I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 67
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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 067
The noisy sounds coming through the crack of the office door.
<Screech- creak.>
<Creak- screech.>
Harman, who had been gripping the door handle, pressed his temples firmly.
He strode into the office as if nothing had happened. The spirits that had been sitting boldly on the desk scattered to both sides.
It was a familiar reaction.
The atmosphere that became subtly awkward the moment he entered after they had been chattering away.
He wondered what kind of conversation they had been having, but honestly, he wasn’t very interested.
Harman carelessly tossed the morning newspaper onto the desk and sat down in his chair.
“Today, Marquis Fainen’s daughter finally caused trouble.”
The spirits who had been keeping their distance and watching nervously glanced at the morning newspaper.
The sight of their eyes gradually widening one by one as they checked it was disgusting to Harman.
<Exorcist Siena?!>
“That’s right. She outright mentioned in an interview that Siena is an exorcist.”
One spirit that had instantly flown near the office entrance and crouched down trembled anxiously.
<It, it should be fine to kill her now, right? From what I saw from afar, she seemed almost completely recovered.>
Harman tilted his head sideways and sneered.
“If you’re curious, why don’t you come and check for yourself.”
<Wh, what if she suddenly annihilates me?>
Fear flashed in the spirit’s eyes.
How many times had they tried to eliminate Siena in the past.
Each time, the spirits in the manor disappeared one by one.
She was a terrifyingly frightening woman.
Harman watched the spirit trembling and rubbing its shoulders for a moment before looking away.
The spirits had gathered around him before he knew it.
“Tomorrow. We proceed with the plan.”
* * *
Right now I’m having an argument with Sir Zeros in front of the greenhouse garden.
No, rather than an argument, Sir Zeros was earnestly trying to persuade me.
Sir Zeros was already staring intently at my hand gripping the greenhouse door handle, fidgeting restlessly.
“Lady Siena, the greenhouse garden of a noble residence can only be entered by those invited by the master of the estate. The same goes for guard knights.”
“Oh, really?”
This is really the first time I’m hearing this.
“Yes. The Duke gave permission for you to freely look around the manor, so it’s fine for you, but I cannot enter.”
It was about an hour before dinner.
The butler came looking troubled.
“Lady Siena, I’m truly sorry. The Duke has urgent business, so you’ll have to dine alone this evening.”
“It can’t be helped.”
‘He must be busy.’
Letting me stay here for three days is already incredibly considerate.
Coming to find me for every single meal wouldn’t be easy.
When I showed no signs of being upset, the butler smiled.
“And since your condition has improved greatly, the Duke said you may freely explore the manor today.”
“Really?! Is that true?!”
I jumped up.
Forgetting that I had been sitting on the bed to fulfill my duty as a sick person.
As the butler said, my condition had improved tremendously.
The personal physician who came early in the morning for an examination told me with a bright expression that I was ‘almost completely recovered.’
I couldn’t confidently say I was perfectly healed, but I no longer needed to keep a cold wet towel on my forehead.
I had been feeling stiff and thought I might die from it.
It’s nice to have everything brought to me and everyone worrying about me while I just stay still.
Yes, it’s all good, but…
‘What’s the point of living if I’m just trapped like this all day?’
Imperial confinement or whatever, that doesn’t suit me.
Anyway, that’s how I came out for a walk.
When I tried to enter the greenhouse, Sir Zeros blocked the door.
I was just thinking and not saying anything, but perhaps thinking I had been persuaded, Sir Zeros’ body relaxed as he stood blocking the greenhouse entrance.
“It can’t be helped. If you must enter the greenhouse, I’ll stand guard here-”
“Yes, please do that!”
I didn’t miss the moment he stepped aside from the door.
“What? Lady Siena!”
Sir Zeros called out to me from outside and reached out his hand, but I was already inside the greenhouse.
‘What danger could there possibly be in a greenhouse like this.’
Such overprotectiveness, really.
I waved my hand lightly at Sir Zeros who had his mouth open in bewilderment, then closed the door.
Bang-!
And the moment the door closed, the voice that had been coming from inside was cut off.
“Right, tomorrow when Siena comes in for the meal, we’ll break all the plates-”
It was definitely Harman’s voice.
‘Huh? Didn’t my name just come up?’
He definitely said ‘Siena’, didn’t he?
‘Who is he talking to?’
He said he was busy, so maybe another guest visited?
I carefully moved toward where Harman’s voice had come from.
That’s when it happened.
Suddenly a cool breeze swept past near my face.
My hair whipped around wildly.
“…!”
Wh, what?
I squeezed my eyes shut from the sudden gust and opened them, only to find Harman standing there looking at me.
“Lady Siena.”
“…Ah, Duke.”
I awkwardly replied while smoothing down my disheveled hair.
But wasn’t he talking to someone else? Why is no one here.
“How are you feeling, Lady?”
“Yes, thanks to your care, I think I’m almost completely recovered.”
“Then why are you here?”
“Ah, I heard that I could tour the manor now. So I remembered this greenhouse garden that I visited before and came here… I didn’t know you would be here, Duke.”
“I had no idea you would come here either, Lady.”
“Should I not have entered? I’m sorry! I’ll leave right away!”
“That’s not it.”
Harman’s voice urgently stopped me as I turned to leave.
I ended up half-turning my body and unnecessarily raised my hand to scratch the back of my head.
Because Harman, having stopped me, was staring into the empty air of the greenhouse as if looking at distant mountains.
“Lady Siena, may I ask why you thought of this place?”
“Hmm. That’s a good question. I’ve come to the Monteville Ducal Estate quite often, so why did I think of here first.”
I gazed thoughtfully at the tea table placed in the center of the greenhouse.
“I think it’s because it was my first time having a proper tea time.”
“Tea time…”
“Yes. Even after returning, I felt somehow excited and kept thinking about the atmosphere of this greenhouse and the flowers.”
It wasn’t all good things that happened.
Rather, it was full of strange incidents.
I had pulled on the flower vines, scattering dirt all over the garden walkway.
The maid who served us tea that day even quit her job, saying nonsense about those flower vines being ghosts…
Ahem, ahem.
I forcibly pushed the emerging incidents to the back of my memory.
‘Anyway, that was really my first tea time.’
This was a fact that even Rudian didn’t know.
What would happen if she came rushing over, worried I might have tea time with Grace first?
I already had tea time with Harman first.
I gazed wistfully at the tea table as if recalling distant memories, then turned my head.
“But what were you doing, Duke?”
“I was taking a walk to clear my head. But Lady, you were looking around as soon as you arrived – may I ask why?”
You’re asking a lot of questions today.
…Though I suppose I was looking around quite obviously. He knew all along.
“Well, I thought you were having a conversation with someone, Duke.”
“Did you perhaps hear my voice?”
Harman frowned with one eye, looking puzzled.
“Yes. Actually, I think I faintly heard my name too…”
“There’s no one here except us right now.”
Harman cut me off as he spoke.
But the thing is.
‘He’s not denying that he was talking.’
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