The door closes suddenly—this is a statement of what happened as a result, and the specific situation is not necessarily so crisp. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

For Alex, who was paying all her attention to the darkness in front of her, what changed in that second was a sudden loud bang from behind no one, and at the same moment, the glimmer of light cast on the ground under her feet was swallowed by the darkness, and the surroundings were immediately plunged into darkness where she could not reach her fingers.

- She almost jumped.

No, maybe she had already jumped, because in the next moment she had crossed the distance of two meters, and flew over and hugged Ciel's body tightly with her arms. In this darkness, it is extremely difficult to see and determine direction, and it is entirely unconscious memory and instinct that can be found to find Ciel's location.

Alex suddenly pounced on him and hugged him, and Ciel seemed unmoved—not really, as he tried to twist because of the metal cuirass on the girl's body.

"Alex, what's wrong?"

As Alex hugged him tighter and tighter, and had no intention of letting go, Ciel wisely stopped his futile attempt, looked at Alex with his eyes closed, and asked softly.

Hearing Ciel's question, Alex didn't mean to open her eyes at all, and she shouted in a trembling voice of excitement.

"Why did the door close suddenly!? Is that you? Is it Hill Guan? Please, just say it's you! ”

However, her expectations were not answered.

Ciel shook his head lightly with a blank expression.

"The door is, closed by itself."

"Whoa—" Alex clutched her ears and let out a loud cry of unknown meaning.

It seems that the sudden closing of the door by itself has caused her a great shock, and the momentum and courage that had been gathered after facing the puppet to show off their skills disappeared in the blink of an eye. If anything, in the horror stories that Alex has seen in the past, the element of "the door closes by itself" is the "absolutely what will happen" flag in any work, and there is nothing more important than this incident to rekindle the girl's cranky thoughts that have finally calmed down.

After a dismal cry, Alex looked in Ciel's direction with tears in her eyes.

"Why are you so calm!?"

Of course, Hill is calm at all times. When the door closed suddenly, even though he was closer to the door than Alex, Ciel couldn't help but react to the loud noise coming from behind him, and didn't even look back until now. Because he's a three-nothing, this kind of thing is taken for granted - knowing that this is the case and asking that kind of question, it seems that Alex's mental state is really quite confused.

Hearing Alex's question, Ciel blinked slightly.

"Because, I think this kind of thing is very common."

"Where's the common one!?"

Ciel tilted his head slightly in thought.

"In horror movies, it's very common."

"We're not in that dangerous world!"

Also, don't mention horror movies! Alex couldn't help but roar loudly in her heart, didn't this hook up all the things I was desperately trying to get out of my head!

Because Ciel's words fit perfectly with the cranky thoughts he was secretly suppressing, Alex's uneasiness reached a critical point.

"Yes, yes! It's a trap! Alex suddenly cried out, "This is a ploy set up by the prisoners to make us suspicious!" Since you can transform a puppet, it must be easy to set up this kind of mechanism on the door! ”

Ignoring Ciel's assertion that "I'm not suspicious", Alex convinces herself aloud as she looks up in the direction of the door (she doesn't let go of her hand holding Ciel).

After this time, Alex has become accustomed to the darkness of the room. Although she couldn't see her surroundings clearly, some basic outlines were already visible in her eyes. She looked at the castle gate behind Ciel, which was visibly designed around the frame of the Magic Machine.

"Humph! As I expected. Alex smiled smugly as she casually let go of the hand that was surrounding Ciel: "He even tried to scare us with such a method, and it seems that the level of the prisoner is no more than that." ”

“……”

Because Hill is a three-no, it's a pity that he won't complain about her words.

"Alright, let's go Hill! The true horror must be seen by the prisoner who played the horror scene. ”

Alex made a crackling sound as she moved her knuckles as she pointed in the direction leading to the castle.

The main entrance was the castle's hall, a square hall that connected the two passages, and Ciel and Alex walked first towards the one on the left.

Although the outline could barely be seen, Alex's blurred vision made it difficult for Alex to walk. She fumbled carefully, and with difficulty moving her steps a little.

"Whew!"

She bumped into something on her forehead, and she couldn't help but make a cute sound in her mouth. Alex blushed slightly and slowly touched it, revealing that it was a weapon outstretched from the hand of a sculpture.

Annoyed, he swung his sword and slashed off the knight's spear made of plaster and the hand holding it, and Alex snorted coldly and continued to walk forward.

"Alex, it's brutal."

