Patan.
I accidentally closed the door.
And the bridge behind me turned a suspicious gaze.
The tacket was written on the floor with a lump of graphite in his pocket. This was brought from the office in anticipation of the need for written comments in the house.
Dead. Right there. There was a body. "
Read the letters written by Taketo and you'll see tension running between the other two.
I've heard a lot about the victim, but I haven't seen anything rough so far, so I can't really feel it. That makes Russia suddenly more nervous when we find the actual body.
Nodding to each other, the tacket opened the door again. After all, the floor is the same as before, and there is a body of a woman who doesn't move as slightly as a mannequin.
Looking up, I could see that the room was quite large. I think I'll be able to throw a little party. The elegant wallpaper, based on a pale green color, depicted peach flowers. In the middle of the room is a relaxed sofa, and a chandelier hangs on the ceiling. Looks like a living room or a guest room. And there is nothing particularly suspicious except the body lying down. Looks like there's no Mandragora here.
A small breath opens the door.
Apart from the woman who had fallen just after entering the room, several fell over there. However, there was no screaming as one person, and there was no indication that everyone was pushing down on the floor or being snuggled by a chair. There are a lot of corpses.
When the tacket is kneeling beside the woman, it puts its finger on the neck.
Cold, and stiffness has already begun.
Postmortem stiffness usually begins about two or three hours after death. Starting from the chin and neck, the body is gradually bent, and the whole body becomes stiff after about half a day. Judging from the stiffness of this woman, it is still three or four hours after her death. The reporter's man discovered the situation about that time ago. After all, it is likely to be damaged by Mandragora.
The others who fell were similarly rigid. They probably suffered damage at the same time.
("Screaming of death"...? Because of their voices, everyone in the same room must have been hit in an instant. Could it be through the walls?
If even the wall spreads through the Mansion with a single voice, it may not make sense to have earplugs like this.
The tacket crouches down and writes again.
Looks like there's no Mandragora here. I think it's unlikely we'll get away with looking like we're going to split up and shoot each other?
It was Kalon who looked at the letter silently, but he crouched down and added a new note underneath it with the graphite he received from the tacket.
Once it's fallen apart, there's no way to let them know when you discover Mandragora. It would be wiser to be within sight. "
And under it, Brigitta takes over.
That's right. I'm surprised you ran into Mandragola by yourself. If Sochi and the others don't serve as shields, a weak maiden like Walawa will be helpless.
Heh. I was curious about the strange thing that Brigitta looked great from the top, but I agreed with both of them. Regardless of whether it is weak or not, I don't want to act alone if I can also tackle it.
In the meantime, try not to get too far apart from each other, but go to the other door in the back. According to the plan, this way should be a hallway.
It was also in the hallway that the reporter saw Mandragola. It is possible that there is a mandragora beyond the door. The tacket gently opened the door, nervous inside. Then, as before, I just slapped my face and waited for my condition.
Unlike indoors, the hallway is pretty dark. It looks like no Spirit of Light Magic Stones have been installed. Instead, a thick candlestick lit the light on an equally spaced candlestick. The blurry brightness distracts me.
There were doors lined up on the left hand side of the hallway. You can see the courtyard through the glass window on your right hand. There was a large fountain in the center of the courtyard. I wonder how much the lord here likes fountains. They will need huge sums of money to maintain the fountain, so they may simply want to show their resources. It's carefully lit up. I wonder if it was also a magic stone of the Spirit of Light. On the other side of the fountain, I also saw a passage with a structure very similar to that of this side.
Fortunately, there aren't any corpses or mandragos nearby.
We'll have Brigitta watch the hallway and have Karon look through the window into the courtyard and the hallway beyond. On the other hand, the tacket opened the doors in the hallway one by one and looked inside.
Carefully open the first door, which was a bedroom with a bed. Next door is the bedroom. Next door is a walk-in closet-like clothing room. However, it doesn't look like Mandragora at all. The house is still quiet. Maybe he ran away. What a question.
