This is the edited version, the most notable change will be the case title but the plot about the mansion and mask man is still the same. Other then that, the change will be Mai dream location (because the old one location not so good), my own character name (the old name not good and it was an important character so her name must be good) and some other description, hope you all don't mind and enjoyed this more. I do not own anything related to ghost hunt.


File 1: Slaughter Mansion

Dripping sound can be heard in the surrounding, is it water?

As to answer my thought, the surrounding started to brighten up and I was found standing on the side of the dining hall with blood everywhere, I immediately let out a grasped of horror.

This is horrible…

In the middle was a long dining table for about 10 people to eat their food together but now that was all stained by blood, even the food on the table. At the end of the table sat 2 bloody corpse on each side facing each other and on the table in the middle of them place a half smashed young girl head, those dripping sound was the blood dripping out from those corpse.

A chilled crawl down my spine as footstep echoes around the silent place, it was coming closer and closer from the left side which could only be the kitchen before a masked man appeared out of the hallway.

"No one will escape…" An eerie voice came right behind that side, the masked man walked closer toward me.

I back away from the mask man until I felt myself bumping onto something cold, my hand at that second felt a cold touch grabbing onto it before I turned around to meet with an eyeless face dripping with blood.

Shivering in fear, I let out an ear piercing scream.

No!


"GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!" I heard someone shouting before I felt a pain on my face, I was being slapped.

Sitting up in an instant, I hold onto my chest to felt my heart pounding fast and I was shivering with sweat rolling down my forehead.

"Snap out of it?" A mature girl with dark-blue straight long hair asked from beside, she was the girl who had shouted and slapped me awoken.

As I turned to answer with a nodded, she stared at me for a few second before stepping aside to let Michiru and Keiko forward.

"Mai, you really scared us when you suddenly faint during class!" Keiko was the first one to spoke.

How are you feeling now?" Keiko asked in concern next.

"I'm fine." Not fully calm down, I answered with a force smile.

"That's good." Michiru sighed in relieved along with Keiko before asking, "Mai, why did you suddenly faint?"

"Dreaming…" I just simply answered since I didn't really want to go into detail, it'll made us all felt sick for sure.

"Those kind of dream?" Keiko asked next.

"Probably…..." I answered with uncertain since I never had those dream outside of work before.

Michiru and Keiko both seem curious about my dream but they didn't asked any farther while the other girl just standing aside lying against the wall quietly listening to us, she didn't seem curious about it at all which was kind of strange in my view.

"So, how long have I been unconscious?" I turn the subject back as I look around to find anything which could show time.

"About 3 hours, the class for today had already ended long ago." Michiru was the one to answer.

"Eh!?" Immediately jump out of the bed as I finally saw the time on the wall-clock; it was already passed 2 o'clock.

My name is Taniyama Mai, an eighteen years old high school student and also an investigator of SPR. The other girls beside me were my friends Michiru, Keiko and lastly Fujiwara Mitsuki who had just transferred here a few weeks ago.

Rushing out of the school and took the train, I reached the office in about 30 minutes.

"Good afternoon…" I blasted open the door and greet with panted.

"Mai, you're late for an hour!" Yasuhara came to the entranced to greet me with a smile as he tried to spoke in the same manner as Naru.

He's Yasuhara Osamu, twenty years old second year law major college students of Todai, he had officially worked in SPR office as a researcher after our last case together with everyone of the team.

"Naru won't smile." After normalising my breath, I spoke up before laughing at imagining Naru spoken in a cold tone but smiling friendly, it just felt not right and I bet Yasuhara was feeling the same thing too because he was laughing right after me.

"If the boss is here, we will be scold for sure." Yasuhara stop laughing first.

"Yeah but aren't they supposed to be here a while ago?" Stop laughing, I went to put up my coat as I asked.

"Madoka had call, the plane have been delayed so you will lucky or else today you may be making tea to no end." Yasuhara went back to his desk.

