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Lucy made a stew with the ingredients Vivi had brought from the meat she had hunted, and shared it with everyone.

“Wow, it’s delicious, sis.”

“So?”

Lucy smiled along with Ellis’ bright smile, perhaps because she didn’t know Ellis’ true identity.

Come to think of it, she was in the position of having suffered misfortune while trying to get revenge on her friend.

“I’m sorry. I couldn’t keep my promise.”

“Oh, no, my lord.”

Lucy took a deep breath in response to my apology and told me what she thought.

“I’m okay with seeing those scum die in vain with my own eyes.”

“Yeah, that’s fortunate.”

There had to be a clear line between family and servants.

If family is something I have to take responsibility for and protect, then servants are something I have to rule over.

‘Hmm, first of all, it’s not Lucy.’

If you see anything suspicious, you should be suspicious without delay.

‘Then, the suspect is narrowed down to Gloria. Did Gloria bring that item? Did she bring it on purpose to arouse suspicion by having Lucy bring it?’

If I get the chance, I’ll have to leave her this time.

“It’s delicious.”

“I’m glad it suits your taste.”

Bibi, who tasted the stew, had somewhat complicated feelings, perhaps because it had been a long time since she had eaten something that felt like real food.

“There’s no way it wouldn’t taste good. It’s so salty.”

“Yes?”

“Please save some money. Is it okay to use this much salt in one meal?”

Suddenly, Lucy was dumbfounded when she was treated like her mother-in-law.

I never dreamed that someone who can turn into a monster would point something out like this.

I didn’t know either.

“Don’t bother me for using a lot of salt. Salt is just a common ingredient.”

“Salt is all you need? If you don’t know the value of food, you’ll suffer later.”

“I don’t know how many decades ago you were, but there is an area in the Dark Forest where a lot of rock salt is distributed.”

“That shouldn’t be the problem.”

“… There is no separate grandmother.”

I was dumbfounded by the old man’s remark, but I just let it go because he was eating so deliciously.

“I ate well.”

“Contrary to your complaints, you seem to enjoy the food.”

“You wasted the material, so you can’t leave any behind.”

Bibi, who had confidently drank all the soup, sat down, leaning against the cave wall, seemingly satisfied.

“I’ll fill my stomach first. Now, can I ask you a few questions?”

“Okay, ask a question.”

“What are the conditions for marriage?”

“You’re asking a difficult question from the start.”

After dinner, Vivi looked at Ellis playing with Lucy and answered quietly.

“It eats human souls.”

“The human soul?”

“Yeah, when you become a window cleaner, you basically feel an insatiable hunger.”

Bibi showed off her appetite by munching on the bones around her.

“That endless hunger makes us blindly seek out people. It is a thirst for human life and soul within the body. Do you know the feeling of blood flowing from your mouth quenching your thirst, and human screams filling you up?”

“Of course I don’t know. So how much do you have to eat to become a flesh soul?”

“Well? I don’t even remember how much I ate when I was a snail. I just had an empty stomach.”

“After becoming a sex partner, you no longer target humans?”

“No, if you get a chance to eat it, eat it. For Changgui, human souls are the source of strength. Ellis and I ate the souls of the humans you brought.”

“Is it possible even if I didn’t eat it directly?”

“After becoming a flesh soul, you can see the soul itself. You can catch and eat wandering souls as if they were breathing shadows.”

“The souls of dirty guys, but are they mentally unstable?”

“If there was something like that, I would have gone crazy a long time ago.”

Vivi, who had shown me the beast’s fangs in the shadow, suddenly tapped my chest and grumbled with a strange expression.

“And you’re the one who should be crazy. This state of mind is more terrifying than that monstrous monster.”

“How is my soul?”

The reason I can use my divinity freely is because my soul is strong.

If I were an ordinary person, it wouldn’t be strange if my head exploded right away, but I was able to use miracles as if I was breathing.

It’s not for nothing that Allie praises me as a first-class soul.

“Two souls are mixed together.”

“? What does that mean?”

“If I were to explain it in my simple vocabulary, my soul would be confused.”

I couldn’t make any sense of Vivi’s explanation, which was like a shaman grasping at clouds.

“Ha, how should I explain this?”

When I didn’t understand, Vivi scratched her head and got irritated.

“All I see is a mixture of dirty sewage water.”

“Looking at someone else’s soul and calling it dirty sewage… ”

Her explanation was absurd, but I understood it perfectly.

“Haa, so each soul has its own color, and my soul is a mixture of two souls?”

“That’s it!”

Vivi clapped her hands in delight, as if her answer had cleared her mind.

