My Possession Became a Ghost Story - Chapter 126

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Father didn’t know this and kept trying to kill the ‘Rats.’ After cutting them in half, the next day there were two ‘Rats.’ Cut in half again, divided and chopped up, the ‘Rats’ lost their original form.

Father didn’t stop there and tried to feed the ‘Rats’ to rats to eliminate them. The current ‘Rats’ were completed that way.

Although Father tried to kill the ‘Rats,’ it wasn’t that important. Because Mother wished for them to come back to life, the ‘Rats’ would revive even after dying.

If their bodies were split, they would come alive as two, and if eaten by rats, they would conversely use the rats as hosts to live. The ‘Rats’ continued to die, be born, eat and be eaten repeatedly, hovering around Mother to fulfill her wish.

If only Mother’s other daughter hadn’t come to the house, they could have lived happily forever.

So what came to the manor was an enemy.

The daughter called Evangeline Rohanson was brought by Father who hated the ‘Rats.’ Evangeline Rohanson was in competition with the ‘Rats’ for Amaranth’s position. Unpleasantly, Mother also liked Evangeline very much.

Moreover, Evangeline was superior to the ‘Rats’ in many ways.

First of all, her appearance greatly resembled Amaranth. The ‘Rats’ had their bodies completely divided by Father, so they couldn’t appear as whole as Evangeline.

Still, the ‘Rats’ wanted to show that they also resembled Amaranth. Fortunately, there was a place where ‘Rats’ were piled up in heaps. Considering the ‘Rats” feelings, Mother sat right nearby.

The ‘Rats’ thought they should show a more daughter-like appearance than Evangeline. So they persuaded Mother’s maid to remove the curtain from the aquarium. They showed their transformed appearance to the people in the greenhouse.

They had imitated Amaranth’s appearance to look like a perfect daughter, but the reaction wasn’t good. Moreover, the suspicious water trapping the rats interfered, so they couldn’t maintain the imitation for long.

Still, Mother recognized that the ‘Rats’ were more like Amaranth. Even though the water stung, they endured it well. The maid named Nigella did too. The ‘Rats’ liked Nigella very much.

Actually, the ‘Rats’ wanted to get along well with Evangeline in their own way. Even if Father brought her to covet the ‘Rats” position, they thought daughters could get along well together.

But Evangeline was thoroughly on Father’s side. The moment Evangeline announced the extermination of the ‘Rats’ to Father, the ‘Rats’ who secretly overheard became very urgent.

Could the ‘Rats’ beat Evangeline? Wouldn’t Mother choose Evangeline? The most disadvantageous thing was that the ‘Rats’ weren’t in human form.

Evangeline’s form was perfect. The ‘Rats’ could never replicate Amaranth as well as Evangeline could. As ‘Rats,’ they couldn’t satisfy Mother, so they had to become human first. They needed to acquire human form first.

The ‘Rats’ decided on Nigella, whom they liked, as the new ‘Rat.’ The ones in the aquarium couldn’t be used, but the other ‘Rats’ were fine. Nigella devoured the remaining ‘Rats.’ Worried she might get indigestion from eating, they made the ‘Rats’ feel extremely delicious to her.

The ‘Rats’ worked even harder. They had to study about being a daughter too. They happened to encounter a young child who met Nigella. A child loved by her mother. That child’s name was Mabuka. The ‘Rats’ watched Mabuka. They observed everything about how to be loved and how Mabuka behaved.

The ‘Rats’ liked Mabuka. Since they liked her, Mother would like her too. The ‘Rats’ decided to feed rats to Mabuka as well. The rats eagerly called and searched for Mabuka, but in the end, Evangeline stole Mabuka away.

Always stealing the ‘Rats” things, Evangeline was indeed a wicked enemy.

Still, the ‘Rats’ didn’t give up and found another daughter. The daughter was combing her hair before going to sleep. The daughter seemed to sense the ‘Rats” watching gaze and looked around fearfully.

“Gh, ghost?”

Though not as well-made as Evangeline, they liked her pale white complexion that was similar.

The ‘Rats’ sent one rat to the daughter. The daughter would think the rat was delicious fruit. The ‘Rats” words had such power.

The daughter looked at the rat very appetizingly, then grabbed its tail and swallowed it in one gulp. The swallowed fruit voluntarily crawled down her throat, burrowing deeper and deeper inside. The daughter spat out a grape stem. The rat’s severed tail was discarded and rolled on the floor.

“I was eating grapes, but it felt like one whole lump rather than individual berries.”

That was the daughter’s impression of devouring the rat.

While the ‘Rats’ were analyzing the daughter, Evangeline attacked the ‘Rats.’ Some of the ‘Rats’ that had been trapped in holy water, repeatedly dying and reviving, burned away in fire. Even though no one had told her, Evangeline knew how to kill the ‘Rats.’

The ‘Rats’ became a little afraid of Evangeline. Evangeline, who could kill them, was scarier than Father who tried to kill the rats. They felt they couldn’t win. But for the ‘Rats’ to become Amaranth, Evangeline had to be gone.

