I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 119

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 119

Calidis, who had been staring into empty air, blinked his eyes. Focus quickly returned to his golden pupils.

Then the spirits gathered in a circle around him, watching him anxiously, began chattering competitively.

【Calidis, what happened? Did that woman fail again this time?】

【…No. We failed.】

Again?!

The spirits bit their lips and tore at their hair.

Their already pale faces had turned ghastly white with horror.

Calidis let out a sigh.

【That woman seems to be planning to bring a puppy around with her now.】

It was some viscount’s house whose name he didn’t even know.

They had attached a medium under the decoration stand with a unicorn statue placed on it.

The medium had gone undetected for over a month. Perhaps it was thanks to the medium being so small in size.

Finally, a few days ago.

A ghost of a level that could be placed under Calidis’s authority had awakened from the medium… but.

What stopped it this time was also that woman, Siena’s puppy.

As if it had sensed something, she had appeared at the exorcism site with the puppy.

The medium lost its function in an instant. Chewed up by the puppy so pathetically.

Siena hadn’t really done anything.

Everything was over in the blink of an eye.

If he had at least gotten a proper look at the puppy’s face, but suddenly appearing sharp teeth had bitten and torn the medium.

Blackout from there.

There was nothing more Calidis could see. It was maddening.

【Do something about that puppy, Calidis!】

【What am I supposed to do? I don’t even know what it looks like!】

【Surely… she won’t keep bringing the puppy around forever, right?】

The spirits’ quarreling reached Harman’s ears as he scribbled on documents in his office.

The corners of Harman’s mouth curved up pleasantly.

Then they dropped abruptly.

His blue eyes, which had been reading documents soullessly, glared at the closed door as if staring it down.

As if the butler would come in at any moment clutching a letter envelope decorated with all sorts of fancy patterns.

However, the door showed no signs of opening whatsoever.

This time he shifted his gaze to the innocent window.

It was clear, sunny weather without a single cloud. Not even a messenger bird, not even a single bird was flying around.

“…”

For several days, he had set aside everything else to find a knight to guard Siena.

Someone with strong enough loyalty to sacrifice their life to protect their master no matter what, rich in combat experience and seasoned…

A knight who was quite old and had an appearance that would never make Siena feel any romantic attraction.

As soon as he found one, he immediately sent him to Siena’s mansion this morning along with a letter.

[Lady Siena, I was very fortunate to obtain an excellent knight.

I will send him to your mansion today.]

The opening was about sending a knight, but the rest was a bit different.

[Just when it seemed the days were getting quite cold, lately it feels pleasantly cool again.

So how about we meet outside as I mentioned before.]

He had heavily implied the nuance of wanting a date soon.

The reason he didn’t specify an exact date was because he wanted to see her tomorrow immediately.

He knew that this week had no schedule at all except for today.

According to what he confirmed with his messenger bird, Siena had read the letter right away.

But the current time was 3 PM.

‘No reply has come.’

It had been well over 6 hours since he sent the letter.

Since there was an exorcism request today, he waited thinking that must be why.

Wondering if something might have happened, he sent his messenger bird again an hour ago to check.

Siena had arrived safely at the mansion and the guard knight he sent was with her too.

Neither seemed to show any romantic interest in each other whatsoever.

But still, no reply was coming.

‘Could she be avoiding me?’

A long sigh stretched out.

Who would have known.

“That Bokdeungi would really be a lucky charm!”

Bokdeungi’s ears perked up as he received Emily’s petting.

Bokdeungi, who had run over panting in one breath, raised his front paws and pounced on me. I gladly spread my arms to embrace him.

But I didn’t mean for you to lick my face…

‘Fine, I’ll let it slide today!’

Since I couldn’t see ghosts, I couldn’t confirm it directly with my eyes.

But it was certain that Bokdeungi eliminated something related to ghosts.

What Bokdeungi spat out while playing excitedly was surprisingly rotten fruit!

That rotten fruit we had found in the vault of House Rose.

‘It wasn’t exactly the same shape, but the shriveled appearance was too similar.’

