Simone left the main building straight away and looked around.
In the garden in front of the main building, a redhead stood out among the necromancers with black hair. It was Abel.
"Abel."
As Simone walked towards him from a distance and called his name, Abel turned his head slightly and sat up as if he had heard her small voice.
“Why are the classes so long? I thought I was going to die from boredom.”
“If you’re bored, why don’t you hang out with the other escorts? It’s going to be like this for a while.”
Abel frowned and waved his hand.
“They cry so much, it’s annoying.”
“...Are you crying?”
What the hell is that? What did he do again?
When Simone looked at Abel with a suspicious look, Abel smiled reassuringly.
“It was nothing serious. I just picked a fight with him and beat him up, and he started crying and apologizing.”
“You said you were going to die? ...You!”
“Oh, don’t worry. I avoided your face and hit you. Who would take off your clothes all the time? As long as you don’t get caught, it’s okay.”
“...”
Oh, why do I suddenly feel sick?
Simone sighed, rubbing her stomach. Orkan had been nagging him the whole way to the Serk Empire, and she thought it might have been too much, but now she saw that it wasn't.
No matter how much she nags him, Abel still doesn't learn anything and just keeps causing trouble.
“Oh my, my fate.”
The ghost is quiet, but the protagonist is causing trouble. Simone hit her chest and sat down in the flower bed in resignation.
“Anyway, okay. So you’ve been waiting here all this time without doing anything?”
“Yeah, well.”
“...Oh my, oh my.”
It doesn't even help. It seems that Orkan left a huge burden on Simone because it was important to lift the curse of Geneon.
Even so, is it right for the protagonist to come to a new area and do nothing but just wait around?
No, of course, you can't do anything since you weren't given any instructions. Then you shouldn't cause any accidents!
Simone looked very displeased, and Abel looked at her and said abruptly.
“Oh, it’s not like I didn’t do anything at all.”
"Then?"
“I heard something from those fans earlier.”
"Yes?"
Abel frowned.
“That was a pretty strange statement, but I think you’d better listen to it.”
“Is this about the morgue?”
Simone guessed the only place in this institution where something strange would come out was the morgue.
But Abel shook his head and said,
“I wanted to do some research on that disgusting vault because I thought you wanted to know about it, but the escorts kept bringing up other things.”
Is there anything else strange besides the morgue? Simone gestured as if to tell him, and Abel turned his head and looked somewhere.
“The strange thing happened not in the morgue, but in the quarters where the servants and guards stayed.”
Simone's gaze also turned to where Abel was looking. In that direction, there was an old servants' building, far from the main building where classes were held and the dormitory where the necromancers stayed.
“Speak slowly.”
“Uh. Simone, after you went to class, I was looking around my dorm and unpacking, and then some crazy kid came into my room out of nowhere and said, ‘Let’s have a good time,’ and stepped on my bag.”
What a crazy bastard. What a crazy bastard who did a crazy thing.
How dare you pick a fight with the Sword Master. No matter how strong he is, he won't be able to handle it.
“I could tell at a glance that this was a fight over territoriality. I had to eat, sleep, and wash in the same building as those guys for the next month, so I thought it would be difficult if I didn’t catch them early on. That’s why I threw them. So I’m not at fault. They started the fight first. Simone, if Orkan asks you later, you have to take my side.”
"...So?"
“Huh? It’s a promise. I’m not the one who said that first, am I?”
“Oh, so! Let’s get to the point.”
“Oh, so. So, at the moment when I was debating whether or not I should break his leg bone, he grumbled because he didn’t like it, and then suddenly said that it would definitely be helpful when staying at the dorm, but it was information that he wouldn’t easily share with someone who just came in.”
Abel spoke with a dull expression and voice as if he was not particularly interested.
“It feels a bit like the Illeston family’s manual, where they tell you not to leave the windows of your quarters open or stick your face out.”
"Window?"
“Oh, sometimes people fall upside down from above.”
“...Ugh, what the... are you talking about?”
