Chapter 12 (2/2)

“…Something doesn’t feel right.”

“Is there an issue with the investigation?”

“No, it’s not like that.”

Lennox remained silent for a while.

He needed to find out more about it later.

Having finished thinking, he stated,

“Call in the shadows. Leave only a minimum number of subjects on the land.”

“But Your Highness, there have been reports of unusual movement of evil spirits in the woods of Rutoru.”

“They’re all headed for the dark spirit.”

At Lennox’s affirmation, Nishir’s eyes went wide, but soon he complied without a word.

‘If my master says, so be it.’

‘Especially when it included evil spirits.’

“I’ll send them your words right away.”

Lennox, after he received Nishir’s answer, glanced down at the old book.

[The culinary sorcerers used to rehabilitate evil spirits by feeding them with Qualum leaves in water.]

Was it just a coincidence?

“I thought something else was mixed with the tea leaves in my drink, so I wanted to find out what it was.”

The face of the speaker he met a few days ago came to his mind.

The woman who unknowingly lured in the evil spirits towards her.

Lennox leaned his back against the chair.

‘It’s not like me to think like this.’

He thought he heard her name to be Olivia Brienne.

It seemed like his discussion with the careless woman was in vain.

He didn’t even seem to know what her abilities were worth.

“Could Your Grace do me a favor?”

Her voice was cheerful and kind of high-pitched.

Those glistening eyes of hers, so full of enthusiasm even after being chased by evil spirits down the street.

Lennox closed his eyes slowly.

The soft and warm touch of her hands.

It was so vivid that he could still recall the feeling clear as day.

Just thinking of it made him clench his fist around the armrest of his chair.

‘Is it because she’s an Epure?’

It felt like the grime filling his body was being washed away at once. He had never felt that way before.

He couldn’t even breathe properly.

‘…She was impossible to resist.’

The power of purification he experienced in person was overwhelming beyond imagination.

He felt helplessly dragged in.

Epure. Purifier. Promised sacredness.

The savior of the cursed blood.

His black eyelashes trembled under his closed eyelids.

A warm breath flowed out of his lips.

“There’s no way something like that would happen again, right?”

He recalled he couldn’t answer the question she asked just before they separated.

Why?

It was just a simple question.

Even though he knew the answer.

“Nishir.”

“Yes, Your Highness.”

Even though he was sure he wasn’t being himself, Lennox acknowledged this incomprehensible urge.

“I wish to visit somewhere for a while tomorrow.”

***

Everything peaceful that I knew about my life in this house was taken away.

[Olivia.]

Now, I was facing a very serious and critical challenge in my life.

[Hey, are you okay?]

“Do I look okay?”

[No.]

Ash landed on the table, walked next to me, and wrapped its wings around my restless mind.

“It’s spinning.”

I sighed, glancing at my closed door and window one by one.

My room was now a mess, as if it had been visited by a storm.

“I should’ve known from the moment the lamp broke.”

It was noon when the first incident happened.

I never touched it, but one corner of the wall lamp flew away with a small explosion sound.

At the time, I thought I could just ask Mary to replace it later when she came.

Then, in the late afternoon, I felt something strange when the shadows began to droop long under the sun.

It was when the canopy of my bed broke down.

Next, I was rolling around on the bed and enjoying a leisurely afternoon when I heard it.

Creak!

An unpleasant sound, as if something was forcibly trying to cut through a hard surface.

Then came Ash calling in through the window.

[What are you doing!? You have to get out of here right now!]

‘What?’

[This energy, it’s the same as the ominous beings you’ve encountered outside! The entire mansion is filled with that energy!]

I woke up to the cry of the bird that swooped into the room.

But it was already too late.

As if they were waiting for Ash to come in, the window and the door were closed and shut tight.

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