I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 44

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 044

 

Suddenly, I had a guard knight for two months.

 

And it was Count Rudian Helkene’s guard knight, no less.

 

…Sir Zeros, who used to be.

 

“Count, but Sir Zeros is your guard knight-”

 

“Miss Siena, it seems you don’t know how many knights belong to the Count Helkene family.”

 

“Ah, of course I know there are tremendously many! But I don’t have the money to hire a knight-”

 

“It’s fine. I’ll pay Sir Zeros’s salary. Can’t I do at least this much for someone I’ve ‘shared meals’ with?”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“You’ve never shared a meal with that commoner, right? Don’t tell me you have?”

 

“…?”

 

“Well, never mind that. No matter what, you’ve never had a meal with your parents.”

 

…Don’t tell me she’s jealous of Grace over something like that?

 

‘That’s not it, Rudian.’

 

You’ve got something terribly wrong right now.

 

I tried my best to persuade her earnestly.

 

“Count, Baron Alderton still has at least a month left before he gets out of prison. There’s no need to prepare already…!”

 

“What if the Baron sends assassins in the meantime?”

 

“Pardon? Assassins? Isn’t the Baron under 24-hour surveillance right now?”

 

“You’re being too complacent, Miss Siena.”

 

She was completely unreasonable.

 

Persuasion didn’t work at all.

 

Sir Zeros’s complexion grew increasingly pale. Mine probably was too.

 

In the end, Rudian left grumbling about being late for her afternoon schedule.

 

“Ah, Sir Zeros. I’ll have all your belongings sent over today, so don’t worry.”

 

Leaving only Sir Zeros behind at my estate.

 

“…”

 

He stared intently at the door that had been closed for a long time. He’d been doing that for 30 minutes now.

 

‘As if Rudian would come back from that.’

 

She even left without any lingering attachment.

 

Sir Zeros didn’t say a word. There wasn’t any particular change in his expression either.

 

However, his eyes alone were terribly wistful.

 

With his large frame doing that, he looked like an abandoned large dog.

 

‘I can understand why.’

 

A Count’s guard knight would surely be someone who graduated at the top of the Academy and followed the orthodox elite course—a knight among knights.

 

For such a person to suddenly be assigned to guard a commoner, it was understandable that his eyes would grow misty.

 

‘Isn’t he too impressive for a two-month guard knight assigned to me?’

 

But what could I do now that things had come to this.

 

I needed to pull myself together.

 

This was my manor, and right now I was the employer—having borrowed Sir Zeros for two months with Rudian’s money.

 

I turned my body fully toward him.

 

“Um, Sir Zeros.”

 

“Yes, Siena… Miss.”

 

Sir Zeros fidgeted in an awkward posture. We’d met several times already, so why was he acting so uncomfortable?

 

“Even though I’m a commoner now, I was a noble before, so I know noble etiquette. It might be uncomfortable for you, but could you bear with it for just two months?”

 

Sir Zeros waved his hands frantically, looking startled.

 

“Oh, I’m sorry if I gave you the wrong impression. I wasn’t flustered because you’re a commoner, Miss.”

 

His black eyes wavered back and forth, showing how flustered he was.

 

“I was just confused because the Count didn’t give me any prior notice.”

 

Surprisingly, there didn’t seem to be any complaints or dissatisfaction on his face. Just confusion, as he said.

 

No, he looked somewhat bitter somewhere.

 

He let out a hollow laugh.

 

“I suppose he wanted to get me out of the way for a while.”

 

“Pardon?”

 

“It’s nothing.”

 

Sir Zeros, who had been muttering quietly, shook his head. I guess it wasn’t particularly important.

 

After a brief awkward silence, he scratched his red hair and spoke.

 

“More importantly, I tend to be rather blunt, so Lady Siena might find it very awkward and boring.”

 

“Oh, you don’t need to worry about that! I’m more worried that you might find us too noisy and annoying.”

 

“Excuse me, but when you say ‘us’…”

 

“Yes, us.”

 

Me and her.

 

I pointed to Bella, who was still watching from around the corner of the wall, trying to figure out when to emerge.

 

Bella, belatedly realizing she’d been pointed out, rushed out frantically.

 

“I knew Baron Alderton was plotting something! That bastard should be, just! I won’t let him… mmph!”

 

“Please take care of us from now on, Sir Zeros!”

 

I quickly covered Bella’s mouth and extended my hand toward Sir Zeros.

 

He smiled awkwardly, glanced at Bella once, and then took my hand.

 

“I look forward to working with you as well, Lady Siena.”

 

His voice was calm, but his hand trembled slightly.

 

I smiled kindly while holding onto the struggling Bella.

 

See? I told you we were noisy.

