“Just wait a minute.”
Simone stopped the servants from sending Jane away and approached her.
She was just going to let Jane go as she wished, but after hearing what she said, Simone realized she couldn't just let her go like this.
“Ughhhhh!!!”
Simone crouched down in front of Jane, who was crying and making a fuss.
“Stop crying now. Before you really get in trouble.”
Around fifteen. The most effective way to stop crying in children at this age is to make them feel embarrassed about crying.
Jane's crying subsided a little as she noticed Simone's angry words.
The servants stood still and watched Simone and Jane.
Rather, since there was no one to comfort her, Jane felt sad, but her heart gradually began to calm down.
Simone said with a sigh.
“Where did you learn manners to cry and complain in front of other people? Just stop and sit down at that table.”
Her hand pointed to a chair at a table where a banquet was served.
Jane still looked at Simone with a frightened expression, then flinched and hurriedly got up and headed to the table.
Because Simone was looking at her with a serious face.
It was not an atmosphere in which she could cry anymore. No matter how young Jane was, she had lived a life of being treated with contempt, so she knew that she should not go against Simone’s feelings now.
Simone also followed her to the table.
“Can you clear the food from the table?”
The thought of eating disappeared from Simone's eyes as Jane began to whine. The servants hurriedly cleared the food from the table, and Anna filled Simone's empty cup with warm tea.
Simone asked Jane without even giving her usual faint smile.
“You saw me on the fourth floor. What do you mean?”
“Huh? Why, why am I telling you that... Lady Simone was on the 4th floor yesterday...”
Black hair, red eyes. Jane saw Simone for the first time here today, but she couldn't believe she had seen her because she had such an impressive appearance.
She also heard Kaylee mutter, 'Simone.'
But why is Simone, who was standing on the fourth floor and looking down at her and Kaylee, pretending not to know anything?
Anna scolded Jane, who had stopped crying and was now looking bewildered.
“Jane, you didn’t read the instructions properly. And that’s what the chief mentioned in the meeting this morning.”
'Oh.'
Simone's solemn expression disappeared for a moment and she looked at Anna in admiration.
Anna always treats everyone with a kind face, but even she knows how to get angry.
'That makes sense.'
Not reading the instructions properly and not paying attention during the morning meeting was tantamount to neglecting your own safety in this mansion.
That was a very dangerous thing, and it was a problem that needed to be corrected even if it meant getting scolded.
Jane looked startled and avoided Anna's gaze.
“That’s... There’s a lot to memorize at once... I’m not very smart, so I was planning on memorizing it slowly...”
“Do you want to die?”
When Simone blurted out the words, Jane shook her head and shivered.
“Oh, no? Do I want to die... I absolutely do not want to die...”
“Then memorize it. You’re going to live in this mansion. If you don’t memorize it, you’ll die in the blink of an eye. Also, listen carefully to the morning meeting content.”
“I knew it when you started nodding off during the morning meeting!”
Jane cringed again as another servant shouted at her.
Anna spoke in detail with a relieved expression, perhaps feeling sorry for getting angry.
“The point of the meeting this morning was to keep in mind the last directive in the manual and not use any staircases other than the central staircase.”
"Ah..."
“And I told you not to open the manual until you get permission from Lady Simone.”
“If we hadn’t told you, you would have opened the manual right away after hearing another word!”
That's enough. Let's end this story before the kid gets more discouraged.
Simone raised her hand to silence the servants and handed Jane her instructions.
“Last page. Check it out.”
“Can I see it?”
Jane asked, watching the servants' expressions, and Simone nodded.
“I told you to look at it now. It’s okay because I’m here. Look at it quickly.”
Jane opened the last page of the manual as instructed by Simone and saw that the handwriting was noticeably different from the other instructions.
The hundredth time, when you see Simone standing on the fourth-floor stairs, run away. Then you will die.
One hundred and second, as soon as you see this text, go to the fourth floor.
Simone said she made sure Jane had read the instructions.
“It’s a guideline that suddenly appeared one day. This guideline was written by the previous heads of the Illeston family for the people living in the mansion.”
Jane looked at the instructions again.
