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Chap 4

In the dream

"M-i---I-"

Who is it? Who are calling for me? What are you trying to tell me?

"P-e----t---" His voice was heard more distant and lower.

I can't hear you! Please, don't go!

"M-i, I..."

"..."

End of dream

Mai surprisingly was in the office in early morning. John came after and greeted her politely.

"Where is Naru-san?" John asked.

Mai sighed. "After drop me here ALONE, he went to get Gene. Lin has gone to that house with Bou-san and Madoka-san just now. Naru told them to go first." She said.

"You look tired, Mai-san." John said worried.

Mai laughed a bit. "I got that a lot today. Well... I think it's just because of lack of sleep. I felt strange... like I have forgotten something important..." Mai trailed.

"Something important?" John frowned.

Mai shook her head lightly. "Never mind, so what do you think about that case?"

"I can't say anything since we haven't looked at the place with our own eyes. It can be everything, not only the antique collection, it is possible if the place is haunted or... someone placed a curse..." John replied.

Mai sighed, "you said the same thing like Gene... I always thought that you and Gene are similar in some meanings."

John looked at Mai puzzled. "Are we?" He asked. But their conversation was cut off by the twin's arrival.

Mai immediately protested about her boredom since she was left alone there. Naru blamed all the faults to Gene who can only smiled sheepishly. After that, they went to Sara's house.

Her house was very huge, it was four floors high with grey colored wall. The maid greeted them and led them to the base. The base was incredibly big, it has many monitors with a long and big table in the middle and three long couch on the side. It was a security room since if they used their own, they won't have enough for all the places.

Sara and Luella would join them later since they have something to do. Madoka joined them.

Naru studied the blueprint of the house to put the limited camera in necessary places while asking the servants and security some question.

"So you heard the voices too when one of your friends gone?" Naru asked.

The girl with thick eyeglasses nodded. "That night I was awaken by that voice. I thought that it was from the bathroom. When I went out to check it, the sound came from the opposite of the bathroom. So I went there to check it. I looked on the windows whether any of them opened, the kitchen and the living room. But I found nothing. I didn't notice that my roommate, Sayako, gone missing until the morning." She sighed. "She was an energetic and kind woman even she has been fifty..."

"Where is your room?"

"On the first floor, it is near the door to the backyard."

Gene who was staring at the air started to ask. "Do you know any other victims, is there any similarity with your roommate?" Gene asked.

Mimithought for a while, she looked at the monitor and became sad. "The Security, Takada-san, He is twenty this year and he doesn't have family so Sara-sama let him to stay here. He is a nice person and friendly. If I was right, he didn't have any roommate. He went missing a month ago. Both He and Sayako don't have any family." She explained.

She looked at her lap and thought again. "Uhm... I don't really like her... Her name is Cianne. Well, she is former a rich family's child but since their business fall down, she forced to work here by her family. She is twenty five, I think... She is very arrogant and lazy... I think she went missing three months ago. Sayako and Cianne came from the same town."

She was silence for a while and shook her head. "I can find any other similarity from the other victims. You should ask Ruka-sama, the head servant, to find any further information. He has lived in this house since it built. He is Sara-sama's right hand after all. Sara-sama trusts him in everything."

Naru nodded and thanked her. Mai guided Mimito the door and closed it slowly. Bou-san and John took in Ruka, the head servant, to the base. Ruka gave them the list of the missing persons. There's no specific similarity about them.

"Now if you mention it... I remember that when Sayako-san disappeared, I was patrolling around. I heard someone talking in her room but when I shrugged it off because I think she was talking with Mimi-san, her roommate. But I met Mimi-san on the dining room, she was looking of something. I was about to talk to her when I heard rippling water..." Ruka said. "And I forgotten about Sayako-san... My year really got me."

"Do you recognize the voice?" Naru asked.

Ruka shook his head. "I can't say anything about that. I didn't really hear it so... I'm sorry I can't help you more..." Ruka apologized. Naru looked at Lin who typed the information on the pc. Lin nodded, Naru let Ruka to go back to his work.

When Ruka has gone out, Gene started to talk. "I met that Takada's ghost on the gate. He can't rest because something binds him here." Gene explained.

"And Cianne-san who was mentionedis floating outside, I saw her on the window. She asked me to help her." Masako said. "I heard some other voice but hardly find anyone on this list."

"Does it mean they..." John whispered.

Gene touched her chin. "I don't know..." He thought deeply.

"Ne, Ayako, you have attach the charm here, haven't you?" Mai asked.

Ayako nodded. She sighed tiredly while looking at the ceiling. "Naru ORDERED me to put some in the base before you guys came." She said annoyed.

"Uh," Mai hesitated. "But why..." She bit her lip. She didn't know if it's alright to mention it. "There is one spirit there." Mai pointed out.

The other turned to her. "There is a man who is looking at the window." Mai continued. "He was right beside Bou-san." Bou-san immediately jumped away from his place.

Gene and Masako looked at the place intently. "I saw nothing..." Masako said uncertainly.