"Less wordy! You three-nil! ”

It was a draining process, and it wasn't long before Alex felt a little exhausted, and she couldn't help but complain.

"Don't you even have a lamp? The owner here is too shady! If there is at least one torch, ......"

"If you have a torch, you have it on the wall."

"Hey!" Hearing this, Alex turned around and turned in the direction of Ciel: "Why didn't you say it earlier!?" ”

"I thought Alex liked the atmosphere."

"Your perception of your own companions is too distorted!"

"Isn't that so?"

"Isn't that a matter of course!?" Alex complained loudly: "Who would have that high-level suspicious fetish! ”

Ciel's footsteps sounded for a while, and when he returned to Alex's side, he had a torch in his hand.

"Why can you see your surroundings?" Alex, who had taken the torch and was trying to light it, asked angrily.

"Because, I'm a thief."

“……”

The Rogue class doesn't run out of Night Vision, and rightfully so.

"I can see it, why do you still walk behind without saying a word?" Alex said dissatisfied, but she quickly remembered something else-

"When I bumped into the sculpture just now, you obviously saw it in advance!"

The torch was polished, and Alex glared at Ciel with the torch in hand, her lovely face like a ghost in the firelight: "Why don't you open your mouth to remind me!" ”

“……”

Stared at by an angry gaze, Ciel blinked slightly.

"At that time, I was looking around."

“…… Are you sure? Alex looked suspiciously at the expressionless face, and there was not a trace of it in sight.

"Ciel, never lie." Ciel nodded affirmatively.

"You make yourself 10,000 times suspicious by saying this, you know?"

As the two spoke, they had already begun to move forward. Although the light of the torch is not as bright as the magic lamp, it is enough to illuminate the way in front of you. Illuminated by torches, Alex saw the gray-white walls at the end of the passage ahead, with rooms connected on either side of the corridor.

"It seems that the stairs are in the passage on the other side, so let's just investigate these rooms."

Ciel nodded silently.

"Well, I'll investigate the right."

"Ahh

By the time Alex held out her hand, Ciel was already walking to the first room on the right. Wouldn't it seem like you were afraid to go it alone if you forcibly stopped it now? Alex thought so and dropped the hand she wanted to keep.

The passage is still very long, and there are more than ten rooms to investigate. Ciel, who didn't need to use a torch, and Alex went their separate ways, of course, it was the best choice, although there was still uncontrollable uneasiness in her heart, Alex still barely managed to suppress her mood and opened the door to the room on the left one by one.

"Empty room...... Empty room ...... Ah, this is a warehouse. ”

Alex confirmed the details of the room one by one.

On the other side -

Because of his night vision skills, even without the help of torches, Ciel is much faster than Alex. When he opened the door, he could clearly confirm the facilities with a cursory glance. While Alex was still checking the third room, the storage in the warehouse, Ciel had already walked to the door of the last room.

“……”

A pungent smell of blood.

This smell was smelled by Hill from the beginning, and this is the reason why he deliberately acted separately from Alex.

- He wasn't sure if the scene inside was suitable for a girl.

Without hesitation, Hill put his hand on the doorknob and opened the door as he twisted the lock.

At that moment, what unfolded in front of Hill was-

Corpses corpses

Countless human corpses were stacked on top of each other, almost filling the space, which was twice as large as the other rooms.

All the corpses were decapitated, not in random piles, but neatly laid out together—two bodies stacked together in a neck and foot posture opposite each other, in several neat rows.

This is the storehouse of corpses.

Some of the corpses below are already decomposed, and the upper ones are relatively intact. The stench of corpses and the smell of blood mingled to give off a disgusting smell.

In his past missions, Hill had seen more bloody corpses than this, but he had never seen such a strange way of storing them. In this way, it reflects the fact that the offender's crime was planned. Not only planning the past, but also planning the future.

Ciel's face blankly scanned all the scenes in the room, observing the appearance of each corpse, and remembering it in his head. Even at the sight of this amazing sight, he didn't seem to be moved in the slightest.

"Hey! Ciel, is it over there for you? ”

Alex said as she walked towards the place, seemingly having checked all the rooms on her side.

"All but one warehouse on my side are empty, do you have anything to gain here?"

A warehouse of corpses was harvested - of course it was impossible to answer.

Hearing Alex's footsteps walking slowly, Ciel stepped back from the room and closed the door.

Alex had already walked about two meters behind him, and he turned to look at the girl.

"Nothing, nothing."

He said.