The hundredth instruction regarding the Grand Duchess Florier. Since Grand Duchess Florier is the current Grand Duchess, the hundredth instruction would naturally be the instruction written by the current Grand Duke of Illeston.
However, the hundred-first and hundred-second instructions have very different fonts from the hundredth instructions.
It was said that it was not written by the Grand Duke of Illeston himself.
“A set of instructions that no one had ever written down suddenly appeared. And the content of the instructions was to run away if you see Simone on the fourth floor.”
“...”
“Then is Simone on the 4th floor the real Simone?”
When Simone spoke as if she were asking a child a question, Jane stared at the instructions, thought about it, and then shook her head.
"No..."
If a ghost wrote these instructions, Simone on the fourth floor would be a ghost.
When Jane thinks about it that way, the Simone she sees now and the Simone she saw last night have very different vibes.
Only when Jane began to think did Simone smile as always.
“So, can you tell me now? What happened last night?”
Simone frowned, rubbing her aching shoulder.
The story she heard from Jane was quite shocking.
The two thought they were climbing up to the second floor, but they were already heading to the fourth floor, where someone who looked exactly like Simone was standing there, staggering around blankly.
It didn't end there, there was one more ghost.
'Is it possible that one of them is messing with the instructions?'
Do the two ghosts move as a team, or do they each have their own purpose?
“That’s why Sister Kaylee was sick... She was briefly possessed by a ghost, and... She ran around guarding the room... She couldn’t sleep properly because she was on guard all night.”
“Then Jane, the reason you were afraid of me was because you saw Simone on the fourth floor yesterday?”
“Yes... I thought the Simone I saw yesterday was the real Simone. Yes, they say necromancers can handle ghosts, right?”
Of course, necromancers know how to control spirits and corpses.
'But I can't.'
Simone nodded without revealing her true feelings.
“Yes, I understand. You said you wanted to move to another room, right? I’ll tell the chief.”
“Oh, no!”
Jane shouted, jumped up, and bowed her head.
“Please forgive my rudeness, Simone! I really... thought that Simone I saw yesterday was real... and I was scared. Now that I know everything...! Please let me continue working here!”
“Really? Then do that.”
Simone said something vague, got up, grabbed the instructions, and went outside.
In fact, Simone doesn't care where Jane, whom she's only just met, works. She just hopes she adapts well to having to work in this mansion, even if she hates it anyway.
Anna followed her out of the room.
“Where are you going, Simone?”
“Go find Master Jace. He must have already gone to class, right?”
“Yes! The tutor usually comes after lunch. He will probably be eating breakfast in his room.”
Simone led Jace, who had just finished eating in his room, up the stairs.
Jace, the young master who seemed like he wouldn't be of much help, let alone help, and who she thought would be completely incompatible with her because of his unknown abilities, surprisingly turned out to be helpful many times.
For example, it gives Simone a very high chance of seeing the 4th floor, which appears randomly.
'Simone, I will be taking the entrance exam for school soon. I heard it will be a boarding school. If I pass and enroll, will I not be able to meet you?'
Simone spent nearly half a day on the fourth floor with Jace, trying her best to answer his rambling questions.
However, despite being with Jace, Simone on the 4th floor did not come out.
It's really strange that Simone, who has mana that ghosts would covet, and Jace, who has the talent to summon curses, didn't show up together.
Simone put down the hand that was massaging her shoulder and buried her head between her knees.
'I'm really tired today.'
It's really strange. She clearly slept well, but she woke up feeling drowsy and her body was slumped as if she hadn't gotten rid of any of her fatigue.
“Simone, are you okay? If you’re tired, you can go to your room now-”
Simone crouched down in the corner of the fourth floor, her head buried in her knees, and her eyes closed.
“Simone? Uh... Are you sleeping? Oh, good night...”
“...I can’t sleep. I’m tired.”
Simone said that and closed her eyes tightly, then opened them again.
"...Uh?"
In an instant, darkness fell.
"...What."
Simone let out a cry involuntarily at the sight before her eyes.
She just closed her eyes and opened them, but the sight before her eyes was completely different.
No, rather than saying it has changed...
This is still the 4th floor.
But Jace, who was with her, is no longer there.
The sunset that had been gradually fading away had completely disappeared and it was midnight.
