My Possession Became a Ghost Story - Chapter 250

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Looking at the examples Lea gave, the price wasn’t limited to just life or soul. The singer who had her tongue cut off offered someone else’s severed tongue to Lea to sing again. The beggar offered his own child, which was truly the end times. In a way, it was fitting as a price to offer to a demon.

But I couldn’t bring myself to do such things. I wondered if making a wish to Lea while harboring selfish desires was wrong. At least with the price I could offer. It would be enough for me alone to make the sacrifice.

I pondered for a moment.

Ah. I thought of something I could offer as a price.

“I’ll give you my… to you.”

I made the proposal to Lea, and Lea nodded with satisfaction.

“Yes. I shall accept that.”

Lea poked my forehead.

“Remember this. When you open your eyes…”

The raven’s words became blurred. No, it was my consciousness that was becoming hazy. What had Lea done to me? My vision spun as the world swirled as if someone was stirring it. The spinning sight made my head dizzy.

Soon my eyelids grew heavy and drowsiness suddenly began to wash over me. Unable to resist the sleepiness, my body collapsed with a thud.

***

My hand trembled slightly. I couldn’t feel any warmth in the embrace I had been holding tightly for fear it would disappear. Nothing there? I quickly opened my eyes and sat up.

“Count Gabriel?”

Why isn’t he here? I looked around frantically.

“This place…”

It was a familiar place. Having stayed at the Duke’s mansion for a while, it felt somewhat unfamiliar, but this was my room in the Rohanson Estate.

And it was in perfect condition, as if it had never burned. What? Had Lea intervened? No, more than that, what happened to the deal with Lea? Where on earth did Gabriel go?

Strangely, the situation from that time was hazy. I remember being told that I was actually Evangeline Rohanson herself… After that, I definitely offered something as a price and Lea would return Gabriel. I think I got a definite answer. But I couldn’t remember clearly.

What was I trying to offer?

When I tried to recall the memory, a sharp headache struck. My head throbbed, so I clutched my forehead. My head felt dizzy and stinging as if it had been roughly ransacked.

No matter how much I tried to recall the memory, it only made my head hurt. Fine. I’ll just have to search on foot for now.

As soon as I opened the door, the maid standing in front of it was startled and bowed. Huh? She bowed her head so quickly I couldn’t see properly, but could it be…

“Daisy?”

When I called her name, her body flinched. As I thought! It must be Daisy.

“Could you lift your head?”

At my request, Daisy raised her head. She had an expression as if she couldn’t stand it but had no choice since it was an order. Brown hair and freckles too. It was definitely Daisy.

Why is she here? I thought I had evacuated the Rohanson Estate people and Daisy’s siblings to a village beyond the temple’s reach.

Ah, I see. Since we defeated Bishop Marik, there’s no need to keep hiding. They must have returned since it became safe.

If I had to guess, I made a wish to Lea, then exhausted, fell asleep and didn’t wake up for a long time? But for the burned house to be restored and even Daisy to return, some time must have passed. Did I really sleep that long?

“Perfect timing. I have something to ask, but I can’t see Count Gabriel anywhere…”

It was the moment I grabbed Daisy’s shoulder.

Daisy’s complexion turned deathly pale. As if a disgusting bug had touched her, Daisy was horrified and immediately knelt on the floor.

“…Daisy?”

“I’m sorry, Evangeline! I’m sorry!”

Why is she suddenly apologizing?

“Why? Did something happen?”

Did something happen while I was asleep?

“Explain in detail.”

I need to understand the situation first, don’t I? Then Daisy began to tear up and sob.

“I’m sorry. Please don’t punish me. I was just following the Viscount’s orders! I absolutely didn’t intend to spy on Evangeline.”

What on earth is she talking about? The Viscount was imprisoned in the temple prison by Priest Jabaniya. No matter how long I slept, they wouldn’t have released him on their own.

“It’s okay, so get up quickly.”

While helping Daisy to her feet, I began to think something was strange. Daisy looking at me fearfully, and the estate that was perfectly fine as if it had never burned. Thinking about it calmly, is it possible to restore a burned estate in such a short time? Did Pudding and Jelly help?

“Daisy. Where are Pudding and Jelly? What about Hena and Kanna?”

At my question, Daisy rolled her eyes as if she’d heard a strange question.

“…Excuse me? I’m sorry, but I don’t really know who this child named Kanna is. And Hena… Are you perhaps asking me to bring desserts from Hena…?”

See. Something was definitely strange. She doesn’t know Kanna and interprets Pudding and Jelly as dessert names.

“Listen. What’s today’s date?”