And when I opened the fifth door, Taketo found a moving shadow in the room and suddenly started screaming. No, I just couldn't hear myself because I had an earplug, and I was probably screaming. It was a dark room like a warehouse, but a shadow popped out of the shadow of the lined shelves.
(Gyaaaaaaaaa!!!... is that it?
I was told that Mandragora was at most about 50 centimeters long, but the middle-aged man who came out of the shadow was slightly taller than the bait.
I'm patting my hands in front of my face like no, no. To take a closer look, he is wearing a guard uniform.
(... what, guards?... is that it? Didn't you say the guards who scouted first were dead? So this is reinforcement?
A little doubtful, the tacket said to the wall, "You, guard? I'll write it down. Then throw a lump of graphite over. The man took it with one hand and put it next to the letter of the tacket.
Oh, yes.
Continue the conversation alternately using graphite.
The guards outside were afraid to throw a round at us. You're not? Are you alone?
The man answered the question of the tacket with a quick reply.
"Oh, I'm alone. If we throw a round at a boulder, we won't stand a chance, so we're here to help. It's better to have a lot of hands looking for beasts, right? I was walking through the garden, and I saw you guys through the window, so I thought I'd talk to you."
That's how the man points to the garden. Certainly, there was a door to the garden, and beyond that there was a garden of grass smoking in the rain.
I'm Louisa. Nice to meet you. "
That's what he wrote, and the man smiled casually.
I'm a bait. Nice to meet you. "
The words crossed and when I noticed, the walls were covered in graphite graffiti. When I rubbed it on the sleeves of my clothes saying that I might get angry if I soiled the wall so much, the graphite fell off immediately. My sleeve turned black.
Return to the hallway with Louisa and introduce him to Caron and Brigitta. Karon also checked the area of sight, but there was nothing suspicious as far as he could see.
Still, there are more rooms than you can imagine. We haven't seen half of the first floor yet, but the Mansion also has a second floor and basement.
It's an unexpected space, here. Looking at everything in detail, it seems like it will take a lot of time. I want to find out what I can before nightfall, but I don't know if I can make it. "
That's what Taketo asked. No, I'm not actually talking with my mouth, but I'm crouching down on the floor and writing with graphite.
Probably. If Mandragora were here, it would be a food warehouse. "
Yes, Louisa returned it.
Even a Magic Beast would be hungry. Aren't you going to a place where you might get something to feed?
Well, that makes sense.
And this is Brigitta.
But does Sochi know what Mandragora feeds on?
Yes, no. I don't know. "
"When buried in the ground, Mandragora seems to live by sucking nutrients from the soil, just like normal plants, but it is said that it is the feeding method to soak them in red wine after pulling them out of the soil."
This is Karon. It's a little interesting how people crouch down and stick their heads on the floor. It looks like a child is playing with graffiti on the ground. What a thought, but there was something else that bothered me, and I added a note to the tacket.
"Mandragora, when you pull it out, you get angry and you scream with that scream of death, right? Then the people who pulled it out will die, but how will they pull it out?
Brigitta answered the question.
The dog is said to be enclosed in a spider and pulled out.
Seriously. The dog is going to die. "
I see. Still, there aren't a lot of people who want you to do that.
What a pitiful harvest.
Well, let's look around the food warehouse for now. From the map, the kitchen is near the second corner. There's a food warehouse nearby. "
Writing so, Louisa reaches up to her knees and turns to her.
(... that?
Looking at Louisa's back, the tacket felt a slight discomfort.
(I wonder... oh, speaking of...)
Taketo noticed something and looked at his feet. The leather shoes are still a little wet from the rain, and the mud bounced back when walking down the road and the bottom of the pants is dry.
In contrast, Louisa's feet were very beautiful.
Nevertheless, he said he came to the scene later than he did.
As soon as I realized that, the eyes of the bait became sharp.
(This guy....)