CH 11.1

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The old lady, who spoke for the first time in a while, turned her head, pretending not to know.

She saw it. 

Look at you, pretending you don’t know. How shameless.

“You didn’t say anything even after seeing how they are frantic about eating and killing people alive?”

[Why should I pay attention to such insignificant things?]

“So it’s like that for you!”

Obviously, those spirits did not exist when they were in the Perus estate.

Was it because of the black lion I saw with the Grand Duke?

But in that case, when the Grand Duke left, the spirits should have run away with their tails sticking out.

I should be good enough to clean up the entire territory without a single command.

“Why can’t I exert my power here?”

[It won’t work. I’m not doing it.]

“What?”

[I’m so annoyed by that thing that’s chasing after your husband.]

If she’s talking about the thing that has been chasing him, she must be talking about the lion.

The lion, whose eyes are dyed all black and glows purple.

“What about the lion?”

[Why are the things in this neighborhood so ferocious? It rushed to bite me so I hit him on the head, then he looked at me one more time as if to kill me, so I’m tired.]

“Old lady, did you meet that lion? How?”

[Why can’t I meet with another god?]

As expected. The Grand Duke was definitely right about something.

The lion I saw was the god of Noctis.

The Grand Duke didn’t seem to see ghosts like me.

I didn’t find the old lady, but he is definitely the same as me.

“Did you find anything else? Something that I can take as a weakness, something like that.”

[I don’t have it, you punk.]

“Ha… Never mind. We can find out about this later.”

The immediate problem is something else.

This mansion was bought from the Marquis of Heli

The hall is so beautiful that you can see at a glance that the marquis and his wife took care of it with a spacious garden with a splendid exterior.

But this is how it feels when you see hell.

As soon as I saw the spirits trying to grab people with their mushy arms with their black gills wide open,

I almost vomited with nausea.

Even when receiving greetings from servants, when climbing the stairs and talking to the Grand Duke casually.

I saw the spirits in the dark everywhere.

‘Get lost.’

I tried to act as normal as possible, but the spirits who stayed in the mansion for a long time did not easily back down.

It was fortunate among my misfortunes that they recognized my energy and did not recklessly attack the living.

“I have a lot of work to do, but I’m in trouble.”

[Don’t turn your eyes to personal things. Annoyingly.]

“What if people die here?”

[That’s all I’m saying.]

The way she talks with her hands behind her back is disgusting.

She’s probably saying it’s not her business.

Denver, who stepped down from his position for the sake of the crown prince, naturally stepped down from society.

The Grand Duke, who had spent so long in the north, finally returned to the capital, but now there’s a risk of people dying in the mansion?

“It’s just that it’s dangerous to me, too.”

I’m sure there are many aristocrats who don’t like me because I’m from Bevenia. There was nothing good about me joining the Grand Duke.

A small amount of rain was enough.

‘Do I have to deal with the spirits?’

I don’t think the old lady will come forward and do it.

In the end, I have to use the power that flowed into me to exorcize.

[What? Do you know how to do it?]

The old lady, who managed to find out what I was thinking, snorted and laughed at me.

“I  have to do it even if I don’t know. If I don’t want to be bothered later.”

When the Grand Duke falls asleep, I should start then.

It was the moment when I thought that.

“Kyaaaakkk!”

A scream came from the hall like a lie.

“What’s the matter?”

I thought it was definitely the work of the spirits, so I went down the stairs in a hurry.

I had a bad hunch, but eventually something happened.

“Madam… nothing less…….”

When I came down to the hall where I heard the sound, a young maid collapsed.

“Say it properly.”

When I ordered in an unfamiliar tone, a maid standing nearby stepped forward and opened her mouth. She was in a cold sweat as if she was surprised.

“S, she suddenly ran out of the room, saying she could hear a cry from the mansion.”

“Do you share a room with this child?”

“Yes……… she hasn’t been in good shape all day. She kept looking anxious and biting her nails, so I asked what was going on, but her only answer was that it’s nothing…….”

“Does she do that often?”

“Oh, no. She has such a weak personality, but I’ve never seen her more anxious than she is today.”

Sigh, so she’s normally a weak person.

It was natural for such a person to go through this kind of thing after spending a day in such a shady place.

When I bent my knees to check the maid’s condition, the maids stopped me, saying it was dangerous.

“I don’t know what kind of disease it is, ma’am, so I’ll do it.”

“Never mind. I know better than you guys. I’ll do it, and you all go back to your rooms.”

“Uh……”

The maid, who fell down with white foam in her mouth, is quite a scary sight.

Usually, the maids would insist on coming forward saying they would do it, but no one came forward when I asked them to go back.

“No one comes out of the room until dawn. It’s an order.”

“…Yes, ma’am.”

With this, I can be free from the eyes of the servants.

The maid, who collapsed, was unable to come to her senses.

“Hey.”

I tapped the maid with my foot.

“Hey, wake up.”

I’ve touched her a few more times, but she pretends to be dead without moving. This is a funny guy.

“I’ll count to three. Stand up. One, two, three.”

[What…]

When I threatened with glaring eyes, one of the spirits finally popped out of the maid’s body.

The spirit, who appeared suddenly, stood in front of me in a polite manner for some reason.

It has no exact shape, and only has white round eyes and mouth like a black smoke.

“Why did you go in?”

[…….]

“Why did you go in?”

[Sorry…]

“I know you’re sorry, but why did you go in?”

When I pushed the spirit almost as if I was shouting, he quickly made a tearful sound.

[T, t, this woman looks weak…….]

“What are you going to do when you go in?”

[…….]

“Hurry up, hurry up and answer me.”

[I want to be a human]

Like most ghosts, the spirit gave the same answer.

I want to be a person again.

Because I want to settle my grudge.

I want to get revenge on the person who made me like this.

As I was holding on to one spirit, other spirits staying throughout the mansion were staring at us with their heads sticking out.

“This time, I’ll let it go. No mercy next time.”

[…….]

“Why don’t you answer me?”

[…Yes, yes!]

If I had done exorcism like a shaman, I would have sent all these spirits back to heaven.

I didn’t know how to do it, and the old lady didn’t seem to be interested in that either.

He looked like he was going to kill someone.

When I face them, I don’t think they’re very strong.

I turned away from the spirit thinking that this would be enough.

“Master.”

Hardin, who left the door and entered through a large arched window, called me up.

“You’re back alive.”

There was no blood on Hardin’s return.

On his face, near his heart, on his hand.

“Thanks to my master…….”

He seemed to me like a man with a lot to say.

Maybe he found out that everything his arrogant target said was true, holding his brother hostage and controlling him.

“Just… the empress was really trying to kill me.”

“As long as you didn’t die. That’s enough.”

“How did you know that?”

“You don’t have to know. Go rest now.”