chapter 12

「You are Emerald House’s young miss, aren’t you?」

「Yes?」

While walking in the castle’s passage, I was suddenly called out by a man I didn’t know .

He doesn’t seem like a chamberlain working in the castle, so perhaps a noble?

But, he doesn’t seem like a knight, nor like an official……

I wonder who he is?

N~ he seems to know about me, doesn’t he~

「…… Umm, who might you be?」

「I’m not someone worthy of giving my name」

「……」

I don’t want to associate with someone who won’t name himself .

Un, let’s go .

――Kotsun

The moment I thought of leaving from that place, I heard a sound from behind, so I turned around and another unfamiliar man appeared before me .

「U~~~~」

Biri, I felt a pain in the neck and my consciousness simultaneously faded .

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「This is……」

When I woke up, I was in an unfamiliar place .

Umm, what happened to me again?

Ah, that’s right .

After being called out by a man I didn’t know, I felt a pain in my neck and fainted .

When I think about it carefully, the person who called out to me first must have done something to me, right~

It somehow felt like a stun gun?

Huh, is this kidnapping?

I was kidnapped!?

Seriously……

Ah~ nevertheless, where is this place, I wonder .

A room without a single window .

Of course, there’s only one door .

Is it locked I wonder…… I can’t open it .

Where am I? Still in the castle?

Or was I perhaps already taken out of the castle?

I’m still little, so I could be easily taken out if put in a wooden box or something, right~

As expected, gatekeepers wouldn’t confirm the contents of a wooden box……

Now then, what should I do~?

「Hugh, are you here~?」

……………………

Huh?

There’s no response .

Even though no response when I called never happened with Hugh before……

What’s the meaning of this?

「Miria?」

……………………

Un, no response .

First of all, the mutual understanding with the spirit you form a contract is not there .

That means that the current situation is not ordinary .

N~?

Come to think of it, the little spirits that are floating all over the place are nowhere to be seen .

Spirits usually hide from people, but they are everywhere .

Thanks to forming a contract with Hughley and Miria, when I think of wanting to see spirits, the floating spirits become visible to me .

――That’s supposed to be the case, but…… there are no spirits here for some reason .

Weird……

Even though I usually do it so I don’t see them because I remembered so many spirits it made me dizzy……

So there’s a place in this world without spirits, huh~ I had such thought, but that can’t be the case .

It’s surely that .

There must be a device or something that doesn’t let spirits approach .

Huh?

So that means…… I’m currently in a considerable pinch!?

Eh, what do I do…

Crap!!

My thoughts were too easygoing .

Umm, umm……

Do I look for a method to contact Hughley or Miria first or escape from here?

Would it be dangerous to hit on the door and call the people outside?

Even if I call for help, nobody will come……

N~……

There are no spirits……

Is there something that the spirits hate?

From what I have seen, this is just a typical, narrow room .

I say narrow just because my current room is so big, in fact, this room is about eight tatamis large .

The things in the room are the bed I slept on until a while ago .

Also, a water jug on top of a side table near the bed .

That’s all .

Far from something suspicious, there are almost no things in here~

Now then, this is troubling……

If this no spirits phenomenon is only in this room, I think I might be able to manage somehow if I leave this room, but…

It will be troubling if it’s not only this room but the whole area .

Muu~ what to do……

Should I gamble to leave here……?