"I don't really like that." I sweated drop at thinking about it, "Talking about tea, I'm thirsty, you wanted some too?" shaking my head out of those nightmare, I asked Yasuhara as I felt my throat a bit dry, just now I had shouted but didn't drink any water at all so no wondered I was thirsty.

"Alright, your tea is better than mine."

Going into the kitchenette to do my usual routine of making tea, I was halfway pouring the tea after the water had boiled when the doorbell rang so I putted down the kettle to look outside.

"Welcome, are you here for a consultation?" Yasuhara walked toward the entrance and asked politely.

"Ehm, Yes…" Standing in front of Yasuhara was a dark-blue haired boy around my age, he seem to be nervous.

"Our boss is not here for the time being but he should be back soon. You can tell our investigator first, we will call you back after consulting with our boss."

The boy just nodded before Yasuhara lead him in as I went back to the kitchenette to continue pouring the tea and one more.

"Mai…" Yasuhara came to tell me as I finished pouring the tea.

"Leave it to you then." Stopping Yasuhara upcoming words, I nodded before going out of the kitchenette to my desk to take the black file for recording client cases.

"Here." Yasuhara place a cup of tea in front of boy.

"Thanks." The boy nodded.

"I'm Taniyama Mai, an investigator. I'll be listening to your case." Sitting down on the sofa opposite of the boy, I introduced myself with a smile as Yasuhara place the tea in front of me before going back to his desk near the entrance.

"You are?" The boy widen his eyes in shocked.

"Well, I also won't believe it myself but yes, I am."

"Oh…I'm Akatsuki Hiroto." The boy, Akatsuki rubbed the back of his head and started with an embarrassed smile.

"Sorry, can you tell me your age and occupation too?" I continued asking the things needed to be filled in.

"19 years old, a college student."

Mitsuki look more like a college student then him but thinking about it, they felt kind of alike?

"Is something wrong, Taniyama-san?" Akatsuki stared at me in confused.

"Oh sorry, I suddenly remembered something and you can just call me Mai." I let out an embarrassing smile before continuing, "So Akatsuki-san, can you please tell me your case?" indicating him to start his story.

"About a months ago…ehm, my relative bought the mansion located on the outskirt of Tokyo with the intention to make it into some tourist spot. The work went smoothly until 2 weeks later where strange things began to happen. A few workers had get into different accident, some of them even disappeared without a trace and later found dead in…a certain condition."

"What do you mean with a certain condition?"

"The bodies were found… mutilated…" Akatsuki face had gone pale.

I froze as it made me remembered my dream earlier, I felt like vomiting so I quickly put the things that were almost fall off my hand on the table before taking a few breath to calm myself down.

"Mai, Akatsuki-san, are you both alright?" Yasuhara came asking in worried as he had noticed our expression..

"I'm fine…" I look up to Yasuhara to answered and then took a sip of tea, it fragrance made me felt much calmer, "Sorry about that, so anything happened next?" before looking back to Akatsuki to continued our previous topic.

"Well…" Akatsuki snapped out of his curious stared on me as he continued, "They had went to check on the place a week ago and end up going missing too. Their child…Uh...also my cousin, Mio had went to make a report to the police on the second day but until now they were still not found, even the police who went there had also gone missing. Aside for that, Mio had been hearing strange voice and sometime waking up with injuries around since her parents went missing."

"What had she heard?"

"Something like 'you won't escape again' or 'you'll be one of them'." Akatsuki frowned a little in thought before answering.

The first one was heard in my dream earlier…

"Is that all?"

"Yes, so will your boss accept the case?" Akatsuki nodded before asking in worried.

"About that…" I turned my glanced away a little before continuing, "Our boss doesn't like it when we make promised and he usually won't accept cases involving with the police…"

"About that, my sis…family knew some people from the police and the media so they might be able to do something about it."

"Alright, I'll try my best to persuade my boss." I gave Akatsuki a nodded after a while of thinking, "Can you leave behind your contact number? We'll contact you when our boss has makes his decision."

