Life in Another World With Narration

36 – The Curse of the Belle Epoque Mansion

After finishing the strange conversation with Shari, the ghost of the mansion, I immediately left the mansion and told Tina and Sylphy about this.

Tina was very surprised to hear what I experienced at the mansion.

“Then…” Are you saying you solved it by talking to the ghost in the mansion? “You mean the curse is gone now?”

“That’s right. Because it wasn’t a curse in the first place. “The kid in there just wanted to let someone know what happened to her.”

“I really can’t believe it… …. “It’s so easy to solve.”

It is natural to be surprised.

The curse of the mansion, which could not be resolved no matter what I did, was resolved through conversation with the ghost – I did it.

“Now that this has happened, let’s all go in and check it out.”

I suggested it to Tina and Sylphy.

Sylphy was startled and shuddered, asking, “Are you going to be okay?”, But in the end, she trusted me and reluctantly decided to follow me.

We went back inside the mansion and found Shari, a little ghost.

Shari did not show hallucinations to Tina and Sylphy as promised, but she was sitting on her bookshelf as a ghost, waiting for us.

“That kid… “Is it that ghost?”

Tina asked, looking at Shari.

“That’s right. That child is Shari, the ghost of the demon child who died in this mansion.”

“A child like that is a demon… ….”

Tina couldn’t take her eyes off Shari.

Sylphy, who had been trembling and scared just a moment ago, seemed to have changed her mind when she saw Shari’s real appearance.

“Ears… cute… ….”

Sylphy’s face turned strangely red.

If you think about the image of demons, Shari’s current appearance must be truly shocking.

Shari was looking at us, tilting her head and swinging her short legs alternately on her bookshelf.

“Do you think it’s right to do something like that to a kid like that?”

I said, looking at the fleeting ghost of Shari as if it would disappear at any moment.

“… ….”

“I don’t think so. “This is not a racial issue.”

Tina nodded her head in silent agreement with a complicated expression.

“Anyway, is it possible to complete the request with this?”

I asked Tina.

The content of the request was to lift the curse of the Belle Epoque mansion.

What was thought to be a curse until now was the truth that Shari revealed to those who entered the mansion.

Since I made a promise to Shari, people who enter the mansion will no longer see scary visions.

“I’ll have to report it to the guild first to find out, but I think it’s possible.”

Tina responded, taking out her notebook and diligently writing down something.

If the guild completes the request, ownership of this mansion will now be transferred to me.

A mansion worth tens of thousands of gold is finally in my hands…….

No, wait.

As I looked at Shari, I realized an important fact.

This is completely for sale.

Who would buy a mansion like this without going crazy?

* * *

Knock knock knock.

“Mr. Patton? Are you in there Mr. Patton?”

In front of the house of Patton Noia, the former owner of the Belle Epoque mansion.

I went to his house again with the guild receptionist Tina by my side.

“What, again?”

Patton opened the door halfway, glared at me and spoke nervously.

In fact, the request for the Belle Epoque mansion was almost already over.

Because it was a bit of an unusual case, it wasn’t completed right away, but I had already reported it to the guild and finished it.

Strictly speaking, Patton was now a human being who had nothing to do with the request.

But I really wanted to scold him.

“This is Tina, the receptionist of the Adventurer’s Guild. I have important news regarding the Belle Epoque Mansion.”

“What?”

“After all, the curse on the mansion has finally been lifted. “But while I was cleaning, I found a box full of gold in the study.”

I threw the prepared bait to Patton.

If he likes gambling, he would definitely react.

Of course, there was no box containing gold, but it was a ruse to lure him to the mansion.

“That… that! Ah… I forgot! “You mean that box?”

As expected, they took the bait right away.

But he is only greedy for money and his acting is poor.

“Oh, is it Mr. Patton’s?”

“Well…” That’s it! Okay! Thanks for looking. Just send it right here.”

“Ah, that’s it. Because there is a procedure. “It’s a mansion temporarily owned by the guild.”

“Procedure?”

“The reason I came today with Tina, the guild receptionist, is because of that procedure. In any case, if Mr. Patton is the owner of the box, he should come personally check it out and take it.”

I lied with a serious face.

A box containing gold? Procedure? I don’t know anything like that.

I was just saying whatever came to mind, packaged in a plausible way.

Actually, if you think about it a little, you might notice something strange.

But Patton was so blinded by his greed for money that he fortunately did not seem to notice anything strange.

“Tina, right?”

I looked at Tina, who was standing next to her, and asked for her consent, trying to increase her persuasiveness.

Tina was looking at me with a subtle expression.

She looked at me as if her trust in me was decreasing, saying, ‘You’re so good at lying like this.’ But there’s nothing I can do about it.

