My Possession Became a Ghost Story - Chapter 29

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After a long time, I went to find the butler. The servants who seemed to be reporting something to the butler bowed their heads deeply and disappeared quietly, trying not even to step on my shadow. It’s too bitter that this reaction is actually an improvement.

“My lady? What brings you here…?”

“I need something.”

“What might that be?”

“I heard there was a maid named Daisy who worked here?”

The butler remained silent.

“That Daisy who entered the monastery.”

Ah, why is someone who knows everything acting like this? I came here knowing everything too. Somehow, talking like this makes me feel like a detective who came to interrogate a criminal.

“I want to know where Daisy lives. Don’t tell me you don’t have it?”

Like they immediately discard information of people who just quit. But thinking about it, it’s also somewhat problematic that personal information of a servant who already quit still remains. Moreover, the higher-ups are arbitrarily investigating behind the scenes to find out home addresses.

“I heard she sold her house saying she was entering the monastery. Her current home would be the monastery, I suppose.”

No, the problem is that Daisy isn’t at the monastery. That monastery’s abbot committed too many evil deeds, so Daisy escaped and righteously reported it to the monastery. She also mentioned my evil deeds while she was at it.

Talking like this makes me seem like I’m on the same level as that wicked abbot? Daisy looks much more righteous.

“Isn’t there anywhere else Daisy might live?”

The butler looks like he knows something more. Is it because he wears single-lens glasses? I feel like he might actually be the head of an information guild or have assassination as a side job.

When I persistently clung on until the end, one more piece of information popped out. I knew it. He was hiding it while knowing.

“Ainoa Orphanage?”

“She said she was from an orphanage. If she left the monastery and is staying somewhere temporarily, it would be there.”

An orphanage? So Daisy was at an orphanage, then unfortunately became the villainess’s maid and was bullied, then fled to a monastery where she got traumatized because of the crazy abbot. I don’t know the exact timing, but she was caught by slave traders, then safely escaped with Jelly who was caught there with her.

Somehow… doesn’t Daisy have a deeper story than Kanna? Maybe the real female lead wasn’t Kanna but Daisy? I thought she was a character planted by the original work’s corrective force to stop the villainess’s rampage, but was I mistaken?

I don’t know. I’ll find out when I go see. Before coming to find the butler, I had already changed into modest outdoor clothes and prepared plenty of gold coins.

Outside, a carriage was already waiting. It didn’t seem to be the Rohanson Viscount’s carriage but a separately hired one. When did they call it?

“Jelly called it for you.”

I feel sorry for cursing him just now. Right. Jelly is a bit rough around the edges, but he listens well and is considerate.

“Did I do well?”

Jelly smiled triumphantly. Really showing off with claw marks hanging on his face.

“Where’s Pudding?”

“Here.”

Jelly handed over Pudding. No, what am I supposed to do if you bring the kid? We have to take a carriage, and carriages shake so much.

“Pudding, want to come with us?”

Pudding nodded. I can’t take him back and leave him now. Since Pudding seems to want to come along too, I have no choice but to take him.

“Where shall I take you?”

Maybe because it was a carriage Jelly called, the coachman was also extremely polite. Though he seems to have some bad habits. The coachman seems to have a habit of scratching his neck. The visible part of his neck was red.

“To Ainoa Orphanage.”

Well. That’s unrelated to his carriage driving skills.

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Today, Daisy had come to visit the orphanage where she had been indebted a few years ago. After fleeing the temple, she had rented a room at a cheap inn to stay. With nothing to do but eat and sleep, her money disappeared rapidly.

While calculating her remaining money, she saw a balance that was much higher than usual and realized she hadn’t visited the orphanage recently.

‘It’s time to visit.’

To repay her debt to the director, Daisy always donated part of her earned money to the orphanage. Sometimes she would visit with bread and fruit for the children to eat.

She had visited once before entering the monastery. For some reason, she particularly missed her younger siblings today. With such thoughts, Daisy headed to the orphanage with an armful of gifts.

Perhaps because it had been so long since she visited, the orphanage looked very unfamiliar. It seemed unusually devoid of any signs of life. Though puzzled, Daisy entered without hesitation.

There was no one inside the orphanage. She had no choice but to call for the children and director while opening doors one by one.

Did they all go on a trip together? And the moment she opened the director’s office door, she saw a very familiar symbol that shouldn’t have been there.

The same drawing that the thing wearing the young lady’s mask had drawn, the same one Daisy had summoned, was drawn in blood.

‘Why is that here?’

