In the rough, simple office full of metal in the mill. Madison sat at his desk, in front of him was the second-hand typewriter that Zach had given him.
'Shua'! A full piece of paper was pulled out, and Madison quickly inserted a new one. 'Carrala', the ruler was quickly pushed aside, and with the continuous and rapid "pah pah pah..." sound of keystrokes, the ruler left a row of words on the white paper and was quickly pushed back again.
Yes, Madison has completely given up on his job where he should perform well in front of his boss, and started doing his own personal affairs without doing anything serious.
This can't be blamed on Madison. After being suddenly frightened by Zach, he may have the consciousness to let go of everything. Madison spent the morning completely abandoning her work at the mill, cornering Zach with all the questions she had.
Everything that has happened in Bishop Manor, and everything that will happen in the future, has been recorded by him on that palm-sized notepad. Madison couldn't wait to write the story.
… The resentful spirit (evil spirit Sher), which has been immersed in hatred, used its dark red world to occupy the manor that originally represented this city…
This wonderful writing style, oh, is a common metaphor in "Urban Legends". All of Barton's lands were originally Bishop's, and Madison was clearly hinting at this.
What happens next? Will the ghost haunt this place forever? Use the hatred inspired by regrets that it can never be completed to torture the few remaining innocent people in this manor and sink into this endless pool? …
Madison twitched the corners of his mouth while changing lines, as if he was trying to understand something. On the notepad open next to the typewriter, there are a few lines written, which are the source of inspiration for Madison. The content is the exchange between him and Zach—
"No evil spirit can complete revenge. The hatred was planted when they were humans, and evil spirit revenge is a ridiculous term. Obviously. No matter what the hatred that caused them to become evil spirits, their revenge has failed. , because they are the ones who died first. No matter what they failed to accomplish when they were still humans, they are already evil spirits and no longer have the ability to return to do things that humans can do."
Well. This boring thing is purely used to explain the existence of evil spirits. No one should be interested. Fortunately, Madison, who was typing, took the time to turn a page and see what other answers Zach had written on the notepad. For example, what happened in Bishop Manor, before, now, and even in the future...
Oh wait, speaking of Zach. Zach was sitting across from Madison with his legs crossed. The seemingly casual posture was actually the most comfortable posture that Zach found after adjusting for a long time.
The iron chair in Madison's office. It’s really not as comfortable as Grandelli’s handmade chairs.
Zach's hand resting on the edge of the desk held a manuscript paper that had been folded in two. It was Ms. West’s article that Madison didn’t want Zach to read this morning.
No, it's not that Madison doesn't want Zach to watch it, but, we know, Zach hates it. For such an article that was clearly in line with reality, Madison was obliged to report it to Zach. After all, he and Ms. West became friends only after accepting Zach's order.
What Madison didn't want was just for Zach to have a look and I noticed West had written something 'interesting'. Madison, do you really take good care of this 'magical' woman? 'a feeling of. Try to feel Madison's little thoughts.
So this is the article that will be handed over to Zack for review anyway. Now that it's in Zach's hands, there's nothing surprising about it. On the contrary, Zach looked at the article in his hand carefully, sometimes raising his eyebrows and sometimes frowning, as if he was thinking about something very important.
*Maili's hands turned white under the big round table at the meeting because he clenched his fist too hard... *
Zach was seeing this.
*The issue of summer grants is being discussed at the round table.
The owners of these servants may not realize it, but the workload during the summer is overwhelming. Such as dusting, changing clothes, washing clothes... These daily tasks will double in this season. And these owners will not hire extra servants because of the increased workload, oh, except for things like cleaning the swimming pool that have too long intervals.
The people sitting next to Maili didn't pay attention to any of Maili's actions. She spoke in a very helpless tone, "Mr. Trustee, can I interrupt? Hey, Mr. Quest didn't even want to hire someone to clean the swimming pool. He asked the gardener of our manor to do it. Come do this. Oh, and the poor guy was blamed for the leaves he pruned falling into the pool, which was his job."
The representatives at the round table all showed anger. Someone asked angrily, "It's Questelt again! Did he pay more to the gardener?"
Representative Questelt next to Maili continued with a helpless expression, "Didn't I just say that Questelt said it was his job, so he didn't."
