“Huh?”
A sudden commotion broke out in the quiet Delang Village.
The necromancer and his party, who were the center of attention, began to leave the mansion for real due to their master's neglect.
Viscount Delang, who had been hiding behind the butler the whole time and uncooperatively, also looked at them with a surprised face, and the butler hurriedly followed them.
“What, wait... Simone?”
Simone spoke without stopping her steps.
“Let’s see who gets hurt when you’re so uncooperative.”
There is something that Simone realizes while solving the curse at the Grand Duke of Illeston's mansion.
The curse is never resolved quietly.
Of course, there are certainly curses that can be dealt with simply, like the Portrait of a Woman, but in the case of ghosts that harm people, it is rare for them to be dealt with quietly, like with a talisman.
So, if it's someone else's mansion, she has to get their cooperation even more so that they don't interfere with her efforts to lift the curse.
Simone wasn't pretending to go to frighten the Viscount Delang.
The group also started walking to really go back.
You won't cooperate? Then we can really go.
Simone and her party left the mansion and boarded the Illeston family's carriage, which was still standing.
And the carriage set off without a second thought.
The butler, who came running out with rare footsteps, looked at the back of the carriage in vain.
'You really went?'
They didn't just go there to take a look, they actually went?
Behind the butler, who was speechless from the absurdity, Viscount Delang was also blankly staring at the carriage.
“Those things...”
Viscount Delang bit his lips and turned around abruptly.
“Fine. I don’t need it. It was a mistake to rely on the necromancer in the first place. I am ashamed to face His Majesty.”
Likewise, Viscount Delang turned around without any hesitation.
But a few days later he was forced to seek out Simone again.
It had been three days since they had rejected the commission of the Viscount Delang. Simone had been looking through the manual and solving simple curses while Abel and his party had been investigating signs of the Demon King's resurrection.
One day, when she declined the request of the Viscount Delang, she thought her relationship with the Marquis of Barrington would end.
The Marquis of Barrington visited Illeston's mansion once again.
“He asked you to come to the mansion again so that he could cooperate as you wished.”
Simone sipped her tea as she looked at the request form that Barrington handed her again.
It was a request no different from before, but the amount of the request fee tripled.
This means that the work of the Delang family is urgent.
“I would have refused.”
The Marquis of Berrington expressed his discomfort at Simone's words.
“Even if Viscount Delang cooperates?”
“Yes. It wasn’t a problem with cooperation, it was just that I didn’t like the attitude.”
A face that looked down without even showing itself and not coming down from the stairs.
A voice gnashing its teeth told her to shake the handshake off the butler's body and go down the stairs.
What Simone and her party felt when they went there was an attitude that clearly seemed like they were being treated as inferiors, not as collaborators who had come to solve a request.
People don't change. She guess she'll just have to endure his overbearing and condescending attitude all the while trying to talk to him in the name of cooperation.
Now, I'm not really short on money, so why bother?
'But, it's true, the commission fee has increased significantly.'
Simone glanced at the commission fee item again for no reason.
“Oh, how could it not be? He is an old friend of mine. The Viscount has been looking even more haggard these past few days due to the affairs of the mansion. I would like you to help him.”
As he spoke, the Marquis of Barrington crossed out the amount in the commission fee column and doubled the amount he had written down.
“How about this? Please help my friend.”
Wow! As expected, the nobles of the capital are rich enough to spend this much money on commissions!
Simone's expression changed.
That's right. Is the situation really that urgent?
“Then I’ll do this. I’ll set some conditions. If he can accept all of these conditions, I’ll accept his request.”
“Oh! Thank you! What are the conditions? Tell me anything.”
"Anna."
"Yes?"
Anna quickly approached Simone's call.
“Go and get me a piece of paper and a pen.”
"Yes!"
“...Paper and pen?”
The Marquis of Barrington looked at Anna, who was running away in confusion. Are there really so many conditions that it was necessary to write them down and hand them over?
Hey, no way. She's probably just giving him a note so he won't forget.
However, contrary to the Marquis of Barrington's thoughts, Simone began to fill out the paper as soon as she received it as if she had been waiting for it.
[1. To be treated ‘kindly’ by the Viscount Delang himself.
2. Try to confront the strange phenomenon, and be very noisy while exorcising it. No matter what kind of commotion occurs, endure it.
