The director was also part of the gang?
This was something she never thought of. The director had been friendly to Simone from the beginning, and she was the one who knew best how big of a deal it would be to mess with Simone, a necromancer from another country.
'What were you thinking...?'
If Simone does something wrong, wouldn't the person who would be most troubled be the director?
Before she knew it, Simone had reached the end of the hallway.
If she goes down the stairs like this, she can continue her escape, but if she wants to eliminate the souls all at once, it's best to end it here.
Simone lit up Mana. There were only about thirty ghosts at most. How many victims did these guys create?
What is the purpose of this? Now that she has identified the culprits, she can ask them directly.
That was when.
"What is it? The director looks a bit uneasy."
Abel's voice was heard.
"Isn't that just a calm, watching expression? It seems more like he's impatient. Something's not right, oh, she's mumbling something? I guess they're using the communications seat too."
“Huh? Can you feel it there too?”
Even if Simone were to release Mana, it wouldn't be noticeable from that far away.
At that moment, the ghosts that had been hesitating due to the ominous atmosphere suddenly changed their expressions and began to approach Simone again.
Not only that, but spirits began to emerge from every corner of the walls, and the number of ghosts, which had been around thirty, began to increase rapidly.
"Hmm?"
Something...
Simone thinks the behavior and atmosphere have changed a bit.
The ghosts that had been chasing her up, down, left, or right until just now, suddenly began to move slowly and stand tightly.
For some reason, everything except the stairs leading down are blocked...
It seemed as if they were trying to force her to go down unconditionally.
Tiera, or was it an order from the captain?
"I've moved behind the director now. Just give me the order and I'll launch a surprise attack."
Abel's voice was heard from the communications seat. Simone looked at the ghosts in front of her and spoke in a low voice.
“No, don’t make a surprise attack. Just wait.”
If you were to catch the director by surprise and ask her why she did such a thing, I don't think she would give you an honest answer.
'It might be easier to handle Tiera, but...'
There's no way to prove it was her doing, so she can just deny it.
In fact, Simone was also unable to carelessly touch Tiera, a high-ranking nobleman from a foreign country, without solid evidence.
In this educational institution, Simone was treated as a Saintess, but outside the institution, Tiera was treated as an extremely noble Princess.
If Tiera's actions are judged to be uncertain, the Serk Empire will desperately try to protect her. Also, not admitting her wrongdoings is a way to avoid trouble with the Great Empire of Luan.
‘...Then we need to dig a little deeper until we find evidence.’
Actually, she doesn't feel bad because she's been threatened so many times. Since Simone created this situation herself, she doesn't really feel like she needs to take revenge on Tiera or the director.
But it feels uncomfortable to leave a visible danger alone because there is no evidence.
“...But why am I like this?”
Even the institution she came to rest in is doing this. Simone muttered, feeling a sudden shock. Abel, who was watching the situation through the communications seat, smirked and said.
"You and I both do annoying things. Just accept it."
“Hey, that’s not it. Don’t treat me the same as you.”
Where are you putting me as the main character? Just thinking about it makes Simone tired and annoyed.
Simone frowned and walked down the stairs.
"What's wrong with me? You guys sometimes treat me like a burden."
“A lump of incident rather than a lump of luggage...”
"Are you introducing yourself now?"
"Stop fighting, you guys! Why do you fight whenever you get into a fight?"
"No, that's not it, ah! Oh, why are you scratching me? I told you she called me a troublemaker? Ah! I was wrong, shh, shh, I'll be quiet!"
Geneon's shout was heard through the communications room. It seemed that Geneon had joined Abel.
Simone started down the stairs with a smirk. In fact, she was angry at Abel, but she was glad that she was on the same team as him.
The stairs were pitch black with all the lights off, and with every step she took, ghosts would follow her, either upright, crawling, upside down, or hanging somewhere.
A situation where you are chased by dozens of ghosts on a staircase where you cannot see even an inch ahead, where someone might be present.
Even for Simone, it was a difficult environment to remain calm, but when Abel started the argument in a calm voice, the tension that had been felt melted away.
