SPMB - Chapter 94

SPMB - Chapter 94

My Body Has Been Possessed By Someone

"Miss! Where are you going when it's raining?"

"Sir Jerome."

Rachel smiled brightly at the approaching knight.

"This is my bodyguard, Sir Jerome. Sir, greetings. This person is a member of the National Assembly sent by His Majesty the Emperor."

However, Jerome was blatantly sarcastic.

"Why did you come? What use is a congressman when it comes to catching ghosts? It won't even help." 

"Watch your words, Sir Jerome. This person is a nobleman. She's the Duchess Valentino."

"Ah, you are Duke Valentino's wife. I too have heard many stories. Because he's such a famous person."

"..."

"What was your nickname, filth? Something like that..."

Jerome stopped talking. Before he knew it, a sharp blade was flashing at the tip of his chin.

"Shall I kill him?"

Claude smiled and asked Kanna.

"Or should I cut out his tongue?"

"What the hell is this..."

Jerome blushed as if he was embarrassed. Rachel asked, as she fidgeted and watched.

"Knight, please lower your sword."

However, Claude responded kindly.

"I only listen to the Duchess' orders, My Lady."

Kanna was secretly surprised. She had no idea Claude would come out like this.

'It's really nice to be an escort, isn't it?"

How convenient is this? Kallen didn't give it that name for nothing.

"Lower your sword, Sir Claude."

"Yes."

Claude followed Kanna's words again this time. As he lowered his sword, Rachel breathed a sigh of relief. But Jerome's face was bright red.

He accused.

"It's unbecoming a knight to aim your sword at random!"

"Well, that's true."

"... What?"

"That's true."

"Are you now admitting that you are unbecoming a knight?"

"Yes."

"..."

Scratch.Scratch.

Claude scratched his cheek and blinked. 

"Isn't that the same for Sir Jerome?"

"What, what?"

"Didn't you dare say something that was expected of you? For her love, I want to cut your tongue in half."

Claude casually said something nasty.

"The Duchess is so kind that she can't bear to give such an order. Unfortunately."

"..."

"So consider yourself lucky that the Duchess has a heart of silk."

Kanna felt a little embarrassed but held her head high. She can't be embarrassed when her escort says something like that, right?

"I will apologize on your behalf."

Rachel quickly stepped in and apologized.

"I am truly sorry, Duchess."

"Yes, as it should be."

Kanna smiled brightly.

"Even if a dog does something wrong, the owner apologizes. It's even worse when the escort driver under your direct command behaves so carelessly. Of course, Miss Rachel should apologize."

"...!"

Jerome gritted his teeth. However, he only clenched his fists and trembled, and could not say anything more.

"That's right, you should have trained your escort knights well a long time ago."

It was unfortunate for sweet Rachel, but it was something she had to deal with.

"Okay then, let's go."

***

Kanna looked around the village with Rachel. But she didn't get far before she took refuge in a small tea shop nearby.

"It's pouring too much rain."

Coo thump! 

Thunder rumbled in the distance.

"It would be better to wait a while until the rain subsides."

"Is it so. Let's have some tea."

Kanna was just hungry. Kanna filled her stomach with rye bread that came with a cup of tea.

'It tastes good for your health.'

It was a natural, organic, unsweetened rye bread with no added sugar or butter.

'Ah, I want to eat brownies. It's really delicious if you eat it with coffee.'

Kanna glanced at Claude standing behind her.

"Sir Claude. Do you want some bread?"

As her liking for Claude increased significantly, she offered him something to eat.

But Claude smiled and refused.

"It's okay. It is comfortable to wear an empty stomach during missions."

"It's easier on an empty stomach... You say you do?" 

"Yes. That way, my body becomes lighter."

"..."

She heard it was comfortable on an empty stomach. It was an accident that Kanna could not understand. 

Rachel, who was watching from the side, asked her.

"How about rye bread? It doesn't taste good, does it?"

"No, it's not that it doesn't taste good. It's not that there's no taste at all."

"So it was tasteless."

 "Yes, it tastes bad."

Then Rachel smiled sadly. 

"Although it may taste terrible, rye is the islanders' staple food. There are only a few grains that can be farmed on such a barren island." 

"Okay,"

"Yes, so please understand."

Even as she said that Rachel didn't even touch the bread with her finger. She had already had fresh oysters and trout steak for lunch. In the end, it was only the islanders, the poor inhabitants of the island, who had rye as their staple food. 

"By the way, this is my first time seeing a woman from outside the island. Are all the people in the interior as beautiful as the Duchess?" 

"No. I'm especially like that."

Although it was a word without the slightest hint of humility, Rachel agreed without any hesitation.

"Okay." 

"Yes."

"Somehow it seemed like that. You are so beautiful, Ma'am."

"Thank you."

Rachel hesitated for a moment and then asked.

"Then what about Orsini?"

"Orsini?"

"Yes. Are there many people like him in the inland area?"

"What do you mean?"

"He's cool."

What!

Kanna almost squirted tea water. When she coughed into her dress, Rachel held out her handkerchief.

"I have never seen someone as wonderful as Orsini. He is on a different level from the island men." 

Is she serious?

Kanna doubted her sanity.

"Miss Rachel, is it really because of his looks?"

"Well, of course, you look great, but..."

"No! Don't be fooled by appearances!"

That guy, he's such a pretentious brat! Of course, people have tastes.

If you are a woman who likes a fierce look with a strong masculine reel, you will not be able to take your eyes off Orsini.

"Appearance is important to a man, but there are more things that are more important than appearance. Orsini tends to be a bit, no, very violent......."

"He is brave."

"What..."

Kanna could not bear to continue speaking.

Bravery, bravery.

Could this woman not know the meaning of the word brave?

Rachel muttered with a dreamy face.

"He is a very strong and brave person. He is like a lion, the king of beasts."

"..."

Kanna sympathized with only the last part with a different meaning.

Well, Orsini looks like a beast.

His bright eyes and violent temper are closer to those of an animal than a human, and his hair is like a lion's mane.

"But despite his appearance, he has a soft heart."

Really, it was an overly biased opinion. Kanna eventually couldn't hold back and protested strongly.

"That's absolutely not the case."

"No, I know."

"No. Because it's not!"

Rachel narrowed her eyes. It seemed like she was not very happy with Kanna's opinion disparaging Orsini. 

"When he lost his knights, he was very heartbroken."

"..."

"He may not show it on the outside, but he must be suffering from great guilt. I know. His heart is as transparent and beautiful as a glass bead."

... Kanna guess she'll just pretend she didn't hear the last part. Khanna self-censored the outpouring of sentences.

At that moment, a phrase from a letter sent by Orsini came to mind.

< The knights were wiped out. > 

< Do not send knights. >

Kanna asked cautiously.

"I also heard the news that the Knights Templar was wiped out. Is it because of monsters?"

"N-no. You don't know that yet. It wasn't a monster that harmed the knights."

Rachel smiled sadly...

"It's Orsini."

"Yes?"

Kanna looked at Rachel in confusion.

Rachel's eyes sparkled with red cheeks. And she spoke in an ecstatic voice.

"It was Orsini who annihilated the knights."

Rachel told the story of that day.

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