I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 34

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 034

 

Is Rudian losing her mind right now?

 

In the carriage, she screamed as soon as I brought up whether a ghost wrote the letter.

 

‘And now she’s saying such things openly in front of her parents?’

 

Also, wasn’t her concept ‘ghosts don’t exist’?

 

It was confusing in many ways.

 

I kept my mouth shut and stared at Rudian, then shifted my gaze to look at the previous Count couple.

 

‘There were definitely many strange aspects to their behavior.’

 

Even though Rudian had warned me beforehand, they were stranger than I expected.

 

‘But that’s understandable.’

 

They’ve gone a bit crazy from stress. I could understand that.

 

If they were convinced there was a ghost in the manor, wouldn’t anyone go this crazy?

 

However, my eyes gradually widened as I shook my head.

 

Maybe it was because I heard Rudian’s words, or something.

 

What clearly looked like just a spilled blood pool somehow began to feel like something had been drawn there.

 

The shape itself was, if I had to say, star-shaped.

 

Outside the star shape was… a crooked square?

 

No, it looks like a circle.

 

‘A star inside a circle.’

 

At that moment, what Rudian had just said echoed like a hallucination.

 

“I don’t know who drew this possession summoning circle with stag’s blood!”

 

“I don’t know who drew this possession summoning circle with stag’s blood!”

 

‘So, it’s really a summoning circle?’

 

Of course, even though it looked like a twisted summoning circle from hell, a summoning circle was still a summoning circle.

 

Come to think of it, when summoning something evil or calling forth evil spirits to possess people.

 

Don’t they always draw these kinds of circles with animal blood?

 

It was when my thoughts reached this point.

 

“…Ah!”

 

The previous Count couple, who had been standing still for a while, grabbed my wrist and pulled me again.

 

“Miss Siena, no!”

 

When Rudian urgently reached out her hand, it was too late.

 

I had already been forcibly pushed and stepped onto the summoning circle.

 

“…”

 

‘Ah, that rotten smell.’

 

I frowned deeply. It was hard to endure the rotten smell rising from right below.

 

Of course, that was all.

 

Nothing happened at all.

 

“Uh….”

 

Rudian slowly lowered her outstretched hand with an embarrassed expression.

 

Seeing the Guard Knight who had followed also awkwardly sheathe his sword, it seemed both of them really expected something to happen.

 

For example….

 

Something like a ghost possessing my body under the direction of the Previous Count Couple.

 

‘Good grief. Does that even make sense?’

 

Ghosts don’t even exist, so how could drawing something like a summoning circle cause possession?

 

I suppose it depends on how you think about it, but this was way off the mark.

 

‘If we’re being technical, ‘possession’ does exist.’

 

After all, aren’t I a possessor myself!

 

And there was one more reason why that would absolutely never happen.

 

If something else possessed this body, wouldn’t that being and I… be in trouble with each other?

 

“Strange.”

 

“Why is nothing happening?”

 

The Previous Count Couple stared at me intently as if examining a test subject, then tilted their heads in confusion.

 

‘I suppose nothing will happen after all.’

 

Except for my nose going numb.

 

Ah, I probably won’t be able to smell anything for about 24 hours. That was certain.

 

I looked down and gently lifted my shoes. Blood was disgustingly stuck to the soles of my shoes.

 

‘Well, let’s just cleanly give up on these shoes.’

 

I tried my best to smooth out my face that was about to scrunch up more, then raised my head.

 

At this point, I thought I roughly understood the Previous Count Couple’s intention in bringing me here.

 

‘Actually, I honestly don’t know their exact thoughts.’

 

As Rudian said, this blood looked like a summoning circle, so maybe they were convinced that a ghost had been summoned around here?

 

Of course, they absolutely wouldn’t have been thinking of possessing my body with a ghost.

 

“Strange.”

 

“Why is nothing happening?”

 

Why would they have called an exorcist in the first place?

 

To perform an exorcism.

 

‘That’s the only reason.’

 

Even while going mad, the two of them had instinctively led me here.

 

But I….

 

‘They think it’s strange because I seem to not sense anything.’