Daisy momentarily couldn’t face reality. Why was that drawing in the orphanage, and why was there no one inside? Some ominous imagination wrapped around her entire body. Her hair stood on end and her throat constricted.

Her legs gave out and she crawled forward on her knees. What was drawn on the floor was indeed a summoning circle to call forth demons. And that sticky coloring was clearly etched in Daisy’s mind. A fishy smell lingered.

‘What is this…’

At this point, it seemed like that drawing was chasing after Daisy.

What happened to the director? What about the orphanage children? The sight of them running toward her innocently while calling her name was still vivid. Don’t tell me they became sacrifices for this sorcery circle…

Just in case, Daisy thoroughly searched the orphanage again, but there were no signs of life, not even corpses. Only the drawing painted in blood remained.

Daisy sat there for a long while before leaving the orphanage on trembling legs. She couldn’t stay there any longer and fled. She wanted to see someone alive right now.

As Daisy walked with her mind half-gone, a carriage swiftly passed right in front of her nose. A wheel as big as Daisy’s body rolled right in front of her, and Daisy was so startled she ended up sitting down.

“Crazy bastard! Are you dying to get killed?”

The coachman shouted loudly without even stopping the carriage. He didn’t know what noble person might be riding inside, but most carriages, once they started running, didn’t know how to stop so as not to displease their high-ranking passengers.

Even while hearing the sharp curses, Daisy sat quietly with her head in a daze. A passerby who saw this helped Daisy up.

“Geez. I don’t know who’s the crazy one. Miss, are you alright?”

Not only that, but they also brushed the dirt off Daisy’s clothes. Daisy bowed her head saying “Thank you, thank you” to that kindness.

“Are you feeling unwell somewhere? Then hurry home and rest…”

The passerby patted Daisy’s shoulder to comfort her, then began walking on their way again.

Daisy mulled over those words and buried her face in her hands. It felt like tears would pour out again. Go home? Where to? If there’s no place to return to, where should she go?

‘Director. Children…’

“I should find the guards…”

No. That won’t work. No bodies appeared, people just disappeared. What would calling the guards accomplish? Moreover, since that sorcery circle appeared, it probably can’t be solved through ordinary means.

Right now she needed to find someone else. Someone who could solve this situation immediately as Daisy hoped…

Daisy hailed a carriage.

“To Rohanson, Rohanson Estate.”

“If you need help, call me again. Next time I’ll charge proper payment though.”

“If you have a wish you want from me, come find me. I’ll grant it.”

She recalled the words of that demon and Evangeline. The words saying to come if she needed help. Was it real? Could she get help if she went?

She knew well that logically she should go to the temple, not Evangeline. But was the Grand Temple a place Daisy could enter just because she wanted to? Last time too, it took 3 days to gain entry to the Grand Temple. That would be too late.

Moreover, even if she went, they’d still be investigating Priest Berga. Then finding the orphanage people would be delayed even more.

On the other hand, if it’s Evangeline… She would definitely know well about that sorcery circle.

“5 coppers.”

Daisy tried to take out her purse to pay. But no matter how much she searched inside her clothes, the purse with money was nowhere to be seen. Where, where did she drop it? Then she remembered the passerby who helped her when she almost got hit by the carriage. They must have stolen it then.

“If you don’t have money, get off.”

“I’m in a hurry right now. Please, I’ll pay you later.”

“Listen here, young lady. Do you think I’ve been fooled by such tricks once or twice? People like you get off saying you’ll bring money back and then run away. I’ve been fooled a few times before, so I can’t allow it. Sorry, but catch another carriage.”

Daisy had no choice but to get off the carriage.

And she had no choice but to start walking. One step, one step, Daisy’s steps that started slowly gradually quickened and now became a run.

If she went to Rohanson Estate, there would be a way.

Daisy ran. When her lungs felt like bursting, she walked briefly. When her calves cramped and her feet became heavy, she ran for a long while and arrived at Rohanson Estate.

“What business brings you here?”

The gatekeeper blocked Daisy’s way. Was he someone newly hired after Daisy quit? He was an unfamiliar face. If it had been someone she knew, it would have been easier to ask to be let in.

Daisy pondered how to speak, then finally brought up that name.

“Evangeline…, I came to see Lady Evangeline.”

That day, for the first time, Daisy acknowledged that the thing that had stolen the body of the dead young lady was called ‘Lady Evangeline’ by the world. And Daisy also addressed her as such.

It felt like killing a person who had already died once again.

“My lady is currently out.”

Of all times, now? She said to come if I had a wish! Daisy lowered her head.

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