3. Do not run away to other accommodations while fighting off the strange phenomenon.
4. Treat Simone and her party with the utmost cooperation and 'friendliness'. Recognize that we are here to solve the problems of the mansion, not the Viscount's servants.
5. The Viscount will personally apologize for what happened that day for the above reasons.
6. While solving the request, the Viscount will give Simone his room.
7. Eat deliciously. Just like the owner eats.
8. Report to Simone every morning what happened that night.
9. Do whatever Simone asks him to do without complaint under the pretext of resolving a request.
10. If the above is not observed, the contract will be terminated immediately and there will be no re-request.]
Simone finished writing down the conditions and handed them to the Marquis of Barrington.
She never even set so many conditions for the Duke of Illeston, with whom she is currently living.
It's all the Viscount fault.
Viscount Delang, because he was unnecessarily fastidious and prissy.
“This..."
Marquis Barrington looked over the conditions with a sense of bewilderment.
These were all difficult conditions for the proud and stubborn Viscount Delang to keep.
“If Viscount Delang says he can’t do it, then I can’t do it either.”
Seo Hyun-jung's pride is also a pride.
“Hmm, I see.”
The Marquis of Barrington spoke solemnly, neatly folding the paper with the conditions written on it.
"Viscount Delang will follow these terms if he has any thoughts. Then, Simone, I will come back.”
"Yes."
And that evening, the Marquis of Barrington came with a look of triumph and showed Simone the signature of the Viscount Delang, written at the bottom of the paper with the conditions written on it.
So Simone and her party came back to the mansion of the Viscount Delang.
“Welcome, Simone and company. We’ve been waiting for you.”
Today, too, as she got out of the carriage, a butler came from afar and opened the door for me.
“...Welcome.”
Viscount Delang came to greet them at the main gate with a rather awkward look on his face.
Simone and her companions all smiled brightly.
“It’s been a while, Your Grace.”
"How are you?"
“Why do you look more tired?”
At Abel's words, Viscount Delang glared at him and then abruptly turned his gaze away.
“Anyway, just follow me. I’ll tell you what I can do to help.”
Viscount Delang took Simone and her party to the reception room.
Simone looked around the meeting room.
This place was also much smaller than the Grand Duke's reception room, but it was a very sunny and picturesque space.
“Haa... I’m tired.”
Viscount Delang sat down on the sofa and pressed the palms of his hands against his eyelids.
His face has become even more haggard in the past few days. He said he is currently staying in a boarding house instead of the mansion.
It seemed that the reason he looked so haggard as if he was going to collapse was not because of some strange phenomenon, but because he had to force himself to do his work in a complicated situation.
“So. What should I do? Tell me.”
But the words he spoke to Simone became much kinder.
Simone smiled with satisfaction at the Viscount Delang, who was very good at keeping his conditions.
“First, tonight, Your Grace, you will sleep in the room where the problem occurred.”
“Okay, I understand.”
“And from the next day onwards, the five of us will take turns spending the day in your room.”
"...What?"
Viscount Delang frowned reflexively.
A look that seemed to ask if that made sense right now. Simone opened the list of terms and conditions he had signed.
[6. While solving the request, the Viscount will give Simone his room.]
“According to the contract, your room is mine until the request is resolved. Do you not like that?”
If you don't like it, get out.
At Simone's semi-threatening words that contained a hint of gossip, Viscount Delang sighed deeply and nodded.
“Okay. Right now, lifting the curse is the most important thing.”
“Second, I would like each member of the group to have their own room.”
“Why?”
“I was wondering if other people besides you, Your Grace, are experiencing the same phenomenon in other rooms. Oh, and please pay special attention to the rooms at the end of each floor.”
It is to check the conditions for triggering the strange phenomenon.
Whether it activates simply when you're alone, or when you're alone in the last room, or if not, whether it only activates against the Viscount.
“And thirdly, the small hole in your room. Please make it a little bigger. At least big enough to see not only the faces of people across the room but also the outside.”
So that they can figure out what's on the other side just by looking at it.
Moreover, it was necessary to determine whether the room on the other side, beyond the hole, was connected to another room due to a phenomenon such as the distortion of space and time that the director and teacher at the orphanage had experienced through an infinite door, or whether there was a ghost attached to the outside.
“First, I’d like to ask you this. Is that possible?”
At Simone's confident request, Viscount Delang frowned as usual, then nodded as if he had no choice.
“Understood. For now, you guys rest in the rooms you’ve been given. I’ll prepare a new room and call you again.”
