Despite his extremely sensitive and fussy personality, Viscount Delang seems to be a man far from neat and tidy.
As he was extremely reluctant to let others enter his room, the servants were also not allowed to touch the desk, so the desk was a complete mess.
Dust was piled up in every corner, and the papers were lying around in a disorganized mess.
It's a wonder anything can be done with such important documents mixed up in such a mess.
'I thought you'd be thorough. I guess not.'
Simone looked through all the papers on his desk, put them down, and turned to the wall.
It's good to look through the desk, but she thinks she should check this first.
Simone placed her hand on the wall and closed her eyes.
And just like she did last night, she slowly spread mana on the wall.
If what Viscount Delang said is true, there should be something bothering this wall.
Simone, who had been concentrating all her nerves on the mana that was seeping into the wall and crawling around, spread the mana to the end of the wall, and after a while, crumpled her face and made a short sound of 'Huh?'
“What’s wrong? Did you find something?”
Bianchi, who had been expertly opening the door of a locked drawer in a corner of the room, ran over and looked back and forth between Simone and the wall.
Simone didn't answer her words but spread her mana a little wider. Then she tilted her head.
That's weird. Can we spread it further here?
The mana has already spread to the ends of the walls of this room, so where else can it spread further? Why is it spreading so endlessly like this?
“Simone?”
The mana that had been endlessly spreading out eventually found its true end and began to change direction and draw a shape.
Just as Orkan had once drawn a hidden underground door with light-like mana, Simone's black mana also created a certain shape.
The final form drawn by Black Mana is a large square room hidden within the wall.
Simone concentrated a little more and tried to figure out what this hidden room was.
Mana enveloped the large room, trying to convey images of the room to Simone as if it were a black-and-white silent film.
It was not as delicate as Orkan, so it would blur and disappear, then suddenly become clear again, but she could vaguely see the inside.
The walls looked like they were made of stone and earth, there was a fireplace in one corner, and soft-looking sofas and rocking chairs were placed in appropriate places.
And a cat sleeping soundly, wrapped in a blanket in the rocking chair.
'What?'
The suspicious abandoned space hidden behind the wall felt like it was just a living room from a house that could be found anywhere.
Simone frowned and tried to observe the living room a little more clearly.
She realized too late, her eyes drawn to the structure of the room and the cat, that the floor was carpeted.
A carpet with a pattern of a large circle containing a star.
While all the furniture creates a comfortable and cozy atmosphere, this carpet is strangely red...
“...Huh!”
Simone took a deep breath and quickly removed her hands from the wall.
“Why? What is it? Why are you so scared?”
Bianchi, who had been watching quietly so that Simone could concentrate, asked in surprise.
But Simone couldn't give Bianchi an answer right away.
She got goosebumps all over her body, her hands were shaking, and her mouth was trembling.
A comfortable room that seemed completely unremarkable except for the fact that it was hidden.
But the moment she realized what the large carpet on the floor was, her heart sank.
Carpet. It wasn't a carpet, it was a pattern drawn in blood.
And Simone knows the pattern. It's the same pattern Florier had made out of bloody paper when she had solved Jace and Florier's curse.
“What the heck is that...”
“Why! Why! I want to know too. What is it?”
At Bianchi's urging, Simone finally calmed down and explained what he had seen.
“There’s another room hidden beyond the walls of this room. I don’t know if it’s a formless illusion or what, but at first glance, it looks ordinary...”
“Normal? But why are you so surprised?”
“There is a pattern made of blood on the floor of that room.”
Simone tore up a note that appeared to belong to the Viscount Delang, drew a picture of the pattern, and handed it to Bianchi.
“I’ll look into it some more, but Bianchi, show this to Orkan and find out what the symbol is.”
“Okay! I’ll be back-”
Bianchi immediately left the room.
Simone looked around the room of the Viscount Delang and opened the curtains to make sure no servants were watching, then closed them.