“So, sometimes people fall to their deaths from buildings. No, not sometimes, but almost every day.”
Why are you saying such things with such a calm face? People are dying.
Simone took a step back.
“You look strange. Who are you?”
Originally, if it were Abel, he would have been more active than anyone else in solving the problem of human deaths and causing a fuss.
Abel waved his hand in embarrassment as Simone glared at him with wary eyes.
“No, that’s not it. I mean, I see illusions like that. It seems like ghosts sometimes pretend to be people and fall down to play tricks.”
“Oh, me too. So that’s what ghosts are like. I thought they were real people. Can you explain it to me properly? I was surprised.”
“I’m trying to do it as properly as possible. Should I have explained this to anyone? Orkan and Louis have already done it.”
I miss Geneon, Orkan, and Louis.
“So anyway?”
She thinks this educational institution may be haunted. Of course, there's a morgue there, and necromancers are people who deal with and control the spirits of the dead.
It would be a bit strange if there were no ghosts in the place where they gathered.
“Oh, that’s why I asked what useful information that was. The ghost was just freaking out, and no real people were dying.”
It was said that not informing newcomers that ghosts would fall down was a kind of territoriality or initiation ceremony.
One of the few pleasures of the servants is to laugh at the sight of someone falling out the window and jump out in surprise every time a new person comes in.
However, to Abel, who was not particularly afraid of ghosts, this information was of no help at all, and even Simone was not particularly interested in it.
But.
Abel's expression, which had been speaking calmly, strangely became serious.
“But among those who fall like that, there are sometimes real people.”
“What is that...”
Simone's expression hardened.
“Once every month or two, without fail. Real people die. Most of those who lose their lives are servants who serve as escorts, but quite a few necromancers also come all the way to the servants’ quarters and fall to their deaths.”
“That’s a bit strange.”
It's a different story if a real person dies, not just a surprise.
Even if it was to the extent that it affected not only those who used the accommodation but also necromancers who lived far away and had some degree of power to respond.
This is a pretty serious incident that goes far beyond the level of a joke.
“But why is the organization leaving this problem alone and not solving it?”
Abel shrugged at Simone's words.
“I told him about it. But he said he wouldn’t solve it. He said the agency doesn’t care about what happens in this dorm. He said it’s because it’s not a place where people like that live.”
“But even necromancers die sometimes?”
You neglect your servants and let people die? This is a strictly hierarchical society, so some people might think that way. But it's strange that a place for necromancers doesn't protect them and instead leaves them in danger.
Abel also seemed to think the same way as Simone.
“I also think it’s a bit strange. So I’m going to look into this from now on.”
Simone's eyes, which had been looking at Abel with pity, finally softened. Somehow, she thought that Abel would not be the type of person to just sit around and waste time doing nothing.
“Actually, I’m not sure if this information will be of any help to you, Simone. It’s not like it’s the curse of Illestone Manor, and we’ll only be back in a month. But I’d like to resolve it if possible.”
He can't just watch people die.
Simone nodded to Abel, who spoke as if asking for permission.
“That’s true. Then look into it. If I find out anything about it, I’ll share it with you.”
“Yeah. And be careful. I heard you can get hit by necromancers too.”
“You too. Because you are more dangerous than me.”
Just then the bell rang, signaling the end of break time.
“I guess I should go now.”
“Oh. Class, well, I’m taking it well.”
The moment she turned around to head towards the main building, waving her hand to Abel who was awkwardly greeting me.
“Ugh!”
Simone was startled by the sight of the schoolgirl standing right behind her, looking up at her with a big smile, and stepped back.
“Wh, who, what is it?”
She was the student who had been giving a tour of the school with Sena earlier.
“If you had to hide something that absolutely could not be found out, where would you hide it, Simone?”
The girl who asked a strange question out of the blue.
“What the... all of a sudden.”
Trying to calm down her surprise, Simone looked at her and the nameless female student asked with strong eyes.
“Simone, do you like it underground, underwater, or somewhere hard and dark with lots of friends?”
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