I went upstairs and entered a room. It's a different room from the one where I got in the balcony.
I thought it was probably Charlotte's bedroom.
There is a bed and a book by the pillow.
The walls were decorated with pictures, and there was a machine with a dial in the corner of the room - probably a telephone.
Then there's something noticeable.
"Here it is."
Charlotte pointed to it, which was on the floor.
It's a big box. Antique wooden boxes decorated with gold bands.
"What is this?
"My treasure!
Charlotte glanced and said so, crouched down and slowly opened the box.
"Um, hey, look, this. My mother wrote me so many letters."
Charlotte took several pieces of what seemed to be a letter. I glanced inside the box, but there seems to be a huge amount of letters. It's been politely handled.
"Besides, this is the most recent present I've received."
The next thing I took out was a pretty stuffed bear.
"Fufu, isn't it cute? My mother made it for me. For me."
Charlotte hugs a stuffed toy.
"I really want to keep it all the time, but I don't like it when it gets dirty, so it's gone."
"... handmade?
Yeah.
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"Every year, you make these things for me. This is the scarf I got last year, and before that..."
"Hey, Charlotte."
Hmm?
"Can you show me some letters?
"Uh-huh. Fine, but don't break it...."
"Be careful"
Receive a letter from Charlotte and look through it.
To Charlotte.
Thank you for keeping the scary monsters locked up. Thanks to this, your mother and the people around her can still live with peace of mind today.
As I always say, that monster is getting weaker.
If we can get rid of the monsters, we can live together again, Charlotte.
Your mother dreams of living with you again.
I know it's hard, but I'm glad Charlotte's doing her best.
Just let me know whenever you need anything.
From your mother.
I read other letters as well.
It seems that there have been several short letters like this.
I glanced at you. The details were confirmed with the eyes of "visual enhancement Lv2".
--This is...
I found something that bothered me.
Bowan.
I smoked a little and wrapped the letter in smoke.
"... Lute? Hey, what are you doing? Please, don't do anything weird. It's important....."
"It's okay. I don't hurt or stain letters."
My smoke can touch objects more delicately than my fingers.
Trace the surface of the letter with smoke. Then something I found began to take shape more clearly.
There was a scratch-like dent on the surface of the letter that I didn't know at first glance.
This is probably a mark of brush pressure. When I wrote something on another piece of paper, this letter must have been underwritten.
The traces of brush pressure are analyzed by the power of smoke.
…… seal…………… no abnormalities……… risk…………… abandonment…………….
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I can read words in fragments, but I don't know what they are.
I don't know... this.
"Lute... that's enough, right?
Charlotte complained anxiously.
I removed the smoke and returned the letter.
"It's okay if you don't worry so much."
Charlotte sighed relieved to find that the letter was unchanged.
When she wrote to the box with a polite handwriting, she hugged the bear's stuffed toy again.
Your mother's handmade stuffed toy...?
--Can this happen?
I saw it.
The exact same thing as this stuffed toy is sold in large quantities in the city....
Is this what Mother does when she cares about a daughter she can't see?
I hardly remember my mother.
So maybe what I'm feeling right now is wrong.
Adults may also lie to someone they care about.
But what if I don't?
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"To tell the truth...."
I cut out Charlotte with a mouthful that seemed difficult to say.
"Sometimes it's really a little hard. It's really boring to be alone. I'm tired of this mansion. There are lots of places to go... That's why Lute came and told me all kinds of stories. I was so happy and enjoyed it."
"Bye, then!
"Yeah, it's okay. And I think we're almost there..."
Charlotte smiled softly.
"If you just hold on a little longer, the monster will probably die, and then you can live with your mother. And then you and your mother are going on a journey to a lot of places. That's my dream."
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We need to find out. I had sex with Charlotte's mother.
I spent the day with Charlotte until nightfall, and I left the mansion just like yesterday.
He is now in the bushes of the woods and hiding in a place invisible from the Mansion.
After that, I spent a quiet time painting, reading books, eating cookies, but I was manipulating the smoke to keep Charlotte from noticing me in the back.
My smoke should be in that "Handover Room" right now. They were sending a little smoke through the door gap.
It's a long way from here. It's hard to grab or pull something, but you can still operate it. Investigate this room.
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Exploring with smoke, the room was a narrow room with nothing on it besides an empty shelf and a simple table.
But I found a strange gap on the floor. When I sent the smoke in, it turned out to be a loose downhill passage.
... there is no entrance to this mansion. If something appeared, I thought there was something like a hidden passage somewhere, but I knew it.
It is likely that the operation from the underground passage side will open a hidden door leading to that room.
Smoke is slowly flowing into the aisle.
I wasn't usually conscious, but manipulating smoke in a disconnected state against invisible places seems to wear out my mental strength.
If I take a moment out of my mind, the smoke is going to go out.
Carefully and gradually spread the smoke along the passage.
Downhill turned into a flat path on the way.
It looks like some kind of pipe is running in the ceiling in this passage.
It seems that the Mansion was equipped with electricity and water, so this pipe may be its way of transmission.
Or maybe there was a phone on it and the line was going through.
Either way, there must be somewhere connected to that mansion.
The aisle looked like a main road. It passes through the grounds of the Mansion's underground space and continues into the forest.
As I moved the smoke, I walked through the woods to walk up the aisle again.
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After a while, it became an uphill slope.
The smoke gradually approaches the ground.
- Hmm?
"What is this place...?"
I saw the building in my sight. I didn't know it was from above, but I didn't know there was a building here.
Square building.
There were no windows, but there were doors. Both doors and exterior walls are painted with forest protection colors such as green and brown. Camouflage coloring.
The smoke coming through the basement seemed to lead inside this room. Light checks indicate that there are no moving objects in the building.
Razor.
I unlocked the door from the inside with smoke.
Open the door. It was dark inside, but I was finally able to join the smoke.
" Magic Light "
The inside is lit up. Looks like a big room surrounded by concrete.
There were entrances and exits leading to the basement where smoke came through, and there were some machines that were not sure.
I approached the machine and looked into it.
"What is this?
The machine seemed to have several pipes connected from underground. There are a lot of dials and meters. The thick wiring is connected.
Yeah, I hear low frequencies. Looks like it's up and running.
... maybe it's a device for controlling electricity, water, or telephone signals.
I don't know what kind of machine it is, but the pipes that are connected to it go out.
I left the building, and now I'm going after the pipe.
The pipe seems to be rolling on the ground.
And there was a road right next to this pipe.
It's not paved, but this one looks like a car.
I crouched down and observed the ground.
"This guy...."
(12) "Wadachi" is ready. It looks like a car or something has been going around many times.
All right, let's follow this trail.
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