 

But thanks to that, the awkward atmosphere seemed to disappear completely.

 

Now that we’d finished our introductions properly, it was time to show him to his room.

 

“Sir Zeros. The estate has tons of empty rooms. So you can pick whichever room you want to use.”

 

I shrugged my shoulders and then froze in place.

 

There was an unexpected problem.

 

“That would work, but… there’s no bed.”

 

“That’s fine. I just need a place to rest my body.”

 

Sir Zeros answered as if that wasn’t a problem at all.

 

“That’s not the issue. There’s no furniture.”

 

“No furniture, what do you mean.”

 

“I mean literally. There’s nothing at all.”

 

Just nothing.

 

Really, absolutely nothing.

 

I brought Sir Zeros to the room next door. One experience is more effective than a hundred words.

 

Sir Zeros, witnessing the completely empty room with literally not a single piece of furniture, shut his mouth tight.

 

“Except for Bella’s and my room, they’re all in this state.”

 

I had purchased the grand mansion of my dreams, magnificent and enormous.

 

But I’d been too busy continuously, and couldn’t even think of how to decorate the rooms, so I’d been neglecting them!

 

This time, even Sir Zeros couldn’t answer rashly.

 

Right, no matter what, that would be quite problematic.

 

“It’s okay, we can just go buy some right away! Going out is fine, right?”

 

I looked at Sir Zeros with a bright face.

 

Since it’s come to this. Maybe we could get closer while shopping?

 

“I’m fine with it, but…”

 

“Oh, it would be good to handle some business while we’re at it. Just a moment!”

 

“While we’re at it…?”

 

Since we’re going out anyway, if there’s something we can solve together, it saves time and is good.

 

I asked Sir Zeros for his understanding and quickly went up to my room.

 

I packed my outing bag while looking over the chart where I’d organized my future plans.

 

But a piece of paper folded neatly in half on the desk kept catching my eye.

 

‘What was this again.’

 

It was definitely a letter I’d written recently…

 

“Eek! That’s right!”

 

As soon as I checked the letter, a scream reflexively burst out.

 

[Duke Monteville, I have sudden news to share with you.

 

I accidentally undid the magic on the necklace you gave me as a gift…

 

It turns out it was a pink diamond necklace!

 

So, Grace was Marquis Fainen’s daughter!]

 

It was the letter I had written saying I was sorry for accidentally undoing the necklace’s magic, but let’s pretend the contract never happened.

 

The letter that should have been placed in Grace’s hands!

 

‘I completely forgot!’

 

I didn’t have the confidence to tell Harman myself.

 

When going to the Monteville Ducal Estate, I was planning to ask them to deliver my letter as well.

 

‘But then Rudian suddenly came to visit!’

 

I roughly tousled my hair.

 

Grace must have already arrived at Marquis Fainen’s Estate by now, right?

 

Since Rudian had put her in a carriage and sent her off immediately, there wouldn’t have been time to tell Harman about canceling the necklace contract.

 

Then…

 

That means I have to tell him myself, doesn’t it?

 

“What’s the matter?”

 

Sir Zeros burst through the door.

 

Though I had only screamed very briefly, it seemed he had rushed over after hearing it.

 

I let my hand holding the letter drop limply.

 

“I need to tell Duke Monteville that we should cancel the contract.”

 

“Duke Monteville… you say?”

 

Sir Zeros frowned slightly while leaning against the door.

 

“About that necklace. Since Duke Monteville paid for it, I naturally need to tell the Duke if we’re going to cancel the contract.”

 

“…I’m sorry. I don’t quite understand. Duke Monteville paid for the necklace?”

 

I became puzzled by his continued questions.

 

Why does he seem unaware?

 

“Yes. I thought the Count had investigated my background, or rather, anyway, I thought you all knew about it.”

 

Could it be that only Rudian knew about it?

 

But didn’t those two always stick together?

 

No matter what I talked about with Rudian, Sir Zeros never left his position.

 

He never even moved far away.

 

He was always standing behind Rudian. He was no different from her eyes and ears.

 

Looking troubled, Sir Zeros slowly rubbed his lips.

 

“I’m sorry. I won’t deny that we’ve been hearing about Lady Siena’s activities until now.”

 

“But you hadn’t heard that Duke Monteville paid for it?”

 

“No, this is the first I’m hearing of it. Honestly, it’s puzzling. We naturally assumed you had purchased the necklace yourself.”

 

“…”

 

Come to think of it, that was true.

 

‘When Rudian recited my recent activities one by one, she never mentioned Harman once.’

 

Something was strange.

 

Harman had suddenly come to visit my estate and even had a conversation with Baron Alderton.

 

He had paid as much as 1 billion francs for the necklace.

 

And Rudian… didn’t know about it at all?

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