Chapter 10 - You’re Messing With Somebody

Chapter 10 – You’re Messing With Somebody

As soon as Bella saw Kiel, she felt her heart throb.

He was shivering with his eyes tightly closed, and something black was wrapped around his neck.

Bella turned her eyes toward the ceiling and saw the source of the terror.

“….”

There was a woman with black eyes strangling Kiel with her long hair.

‘What…A ghost in a romance novel?’

No wonder the house was so cheap. Bella hadn’t known it was a haunted house.

Kiel was groaning in a cold sweat.

Bella was embarrassed for a moment because she has never seen this before, but she quickly reacted.

This was what was haunting Kiel.

Bella immediately attacked it.

“Hey!”

She leaped and grabbed the ghost’s hair, which was covering Kiel.

The mansion began to tremble.

“Ahk.”

When the hair strangling Kiel came loose, he gently opened his eyes and pushed Bella away with difficulty.

“R-Run away.”

There was no fear in Bella’s eyes. She had been working so hard these past few nights, so how dare a ghost sneak in.

This was a house full of demons!

And the ghost had snuck in without them even realizing it.

When Bella threw away the ghost, it rolled through the window to the garden.

‘I’m gonna kill you.’

The ghost was already dead, but Bella wasn’t thinking straight.

She jumped from Kiel’s room, off of the second floor, and landed on the garden with a thump.

Bella squeezed the ankle of the ghost.

“Where are you crawling in here?”

“I-I was originally here!” the ghost complained.

“Then you should get out!”

‘

The whole land began to shake.

“Is there anything you can look through? You’re a ghost, and you come to the place where the devil lives…”

‘Devil? For days, this girl used to stay up all night in her study with her drunken hair tied in pigtails.’

How does this kind of devil work? Like a human being?

But with her suffocating rage, the face of the already bloodless ghost grew paler and paler.

“How dare you touch Kiel?!”

“Hey! This was my house!”

Bella’s fingernails grow longer and longer, and her eyes grow redder and redder.

The ghost wrapped Bella and herself in a circle with her hair as if it were the last one.

“Hiding like a rat…”

But Bella wasn’t very scared of the ghost’s move.

In her past life, people had been scarier than ghosts.

“You’re as good as the rent you didn’t pay!”

* * *

Meanwhile, hearing the window crack, Jenkins and Zhanbar opened the door on the second floor.

“Young Master, what the Hell—”

Kiel stood in front of the broken window, nervously watching the garden.

“Wha-what’s that?”

Jenkins approached Kiel and saw the garden he looked at.

“I see.”

“What if Bella dies?”

“What?”

Jenkins hugged Kiel and ran softly to the garden.

***

Kiel’s nightmares had begun on the day he first moved into the mansion.

In the middle of the night, when he opened his eyes, feeling a weight over his whole body. A scary woman looked back at Kiel.

“How can you smell like this when you’re young?”

The woman stood by the window and gradually approached Keel and talked to him.

“I smell lonely. The smell of abandoned life.”

The woman’s eyes were blank underneath her long hair.

“You’re alone, too.”

Kiel had never seen a ghost, so he thought it was just a nightmare.

“Can you hear me? You’ll be thrown away again.”

Did he say dreams reflect reality? He was well aware of why he dreamed such a dream.

It was clear that the reality was reflected in the fear of being abandoned.

Kiel frequently suffered from nightmares, so he treated this one with little regard.

But otherwise, life in the mansion seemed to be the way Kiel wanted it.

Bella taught him how to write at first, and Jenkins started teaching him how to write afterward.

Nevertheless, the nightmares did not disappear.

‘I-I’m weak.’

The ghost dug deeper and deeper into the weak spot of anxious Kiel.

As Kiel’s breath slipped away from him, he opened his eyes to see a room full of thick red.

He smiled, turning to the faces of his friends he had met while living on the street.

“You’ve been eating other people’s lives.”

Because of his divine power, he was able to endure every crisis.

“And you’re the only one who survived?”

Kiel shook his head, closed his eyes tightly, and tried to overcome the nightmare.

“’I’m dreaming of this because I’m weak.”

When the morning came again, and the voice that had been bothering him all night disappeared, he endured the anxiety.

