"Yes," answered Sadie quietly. Then she added one word after everything else Noah asked her – a single syllable answer which explained nothing further except confirming their worst fears… fear of divorce between two powerful families… family feuds could turn deadly when money became involved… blood might be shed simply out of frustration or anger… some men from wealthy dynasties couldn't handle having less power than others around them (including wives); thus these rich husbands began hiring assassins to eliminate anyone standing in their way—just as Adolph Haspinger had done weeks earlier… Now even David Breda found himself in such a dangerous position that soon he must either choose death over being disowned by the Rijksmuseum clan; or remain married to Aislinn … Or maybe he chose marriage instead thanks to his daughter Missy… This young lady had no patience whatsoever waiting until Marcel reached adulthood; there were too many loopholes in the law since everyone knew kids weren'
Noah shrugged and answered: "I'm afraid 12 all I can tell you right now."Mariella: "Then I guess I won't be able to sleep tonight."Noah: "Maybe you should try to relax. Take a bubble bath or something. There's a lot of stress in your life right now and you deserve some time to unwind."Mariella: "I suppose I could use a break."Noah: "Would you like to go for a walk in the park?"Mariella: "A walk sounds good."Noah: "Do you want to bring your phone?"Mariella: "Not right now."Noah: "Okay, see you soon."Noah stood up and followed Mariella toward the front door. As they made their way through the house, Noah wondered how much longer his mother and sister would remain oblivious to the danger they were in. They seemed happy, but Noah suspected that the two women spent most of their free time planning their escape rather than enjoying their newfound freedom. Noah's concern grew as he thought about the possibility that Mr Ryuku had given them a false sense of security to keep them from
Noah got up and retrieved the iPod from his bedroom. He opened his laptop and searched for music, selecting songs and albums with familiar names. Noah set the iPod on the table next to him and turned it on. After a moment, he remembered that he hadn't heard the news yet today. Noah switched off the iPod and called up the newspaper web site and clicked on the audio link."In other breaking news," said the announcer, "Japan's top criminal investigation agency has announced that it is investigating the disappearance of a prominent Japanese businessman who went missing last week."Noah felt his stomach drop to his feet. It was bad enough that he couldn't save his parents, but now another innocent man might die. A sense of dread filled his body. Noah shook his head and sighed heavily. He was tired of being powerless.He was still sitting at the table when Mrs Ryuko and Mariella returned. They both looked anxious, as if they expected to hear bad news. Noah watched his mother sit in her chai
When Noah woke up the following morning, he found a note on the bedside table from Sadie, asking him to phone the police station immediately. Noah dialed the number and waited impatiently for someone to pick up the line. He was about to hang up when the person finally answered.Officer Yu: "Hello?"Noah: "Did Sadie mention something about an explosion?"Officer Yu: "Explosion? What do you mean?"Noah: "On Saturday night."Officer Yu: "Are you talking about that fire?"Noah: "Yeah. Do you know what happened?"Officer Yu: "No. Why?"Noah: "It's a long story."Officer Yu: "Get to the point."Noah: "I met with a man named Takashi Sakurai on Saturday."Officer Yu: "Oh yeah?"Noah: "He claims that he is responsible for destroying the nuclear reactor at Kannawa."Officer Yu: "I thought the whole thing blew up."Noah: "No. That was the plan."Officer Yu: "What are you talking about?"Noah: "Someone else tried to destroy the nuclear reactor."Officer Yu: "Who?"Noah: "A group calling themselve
Volume 01; Beginning: What's going on in here?---------------------I am STRONG because I've been WEAK - Dolores.------------------Dolores suddenly opened her eyes, the first things she noticed was a girl yelling and crying on the bed in front of her.The second thing, Dolores noticed was her pounding heart and her body slumped towards the wall.Dolores knew that she must have been very frightened for her body to act this way, but she had no recollection of what had happened to her.Still she pressed her pounding heart and tried to calm down.The surroundings were extremely silent with only the woman's terrifying sobs sounding in the room."What the fuck is going on?" Dolores yelled at the crazy looking woman, she tried to stand up but felt her whole body go weak.She sat down again waiting for her body to refill it's energy, with her brain finally working well again, she looked at t
------------------------------In the MADNESS, you have to find the CALM. - Dolores.------------------------------Dolores felt goosebumps all over her arms and legs, glancing at the wounds on the woman's head on the bed, she could predict her future. The sole thing maintaining Dolores from not wailing is realizing that the hand wouldn't kill her straight away, it would simply create some doodles on her skull but blood edition!Dolores waited for the bone-chilling forehead blood edition doodle calmly but it felt as if the hand didn't prefer her surrendering and forcefully grabbed her hair tugging her skull like a toy rattle.With this abrupt action, Dolores could finally hear the particularly magnetic and unusual chuckle of a woman.If this was normal times, Dolores would moreover joke how handsome this woman's voice is but presently, it simply made her feel creepy as shit.Dolores felt that the creature behind her lost cur