Simone stopped the servants from sending Jane away and approached her.
She was just going to let Jane go as she wished, but after hearing what she said, Simone realized she couldn't just let her go like this.
“Ughhhhh!!!”
Simone crouched down in front of Jane, who was crying and making a fuss.
“Stop crying now. Before you really get in trouble.”
Around fifteen. The most effective way to stop crying in children at this age is to make them feel embarrassed about crying.
Jane's crying subsided a little as she noticed Simone's angry words.
The servants stood still and watched Simone and Jane.
Rather, since there was no one to comfort her, Jane felt sad, but her heart gradually began to calm down.
Simone said with a sigh.
“Where did you learn manners to cry and complain in front of other people? Just stop and sit down at that table.”
Her hand pointed to a chair at a table where a banquet was served.
Jane still looked at Simone with a frightened expression, then flinched and hurriedly got up and headed to the table.
Because Simone was looking at her with a serious face.
It was not an atmosphere in which she could cry anymore. No matter how young Jane was, she had lived a life of being treated with contempt, so she knew that she should not go against Simone’s feelings now.
Simone also followed her to the table.
“Can you clear the food from the table?”
The thought of eating disappeared from Simone's eyes as Jane began to whine. The servants hurriedly cleared the food from the table, and Anna filled Simone's empty cup with warm tea.
Simone asked Jane without even giving her usual faint smile.
“You saw me on the fourth floor. What do you mean?”
“Huh? Why, why am I telling you that... Lady Simone was on the 4th floor yesterday...”
Black hair, red eyes. Jane saw Simone for the first time here today, but she couldn't believe she had seen her because she had such an impressive appearance.
She also heard Kaylee mutter, 'Simone.'
But why is Simone, who was standing on the fourth floor and looking down at her and Kaylee, pretending not to know anything?
Anna scolded Jane, who had stopped crying and was now looking bewildered.
“Jane, you didn’t read the instructions properly. And that’s what the chief mentioned in the meeting this morning.”
'Oh.'
Simone's solemn expression disappeared for a moment and she looked at Anna in admiration.
Anna always treats everyone with a kind face, but even she knows how to get angry.
'That makes sense.'
Not reading the instructions properly and not paying attention during the morning meeting was tantamount to neglecting your own safety in this mansion.
That was a very dangerous thing, and it was a problem that needed to be corrected even if it meant getting scolded.
Jane looked startled and avoided Anna's gaze.
“That’s... There’s a lot to memorize at once... I’m not very smart, so I was planning on memorizing it slowly...”
“Do you want to die?”
When Simone blurted out the words, Jane shook her head and shivered.
“Oh, no? Do I want to die... I absolutely do not want to die...”
“Then memorize it. You’re going to live in this mansion. If you don’t memorize it, you’ll die in the blink of an eye. Also, listen carefully to the morning meeting content.”
“I knew it when you started nodding off during the morning meeting!”
Jane cringed again as another servant shouted at her.
Anna spoke in detail with a relieved expression, perhaps feeling sorry for getting angry.
“The point of the meeting this morning was to keep in mind the last directive in the manual and not use any staircases other than the central staircase.”
"Ah..."
“And I told you not to open the manual until you get permission from Lady Simone.”
“If we hadn’t told you, you would have opened the manual right away after hearing another word!”
That's enough. Let's end this story before the kid gets more discouraged.
Simone raised her hand to silence the servants and handed Jane her instructions.
“Last page. Check it out.”
“Can I see it?”
Jane asked, watching the servants' expressions, and Simone nodded.
“I told you to look at it now. It’s okay because I’m here. Look at it quickly.”
Jane opened the last page of the manual as instructed by Simone and saw that the handwriting was noticeably different from the other instructions.
The hundredth time, when you see Simone standing on the fourth-floor stairs, run away. Then you will die.
One hundred and second, as soon as you see this text, go to the fourth floor.
Simone said she made sure Jane had read the instructions.
“It’s a guideline that suddenly appeared one day. This guideline was written by the previous heads of the Illeston family for the people living in the mansion.”
Jane looked at the instructions again.
