A cat that was doing fine.
Even last night, why was the guy who threatened Simone more viciously than the woman outside the window suddenly found dead?
Simone clenched her fists. Being dead means being alive.
This cat wasn't a ghost, a curse, or anything. It was just a cat that entered this cursed mansion and was struck by strange phenomena.
"What's this..."
Although they didn't have a deep connection, she couldn't forget the feeling of him being carefully stroked or the eyes that stubbornly looked at her from the bed.
Anyone who looked at it would think that it would have a bad temper. The cat, who seemed like it would fill its stomach and sleep here, then leave the mansion on its own and disappear, died after vomiting blood.
And it was as if he had been attacked by someone.
It was a situation where even sighs were not enough.
As Simone looked at the cat with a complicated expression, Anna and Kaylee exchanged glances and then blocked the view with their bodies.
“S, Simone, it’s not pretty. You must be upset that the cat you gave your heart to has become like this... Don’t worry about it, it’s...”
“Why don’t you go for a walk first? We’ll clean up and prepare dinner. You don’t want to eat in this situation, do you, Simone?”
Simone nodded at Kaylee's words. Was it Kaylee's imagination that her face seemed to turn a little gloomy?
Anna hurried over to Simone and pushed her back toward the door as Kaylee gave Anna a hint by tapping her side.
“Come take a walk in the garden with me!”
Simone followed Anna obediently. Kaylee felt sorry for Simone, who seemed to be devastated by the death of the animal she had given affection to, but in fact, Simone was quite rational at the moment.
'Why did you die?'
Aside from feeling sad that the cat had died, she had to figure out how this had come to pass.
It was clearly a tremendous force. It felt like it had a fundamentally different power from the female ghost outside the window, which was enough to threaten even with Simone's limited mana control.
'Not as much as Anasis, though.'
While she was walking in the garden, Anna chatted with her about this and that.
“I heard that Master Jace will be leaving for the Academy soon, so you must be lonely.”
“Well, not really.”
At first, Jace's constitution was annoying, but as time went on, it became more and more useful and was quite helpful in lifting the curse, so it's a bit of a shame...
'Jace wants to study, but I'm lonely and have no choice but to go to sleep.'
That was it.
Anna continued talking to Simone, hoping that she would forget what had just happened, but that did not stop Simone from thinking differently.
“I’ll make a new meal! I think it’s better if there’s meat in it-”
“You can heat up what you brought and eat it. More importantly, where should I bury the cat?”
Anna flinched at Simone's question, lowered her eyes, and hesitantly opened her mouth.
“Perhaps somewhere far from the mansion... If the death is related to the curse, it will be burned.”
As a rule, those who die due to the curse of the mansion are burned to prevent their very existence from becoming another curse or threat.
Simone looked up at the second floor where her room was at Anna's words and then turned around and said.
“Don’t burn the cat, bury it. I’ll tell the Grand Duke, so bury it inside the mansion.”
“Yes, yes?... Yes.”
There must be a reason why Simone told her to do that.
Anna nodded obediently, although she didn't seem too keen on burying the body in the mansion.
“And where is that doll now?”
“Oh, that doll.”
Last night, cats and ghosts weren't the only things that visited Simone.
She suspects that the burnt ghost and the doll are somehow connected, but why does she only appear at night, and what is her purpose?
And above all-
“Have you found out who brought it into the mansion?”
What kind of person would openly show hostility in this mansion, which could be called Simone's territory?
Let's dig into them one by one.
Anna tilted her head at her question.
“Isn’t that the doll that Simone abandoned yesterday?”
“It came back last night. Almost immediately. I don’t know where it’s hiding, so, be careful. The amulet didn’t work either.”
“...Yes! I’ll be careful. I’ll tell the other employees the same thing.”
Anna's expression became very serious. Simone smiled. Her face, which was always timid and restless, was more daring, brave, and righteous than anyone else's.
Isn't it much better than Count Chaylor who she hired a while ago?
“Anna, don’t you want to just be my employee instead of a servant?”
“Hey, what can someone like me do to be Simone’s staff?”
Simone asked sincerely, but Anna took it as a joke and smiled faintly.
Simone's first employee was, of course, a swordsman on an adventure whom she had invited to the mansion and started working with, but he turned out to be the Crown Prince of the empire, and the second was the somewhat unsavory Count Chaylor, who was quite famous in high society.
If there is a mere servant mixed in with all these sparkling people, just by looking and hearing, it will only be a nuisance.
“...It’s a shame. If you have any thoughts, please tell me. I think you’re the best.”
So much so that if she could, she would want to lift all the curses within the mansion.
Simone whetted her appetite.
It seems that the two people had different thoughts about Anna.
After that, Simone returned to her room after a short walk.
The room was tidy and clean, breakfast was prepared as usual, and there were few servants in sight as if they had gone off to deal with the cat.
Simone finished her meal with a not-so-happy expression.
Click-
“...”
In a quiet room. Simone, who had returned from her conversation with the Grand Duke of Illeston, looked around the room, relying on a single candle.
