I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living by Exorcising Them! - Chapter 80

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I Don’t Believe in Ghosts, But I Make a Living Through Exorcism! Episode 080

 

“Yes? Yes. Who are you?”

 

I quickly raised my head thinking it was the shop owner, but the person in front of me was a woman.

 

Which means it’s not the client’s husband.

 

The woman pointed to the shop next door, looking disappointed at me.

 

“Oh, I work right next door. Even if you wait there, the door will never open. The shop has been closed for over a month now.”

 

“Over a month… you say?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Something smells fishy about this.

 

She said he’s been going to work regularly lately. But why has it been closed for over a month?

 

‘There were already many suspicious points, but this makes it even more suspicious.’

 

Let me think about the case with Marquis Fainen.

 

He contacted me saying he was suffering terribly because of a ghost. As soon as I arrived, he came running right over.

 

But this case wasn’t even requested by him personally, but by his wife.

 

The husband didn’t say anything until his wife questioned him?

 

Someone who’s suffering so much that he’s kept his shop closed for over a month?

 

‘Nothing adds up at all.’

 

Anyway, I need to meet the client’s husband to ask him anything.

 

But the door is closed so I can’t meet him at all, so what should I do—

 

“Huh? Wait a moment, co-could it be…?”

 

The panicked voice of the shop owner next door interrupted my thoughts. The woman who had been looking at me with a surprised expression hurriedly unfolded something.

 

It was none other than a weekly magazine with my promotional text written in large letters. Naturally, my photo was attached next to it.

 

Aha.

 

“Ex-Exorcist Siena! Right?”

 

“Yes, that’s right.”

 

“Oh my goodness!”

 

The woman covered her mouth with both hands like a shy girl. The weekly magazine she hadn’t been paying attention to dropped from her hands.

 

The woman hurriedly picked it up, looked around conspicuously, then slipped into her shop.

 

I wondered what she was doing, but she stuck out just her face and gestured to me.

 

“Exorcist, I have something confidential to tell you! It’s about that shop owner!”

 

She looked somehow determined.

 

I exchanged glances with Sir Zeros and followed the woman.

 

But the woman who said she’d tell me something confidential passed by the table in the shop and…

 

Inside, inside.

 

She continued to lead us deep into the shop.

 

‘This seems like something’s wrong?’

 

Just in case, I had exchanged glances with Sir Zeros before entering.

 

She said she’d tell me about the shop owner, but she might suddenly kidnap me or threaten me.

 

I was about to turn back, thinking this couldn’t go on any further.

 

The woman stopped abruptly at the deepest part of the shop and pulled back the curtains.

 

A new door was revealed beneath the curtains.

 

“This is the backdoor of our shop. It’s blocked by a wall so we can’t see the shop next door, but we can hear sounds.”

 

You can hear… sounds?

 

“About a month ago, we started hearing the sounds of a man and woman talking next door. Right around the time that shop next door closed!”

 

“Couldn’t it be the voices of the shop owner and his wife?”

 

“It definitely wasn’t the wife’s voice. I see her often, so I clearly remember her face and voice.”

 

“Then who on earth was it?”

 

“A while ago, the wife came to our shop to buy something, and she said her husband might be possessed by a ghost. I guess that’s why you came here too, Exorcist?”

 

“…”

 

Gulp, I quietly swallowed.

 

But since things like ghosts don’t exist, it couldn’t be a ghost’s voice…

 

‘Then who on earth was he talking to?’

 

The woman looked at me as I became serious and hesitated for a moment. Soon, as if making up her mind, she gripped the door handle firmly.

 

“I think it would be better for you to see for yourself.”

 

Before I could even answer, the door swung open.

 

Without understanding why, I took a step beyond the door. Immediately, the sounds of a man and woman’s conversation came from beyond the wall.

 

“What if your wife finds out about this?”

 

“Haha, that won’t happen. That woman thinks I’m possessed by a ghost!”

 

What is this?

 

“How convenient. Just using the ghost excuse means no one suspects anything!”

 

“So when are you going to sell this shop?”

 

“I’m supposed to sell it next week. With that money, I should be able to buy an estate in the capital outskirts!”

 

“Hmm, the capital outskirts? I want to live in the capital.”

 

“What if that woman finds out? Instead, a big estate…”

 

…Wait a minute.

 

This, no matter how I look at it?