She said to Patton, pretending not to win.

“Yes, even if it is inconvenient, please follow the procedures.”

“Sheesh, I can’t help it.”

Patton eventually agreed to visit the Belle Epoque mansion with us.

With this, all preparations are complete.

* * *

Shari, the demon ghost that hung over the mansion, was a good child.

She had no intention of taking revenge on Patton, who had brutally tortured and killed her.

But I persuaded Shari to do the opposite, and made a suggestion before leaving the mansion.

If a bad adult is not punished, he or she will repeat the same thing someday.

So even if you have no intention of revenge, you definitely need to punish Patton.

If you don’t punish him properly, there might be another poor child like you.

I will bring Patton to this mansion and he will punish him.

Shari accepted my offer, and now Patton was at the door of the Belle Epoque mansion.

“This… “Is this really okay?”

“That curse is no more. “If there is any doubt, we go in first.”

“That… “Okay, I just have to take that box and go back.”

Patton seemed to be in an awkward mood as he was about to enter the mansion.

He didn’t know.

I, Tina, Sylphy, and even the ghost Shari are all part of the same group.

First of all, I roughly told Tina and Sylphy the plan.

Regardless of race, this is a case of kidnapping a child and doing a terrible thing.

The two saw with their own eyes Shari’s small and fragile appearance.

Is there anyone who could look at her like that and say, ‘It doesn’t matter because she’s a demon?’

Tina and Sylphy also agreed with that opinion and participated in this plan to punish Patton.

I took Patton deep inside the mansion.

Shari, of course, had disappeared.

“It was found in this room. “That box.”

I chose one of the many rooms in the mansion, opened the door, and said,

Of course there was nothing in the room.

There was just one bookshelf placed against the wall.

“Where…” … Ahh!”

And the moment Patton tried to look inside the room, I forcibly pushed him into the room from behind and closed the door.

“What is this! Hey! “Open the door!”

I hear Patton’s urgent cries pounding on the door from inside.

I ignored Patton and locked the door from the outside.

“Then, please. “Shari.”

After locking the door and speaking quietly, Shari slowly appeared from behind with a translucent body.

Then pass through the wall and enter the room where Patton is.

“What happens now? Senior?”

Sylphy, who was watching this, asked me.

“That guy should experience what we went through.”

“No way…” ….”

The sound of Patton swearing and screaming as he pounded on the door quieted down.

It seems to be starting slowly.

What I asked Shari to do was to make Patton experience the same horrible hallucinations that we experienced.

Instead, not just once, but over and over again, 24 hours a day.

She wanted to experience for herself how terrible what she had done was by repeating the experience endlessly.

Now, the mirror therapy provided by the ghost begins.

In the world where I lived, crimes against children were considered serious crimes.

“Okay, let’s come back tomorrow.”

I stretched out, feeling refreshed, and left the mansion with the two people.

* * *

Patton Noia became a ruined person.

It must have been quite shocking for him to continuously hallucinate the cruel torture he had committed for 24 hours.

Shari’s hallucinations had no effect on her real body, but they were enough to break his spirit.

When we got back inside the mansion and opened the door, we found Patton passed out, covered in tears, snot, and saliva.

Even after he woke up, he would mutter unintelligible sounds and scream into the air with his half-dead eyes.

After he returned home, there was a rumor in Kubel that Patennoia had lost so much of his money while gambling that he had gone crazy.

Because his reputation was not very good, the story of what happened to him was buried as if he stayed quiet and suddenly became a madman.

Well, it’s a self-employment achievement.

How painful it must have been for Shari who actually died, not as a hallucination.

After the request was completed, I roughly cleaned the interior of the Belle Epoque mansion.

The entrance to the basement that Patton was said to have used as a torture chamber was also discovered later.

Some of Shari’s remains were still inside.

We collected Shari’s remains and held a small funeral under a large tree in a nearby forest.

It was a funeral attended by only three people, Sylphy, me, and Tina, but at the end, Shari’s ghost appeared before our eyes.

Although Shari could not speak, she expressed her gratitude by smiling and waving her hand in front of us attending the funeral.

And her translucent body slowly disappeared under the sunlight shining through the large trees.

Yes, attain Buddhahood.

I hope that next time you will be born as a happy child.

After everything was finished, I returned to the Belle Epoque mansion alone.

But the moment you open the door to the mansion.

“What… what?”

Something small came running towards me and clung to my leg.

No, it’s definitely stuck, but I can’t feel anything on my leg.

“You…… “Why is it still there?”

It was the ghost Shari.

Shari, who I thought had attained Buddhahood, was waiting for me at the mansion, just fine.

* * *