Chapter 455 – Kim Katt and the Haunted House

What the fuck kind of mansion is this?

“Hey, is it the lord’s house?”

Lina, who was right behind me, said that. Copson and Meria are speechless with their mouths wide open.

ㅡ I’m sorry.

Mansion. No, would the word mansion be appropriate?

The word mansion is a bit ambiguous. The scale of a small palace or a holy body… Anyway, it was a large mansion with a very grand size.

I was thinking of just a villa, but it’s a big building?

“Some crazy lord lives in a place like this.”
“But a house like that…”

The mansion looked extremely foreign, even though it had been completely assimilated with the surrounding forest.

The dark green ivy covering the outer wall of the building seemed to have been deposited by repeating blooming and withering, and solid lines that had been directly hit by the wind and waves of the years could be seen in the areas not covered by the vines.

It’s a real dog shit building.

It was built in such a fucking place and not maintained, so the nice house was fucking ruined. Anyway, it looks like a very old building.

If I were an expert in architecture in another world, I would have been able to figure out the year the building was built, but unfortunately I don’t have that major. Nothing comes to mind except that it must have been a damn nice house when it was just built.

“Oh, it’s a very large mansion… I don’t know if the lord really lived there.”

Copson touched his chin and attempted a sober analysis.

“…That a mansion this large hadn’t been discovered before? Isn’t that strange?”
“That’s fucking weird. What the fuck is this?”

Meria was wary.

As she said, there is no reason for a building this big to become a hot topic now. If it’s a small building, it wouldn’t be strange if it hadn’t been discovered, but it’s obvious when it’s this big.

“…Did it suddenly come out?”

For something that suddenly emerged, it seems suspicious that it has received the traces of the years intact.

Did something magical happen?

“Anyway, let’s do some research. It’s a much larger scale than expected. And it’s a pretty good-looking building… It smells like money. There’s a good chance it contains antiques.”

Copson, sword drawn, stepped to his feet.

“Hey, hey.”

I think I’ll see blood if I go into this.

“For a moment.”

It’s a big house with that tagu.

There is a high probability that the adventurers who came first also found it. There might be traps inside, or groups of people waiting to settle down first.

After all, is there something in the mansion?

“Let’s search the surroundings before entering. That’s good.”
“Hmm, that’s the right decision. Let’s do it.”
“Lina. Stay right behind me. Don’t worry because something could happen.”
“Yes. I’ll keep that in mind.”

We decided to look around the mansion first.

It was such a big building that I felt like I was in a tourist spot. The mansion is old, but it still exudes a sense of luxury that cannot be hidden.

Where did the aristocrats live?

It could be a house built and lived in by a nobleman or lord in the past, decades or centuries ago, when there was a city here.

Of course, since it was a house where such a person lived, the building materials must have been good. So there is a possibility that the building still remains intact. But, sir, that doesn’t even make sense. There are so many fucking trees around here, right?

If the mansion is abandoned and the tree does not grow in an instant, then this hypothesis is rejected. And it’s suspicious that only this is there… Isn’t it a cursed mansion or something?

—Kurr.

It felt like I could hear the melancholy cries of monsters around me.

“Copson. Can’t you see any signs of people?”
“Well… I’m not sure. I don’t see any significant signs. Could it be that we were the first to make the discovery?”

It took quite a long time just to turn once. It is such a large building. It was even difficult to see because it was built in the mountains.

There seems to be a chance that bandits are lurking inside, but if they were inside, they would have already noticed our identity.

We chewed on our biscuits and beef jerky and looked around.

There was nothing suspicious except the mansion.

“…Then do you go in? Go? Are you really going in?”
“It’s a little scary, but… Ugh, let’s just go in!”
“If there is something, run away right away. Keep in mind! However, when running away, you need to protect each other as much as possible while running away. That’s why the chances of survival increase.”

Reminding us of our plan once again, I stepped on the courtyard of the mansion.

A fountain with nothing but rubble left on a weed-infested floor.

And a statue that was destroyed without knowing what it was.

“Oh, Brother. I’m so scared…”
“I was more afraid of what we had been through.”

It’s scary, but if I had to pick one of the scariest things that happened recently, the most terrifying was when I ran into a pagan giant in the basement of the Eternal Life Island building.

No, was Alaune’s side more frightening?

Anyway, at that time, I thought the pendulum was dead.

“That’s true… Oppa. But if something happens, you’ll protect me, right?”
“I think it will be different depending on the situation, but since I brought it, I have to take responsibility.

First of all, since I suggested that she come first, I will take responsibility for Lina’s life her no matter what happens.

“Of course I don’t mean to.”
“Yeah. Whatever it is, she has to move on her own feet. She’s going to her goal her by leaning on others’ help.”
“Well, you don’t keep that word…?”
“Fuck. I’ll protect you, so don’t worry.”
“Yes!”

Rina clung to me.

ㅡChin.

So we arrived at the big door of the mansion. As it was a huge mansion, the front door was also quite large.

“Are there any traces of it being opened?”

She said as Meria raised her shield.

“I don’t know.”
“I do not know.”
“Um… Open the door first. Once you open the door, I’ll put my shield in front.”

While Meria was looking around, Copson and I pushed through the front door. —Koo-gugu. The large front door opened without difficulty. It’s not really locked.

ㅡ Jerking and bucking.

As soon as the door opened, Meria, with her shield in front, cautiously entered. We too went in after her.

“…I don’t think there’s anything special.”

Meria, who was giving her strength her, said so.

Inside was just a hallway.

Copson and I looked to the left and right, but we didn’t see any singularities. It’s not that it’s occupied by bandits. However, since it is so wide, there is a high probability that monsters are hiding there.

“Then barbarian. In this case, turn right…”
“Wait a minute. Let’s see if there are any traps on the floor or ceiling.”

