“What kind of curse appears without giving me a moment to breathe?”
How did they survive when I wasn't around?
Simone grumbled and headed back to the mansion.
She heard from Grand Duke Illeston that the number of servants sacrificed in this generation is extremely small.
“Isn’t that all a lie?”
Why do curses appear one by one every other day?
Even if the curse's activation cycle is accelerated by Simone's constant stirring, can the difference with and without Simone be this great?
It may seem like a rambling that has just begun, but in fact, Simone has always had the same question.
Why is it that when Simone comes to their quiet mansion, there's always a fuss about curses if they just follow the instructions?
Doesn't it seem like they're attacking Simone, rather than the Illeston family, who are the cause of the curse?
When Simone arrived back at the mansion, grumbling as usual, her fear of the burned doll had subsided.
“...”
Simone froze as she looked at her feet, feeling dizzy.
Why is this...
Transparent blue-glass eyes were looking up at Simone.
“Simone, are you back? Uh...”
Anna, who was approaching, stopped walking and looked at where Simone's gaze was directed, and Kaylee, who was following behind, froze and took a deep breath.
“Hey, what is that!”
Kaylee screamed loudly.
That was what Simone was going to say. Why would it be here?
'I'm sure I burned it and buried it?'
A doll with blackened, tangled hair, peeling paint that looks like peeling skin, clothes that she was wearing that are in bad shape, and one arm that has gone missing.
Simone's just-buried doll was standing at the entrance to the mansion, still burnt.
...It seemed like it was smiling for some reason.
“Oh, what should I do? Did Simone set it up?”
“Me? No way.”
“...Then this means that it walked here on its own-”
“What’s going on? Huh? What is that!”
“The doll that Simone said she would throw away...”
The commotion of the three people brought other servants together, and the entrance to the mansion became very noisy.
The commotion reached the Grand Duke of Illeston, who had come down to the first floor for dinner.
The Grand Duke frowned and looked toward the entrance.
“What's going on?”
He heard from Kelle that a doll he had never seen before had entered the mansion.
It seems like Simone herself was going to burn it and bury it, so did something happen because of that?
“Master, shall I go and check what’s going on?”
When Kelle asked, Grand Duke Illeston shook his head as if it was okay and walked towards the entrance himself.
If there's a possibility that the curse was reactivated due to the doll, it would be better to go and check for himself.
As the Grand Duke of Illeston approached the entrance, the servants who had been clamoring and trembling with fear suddenly jumped out of the way and made way for him.
“What’s the fuss about? Someone come forward and explain the situation to the Master.”
When the servants noticed Simone's expression at Kelle's words, Simone stepped forward as if she had no choice.
Then she pointed to the doll that was standing upright as if it had been nailed down.
“I burned the doll and buried it far away from the mansion. When I came back, it was here...”
Even if Simone had walked weakly, she had come by the shortest path, so it is unlikely that someone would have dug up what was buried and arrived at the mansion faster than Simone.
'The curse has begun.'
That doll has returned here as a real curse.
Simone was lost in thought.
'If destroy doesn't help, where should I put it?'
If it can return to the mansion even after being destroyed like that, it will return no matter where she put it.
But she doesn't want to keep it in her room and watch it.
Then Grand Duke Illeston snatched the doll away.
“Hey! If you touch that...”
Simone, with a rare expression of surprise, reached out to the doll in the hands of the Grand Duke of Illeston.
“I knew something would happen if I touched it. Give it to me.”
“Alright. The curse of this mansion will be passed on to the Illeston family anyway. Let’s keep this doll locked up until its identity is revealed.”
Simone plans to lock the doll in a sealed box and see if it escapes.
Simone looked back and forth between the Grand Duke of Illeston and the doll with an uneasy expression before pulling her hand away.
Then he spoke to his servants.
“If possible, do not approach this doll. You never know what might happen.”
Simone unconsciously stared at the doll and froze. Before she knew it, the doll's head had turned to face Simone.
