I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 113

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 113

“Duke, are you alright? Nothing happened, did it?”

“Nothing happened at all.”

A lie.

Harman lied to me.

I noticed immediately.

I saw his pupils shake slightly just before he answered.

‘I can see everything now, Duke.’

But since he seemed not to want to worry me, I pretended not to notice and let it slide.

Instead, I said what I had been speculating about all this time. Risking my life.

“Duke, this is just my opinion, but I think His Majesty suspects you.”

I trust you this much…!

“I know. I likewise suspect His Majesty.”

But I never expected such a response.

He even went so far as to ask me to tell him first if the Emperor ever summoned me to the Imperial Palace.

‘Is this a dream?’

Am I dreaming right now?

Ah, yes. It must be a dream.

My steps are so light I could fly through the sky, so it must be because it’s a dream.

But the warmth of Harman’s hand in mine makes it seem like reality…

However, the fantastic feeling of walking through a dream rapidly plummeted as we approached the banquet hall.

Even though we still had some distance to go, we could hear the murmuring sounds from the banquet hall.

It seemed much more chaotic than before we went to see the Emperor.

Even from quite far away, the situation looked serious.

As if a big fight had broken out, nobles were gathered in droves in a corner of the banquet hall.

I craned my neck forward.

Looking through the gaps here and there, I could see two people standing face to face at the center…

Huh?

‘It’s Lord Rose and the Baron’s Daughter!’

Don’t tell me they’re having a father-daughter fight?

Do you know this is an Imperial Court Ball?

To mistake it for dancing would be wrong, as both their voices were extremely raised.

The orchestra was carefully playing while watching the nobles’ reactions.

Then, Lord Rose pointed at his daughter with a face turned bright red.

“Why do you keep lying! The exorcist is a fraud who can’t even see ghosts!”

…What? Suddenly me?

I quietly lowered my heels.

‘Don’t tell me they’re fighting because of me right now?’

Harman, who was escorting me, also stopped and observed my expression.

‘I came to watch a fight, but I didn’t expect my story to come up here.’

I had expected them to talk about me once I entered the banquet hall, but to still be discussing this.

They even used the word fraud.

‘It’s true that I can’t see ghosts.’

Ghosts don’t even exist in the first place.

I just called it exorcism because they thought I had exorcised when I merely repaired the old parts of the estate.

‘But since I’m not really exorcising ghosts, strictly speaking, am I a fraud…?’

Honestly, since I’m not a ‘real’ exorcist, I wasn’t particularly hurt hearing it as the person in question.

Actually, I’m not shameless enough to be hurt by the truth.

It seemed the father and daughter of House Rose were having an argument about this.

The Baron’s Daughter wasn’t intimidated at all by her father’s pointing. Rather, she glared at him.

“Don’t lie, Father. I clearly saw Siena exorcise on the day of the request. It was the butler who didn’t burn the items Siena told him to burn.”

What?

Don’t tell me she’s talking about the rotten fruit?

I hadn’t been particularly bothered by being called a fraud, but the moment rotten fruit was mentioned, I was instantly focused.

“In the end, it was Siena’s puppy that appeared and got rid of what the butler didn’t burn, wasn’t it?”

“Th-that’s what-“

“Where else would you find such clear evidence? The ghost that was in our estate that day completely disappeared!”

“How, how do you know that!”

“Because I can see ghosts.”

The hall stirred greatly.

At this shocking statement, Lord Rose’s pointing hand trembled. He staggered backward.

The Baron’s Daughter stepped forward to close the distance as he moved away.

“In the first place, wasn’t it you, Father, who told me not to come out of my room because you felt uncomfortable that I could see ghosts?”

“When did I ever…”

“And yet you dress me up so splendidly only when others can see, like this.”

“…”

Ah, I remembered.

That the Rose Baron’s Daughter’s name was Floren.

Floren always held that pink fan whenever I met her outside, and always wore a gorgeous pink dress.

She was a Young Lady impossible not to remember.

‘Something was strange when I visited the Rose Estate.’

The Floren I saw through the window was wearing gray clothes with no color at all.

Her face was also completely drained of color, looking ashen, so different from how she looked outside that I wondered if I had seen wrong.

‘Was it because of Lord Rose?’

Looking closely, Floren’s hands gripping her dress hem were trembling as severely as the Baron’s.

‘She was in a similar situation to mine.’

How much must she have suffered to do this in front of everyone while trembling…

Wait, hold on.

Earlier, for sure.

‘Didn’t she say she could see ghosts?’

That’s when it happened.

“You have no respect for your father. Stop talking nonsense!”

Lord Rose raised his hand while shouting.

Clearly, it wasn’t a slow movement, yet that scene seemed to appear very slowly to me.

At the same time, I saw the face of Baron Alderton, who had tried to strike me, overlapping.

Perhaps that’s why.

I rushed out.

“Siena!”

I heard Harman trying to stop me, but I absolutely couldn’t stop.

I hurriedly ran and stood in front of the Baron.

I spread both arms and squeezed my eyes shut.

“…”

But no matter how long I waited, my cheek didn’t sting. There was no slapping sound either.

But does that make sense?

‘No sound at all in such a large banquet hall?’

I opened my eyes wide and was startled. Someone had grabbed my shoulder at just that moment.

“Lady, are you alright?”

“…Yes?”

No wonder it seemed like my closed eyelids were shadowed in black.

Harman’s face, full of concern, was close to mine.

‘When on earth did he follow us here?’

That wasn’t all.

“C-Count.”

“Lord Rose, have you forgotten that we’re currently in the middle of an Imperial Court Ball?”

Rudian was glaring at Lord Rose while gripping his wrist.

The Baron stammered as he looked at those who had suddenly blocked his path. Yet he couldn’t hold back what he wanted to say.

“B-But! How can I just stand by when my daughter is insulting her father in front of so many people like this!”

“You’re the one who said something strange first, Baron. I’ve been listening and listening, and honestly!”

When Rudian’s voice rose, I suddenly felt like an alarm was going off. Rudian was someone with an extremely low ignition point for anger.

And she wasn’t the type to hold back her rage well.

‘She said before that she got in trouble for fighting at a banquet hall!’

Worry suddenly surged up in me.

Just as Rudian was about to explode.

“What I saw was only…!”

“Count. Please speak calmly. That’s how you win.”

At Harman’s quiet murmur from behind, Rudian seemed to come to her senses and her shoulders flinched.

After a moment of silence, Rudian spoke calmly.

“Lord Rose. I personally witnessed Lady Siena performing exorcism. Both at my estate and at my parents’ estate.”

“…”

The Baron gulped.

Of course, so did I.

Was that supposed to calm Rudian’s anger?

“Denying the facts I’ve personally declared could be seen as insulting Count Helkene’s House.”

“Ah, that’s not what I meant, Count, it’s not that.”

“Don’t tell me House of Rose doesn’t know the etiquette between nobles? If that’s not the case—”

But listening to it, it wasn’t really that different from usual…?

‘She’s just speaking in a calmer tone.’

I looked at her with bewildered eyes along with Harman.

Harman, thinking this wasn’t going to work at all, gestured to the guard knight who was standing by.

But suddenly, a small crumpled piece of paper was placed in my hand.

‘What’s this?’

I looked around in surprise.

The person whose gaze met mine was, surprisingly, the Baron’s daughter, Floren.

She was trembling as she looked at me.

It was completely different from the person who had just been shouting back at the Baron.

I unfolded the paper with curious fingers.

I slowly looked down at the paper and ended up sighing.

[Lady Siena. How can I leave my family house?]

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