A sudden commotion broke out in the quiet Delang Village.
The necromancer and his party, who were the center of attention, began to leave the mansion for real due to their master's neglect.
Viscount Delang, who had been hiding behind the butler the whole time and uncooperatively, also looked at them with a surprised face, and the butler hurriedly followed them.
“What, wait... Simone?”
Simone spoke without stopping her steps.
“Let’s see who gets hurt when you’re so uncooperative.”
There is something that Simone realizes while solving the curse at the Grand Duke of Illeston's mansion.
The curse is never resolved quietly.
Of course, there are certainly curses that can be dealt with simply, like the Portrait of a Woman, but in the case of ghosts that harm people, it is rare for them to be dealt with quietly, like with a talisman.
So, if it's someone else's mansion, she has to get their cooperation even more so that they don't interfere with her efforts to lift the curse.
Simone wasn't pretending to go to frighten the Viscount Delang.
The group also started walking to really go back.
You won't cooperate? Then we can really go.
Simone and her party left the mansion and boarded the Illeston family's carriage, which was still standing.
And the carriage set off without a second thought.
The butler, who came running out with rare footsteps, looked at the back of the carriage in vain.
'You really went?'
They didn't just go there to take a look, they actually went?
Behind the butler, who was speechless from the absurdity, Viscount Delang was also blankly staring at the carriage.
“Those things...”
Viscount Delang bit his lips and turned around abruptly.
“Fine. I don’t need it. It was a mistake to rely on the necromancer in the first place. I am ashamed to face His Majesty.”
Likewise, Viscount Delang turned around without any hesitation.
But a few days later he was forced to seek out Simone again.
***
It had been three days since they had rejected the commission of the Viscount Delang. Simone had been looking through the manual and solving simple curses while Abel and his party had been investigating signs of the Demon King's resurrection.
One day, when she declined the request of the Viscount Delang, she thought her relationship with the Marquis of Barrington would end.
The Marquis of Barrington visited Illeston's mansion once again.
“He asked you to come to the mansion again so that he could cooperate as you wished.”
Simone sipped her tea as she looked at the request form that Barrington handed her again.
It was a request no different from before, but the amount of the request fee tripled.
This means that the work of the Delang family is urgent.
“I would have refused.”
The Marquis of Berrington expressed his discomfort at Simone's words.
“Even if Viscount Delang cooperates?”
“Yes. It wasn’t a problem with cooperation, it was just that I didn’t like the attitude.”
A face that looked down without even showing itself and not coming down from the stairs.
A voice gnashing its teeth told her to shake the handshake off the butler's body and go down the stairs.
What Simone and her party felt when they went there was an attitude that clearly seemed like they were being treated as inferiors, not as collaborators who had come to solve a request.
People don't change. She guess she'll just have to endure his overbearing and condescending attitude all the while trying to talk to him in the name of cooperation.
Now, I'm not really short on money, so why bother?
'But, it's true, the commission fee has increased significantly.'
Simone glanced at the commission fee item again for no reason.
“Oh, how could it not be? He is an old friend of mine. The Viscount has been looking even more haggard these past few days due to the affairs of the mansion. I would like you to help him.”
As he spoke, the Marquis of Barrington crossed out the amount in the commission fee column and doubled the amount he had written down.
“How about this? Please help my friend.”
Wow! As expected, the nobles of the capital are rich enough to spend this much money on commissions!
Simone's expression changed.
That's right. Is the situation really that urgent?
“Then I’ll do this. I’ll set some conditions. If he can accept all of these conditions, I’ll accept his request.”
“Oh! Thank you! What are the conditions? Tell me anything.”
"Anna."
"Yes?"
Anna quickly approached Simone's call.
“Go and get me a piece of paper and a pen.”
"Yes!"
“...Paper and pen?”
The Marquis of Barrington looked at Anna, who was running away in confusion. Are there really so many conditions that it was necessary to write them down and hand them over?
Hey, no way. She's probably just giving him a note so he won't forget.
However, contrary to the Marquis of Barrington's thoughts, Simone began to fill out the paper as soon as she received it as if she had been waiting for it.
[1. To be treated ‘kindly’ by the Viscount Delang himself.
2. Try to confront the strange phenomenon, and be very noisy while exorcising it. No matter what kind of commotion occurs, endure it.
