My Possession Became a Ghost Story - Chapter 37

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I don’t know what it was, but they just made up, right?

Watching Daisy and Troy embracing intensely made me feel uneasy somewhere in my heart.

It seems Troy isn’t a third-rate villain supporting character but Jelly’s love rival. They’re building such a passionate narrative over there, but our Jelly doesn’t even seem to feel any sense of crisis and is just yawning behind us.

Oh my, I can even see his fangs. He wouldn’t be this bored even when watching an uninteresting drama. That guy is going to regret this big time later, but is that okay?

“It’s okay, the children will be safe. Evangeline will find them.”

“That person will?”

And suddenly all attention was focused on me.

“Yes. Because I promised.”

Daisy looked at me desperately. I owe Daisy a debt of gratitude, and there are things I need to hear from her, and even if I wasn’t involved in such matters, I can’t just sit idle when children have disappeared, for conscience’s sake.

“Thank goodness…”

Troy visibly relaxed. We’re meeting for the first time, so why does he trust me so much? Could it be that thing? Like how our department’s terrible-personality boss seems reliable when fighting with other departments?

But anyway, I said that, but how do I actually find them?

Troy, who I suspected the most, wasn’t the culprit. The Orphanage Director, huh? I was missing a cliché from mystery novels. Well, Troy did appear too early to be the culprit.

Let’s not forget that this is inside a novel. I don’t need to think about it so complicatedly.

‘Let me think carefully.’

If I apply the current situation to a romance fantasy, this is a sub-couple’s narrative, right? It would be a story where Daisy, who has trauma from human trafficking, overcomes being betrayed by someone she trusted and grows one step further.

Then is the hint this summoning circle? I was puzzled about why there was suddenly a summoning circle here, but I could reasonably deduce it.

Probably in the original work, the person Daisy asked for help wasn’t me but Jelly or Kanna. So they came to help and saw this drawing, realizing that Evangeline was behind the incident.

Kanna saw the drawing when she was kidnapped by Donau, so she could deduce it at once.

Wow. So if I hadn’t come to help Daisy, the villainess’s infamy would have piled up even more? The original work’s corrective force is really scary…

Anyway, since I never told them about the drawing, the Orphanage Director, like the priests at the monastery, must have seen the drawing hanging in the Temple. It’s really fortunate that thing finally burned down.

“Jelly, can you smell anything?”

“No. The air is heavy and dizzying, making it hard to breathe.”

I felt a similar sensation when entering this room. Then this is obviously that.

‘Wind spirit!’

The Orphanage Director must have summoned a wind spirit to erase the scents. If Jelly were to be active in this episode, the case would end too quickly, so they nerfed Jelly so he couldn’t use his abilities.

Therefore, the culprit is inside here!

Of course, I don’t mean there’s an accomplice among these members, but that they’re inside this building. There must be a secret passage somewhere.

If they had taken the children far away, they wouldn’t have bothered using spirits to confuse us by preventing scent detection.

And the most suspicious thing in this situation is that wardrobe.

Usually bookshelves or wardrobes are secret doors, right? But just now a mouse jumped out of the wardrobe. It didn’t come out the way it went in but was scratching at the door. The mouse definitely entered the wardrobe through another passage.

“Miss?”

I carefully felt the inner wall of the wardrobe. Isn’t there a button or something? When I couldn’t find anything despite feeling around earnestly, I pushed the door with force. Then the wardrobe wall fell backward.

Do secret passages usually open this crudely? Anyone would think I broke it.

“What is this…”

I knew it! Beyond the opened wall were stairs leading underground. As expected, since this is inside a novel, things proceed smoothly when I apply clichés.

Wind blew up from underground. What is this terrible smell? Jelly, sensitive to smells, roughly covered his nose and muttered

“The smell is so awful, why didn’t we notice it?”

Probably because the spirit was blocking it. Wind spirits sometimes use such abilities.

“Could they be down there?”

“Probably.”

I said that, but I was almost certain. A hidden door appeared? Then they’re definitely down there, one hundred percent.

“Before going down, make sure to secure the papers.”

Spirits and magic might clash and leave nothing of the building, and we might not be able to retrieve them later, so it’s better to secure evidence in advance.

At my words, Kanna unconsciously picked up the document folder, then hesitated briefly before handing it to Daisy. She seemed worried about making another mistake after making the papers smudge with water.

“Thank you…”

Daisy hugged the documents tightly as if to crumple them. Is there nothing else needed? As I looked around, Pudding escaped from my arms and jumped down.

“Pudding? You’re not coming with us?”

Pudding nodded and curled up on the summoning circle. Well, I have been dragging the child around too much.

“Then guard this place well.”

And run away if it’s dangerous. I stroked Pudding’s chin and grabbed a candle.