But every time Kiel was alone, something was often broken.

“Young Master, don’t touch anything.”

“It wasn’t me.”

“Yes, yes.”

Whenever Kiel survived alone, people always looked at him suspiciously.

“Why are you the only one alive? Was it your doing?”

It was unfair, but there was no way to resolve the misunderstanding.

“Come to me if anything happens, okay?”

“Can I talk to you? That strange dream…”

After some point, Bella ended up being holed up in her study.

“Would she believe me?”

At some point, Kiel merely shook his head in defeat.

“This is something I have to carry with me.”

After that, Kiel had to suffer from the dreadful visions and whispers every night.

“You’re not as welcome as I am.”

“No…”

“Come with me. You’ll be abandoned anyway.”

He felt like he was going to die.

But he was determined to hold out for as long as possible.

Just one more day. Kiel wanted to be happy for just one more day.

* * *

Kiel, who went down to the garden, ran to Bella.

He had thought it was just a nightmare.

He had thought it was because he was weak-minded.

He had thought that if he fell asleep with Bella beside him, he could relax. That way, he wouldn’t have nightmares anymore.

A ghost. Whatever it was, it wasn’t because of him.

“Don’t tell her…You’re not gonna tell Bella about that, right?’

‘What happens if Bella hears about it and throws me out because I’m as unlucky as my uncle?’

“That kid is going to die.”

Zhanbar went done to catch Kiel.

But it was Jenkins who stopped Zhanbar.

“Wait a minute, Mr. Zhanbar.”

“You—”

Zhanbar stopped and looked at Jenkins. Jenkins frowned, but he seemed to have faith.

Kiel began to tear out the round sphere that the ghost had made of hair by hand.

“No…”

Barely opening the gap, Kiel’s arm went in between the ghost and the Bella.

The nest of the ghost, wrapped in hair like a round hut, was the last straw for the ghost, but a blind spot for Bella.

Bella was frantically beating the ghost and saw Kiel’s little arm and her reason finally returned.

When Bella cut off the hair that the ghost had made without mercy, Kiel was seen crying outside.

“Uh…Kiel?”

He ran to Bella and gave her a hug. The nightmare of surviving alone like before seemed to emerge as a reality.

“I just wanted to stay one more day…I wanted to pretend I didn’t know.”

“…….”

“I’m sorry…”

Bella didn’t quite understand what she was actually saying.

However, the words from the child’s mouth still felt so pathetic.

“Did that ghost keep bothering you?”

Kiel nodded quietly.

“Tell me if anything happens.”

“Then, Bella—”

He swallowed his tears without finishing his words.

“You’re worried I might get hurt?”

“…….”

“I’m much stronger than that ghost. I’m the princess of the Animal Kingdom, so I’m really strong.”

Bella patted Kiel’s back.

Kiel slowly turned around and looked at the ghost. The source of his nightmares was running away.

“You must have been scared.”

Bella slowly patted and soothed Kiel in her arms.

“Zhanbar, what are you doing? He’s running away.”

Zhanbar, who was looking blankly at Bella, chased after the ghost.

With a warm touch, a sweet voice ending a long and long nightmare, Kiel closed his eyes like melting into a deep sleep.

“Lady, I’ll take you.”

Jenkins, quick-witted, came by Bella’s side and held Kiel carefully.

“I-I-I don’t want you to go to Young Master’s room.”

“Then, where are you going?”

“The windows are broken in Young Master’s room.”

Bella frowned at Kiel’s room with a broken window from the garden.

“He’ll sleep in my room for the time being.”

As Jenkins put Kiel on Bella’s bed, Bella lifted the quilt to the end of his neck.

Bella smiled at Kiel and whispered, “Good night.”

Jenkins felt that the scene was oddly strange.

A devil princess.

When he was first summoned here, he had thought she would be more vicious than any other demon.

But what the hell was this?

Zhanbar had told Jenkins that Bella had only recently met Kiel.

Then, Zhanbar entered Bella’s room carefully.

“I got you.”

The ghost in Zhanbar’s hand cried bitterly.

“Save me…Help me.”

Bella laughed.

I dare you to accept the punishment for bullying our Kiel.

“You’re already dead.”