聖女の私が殺された！
Our take
A murdered saint becomes a ghost solving her own killing.
- Ghost sleuth
- Wary alliance
- Clean finish
The setup
Determined to learn who killed her and why, the saint's spirit lingers after death. She joins forces with a neighboring kingdom's crown prince, who can see the unseen, to uncover the truth behind her murder.
Why read it
- Ghost sleuth The heroine investigates her own death from beyond the grave, driven by unresolved grief and anger.
- Wary alliance The prince starts out guarded toward her but grows close while chasing the same culprit.
- Clean finish The mystery and romance both reach a full resolution rather than being left open-ended.
For fans of
This story opens from an unusual vantage point: that of a saint who has already died. She only wanted an ordinary kind of happiness, and the shock of being killed, along with her lingering need to know who did it and why, keeps her tethered to the world as a ghost. That unresolved question becomes the engine of the whole series, pulling her into an investigation she has every personal reason to see through.
Her unlikely partner is a crown prince from a neighboring kingdom who happens to have the ability to perceive things that should not be visible to the living, including her. Their initial meeting is prickly rather than warm; he treats her with open suspicion at first. But working a shared case, tracking down who truly murdered the saint and why, pushes them into closer and closer coordination, and that proximity slowly changes the tone between them.
What makes the premise compelling is the tension built into it from the start: she is a spirit, someone who has already died, trying to build something that looks like a bond with a living prince. The series does not shy away from what that means for two people whose circumstances are so fundamentally mismatched, and the question of what, if anything, can wait for them on the other side of the truth gives the central relationship real weight rather than treating it as a simple courtship.
Readers drawn to mystery plots will find a genuine whodunit at the core, with the identity and motive of the killer treated as the central puzzle to be solved rather than background noise for the romance. At the same time, those drawn in for the relationship between the ghost saint and the prince get a slow thaw between two guarded people who end up relying on each other completely. The combination of investigative plotting and an emotionally charged, high-stakes partnership gives the work a dual appeal that should satisfy readers looking for either angle, and this release brings that overall story to its full conclusion.
2 volumes in print / Volume 1 to the latest
Spoilers through Vol.1
Oct 5, 2026聖女の私が殺された！（2）【電子特別版】
Official synopsis
[Bonus Content] Digital special edition exclusive manga [Synopsis] I just wanted to be happy, but who killed me, and why...? Perhaps because she is trapped by those thoughts, Ryuryu has become a ghost. She joins forces with Leopold, the crown prince of a neighboring country who can "see" non-human entities, to conduct a grand investigation into the true culprit who murdered the "Saint" and the truth behind the incident! Although Leopold was hostile at first, as they pursue the culprit, they find themselves becoming more special to each other than anyone else. However, Ryuryu is a ghost—an existence that has already died... The "murdered" ghost saint and the spirit-sensitive crown prince; what fate awaits the two of them beyond the truth? The love-comedy mystery that begins after becoming a ghost, drawn by Chika Akaba, reaches its grand conclusion! [Contents] - I, the Saint, was murdered! [Episode 6] - [Episode 10] - Exclusive manga (3 pages) - Afterword (1 page) - Digital special edition exclusive manga (1 page)
Vol. 1 / Sep 4, 2026Japan now聖女の私が殺された！
Official synopsis
[Synopsis] Ryuryu, an orphan who has had the power of precognitive dreams since she was young, is suddenly hoisted up as a "Saint" by a minister of the country one day and taken to the royal palace...! To make matters worse, she is pressured to become the bride of a prince who already has a fiancée, and is called a con artist by Leopold, the crown prince of a neighboring country—it's just one misfortune after another. In the midst of this, she has a dream that "someone will be killed and the country will perish," but she never imagined that she, the "Saint," would be the one killed by "someone"! Ryuryu has become a ghost, and she teams up with Leopold, a realist with the ability to see spirits whose interests align with hers, to form an odd-couple duo. They run about in a grand search for the culprit who killed her and the truth behind the incident, but—!? The love-comedy mystery drawn by Chika Akaba, now beginning! [Contents] - I, the Saint, was murdered! [Episode 1] - [Episode 5] - My First Time as a Ghost (Exclusive manga 4 pages) - Afterword (1 page)