I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 140

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 140

“Calidis. How do you know that?”

Calidis pulled something from his chest and casually tossed it aside.

The object that rolled to Harman’s feet was torn and tattered, in a pitiful state.

It was none other than a golden flower.

“…!”

【Poor Harman. Did you think I wouldn’t know you love that woman after being so obvious about it?】

As confusion crossed Harman’s face, Calidis couldn’t contain his laughter and covered his mouth.

However, he couldn’t completely hide the corners of his mouth that were pulled up to his cheeks.

【Honestly, you don’t want everything that’s happened to be discovered, right? You just want to bury it all inside you.】

“….”

【Could you handle being looked at with contemptuous eyes? Really, were you planning to tell that woman everything after today was over?】

Harman closed his eyes.

It was always like this.

Calidis dug into the raw emotions inside him that even he didn’t know about.

It was miserable. Because everything he coldly spouted was true.

In his heart, he wanted to completely bury everything that had happened and didn’t want Siena to find out.

If contemptuous looks came from her, he had no confidence he could handle it.

But he had promised.

He had promised to tell her everything after ending it all today.

【Hmm, what to do?】

Calidis’s voice was somehow getting closer.

Above his closed eyelids, bright light was rippling instead of darkness. Harman noticed something strange and snapped his eyes open.

“Calidis, you….”

Calidis grinned wickedly. The golden eyes he faced were gleaming.

Yes, they were gleaming, not the usual dim and murky color.

Moreover, he was gripping Harman’s wrist.

If he were a ghost, his hand should have passed through the wrist.

The moment he realized this, the flow of air subtly changed.

Harman, who had been staring intently at Calidis’s eyes, shifted his gaze behind him.

Eyes that held none of the goodwill from when he first saw them two years ago glared at him.

They were equally vivid golden eyes.

…Ah, I see.

“Let me ask first. Calidis, if I kill the Emperor, will you let me go?”

【No.】

Calidis smiled so wide his mouth seemed to split to his ears.

‘I cannot be happy.’

I must not become happy.

Harman finally realized this fact.

Perhaps he had already known but had been turning away from it.

While waiting for today to come since two years ago, he had paradoxically hoped today would never come.

His only remaining family—he had no such thing.

What was before his eyes was merely a ghost.

“I’ll kill the Emperor as you want. But there’s no need to destroy the Empire.”

【What?】

Calidis muttered displeasedly.

The other spirits who had been only listening also thrust their faces forward, eyes glinting.

【The Empire must perish along with the Emperor!】

【If they destroyed us, the Empire should perish the same way!】

What was reflected in the vivid golden eyes, as if alive, was the Empire’s destruction.

It seemed as if they had lost their sense of self, desiring only that.

Even in this situation, Harman thought of only one thing.

The person who would believe his words no matter what.

Someone beautiful with a brightly smiling face….

As the Emperor said, he had been caught up in love games, burying the most important fact.

‘There were so many places I wanted to go together in the future.’

Siena had said she would come again in a week.

Looking at her bright face, he couldn’t say he would never see her again.

It was his last remaining selfishness.

He knew the spirits wouldn’t follow his will.

He knew they had been brainwashing him by bringing up the fact that they were his only remaining family, and were still trying to do so now.

So to break free from all these shackles, the Emperor, himself, and all the spirits….

He had to resolve it with his own hands.

“Calidis.”

【Yes, Harman.】

“Die with me.”

【Ah, is what you want for us to die?】

“Yes.”

【That won’t do.】

As soon as Harman heard the refusal, he raised his head. He intended to immediately destroy the spirits’ mediums.

However, with one gesture from Calidis, all the mediums floated in the air.

【Thank you so much for developing our abilities, Harman. Thanks to you, we could become stronger too.】

Pale fingertips touched Harman’s forehead. Harman’s mind instantly became distant.

【From now on, we’ll handle things ourselves, so you stay trapped here.】

【Until you die- until you die- until you die-】

Calidis’s voice echoed through Harman’s head. It wasn’t a light sound that echoed a few times and ended.

Harman knelt with a dazed expression.

In his fading consciousness, Siena’s face gradually blurred.

Siena smiling brightly while receiving the golden bouquet.

‘Siena thought I wanted those flowers to remain golden forever.’

So before night fell, she hurriedly brought artificial lighting and shone it on the vase.

Flowers that were golden at any time, day or night.

When Siena wasn’t looking, he unnecessarily disturbed the vase.

He had emphasized so much that he definitely wanted them to be only golden. Yet he gave them to her as a gift under the excuse that Siena liked them.

Why didn’t I want the artificial lighting to shine on them?

‘Actually….’

Harman closed his eyes looking at the flower rolling on the floor with torn petals.

When clear night came, the color of the petals changed.

Calidis gazed intently at the unconscious Harman before him.

His head, which had been tilting as if pondering something, slowly bent to the right.

When a strange cracking sound was heard, Lea carefully grabbed his wrist.

She had noticed what he was about to do.

【Calidis. That’s enough. You’re not planning to kill Harman, are you?】

【….】

【He’s still our family.】

Family.

【Elder Sister, do you really think that?】

【…What?】

Lea flinched and stepped back.

It wasn’t a situation for jokes, and when her younger brother spoke this seriously, it was never a joke. Even the trace of laughter had completely disappeared from his face.

【Family… Well, yes. Even a half-blood is still family.】

【Still, she’s the one who allowed us to emerge. Calling her a half-blood, that’s no different from the Emperor-】

【Elder Sister, when our eldest sister was sold to the Empire, you did nothing, and now you say such things?】

【…!】

Lea’s eyes filled with terror. She trembled violently and released her grip on Calidis.

【But then, back then you too…】

【Yes, after eldest sister was sent to the Empire, I never once thought of her as my family.】

It became deathly quiet.

Among the spirits remaining here, none had failed to turn away when the first princess of the Aldimos Kingdom was taken as a hostage to the Empire.

Someone had to go to the Empire and enter into a political marriage with Duke Monteville.

Wouldn’t it be right for the first princess, who had the least ability, to go?

Everyone thought so.

【Harman is just our means too. Isn’t that right?】

Just as the Emperor had used the first princess as a means, they intended to use Harman as a means to destroy the Empire.

【For our sake, Harman must die. If he lives, he’ll only be a hindrance to us.】

Not a trace of guilt could be found in Calidis’s golden eyes.

He looked at the motionless Harman and Emperor, then chuckled softly.

【No, Elder Sister is right. Let’s leave them like that.】

“…”

【I’ll let Harman live. Is that enough?】

It was as if he were pacifying Lea.

Anyway, he’d be buried somewhere in those distant memories, unable to escape until death.

That state would be more miserable than dying.

Wouldn’t that be the perfect end for the Emperor and Harman, who carries the Empire’s blood?

Calidis raised his hand.

The surroundings vibrated.

【Kkeek- Kkeek-】

The mediums they had secretly scattered everywhere without Harman’s knowledge began to awaken.

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