 

I should be saying there’s a ghost here, so I’ll exorcise it right away!

 

I’m sorry. My thinking was too shallow.

 

I took off the shoes that had been bothering me since earlier.

 

After pondering who to speak to, I approached Rudian.

 

Rudian was the client, and no matter how I looked at it, the Previous Count Couple seemed to need mental and physical stability.

 

“Count, for this exorcism, cleaning up that blood should be our priority.”

 

“…!”

 

Light returned to Rudian’s eyes, which had momentarily lost focus.

 

“As I thought, they really are possess-”

 

“Please escort the two of them to another room in the meantime. This requires concentration, so I think I need to work alone.”

 

I hastily cut her off as she was about to say something strange, and Rudian’s pupils trembled briefly.

 

Fortunately, she didn’t say anything else.

 

Rudian looked at me and nodded resolutely, then grabbed the arms of the previous Count couple along with the guard knight and dragged them out.

 

“No…!”

 

“Exorcist…!”

 

But then I heard screams from behind that could hardly be called human—like metal scraping against metal.

 

Hup!

 

I unconsciously turned around, but immediately regretted it and turned my head back, pretending I hadn’t seen anything.

 

Because even while being dragged away, the previous Count couple were glaring at me with murderous intent!

 

The two were flailing their arms wildly. For some reason, their movements didn’t look human, which was terrifying.

 

As I thought, I need peace of mind….

 

After a while, the sound of a door slamming shut in the distance was followed by the disappearance of their screams.

 

My body, which had been frozen stiff, finally began to move.

 

I hastily pulled back the curtains to clean up the blood.

 

Surprisingly, the only thing in this spacious room was the blackout curtains hanging on the windows.

 

Then something inside the curtains caught in my hand, and I looked down.

 

‘What is this?’

 

Even when I rolled it around in my palm, it had a smooth and sleek texture.

 

A decorative item? A jewel? I squinted as I looked at it.

 

The only light I could rely on was moonlight, so I couldn’t see clearly.

 

I could only tell that there were two or three small objects, smaller than my palm, attached to the curtains.

 

‘It’s somewhat similar to those magic stones.’

 

I mean the magic stones I had removed from the chair at the Monteville Ducal Estate and the grandfather clock at Count Helkene’s Estate.

 

But there’s no way they would have attached magic stones to curtains….

 

‘It won’t come off even when I pull hard.’

 

Well, it can’t be helped. I’ll just wipe around it.

 

Thinking it wasn’t a big deal, I tucked the decorative item inside the curtain and scrubbed the blood-stained floor.

 

I had been concentrating like that for quite a while.

 

“Miss Siena, is there anything else you need?”

 

My eyes met with Rudian’s as she came back in and looked down at me.

 

Hmm, something I need.

 

“Then could you light a bonfire in front of the mansion?”

 

“A bonfire?”

 

“Yes, I’ve almost finished cleaning up the blood. To prevent any unforeseen accidents, I think it would be best to burn this completely.”

 

I lifted up the curtains that were soaked with blood. Rudian frowned at the stench and nodded.

 

“Prepare it immediately.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

Rudian quickly left the room. Watching her retreating figure, I wiped away the blood again.

 

As I frantically cleaned, the floor became spotless and my wrist ached. Suddenly, the faces of the previous Count couple came to mind.

 

‘Both of them looked to be in very poor condition.’

 

When I first arrived at the manor, I was shocked to see how gaunt the previous Count couple had become.

 

Afterwards, they seemed to be suffering considerable psychological trauma, whether from the ghost or not, which was why I asked Rudian to escort them out.

 

But now there was something that bothered me much more than that.

 

‘Why did they glare at me just before leaving this room?’

 

They clearly called me here to solve this problem, yet they even said it shouldn’t be done.

 

Just how mentally exhausted had they become to say such contradictory things?

 

‘Did they think some incredibly powerful evil spirit that might be summoned here could harm them?’

 

It’s all a matter of imagination anyway.

 

So, just in case they ask why I erased and even burned the summoning circle.

 

‘I’ll say an evil and powerful ghost was summoned, but after an intense battle, I successfully exorcised it!’

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