Akatsuki sighed in relieved before telling me his contact number as I wrote down before the doorbell rang.

"Welcome back, we've a client, boss." Yasuhara got up from his chair to greeted the person getting in.

I got up from the couch to see 2 men walking toward the lounge, it was Naru and Lin but Madoka who supposed to bring them back, was nowhere to be found.

"The written request…" Naru turned to me to say while taking off his coat.

He's Shibuya Kazuya aka Naru, a nineteen years old narcissistic boss of SPR, he's actually the framed researcher and psychic Oliver Davis.

"Has been taken." I replied before Naru could finish.

"Put it in the line, I'll contact them at a later date." Naru just told me before turning to his office.

"But, the person himself is here so…"

"I'm tired." Naru answered me with a fed-up tone.

I twitched my eyebrow into a frowned and then turned back to Akatsuki with a smile, "Excuse me for a moment." before holding onto the file and briskly walked toward Naru.

"Boss, I think I heard a snap sound." Yasuhara smiling brightly, earning himself a glared from Naru which didn't seem to affect him at all.

"Excuse me for asking but how many hours was the flight? 24 hours? 48 hours? Well of course you are tired from that long trip!" I started to scold, without caring Akatsuki completely shocked look, "But as you are resting, someone might have already died! At least read the request here, boss!" I pushed the file to Naru.

"…" Naru didn't reply or do anything except staring at the file.

"Or are you so tired that I need to read it to you? If so I can read it to you while you rest." I said while smiling sweetly, "How about getting Yasuhara to read it and I'll give you a nice shoulder massage?"

"I'd be happy too." Yasuhara joined in with a smile too.

Naru just stared at me for a second before snatching the file away from me and go toward the couch while Lin just stood beside him, "Sorry for the wait, I'm the owner of SPR, Shibuya Kazuya." He sat down on the seat I was sitting before and opened the file.

"You're the owner?" Akatsuki widen his eyes more and asked bluntly before he realized.

"Yes." Naru just simply replied without looking up from the file.

"…Ehm, will you accept it?" Akatsuki spoke carefully, he seem uncomfortable.

"The police and media, they'll deal with it." I added while almost pleadingly stared at him.

"Leave the address to my assistant, we'll be there in 2 days around noon. Please prepare us a room for our equipment and 3 bedrooms for us to sleep in." A few second after staring at me then to thinking, Naru nodded and hand the black file to Lin.

"Thanks! I'll tell them about it right away!" Akatsuki change his expression from completely worried to completely relieved, he went to give the address to Yasuhara before walking out of the office.

"Mai, call the others. Yasuhara, do some research on the Akatsuki family and the mansion." Naru ordered us as he got up from the couch to his office.

Both Yasuhara and I nodded before we went to do our separate thing; Yasuhara went back to his desk to find the related information in the computer while I went to clean up the cup first.

"Mai, tea!" Naru called out from his office for tea like always, he never changed.

Just as I was going to made tea, Lin came out from his office, "Lin-san, want some tea?" so I turned to asked him with a smile.

"No thanks, Taniyama-san." Lin just gave me this answer before walking out of the office.

He's Lin Koujo, a twenty-nine years old assistant of Naru and an onmyoji who seemed to hate me at first but after I said the same things as Gene, he started to warm up to me but was still as silent as ever.

"Where's he going?" I stared at the door where Lin had left and asked my thought out loud.

"Only boss and Madoka can call Lin-san out, it's not boss for sure so it must be Madoka." Yasuhara stopped typing to turn to me.

"That's right, even Naru will listen to Madoka obediently." I smile as I remembered those things Madoka had told me about the time when the 3 of them and Gene had been doing in England, Madoka is like a big, big boss to them in her story, "Yasuhara, want another cup of tea?"

"Well, I'm not really a tea-addicted but I don't mind another cup of tea." Yasuhara replied me with his usual smile.

"Yeah, yeah, you're not a tea-addicted like someone else." I chuckled before going to the kitchenette to made tea for Naru like I used to do, everything finally returned to normal.