I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 147

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 147

At the same time, all the ghosts’ movements stopped. As if they were being controlled by someone.

【…?】

The specter that had been about to grab my hair was the same.

The tips of my hair caught on the specter’s twitching fingers. The force was so weak that I couldn’t even feel the brushing sensation.

The eyeballs of the Aldimos specters, completely frozen in mid-air, slowly moved.

Looking at me, then at Harman.

Someone spoke in a flustered tone.

【How did you… manage that?】

What the specters were staring at now was none other than the round objects placed in front of Harman.

In other words, they were the magic stone-like objects that Harman had given me.

They were laid out in a row on the floor.

Had Harman summoned those things? Even the Emperor who had cast magic on me had sweated like rain like that.

Harman exhaled deeply and muttered coldly.

“Are you asking because you don’t know who made it possible for you to control ghosts while in a spectral state?”

【….】

“I already knew how you would react. That’s why….”

Harman hesitated for a moment. His gaze had reached me before I knew it.

“I was going to die together with you.”

It was a bitter voice that carried traces of anguish.

As if his worries had been continuing for much longer than I had thought.

I couldn’t avoid the clear blue eyes that met mine directly. Then he smiled with relief.

It seemed like he had finally made a decision after long contemplation.

“But today, only you will disappear from here.”

【What?】

“In the end, I just had to make a choice myself.”

Harman grabbed one of the objects he called a ‘medium’ without hesitation. The medium crumbled instantly.

The medium, broken so miserably it was hard to even call them fragments, scattered to the floor with a pattering sound.

One of the specters desperately reached out their hand.

【No…!】

Before they could finish speaking, they vanished completely.

Even their struggling hand only twitched at the fingertips.

It was a futile death.

Realizing that the situation was going wrong, the specters hurriedly tried to persuade Harman.

【H-Harman. Think about it again. Okay?】

【We’re family. Right?】

They pleaded, blinking their golden eyes.

However, Harman’s eyes didn’t even waver. The mediums crumbled one by one in his hands.

【No, no…!】

【Kyaaaah!】

With agonizing wails, the specters disappeared along with the mediums.

Completely, as if they had never existed in the first place.

Before long, only one medium and one specter remained each.

The specter with golden hair that went well past his shoulders was dripping with cold sweat.

Despite being unable to move his body, he smirked.

【Harman, you said you were going to die together with us. Then you should die too. Why are you the only one alive?】

“….”

Harman didn’t answer. As he had done until now, he picked up the last remaining medium in his hand.

【Don’t tell me you think doing this will make all the things you’ve done disappear? You were the one who wanted revenge, Harman.】

The specter continued to sneer. Unlike the other specters who had begged and pleaded to be spared.

The specter barely moved his immobile face to gesture at me with his chin.

【That woman still doesn’t know anything, does she? Poor Harman, that woman will abandon you when she learns everything. Since that’s the case, why don’t you come with us-】

“Siena said she would stay by my side.”

【…What?】

It was a specter who hadn’t lost his composure for even a moment. He trailed off as if flustered.

Harman slowly approached him as he could barely roll his eyeballs.

The medium was still held in his hand.

“….”

When Harman whispered something, the specter’s eyes widened greatly.

“So, farewell. Calidis.”

The last medium crumbled.

Harman shifted his gaze without regret and firmly grasped the empty air.

Until then, the ghosts had been taking no action, their eyes unfocused.

The bodies of the ghosts who had been staring blankly ahead gradually became fainter.

Before long, the Empire’s sky turned blue.

All the ghosts had been annihilated.

No, I wasn’t certain, but at least all the ghosts in front of the Imperial Palace had disappeared.

‘…Is it done?’

Really, they’re all gone, right?

“….”

But I was afraid to ask.

It was on a completely different level from my exorcisms—clean, fast, and it happened so instantaneously.

It didn’t feel real, so I couldn’t rejoice immediately.

If there were still ghosts remaining….

“Siena. The ghosts have completely disappeared. Every single one, all of them.”

“….”

“To be precise, they’ll return to where they originally belonged. They’ve finally found peace.”

Ah, I see.

I stared at Harman’s back and finally felt relieved. My eyes slowly closed.

‘Ah!’