Ah! The ‘Rats’ had an incredibly good idea.

Evangeline would eat the ‘Rats,’ and the ‘Rats’ would become Evangeline! They eagerly sent rats to Evangeline, but the cat protecting Evangeline caught and eliminated them one by one.

The ‘Rats’ vowed revenge on the cat.

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I went to report to the Rohanson Viscount that I had completely cleared out all the rat corpses in the aquarium. The Rohanson Viscount was very surprised, saying he didn’t know I could handle it in just one day.

“Then I’ll see you after lunch.”

Eating together would probably give me indigestion. Before that, hearing that rats had come out of the kitchen, I decided to just fast at the Duchy. Both Mabuka and Rico saw people eating rats in the kitchen.

I don’t want to eat food cooked in such a place. If I get hungry, Pudding and Jelly will deliver from Rohanson Estate by quick service, so what’s the problem.

While I was waiting and searching through Amaranth’s room, Rico came to get me.

The Rohanson Viscount seemed to plan on having a conversation with me while handling documents. Really, how is every single action like bait for regret now?

“I didn’t know you could handle something that even holy water was useless against. How did you do it?”

I just burned it.

I wanted to ask why they didn’t burn the bulky stuff that was just taking up space earlier, instead of wastefully soaking it in holy water in the aquarium. But I couldn’t answer honestly.

It’s easy once you know, but I need to exaggerate like there’s some amazing method to raise my standing.

“By a method you absolutely cannot use, Your Grace.”

“…Is that so?”

The Rohanson Viscount was very displeased but seemed to find significance in having a disposal method. Since he’s going to make me do it all anyway, he probably isn’t even curious about the method. Tch!

“A promise is a promise, so I’ll give you time. But I don’t have much time to spare for you. As you can see, there’s a lot of work.”

Even while speaking, the Rohanson Viscount didn’t glance at me once.

“And I don’t want to share memories of Amaranth with something like you.”

Congratulations on accumulating 2 stacks of regret. Hmph. You won’t talk about Amaranth? Then I’ll just ask about something else.

“Did you know the Temple is spying on the Duchy, Your Grace?”

“What?”

Don’t tell me he didn’t know? I thought he’d naturally know, but the Rohanson Viscount’s intelligence network isn’t much either…

The Rohanson Viscount must have been furious as he crumpled the documents he was working on. Why does this old man have no middle ground and always go into overdrive? He acted like document work was the most important thing in the world, telling me not to interfere, then crumples paper at one word.

“They say a priest approached Mabuka, the butler’s daughter, asking about internal affairs. If they approached a child, wouldn’t they have made offers to other servants too?”

“Conversely, it means they grabbed onto a child’s coattails because all the other servants refused.”

Hosaquin Rohanson Viscount dismissed my opinion sarcastically, but it made a lot of sense. Children’s opinions are often treated as unimportant.

Did the priests approach Mabuka because everyone else cleverly turned them away? The security is amazing. This is why Gabriel opposed keeping me at Rohanson Estate and sent me here.

“Do they know sorcery was used at Hosaquin Viscount’s Mansion and approach because of that?”

“Well. Your existence alone is sufficient without needing to dig deeper.”

I was genuinely worried when I said that, but the Rohanson Viscount growled at me. Really, this is too much. Look how he treats me like a criminal after granting me amnesty himself! I suppressed the boiling anger rising up.

Be patient, be patient. I have a mission called family regret story. I can’t provoke the Rohanson Viscount like I did in the banquet hall. Whew. I barely calmed my mind with deep breaths.

What I was going to ask next was what I really wanted to know.

“Your Grace. Who summoned the ‘Rats’? Rico said you would explain.”

“Rico did…”

When I asked Rico yesterday, he said he wasn’t qualified to speak and told me to get the Rohanson Viscount’s permission or hear it from him directly. Since I got private time anyway, it’s better to have the Rohanson Viscount explain directly.

When Rico’s name came up, the Rohanson Viscount closed his eyes and became sentimental. The differential treatment is really amazing. Anyone would think Rico is the Hosaquin granddaughter, not me. The Rohanson Viscount, who seemed like he would maintain eternal silence, quietly opened his mouth.

“Agera did it.”

What? For a moment, I thought my ears were wrong.

“It was Agera who cast the sorcery.”

They weren’t. The Rohanson Viscount, who had never done such a thing in his life, kindly provided a second announcement. The Rohanson Viscount mentioned Agera’s name and roughly rubbed his face with his hands. He looked full of regret and lingering attachment.

“Lady Agera…?”

The Rohanson Viscount told me to hear the detailed contents from Rico and kicked me out. I left the Rohanson Viscount’s office with only ‘Agera’ and ‘sorcery’ floating around in my head.

I thought some other force was trying to frame Hosaquin Viscount’s Mansion, I never dreamed it would be an insider’s doing. Even the Viscount’s Wife? Evangeline’s grandmother is the culprit?

Is this real?

If Bishop Marik storms in like this, Hosaquin Viscount’s Mansion and I will be tied together and burned at the stake.

Gabriel, save me! This doesn’t seem like the right place!

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