He was mumbling the words backwards over and over again. And.

    Whirik-

    His neck turned upside down.

    “Ouch!”

    I dropped the cup I was holding in shock.

    Clang-

    Everyone in the cafe looked at me.

    I looked at the Pope again. His neck was normal. As if it had never turned upside down.

    His eyes met mine and he tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

    “What, what is it?”

    I guess I was seeing things now.

    “Melody, are you okay?”

    At that moment, Leonard came closer to me and asked. I nodded with a bewildered face.

    Then I noticed another curious thing. The Duke of Lauderdale and his daughter, Lady Lauderdale, who were sitting across from the Pope, were frozen stiff.

    ‘Did they see it too?’

    Since Lauderdale was a Shaman family, they must have seen something. Like Easton.

    I hesitated for a moment and approached them cautiously.

    The Pope looked puzzled and raised his head again. I smiled and asked.

    “Do you need anything?”

    The Pope was an old man who looked old.

    The old man, with white hair and a long beard, stroked his beard with his hand and chuckled kindly. He stroked his beard from top to bottom, in a normal direction. I had heard so many ghost stories that I wondered if I had seen something.

    “It’s okay. I think he’s a student at St. Gloria’s Private School.”

    I glanced at the Duke and Lady Lauderdale and nodded and smiled.

    “Yes, that’s right. I used to work here every weekend.”

    “Oh. I see.”

    The Pope quickly lost interest. It seemed that he had decided that there was nothing special about me that would interest him.

    ‘Did I see something wrong?’

    I tilted my head like that and looked at the Duke of Lauderdale and Lady Lauderdale again, but they were still frozen stiffly.

    “Oh, right. Student.”

    Then the Pope handed me something as I turned around. I reached out and carefully took it.

    It was candy.

    “I got this candy from a school official. I heard it’s not on sale yet, so try it first. It’s a gift. Oh. I got it from a school official who came to greet me on land. Don’t get me wrong.”

    Since he said he got it from a school official, it felt like there had been some kind of transaction, so he must have added an explanation.

    However, no one would misunderstand something like that with just candy, so it felt even stranger.

    Anyway, the Pope continued to offer me candy. I looked at the candy wrapped in clear plastic on my palm and asked.

    “What kind of candy is it? Taste? Effects?”

    “Making bowls.......”

    “Huh? A bowl?”

    “A candy that replenishes your energy. Let’s call it a nutritional supplement.”

    A bowl? Didn’t you just mention a bowl? The Pope smiled and stared at me. As if there was nothing wrong with what he said.

    Once again, I remembered what Senior Noah had said.

    The bowl that Senior Noah had described was the body. In other words, a body with an empty soul. An empty shell that evil spirits or demons would covet and want to possess.

    Creating a bowl... ... .

    I hurriedly looked back at Mrs. Louise. She was talking to someone who had come into the cafe.

    When her eyes met mine, she answered with the shape of her lips.

    ‘I’ll start collecting now!’

    I had asked her to collect the candy in the village, and it seemed like she was already putting it into action. It was going very quickly.

    It was easy to collect the candy before it was sold, and it wasn’t a small town with many vendors, so it wouldn’t take long.

    Leonard also said that Mrs. Lewis was a more influential person in the town than he thought, so it would be easier.

    And within an hour or two, he would gather the townspeople and make ordinary candy to replace the suspicious candy of the school director.

    The candy was scheduled to be sold at the sealing ceremony that would conclude the Night of the Dead tomorrow, so there was still time.

    “Did the others receive candy?”

    The Duke of Lauderdale and Lady Lauderdale nodded at my question.

    “I did, but I don’t like sweets.”

    “Me too.”

    The Duke of Lauderdale and Lady Lauderdale answered in turn.

    “Student?”

    At that moment, the Pope called me again. I belatedly thanked him.

    “I’ll eat well. Thank you.”

    And he put it in his pocket.

    “You can eat it now, but if you save it, you won’t be able to eat it later. Hehehe.”

    The Pope smiled like a kind old man next door and gave me a hint to eat the candy.

    I smiled and shook my head.

    “It’s okay.......”

    It felt like the situation when Madame Ranat handed me the strawberry pie, so I felt a sense of deja vu.

