Murder In The Inn (4)

Everyone turned to look at the woman who had been awfully quiet since the beginning. Now that she spoke, she had a very calm bearing like that of someone who knew what she was doing.

Most of the crowd were low level demons anyway. As villagers, they did not understand what exactly was going on. The only reasonable explanation was the ghosts that had been haunting their towns so when something wrong happened, they would naturally believe that the ghosts caused it. And like a forest fire, such rumors rolled and spread into a huge one till one could not differentiate truth from a lie.

But when Lareina spoke up, the rest of the people suddenly quietened down as they looked at the said 'expert'.

''What do you even mean by that? I merely don't want my brother's body to be harmed and his killer to escape unscathed…''

"You say that your brother was killed by a ghost, am I right?" Lareina did not take a single step towards the corpse.