And then she stopped touching the wall again for the sensing spell, turned her gaze, and looked at the desk.
There was no one in that suspicious room.
What if that room wasn't just decorated to look like a real home, but was actually a home somewhere?
The person who was knocking on the wall has left the living room, so she may not be able to meet him right now.
Simone looked through a large hole in the wall.
There is no one in the room beyond that wall right now, so no knocking sound can be heard.
Is it the kind of thing where if someone living in a house connected to that room comes into the living room and knocks on the wall, the hidden room will be revealed?
In that case, if you hear a knocking sound from the hole that opens up to the garden, it will automatically show you the inside of the room on the other side of the wall and the owner of the knocking sound without having to use detection magic.
'Then let's put off investigating that room for now and investigate this room more.'
Simone started to search through the desk again.
It seemed like the more she found out, the more questions she had.
[1. The identity of the person knocking on the wall and the room beyond the wall.
- The pattern on the floor matches the pattern seen during the Florier and Jace incident, so it is likely the work of a black sorcerer.
2. The identity of Viscount Delang.
- Are they dead or alive? Is Viscount Delang still alive and not noticing the strangeness, or is Viscount Delang a strange person himself?
3. The connection between Viscount Delang and the room beyond the wall.
- There is something suspicious about Viscount Delang as well. Considering that he specifically asked the necromancer to do it, is it another strange phenomenon that has nothing to do with the room beyond the wall? Or is it all in one?]
'They might be deceiving us.'
“...Let’s find something first.”
Anything would be fine, but she'd be happy if there was a clue that could help her piece together what's wrong.
The moment Simone sighed and put her weight on her hands on the desk.
Swish-
“Huh?”
Clang!
The desk coverslipped in Simone's hand, and the various documents on top fell messily to the floor.
'Oh, crazy.'
Simone panicked and hurriedly tried to put the cover back in place, then stopped and stared blankly at the desk.
Her face soon turned red with shock.
“Ugh, crazy...”
The room is always coming, the room is always coming, the room is always coming, the room is always coming, the room is always coming in the living room, the room is always coming in the living room, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is hot, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is cold, the water is coldThe desk is filled with writing.
The writing was scribbled, unlike the neat handwriting she had seen in the request form. The desk was dented along the lines of the letters, showing how many times they had been written.
She was surprised many times today. She was so surprised that her head didn't work properly, but Simone somehow managed to put the cover back in place and exhaled.
“...”
X-bar, what is this?
The letters were written in a madness. Are you sure that the Viscount Delang really wrote these?
Simone, still struggling to recover from the shock, began to open the suspicious desk drawers and look through the books on the shelf to see if there was anything else.
Once Simone notices something strange in this room, she needs to resolve it as quickly as possible and get out of there.
If Viscount Delang and his servants find out that Simone has noticed something fishy in this mansion, there's no telling how they'll react or attack her.
There wasn't much time.
Simone, who had been searching through the desk and everything in the room regardless of whether the room was in disarray or not, was finally able to find something resembling a clue.
A small notebook that was in a drawer of a bookshelf that Bianchi had left behind.
It was the diary of the Viscount Delang.
"Oh."
Simone, who had been looking through the diary of Viscount Delang, quietly raised the corners of her lips after a while and took out the communications seat to connect to everyone in the group.
- Yes, Simone. Did you find something?
- Uh- Miss, I'm leaving now?
- Oh, tell me.
- Yes.
Simone checked that everyone was connected to the communications room and spoke in a small voice.
“Please gather in the room of Viscount Delang right now. I have found a clue. From now on, I think it would be best to stick together and act as quickly as possible to resolve this issue.”
Got it. Now she knows all the secrets of this mansion.
So before the people of the House of Delang found out that Simone and her party had discovered the secret of this family and the mansion.
Let's quickly resolve whatever is beyond that wall and what's going on in this mansion and disappear.
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