“Today is…”

After hearing today’s date from Daisy, I was certain.

“When was my funeral?”

“It was just two days ago. …On Evangeline’s birthday.”

I had regressed.

To be precise, Lea must have turned back time.

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I regressed. I asked to save Gabriel, but I didn’t expect time to be reversed entirely… As expected of someone who rebelled against the Sun God, the scale of wish fulfillment is impressive.

But I can’t really remember what I gave Lea as a price. It wasn’t my soul, so what exactly did I give? I must have given something since I regressed…

Ah, forget it. What’s the point of continuing to think about something I can’t remember that only gives me headaches.

The important thing was that I now had the title of second life following the villainess title. Anyway, this time I won’t create a situation where Gabriel gets hurt!

I wanted to go see if Gabriel was walking around safely, but since we’re strangers now, I couldn’t just visit him out of the blue. Instead, I kept very busy doing other things.

First, I made Daisy and Hena my personal maids, and gave Hena a bottle of holy water. I earnestly asked her to take it to our Kanna without going astray. When she asked how I knew her sister was sick, I threw the butler under the bus. Hena cried tears of gratitude.

From what I heard, Kanna was safely recovering and rehabilitating. I even arranged for Kanna to definitely be brought as my maid if she ever needed employment later. I promised excellent treatment.

And I fired Donau.

When the butler looked disgruntled, I gave him the choice between killing Donau or firing him, and he quickly said he’d fire him.

Actually, that bastard Donau stole Amaranth’s magic circle and things escalated like a butterfly effect, right? He even kidnapped Kanna. Come to think of it, did that bastard Donau kidnap our Kanna to offer her as a sacrifice? What a piece of trash.

I’d like to throw him in prison, but Donau hasn’t actually committed any crimes yet. After struggling with this dilemma, I just agreed to remove him from my sight. Of course there was no severance pay, it was a dishonorable dismissal. Other noble families will never hire him either. Live a life of hardship forever.

Donau was dealt with too. So now what I need to do is rescue Daisy’s siblings and bring Melek. I also need to visit Toten Madam… And I need to summon Pudding and Jelly too.

The last one was the biggest challenge. So how do I summon our kids? With a magic circle?

Something suddenly occurred to me. Could it be that crude magic circle I first copied… Pudding wasn’t summoned with that, was he? …I can’t say for certain that’s not the case.

Just as I was deciding to look for Amaranth’s diary in the storage room, there was a knock at the door.

“Um… Evangeline. It’s time for your walk.”

“Alright. I’m coming out.”

I headed to the garden with Hena. On the way to the garden, the people we encountered were horrified and bowed their heads.

Perhaps because I had just woken up, the estate people were extremely afraid of me. After the Rohanson Estate burned and the butler bowed to me, there was finally an atmosphere of acknowledging me… Isn’t resetting the intimacy level too harsh?

It was a bit disappointing, but seeing the estate people who died to Bishop Marik walking around alive, I decided to put aside my regretful feelings. Yes, well, human life is what’s important.

“Evangeline, please… please don’t kill me…!”

“…When did I ever say I’d kill you?”

“I’m sorry…”

I just said human life is important.

During the garden walk, a maid saw me and her legs gave out, spilling all the laundry she was carrying. It looked like bedding from my room. She must have been cleaning while I was away.

The laundry could be redone, but seeing the maid crying and begging for her life as if it were a mortal sin was quite moving. Ah, this kind of treatment has been a while.

Though it was a bit unfair to be treated like a scoundrel when I hadn’t done anything.

And only after spending a few days did I realize. These people weren’t trembling in fear because Evangeline Rohanson was a villainess, they were just scared because a corpse had come back to life.

Wait, they weren’t afraid of Evangeline?

Logically, it would be scary if a corpse came back to life… Let’s think from the servants’ perspective. The deceased young lady of the estate came back to life and wanders the estate. Hmm… This is completely a ghost story, isn’t it?

According to what Daisy confessed to me, saying the Viscount ordered her to spy, and spilled everything, the Viscount even secretly fed me holy water.

Am I a demon? Why are you performing exorcism by yourself?

Was it like this before too? It must have been… I kept sighing deeply. How much of a flower field was my past self’s brain? Even if Lea intervened, there are limits.

Well, I thought I was summoning the Spirit King but the magic circle I found was actually a demon summoning circle, so what more can I say.

After the walk ended, I rummaged through the storage room and found Amaranth’s diary. Recalling the past as much as possible, I drew a magic circle in a similar way and waited for Pudding to appear.

“Pudding?”

And she failed.

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