He had chewed it so thoroughly that Bokdeungi’s saliva was dripping from the rotten fruit.

After staring at this for quite a while, I asked absentmindedly.

“Bokdeungi, where did this come from?”

Of course, I thought no answer would come. It was close to talking to myself.

But Bokdeungi went straight to the decoration stand with the unicorn statue and started spinning around there!

Anyone could see it meant he had picked it up from around there.

‘Then the rotten fruit really was related to ghosts?’

Bokdeungi really was an exorcising puppy!

“Bokdeungi, that’s enough now.”

“Whine…”

I pulled away the disappointed Bokdeungi and wiped my saliva-covered face.

Sorry, but I still have to do what needs to be done.

‘It was pure luck that everything had been resolved without incident until now.’

As I had thought, there were probably places where problems arose due to old mansions rather than ghosts.

‘But most of them were probably places that really suffered damage from ghosts.’

So, to avoid failing in the future, I need Bokdeungi.

I pulled over all the remaining request letters and checked them thoroughly.

‘Huh?’

I was a bit surprised.

Almost all the remaining requests were for shops.

Mainly shops in busy markets that commoners frequented.

‘Most of the noble estates have been resolved.’

I hadn’t deliberately arranged the requests that way.

There might be standards for misfortune, but I had resolved them in order of what seemed most urgent to handle immediately.

In doing so, it seemed I had pushed back shops that weren’t residences in priority.

‘This might make things go faster.’

I picked up letter paper and a quill pen. I wrote letters asking for understanding to all the clients.

Letters asking if it would be okay to bring along a ghost-seeing puppy to the requests.

[I have discovered that the puppy I raise can see ghosts.

Would it be alright if I bring the puppy along on the request?

He can only see ghosts? He’s a clever puppy who can even perform exorcisms…]

I sold my services a bit elaborately.

After loading Bella’s arms with a pile of letters, I gave her one more instruction.

“Oh, also tell the Information Guild that I’ll be accepting exorcism requests again.”

“Huh? Are you sure that’s okay?”

“Yeah. There are less than 10 requests left anyway. And I have an excellent assistant, don’t I?”

I petted Bokdeungi, who was sitting quietly beside me.

“Woof!”

I didn’t even call his name, but somehow he knew I was talking about him and barked energetically.

“Hmm, understood.”

Bella glanced at Bokdeungi and opened the door.

Since she got caught by me today and had to listen to Bokdeungi’s heroic tales for a whole hour, she probably had nothing left to say.

“Well then, I’ll be back!”

“Yeah, take care. Bella.”

I gave her a light wave and leisurely looked out the window.

Clouds drifted peacefully across the sky.

‘But the Emperor seemed like he was planning something, yet there’s been no news.’

It hasn’t even been a week since the Imperial Court Ball ended.

‘But Harman even asked me to tell him if the Emperor summoned me to the Imperial Palace, so there must be something…’

Harman?

The moment I thought of Harman, I felt like I was forgetting something.

Something I absolutely shouldn’t have forgotten until now…

As I turned my head with my eyes deeply furrowed, I met eyes with Count Reymon, who was standing right against the wall.

The clock hands above his head, positioned precariously close to touching him, were pointing to 4 o’clock.

“4 o’clock?!”

I jumped up and rushed to my room.

I had been so busy worrying about how to handle today’s request that I completely forgot about the reply letter.

For a whole 7 hours now!

I hurriedly picked up Harman’s letter from the desk and paused. There was another page attached behind it.

[Just when I thought the days were getting quite cold, lately it seems pleasantly cool again.

So how about we meet outside as I mentioned before.]

‘This is insane!’

I smacked my forehead hard enough to make a sound. My eyes rolled around anxiously.

Not only had he sent me a guard knight, but he was asking me on a date, and I had just ignored it for 7 hours straight.

There’s no rudeness like this rudeness.

‘He probably doesn’t even know if I went on an exorcism request today!’

When I attended the tea party before, he knew my schedule, but that was an exception.

There’s no way he’d know my current schedule.

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