Gene's eyes widened. "I saw him! It is barely but he is right there!" Gene said.

Masako tried to focus her sight on that spot. She found a small white smoke, slowly it formed as a man. Then he became clearly looked as a man with a security uniform who was facing his back to her like Mai's describe.

"I saw him..." Masako said in a whisper.

Masako's pov

Has Mai's power extended that much? She even can saw the spirit faster and sharper than us. I don't want to admit but my power started to be nothing compared to the other. Naru has Gene and Mai. I don't think I am necessary to be here...

Suddenly the spirit on the air and on the table slowly was disappearing. "It's gone..." I said.

Gene also nodded. "What do you mean by it's gone?" Naru asked.

"They're vanished. I can't sense their presence too. Maybe those people haven't died yet. They only wandered around to find their body." Gene concluded.

I looked at Mai, she caught me staring. "What?" She asked, maybe irritated that I kept look at her.

"Nothing, just amazed you can see that spirit when I can't." I answered.

Mai frowned. "I can't say that I saw it either. I just felt that something is there then that man appeared for a second and disappeared again. When I thought that maybe it was my imagination, another one appeared on the window and on the air. Then you two mentioned them, so I thought maybe he is one of the spirits too." Mai explained.

Naru chuckled. "Using another animal instinct, Mai?" Naru mocked.

Oh my, here's they go again. Mai surprisingly didn't shout but she only pouted. The other laughed. For some reason, I was amazed that they can be together. I thought that they were oil and water.

SLAM! The door was opened hard. "Have you found out the reason yet?" Luella Davis, Naru and Gene-san's mother asked. She was strangely happy for something. I thought that she planned something.

"Mother, we just arrive." Naru answered with a slightly annoyed tone.

"That's only a reason for not admit you lose, Noll?" She mocked. Strange, she looked like want to make her son lose.

Naru glared at her. "There's no 'lose' word in my dictionary, mother. You know that well." Naru said, as expected from a high-prided man like him.

But there's something still bugging my mind. I wonder what it is...

Gene's pov

"Mother is up to something, Noll." I said while trying to find out what she planned about.

"It's only one reason, Gene. But it's still confusing me, why would she do something like this? It's not like her... Maybe that's a bit not like her..." Noll replied. Mother was a pushy woman if she wanted something but she was never this annoying.

"Is something happen in England?"

"I don't know about it, Gene. But I think it has something to do with that 'little fight'."

"To tell you the truth, I'm quite dislike Mother's behaviour now. She likes... want us to..."

"I sense that too..."

"Uh," Sara tried to soften the thick atmosphere. "Should we take a look for my collection? Maybe that can help the investigation..." She suggested.

We agreed. Noll let Ayako-san and John to stay at the base to watch the monitor. Mai was walking silently beside him and Bou-san. Lin and Madoka was stayed behind, they were talking silently.

I can't tell what it is. Lin's expression was the most hard to be read. Sigh, I just hope that they didn't up to something bad.

"Gene-san, do you feel it?" Masako whispered to me. I nodded a bit. I noticed that many of spirits bound here. They were keep appear and disappear for some unknown reason. I felt a bad feeling about this. If I was right, the number of the missing persons was around fifteen but I saw more than thirty or even more than fifty spirits floating around here while trying to find something.

As far I found, the victims were also unspecified. It can be an old or young, male or female, foreign or insider, color of eyes and hair were also different. Is there any reason why they being disappear like that? Not good, we couldn't decide which criteria would be the victims.

In this group, the vulnerable ones were Noll, Hara-san, and Mai. (He doesn't want to admit that he is included in that vulnerable one). Noll has Lin, Hara-san most likely will stayed with Matsuzaki Ayako. I doubt whether Ayako can protect Mai too... Her power undoubtly is pure, but not too strong.

Should Bou-san and John stay with them? The room dividing must be thought twice. I was certain that Noll would leave Mai with someone who was the strongest in this team. Or maybe him... I unconsciously smirked about my perverted mind.

"I hear you, stupid pervert medium." Noll shouted in my mind. I forgot he can read my mind. "Don't think something like that about my girl."

"Heh heh, chill down, idiot scientist." I replied and chuckled. Noll has his cute side too even he was matured. Aw, younger brother is always cute no matter how old he is.

"I'm not your younger brother and I'm not cute!"

"Really???" I teased him. "You are complaining about my thought for every single one. You're like a child, Noll."

"Who won't complain if you think about those dirty stuffs!"

I almost laughed hard if he didn't glare at me. Noll was really cute when he whinned. If the SPR knew about this, they won't call Naru as an iceberg anymore. My mind was intterupted by a sad sniffle.

"Hiks, mommy... Mommy..." I saw a girl who was hugging her teddy cried on the air. "Where are you, mommy..." She said it over and over.

I felt sorry for her. When I was about to approach her, she disappeared. "Gene, what are you doing?" Noll asked. They were far ahead from me. I looked at the spot of the girl and went to them.

"Nothing, nothing at all..." I answered. I definitely would finish this case!

