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Waking up from a nightmare several hours before dawn, Belle fetched a drink of water. 

She paused in front of her kitchen's window when she noticed a lit lantern in front of her mansion's garden. Her butler stood there, shovel in hand. This was no hour to be gardening. 

Curious, she made her way outside, but when she had gotten close enough to see a large and hollow pit next to her eternally-stoic and polite butler, she saw him pick up a rotten body. 

A DEAD BODY!

Her eyes widened fearfully when she saw her handsome butler drop the rotting body into the fresh hole. She asked in horror, "What are you doing?!" 

Surprised to see his young miss awake at this hour, he stared at her with the same expression he had been keeping up for all these years. He had made sure she was asleep before coming here.

"Gardening."

"And the body?!" she looked at him in disbelief.

"Fertilizer," he answered her before picking up the shovel that was on the ground. Belle was now certain something had possessed her butler. Who gardened dead bodies?!

She then heard him ask her, "Want to help me in planting it, Miss Adams?" he gave her a sweet smile.

Note: If you enjoy a book of comedy with light-hearted romance and a gothic background. This book is for you~

Belle Adams' Butler

Edith's words were something that Belle had thought about before that if someone who already dead would come to meet Portia and if she would tell the truth to them. It wouldn't matter much because they would only think that she had lost her mind but the same could not be told about Crane. Lucas was not a low-level reaper but a Grim.

Belle had taken Edith into one of the free rooms so that she could ask her questions, that she needs answers from, "What is it that you want to know, Miss Adams?" asked Edith.

"As you already know, the other part of my soul killed me in the land of the dead. Is it considered to be my death? Am I free from the curse?" questioned Belle.

The first Grim looked like she already knew the answer without having the need to make use of her crystal ball, "What do you think?"

Belle's eyebrows furrowed, "I don't know."

Time keeper- Part 2