My Possession Became a Ghost Story - Chapter 22

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Daisy was talking with me and suddenly ran away, but wouldn’t you normally ask for the reason? Besides, it’s also strange how she emphasized not eavesdropping on conversations while going on about privacy protection.

Could she have a two-faced attribute? She acts kind like this now, but if Gabriel considers me an enemy, she’d be the first to step forward and come to eliminate me. When I imagined it, Rafaela’s smiling face became somewhat frightening. I’m uncomfortable with people who laugh “haha hoho” like that in the first place.

“Ah. What about that gentleman over there?”

Rafaela asked while looking at Jelly. Jelly glanced at me, asking with his eyes what he should do.

Right…? What should I say? The sub male lead I caught? A magic-using werewolf? Our house’s pet beastman?

“He’s my escort.”

“Ah! So you’re a knight. I didn’t realize since you’re not carrying a sword.”

I didn’t think of that. It would be strange for him to use a sword. Jelly is a beastman mage. He mainly uses magic and would use claws instead of a sword. I should have made a more plausible excuse. How do I handle this? While I was worrying, Jelly shrugged his shoulders.

“Well. I’m excellent even without a sword.”

He responded quite cheekily and well. Rafaela nodded seeing Jelly easily holding the box containing holy water bottles with one hand. Jelly’s strength boasting had found its use.

“You’re going to the Knights’ Reception Room, right? Then I should return together as well.”

Rafaela and Uriel took the lead first. I followed behind slowly, matching Jelly’s pace.

“How do you know Daisy?”

“Who? Ah. That girl from earlier? Um… we’re in a relationship where we helped each other a bit?”

“You didn’t bully her, did you?”

“No. I actually helped her. I got her out and we escaped together.”

Jelly grumbled as he answered, saying if anyone was bullied, it was him rather than her. Since there were other people nearby, he seemed to be speaking somewhat indirectly.

Fortunately, I could guess the content just from that. Why, when Jelly first appeared, he was terribly injured. How many things could injure a beastman that badly? Besides, he just said they escaped together.

This is undeniably that. Daisy and Jelly were caught by slave traders or something and escaped together! Daisy turned so pale because seeing Jelly brought back those terrible memories. I think this was called post-traumatic stress something.

Then was Jelly not a sub male lead but part of a sub couple? Now near the ending, he’ll give up his feelings for Kanna and turn toward Daisy. I’m the villain in this one too. Why are there two couples but only one villain?

“I handled the cleanup neatly too.”

In the midst of that, he apparently handled the slave traders cleanly too. That was well done. I patted Jelly’s head as praise.

Rafaela had stopped and was waiting since we weren’t following from afar. When Jelly and I approached and the distance narrowed, he looked at me with a face full of complex emotions. It’s understandable since he witnessed someone he thought his superior was meeting with romantic interest patting another man’s head.

“You have a good relationship with your escort…?”

That’s because Jelly is my pet… Since he usually goes around in wolf form rather than human… If I said this, I’d really be branded as a species-discriminating slave trader, so I quietly kept my mouth shut.

“Not at all.”

I have absolutely no intention of dating Gabriel, but I can’t fall out of Gabriel’s favor right now, so I answered firmly instead. To think I’d be playing the field in a romance fantasy world…

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Rafaela quietly observed Evangeline Rohanson conversing with Daisy. With his mouth, he was exchanging meaningless words with Uriel, so to others it would seem like Rafaela was engaged in his usual pointless banter. Of course, Uriel, who was currently conversing with him, was also rather oblivious and didn’t know Rafaela’s true nature well.

Rafaela was the one who knew the most truth within the Knight Order, excluding Gabriel. If Rafaela had been as naive as he appeared, Gabriel wouldn’t have kept him by his side in the first place.

Rafaela had seen Donau’s corpse and knew about the mysterious crest that came from within it. He also knew about the sorcery circles and was currently investigating past sorcery after visiting the Rohanson Estate.

It was also Rafaela who had listened to Daisy’s testimony, organized it, and submitted the report to Gabriel.

Daisy’s testimony seemed fine at first glance.

She saw Priest Berga summoning something. It was like a demon, and the people that demon killed had their heads cut off and reattached. And they acted perfectly fine as if they weren’t dead, indistinguishable from ordinary humans except for the red line drawn across their necks.

That’s probably why she was so terrified when she saw Kanna, Evangeline Rohanson’s maid.

Honestly, since she’s a maid that Evangeline Rohanson keeps? Even if you said she was a dead person, it would seem believable. After all, Evangeline herself had died and come back to life.