Judging by the momentum felt by that expressionless doll, it would not be a curse that can be dealt with lightly.
Above all, the current situation is not one in which any curse can be easily dealt with.
'He said I couldn't destroy it.'
According to El, the souls that necromancer processes are either absorbed by the necromancer or appear to disappear but then gather again and return to the surface. One of the two.
Simone's body is so full that it can no longer hold a soul, and she still cannot use the method of transferring the soul to the magic stone.
Even if Simone tries to solve the curse now, it will come back.
“Your Highness, I’m sorry, but could you please send a letter to His Highness the Crown Prince?”
"Letter?"
“I need a strong magic stone urgently.”
She could ask the Grand Duke directly for the magic stone, but he has to watch over the doll.
The Grand Duke seemed unaware of it but nodded his head.
“I will ask you why that is necessary when you have time to explain.”
Simone nodded.
El, who will help Simone train to put her soul into the magic stone, will have set out to help Abel and his party, and there is only one way.
An attempt to obtain a magic stone and, however crude, to put a soul into it.
She should also consider the case where she fails to obtain the magic stone.
Simone took a deep breath and spoke to the Grand Duke of Illeston.
“Let’s go back first. If there’s any change in the doll, please let me know right away.”
"Yes."
Simone was lost in thought, oblivious to the servants following her behind.
This situation. Simone is unable to accept the soul.
It will never go the way she wants it to.
“Let’s go in first! Thank you for your hard work.”
“Hey, get some rest. And I told you, don’t go out tonight.”
“Yes! Butler, I also know that my life is precious.”
The butler Kelle chuckled at the words of his young junior, butler Lavian.
It's already been seven years since Kelle took him from the orphanage and raised him because he saw his intelligence when he was thirteen years old.
Now that he has grown into a full-fledged butler, he has the leisure to accept his boss's words with aplomb.
“Keep the amulet Simone gave you in your arms even when you sleep. Did you see that child’s expression just now? It’s a serious curse.”
“Yes, I will be careful.”
Of course, the doll was placed in a transparent box that the Grand Duke of Illeston himself could never take out and locked with a padlock.
It was sealed so tightly that it seemed physically impossible for it to come out, but it was a ghost created by a curse.
They must not let their guard down.
Lavian nodded several times to Kelle's fatherly advice and then left the butlers' lounge.
A dark hallway. It was a darkness he was used to, but sometimes, when a curse that Simone could not resolve was activated, it felt particularly dark, ominous, and long.
'Let's go back quickly.'
Lavian hurried his steps and checked the talisman on his product.
There won't be any problem.
There's not much left to the accommodation, and Simone's amulet is still somewhat effective.
Knock knock-
Only the regular sound of Lavian's footsteps echoed through the hallway.
It was quite sudden that he heard a loud noise that was so loud it drowned out the rough and fast footsteps that he was nervous.
Taang!
“Ouch! Oh, that’s a surprise!”
Lavian grabbed his heart and shouted in annoyance.
It seemed that one of the employees on duty had dropped something blunt.
“Oh, by the way, be careful.”
If the head butler, Kelle, or the head chamberlain, Ruth, had heard about this, they would have scolded the servant who dropped the item severely.
Because it was loud enough to wake up the employer.
But the dull, ear-piercing sound didn't end there.
Taang!
Taang!
Taang!
"...What."
A series of loud noises.
It wasn't long before Lavian realized that this sound wasn't just the sound of something being dropped.
'It's not dropping things. This is...'
It's the sound of something breaking.
Lavian's eyes trembled. His steps, which had paused for a moment, began to move faster toward the inn.
The intuition he gained from living in this cursed mansion for seven years is showing through with all his might.
This is not a human sound, and you must not become aware of the true nature of that sound.
As Lavian continued walking, the dull sound that had been echoing through the hallway suddenly disappeared.
Instead, the sound he hears is.