Little talk at SPR

I was lying down on the couch silently while staring at the roof when the door was slammed open.

"Ah, there you are! Ao, please talk to Ryou! Tell him to give me a break! I can die if he kept look at me every inch I moved! It is worse than to be stalked by the Medias!!!" He was shoving my shoulder and begged like a child who asked for a candy. His tear was flying like a waterfall. Wow, He can make a big flood easily with those tears.

"No..." I replied.

He shoved me with more force. "PLEASE!!!"

Omake

I saw a girl who was taking a teddy crying on the air. An old man who was staring on the window. A maid who was kept sweeping the same spot. And... uh.... A man with ancient clothing who was angry over something, maybe it is the collection's spirit, still can be understood. A tiger (!) who was walking around, maybe because the tiger's skin. A kangaroo (!?) who was hopping back and forth, can't find and explanation about this. A duck (!!???) who was waving its tail, (speechless). Also....

(....)

(Speechless)

A DINOSAUR!?

WHAT KIND OF CASE THIS IS!?

(A/N: Isn't it more normal to have a dinosaur as a collection better than duck, Gene?)

(NO! Both of them are definitely not normal!!!)

End of Omake

"I can't appear if Ryou kept me in the office!!!" Kazahaya reasoned.

Ryou came in with an evil aura. "Tsukiyomi Kazahaya shachou-sama." He called so politely (too polite to my liking) which made us afraid. "I think your play time has over. PLEASE come back to the office and PLEASE don't make any stupid escape." He said with such a frightening voice.

Kazahaya shot me an ultimateinnocent cute look. I stood up and pulled Kazahaya to Ryou. "Please take care of him, Ryou!" I said.

"What!? Don't you suppose to help me?" Kazahaya whined.

"I was more afraid to Ryou than being charmed by your innocent look, Kazahaya. And don't you think that it is troublesome if I was taken (or dragged) to your office AGAIN? I don't want to catch into that mess AGAIN." I gave him an innocent smile and my devil wing flipped a bit on my back.

"YOU EVILL!!!"

Ryou smiled. "We'll join you soon. You don't have to worry about it, Ao." He said.

"I'll trust you, Ryou. Oh, and don't be too hard to him, kay? I still need him saNE and sound." I smiled back.

"Shouldn't you say 'saFE and sound'!?" We looked at him with a tired look. "YOU TWO ARE THE MOST EVIL BETWEEN THE EVILS!!!"

Many thanks to the readers and reviewers:

Anonymous(I got that quite a lot. Still, I'm confused where is the part that I used the wrong grammar and vocab. Thanks for the review. God bless you too), Moons-Chan- (See the little talk to find the answer!), -Skyz-Angels- (yup, he is still use black clothe. Maybe he didn't bring another color of clothe. I just thought a stupid idea when I read your review. I have made a one-shot story for you, hope you like it! I'll post it in Christmas as a present for you all!), canadianviolet(Just don't forget she's the mother, not the daughter.), Kay (Hehe, just keep reading to know the answer, Kay!)

Raito, Rein, Shion

Aoi: Raito and Kazahaya are really similar. Don't worry, Raito. Your friend here only have finished 35% of his works so he'll wait you (maybe) and felt your pain now.
Gene: Is Shion really a higher class demon than you, Aoi? You should learn more to level up!
Aoi: (sweat drop)
Kazahaya : No one help me (grumble) They are evil ( grumble) I want to go out (grumble) what is this pile of paper (grumble grumble grumble)
Ryoutarou : Sigh... I would appreciate if someone like Rein will come here to stop his grumble. But as long he does his work... (taking another pile of documents and make another mountain of paper)
Kazahaya : ...
Aoi: Hey, Shion. I think I know how funny his face is! Good luck for your test, Raito. Thanks for the review, guys! Hope you enjoy the Christmas Eve today!

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Aoi: Huwa, that's was long, Hikari-chan, Airi-chan!
Gene: Ugh... Ao, you really has an ability to make people become a devil
Aoi: ??? (devil wing on the back is flipping)
Gene: 'Didn't realize it yet, huh?' Don't think about it...
Kazahaya: Girls are scary... How could they did something like that! You should learn from my sisters!
Ryoutarou: 'Sister complex mode on...'
Aoi: Ugh, doll... I hate human-shaped doll a lot. It is creepy!
Gene: I'm not really fond about that too...
Kazahaya: Whoa, look at the last passage, they almost curse you!
Aoi: almost... Hey, Kazahaya, don't slack off and hurry up to finish your work. (kazahaya sulked and went away)
Ryoutarou: Now if you mention it... I never won against Kazahaya in any kind of game.
Gene and Aoi: Not even once?
Ryoutarou: Not even once. (chuckle and went to Kazahaya's office)
Aoi: Uh... It made me want to play with him... Anyway, thanks for the review and MANY THANKS for the THREAT. (smile innocently with a black aura behind me). I like that a lot!
Gene: (shook his head) A devil won't afraid of an evil... I know that...