I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 114

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 114

Crumpled paper.

The ink was so smudged it was hard to read at first glance, clearly from being clutched in sweaty, nervous hands.

‘….’

I pressed my lips together tightly.

It seemed she wasn’t just confined at a basic level.

‘We’ve only met a few times and aren’t that close, but if she’s asking me for help, she must be truly desperate.’

Besides, even if it wasn’t intentional, she had taken my side in front of others.

While trembling like this, she had fought with her father.

Meanwhile, the person talking to Lord Rose had changed from Rudian to Harman.

“Lord Rose, this is an Imperial Court Ball. It would be best if you didn’t cause any more disturbances.”

More precisely, Harman seemed to be warning him while accompanied by guard knights.

Of course, Rudian had been pushed aside and was grumbling behind him.

When I grabbed Rudian’s arm and pulled her, she was dragged over to me without understanding why.

“Floren, we’ll help you.”

“What? We? Surely I’m not included in that ‘we’?”

Rudian pointed at her own face with her index finger and let out a hollow laugh, but I didn’t even pay attention.

“For now, today you should quietly follow Count Helkene and get in her carriage. I came in Duke Monteville’s carriage, so I can’t go with you.”

“Now you’re just ordering me around, Siena.”

She was definitely glaring at me.

I stubbornly looked away.

“The Count will take good care of you for a while. She may not look it, but she’s very caring. I’ll write the necessary documents in a letter and send them, so getting them from your family house shouldn’t be difficult.”

“….”

Rudian, who had been grumbling, finally closed her mouth. She seemed to have figured out what we had been discussing.

“I’ll come visit you soon, Floren. Don’t be too scared.”

“…Thank you, Lady Siena. Thank you, Count. Thank you so much.”

Floren, who had been hanging her head, finally looked relieved. Tears had already been dripping onto the floor.

Rudian glanced at the floor, crossed her arms, and snorted for no reason.

“Well, I was watching to see how much of a scene Lord Rose would make. Thanks to the Young Lady stepping in, things ended quickly. There’s nothing more to see at this banquet anyway.”

Taking advantage of the confusion, Rudian blended into the crowd with Floren.

I secretly waved my hand toward the two of them.

‘That’s taken care of.’

When I turned my head, Harman was still warning the Baron.

I grabbed Harman’s collar.

“Duke, let’s go home now too.”

…No, I tried to.

If only my foot hadn’t slipped.

‘Ah, seriously!’

How long has it been since this happened?

I had been relieved since I hadn’t fallen in a while! Why on earth is there wine spilled on the floor?

‘Ah, Floren’s hair looked damp earlier, so maybe…. Did Lord Rose pour wine on her?’

In the brief moment of flailing my arms, several déjà vu moments of slipping flashed through my mind.

Most of them had happened at the Monteville Ducal Estate.

“Lady!”

Fortunately, Harman grabbed my waist so I didn’t fall.

Just as I opened my eyes wide in surprise at Harman’s face, which had suddenly come close as he caught me, something foreign was caught in my hand.

It was the Baron’s sleeve.

“I’m sorry, Baron!”

How did I end up grabbing the Baron’s sleeve of all things?

The Baron’s body was tilted awkwardly, as if he had been dragged along when I was falling.

But suddenly, the Baron’s eyes rolled back completely.

He collapsed unconscious.

…What?

It happened before I could even react.

‘Don’t tell me he fainted from shock because I grabbed his sleeve?’

I hurriedly hid my hands behind my back. Even though there was no way someone would faint for such a trivial reason.

‘What should I do? Ah, right. I should call the Imperial Guard-‘

At that moment, my hand was enveloped in warm warmth.

A familiar touch. Harman had covered my hand with his.

“Duke?”

“It’s alright.”

He gently patted my hand as if to reassure me.

“It’s not the Lady’s fault.”

His voice was so soothing it could melt everything.

Even if I had been truly trembling with anxiety, his words would have been enough to shake it all off.

‘But I can tell very well that you’re thinking of me.’