Squeak-
It was the sound of something opening.
How did they survive when I wasn't around?
Simone grumbled and headed back to the mansion.
She heard from Grand Duke Illeston that the number of servants sacrificed in this generation is extremely small.
“Isn’t that all a lie?”
Why do curses appear one by one every other day?
Even if the curse's activation cycle is accelerated by Simone's constant stirring, can the difference with and without Simone be this great?
It may seem like a rambling that has just begun, but in fact, Simone has always had the same question.
Why is it that when Simone comes to their quiet mansion, there's always a fuss about curses if they just follow the instructions?
Doesn't it seem like they're attacking Simone, rather than the Illeston family, who are the cause of the curse?
When Simone arrived back at the mansion, grumbling as usual, her fear of the burned doll had subsided.
“...”
Simone froze as she looked at her feet, feeling dizzy.
Why is this...
Transparent blue-glass eyes were looking up at Simone.
“Simone, are you back? Uh...”
Anna, who was approaching, stopped walking and looked at where Simone's gaze was directed, and Kaylee, who was following behind, froze and took a deep breath.
“Hey, what is that!”
Kaylee screamed loudly.
That was what Simone was going to say. Why would it be here?
'I'm sure I burned it and buried it?'
A doll with blackened, tangled hair, peeling paint that looks like peeling skin, clothes that she was wearing that are in bad shape, and one arm that has gone missing.
Simone's just-buried doll was standing at the entrance to the mansion, still burnt.
...It seemed like it was smiling for some reason.
“Oh, what should I do? Did Simone set it up?”
“Me? No way.”
“...Then this means that it walked here on its own-”
“What’s going on? Huh? What is that!”
“The doll that Simone said she would throw away...”
The commotion of the three people brought other servants together, and the entrance to the mansion became very noisy.
The commotion reached the Grand Duke of Illeston, who had come down to the first floor for dinner.
The Grand Duke frowned and looked toward the entrance.
“What's going on?”
He heard from Kelle that a doll he had never seen before had entered the mansion.
It seems like Simone herself was going to burn it and bury it, so did something happen because of that?
“Master, shall I go and check what’s going on?”
When Kelle asked, Grand Duke Illeston shook his head as if it was okay and walked towards the entrance himself.
If there's a possibility that the curse was reactivated due to the doll, it would be better to go and check for himself.
As the Grand Duke of Illeston approached the entrance, the servants who had been clamoring and trembling with fear suddenly jumped out of the way and made way for him.
“What’s the fuss about? Someone come forward and explain the situation to the Master.”
When the servants noticed Simone's expression at Kelle's words, Simone stepped forward as if she had no choice.
Then she pointed to the doll that was standing upright as if it had been nailed down.
“I burned the doll and buried it far away from the mansion. When I came back, it was here...”
Even if Simone had walked weakly, she had come by the shortest path, so it is unlikely that someone would have dug up what was buried and arrived at the mansion faster than Simone.
'The curse has begun.'
That doll has returned here as a real curse.
Simone was lost in thought.
'If destroy doesn't help, where should I put it?'
If it can return to the mansion even after being destroyed like that, it will return no matter where she put it.
But she doesn't want to keep it in her room and watch it.
Then Grand Duke Illeston snatched the doll away.
“Hey! If you touch that...”
Simone, with a rare expression of surprise, reached out to the doll in the hands of the Grand Duke of Illeston.
“I knew something would happen if I touched it. Give it to me.”
“Alright. The curse of this mansion will be passed on to the Illeston family anyway. Let’s keep this doll locked up until its identity is revealed.”
Simone plans to lock the doll in a sealed box and see if it escapes.
Simone looked back and forth between the Grand Duke of Illeston and the doll with an uneasy expression before pulling her hand away.
Then he spoke to his servants.
“If possible, do not approach this doll. You never know what might happen.”
Simone unconsciously stared at the doll and froze. Before she knew it, the doll's head had turned to face Simone.
