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Episode 60. Pyeondol-i looking at the practical skills (5)
The guide and the director escorted us outside the columbarium.
“goodbye….”
“I hope…what you do…goes well…”
It was a heartwarming send-off, but I couldn’t bring myself to smile and respond. I walked slowly out to the street in front of the store and looked at the tablet PC screen again.
Catch the bank ATM robber. Hmm… .
“Sister, does this make sense?”
“What do you think?”
In my opinion, this just doesn’t make sense.
There is no other detailed content. Catch the bank ATM robber, that’s all. Of course, if there was a robbery at the bank, you wouldn’t have time to leisurely write down the request and send it. If you want to understand, I can help.
But… why didn’t you call 112 and have me do this?
I know that the law enforcement in this world is strangely strange, but at least if you report a bank robbery to the police, they’ll probably come out. Even if I give them a hundred concessions and say the police don’t have the luxury of coming out…
No, if there was a robbery at the bank, I should have gone out even if I had to throw away the bowl of Jajangmyeon I was eating. Why should I give in to this? No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand this one-line request, and my older sister agreed with this point.
“Now that everyone is gone, if there had been a robbery in the bank, they would have robbed everything by now….”
“That’s what I said?”
Report a bank robbery, ask the person who created the academy’s practical exam to do it, and have the robber wait patiently while the applicant who received the request comes to see him? I thought it was a fantasy from home education, no. This world is a fantasy, but…
“Or maybe you want me to catch a robber who has already been caught….”
“I don’t think that’s something I should do either….”
“That’s true.”
In this situation, I had no choice but to come to this conclusion while heading to the bank. You’ll know when you get there.
But… even after coming here and looking, I still had no idea.
As I approached the alley where the bank was, I saw a large goblin loitering in front of the bank sign in the distance.
When I got closer, I saw that he was wearing a suit and was smoking a cigarette with an expression that said he had lived his whole life. It seemed like he was the gentleman that the goblin had commissioned.
“Excuse me. Are you a bank employee?”
First, I spoke. The goblin immediately raised his head and looked at me and my sister alternately, then threw the cigarette he was smoking into the drain and asked back.
“Are you from school?”
“… Yes.”
I felt this way when I was working part-time and receiving customers, but these nose-shy bastards are really short-spoken. Is it okay for a bank employee to be like this?
“I came to ask for a practical test. The request was written as ‘Catch a bank ATM robber.’ I would like to ask for more details—”
“You’ll know once you go in.”
That was the end of the explanation. I thought it was a pretty poor explanation, but the goblin, who had been staring blankly at my face, snickered and changed his mind.
“I’m not saying this because I’m lazy, but if you really go in and look, you’ll know right away.”
It was a confident tone. My sister and I shrugged and entered the bank, and as soon as we checked the inside, I could immediately understand what the goblin meant by that.
[ Insert cash or card . ]
Because the situation was somehow strange.
* * *
First of all, the floor was full of receipt paper.
The marble floor was completely obscured by the piled up papers. This alone was enough to make one feel uneasy, but there was a bigger problem.
[ Desired service, cash ]
The ATM located in front was in a very suspicious state. Even though no one had approached it, it was repeating a patched-up voice recording like a broken radio.
[ Or insert your bankbook or card. ]
[ hurry. ]
“No, this is….”
What is it?
I can’t understand it no matter how much I look at it. Meanwhile, my older sister, who was staring at the ATM in front of her, burst into laughter as if something came to mind.
“Ah, that’s what it sounded like.”
“What do you think, Sister? Looking at this?”
“That’s right. Banks, ATMs, robberies.”
I can tell that this is a bank and that’s an ATM just by looking at it. But there are no robbers, no robbers…
As I was thinking, something suddenly came to mind. The text on the tablet PC said, ‘Catch the bank ATM robber.’ It wasn’t asking me to catch the robber who was robbing the bank ATM―
“Is that ATM being robbed?”
“Doesn’t it seem that way given the circumstances?”
It was a sentence combination I had never heard of before. My sister seemed rather bewildered by what I was saying.
“Is this your first time seeing something like this?”
“uh.”
“Wow, you’re lucky. You must have seen it at least once while working at a company, even if you didn’t like it.”
What kind of black company do you have to work at to see something like that?
No, it’s not that I’ve never seen an ATM in this world. Strictly speaking, I see them all the time. There’s a blue one in the corner of our convenience store.
But I didn’t really care because our convenience store ATM is really good. It doesn’t make a fuss by throwing a trash can at you to get you to put in your cash or card, and it doesn’t speak rudely to you either.
But I don’t know what the hell is wrong with that ATM. Did someone pee in the bill slot?
[ Cash. ]
In the midst of all this, the ATM was outputting a voice recording, and at the same time, the floating trash can hit the floor once and rose up again. I couldn’t tell for sure, but it was clear that he was very angry.