Of course you would. There’s no way someone would collapse just from having their sleeve grabbed once.

‘I know that too….’

I wondered if there was really a need to comfort me about something like this. No, it actually made me feel more burdened.

“Kyaaah!”

Moreover, screams started coming from here and there.

It was natural since someone had suddenly collapsed at a banquet where only pleasant things should happen.

Of course, the moment Lord Rose caused a disturbance, it had already stopped being a pleasant banquet.

“Excuse us!”

Imperial Guards who had rushed from somewhere appeared, breaking through the noisy nobles.

Three or four of them immediately surrounded Lord Rose. They skillfully checked the Baron’s complexion and pulse.

Reassuring as it was, I felt inexplicably spiteful. It seemed like they had rushed over before anyone even called them.

‘They didn’t even care when the Baron and Young Lady were fighting earlier.’

How nice it would have been if they had come to mediate then?

‘Well, fights between nobles probably aren’t a once or twice occurrence, so it would be more difficult to mediate every time.’

Troublemakers weren’t troublemakers for no reason.

Since there’s no guarantee that a noble who caused one fight won’t cause another, it might be better to let it slide.

I glanced between the backs of the Imperial Guards who had blocked my view. The Baron’s pale face came into sight.

‘Wasn’t he all red and flushed when he was shouting earlier?’

Now he was ridiculously pale.

With his eyes closed too, you could say he looked like a completely different person.

Was that why?

‘He got too excited and then suddenly crashed and fainted.’

Whatever the case, he definitely didn’t faint because of me. Actually, I wasn’t curious about the reason anyway.

‘He’s such a piece of trash who not only abused and confined his daughter but tried to lay hands on her in front of others.’

I was so disgusted I quickly turned my head away.

Suddenly, I remembered what Harman had brought up out of nowhere in the carriage on the way here.

‘Come to think of it, didn’t he say they were going to confiscate Lord Rose’s title and property?’

At least that was satisfying.

I wondered how Lord Rose’s corruption had caught Harman’s attention.

‘Then what will happen to Floren?’

I had abandoned the Alderton name, and the Alderton Baron House fell much later, so I had nothing to do with them.

But Floren was in a situation where her ties to the family hadn’t been officially severed.

That’s why she had asked me for help.

‘Don’t tell me…. She won’t end up going to prison with Lord Rose, will she?’

For now, I had secretly sent her away in Rudian’s carriage, so there was no chance of the Baron catching her.

The problem was what came after.

Would the procedure to remove Floren’s name from the noble certificate come first?

Or would the downfall of House Rose and imprisonment come first?

These were problems that couldn’t be solved by thinking alone.

In the meantime, the status check seemed to be finished as the imperial guards surrounded the Baron and left the banquet hall.

The biggest situation had been resolved, but the banquet hall was still chaotic.

The Emperor looked like he had no intention of returning, and the orchestra kept making mistakes while trying to read the atmosphere.

One by one, nobles began to slip out of the banquet hall.

Grumbling voices could be heard from here and there, complaining that Baron Rose had ruined the entire banquet.

“At least they’re not badmouthing me like when I first arrived, so I guess that’s fortunate.”

“Lady Siena, please don’t take it to heart too much. You deserve to hear only good words.”

As soon as I finished speaking, Harman comforted me.

I spoke quietly, but he must have heard it again.

I deliberately exaggerated and waved my hand dramatically.

“It’s fine. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. I expected someone to shout at me saying ‘You don’t belong here!'”

“Pardon?”

“It’s nothing.”

I had read too many novels.

Such things wouldn’t happen so easily.

I hastily brought up another topic.

“I didn’t expect Baron Rose to be badmouthing me of all things. That was unexpected.”

“Calling you a fraud is absolutely ridiculous.”

I subtly avoided Harman’s eyes. Technically speaking, I might actually be a fraud…

Since I don’t actually perform real exorcisms.

While I was at it, I watched the nobles leaving the banquet hall, and the increasingly empty venue came into view.

‘Huh?’

My gaze naturally landed on one spot.

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