At night, Duanmuhuai met Kanami again. Perhaps because this was a familiar territory to her, the latter brought some interesting information.

"ghost?"

"Um……………"

When talking about this topic, Kanami looked a little pale, but she still told Duanmuhuai the story she heard from the student.

"This is... a story told by my friend... Near Paris Academy, there is an empty mansion. I heard that it used to be an annex for princes and nobles, but something happened a long time ago.

So it has been closed down. Recently, because it is not safe, everyone travels in groups..."

The room was dark, not sure if it was for the atmosphere, but Kanami lit a candle and placed it in front of her.

"...The same is true for my classmates A and B. Because they are good friends, they go home together after school. However, when they walked to the mansion, their colleague B suddenly pointed to the window.

Calling someone, but when child A looked over, she saw no one. She thought that child B had seen it wrong, but child B claimed that he saw someone, and he was child B’s good friend, child H.”

Speaking of this, Kanami's voice became deeper and deeper.

"At that time, Zi H had been missing for several days. Zi A only thought that her friend was overly worried and had hallucinations. Besides, even if the place was abandoned, as noble ladies, they could not break into private houses. So Zi A just comforted B.

He said a few words to her, then took her away, and then... the next day, she disappeared."

Duanmuhuai held his arms in his arms and sat by the wall watching Kanami's performance, silently.

"Everyone was quite surprised at that time. According to Son B's parents, Son B went to school early the next morning, but the teacher did not see Son B coming to school. Of course Son A was also worried, but that afternoon after school

When she returned home, she suddenly thought of what Person B had said before, so Person A raised her head out of nowhere and looked toward the window on the second floor of the annex... Then she saw... Person B's face was pale.

He stood there, staring at her!"

"………………"

"After that, Zi A ran back home in fright. The next day she took several friends with her, but she did not see Zi B again... However, just when Zi A thought she saw

It was just an illusion. After returning home, suddenly a hand came from behind her..."

"Wow!"

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

However, before Tokanami finished speaking, the door suddenly opened. At this moment, Tokanami jumped up in fright and ran directly behind Duanmuhuai. Then the lights came on and Miss Horikawa Nami walked in.

.

"Ah, it's already dinner time. Do you two need to eat?"

"Of course, please."

"Okay, please wait."

Hearing Duanmuhuai's answer, the landlady smiled slightly, turned around, closed the door, and left, and saw Kanami sticking her head out from behind Duanmuhuai.

"Huh...it really scared me to death."

"If you're afraid of ghosts, don't tell ghost stories."

Duanmuhuai complained silently, and then got to the point.

"Okay, the story is over, what next?"

"Ugh...if my guess is correct, that annex should belong to Her Royal Highness Leah..."

"So what you're saying is that the noble girls who were taken away were all kidnapped by the princess?"

"This...I don't know, but Lady Leia wouldn't do such a thing."

After saying this, Kanami lowered her head in some depression.

"I still remember that Lady Leia was very gentle in the past. At that time, I escaped from my motherland and passed out on the roadside. Lady Leia saved me, so I vowed to dedicate everything to Your Highness."

"No wonder..."

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai nodded. He also felt that Kanami's willingness to sacrifice herself for the sake of the princess was somewhat excessive. But judging from the current situation, it was obvious that there was a reason for this.

"In short, whether it is really a strange story or not, as long as you go to that house and investigate, everything will be clear. You should be familiar with it."

"Well, I have followed His Highness several times before, but there have never been any accidents there, and there have been no ghosts..."

"All in all, you'll know when you go. I'll go tonight."

"Huh? At night?!"

Hearing this, Kanami turned even pale.

"Of course, otherwise you are still planning to go during the day?"

"Bai, the ghost won't come out during the day, right?"

"Didn't you say before that there were no ghosts?"

"Well……………"

Having said that, this job was accepted, and when Kanami saw it, she had no reason to object.

So after dinner, the two left the hotel and headed to the legendary ghost mansion.

The outer city at night was different from that during the day. There were heavily armed Hermann soldiers patrolling everywhere, but of course this was not a problem for the two of them. Soon, Duanmu Huai arrived at the mansion under the leadership of Kanami Kanami.

From the surface, it looks like it's just an ordinary mansion. There are no lights inside, it's quiet, and it doesn't look like it's inhabited at all.

"I remember, the key should be here...Ah, please wait."

Kanami quietly moved the flower pot, then took out a key and opened the door.

"Squeak————"

There was a dead silence in the mansion, except for a soft sound when the door opened, echoing in the dead silence of the mansion.

"Woo..."

Looking at the dark mansion, I saw that Kanami was hesitant, but Duanmuhuai strode in directly. When Duanmuhuai walked in, Kanami had no choice but to follow him in.

"No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like anyone has lived here."

After walking through the corridor and coming to the hall, Duanmu Huai glanced around, stretched out his hand and lightly touched the table. The thick dust proved that no one had lived here for a long time.

"Let's go to the second floor first and take a look."

According to Mito Kanami's strange story, the figure that the student saw should be located in the room at the west end of the mansion. There are not many rooms on the second floor here. Duanmu Huai and Mito Kanami opened them one by one and looked at them.

, but there were no traces of anyone staying or living there.

"It's right here."

Standing in front of the glass window at the end, Duanmuhuai looked out and could clearly see the road outside. If the angle was changed, if someone was walking towards here from the road below, he would be able to see the person standing here just by raising his head.

people.

"But, there are no traces here either?"

After checking it, Kanami also raised a question. Although her strength is not very strong, her basic skills as a ninja have not fallen behind. If there is someone living here, it is impossible for her not to notice it.

"No, there are indeed traces here."

Duanmu Huai stretched out his hand and pointed at the glass window in front of him, and then a beam of light shot out and hit the glass, and soon a person's palm print appeared.

"This is?"

"A human palm, judging from the size, should be about the same size as you."

Duanmuhuai compared it.

"Could it be someone who stayed from before?"

"That's possible, if you didn't clean up before you left."

"Ugh..."

Hearing this, Kanami also frowned. After all, she is a ninja, not a maid, and the cleaning work here is not left to her.

"Anyway, let's go down and have a look. Is there a basement here?"

"certainly."

Just as I walked down the stairs, the atmosphere in front of me changed instantly.

Although it was not very clear, both Duanmuhuai and Kanami felt a strange aura - as if there was some kind of indescribable atmosphere flowing here.

"Sir, the light in this room is on."

"Go in and have a look."

"Um."

Duanmuhuai leaned against the wall, glanced to both sides, and then gestured to Kanami, who also nodded, then stretched out his hand to take out the wire, and successfully opened the locked door——

Then, Kanami took a deep breath and then suddenly opened the door.

However, the next moment, when the two people rushed into the room and saw the scene in front of them, they couldn't help but froze there.

"Ugh...Ah..."

A blond girl with no hair was sitting on a chair at the moment. Her hands were tightly bound to the back of the chair by leather belts, and her legs were tied apart. The girl's blue eyes were blank, and only her mouth was open.
To be continued...