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Episode 161. I came to look for a house (3)
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As soon as I heard it, I thought it was a bit strange. I was just looking around the house, but what on earth was he explaining in detail?
But since he said he would tell me the story, I decided to listen to the story even if I had to leave, so I followed the landlord into the building.
There were several elements that could make my inner doubter peek out from the entrance. First of all, the mailbox. Out of the eight mailboxes from 101 to 402, not a single one contained any mail.
Second, the number printed on the gas meter was 0.
A two-room building that is a six-minute walk from the Hakwon-ga subway station and charges a monthly rent of only 250,000 won without a deposit has no residents whatsoever. Does that make sense?
The third was the two-room apartment itself that the landlord showed me. As I was walking around inside, taking off my shoes, the landlord followed me around and asked me a question.
“How is it? Does it look okay?”
That’s how it looks to me. I can’t even guess why the rent here is set like this.
I did quite a bit of research last night to find a room. First of all, are the home appliances, including the washing machine and refrigerator, working properly?
I turned it on and it worked fine. Even the washing machine is a drum washing machine.
In addition, things like the lighting, the wallpaper, the condition of the bathroom, how many windows there are in the house, whether it is a cramped space that has been forcibly converted into a two-room apartment, etc…
If there was even one defect, I was going to nitpick the landlord, but by my standards, there was nothing to nitpick. Lighting? The windows and balcony face south.
The wallpaper was clean, even though it didn’t look like it had been freshly painted. They told me to be especially careful of the areas where it looked like they had been recently partially painted, because they had been hastily painted to hide the mold.
In addition, the water came out well even when I turned on the bathroom faucet, toilet, and shower several times at the same time, and I couldn’t check the soundproofing because there was no way to check it. There are no other races living on the floors above or below, so what about the noise between floors?
Finally, looking around the empty bedroom, I asked the landlord.
“Landlord, is there an urgent need to rent this out or something?”
Since the visible conditions are so good, we naturally ask about the invisible conditions. Why, the landlord has a lot of debt and can’t get the deposit back…
“There was no deposit in the first place, so how can you return it?”
“Then what is the basis for setting the price? The monthly rent is also too cheap….”
I know it’s not a good idea for a tenant to say something like that. It’s the perfect way to look down on someone. Like, “Oh, then I don’t have to show you the other better houses.”
But I couldn’t find the problem without asking. If there really wasn’t a problem, I half-decided I could just live here.
When I asked, the landlord asked me back with a look of bewilderment.
“The taxes were lowered because there were too many problems. What other reason would be needed?”
“So, what exactly is the problem…?”
“From now on, that’s up to you.”
“What should I do? I came here to look for a house.”
“I know that too.”
This is driving me crazy. Am I going off on a tangent or something?
The situation was incomprehensible in many ways. Just as I was going through the motions in my head, suddenly, something light fell to the floor with a clatter.
When I went outside to check, the cover covering the ceiling fluorescent light had fallen off and was lying on the floor. Why did it suddenly fall… .
– Smart.
This time there was a knock. I went to the front door and opened it, but no matter where I looked outside the door, I couldn’t hear any signs of life, not even the sound of footsteps going down the stairs.
– Smart.
In the meantime, there was another knock. I was standing right in front of the front door, looking at the front and back of the door at the same time, but I could still hear the knock on the door. The problem here is that there are many… .
“Do you see the problem now?”
The landlord, who had followed me to the front door, asked me behind my back. Judging from the expression on his face, it seemed like he already knew about the phenomenon of the cover falling and the Bluetooth knocking sound.
Now I understand a little bit. The landlord asked me before I came in. He asked if I was from the Hunter office. I answered appropriately.
“Yes, I can see it. Can I look around a little more by myself?”
“It doesn’t matter as long as you keep the door closed.”
“Then I’ll check it out and contact you later. Please give me your contact information.”
The landlord who gave me his contact information disappeared after saying, “The door lock is 1111,” and now all that’s left in the house are the fallen fluorescent light covers, and… .
There was something unidentifiable left inside the house. While watching the landlord go down the stairs, the sound of water gushing from inside the bathroom was heard.
– Swish… .
When I went into the bathroom, the shower head next to the bathtub was spraying water into the bathtub, even though the faucet was closed. I looked at the shower head and called my sister.
[ Hey, Lee Chan. Are things okay there? ]
“I just took a quick look, but this looks like a fake listing, sis.”
[ Really? What kind of point? ]
“The devil is possessed.”
There’s a knock on the open door, a fluorescent light cover suddenly falls off, and water starts running on its own. What else could this be but ghost possession?
Even now, water is still pouring into the bathtub, and the water is gradually accumulating in the bathtub that has not been plugged. I have no idea how to turn the water off. The faucet is also turned off… .
After that, I asked my older sister again.
“Sister, I have a question. The landlord said to me earlier that he was the one who contacted me from the Hunter Office. What did the landlord say to you about this place?”