    “I’ll go in and eat it.”

    “I’ll eat it here.”

    “Your Holiness. The student seems busy, so how about we send him off?”

    At that moment, the Duke of Lauderdale called the Pope in a calm voice. Soon, the Pope’s gaze turned to the Duke.

    The Duke flinched at that gaze and frowned, feeling his pride hurt by the pressure.

    In fact, I wanted to ask the Duke if the Pope had seen anything strange earlier, but it was a question I couldn’t ask in this situation.

    But I, a commoner, was not someone who could be called to say something for a moment.

    I looked at the crowd gathered outside the cafe terrace. There were a crowd of knights and imperial knights guarding the Pope and the Crown Prince, and their aides, and around them were villagers and school students.

    They were all crowds gathered to see the Pope and the Crown Prince.

    Then the Duke of Lauderdale said,

    “Enough with the candy, why don’t we finish our conversation?”

    Only then did the Pope look away from me. I sighed and put the candy in my pocket. At that moment, the Duke of Lauderdale glanced at me and nodded.

    I bowed to him and turned around.

    I had vaguely thought that noblemen might be scary, but they were very different from what I had imagined. They were gentlemen even to a young commoner like me.

    Nobility is different after all.

    I returned to the counter, checked the dishes, and recalled what had happened earlier.

    No matter how much I thought about it, the Pope did not seem human.

    However, the difference between Madame Ranat and her was that she was a commander and invisible to others, while the Pope was visible to everyone.

    “What kind of candy is it? The taste. The efficacy.”

    “Making a vessel...”

    Was that intentional or a slip of the tongue?

    What if he ate the candy and became a vessel for an evil spirit, as the Pope said earlier?

    ‘Is that really possible?’

    What was the real purpose of the head of the academic affairs department who made the candy? I couldn’t even guess why he would do this.

    At that moment, Noah, who had finished talking to the crown prince, approached me and spoke.

    “I guess you saw something.”

    I looked at him in surprise, and then a sudden thought occurred to me and I took him out the back door of the cafe.

    “Senior, did you notice something strange about the Pope a little while ago?”

    “I felt a strange aura. I came here because I thought you saw something.”

    I was relieved after hearing that answer. Fortunately, it seemed like I wasn’t crazy.

    “The Pope... isn’t a demon?”

    I immediately explained to him what had happened earlier. Noah-senpai’s expression became serious after hearing the whole story.

    Outside the island, this would have definitely sounded crazy.

    But this was Gloria Island.

    “The door to the ‘other world’ didn’t open, and there was no ghost story. It’s definitely strange.”

    Noah-senpai said.

    “If there was a ghost story and the Pope was a demon, other people should have noticed something strange too, but that wasn’t the case.”

    Noah-senpai said there was no ghost story, but he didn’t deny the question of the Pope being a demon.

    That’s because only Noah-senpai and I noticed that the Pope was strange.

    “The candy is definitely strange. I should explain this to Father Cesario as well.”

    Father Cesario decided to investigate the candy, but wouldn’t he be a little shocked if he heard about the Pope?

    “Let’s just watch for now.”

    I nodded at Senior Noah’s words.

    For now, no one noticed anything strange and no one did anything noticeable, so there was nothing we could do about it.

    ‘The Duke of Lauderdale and Young-ae seem to have noticed... ... .’

    If I get a chance later, I should ask Young-ae Lauderdale separately.

    ‘Young-ae Lauderdale and the Duke of Lauderdale also said they received candy, but that candy needs to be recovered as well.’

    I overheard their conversation later, and fortunately, it seemed that not everyone on the ship received candy.

    Also, it seemed that a few people tasted the candy, but it seems that not everyone who eats candy becomes like Erica or the Pope.

    Erika also acted as if she was being controlled by someone for a while, but she didn’t show any symptoms after that.

    ‘The Pope is definitely strange.’

    It didn’t feel like they were trying to do something with the candy. Rather, it felt like they were experimenting with how people would react to the candy.

    ‘It’s dangerous.’

    I didn’t know what their purpose was, but I had to burn the recipe or eliminate the ingredients to stop the experiment right away.

    To do that, I had to wait for Father Cesario’s answer.

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