Judging by the momentum felt by that expressionless doll, it would not be a curse that can be dealt with lightly.
Above all, the current situation is not one in which any curse can be easily dealt with.
'He said I couldn't destroy it.'
According to El, the souls that necromancer processes are either absorbed by the necromancer or appear to disappear but then gather again and return to the surface. One of the two.
Simone's body is so full that it can no longer hold a soul, and she still cannot use the method of transferring the soul to the magic stone.
Even if Simone tries to solve the curse now, it will come back.
“Your Highness, I’m sorry, but could you please send a letter to His Highness the Crown Prince?”
"Letter?"
“I need a strong magic stone urgently.”
She could ask the Grand Duke directly for the magic stone, but he has to watch over the doll.
The Grand Duke seemed unaware of it but nodded his head.
“I will ask you why that is necessary when you have time to explain.”
Simone nodded.
El, who will help Simone train to put her soul into the magic stone, will have set out to help Abel and his party, and there is only one way.
An attempt to obtain a magic stone and, however crude, to put a soul into it.
She should also consider the case where she fails to obtain the magic stone.
Simone took a deep breath and spoke to the Grand Duke of Illeston.
“Let’s go back first. If there’s any change in the doll, please let me know right away.”
"Yes."
Simone was lost in thought, oblivious to the servants following her behind.
This situation. Simone is unable to accept the soul.
It will never go the way she wants it to.
***
“Let’s go in first! Thank you for your hard work.”
“Hey, get some rest. And I told you, don’t go out tonight.”
“Yes! Butler, I also know that my life is precious.”
The butler Kelle chuckled at the words of his young junior, butler Lavian.
It's already been seven years since Kelle took him from the orphanage and raised him because he saw his intelligence when he was thirteen years old.
Now that he has grown into a full-fledged butler, he has the leisure to accept his boss's words with aplomb.
“Keep the amulet Simone gave you in your arms even when you sleep. Did you see that child’s expression just now? It’s a serious curse.”
“Yes, I will be careful.”
Of course, the doll was placed in a transparent box that the Grand Duke of Illeston himself could never take out and locked with a padlock.
It was sealed so tightly that it seemed physically impossible for it to come out, but it was a ghost created by a curse.
They must not let their guard down.
Lavian nodded several times to Kelle's fatherly advice and then left the butlers' lounge.
A dark hallway. It was a darkness he was used to, but sometimes, when a curse that Simone could not resolve was activated, it felt particularly dark, ominous, and long.
'Let's go back quickly.'
Lavian hurried his steps and checked the talisman on his product.
There won't be any problem.
There's not much left to the accommodation, and Simone's amulet is still somewhat effective.
Knock knock-
Only the regular sound of Lavian's footsteps echoed through the hallway.
It was quite sudden that he heard a loud noise that was so loud it drowned out the rough and fast footsteps that he was nervous.
Taang!
“Ouch! Oh, that’s a surprise!”
Lavian grabbed his heart and shouted in annoyance.
It seemed that one of the employees on duty had dropped something blunt.
“Oh, by the way, be careful.”
If the head butler, Kelle, or the head chamberlain, Ruth, had heard about this, they would have scolded the servant who dropped the item severely.
Because it was loud enough to wake up the employer.
But the dull, ear-piercing sound didn't end there.
Taang!
Taang!
Taang!
"...What."
A series of loud noises.
It wasn't long before Lavian realized that this sound wasn't just the sound of something being dropped.
'It's not dropping things. This is...'
It's the sound of something breaking.
Lavian's eyes trembled. His steps, which had paused for a moment, began to move faster toward the inn.
The intuition he gained from living in this cursed mansion for seven years is showing through with all his might.
This is not a human sound, and you must not become aware of the true nature of that sound.
As Lavian continued walking, the dull sound that had been echoing through the hallway suddenly disappeared.
Instead, the sound he hears is.
Squeak-
It was the sound of something opening.
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