“Then let’s go down.”

We passed through the wardrobe in a line.

“To think there was such a place underground…”

“I didn’t know either.”

The candlelight flickered. Since it was a place without a single ray of light, it was very dark, so we carefully went down the stairs holding onto the wall. Fortunately, it wasn’t very deep. About one floor’s difference?

“I can faintly smell soup.”

At those words, I recalled the cooking utensils we found in the orphanage dining room. Those weren’t offerings for ghosts but were used to cook for the children underground. Since they ate downstairs, only traces of cooking remained upstairs.

Then were the sounds of hunger also coming from below? Since the underground wasn’t very deep, the sounds could easily leak upward.

“They really were here.”

“Should we split up and search?”

Once it became certain that the children were here, Daisy and Troy seemed to become anxious.

“No.”

I understand their feelings well, but absolutely not. If we split up, we’ll obviously get attacked and hurt.

The Orphanage Director might try to harm us using spirits. But on our side, we have a werewolf mage with both physical strength and combat power!

“There’s no need for that. Jelly, from here you know which way to go, right?”

I don’t know the principle, but since opening the secret passage, Jelly’s sense of smell seemed to have returned, so from here we could leave the guidance to him.

“The smell is spread too widely to distinguish well, but I’ll try.”

This time Jelly also seemed to recognize the seriousness of the situation, so instead of complaining “me again?” he obediently nodded and took the lead.

“It’s wider than expected. It seems twice the size of the orphanage building.”

The underground was quite spacious and dark. There were occasionally candles hanging on the walls here and there, but they were so dim they would die out with one breath, so they weren’t helpful.

“Is it here? Or over there?”

Because of that, Jelly seemed to be getting lost too. The place Jelly guided us to was a room with beds. Various things that could be accessories or toys were scattered on the beds, and seeing them made Daisy’s eyes well up with tears.

“These are the children’s belongings.”

So they were confined underground and lived here. We passed the bedroom again and followed Jelly. And not going very far, Jelly stopped.

Jelly stopped and was peering inside. Have we arrived?

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Even after Yulma closed his eyes, there was no pain he could feel. Did Ranon succeed?

“Ugh…”

At the Orphanage Director’s pained groan, Yulma slightly opened his eyes. However, what unfolded before his eyes was a completely unexpected scene.

The man the Orphanage Director brought was restraining the Orphanage Director from behind in an embracing manner. The Orphanage Director’s hand was stopped mid-air, being blocked. The man was gripping the hand tightly, causing groans to leak from the Orphanage Director.

The Orphanage Director soon let go. Yulma quickly pulled his body back, and the blade fell to the floor with a sharp sound.

“Yulma… can I open my eyes now?”

“Absolutely not! Who told you to speak? Absolutely don’t look back and quietly cover your ears!”

The children’s patience seemed to have reached its limit, so Yulma shouted. They didn’t hear that sharp sound just now, did they?

“Won’t you let go of this?”

The Orphanage Director snapped, but Melek didn’t budge. Yulma was bewildered. If he knew he could gain the upper hand like that, why had he been obediently tied up all this time?

Anyway, if that man sided with the children, it would be much easier to subdue the Orphanage Director.

Then Ranon wouldn’t have to get blood on his hands either… That’s right, Ranon! Yulma hurriedly checked on Ranon. Ranon was sitting down as if drained, and there was something red on the knife he was holding. Blood?

But the Orphanage Director is fine? Yulma soon looked at Melek’s back and was horrified. Blood was gushing from around Melek’s waist.

Melek had stopped the Orphanage Director while simultaneously protecting him from Ranon’s attack, taking the blade instead.

That stupid fool, if he’s going to tremble like that after stabbing an innocent person, how was he going to deal with the Orphanage Director?

Only the Orphanage Director, unaware of this fact, was terribly angry at Melek. Why was he interfering now after being passive all this time? As if protecting the children. A demon, no less!

“Merai. Please stop.”

The Orphanage Director hesitated for a moment. It was because he seemed to have heard those words somewhere before. A very long time ago, yes, about 20 years ago…

While the Orphanage Director was confused by the déjà vu, Yulma quickly made a decision.

The door was open. He couldn’t be sure if the man was completely on the children’s side, but either way it didn’t matter. Of course it would be good if he was on our side, and even if he was on the Orphanage Director’s side, he was injured so he couldn’t chase the children.

In this gap, the Orphanage Director. Yulma made eye contact with Ranon. Fortunately, Ranon seemed to have quickly emerged from his panic. Yulma and Ranon counted.

I’ll do it in three seconds. Three, two…

“Yulma, Ranon!”

And before he could count the last number, an uninvited guest burst into the room. Or rather, was it a savior?

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