------------------------------Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -Dolores.------------------------------When everyone was depressed, Sadie invited them to her family's old mansion, when everyone heard there was a place to live, they quickly agreed and followed Sadie to this place.But when all of them entered the mansion, they knew it was too late to regret it.Dolores recalled that the mansion was relatively huge, as they arrived at the pitch-black mansion, everyone could feel the temperature cooling down.All humans are afraid of the dark, as soon as Sadie switched the light on, as if the gloominess was nothing, everyone hurried to take a peek around the house.When everyone was exhausted from gawking around, they all selected a partner and shared a room, there were 8 of them.When they all woke up the following day, it was already the afternoon. As they attempted to unlock
---------------------Remember, no matter how much it HURTS right now, one day you'll look back and realize it made you STRONGER. - Noami.------------------------After thinking for a while, Dolores picked up the towel and cleaned Naomi's forehead wound causing Noami to get up with a cry.She sat up, looking at Dolores with her eyes wide, "Dolores, there is a ghost! There's a ghost!"Dolores also nodded her head, "There is a ghost."Naomi's head flew around the room as if checking where the ghost came back, "Is it gone? Are you okay?"Dolores also ensured, "The ghost is gone for now."Naomi was tense, but still breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, haha, it's alright now."Naomi's mental state was quite bad, she finally couldn't hold it whimpering and saying to Dolores, "Dolores, please take me home, I can't handle this anymore, woo...woo."Dolores was tired as hell herself but she still had to comfort the t
When Noah woke up the following morning, he found a note on the bedside table from Sadie, asking him to phone the police station immediately. Noah dialed the number and waited impatiently for someone to pick up the line. He was about to hang up when the person finally answered.Officer Yu: "Hello?"Noah: "Did Sadie mention something about an explosion?"Officer Yu: "Explosion? What do you mean?"Noah: "On Saturday night."Officer Yu: "Are you talking about that fire?"Noah: "Yeah. Do you know what happened?"Officer Yu: "No. Why?"Noah: "It's a long story."Officer Yu: "Get to the point."Noah: "I met with a man named Takashi Sakurai on Saturday."Officer Yu: "Oh yeah?"Noah: "He claims that he is responsible for destroying the nuclear reactor at Kannawa."Officer Yu: "I thought the whole thing blew up."Noah: "No. That was the plan."Officer Yu: "What are you talking about?"Noah: "Someone else tried to destroy the nuclear reactor."Officer Yu: "Who?"Noah: "A group calling themselve
Noah got up and retrieved the iPod from his bedroom. He opened his laptop and searched for music, selecting songs and albums with familiar names. Noah set the iPod on the table next to him and turned it on. After a moment, he remembered that he hadn't heard the news yet today. Noah switched off the iPod and called up the newspaper web site and clicked on the audio link."In other breaking news," said the announcer, "Japan's top criminal investigation agency has announced that it is investigating the disappearance of a prominent Japanese businessman who went missing last week."Noah felt his stomach drop to his feet. It was bad enough that he couldn't save his parents, but now another innocent man might die. A sense of dread filled his body. Noah shook his head and sighed heavily. He was tired of being powerless.He was still sitting at the table when Mrs Ryuko and Mariella returned. They both looked anxious, as if they expected to hear bad news. Noah watched his mother sit in her chai
Noah shrugged and answered: "I'm afraid 12 all I can tell you right now."Mariella: "Then I guess I won't be able to sleep tonight."Noah: "Maybe you should try to relax. Take a bubble bath or something. There's a lot of stress in your life right now and you deserve some time to unwind."Mariella: "I suppose I could use a break."Noah: "Would you like to go for a walk in the park?"Mariella: "A walk sounds good."Noah: "Do you want to bring your phone?"Mariella: "Not right now."Noah: "Okay, see you soon."Noah stood up and followed Mariella toward the front door. As they made their way through the house, Noah wondered how much longer his mother and sister would remain oblivious to the danger they were in. They seemed happy, but Noah suspected that the two women spent most of their free time planning their escape rather than enjoying their newfound freedom. Noah's concern grew as he thought about the possibility that Mr Ryuku had given them a false sense of security to keep them from
