My Possession Became a Ghost Story - Chapter 246

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With trembling hands, I unbuttoned his shirt. Through my hazy vision, I could see the wound near Gabriel’s heart. It had been cauterized with fire to stop the bleeding. Originally, there had been a scar of a coiled dragon in this position. Gabriel hated the Imperial Family’s emblem, so when he woke up, he might actually be glad that the mark had disappeared. …If he woke up.

My blurry vision became even more clouded. Though the rain that Pudding had been making had stopped long ago, it felt like a downpour was falling. Water droplets fell onto Gabriel with soft pattering sounds. No fairy tale miracle occurred where my tears would bring him back to consciousness.

I wished the holy water had been effective on Gabriel, but holy water couldn’t heal him. Since his heart had been pierced, even healers couldn’t do anything. So there was only one place I could turn to.

If not to God, then I had no choice but to rely on demons.

That was why I had specifically come to the Rohanson Estate. I knew it wasn’t good to bring a patient to a burned-down mansion, but there was no other way. Gabriel couldn’t be saved through ordinary methods.

The things I was about to do couldn’t be seen by people who loved to gossip about others’ affairs. That was also why Pudding had insisted on standing guard outside despite her incomplete recovery.

‘First, I need to find the sorcery circle.’

So I had to find the sorcery circle that would be in Amaranth’s room.

This was a story I heard when I had a conversation with Agera at the Duke’s Mansion.

About 20 years ago. One day, Amaranth came to the Duke’s Mansion without any notice. She had brought along a young child who looked exactly like her.

“Rohanson said the child wasn’t his and told Julian to never let Amaranth in… But I hadn’t even heard she was pregnant, so how could I turn away my daughter who came to her family home carrying a child?”

And that day, Agera heard about sorcery from Amaranth.

But Agera, who was devout at the time, was shocked to hear about sorcery and fell ill from the shock. After the Duke severed ties with her in anger upon learning that his daughter had dabbled in sorcery, she could never meet Amaranth again.

“This is what I heard back then.”

According to Agera, Amaranth had learned about sorcery circles by chance and succeeded in summoning an existence that would save her.

Though she kept her mouth shut about what that chance encounter was, even to Agera, Amaranth had held her child and said this: that two pieces of paper had led her to salvation.

When I first heard this, I thought Agera was remembering incorrectly. The summoning circle I had found in Amaranth’s diary was only one page.

But Agera was certain.

“That was the last day I met my daughter, so I remember it clearly. She definitely said two pieces.”

Agera speculated that her failure to revive Amaranth was partly due to her own lack of resolve, but also because the summoning circle hadn’t been complete to begin with.

“My daughter didn’t tell me she had summoned a demon. That child definitely called forth something other than a demon.”

Something other than a demon.

Come to think of it, it was strange. Do you know why the Temple oppresses heretics? It’s because heretics worship something other than the Sun God Rahel.

Those who don’t believe in the Sun God worship only one being. That was ‘Lea.’

Sorcery circles were shackles meant to bring the object of worship down to earth, so they probably weren’t originally meant to summon demons. The meaning likely changed as it spread.

The demons summoned so far were merely the result of failed attempts to summon Lea. The demons were also byproducts of Lea.

And as far as I knew, the only one who had succeeded in summoning Lea was… Amaranth.

They say that if it’s not the Sun God Rahel, one cannot interfere with life, but Amaranth had succeeded in summoning Lea and creating life. And the life that succeeded in that summoning was precisely…

So Lea should be able to heal Gabriel.

The method would be written in the diary I hadn’t found yet. From my conversation with Agera at the Duke’s estate, I had gotten a hint about where Amaranth’s diary might be.

Amaranth had a peculiar habit from childhood. She would hide treasure boxes under her bed. When Amaranth was young and went missing, they searched everywhere but couldn’t find her, and Agera had reminisced about how shocked she was when they found the child sleeping under the bed.

Before, I had only looked at the space under the bed, but hadn’t checked what was attached to the bed itself.

As I felt around the bottom of the broken bed, my hand caught something thick.

‘Found it! It was here after all!’

A thrill ran through me. I carefully peeled off the diary that had been attached with sealing wax, making sure not to tear it. It had the same cover as the one I’d found in the storage room. This was definitely Amaranth’s diary.

I turned the pages. Year 372. …The year Evangeline, the year I was born.

January 372.

February 372.

March 372.

April 372.

I quickly flipped through pages filled with malice and stopped. Finally, among pages full of cursing words, something that actually resembled a diary appeared.

April 3rd, 372.

While taking a walk, I happened to meet an unusual maid. It was a girl named Pakira.

She actually spoke to me – hadn’t she heard Coleus’s orders? The conversation after so long was enjoyable, so I asked her to come out during walk time next time too.

April 4th, 372.

She didn’t show up until walk time was over, so I was disappointed, but just before returning to my room, she appeared like a miracle. She was covered in sweat – had she been running?

April 7th, 372.

Yesterday, Pakira’s stomach made a growling sound. She said she was too busy with work to eat, but it seemed like a lie. I’m sure Coleus was starving her for talking to me, or she was being ostracized by the other maids.

She seemed hungry, so I secretly brought her my portion of food.

When I gave her bread and fruit, Pakira asked several times if it was really okay for her to eat this food.

Was she uncomfortable because it was a noble’s meal?

April 12th, 372.

The time I spend with Pakira every day is the only time I can breathe.

When I complain about Coleus to Pakira, I feel like I’ve returned to being just an ordinary noble young lady.

April 14th, 372.

I hate Coleus Rohanson. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him. I hate him.

April 21st, 372.

Pakira asked me a strange question. Do I want to be loved by my husband? Maybe when I first got married, but now I don’t wish for that at all. Pakira grabbed my wrist and cried for a long time. Pakira seems to have large hands for a woman. Or maybe my wrists have gotten thinner?

May 5th, 372.

Coleus fired Pakira. Saying Pakira stole my necklace? That shameless bastard! He took all the jewelry I brought from my family home, and now he’s framing my friend? I went to confront Coleus, but it was useless. My cheek hurts.

May 6th, 372.

Before leaving, Pakira gave me a letter. She told me to open it when I really couldn’t bear it anymore and was struggling.

The letters were smudged as if Amaranth had been crying.

After that, no diary entries were written for a while. When I turned the page, a piece of paper that had been tucked in the diary fell out.

I picked up the paper. My hands trembled slightly with tension. Could this be the letter Pakira had left? The diary continued on the page where the letter had been tucked.

June 4th, 372.

I opened the letter.

Day 273, Month 666, Year 6.

A being who will love me has been born.

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