The doll curse had not yet ended, so the employees had already left work early. As the darkness and silence flowed, the scene Simone had seen yesterday came to mind.
Doll, cat, woman.
It was a curse in which none of it was easy.
The instructions say not to just pick up the doll.
There was no mention of anything being inside the doll or of ghosts popping out.
Simone's head snapped up as she remembered how she had been dazed and unable to do anything last night.
'But today will be different.'
Well, a person can be surprised once, but not twice.
It's been like this ever since she came to this mansion, but there's a difference between meeting up on a plan and running into each other suddenly.
Simone sat at the table, holding a candle on the nightstand.
'I'm sure she'll come.'
There was no way she wouldn't come. The cat was a troublemaker, and the woman and the doll's target was Simone.
"Ha..."
Simone's eyes sank.
She had a lot of thoughts and concerns as she walked back to her room from the Grand Duke of Illeston's study.
Grand Duke Illeston said that despite asking the Crown Prince for help, she had yet to find a magic stone strong enough to contain Simone's soul.
Of course. It's only been two days since she asked for this.
Simone recalled the serious question from Grand Duke Illeston, who had said that he had not been able to obtain the magic stone.
'If what you say is true, even if I remove that curse right now, it will eventually come back, right?'
That's right. If Simone's body has awakened to a point where it can no longer accept the soul, as the Grand Duke of Illeston said, then from then on, she must find a magic stone, an object with strong magic, or a body and seal the soul there.
Otherwise, the ghost souls that were scattered as if they were destroyed by her power will eventually gather again and return to the ground.
However, this part was something she had been worried about even before Grand Duke Illeston pointed it out.
...And as of this morning, she has found one way to solve it.
'Of course, I can't be sure.'
Otherwise, she just has to find another way.
Todok- Tododok-
Simone tapped her fingers on the table, lost in thought, waiting for something, someone, to come to this place.
She couldn't see it properly because she passed out, but the window was open last night, so the ghost might be in the mansion, or maybe she was already in the room, or she might come looking for her through the window again.
When Simone has been waiting for someone for so long.
hi?
"Oh."
Simone's face lit up with joy.
It seems like the woman she's been waiting for has finally arrived.
“Come early.”
hi?
hi?
hi?
“Where are you?”
hi?
hi?
hi?
The voice of a young, clear child, greeting incessantly and regularly.
Simone looked around and soon realized where the sound was coming from.
Under the bed.
A voice was constantly flowing out from a small gap.
Even last night, why was the guy who threatened Simone more viciously than the woman outside the window suddenly found dead?
Simone clenched her fists. Being dead means being alive.
This cat wasn't a ghost, a curse, or anything. It was just a cat that entered this cursed mansion and was struck by strange phenomena.
"What's this..."
Although they didn't have a deep connection, she couldn't forget the feeling of him being carefully stroked or the eyes that stubbornly looked at her from the bed.
Anyone who looked at it would think that it would have a bad temper. The cat, who seemed like it would fill its stomach and sleep here, then leave the mansion on its own and disappear, died after vomiting blood.
And it was as if he had been attacked by someone.
It was a situation where even sighs were not enough.
As Simone looked at the cat with a complicated expression, Anna and Kaylee exchanged glances and then blocked the view with their bodies.
“S, Simone, it’s not pretty. You must be upset that the cat you gave your heart to has become like this... Don’t worry about it, it’s...”
“Why don’t you go for a walk first? We’ll clean up and prepare dinner. You don’t want to eat in this situation, do you, Simone?”
Simone nodded at Kaylee's words. Was it Kaylee's imagination that her face seemed to turn a little gloomy?
Anna hurried over to Simone and pushed her back toward the door as Kaylee gave Anna a hint by tapping her side.
“Come take a walk in the garden with me!”
Simone followed Anna obediently. Kaylee felt sorry for Simone, who seemed to be devastated by the death of the animal she had given affection to, but in fact, Simone was quite rational at the moment.
'Why did you die?'
Aside from feeling sad that the cat had died, she had to figure out how this had come to pass.
It was clearly a tremendous force. It felt like it had a fundamentally different power from the female ghost outside the window, which was enough to threaten even with Simone's limited mana control.
'Not as much as Anasis, though.'
While she was walking in the garden, Anna chatted with her about this and that.
“I heard that Master Jace will be leaving for the Academy soon, so you must be lonely.”
“Well, not really.”
At first, Jace's constitution was annoying, but as time went on, it became more and more useful and was quite helpful in lifting the curse, so it's a bit of a shame...
'Jace wants to study, but I'm lonely and have no choice but to go to sleep.'
That was it.
Anna continued talking to Simone, hoping that she would forget what had just happened, but that did not stop Simone from thinking differently.
“I’ll make a new meal! I think it’s better if there’s meat in it-”
“You can heat up what you brought and eat it. More importantly, where should I bury the cat?”
Anna flinched at Simone's question, lowered her eyes, and hesitantly opened her mouth.