“Why on earth are you doing that?”
“It’s a demon possession, you know. I’ve hardly ever seen one myself.”
“What do you hear?”
“Devil. So….”
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After I got out of the car, my older sister gave me a brief explanation, which was roughly along these lines.
All living things in this world possess magical power, and as they live, they live by releasing extremely small amounts of magical power. It’s like when a person breathes and exhales carbon dioxide.
They say that the dregs of magical power that flowed out gathered together to create that. A demon. They don’t just appear anywhere, but are mostly born through objects that are easily possessed by evil thoughts… .
“What, a cursed jar or something?”
“The jar won’t be made. You have to make it yourself.”
It’s not just that they’re old, but that they’re things that as many different races as possible can come into contact with and that make them curse after contact. That is, things like rocks sticking out from the road or staircase ceilings that are easy to hit your head on are likely to be possessed by demons.
“Generally not that dangerous. Just a bit more likely to trip and fall, or hit your head a bit more, or something like that?”
“He’s throwing trash cans?”
“If you react wrongly in the beginning or leave it for too long, that’s what happens. Anyway… I now understand why you were called here.”
I think I understand. I’m not asking you to smash that ATM, I’m asking you to get rid of the devil inside it.
Since you said that it’s like a piece of magic waste, catching it should be easy. You just have to touch the devil inside that ATM. The problem is how to do it.
[ The validity period has expired . ]
It seemed like the guy was half out of his mind now.
A receipt shredder weighing several dozen kilograms slams down on the floor, and a crumpled trash can circles overhead like an accelerating satellite.
Even the screen inside the LCD occasionally tried to flip up, but no matter how I looked at it, it only looked like its eyes were rolled back. How could I approach that guy with my bare body?
[ Deposit. Cash. Hurry. ]
“Do you know how to catch that devil?”
“First of all… As long as you don’t get too close, it won’t harm you. You can’t get far away from the possessed object. And, the method is… um…”
He put his hand on his chin and thought deeply, then expressed his opinion as if he was not confident.
“Have a conversation?”
“You want to talk to that guy with his eyes wide open?”
“That guy is talking to us right now. He’s telling us to deposit cash. At least we don’t know why he’s doing that. If we get closer, wouldn’t he cause more trouble? He’s doing that now, too?”
“Is that… how it is…?”
“I’m not that good at dealing with demons in the first place. I’m a demon and gate specialist, not a demon specialist hunter―”
“Okay, for now.”
There is no other way right now, and I like the idea of resolving it through dialogue. First, we need to find out if dialogue is possible…
“hey!!”
I spoke to the ATM. I don’t know what he’s doing.
“Do you understand what I’m saying?! If you can hear me, press the star button. If you can’t, press the well button—”
[ Cash. ]
After outputting two voice recognition letters, he slams the trash can on the floor.
“Is that trash can banging Morse code?”
“Hey, Lee Chan, you don’t look so good right now.”
It was really bad. I didn’t know what to say to the crazy ATM. I think I felt exactly like this on my first day working at the convenience store… .
[ Or insert your bankbook or card. Hurry up. ]
“… I don’t know why you’re asking for it, but is that okay?”
My sister took out her wallet as the ATM told her to. Then, the shredder and trash can that the ATM had been floating around became noticeably slower, and the cash slot began to rattle.
[ Please insert cash . ]
“I don’t have any cash.”
[ Put in cash – ]
“… Looking at him like that, it seems like he doesn’t understand what we’re saying.”
It’s rare to find ATMs with voice recognition or cameras. But if you see a response coming straight from your wallet, it means they’re watching you in some way.
I glanced up at the ceiling and saw that the security camera was half-unfastened and looking down at me. It seemed to be using that as its eye. Now my head is starting to turn a little.
[ Cash. Or bankbook. Or card. Hurry up. ]
“Lee Chan. Do you have a card?”
“I don’t have any. I returned my wallet and smartphone at the test site earlier.”
“I only brought my corporate card today, dude.”
Corporate cards don’t allow for deposits or withdrawals. However, this wasn’t a big deal at the time.
“Rather than whether we deposit or withdraw, if we just approach him with it, he won’t attack us, right? We have to deposit.”
“… That’s right. You won’t even know it’s a corporate card until you put it in.”
“I think you can just go up to the ATM and touch it, but why don’t you just take that with you?”
Up to this point, my sister had agreed without much objection. When my sister took out her corporate card from her wallet, the trash can and receipt shredder quietly sat down on the floor.
I felt like if I hesitated, they would find out I was up to something, so I walked with my back straight and confidently. After standing next to my sister, I quietly placed my hand on the ATM keypad.
[ Insert the card in the direction of the arrow . ]
“what?”
[ hurry. ]
“Lee Chan, what are you doing? Is it taking long?”
My sister whispered softly, but I was more embarrassed.
“No, that’s….”
It doesn’t work?