This grandma is really…

‘Hmm, maybe it’s because I’m a reincarnated person.’

When it comes to things related to the soul, there’s nothing else that really stands out.

But even Ellie, who is also a reincarnation, doesn’t seem to know.

Is it because we cannot see the soul itself?

“I have to bring Ellie here sometime.”

“Why would anyone bring people into someone else’s land without permission?”

“Do you hate it?”

“Of course. If you don’t want to see me and Ellis go crazy, don’t bring them.”

“We’re already here.”

“Now, Ellis and I are full from eating the humans you brought.”

Vivi said, watching Lucy playing with Ellis.

It was as if the sight was that of an animal hunting its prey.

“If we ever get hungry again, we’ll eat that girl.”

“Can’t you control your appetite?”

“Have you ever seen a monster show patience?”

“…You are aware that you are a monster.”

“Of course. I’ve already lived longer as a ghost than when I was a human.”

After saying that, Vivi poured some herbal tea into a cup made from the monster’s bones and began to drink it.

It seems like I haven’t completely gotten rid of my human-era foolishness.

“But you can come whenever you want.”

“Because I’m strong?”

“That’s true, but now you look like a fellow countryman to me.”

After finishing herbal tea, Vivi threw the teacup on the cave floor and stared into my eyes.

“At first it looked human, but now it’s not.”

“You are not human, you are a titan.”

“I don’t know what that Titan is, but what I see before my eyes right now is a spear ear.”

“…..”

I didn’t know how to respond to Vivi’s absurd claims.

It turns a living person into a dead person.

Is this the new personal attack?

“Anyway, I can come anytime, right?”

“Yeah.”

“And if you’re full, it’s okay to bring someone else, right?”

“That’s right. Are you really going to bring someone in front of us?”

“I have something to check. How many people would be satisfied if they ate it?”

“Including me and Ellis, 10 people are enough.”

“I will remember.”

“It may seem strange for me, a ghost, to say this, but you are truly cruel. You must know what it means to be eaten by a ghost.”

“It’s okay. It’s going to be filled with trash anyway.”

Allie will probably start making a fuss again when she sees this, but it’s a sin worth taking for the sake of information.

“If you’ve asked everything, then leave now.”

“There’s one more.”

“Haa… What is it?”

Vivi, who had transformed into a Warbear, lay down roughly inside the cave and glared at me.

“Stop bothering me, old man! You little punk!”

“Usually, isn’t it better for elderly people living alone to chat with guests?”

“Who is the old man living alone! I’m so annoyed by Ellis alone!”

Kwaaang!

Vivi threatened me in the form of a warbear, but to me who had swallowed the holy water, the warbear was now just a cute animal.

“It’s nothing special, I just wanted to know the story of the promise you made with the guy you met when you first saw me.”

“That guy.”

Vivi began to frown, as if bringing up an unpleasant past.

The warbear that hunted like it was eating rice looked cute like this.

Of course, not as much as Kami.

“I didn’t hear his name. He was just a handsome guy.”

“He was handsome.… ”

If you look at a human and see a hungry ghost, how handsome is he?

“Ah, according to Ellis, he is the warrior of light.”

“Warrior of Light?!”

If you’re handsome and a warrior of light, there’s only one I know.

Ian de Saizer, my father.

“Is that true?”

“I don’t know, I don’t know if I can believe it since it’s just a child’s words.”

“… . So what did he say?”

“He asked our thugs not to raid the village anymore, because he would change the village of Lugeron.”

“When did you make that promise with him?”

“About 20 years, I think. I was holding a child at that time.”

If Vivi’s words are true, my father had a fight with the Changguis when he was carrying me on his back.

“But… Were you convinced by his words and followed them straight away?”

My father was a great warrior, but he was not in good health when he visited the village of Lugeron.

To put it simply, he is weaker than Carlson, who has now mastered Aura.

Of course, Vivi in front of me, as well as Ellis who was playing with Lucy as a little girl, could never win.

How did you convince these ghosts who go crazy when they see humans without using force like I did?

“Of course, we didn’t believe that man’s absurd words.”

“Then why did you follow it?”

“Because I was scared of the huge black tiger behind that man. I had to submit to survive.”

“ in?”

Vivi’s words made my mind go blank as if it were a blank sheet of paper.

It was a shocking and unacceptable story.

. . .

“Gyaaaah!!!”

Gloria screamed.

Because the statue of Hestia, which was so precious to her, was destroyed by a black cat.

“Kamiya! How many times do I have to tell you not to break the statue of the goddess!”

Clia tried to stop the black cat, but the black cat kept scratching the statue of Hestia with its front paws as if it had met an enemy.