…Then I opened my eyes wide.

Come to think of it, where’s Bokdeungi?

“Bokdeungi!”

No, wait.

Should I be calling her Mother?

She’s technically a ghost too… so wouldn’t she disappear along with them?

I looked around frantically and found Bokdeungi collapsed on the ground.

It was Bokdeungi who had been exorcising ghosts together with me just moments ago.

I was suddenly terrified. What reason would there be for her to collapse like this now?

I ran over in shock and embraced the limp Bokdeungi.

“Bokdeungi, Bokdeungi?”

The moment I told her to open her eyes.

A woman’s smile faintly appeared before my eyes.

【Siena, I was by your side.】

“…!”

【From the moment you entered the haunted mansion.】

That was the beginning.

A scene from my memories, yet completely different from what I remembered, unfolded.

“Yes, it’s a little rusty because no one’s touched it, a little dirty, well, just a tiny bit eerie, but still perfectly-“

“This is a haunted mansion!”

It was the scene when Bella and I first entered the manor.

I kept trying to convince her that there were no such things as ghosts, but Bella didn’t believe me at all.

She kept making a fuss, insisting that there were ghosts.

But surprisingly…

Bella was right.

The ghosts hidden throughout the manor were glaring at us as if they would kill us.

If we had entered the manor like that, we surely would have been harmed.

But as you know, I adapted to the manor safely.

The turning point was.

“Bella, look. It was over here, right? Am I hitting it properly now?”

It was when I threw punches at empty air to comfort Bella, who was afraid of ghosts.

I saw a ghost screaming and disappearing from my clumsy punches.

More precisely, thanks to the power of Harman’s Mother, the Former Duchess.

【I have the ability to turn ghosts into nothingness, Siena. My family said my ability was completely useless, but I think you’ll need it.】

She gave me her power even though I couldn’t see ghosts.

And when I collapsed from being unable to handle the power, she came to find me in Bokdeungi’s body.

She was always hovering around me.

【I’m really sorry for making such a request. Please, help our Harman.】

My meeting with Harman wasn’t entirely by chance.

My vision blurred. I closed and opened my eyes.

Then I returned to the original scene I was in.

The woman’s figure that had been shining through Bokdeungi had already become so faint that her form was barely recognizable.

【Thank you, Siena.】

She smiled at me and then gazed at Harman for a moment. Her face looked relieved.

Then, there was a ‘click’ sound of something falling from around his neck.

Bokdeungi, who had been lying there as if dead, moved his body.

“…Bokdeungi?”

“Woof.”

Bokdeungi barked softly.

You were alive!

I hugged Bokdeungi in emotion, but then suddenly felt something strange. Bokdeungi was the same, but somehow I felt empty.

I raised my head.

She had already completely disappeared.

I instinctively realized.

I could no longer perform exorcisms.

‘But it’s okay.’

Ghosts won’t appear again.

Harman looked at Siena hugging Bokdeungi.

A moment ago, he had whispered quietly in Calidis’s ear.

“Calidis. Do you really think Siena doesn’t know about that?”

Though he tried to avoid it somehow, Siena had figured everything out.

Yet she came to save me.

So I’ll survive.

Somehow, desperately.

The sins I’ve committed don’t disappear into nothing. No matter how much I was brainwashed, I did it with my own hands.

“Siena wants me to live. So if Siena wishes it, I’ll go around apologizing for what I’ve done.”

Harman gripped the last medium tightly without any hesitation.

From his hands, the last bloodline of Aldimos who had been called incomplete by both the Emperor and the spirits of Aldimos.

It was the moment the Kingdom of Aldimos completely disappeared.

Though he had escaped the brainwashing, ironically this time he had willingly bound himself to another.

But Harman had no regrets.

The person by his side was…

‘Ah.’

A familiar scent he had smelled somewhere before wafted from nearby.

It was the sweet fragrance of his favorite tea.

When he looked down, Siena was staring blankly at empty air while hugging Bokdeungi and shedding tears.

‘This is the punishment given to me.’

Being able to see and handle all ghosts, yet…

“…”

His blue eyes swept over the empty air where nothing remained.

He closed his eyes.

But it wasn’t dark anymore.

Because Siena was there.

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