I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 138

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 138

The eyes looking at this reflected nothing.

“This is all I can tell you.”

Harman apparently possesses an ability that wasn’t even mentioned in the original work.

So, I’m not certain, but.

From the circumstances, that might be an ability related to ghosts.

‘Then those items being in the haunted mansion…’

No, it’s just my speculation.

I shook my head. Besides, there was one more reason this fact didn’t make sense.

“Then why on earth did Bokdeungi-“

“What do you mean by that?”

Without realizing it, I must have muttered out loud, as Harman quickly caught my words.

Right, since it’s come to this, let me ask.

“The day before yesterday, you said Bokdeungi was sick. He clearly couldn’t breathe properly and his body was cold, but no matter which hospital we went to, they said there was nothing wrong with his body.”

“…”

“Then suddenly his body returned to normal. But while I was at the Imperial Palace, I heard his body was cold as ice again.”

I hesitated for a moment.

“It seemed… similar to your condition, Duke.”

I still don’t understand it well.

Let’s say that as Harman’s ability was completed, he experienced pain different from ordinary physical pain.

But why did Bokdeungi experience similar symptoms? It was even more uncanny because it was on the same day Harman was sick.

“Bokdeungi, went through that?”

“Yes. Do you happen to know something about it?”

“I’m not sure.”

Harman wore a serious expression.

There was no way to know whether he was trying to brush it off or really didn’t know.

I looked down at our clasped, interlocked hands.

As the strength gradually left them, Harman urgently held on tight.

“Lady. This must be shocking right now, but I’m sorry I can only tell you this much. Tomorrow when everything is over, I’ll tell you everything.”

Tomorrow was the last day of the week Harman had mentioned.

But everything? What exactly is he planning to finish?

“Could you wait just one more day?”

His tearful voice echoed in my ears.

He continued to hold my hands. As if they were his only lifeline.

But how many times have things been brushed off like this?

Today, absolutely not…

“Please, Siena.”

Something filled Harman’s eyes. His already emerald-like pupils sparkled.

So, today absolutely shouldn’t…

“Alright.”

My mouth was honest.

In the end, I let it slide like that.

No matter how I look at it, he knows I like his face, doesn’t he?

But the real problem is me, falling for it completely when he uses his charm.

I spoke in a somewhat serious tone.

“However, this is really the last time I’ll let things slide like this.”

“I understand. Lady, you’ve always trusted me.”

“…”

“Tomorrow I’ll really tell you.”

Since I got a definite answer, he’ll really tell me tomorrow.

Maybe it would be better to hear it tomorrow anyway.

Since the ‘one-week romance experience’ will end and real romance will start from tomorrow.

“But nothing big is going to happen tomorrow, right?”

“Yes, Lady, you don’t need to worry. Nothing will happen.”

The way he seemed to be making a vow made it impossible for me to simply answer that I understood.

“Then, when shall we meet tomorrow?”

“If it’s alright with you, Lady, I’d like to have dinner together.”

Suddenly, the words I was debating whether to say yesterday came to mind.

‘The Emperor probably thinks I’m currently threatening Harman while under mind control.’

Since he even cast magic on me, he must have assigned surveillance. There’s no way he wouldn’t know we met just now.

Anyway, I don’t know when Harman will go meet the Emperor…

It would be better to say it now.

“Yesterday His Majesty said this. That like father, like son, he didn’t expect the same mistake to be made.”

I deliberately didn’t include the subject.

Even so, he would understand what I meant.

“…That can’t be.”

His blue eyes began to shake wildly.

“My father loved Mother-“

A moment of silence fell.

“No.”

“…”

“It’s nothing.”

He clearly said it while looking at me.

But was it just my imagination that he seemed to be looking at some other scene beyond me?

I was about to board the carriage for the return trip.

“Lady, this is a gift.”

Suddenly something was thrust before my eyes.

What Harman handed me was an elongated box that looked like a case containing something.