The emotions of the representatives were intensified again, and everyone began to express their condolences to the Questelt representative and asked the director to do something about the Questelt Manor.
But there is one discordant person in this picture, and that is the cold-faced, silent Mai Li who must be bypassed when he wants to support Representative Questelt.
Maili completely ignored what was happening around him and was immersed in his own anger.
Because, she was sitting next to Representative Questelt. Haha, Questelt! That small manor at the very edge of the manor district in the West End! The estate of that guy who wasn't even from the West End! Her status is so bad that she can only sit in this position!
Where was Maili's former location? On the other side of the round table, there's Bunton's butler, Kuin's nurse, Falcon's foreman, Stone's... over there. Now, she is nothing. The only reason why she can sit here is just...
Maili looked at the other side of the round table. Those who had been one of them were discussing how to 'remind' Questelt who had seriously violated the interests of the servants.
"Julia (Julie)? What do you think?" Kuin's young caregiver (Amanda) pulled some newcomers who were not involved in the conversation, the representative of Bi (Bee) Sharp Manor. She smiled and said to this person. A newcomer explained, "You haven't been working for long, so you may not know. We must not let this behavior, which is obviously bullying us servants, continue. Although we work for them, we cannot let some people think that they can exploit us."
"Oh." Julia seemed to be completely unable to keep up with the rhythm of the discussion. "I, well, I actually don't understand. Our Bishop just laid off a group of servants. Does this have anything to do with what is being discussed now? ?Should I ask Mr. Bishop for instructions to recall those servants..."
Maili could no longer hear what was being said on the other side because the distance was too far!
"Humph." Maili suddenly sneered in a way that didn't suit the mood. She realized that the only reason why he could still sit here was because of sympathy. *
Zach looked away momentarily, he needed to think. This is not the first article by Ms. West that Zach has read. Once in Morris’s class, Zach was fortunate enough to hear the truth about Wales. Ms. West seems to have a knack for building up a certain atmosphere.
Just like what Zach is seeing now. Ms. West continually contrasts the two characters in the text. One is newcomer Julia, er no need to use Ms. West's deliberate variation on, let's just say, Julie, Willy's mother.
Julie seems to be the main character in the article who is completely used to stimulate and contrast the woman named "Maili" in the article.
Julie represents the opposite of everything about Mery—Julie works for Bee Sharp, one of the top families in the West End, works short hours, and knows nothing about union affairs.
And Maili, as mentioned earlier, has worked at Smith Manor for ten years. Now, the director in the article bluntly said that he was not qualified to participate in this union gathering.
Zach was quite impressed with Smith's estate. Because of several visits, I remember that Smith's manor seemed to be in decline. Not to mention decoration and the like, there was only one butler running around from beginning to end.
Zach could only guess at this point that Smith met Grande at some point in time. Resign the servants in the manor, including this 'Maili'.
Zach didn't want to see the end. In order to please Mr. Morris, Ms. West wrote some, well. 'Radical' plot. Because according to the contrast between the two that she constantly creates in her article, it is very likely that Maili vents her bad emotions to newcomer Julie.
Julie is already one of the lucky few to survive in Bishop Manor, and the reason is precisely because she is a newcomer to the world of servants. If Julie had just been lucky because she was a newcomer, and then was raped because she was a newcomer, it would be a tragedy that even Zach would feel sorry for.
Zach pursed his lips and turned his gaze back, ready for the next episode...
"Zach!" Madison's fingers that kept tapping on the typewriter suddenly stopped, and his eyes kept wandering between the paper stuck on the front of the typewriter and the notepad next to it. Apparently he had written somewhere and got stuck. He needed to Help, "Tell me again why the first person to emerge from Bishop's Manor is Willy's mother Julie!"
Zach twitched his lips and glanced at the notebook beside Madison. He didn't like being interrupted, "Didn't you write it down? Find it yourself."
Madison clicked his tongue, picked up the notebook, frowned, and flipped through it to find the answer. After a moment of silence, he found it. Madison put down the notebook and started typing again.
The resentful spirit fell into despair. It looked at the same desperate people huddled in this huge manor full of death. The remaining people began to deny themselves.
