Frey, the butler, waited at the back of the summit road, as he had done yesterday.

At midnight, it was still snowing.

He set up a small charcoal stove by the roadside, and the warm light of the fire swayed on the old man's face.

Frey, who served three generations of earls and was loyal to the Cavendish family, returned to Arknaise a month after the earl to repair the manor that had not been inhabited for twenty years, but he did not expect to meet Galen.

When he found the sloppy middle-aged man sleeping in the wine cellar, he thought he had entered a thief.

But when Galen's body floated out of the pile of bottles, Frey realized that he had misunderstood.

Haha, I thought it was a thief, but it turned out to be a ghost, so it's okay.

After escaping, Frey began to dutifully organize the crusade against the ghosts.

But gradually, things started to go wrong.

He thought that the house was just a little ghost.

But after three groups of adventurers failed in quick succession, Frey approached the town hall and asked them to help solve the matter.

The Cavendish family has been rooted in Arknaise for generations, and is second only to the Marquis of Wyndham in power in the city.

Although he has been away for twenty years, after marrying the royal family of the Eastern Kingdom, the Earl's status in the heart of the king has risen instead of falling, and it is the hot and popular magnates, and the officials of the city hall should pounce on them like licking dogs to serve-

But they only sent one pastor.

The result was naturally nothing, the high-ranking officials avoided him, and the police shirked in every possible way....

Frey was just a butler after all, and he couldn't give the officials a face.

But he didn't think much about it, he just felt that the earl had not returned for many years, and his influence had weakened.

He went to the military department, which had a better relationship with the Cavendish family, and finally sent a young major who was at the top of the naval cadet competition.

But the major returned with a feather and kept silent about the evil spirits.

Frey finally sensed something was wrong.

He hurriedly increased the crusade bounty in the Adventurers' Guild.

But something even stranger happened again, and the entire adventurers above the Golden Rank of Arknaise happened to be outside.

Without exception, none of them could take on the task before the Count returned to the city.

Adventurers were transferred from other cities and were told that it would take a week.

Just as Frey, who was anxious, was about to recruit masters from the Assassin League, good news suddenly came from the Adventurers' Guild.

A wizard named Cheryl took on the task, along with a young man from Hogwarts.

But she also made a condition, and the Hogwarts wizard needed a monster material unique to the South Seas Islands, lava dragon scales.

Lava dragon scales are extremely difficult to obtain, and due to their origin, they are almost priceless in the magic market. Fortunately, the Cavendish family, which had been trading with the South Seas Islands for a hundred years, happened to have a piece of collection, and Freith thought about it and agreed to their conditions.

Who would have thought that the next day, Cheryl would disappear from the world, and she would not be able to contact her.

The wizards of Hogwarts are quite reliable, and after Cheryl's absence, she found another master who is said to be from the Northern Continent, and the two of them entered the manor together to crusade against evil spirits.

I thought that the Dragon Academy students at Hogwarts, plus a platinum-level adventurer, would be able to deal with an evil spirit.

Who knows, the magical light that lights up from time to time in the main building of the mansion actually flickered all night.

The next day, the two came out and said they didn't do it.

There was only one day left before the Count returned to Arknaise.

It was too late to go to the Assassin League, and Frey pinned all his hopes on Peter and Harry, because although they didn't make it, they didn't say they couldn't do it.

Harry lived up to his trust, worthy of being a Hogwarts student, and after a late night, the two of them returned after a break, saying that they would try again tonight.

Frey also vaguely sensed that this evil spirit was not simple, so he waited here.

Regardless of whether the two of them succeeded or not, as the earl's butler, he could not be rude to the two who tried their best to help.

Unexpectedly, they came out less than half an hour after they entered.

Peter and Harry went back and forth, and Harry's expression seemed to be faintly...

Agitated?

Frey hurriedly picked up the teapot full of hot tea from the charcoal stove, poured two cups, and hurried to meet it.

"It's hard work, drink a cup of tea to warm up."

Frey was not in a hurry to ask about the evil spirits, and seeing that the two of them were neatly dressed and relaxed, it should have brought good news.

The snowy outdoors was cold enough for Harry, and he drank the black tea despite the hot mouth.

Peter was fine, after all, he had spent time in the ice and snow of the Northern Continent, and the winter in the south was much gentler in his eyes.

"Mr. Peter, looking at your relaxed appearance, has the evil spirit in the family been resolved?"

Instead of answering his question, Peter asked:

"How much is that oil painting in the hall worth?"

Frey smiled.

When you two crusade against evil spirits, you won't destroy the oil painting of the first earl, right?

It was a retirement gift from the founding king to the original Earl of Cavendish in recognition of his heroic exploits in the founding war and a testament to the honor of the Cavendish family.

The painter is also a well-known figure, and the artistic and antique value of the painting alone is worth more than 2,000 gold coins.

That's it, if it's broken, ask someone to fix it, as long as you can defeat the evil spirit.

Frey forced a smile and said:

"Was it damaged in battle? It's okay, it's not worth a few bucks, and it's not as expensive as the building materials in the hall, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

"That's great, the hall is all smashed anyway, and it's not too much to add an extra painting."

“？”

Peter thought it was expensive, so it would be easy.

"Please arrange for someone to cut out the canvas on the old man's left eyeball, we will use it."

"W, why is that?"

"Galen... That is, the evil spirit, and he dwells on that canvas. Someone had tampered with that part, and someone wanted to disadvantage the Count. ”

"What did you say?!"

Frey was shocked.

Peter gave Harry a look and asked him to speak.

Peter has just reached a new agreement with Harry, and before finding the Ghost Church to rescue the brave, the two will turn into a bottom lane combination, with you and me, all in one go!

They discussed Frey's identity, and it was clear that he had no idea of the Marquis's plans, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered Galen's arrangement.

That is, he can be trusted.

Harry pulled Frey aside and dragged Galen's origins and the Marquis's plot out of the way.

Of course, the part of Peter's divination is omitted.

Five minutes later, Frey, with a gloomy face and a cold look in his eyes, overturned the charcoal stove.

"Albert's secretary came to me the day before yesterday and told me that if the Count had no place to stay when he returned to Acneids, he would stay at his hotel in the inner city, and pretended that he had packed up the rooms on the top floor...... How dare he?! ”