I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 115

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 115

I pointed without realizing it.

“Sir Zeros?”

Why is he still there?

Sir Zeros and Rudian’s brother. Both of them were still remaining in the banquet hall!

Sir Zeros, who had been muttering something, lifted his head.

“Lady Siena?”

His expression, which had been unusually crumpled, brightened instantly. As if he had seen a savior.

He roughly grabbed the neck of the man standing beside him and dragged him over to me.

Wait, that’s Rudian’s brother, is that okay?

“Urgh!”

But the man’s condition was strange. His face was bright red and he couldn’t even hold his body properly.

As I was observing, Sir Zeros quickly approached and sighed.

“This fool… No, the Viscount said he would quietly eat only dessert. But he secretly drank a glass of wine and got drunk.”

“I see…”

Sir Zeros irritably swept back a strand of red hair that had fallen over his forehead.

“But Miss. Have you perhaps seen Count Helkene?”

“The Count went to the carriage earlier.”

“What?”

“She’s probably already heading to the Count’s estate?”

“What? She left just me and this fool behind?”

“Uurgh!”

He’s been abandoned…

He had prepared so enthusiastically early in the morning, saying he was going to the banquet as Rudian’s partner.

To think it would end up like this.

“Sigh, thank you. I should get going now.”

I sent him a pitying look and patted his shoulder… I couldn’t.

Because suddenly an tremendous chill swept through.

‘Ugh, why is it so cold here?’

Goosebumps rose all over my body and I hurriedly rubbed my shoulders.

What on earth.

‘Just a moment ago I didn’t think it was cold at all.’

It was strange since the banquet hall used expensive high-temperature magic stones, so it couldn’t be cold.

It becoming suddenly cold was even stranger.

Harman smoothly wrapped his arm around my shoulders.

“Lady Siena, we should head back now too.”

“Ah, shall we.”

Meanwhile, Sir Zeros, who had frantically finished cleaning up, turned around again. He seemed to want to greet Harman as well.

“…”

Sir Zeros suddenly became dazed.

“Ugh!”

He let go of the neck he was holding, causing the man to crash to the floor with a loud thud.

But he didn’t even care about that.

“Sir Zeros, what’s wrong?”

Sir Zeros’s frozen gaze was directed toward Harman.

More precisely, somewhere behind Harman.

Harman realized it instantly.

The fact that when Siena fell and grabbed Lord Rose’s sleeve, the brainwashing on the Baron was broken.

For a brief moment, Harman’s gaze swept over the Baron’s wrist.

The faint traces of brainwashing that had remained disappeared without a trace.

His blue eyes that quickly scanned this now checked above the banquet hall.

【What happened? Why did Lord Rose’s daughter suddenly act on her own like that!】

【How would I know? She was always holed up in her room, how could I have known she’d do this today?】

The spirits that never even followed to the office had unusually followed all the way to the Imperial banquet.

They had positioned themselves on the second floor as if observing the entire banquet hall.

Now they had all lost their reason. Internal strife had broken out.

Of course, the spirits didn’t seem to imagine that their conversation could be heard by Harman.

‘They still think my abilities aren’t even at that level.’

If everyone thought that way, it was rather a good thing. Harman turned his gaze away, pretending not to see anything.

Right after he intuited that his abilities were nearly complete.

Even without being conscious of it, he could hear the voices of all the ghosts.

So, all the ghosts.

The same went for the voices of the spirits from the manor.

【It would be good to follow Harman to the Imperial banquet.】

【Since brainwashing Lord Rose’s butler failed, this time we’ll brainwash Lord Rose himself.】

【So, how are we going to do it?】

【We’ll expose that woman as a fraud. How can someone who can’t even see ghosts be an exorcist?】

He had eavesdropped on all their conversations held secretly in the greenhouse garden.

Thanks to that, he also learned that Lady Rose could see ghosts.

Harman deceived the spirits by saying he was going to work on a medium, then secretly met Lady Rose.