Above the clean gold box without patterns was a blue ribbon wrapped around it.

‘Blue?’

I know how much Harman dislikes blue.

Since blue is the symbol of the Monteville Ducal House, using blue for crests or envelopes is understandable.

‘But this is the first time I’ve seen him use blue for accessory items like ribbons.’

I fiddled with the ribbon.

Harman, perhaps thinking I might untie the ribbon right away, gently covered the back of my hand.

“Tomorrow, shall we open it together during dinner?”

“Ah, shall we do that?”

It was clearly a polite request, but it sounded like he really wanted me to do exactly that.

‘Then why did he give it to me early?’

Making me want to open it right now.

But when the person who gave the gift says not to open it, you shouldn’t open it. That’s the rule.

Wasn’t Pandora’s box the same way?

I forcibly looked away from the box and got into the carriage.

“Duke, see you tomorrow then!”

“I’ll see you tomorrow, Lady.”

Tomorrow.

Hearing those words, my heart began to beat rapidly.

‘I’m finally going to hear everything.’

I’ll probably hear the confession I’ve been waiting for since the festival tomorrow too.

Even after the carriage departed, I pressed down on my heart that showed no signs of calming down.

It was only too late that he realized it was because of an inexplicable sense of unease.

The last day of the week Harman had promised Siena, and the day he had decided to end everything.

Even that morning, the Emperor was buried in the underground research lab, frantically examining the magic circle.

As he was reading through the complex formulas of the magic circle, he suddenly frowned.

“Yesterday, she definitely went to the Monteville Ducal Estate.”

He had put surveillance on Exorcist Siena, that fraud, from the moment she left the Imperial Palace.

He had already heard the news that she went to the Monteville Ducal Estate yesterday.

She probably threatened Duke Harman Monteville there.

“But why is there no contact at all?”

Harman Monteville likes Siena.

No, he loves her. From what he saw at the banquet hall, that was certainly the case.

He had brainwashed and threatened such a woman with magic, yet far from coming to find him, he hadn’t even sent a single letter.

Even though a whole day had already passed.

Tap tap. His fingers drumming on the magic circle grew irritated.

“…How strange indeed.”

Wondering if perhaps the magic had gone wrong, he checked the formulas dozens, hundreds of times again.

However, the magic was perfect.

There was no way it could be wrong.

The Emperor put down the paper with the magic circle drawn on it and rubbed his eyelids.

Either way, Harman Monteville would come soon. To gain the upper hand over him, there was much to prepare.

That’s why he had been stuck in the underground research lab without proper sleep.

“…!”

The Emperor suddenly stiffened.

He had instinctively reacted to the chilling aura he felt behind him.

‘This is…’

It was an unpleasant aura he had felt before. But he couldn’t believe it.

It was too similar to the aura he used to feel from the Aldimos Kingdom Bloodline.

No matter how much Harman Monteville had received the blood of Aldimos Kingdom, he was only a half-blood.

Moreover, this was the underground research lab connected to his own room.

No one could set foot in this place protected by layers of magical barriers without his permission.

“Your Majesty.”

But the moment that cold voice pierced sharply into his back.

He could no longer deny it.

Harman Monteville.

That bastard had come to this place.

“…”

The Emperor clenched his fists to hide his trembling hands.

Aldimos Kingdom had already been destroyed 10 years ago.

There was no need to tremble like this before someone he had carefully raised for the Empire, yet who was merely a half-blood.

“Harman. I knew you would come. Though I didn’t expect you to find even my underground research lab.”

The Emperor turned around, pretending to be relaxed while drawing a light smile.

However, as soon as he faced what was behind him, his expression began to crumble beyond description.

The composure he seemed to have regained disappeared quickly.

“How, how…”

Since he was already pressed against the desk with nowhere to retreat, he kept stepping backward anyway.

Beside Harman, clinging to him in droves, were those he had massacred 10 years ago.

The Aldimos Kingdom Bloodline were glaring at him.

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