buildings, Dong-su and the magpie finally reached the 1st ward roof. They vaulted the fortress-like perimeter wall and landed in the vast parking lot.
In the distance, a line of headlights streamed toward the detention center entrance road.
Reinforcements for the SWAT team.
“Don’t stop—run to them! That’s how you survive! Run!”
The magpie called back to Dong-su without looking and flew toward the convoy.
As Dong-su rose to follow...
Kaboom.
With a thunderous crash, the monster gorilla burst through the detention center wall, ripping a massive hole.
“Ugh, damn! What a noisy bastard. Magpie! Let’s go!”
Dong-su shouted, chasing the magpie ahead.
* * *
“We just gonna leave that gorilla like that?”
Dong-su asked the magpie from atop a utility pole, watching the monster gorilla crumple an SWAT van like a cardboard box.
The magpie on Dong-su’s shoulder pecked his head with its beak in reprimand.
“What can you do about it? He’ll cause a little chaos and vanish. If he keeps rampaging, the wolves will come for him. So what’re you gonna do?”
Dong-su pondered the magpie’s question, then leaped from the pole.
“Gotta go see Agwi. You’re smart, so come with me.”
The magpie spread its wings wide in delight at Dong-su’s offer.
“Fine! This great one will help you out. I’m obviously smarter than you. Uh-heh-heh-heh.”
The magpie must have been bored out of its mind.
Even after Dong-su and the magpie vanished, the SWAT-police and monster gorilla battle raged on for quite a while. Inmates poured out through the crumbled walls of the detention center.