Volume 4: The Undead Chapter 223: The Monarch Within the Wall (Part 1)
The maid nodded vigorously to show that she understood.
"Don't forget what I just said."
After giving the maid a final reminder, the owner of the female voice slowly let go of the maid's mouth.
After her mouth was free again, the maid was very obedient and did not scream loudly or say anything irrelevant.
"First question - where is Chikanosuke?"
"On the third floor...in his room..."
Because of fear, the maid's voice trembled so badly that she couldn't even utter a complete and fluent sentence.
"Second question - where is his room?"
"Go up the stairs next to you...turn right and take the second room...that's Mr. Kinnosuke's room..."
"Third question - is Chikanosuke in the room now?"
"At... at this time of the day... Mr. Chikanosuke would be getting ready for bed..."
"The fourth question is - has Chikanosuke ever practiced martial arts? For example, has he learned judo, aikido, etc."
"No……"
"Fifth question - does Chikanosuke have guards? Guards who will guard the door of his room after he goes to bed."
“No…”
"...I see. Thank you for your answer."
Having said this, the owner of the female voice suddenly fell silent.
Her sudden and somewhat strange silence made the maid unable to help but start to have wild thoughts. The fear in her heart grew stronger and her body shook more violently.
After a long while, the owner of the female voice finally spoke again:
"One last question for you - what's going on in this room?"
“Ah… this…”
The maid glanced at the three huge lockers that were attached to the three walls.
"This is... Mr. Chikanosuke's storage room..."
"These three cabinets... were purchased by Kinnosuke-sama five years ago... There are a total of... 210 cabinets..."
"Master Chikanosuke put all his belongings in this locker..."
"…Why aren't there any symbols on the outside of these cabinets to identify the items inside? With so many cabinets and no symbols on them, won't you forget which cabinet you put something in?"
"Everything in these cabinets... is arranged according to a certain pattern... so Master Kinnosuke doesn't need to put reminder characters on the outside of the cabinets... He has never taken the wrong thing or forgotten which cabinet to put it in..."
"Rule...? What rule?"
"This... I don't know... Only Master Kinnosuke himself knows the pattern of his placement..."
"I see...Okay, thank you for your answer."
As the voice fell, the maid felt as if something had hit the back of her neck hard.
The intense pain caused the maid's eyes to go dark, and then she rolled her eyes and fainted...
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After knocking the maid unconscious with the base of the knife's handle, A-Machi waved toward the ceiling above her head.
Ogata, who had been hiding on the ceiling, moved one of the ceiling pieces away, then jumped down and landed right next to Atachi.
While working together with Atachi to put the unconscious maid to rest, Ogata asked Atachi in a helpless tone:
"You only needed to ask the maid where Chikanosuke was. Why bother asking her what these lockers were for..."
"Because I'm really curious. This is the first time I've seen a locker with such an exaggerated number of drawers..."
After placing the maid in the corner of the room, Ating, unable to suppress his curiosity, walked towards the locker closest to him.
After casually pulling open a cabinet, Ah-Ming let out a small exclamation:
“These cabinets are so big…”
Ogata went over and took a look at the cabinet that Atachi pulled out .
Just as Ating said, although these cabinets are not very wide, they are very narrow and long.
There were only two cups in the cabinet that Ating casually opened.
There are only two cups in such a long and narrow cabinet - it looks quite out of place.
"Okay, stop looking." Ogata said unhappily as he took back the cabinet that Atachi had pulled out. "Let's go find Chikanosuke quickly before the maid wakes up."
"I know. Let's go."
After saying that, Atachi walked back to the place where Ogata had just jumped down, jumped up nimbly, and jumped onto the ceiling following the hole left by the ceiling that Ogata had just moved away.
Following closely behind, Ogata jumped back to the top of the ceiling with Atachi and reinstalled the piece of ceiling he had just moved away.
The room, which had been a little noisy, returned to silence.
The only one left was the maid who was knocked unconscious by Ating, lying in the corner of the room, sleeping soundly.
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The dim light from the candlelight shone on Chikanosuke, casting a very long shadow behind him.
The long shadow pressed down on the wall behind Chikanosuke like a mountain.
Although Chikanosuke had changed his clothes and was about to go to sleep, he did not immediately curl up in the quilt to sleep. Instead, he sat on the quilt, looking at the sky outside the window. It was unknown what he was thinking about, with a heavy face.
At this moment, Chikanosuke suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing from behind him.
Before he could even turn around and look behind him, two small hands reached out from behind him on both sides and quickly controlled Chikanosuke.
The person who controlled Chikanosuke was naturally Atachi.
A-machi covered Chikanosuke's mouth with her right hand and grabbed his shoulders with her left hand.
Chikanosuke's reaction was much calmer than that of the maid just now.
A person suddenly appeared from behind him and controlled him. Although Chikanosuke's pupils shrank suddenly due to shock and his body shook, he quickly regained his composure.
There was no scream, nor any struggle.
Chikanosuke's calm reaction made Atachi utter a small exclamation.
"Good evening, Chikanosuke-sama."
After Atachi controlled Chikanosuke, Ogata said hello to Chikanosuke while jumping down from the ceiling and landed steadily in front of Chikanosuke.
"I'm sorry to bother you so late at night. I might have scared you."
"We have no ill intentions."
After saying that, Ogata took out the sword that Zonghai gave him.
"This is what Sokai from Tenmanji asked me to give it to you."
"He said that if he gave you this sword, it would prove that we were friends, not enemies."
Ogata placed the sword on the tatami in front of Chikanosuke so that Chikanosuke could take a good look at the sword.
Chikanosuke took one look at the sword and raised his eyebrows.
Ogata clearly felt that after Chikanosuke saw the sword, his alert aura immediately decreased a lot.