[Huh? Didn’t I tell you that?]
“I didn’t do it?”
It was only after this conversation that my sister told me what the landlord had said. Originally, he had no intention of putting the house up for sale. He had planned to remodel the interior and then sell it for a higher price.
So he called in the laborers, but whenever these laborers tried to start work, problems always arose.
Even if I set up a ladder to remove the wallpaper from the ceiling, I fall over whenever I try to climb up, and when I try to use the electricity, the circuit breaker keeps tripping…
[ Since this kind of phenomenon kept happening, the foreman of the labor force withdrew, saying to catch the devil first and then call them back. After that, he called in several magicians and anti-magicians to try to catch the devil, but they said they couldn’t. ]
“Then why did you contact your sister’s office? Did you catch the devil at your sister’s office too?”
[ They do catch it if you tell them to, but they don’t just contact us to ask us to catch the devil. ]
My sister said that the cost of summoning magicians and anti-magicians for half a year must have been in the thousands. But they still haven’t caught this devil. It seems that the devil is good at hide-and-seek.
As a landlord, you can’t keep pouring water into a bottomless pit, so instead of giving up on remodeling, you as a tenant have come up with an outrageous idea.
[ To put it simply, it’s like this. In exchange for living cheaply, I’m looking for someone who can catch the devil inside me. ]
“You contacted the office about that? Since when?”
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[ We’re probably the second ones, right? The first office we called hung up, saying they run their own dorms. ]
My older sister also once hung up on me, saying, “No one wants to work overtime at our office,” but she says that after she hung up on me, she was secretly concerned about this matter.
By the way, a half-wizard who had no home and no plans was looking for a house, so he introduced me to him in case I was interested. This is the current situation.
After hearing this, I looked around the house again. The fluorescent light cover that had been off had changed position and was banging its corner against the veranda window. Hmm…
“Does this happen often, Sister?”
[ It’s common for houses to be haunted by demons. The desk is haunted by demons because of the resentment of people who hit their feet on the corner of the desk, or the ceiling is haunted by demons because of the noise between floors… ]
“Other than that, do houses that are worth living in, except for the ones that are demon-possessed, come up for sale often?”
[ What? Are you really going to stay there? ]
I’m going to try it. Except for the fact that it’s really possessed, I don’t think you’ll find a house like this anywhere. I’d like to try washing my clothes in a drum washing machine.
Everyone leaves and the monthly rent is only 250,000 won. Even if I pay one month’s rent and run away after a week, the daily accommodation fee is less than 40,000 won.
It’s not like I’m losing much, and if I can catch the devil with my constitution, it’s definitely a profitable business. The problem is how the landlord will react after I catch the devil, but that’s a separate issue… .
[ I guess the devil causes a lot of trouble there? ]
“I don’t know either. I’ve only been looking around for 30 minutes, what.”
But what we can infer now is that the demon possessed here doesn’t seem to have any intention of destroying this house. The wallpaper is clean at the moment.
The shower in the bathroom turns on by itself, knocking on the door, and tapping on the veranda with a fluorescent light cover. All of these things only have the effect of making the residents angry, but they don’t have a major impact on the condition of the house.
And, at this level, no matter what happens, I can cover it up with good thoughts about money. Just as I was thinking this, the front door that had been closed was unlocked and the door opened wide.
Then he started to fidget, and although I don’t know for sure, I felt like he was trying to save me if I left now. After thinking about it some more, I asked my older sister.
“It might not work out with just my constitution, so come over to my housewarming party later, Sister.”
[ Of course I’ll go since it’s the house I recommended, but wouldn’t it be more effective if you called your older sister instead? I’m not an expert on the devil. ]
“Oh. See you in the evening, sis. I’ll stay here a little longer and then go out.”
[Okay.]
The phone call ended like this, and the front door began to rattle again. If I said, “Okay, I’m going out now,” would the rattle stop?
“… I’ll be out in the evening, so stop whining.”
As soon as I said what came to mind, the creaking stopped and the front door closed. I can see it now. I don’t know what this devil is, but he has his own agenda.
I can just gradually figure out what else is there besides my own opinion. When I finally checked my phone, I saw that there was a reply to the message I had sent to the regulars at the cafe earlier.
Charlie, the Chihuahua guy, replied like this.
[f*ck]
[ Moving out of the blue ]
[No sir, what should I do if the store is not doing well?]
It’s my boss’s decision, so I can’t do anything about it, and I don’t plan on doing anything about it. I sent a text message, but the number 1 floating next to the message didn’t disappear even after dozens of seconds.
After looking at it for a while, I sent another line of text.
[ So I’m also thinking of moving to the academy district. Do you have any tips? ]
Immediately after sending, the two lines of numbers disappeared and a reply came right away.
[ Don’t live there, it’s a f*cking beggar ]
That’s a convincing tip. Well, the first house I bought was a house possessed by a devil…