Hello there, it's Jack Cooper here.
The author decided to do a you know what random intro for the story so.... yeah....just how random is a person's mind? As far as i have experienced i did made some few random choices in life...and trust me, some ended pretty messed up.
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What the heck is this?! It was so clean inside, though for the most part is.....
[Why are there no customers?] there was not a single one customer except me and that is strange. It is clean of customers, in another way.
[*Sigh~*] (??) The receptionist heaved a big sigh of exasperation. Why? The receptionist was a small girl reading a crumpled newspaper.
I approach the person in question, and asked...
[Uhh...is the establishment open?]
[Yeah...*sigh~*] (??)
[Then why are there no clients?]
The receptionist, who was a girl with short height suddenly closes the newspaper she was reading. Faces me and talks about the reason.
[You see...there is a ghost in this place] (??)
[Eh?]
Ghost?
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After i gave the package to her, she actually was the owner in which to my surprise...she was a he not a she, get it? No? To sum it up he was a trap, a freaking trap.
But i guess the main issue comes here, there is a ghost that had settled down at this place and that was the reason as to why the customer frequency had plummeted greatly after a few days.
[Can you please do something about it?] (??)
[I wish you were a girl when you say that—*sigh~*] i guess i should be careful the next time i meet small cute girls, it may end up like this. Gotta be careful next time...stay strong and aware myself.
I was still on my adventuring outfit, i was currently investigating the bathhouse from every spot. But alas, i did not encounter any poltergeist or any weird activity as of the moment.
[This sure is strange, my map has been on alert for now] in my map were countless green colored dots, but i have no visual on them.
So ghosts can't be seen, but it can be detected by the map. Now that is another discovery, but the job won't be finished if i were to not find any of them.
As if this guys are playing with me...ehh? So that's how it is huh...
Activating Cloak, my body turned invisible from plain sight and erased my presence including my heat, smell, and the sound of my footsteps, breathing and heartbeat. Now then...how shall this play go?
As soon as i did that, a few individuals then slowly become visible and tried to probe around the area, seemingly looking for me who was their playmate. I then slowly take out an Anti-Titan weapon called a Charge Rifle.
A trifling impulse to shoot those guys is welling up inside me, but i held back. Using this bad boy here may punch a hole at the walls and ceiling, and i may also injure anyone.
Instead i took out a Electric Smoke Grenade or may as well be called ESG. It had the same color as the arc star and arc grenade. But the noticeable cylindrical form has been its well known figure.
[Was this on the game?] never mind that anyway...
Pulling off the pin, i then tossed it to the ghost's position. Rolling for a few centimeters....it then discharges an electric smoke screen.
*Pa!*
*Shaaaaaasa——*
[?!] (??)
The ghosts became surprised by the sudden appearance of a smoke screen that had visible electric currents swarming around it.
It was still unaffected...well that was a fail. Should i burn it then?
But no, the ghosts have started to flee and went to another area....were they ghosts to begin with? Probably not, since according to the Map.....
[They were spirits] spirits, i mean those elemental phantasmal beings that is often told in fantasy stories, not the spirit of the dead, but i mean the spirits that are naturally found at the nature. Example is the spirit of nature, water, wind, dark and etcetera....
Then...why would they gather here? This is a bathhouse not a sanctuary. It sure is suspicious as to why...should i conduct a secret investigation?!
[I would be pretty much like to do it by night then....] whispering that to myself, i then exit the place and returned to the inn.
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[This should do right?]
While hidden in the shadows, i was inside the bathhouse. I already got permission from the trap owner and decide to investigate during at the night. That is right now.
I actually slept and almost forgot about it, so it was already past 11 pm and the townspeople are already asleep.
Using CLOAK, my stealthy steps, and the grappling hook, i am now hanging at the ceiling. Talk about being spider man, i am like that guy right now.
[Hmm?] on my map, only 3 spirits were left wandering the building. The others somehow just left mysteriously. There should be a cause for that. And that is what i am looking for.
Slowly, i followed where some of the spirits went. They still didn't notice me, so i continued.
The pursuit only ended me to a dead end. Now this is troubling, the spirits awhile ago only passed through here. What is beyond this wall....
[There is a hidden room beyond this—] In this part of the establishment was the hidden compartment, where a small elevator was situated before. Though i tried drilling a hole on it, what was there is only but a ruin of the original elevator. But the hole was still there, so i descended unto the hole. Using the helmet's night vision, i safely climbed down the hole together with the help of the grappling hook.
I then reach the bottom end where another path immediately greets me.
[Was this perhaps a secret path?] that could be it, most houses even back at Earth had this. Most were for bomb shelters and bunkers, but this one seems fishy. I can see footprints on the dirty floor, indicating that someone had used this path recently. The footprints were still intact and firm, so i followed it, and maybe it will led me to somewhere that answers the reason why spirits have settled in the bathhouse.
Walking the dark path, it then leaded me to a vacant room. What was inside were paintings of some sort, i am not an artist so I don't know what these are. But i think...these should hold their respective values in terms of money and popularity.
But to my surprise...the footprints answers the mystery....when i saw it, it was as if the person who walked the path was a child. And here it was, it was not a child...nor a human...it was a fairy.
[This is bad—] according to the map, this fairy was sick. But mysteriously...why didn't my map show this earlier? Strange indeed.
I touched the fairy's forehead and...hot!....she had a fever. This is serious, i should treat her.
I then carried the fairy in my arms carefully, she had a height of a kindergartener and her hair is pink. Her wings are hidden beneath her dress. But the most irritating part was the collar that was attached on her neck.
[Collar of Slavery...] was what my appraisal told me. So this means that slavery is occurring here. That is one thing i hate, but i think there is a reason for slavery being an ok here. But something tells me that this fairy's case is something I cannot just leave.
We then climbed the elevator frame and make our way to the bathhouse's reception. There i saw the full beauty of the fairy. Her hair glowed beneath the shine of the full moon. This is amazing, and mysterious at the same time.
I then exited the place and then went to the inn. And there i called for assistance.