3. Do not run away to other accommodations while fighting off the strange phenomenon.
4. Treat Simone and her party with the utmost cooperation and 'friendliness'. Recognize that we are here to solve the problems of the mansion, not the Viscount's servants.
5. The Viscount will personally apologize for what happened that day for the above reasons.
6. While solving the request, the Viscount will give Simone his room.
7. Eat deliciously. Just like the owner eats.
8. Report to Simone every morning what happened that night.
9. Do whatever Simone asks him to do without complaint under the pretext of resolving a request.
10. If the above is not observed, the contract will be terminated immediately and there will be no re-request.]
Simone finished writing down the conditions and handed them to the Marquis of Barrington.
She never even set so many conditions for the Duke of Illeston, with whom she is currently living.
It's all the Viscount fault.
Viscount Delang, because he was unnecessarily fastidious and prissy.
“This..."
Marquis Barrington looked over the conditions with a sense of bewilderment.
These were all difficult conditions for the proud and stubborn Viscount Delang to keep.
“If Viscount Delang says he can’t do it, then I can’t do it either.”
Seo Hyun-jung's pride is also a pride.
“Hmm, I see.”
The Marquis of Barrington spoke solemnly, neatly folding the paper with the conditions written on it.
"Viscount Delang will follow these terms if he has any thoughts. Then, Simone, I will come back.”
"Yes."
And that evening, the Marquis of Barrington came with a look of triumph and showed Simone the signature of the Viscount Delang, written at the bottom of the paper with the conditions written on it.
***
So Simone and her party came back to the mansion of the Viscount Delang.
“Welcome, Simone and company. We’ve been waiting for you.”
Today, too, as she got out of the carriage, a butler came from afar and opened the door for me.
“...Welcome.”
Viscount Delang came to greet them at the main gate with a rather awkward look on his face.
Simone and her companions all smiled brightly.
“It’s been a while, Your Grace.”
"How are you?"
“Why do you look more tired?”
At Abel's words, Viscount Delang glared at him and then abruptly turned his gaze away.
“Anyway, just follow me. I’ll tell you what I can do to help.”
Viscount Delang took Simone and her party to the reception room.
Simone looked around the meeting room.
This place was also much smaller than the Grand Duke's reception room, but it was a very sunny and picturesque space.
“Haa... I’m tired.”
Viscount Delang sat down on the sofa and pressed the palms of his hands against his eyelids.
His face has become even more haggard in the past few days. He said he is currently staying in a boarding house instead of the mansion.
It seemed that the reason he looked so haggard as if he was going to collapse was not because of some strange phenomenon, but because he had to force himself to do his work in a complicated situation.
“So. What should I do? Tell me.”
But the words he spoke to Simone became much kinder.
Simone smiled with satisfaction at the Viscount Delang, who was very good at keeping his conditions.
“First, tonight, Your Grace, you will sleep in the room where the problem occurred.”
“Okay, I understand.”
“And from the next day onwards, the five of us will take turns spending the day in your room.”
"...What?"
Viscount Delang frowned reflexively.
A look that seemed to ask if that made sense right now. Simone opened the list of terms and conditions he had signed.
[6. While solving the request, the Viscount will give Simone his room.]
“According to the contract, your room is mine until the request is resolved. Do you not like that?”
If you don't like it, get out.
At Simone's semi-threatening words that contained a hint of gossip, Viscount Delang sighed deeply and nodded.
“Okay. Right now, lifting the curse is the most important thing.”
“Second, I would like each member of the group to have their own room.”
“Why?”
“I was wondering if other people besides you, Your Grace, are experiencing the same phenomenon in other rooms. Oh, and please pay special attention to the rooms at the end of each floor.”
It is to check the conditions for triggering the strange phenomenon.
Whether it activates simply when you're alone, or when you're alone in the last room, or if not, whether it only activates against the Viscount.
“And thirdly, the small hole in your room. Please make it a little bigger. At least big enough to see not only the faces of people across the room but also the outside.”
So that they can figure out what's on the other side just by looking at it.
Moreover, it was necessary to determine whether the room on the other side, beyond the hole, was connected to another room due to a phenomenon such as the distortion of space and time that the director and teacher at the orphanage had experienced through an infinite door, or whether there was a ghost attached to the outside.
“First, I’d like to ask you this. Is that possible?”
At Simone's confident request, Viscount Delang frowned as usual, then nodded as if he had no choice.
“Understood. For now, you guys rest in the rooms you’ve been given. I’ll prepare a new room and call you again.”
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