It saw the man (Bishop) who had done nothing, the useless man who couldn't even generate a trace of his own will to demand a price. Oh, maybe he deserves to live under his own torture from now on and not be reincarnated, but what about those innocent people? For example, what about the maid (Julie) who has only been working for a week
The resentful spirit still remembers how the maid looked when she came here for the first time. She had no idea what it meant to work in this already divided family. She clumsily reminded the hostess of the male host's schedule, and tried to use her son's story at an inappropriate time to explain the situation. Ease the weird atmosphere at the dinner table…
The resentful spirit does not think that the lives that have disappeared in its hands are innocent. For example, the servant who has been standing at the end of the west corridor for a long time and can hear many noises; for example, the little chef who is just in the kitchen and is responsible for making soup for the last meal of the ghost before his death...
But this new maid, the maid who was occasionally reminded softly by the grudges during her lifetime, was innocent. As well as those few people who had been with it for a long time during its lifetime, but were now separated by the hateful mastermind.
The resentful spirit didn't know what to do. These people who are still alive, who do not need to go through this, have exhausted all methods to try to leave this dark red manor that cannot be left after entering. They are fearful, desperate, and on the verge of collapse. The resentful spirit even begins to think that if it does not do anything, these lucky people who do not die immediately will not live long.
In a short time, there will no longer be a living thing here, and it will become a dead place where resentful spirits are attached. At the end of the self-denial, the resentful spirit came to this conclusion.
Perhaps we should be merciful and end the suffering of these poor people as soon as possible. Who should we start with? Starting with the most innocent one...
Madison's fingers were forced to stop tapping the keyboard, and the two-folded manuscript was thrown in front of Madison by Zach.
There was something like eager impatience on Zach's face, and he frowned, "What about the back?" Zach propped up his desk, leaned forward and pointed at the last row of the manuscript, "Why does the plot only end at the union party? , Maili looked at the newcomer Julia, surrounded by a group of representatives from the West End Manor, chatting and laughing, inviting each other to leave if there was a chance to meet again in the future, and then there was no more."
Madison frowned and took a look at Zach's expression. It seemed that the situation was not something that could be ignored. He pursed his lips and said, "That's it. It's over. There's nothing more to come."
"What's this?" Zach frowned and straightened up, very dissatisfied, "The story hasn't been told yet, how can it end? Maili hasn't done anything practical yet. I don't accept that this is the end."
Madison picked up the manuscript and put it aside without looking at Zach. "Do you want Mali to do something? To whom? Julie?" Madison directly used the real person's name.
"No, of course I don't want to." Zach tugged at the corner of his mouth, "But." Zach paused, "The story shouldn't end like this." Everyone has this kind of feeling, "Does West have any It doesn’t matter if you consider the feelings of the people watching it.”
"She didn't." Madison quickly glanced at Zach and started typing again, "None of us did. This is just Teacher Morris's homework. It was not meant for others to see. This is the effect we want. The worse Morris feels, the happier we are."
Zach opened his mouth, temporarily speechless.
"You haven't seen West write an assignment about her cat using the people around her as the subject, and Morris scolded her for half the class." Madison added with a chuckle in her tone.
Zach blinked and suddenly thought of something, curled up the corners of his mouth and looked at Madison with a smile, "Is it your idea, Madison? I should praise West for not having an ending to what he wrote... "
"No need." Madison moved her shoulders uncomfortably, "Don't disturb me now, let me finish writing quietly."
Zach raised his eyebrows and walked around the desk with a smile on his face, standing behind Madison and looking at the paper with words constantly appearing under the moving ruler.
'This will be quick. The resentful spirit comforted itself in this way. In the dark red space, fine silk threads attached to the body of the maid who was banging on the ventilation duct, and penetrated and penetrated little by little without being noticed. The bright red light spot was forcibly pulled out of the maid's gradually stiffening body by the silk thread. It was penetrated by the entangled silk thread and exploded into a small but dazzling light spot.
When all these light spots were pulled out and turned into fleeting spots of light, the maid's life came to an end due to the loss of her soul, and she became an empty body, abandoned in the huge atrium.
The dark red space shook, as if ripples from somewhere were transmitted here, and the threads stagnated.
"Don't come in!" The resentful spirit roared at the visitors outside the manor, "I told you, you shouldn't see me like this... (..)