If it were Louis or the others, they would have told Simone not to let her guard down or to be careful at times like this. But Abel's method seemed more helpful right now.
Before she knew it, Simone had left the dormitory and gone outside the building.
As she moved as she had been guided to some extent, the ghosts rushed at her with even greater ferocity, scaring her, and Simone started running again.
“Oh, don’t come!”
Anyone who saw it would see that she was pale and had an expression on her face that was so scared of ghosts that she didn't know what to do.
It wasn't scary at all, but it was acting with Tiera and the director watching from somewhere.
"Haha, I see you came out pretending to be scared without even wearing shoes."
Abel's voice, giggling as he discovered it only now, was lightly ignored.
Simone looked scared and the ghosts lured Simone somewhere, and Simone pretended not to notice and headed in the direction they were leading her.
The place we arrived at was...
'Wait a minute, F**k...'
She didn't know this would be her destination.
Simone's expression quickly hardened.
A majestic building stands before her eyes, emitting an ominous aura.
The only place in the institution that Simone was reluctant to go.
It was in front of the morgue.
“...”
At that moment, Simone hesitated whether she should continue doing this.
As you can see, the ghosts, Tiera, and the director's purpose were obvious.
Just as Jane came to her senses after running away and found herself holding onto the railing of the rooftop, Simone also seemed to want to go into the morgue without knowing where she was going.
But now Simone is in her right mind, and she senses that whatever this ominous building is, it is quite dangerous.
‘...Let’s stop here.’
The reason she led them this far was because she thought that if she kept going, she would be able to find out who the culprit was, their purpose, or some useful evidence or information.
But the culprit has been found, there is no way there will be any information or evidence in the morgue, and above all, anything further is truly dangerous.
'What the hell.'
What were they thinking, bringing Simone here? Why?
'They definitely didn't plan on bringing me here in the first place.'
When Simone was first chased by ghosts in the dorm, it seemed like they were simply trying to scare her, but halfway through, they suddenly started to lead her with a purpose.
Why did they suddenly change their plans and bring Simone to this dangerous place?
Was this Tiera's idea or the director's idea?
Simone turned around with a face that couldn't hide her anger and started to ignite her mana to eradicate dozens of ghosts at once.
Turung
Squeak-
A creepy creaking sound from behind. And an ominous aura that instantly envelops her entire body.
Simone turned her head, flinching.
The large door to the morgue, which had been tightly shut until just a moment ago, slowly opened on its own, revealing the interior.
“...”
What is this...
The sight inside the storage facility made her mind blank. The corpses piled up like a mountain in the middle of the building, and the stench was so bad that it was impossible to describe in words.
Corpses that were crushed, torn, and broken here and there under the weight of the piled-up corpses, looking hideous.
Of course, it goes without saying that there are corpses in the morgue.
But Simone couldn't shake off her doubts.
'It's a donation... '
The first is the storage condition of the corpses that were obviously donated to the students. It makes no sense for a state-run institution to pile up corpses so arbitrarily that it is difficult to even recognize their shapes.
And without even cleaning up the spilled blood, torn flesh, or internal organs.
The second is the clothes the corpses are wearing.
Some of the corpses were wearing old rags or nothing at all, but some of them, or rather a considerable number of them, had an appearance that could not be ignored.
A corpse dressed in the clothes of a servant working for students at an educational institution, and a corpse with a young face and black hair.
The corpses of those who should never have been here were mixed in with the others.
At that moment, Simone remembered the story she had heard from Abel before.
“So, sometimes people fall to their deaths from the top of buildings. No, not sometimes, but almost every day. It seems like ghosts sometimes pretend to be people and fall down to play a trick on them.”
“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.”
“But among those who fall like that, there are sometimes real people.”
“What is that...”
“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.”
“But why is the organization leaving this problem alone and not solving it?”
“I told them about it, but they didn’t solve it. They said the agency doesn’t care about what happens in this dorm.”
“But even necromancers die sometimes?”
“I also think it’s a bit strange. So I’m going to look into this from now on.”
‘I just took it lightly back then...’
The beginning of this incident, the clue to all the questions Abel had, was right here.
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