 

I looked at Sir Zeros while even holding my breath. Our eyes met, and he looked as shocked as I was.

 

We nodded without words.

 

I gestured to the woman who had opened the door and quietly, very quietly entered the shop.

 

And as soon as the door closed, I urgently shouted.

 

“Do you happen to have letter paper?!”

 

“Yes? Oh, here—”

 

“Let me borrow just one sheet!”

 

[Client, please come to the shop immediately. Right now.]

 

Not long after sending the hastily written letter, the client quickly came to the shop.

 

She asked with a puzzled expression.

 

“Exorcist, what happened that you called me?”

 

“Customer, please listen carefully to what I say. The shop door is closed right now, isn’t it?”

 

“…That’s right. My husband said he would definitely go to work today and left.”

 

The closed door and turned-off lights.

 

Her gaze and voice as she slowly looked at the shop were somehow calm.

 

I felt puzzled and continued speaking.

 

“But your husband is inside the shop right now.”

 

The client wasn’t surprised this time either.

 

“To be precise, he’s beyond the inner door of the shop. Not with a ghost… but with another person.”

 

“…I see.”

 

The client’s eyes seemed to waver slightly, then she finally hung her head.

 

That was only for a moment. She took out a key from her pocket and unlocked the lock.

 

‘Huh? She had a key?’

 

Didn’t she say she just went back home whenever it was closed?

 

Soon the shop door opened wide.

 

But the client who had opened it without hesitation hesitated slightly, then turned her body and asked me.

 

“Exorcist, would you please come with me?”

 

Me… you mean?

 

“I understand!”

 

Honestly, I wondered what use it would be for me to go, but I’m in the position of having received the request.

 

Besides, if the client went alone, she’d be outnumbered. She might end up at a disadvantage.

 

‘It would be better to go together than not go at all.’

 

That’s what I thought.

 

* * *

 

A suffocating three-way confrontation began.

 

No, wait, since Sir Zeros and I are watching from the side, is it really a three-way confrontation?

 

‘So, if this is how it’s going to be, why are we even involved here?’

 

The client’s husband wasn’t possessed by a ghost—he was having an affair.

 

And then he made excuses blaming it on a ghost while dodging responsibility left and right.

 

But if you’re just going to sit there saying nothing, you should have just let us leave…!

 

I thought as soon as she came in, she’d grab her husband by the hair and cause a scene.

 

‘Then I could have at least helped somehow!’

 

Just sitting around the table were the client, the client’s husband, and the husband’s mistress.

 

The three of them sat there without saying a word.

 

Since we couldn’t just leave now, Sir Zeros and I could only stand there like folding screens, unable to do anything.

 

The client stared at the man and woman across from her with cold eyes.

 

The two couldn’t even look at the client and kept their eyes downcast.

 

The client’s cheating husband—the bad guy—fidgeted restlessly and stammered with a bright red face.

 

“W-Wife. Nothing like what you’re thinking happened! This is all because the ghost attached to me made me do it… That’s right, Exorcist!”

 

Huh? Me?

 

The bad guy suddenly pointed at me. We’ve never met before, but he’s being quite rude.

 

I twitched my eyebrows.

 

But that guy didn’t seem to care about my feelings at all and kept pointing at me.

 

“E-Exorcist. Right? There’s a ghost attached to my back right now, isn’t there! The ghost told me to meet this woman, so I had no choice—”

 

“What? This woman? You said you loved me!”

 

The woman sitting next to him, who had been quiet until then, suddenly raised her voice. The bad guy panicked and tried to explain.

 

“No, that’s not what I meant, so please calm down.”

 

“Do I look like I’m in a state to calm down?”

 

Only then did the finger that had been pointing at me return. The bad guy was sweating profusely as he tried to calm the woman beside him.

 

Even in the midst of all this, he kept looking at me desperately, as if asking for something.

 

How shameless.

 

“No. There’s no ghost or anything like that.”

 

I answered curtly.

 

Then the bad guy’s face turned even redder as he shot up from his seat.

 

“That exorcist is definitely a fraud! There’s clearly a ghost attached to my back right now!”

 

Then he grabbed the client’s hand and gave her a pitiful look.

 

“Honey, you believe me, right?”

 

The moment everyone’s attention focused on them.

 

“Let’s get divorced.”

 

The client quietly declared.

 

“What, what?”

 

The shop became as quiet as a mouse.

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