She, who learned everything, had interfered with her father at today’s banquet hall.

【…Lord Rose’s brainwashing has been broken. It’s that woman’s doing again.】

Calidis, who never dreamed it could be Harman’s doing, muttered in a sinister voice.

Then the gazes of the wailing spirits gathered in one place.

【I want to kill her.】

【Kill that woman.】

【Kill, kill, kill.】

Harman pretended not to know and wrapped his arm around Siena’s shoulders.

“Lady Siena, we should head back now too.”

“Ah, shall we.”

Soon, the spirits gently descended near Harman.

It was right after that when Sir Zeros came to see the spirits.

“Sir Zeros?”

This person, why is he really acting like this?

No matter how many times I called, he didn’t answer or even look this way, frozen like a statue. Even his pupils were completely dilated.

Sir Zeros only slowly rubbed his dry face after a long while had passed.

“…No, it’s nothing.”

Anyone would think he was briefly possessed by something.

He belatedly looked around quickly.

“Urgh!”

He roughly grabbed the arm of Rudian’s brother, who was lying on the floor dry heaving, and pulled him up like picking up an object.

‘He must have had too much trouble because of that man.’

Even in the chaos, Sir Zeros covered the man’s mouth with a handkerchief and firmly gripped his neck.

Harman and I left the banquet hall together with him after he finished his preparations thoroughly.

Fortunately, there was one empty carriage from Count Helkene’s house remaining at the entrance.

‘At least Rudian didn’t forget about Sir Zeros.’

I don’t know about her brother, but no matter how I looked at it, it seemed left behind for Sir Zeros’s sake.

Nearby, the Monteville Ducal House’s carriage was also waiting.

Since Harman went to talk with the coachman, Sir Zeros and I were left alone for a moment.

“Lady Siena, then please get home safely.”

“Sir Zeros, you’ve really been through a lot.”

Having nothing left to offer him but a pitying gaze until the very end, I unconsciously turned my body away.

The grand Imperial Palace.

The Imperial Court Ball I had anticipated in many ways.

To think it would end so anticlimactically after such a grand opening.

‘Did the Emperor hold this banquet just to have a power struggle with Harman?’

That’s how little the Emperor had actually accomplished at the banquet hall.

He didn’t appoint the Crown Prince as heir, nor did he stay long at the banquet hall.

He just called Harman and me aside to say strange things, then never appeared in the banquet hall again.

In the end, everything fell apart because Lord Rose caused a scene at the banquet hall.

‘Still, I did gain something from this.’

The fact that Harman and the Emperor were suspicious of each other for some unspoken reason.

Even though I didn’t know what that reason was, just learning this conclusion made it worthwhile enough.

That’s when it happened.

A low voice pierced into my ears.

“Lady Siena.”

My head turned involuntarily at Sir Zeros’ serious voice, which I was hearing for the first time.

A grave expression, yet his lips were trembling.

Why did I feel so unsettled?

“Ghosts really do exist.”

“…What?”

I couldn’t even ask what he was talking about.

From just that one sentence, all the things I had said to Sir Zeros came flooding back.

‘Sir Zeros, it’s better to believe ghosts don’t exist. The more you think they do, the more frightened you become…’

Things like that.

For someone who had tried so hard to believe ghosts didn’t exist after hearing such words from me to say ‘Ghosts really do exist.’

I felt cold sweat running down my back.

Sir Zeros seemed oblivious to the fact that I was frozen right now. No, he seemed too busy feeling betrayed to notice.

That is, he was feeling betrayed that I hadn’t told him the truth.

“I can see them. Is this the world you see, Miss? I had no idea there were so many blonde ghosts around Duke Monteville like that.”

“…”

“But why did you lie and say they don’t exist?”

A tone that concluded I already knew.

Even a puzzled expression as if he couldn’t suspect me in the slightest.

But I couldn’t say anything and just brushed my shoulders.

I really…

Don’t know anything.

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