“Perhaps somewhere far from the mansion... If the death is related to the curse, it will be burned.”
As a rule, those who die due to the curse of the mansion are burned to prevent their very existence from becoming another curse or threat.
Simone looked up at the second floor where her room was at Anna's words and then turned around and said.
“Don’t burn the cat, bury it. I’ll tell the Grand Duke, so bury it inside the mansion.”
“Yes, yes?... Yes.”
There must be a reason why Simone told her to do that.
Anna nodded obediently, although she didn't seem too keen on burying the body in the mansion.
“And where is that doll now?”
“Oh, that doll.”
Last night, cats and ghosts weren't the only things that visited Simone.
She suspects that the burnt ghost and the doll are somehow connected, but why does she only appear at night, and what is her purpose?
And above all-
“Have you found out who brought it into the mansion?”
What kind of person would openly show hostility in this mansion, which could be called Simone's territory?
Let's dig into them one by one.
Anna tilted her head at her question.
“Isn’t that the doll that Simone abandoned yesterday?”
“It came back last night. Almost immediately. I don’t know where it’s hiding, so, be careful. The amulet didn’t work either.”
“...Yes! I’ll be careful. I’ll tell the other employees the same thing.”
Anna's expression became very serious. Simone smiled. Her face, which was always timid and restless, was more daring, brave, and righteous than anyone else's.
Isn't it much better than Count Chaylor who she hired a while ago?
“Anna, don’t you want to just be my employee instead of a servant?”
“Hey, what can someone like me do to be Simone’s staff?”
Simone asked sincerely, but Anna took it as a joke and smiled faintly.
Simone's first employee was, of course, a swordsman on an adventure whom she had invited to the mansion and started working with, but he turned out to be the Crown Prince of the empire, and the second was the somewhat unsavory Count Chaylor, who was quite famous in high society.
If there is a mere servant mixed in with all these sparkling people, just by looking and hearing, it will only be a nuisance.
“...It’s a shame. If you have any thoughts, please tell me. I think you’re the best.”
So much so that if she could, she would want to lift all the curses within the mansion.
Simone whetted her appetite.
It seems that the two people had different thoughts about Anna.
After that, Simone returned to her room after a short walk.
The room was tidy and clean, breakfast was prepared as usual, and there were few servants in sight as if they had gone off to deal with the cat.
Simone finished her meal with a not-so-happy expression.
***
Click-
“...”
In a quiet room. Simone, who had returned from her conversation with the Grand Duke of Illeston, looked around the room, relying on a single candle.
The doll curse had not yet ended, so the employees had already left work early. As the darkness and silence flowed, the scene Simone had seen yesterday came to mind.
Doll, cat, woman.
It was a curse in which none of it was easy.
The instructions say not to just pick up the doll.
There was no mention of anything being inside the doll or of ghosts popping out.
Simone's head snapped up as she remembered how she had been dazed and unable to do anything last night.
'But today will be different.'
Well, a person can be surprised once, but not twice.
It's been like this ever since she came to this mansion, but there's a difference between meeting up on a plan and running into each other suddenly.
Simone sat at the table, holding a candle on the nightstand.
'I'm sure she'll come.'
There was no way she wouldn't come. The cat was a troublemaker, and the woman and the doll's target was Simone.
"Ha..."
Simone's eyes sank.
She had a lot of thoughts and concerns as she walked back to her room from the Grand Duke of Illeston's study.
Grand Duke Illeston said that despite asking the Crown Prince for help, she had yet to find a magic stone strong enough to contain Simone's soul.
Of course. It's only been two days since she asked for this.
Simone recalled the serious question from Grand Duke Illeston, who had said that he had not been able to obtain the magic stone.
'If what you say is true, even if I remove that curse right now, it will eventually come back, right?'
That's right. If Simone's body has awakened to a point where it can no longer accept the soul, as the Grand Duke of Illeston said, then from then on, she must find a magic stone, an object with strong magic, or a body and seal the soul there.
Otherwise, the ghost souls that were scattered as if they were destroyed by her power will eventually gather again and return to the ground.
However, this part was something she had been worried about even before Grand Duke Illeston pointed it out.
...And as of this morning, she has found one way to solve it.
'Of course, I can't be sure.'
Otherwise, she just has to find another way.
Todok- Tododok-
Simone tapped her fingers on the table, lost in thought, waiting for something, someone, to come to this place.
She couldn't see it properly because she passed out, but the window was open last night, so the ghost might be in the mansion, or maybe she was already in the room, or she might come looking for her through the window again.
When Simone has been waiting for someone for so long.
hi?
"Oh."
Simone's face lit up with joy.
It seems like the woman she's been waiting for has finally arrived.
“Come early.”
hi?
hi?
hi?
“Where are you?”
hi?
hi?
hi?
The voice of a young, clear child, greeting incessantly and regularly.
Simone looked around and soon realized where the sound was coming from.
Under the bed.
A voice was constantly flowing out from a small gap.
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