It would be dark for Rolf, but Odette had left the status window open. Therefore, she could see Rolf's expression very clearly.
His face contorted with fear and astonishment. Odette's face filled with joy.
It was funny that he was a human being who once ruled over her like a god and bullied her, and he was trembling at the mere greeting.
There was another joy.
'Loose suit sleeves, cheap cufflinks, and a shoe nose with no gloss.'
As if revealing Rolf's plight, the clothes that had become cheap and insignificant were the same.
When she was in Count's house, she wouldn't even wear something like that. Rolf, who was enriched by his exorbitant weekly salary and the back money from people who wanted to look good in the Albrecht family, would have considered it an insult to wear clothes like that.
Rolf's complete familiarity with the clothes and accessories that he had so ignored and ridiculed made Odette's heart glad.
Even though she had a clear idea of the Count's current financial situation, Odette scratched his insides as if he didn't know.
"Do you think he still has a lot of money? He spent so much money to talk to Charlotte."
"No, I'm listening to nothing. That can't be. It can't be..."
Rolf didn't seem to accept that the person sitting next to him was Odette.
"After all, the Count's business acumen has always been to sell purifiers, right? So what's the difference? You'll have to crawl under the soles of Charlotte's feet and lick her shoes."
Odette leaned back in her chair and said bitterly. However, she insulted him at best, but Rolf didn't respond.
Odette frowned lightly at the strange reaction.
"...Rolf."
The moment Odette called him once more,
"Uh-huh! Dear God. Please cast that demon out of this sacred place."
Rolf folded his hands and poured out his prayers.
'Demons? Are you talking about me now?:
Rolf was sweating profusely.
'Could it be that he blew out the candles in the prayer room? I just darkened the chapel to hide my hair color.'
Apparently, that had aroused Rolf's fear.
"...Even a chainsaw won't shake like that."
Now he made a sign of his voice with his trembling hand.
"If it was a demon that could be stopped by your holy name, could she have entered the Central Cathedral?"
His voice was absurd, and there was even emptiness at the end.
Odette couldn't believe that she was so afraid of this kind of person.
Rolf was an absolute judge who had the right to punish Odette.
"God. I have a son and a grandchild. Please, you have mercy on the old believer, and please protect him from that ghost."
Such a person even recited a prayer when he blew out a candle and fell asleep.
Odette sighed pitifully.
"I wasn't the one who killed you! You were the one who killed you! You took your own life and did harm to me!"
So now he gets angry and even screams. He didn't feel guilty at all.
"Of course, I didn't expect to feel guilty."
12 years. It was very ugly to see him tormenting people with excitement for all those years, and full of resentment and resentment as if he were a victim.
"It's funny that you're weak, but... It's annoying."
Odette didn't want to waste time just trying to appease Rolf.
Odette approached Rolf, who was in a panic and gently pressed his shoulders.
"Can't you take your hands off me right now?! You filthy demon!"
Then she slaps Rolf who starts screaming now! She hit him hard. Of course, with all her emotions.
Rolf's mouth stopped screaming.
"Uh, how..."
Rolf paused and became abusive. Odette raised her hand again and slapped him.
Slap! Slap! The more the sound rang out, the clearer Rolf's gaze became.
"Stop, stop!!"
Rolf's cheeks have long since turned red. It wasn't until Odette's palms were also dyed red that Rolf hurriedly blocked Odette's hand.
"W, were you alive?"
"I was alive... is a half-word."
Odette slapped the butler once more in the face in exchange for half a word. Rolf then changed his words.
"A, are you alive?"
Odette lowered his palm.
***
Being able to slap him means that at least the Odette in front of him is not a ghost.
Moreover, Odette's hand was clearly warm, so it wasn't like a corpse was walking around.
"How on earth are you alive?!"
Rolf felt like screaming.
It wasn't clear whether Odette had appeared as a ghost or been resurrected, but Rolf stammered and asked again.
"Uh, how, are you still alive?"
Rolf's old sarcasm was gone. This is because the hierarchy between the two has changed markedly from before.
Odette was no longer an orphan with nowhere to go, but a real purifier.
The fact that she was no longer the Count's own daughter did not hurt Odette's prestige in the slightest. If it hurts the Count's prestige, he doesn't know.
Rolf, on the other hand, was nothing more than the butler of a crumbling Count.
He was also afraid. The object that he thought was dead has come back to life.
"How on earth do you know? I must have buried the corpse of the young lady with my own hands."
After the funeral Mass, which was held following the state funeral, the people of the Albrecht family covered the coffin with the consideration of the Emperor and the Pope.
As much as he had buried it with his own hands, it was even harder for Rolf to believe what was going on.
"Yes? Please tell me. How could you be alive? Apparently, the young lady is dead."
How could a dead person come back to life? Could it be that God loved Odette so much that he brought her back to life?
Even the unfaithful Rolf was about to be overwhelmed by Odette.
"I'm not dead. I just deceived everyone."
"And what about the corpse?"
"I saved the corpse of a condemned prisoner with the same hair color as me. Remember? The cemetery of the execution squad around our estate."
Speaking of which, by the time Rolf closed the door of the coffin where Odette was laid, the corpse had already decomposed considerably.
'Is there any way that a dead human being can be resurrected?'
Even if she was resurrected, it wouldn't be Odette.
Rolf was now polite to Odette, but he had ignored her for twelve years.
Even the habits of the unconscious were not fixed at once. Once he was convinced that it wasn't Odette who had buried his hands, Rolf was able to calm down.
"Really, you've deceived the world."
Thinking about it again, he couldn't be happier that Odette was still alive.
"Oh, I'm glad you're still alive. Do you know how much trouble the young lady had in for doing such a thing?"
The key to changing the Count's situation once and for all has returned.
Albrecht was even rejected by Charlotte several times. He'll probably be rejected today.
"But Odette was alive. We don't have to cling to Charlotte anymore, do we?"
Now he could get the overflowing money again. The money that fills one's back pocket will also be good.
Thinking about it, Rolf laughed.
"Don't do that again. Even if you do, of course, you have to tell me and the Count. You don't have to wait in the cathedral. Are you going back right away?"
"..."
It was too dark to see her, but Rolf felt like Odette was seeing through him.
'Why are you staring at me like that?'
In the slightest slightest hint, he could hear Odette laughing.
"Do you think I'll ever go back to that mansion?"
Rolf flinched at the eerieness he felt at the moment.
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