‘On Evangeline Rohanson’s neck…’

Of course, Evangeline’s neck was perfectly clean.

The evil deeds Daisy said Priest Berga committed were terrible enough to make one frown. The reason he had been safe until now was probably due to the unique closed nature of the monastery in the outskirts and the backing of Priest Berga’s family. Really, is this how a clergyman who received Rahel’s grace should behave?

Other crimes Daisy didn’t know about would be revealed when they captured and investigated Priest Berga.

However, there were also suspicious parts in Daisy’s statement.

Excluding several things, what Rafaela found most puzzling was how Daisy, who witnessed the summoning of a demon, could see that and escape safely.

It didn’t seem like Priest Berga would easily let go of Daisy, who knew so many of his secrets. How did she escape?

“Uriel, could you run away if you were being watched in a place that’s hard to escape from?”

“Prison, you mean? Then you shouldn’t escape.”

“…Not prison, somewhere else. For example, a place like a monastery.”

Uriel didn’t understand why one would be trapped in a monastery under surveillance and need to escape, but he thought earnestly to answer Rafaela’s question.

“By jumping through a window? Using trees, I think up to the 3rd floor would be safe.”

“…Right, thanks.”

Rafaela held his forehead at the completely unhelpful answer. Daisy couldn’t escape by jumping through windows like Uriel.

Rafaela turned his attention back to the two people’s conversation.

“———.”

“You, you don’t know my name?”

“—————————.”

“…It’s Daisy.”

It was a strange sensation. The two were clearly having a conversation, but he couldn’t hear what Evangeline Rohanson was saying at all. Moreover, Evangeline wasn’t even moving her lips. Yet the fact that Evangeline was speaking was clear.

Whether Daisy could hear properly, she continued the question and answer exchange as if she had heard something.

Rafaela had no choice but to guess the conversation from Daisy’s words alone.

Following their conversation, it seemed Evangeline Rohanson didn’t remember Daisy. When Daisy gave her testimony, she acted as if she had witnessed trauma.

“Lady Evangeline came back to life? I don’t know how you heard about it, but yes, it’s true. Everyone who attended the funeral would have seen it too. …The scene of the dead young lady coming back to life.”

“The priest who presided over the funeral committed suicide? That’s not even surprising.”

“I’ve seen the young lady draw summoning circles. To summon angels? Angels? If you saw them directly, you couldn’t say such things.”

And what she witnessed at the Rohanson Estate.

Daisy said she saw Evangeline summoning something. Looking at Priest Berga’s case, it must certainly be a demon as well.

“The Rohanson Estate has many watching eyes. So I went to the monastery.”

After that, she fled to the monastery because there were watching eyes at the estate. To be caught up in incidents wherever she goes, her luck is terrible too.

What exactly were the ‘eyes’ Daisy mentioned? Did it mean there were many people watching? Were all the servants at the Rohanson Estate as loyal as the sisters Hena and Kanna?

Originally, the captain was supposed to ask about that, but things got twisted when Daisy clammed up after seeing the Rohanson Estate’s maids.

The captain assigned Rafaela to escort her, telling him to dig for more information, but Daisy maintained silence the entire walk, yielding no results.

Meeting Evangeline Rohanson in the midst of this was unexpected luck. Daisy had been overly agitated from the moment Evangeline Rohanson entered her sight.

So Rafaela deliberately brought Daisy before Evangeline Rohanson. Thinking he could extract something more. But since he couldn’t hear Evangeline’s voice, there was no particular gain.

“…Sir Gabriel knows.”

Moreover, Daisy seemed to have gotten scared and even confessed the fact that she had given testimony. From the captain’s name being mentioned, it seemed she had revealed that she had made a statement.

It was just creating unnecessary trouble. That was the case until the man appeared afterward.

He was a very wild-looking man with black hair and golden eyes. His leisurely movements were like a large beast moving at ease. The man naturally stood behind Evangeline.

“Who is that?”

“That’s Mr. Jelly, Lady Rohanson’s companion.”

Rafaela looked at Uriel in bewilderment. His head throbbed because of his naive colleague who thought such a joke-like thing was a real name and even added honorifics.

“He was quiet and serious though.”

“That person called Jelly?”

“He didn’t say a word while the young lady was praying.”

He was even alone with that suspicious person? Of course, strictly speaking, Evangeline Rohanson was closer to being a dangerous element. He felt slightly resentful toward the captain for assigning the oblivious and naive Uriel.

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