The Mayor’s mansion was gigantic and magnificent as ever. Enough to be mistaken as a palace, it was a place that a peasant couldn’t even dream of stepping within. But was it just a feeling? The mansion somehow looked darker and gloomier than any other worn-out building in the city.

Zich and Lubella stopped at the mansion’s yard. Unlike before, they confidently strutted around the yard. There was no one outside the mansion who they had to hide from.

“It’s like a ghost mansion.”

“A house is a place where people live. If there’s no one living inside it, it can become quite frightening. This place is more like that because it has so much useless space, giving more room for imagination.”

The whole mansion was empty. After the Mayor's assassination, the guards lost their main figure to protect and were the first ones to leave. Then, the Mayor’s family, who felt an ominous feeling from the residence, moved somewhere else. Even the servants didn’t want to stay, and so, the mansion that had been the fanciest house in the entire city became empty.

“The Deputy Mayor probably caused this to happen since he is using the Mayor’s mansion as the center of...