What else could be done except solving one problem after another? Go back to the Manor and hide?
If someone truly formidable came and he couldn't fight them, then he would just escape. But instead, the situation was such that evil spirits were rising everywhere, though none were insurmountable.
Handling them one by one wasn't difficult, but there seemed to be no end.
He had just dealt with the problem of the child being harassed by the Night Crying Man when news arrived that a certain family's eldest daughter had been enchanted. He had just gone over, tied up the girl, pinched her fingers, and sent away the possessing spirit, when yet another living person in a different family suddenly disappeared.
He had barely pulled someone out of a well when it was reported that another child had started crying, and all the surrounding torches had extinguished, impossible to relight.
