Perhaps they noticed from the first time they saw Simone that she was no ordinary human being.
He's probably cooperating, observing Simone, and trying to figure out her identity.
Among them, Abel's gaze was particularly persistent.
He would want to know Simone's true identity more than anyone else. Simone's mana is clearly different from those of the people he has met so far.
At least, among the people Abel knows, no one has mana similar to Simone's, and the magnitude of the mana he feels must be enormous for him to feel.
In the original, Abel was interested in Simone's great mana and uniqueness, and he brought Simone into his company.
A woman with a sly smile who seems accustomed to such strange phenomena, under the protection of the Grand Duke's family.
Since anyone can see that she is suspicious, Abel, who is very cautious, will want to clearly distinguish whether Simone is an enemy or an ally.
'It's not as friendly as I thought.'
In the original, the reason Simone was immediately offered a helping hand was probably because at the time, Simone had potential strength, but was clearly in a weak position.
Simone pretended not to notice the gazes of Abel and his party and checked the servants who were either unconscious or asleep.
A total of thirty people, including Ruth, Kelle, Bam, and Kaylee, who were all familiar faces.
“Are these all the servants in the village?”
Orkan nodded.
“Yes, that’s for sure.”
“Hmm.”
There are too few of them. Other servants seem to have gone further out of this village to find someone to question, but realistically, it would be nearly impossible to find them all and gather them in one place.
They even move.
Louis, who had laid the servants down in a row, approached Simone while shaking off her clothes and pointed to Abel and his group.
“These are my friends. They may be unattractive, but they are trustworthy.”
At his words, Bianchi laughed heartily and slapped Louis on the back.
“What do you mean, I can trust you even though you’re not pretty? Talk sense- the young lady is dumbfounded-”
“Simone didn’t say anything?”
“Are you the superior of Wren?”
Simone nodded slightly at Bianca's question and turned her gaze to Louis. Louis asked as if he had been waiting.
“Did you find out anything from the mansion?”
“Yes, this is like a side effect of necromancy.”
“...Necromancy?”
“The evil spirit has descended. Osasanisasaao is the God of vengeance. It is said that if you want to curse someone you hate enough to die among your servants, you can call upon Osasanisasaao and he will take revenge for a price.”
Abel looked at her with surprised eyes.
“The God of vengeance takes revenge, such a legendary story could actually happen-”
“It really happened. It’s happening now.”
“What does that mean?”
Simone told Louis and Abel about what she had heard at the mansion.
“So, is this to say that something like this actually happened in the past, and because of that, necromancy was banned for a while, but as time passed, the incident was forgotten, and only stories about vengeful Gods remained, and it happened again?”
“Yes, that’s right. Even though there are rules, people’s vigilance about this matter has been weakened.”
Simone gave Orkan a thumbs up for his very clear explanation.
As expected, it is a representative explanation of [I opened my eyes and found out I was hiding my power].
“So, one of the servants called him back without any sense of crisis.”
“So what should I do now?”
“I don’t know the exact solution, but the most likely solution is to get rid of something that has an evil spirit in it.”
“Something possessed by an evil spirit?”
Simone said indifferently.
“First of all, the most likely case would be if it took possession of the body of the person who performed the necromancy.”
It is by no means certain. It is only Simone's guess, and if the first performer's body was not inhabited by Osasanisasao, another method would have to be found.
As she thought about it, Simone's face became more relaxed.
'Is there time to find another way?'
If it's too late, they'll all commit suicide tonight.
As Simone licked her lips and examined the servants, Abel, who had been listening to her, asked in a wary voice.
“What if you find it? What should you do after that?”
Simone looked at Abel quietly. Abel seemed to know Simone's answer.
“This is also expected. The evil spirit will probably reside in the body of the person who cast the curse. In the past, when something like this happened, the evil spirit would have been sent back by killing the person who cast the curse.”
Just like the curse was lifted only after the black sorcerer's crystal ball that had been cursed was destroyed during the Florier incident.
Even now, there is a high possibility that the problem can be solved by killing the person who caused the curse.
Abel and his party suddenly froze at Simone's words. The space, which had already been so noisy that it almost burst their eardrums, suddenly became quiet, and a sense of silence settled over them, but now it seemed as if they even felt a chill.
"Ha."
Abel exhaled deeply.
Then he glared at Simone with very sharp eyes.
“So now, let’s kill a living person?”
Simone looked at Abel expressionlessly. Abel's eyes were threatening, but she was not afraid.
Simone knows the nature of Abel and his companions well.
They were a ragtag bunch who always bickered and caused trouble, but they knew better than anyone else the value of life.
Also, she learned very well from her previous journey that people who do not know the value of life are ultimately useless trash, no matter how good they pretend to be.
It seemed that Simone thought the curser was going to kill her without much thought.
Louis stood behind Simone, looking back and forth between the indifferent Simone and Abel, who was glaring at her fiercely.
Simone shook her head.
“Why would you kill a living person? I mean, it happened in the past.”
Louis nodded in agreement with her words. Louis had also been deceived so many times by Simone’s words and actions up until now.
Now he knows that Simone is a person who cannot kill even an animal, let alone a person.
This time too, she'll probably be rolling her head with that expressionless face, trying to solve it without killing anyone.
Simone said nothing more, but looked away from Abel and back at the servants.
No. There is no one here who has an evil spirit in their body.
Simone tried to suppress her groan. In fact, when the chief chamberlain Ruth was discovered in this village and Abel and his party gathered the servants, she thought that among them, the first curse executors could be found.
She felt no energy at all.
Simone turned her head and looked out the window.
The sun is already slowly setting.
“Can I find more... here?”
Even if she searches for it, what if there is no one possessed by an evil spirit there?
If, as Simone predicted, an evil spirit possessed a human body, it would probably hide itself to avoid being caught and release its followers and servants to expand its power.
It won't be easy to find at all.
“... It’s not here?”
“Yes. I can’t feel anything here.”
“Do you just need to find someone who gives off the energy of an evil spirit?”
Orkan and Abel both put their hands on the doorknob at the same time. They were ready to run out and look for it as soon as Simone nodded.
Okay, let's do it.
Simone nodded. What can she do if she thinks about it and there is no solution?
For now, there was nothing she could do but believe in her own thoughts and find the person possessed by the evil spirit.
Abel motioned for her to follow him.
“There’s another village a little way from here. Let’s go there.”
The moment Simone started walking after them.
Ugh.
A palm-sized notebook fell out of her arms.
"...Ah."
It was a notebook that was found under the floor that the upside-down ghost had happily destroyed.
Simone picked up the notebook and flipped through the pages absentmindedly.
Then he paused, his eyes brightening, and began to read the contents of the notebook.
“Why are you doing that?”
“What are you doing all of a sudden when you were just leaving?”
“Pretty girl, is there anything funny written there? What is it? Let me see-”
Simone, who had been reading the contents of the notebook without paying attention to what Abel and his group were saying, soon smiled.
Who would have thought there would be a hint about the situation so close by?
[All the souls in this mansion flow into a hidden room in the basement.
The giant Anasis, who was once known as a traitor, appears to have created a secret room in this mansion and made it a resting place for all newly born spirits.
The spirit that dies while being used for a curse will rest in that room for a while and then be reborn as another curse.]
Simone closed her notebook. Then she spoke to Louis, Abel, and the others.
“I think I know where the evil spirit is. The mansion. I’m going to the mansion now.”
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