The last thing to fall into a trap and be sucked into a murder hole is to decline.

It is her duty to return to her wives with only a modest amount of money. Oh I think I’ll get an erection because I think of Cloudy, so I’m going to turn around.

Is it because I can’t

Last night, Cloudy appeared in my dream and I almost had a wet dream.

“Yes. I was worried about that too. Let’s check if there is a trap or not.”
“Let’s do it. Lina, stick to the door.”
“I know.”

With Meria holding her shield at the head, I looked closely to see if there were any traps. There seemed to be no problem whatsoever. The hallways had also been neglected for a long time.

I also stabbed the floor and walls with a knife.

“Well… I can’t see it right now. Let’s move slowly.”

It was still daytime.

There is still time until the sun goes down, so we should be able to investigate. If you want to do it a little bit, you can do it tomorrow too.

—Sadly.

Inside the mansion it was very quiet.

After agreeing to look around from the first floor and search the second floor, we moved to the right hallway.

“Because it’s like this, it reminds me of when I went to the dungeon in the past. Back then it was underground, but this is on the ground? I think it’s better.”

Said Marya.

If only Elise was inserted here, the dungeon party would be complete.

“That’s right. It’s better mentally to look out in the open like this than to go down to the basement.”
“You’re right, barbarian. You don’t even need to use a lamp.”

In fact, it was better to inspect the buildings above the ground than to go down underground while dealing with the undead.

The hallway was quite long.

The building of the Mutuga Guild was also quite large, but it couldn’t even compare to the corridor there.

“Uh, oppa. That over there…”
“Portrait?”

As I walked all the way, something like a portrait caught my eye. Thinking it might be an expensive painting, I cautiously approached it and examined it.

“Beauty! What a beauty, Bavarian Shack!”
“Calm down dude.”

The portrait was quite large and seemed difficult to carry. What was depicted was a woman. I’m not sure if it’s a beauty because it’s been neglected in such an old state.

Was it the owner or hostess of this mansion?

“To think that something like this is still intact… We might actually be the first to come in.”

Meria, who was appreciating the portrait, said so.
It’s not just one or two suspicious things.

“Let’s move first.”
“Okay.”

I left the portrait behind and let it move again. I looked around the mansion a little while ago and got a rough estimate. Let’s check from the first floor step by step.

We turned the corner and looked all the way to the first floor, ignoring the stairs leading up to the second floor. As wide as it was, the inside was quite complicated.

Even though the fork in the road kept coming out and the sunlight was coming in, I felt like I would lose my way if I wasn’t careful.

In the end, I decided to make a simple map with Copson.

“The people who used to live here must have quite a good memory.”
“Are you going to go around every nook and cranny of the house? Are you going to go only where you’ve been?”
“Hmm, that’s right. But I don’t think I’ll be able to look at the first floor all day today. If there are no special problems, I guess I’ll have to search all day tomorrow.”

My wives will be angry if I go late, but it can’t be helped.

She’s been mapping with Copson for a while, so Meria said.

“It’s definitely a very complex structure. Maybe the other people who found the mansion… Didn’t go missing, but got lost in the mansion? They’re still trying to find the exit!”
“Mmm, Miss Meria! Why do you keep saying that!”
“Yes! Words become seeds!”
“Joke joke. What are you afraid of?”

Giggling, I finished her mapping and moved again.

The mansion is complex and spacious. There are many things to look around. Stairs to the second floor were visible everywhere, and the passageway down to the basement was also sparsely visible.

In the end, I checked the first floor until late afternoon, but I couldn’t look around all of them, and I couldn’t bring anything that looked like antiques.

Even when I went into the intermittent rooms, I could only find furniture covered with dust and cobwebs.

“There are no monsters, no corpses of adventurers, no antiques.

Said Copson, looking under the bed.

There was nothing in this room either.

“But then why the hell did people go missing?”
“Hmm… Seeing that there’s nothing in the mansion, it’s probably because of a problem outside the mansion? A strong monster appeared nearby, and it coincidentally overlapped with people visiting the mansion, so it looked like that.”

Meria’s reasoning was quite reasonable.

“Miss Meria. Weren’t there rumors of a missing person in a nearby village?”
“Because missing people come out at any time. Perhaps, rumors spread because of the current situation.”
“Ohhh, it could be. Rumors about adventurers are unbelievable.”

Well, in the end it was full of doubts.

Even if they were correct, they would not be the answer for this mansion.

“Hey. Then let’s leave it at this point for today.”

It would be all right if we did this for today and conduct a search from dawn tomorrow. There was nothing strange about the mansion itself. Not a single monster was visible.

“What do you mean by withdrawal? Wouldn’t it be nice to sleep over here?”
“This bastard has a lot of fear, but he made a loud noise and fell asleep.”
“Cluck, even though the mansion is suspicious, it’s less scary than the chill of the night.

It was quite cold when I slept yesterday.

“Isn’t there anything? I think it’s fine.”
“I don’t think it’s a very good idea… Lina. Can you sleep in a place like this?”
“Uh, uh… Well, I think I’d rather be outside.”

Lina also seems reluctant.

“I also agree. But I think you should make a hideout somewhere away from the mansion and sleep. You never know. Thieves might come back at night.”

In the end, it was decided to go out and sleep as Meria said. I don’t even want to sleep in a place like this. Originally, adventurers are more familiar with the mountains than these deserted houses.

By the time the sun went down, we returned to the main gate we came from.

I just tried to break the window in the middle to get out, but looking back, there were no windows in the mansion that faced the outside. It’s a strange structure.

“Then let’s go.”

I pushed the door right away with Copson.

ㅡChin.

“Hmm?”

But the door won’t open?

“What, why isn’t this open?”

ㅡchin chin.