"Yes," answered Sadie quietly. Then she added one word after everything else Noah asked her – a single syllable answer which explained nothing further except confirming their worst fears… fear of divorce between two powerful families… family feuds could turn deadly when money became involved… blood might be shed simply out of frustration or anger… some men from wealthy dynasties couldn't handle having less power than others around them (including wives); thus these rich husbands began hiring assassins to eliminate anyone standing in their way—just as Adolph Haspinger had done weeks earlier… Now even David Breda found himself in such a dangerous position that soon he must either choose death over being disowned by the Rijksmuseum clan; or remain married to Aislinn … Or maybe he chose marriage instead thanks to his daughter Missy… This young lady had no patience whatsoever waiting until Marcel reached adulthood; there were too many loopholes in the law since everyone knew kids weren'
Sadie: "No. Because you died first."Marcel didn't understand.Dolores tried to explain: "It was the same night when we ran away from the ghost house, it was around the time Sadie killed you."Dolores continued: "She said it was an accident; she stabbed you and then she collapsed and fainted."Sadie's face clouded over. She was silent for a while before she broke down into tears once again.Dolores hugged Sadie as she sobbed. Marcel sat on the sofa, staring at Sadie as she cried. He wanted to comfort her, but he felt awkward about it. He didn't know how to act in situations like this.Finally, Sadie stopped crying and looked up at Marcel, wiping her tears with the back of her hand.Sadie said: "If I had known that your parents were in danger, I would have saved them."Marcel smiled wryly.Dolores: "I doubt that very much."Sadie said: "It's true though, I should have tried harder to save them."Marcel: "You don't need to worry about that now. They're probably okay now. Maybe they're i
The two of them ran downstairs, Noah was lying in the corridor. He groaned as he slowly stood up.Noah: "Only two ghosts, not bad."Marcel: "Not bad? How many ghosts did you count before we came here?"Noah glanced at the necklace around Sadie's neck and said: "One of them was wearing two of my necklaces. That means – two ghosts."Marcel scowled.Noah chuckled: "I should have known you two would find a way to defeat her."Marcel glared at Noah, then at Dolores, who was trying not to laugh.Noah said: "Don't worry, I'll take care of these two ghosts. And now, you must believe me, or you won't get out alive."Noami: "What do you mean?"Noah: "Nobody will come to rescue you. When you go back to your hotel, I suggest you leave."Marcel and Dolores both exchanged looks, suddenly it occurred to them that Noah was the ghost they were hunting. Then it struck them.Marcel was the most suspicious and the easiest to eliminate because he had been involved in the ghost's murder, but Noah was just
Dolores gazed at the hole in shock, she almost felt she was looking at a dragon's mouth.It wasn't a simple hole, the black sky seemed to have swallowed up the entire mansion, as if it was swallowing the whole world. The scene was beyond description, an abyss appeared beneath her feet.Her hair fluttered wildly and she fell backwards.Marcel immediately grabbed her arm, pulling her up, he stretched out his hand towards the hole.Ghost Gwen looked at the two of them, he clenched his teeth in anger and screamed: "Foolish girl, do you want to die!?"He pulled the dagger from his pocket and threw it at the hole, the dagger flew straight into the hole.His aim was true, a clear sound rang out from the impact.The wall immediately disappeared, a cold wind blew in.Dolores was pulled forward by Marcel, she tried to resist but failed.The hole was far too large, even Marcel and Noah couldn't go through it.But there was a light coming out from the hole, the faint light was like a ray of hope.
------Everything we do impacts someone else's life - Author._____Dolores sat up from her bed and walked towards the other bed, she stood on the side watching Naomi shutted eyes but with the continuous shake of the blanket, she knew Noami was awake, Dolores said: "Noami, get up." Naomi awkwardly opened her eyes, who wouldn't be awake listening to the roars from outside the door! "There appears to be a situation outside." Naomi behaved as if she was calm, but her heart was pumping blood 60 times quicker! She nevertheless wanted to show Dolores that she was also a calm and elegant wealthy lady! At this time, Marcel's audible voice was heard from outside the door: "Do not come outside no matter what happens!"Dolores stroked the knife on her abdomen, taking a deep breath to steady her racing heart, she stepped out of the door.Although Marcel was said to leave everyone to die in this mansion in the book, it wa
_______When you stop fighting, that's death - Dolores._ ______Overhearing the roar of the ghost, Marcel had already brought out the gadgets needed to deal with a ghost. It was time to get out of here, as Sadie's wounds required treatment right away and perhaps also for Noah, he's been helping him anyway.Vitality Shot: After use, the maximum stamina is boosted by 10%, and the mental endurance is boosted by 10%.Not only that, but Marcel also pulled the Ghost Killer Dagger and swiped it across the palm of his right hand. No blood flow emerged, but this dagger was presently blessed with life vitality.Ghost Killer (Main): When touched by the offspring of the Ryuu Family, within 60 minutes, any dead creature or soul can be slashed.Ghost Killer (Hidden): During the duration ofthe battle with a dead entity, the weapon assault power boosted, in the subsequent 60 seconds, your action speed, attack speed, and response speed are a