Chapter 75: Night attack! night attack! night attack!

Bang!

The door to the room slammed shut, and Yumina leaned against it, her face flushed as she panted heavily…

What…what am I even doing?!

Inquiring about my mistress’s privacy, then yelling and running out like a complete fool…

Wuwuwu !!

I look just like an idiot!

This kind of behavior—

I’m nothing but a third-rate maid!!

But…

I really…can’t help but care…

Her expression gradually shifted from frustration to a hint of sadness…

Her left hand instinctively reached up to touch the small lump on her left side, pressing it tightly—just like the way she pursed her lips firmly.

“Miss…is your relationship with Veil…really just master and servant?”

The same…master and servant as me…?

Night.

The purple moonlight was blocked outside by the dark curtains.

In the pitch-black room, the girl’s breathing and heartbeat slowly ceased.

Inside her body, a shadowy figure wrapped in a veil of black mist began to solidify, slowly detaching bit by bit from the lifeless flesh…

Floating in midair.

Is this…what it feels like to have an out-of-body soul experience?

But why does her soul drifting out feel different from the souls I catch in the graveyard?

Completely black, drifting in the air like it’s wrapped in a black robe.

She looks far more threatening than those souls!

In any case…under the black mist, the corners of Ileya Bateos’s soul’s lips curled faintly, and her body gradually sank beneath the bed frame…

Meanwhile, in Veil’s room.

“Meow…?”

The air around suddenly turned chilly.

Little Black, who was sleeping on Veil, immediately sensed something amiss…

Her eyes gleamed with a faint green glow in the dark as she warily scanned the surroundings…

“Meoww—!!”

Seconds later, Little Black’s fur bristled all over! Her tail shot straight up as she sprang up from her resting position, looking utterly frightened as she leapt onto the still soundly sleeping Veil’s face!

Pat pat pat pat!

The illusion of cat paws seemed to appear at this moment!

The pink pads rapidly patted the Goddess Young Lady’s cheeks!

“Uh?! What’s wrong? ”

Veil was roused by the cat-paw attack, her groggy eyes slowly opening and her hazy gaze landing on…

A pale face wrapped in black mist, with those crimson eyes dripping like blood.

“Ahhhhhhh—!!!”

—(A °)!!

The Goddess Young Lady was clearly terrified, letting out a piercing scream!

Huh…so even the Goddess of the Dead can get scared by ghosts if she’s clumsy enough?

Ileya slowly drifted back from the face-to-face proximity, her ghostly pale hand reaching up to touch her own chin.

“Ah…ah…ah! Ah? (QAo)?”

Gradually regaining composure, Veil seemed to realize…

That figure floating above…seemed…like that bad woman?

“…”

She gathered her words for over ten seconds…

“I…I wasn’t scared! It was just…um…grumpiness from waking up!”

“Oh.” \

Ileya nodded slowly.

“Ugh! You’re so dismissive! What the heck! Scaring me in the middle of the night! How awful!!”

The Goddess Young Lady completely gave up, rolling around in bed clutching her blanket, acting like a spoiled child…

“Cough, cough. Look at me. Why do I feel so different from those souls you catch?”

Ileya fought back the urge to laugh and moved closer to Veil to ask again.

“Um…? Probably because…you’re much stronger than those souls…you should count as a ‘Ghost’ by now, almost at the level of a Second-Level Undead?”

Second-Level Undead…that means a slightly stronger minion, huh?

What a sad reality~

But…the souls in the city’s cemetery ‘Sanctuary’ can wander around without issue.

So being a high-level ghost like this shouldn’t be a problem, right?

“If…if you want to increase your soul’s strength, you can try going to the Kingdom of the Dead. You have the Key to the Land of the Dead, don’t you?”

Veil said, pouting as she flopped back under her covers.

Clearly, the Goddess Young Lady was quite angry at Ileya for scaring her in the middle of the night!

Hmm…?

She does have a point…

But when thinking about those gaseous spirits, Ileya hesitated.

At the very least, those things are definitely stronger than Second-Level Undead…

Forget it, better finish what I wanted to do today first…

Phew—!

The ghostly young lady instantly passed through the wall and vanished from Veil’s room…

“Ugh! You terrible woman! Bad woman! I’ll beat you to death!”

Seeing Ileya completely disappear, Veil immediately jumped out from under the covers and threw a full set of Wangba Fist punches into the empty air where Ileya had been!

Thump thump thump!

And at that moment…her door suddenly received a knock.

“Uh?!”

The Goddess Young Lady was startled, swaying awkwardly…

Plop!

She fell off the bed.

Fortunately…the floor was carpeted.

“Hey, Little Veil?! Are you okay? I just heard a loud scream…”

Outside was Yumina’s voice.

“Ah…I’m fine!!”

Veil hurriedly replied.

“Good, good. So, Little Veil…can you open the door?”

“Eh? Ah…wait a moment…”

Veil quickly got up, tidied her expression, wiped away two tears at the corner of her eye, then opened the door.

Outside stood a maid with long red hair flowing loose.

Her pajamas were a little messy, and her gaze was somewhat dazed, as if she had just been woken up…

“Are you really okay? I did hear a scream just now, and then a thud…”

The red-haired girl looked at Veil worriedly, then glanced inside the room.

“Ah…well…it’s hard to explain right now. Senior, just pretend I had a nightmare~”

The Goddess Young Lady scratched her head.

Trying to explain from scratch how Ileya turned into a ghost would probably take all night.

“Is that…so?”

Phew!

“Uh?!”

Before Veil could react, Yumina reached out and pinched her cheek.

Then…quickly rubbed it a few times.

“Hm…the texture is indeed nice.”

She said this, then let go…

Rubbing her own little face.

But…

I think mine’s pretty good too…

“Um…Senior Yumina?”

Veil was baffled by the senior’s sudden cheek-rubbing.

“Ah…nothing. If you’re scared, I can sleep with you.”

Yumina waved her hand calmly.

But in her heart…she had another plan.

To find out the secret behind why Veil attracted the Miss! Maybe she could also…

“Eh? I’m fine! No need to sleep together~ I’m not a kid anymore~”

“Is that so…Well, if you need anything, just call out loud, okay~”

Disappointment flashed across Yumina’s face for a moment, but she quickly reached out and patted Veil’s head, smiling.

“Okay!”

Ah~ Senior Yumina is so gentle ~

Feels like everyone around me, except for that bad woman, is kind and good~

That awful bad woman!

The world is so beautiful!

And you’re so mean!

Coming to scare me in the middle of the night!

I’ll smash you!