The hundredth instruction regarding the Grand Duchess Florier. Since Grand Duchess Florier is the current Grand Duchess, the hundredth instruction would naturally be the instruction written by the current Grand Duke of Illeston.
However, the hundred-first and hundred-second instructions have very different fonts from the hundredth instructions.
It was said that it was not written by the Grand Duke of Illeston himself.
“A set of instructions that no one had ever written down suddenly appeared. And the content of the instructions was to run away if you see Simone on the fourth floor.”
“...”
“Then is Simone on the 4th floor the real Simone?”
When Simone spoke as if she were asking a child a question, Jane stared at the instructions, thought about it, and then shook her head.
"No..."
If a ghost wrote these instructions, Simone on the fourth floor would be a ghost.
When Jane thinks about it that way, the Simone she sees now and the Simone she saw last night have very different vibes.
Only when Jane began to think did Simone smile as always.
“So, can you tell me now? What happened last night?”
***
Simone frowned, rubbing her aching shoulder.
The story she heard from Jane was quite shocking.
The two thought they were climbing up to the second floor, but they were already heading to the fourth floor, where someone who looked exactly like Simone was standing there, staggering around blankly.
It didn't end there, there was one more ghost.
'Is it possible that one of them is messing with the instructions?'
Do the two ghosts move as a team, or do they each have their own purpose?
“That’s why Sister Kaylee was sick... She was briefly possessed by a ghost, and... She ran around guarding the room... She couldn’t sleep properly because she was on guard all night.”
“Then Jane, the reason you were afraid of me was because you saw Simone on the fourth floor yesterday?”
“Yes... I thought the Simone I saw yesterday was the real Simone. Yes, they say necromancers can handle ghosts, right?”
Of course, necromancers know how to control spirits and corpses.
'But I can't.'
Simone nodded without revealing her true feelings.
“Yes, I understand. You said you wanted to move to another room, right? I’ll tell the chief.”
“Oh, no!”
Jane shouted, jumped up, and bowed her head.
“Please forgive my rudeness, Simone! I really... thought that Simone I saw yesterday was real... and I was scared. Now that I know everything...! Please let me continue working here!”
“Really? Then do that.”
Simone said something vague, got up, grabbed the instructions, and went outside.
In fact, Simone doesn't care where Jane, whom she's only just met, works. She just hopes she adapts well to having to work in this mansion, even if she hates it anyway.
Anna followed her out of the room.
“Where are you going, Simone?”
“Go find Master Jace. He must have already gone to class, right?”
“Yes! The tutor usually comes after lunch. He will probably be eating breakfast in his room.”
***
Simone led Jace, who had just finished eating in his room, up the stairs.
Jace, the young master who seemed like he wouldn't be of much help, let alone help, and who she thought would be completely incompatible with her because of his unknown abilities, surprisingly turned out to be helpful many times.
For example, it gives Simone a very high chance of seeing the 4th floor, which appears randomly.
'Simone, I will be taking the entrance exam for school soon. I heard it will be a boarding school. If I pass and enroll, will I not be able to meet you?'
Simone spent nearly half a day on the fourth floor with Jace, trying her best to answer his rambling questions.
However, despite being with Jace, Simone on the 4th floor did not come out.
It's really strange that Simone, who has mana that ghosts would covet, and Jace, who has the talent to summon curses, didn't show up together.
Simone put down the hand that was massaging her shoulder and buried her head between her knees.
'I'm really tired today.'
It's really strange. She clearly slept well, but she woke up feeling drowsy and her body was slumped as if she hadn't gotten rid of any of her fatigue.
“Simone, are you okay? If you’re tired, you can go to your room now-”
Simone crouched down in the corner of the fourth floor, her head buried in her knees, and her eyes closed.
“Simone? Uh... Are you sleeping? Oh, good night...”
“...I can’t sleep. I’m tired.”
Simone said that and closed her eyes tightly, then opened them again.
"...Uh?"
In an instant, darkness fell.
"...What."
Simone let out a cry involuntarily at the sight before her eyes.
She just closed her eyes and opened them, but the sight before her eyes was completely different.
No, rather than saying it has changed...
This is still the 4th floor.
But Jace, who was with her, is no longer there.
The sunset that had been gradually fading away had completely disappeared and it was midnight.
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