I finally finished the new chapter, hope everyone like this chapter and please review! Anyway, the next chapter will be the last chapter for this case but I had to gave you some warning first, firstly I don't knew when I will be posting it and secondly this case will had some question unanswered. I do not own anything related to ghost hunt.


File 1: Slaughter Mansion

The light went out in the next second, ghostly and knocking sound could be heard immediately everywhere in this total darkness.

"Don't move." Naru immediately warn with a severe tone.

"What's going on here?" Mio voice sound like she was panicking.

"The spirits are suffering…" Masako said almost sadly, I could imagine her covering her mouth with her kimono sleeve likes usual.

They sound sad and angry…That's right! The mirror shard!

I had a bad feeling about this but I didn't know what, all I do was searching around the tea-table to find the mirror shard.

"Naumaku Sanmanda Bazara…" Bou-san started chanting.

I felt something cold grazed past my shoulder just when I found the mirror shard, "Ouch!" Immediately let out a groaned of pain, I hold onto shard tighter but I could feel the pain on my palm as Bou-san chanting stop halfway.

"Mai!" The others called out in worried.

"I'm fine…" I told everyone around and then I felt someone standing behind me, "Who's there!" I turned around and of course to see nothing but darkness.

Wait, there should not be anyone standing behind me…

"Mai?" The called out to me in clear puzzled tone.

At the same time, I felt someone pulled me away from the spot, causing me to groan in pain for the second time.

"Mai!" The others called out again.

"You are not hurting my cute Jou-chan!" Bou-san snapped and then chant again, "Naumaku Sanmanda Bazara Dan Kan!" this time quicker a bit than usual.

In the next second the light went back as the grip on my arm almost immediately lose, almost everyone else immediately had a relief expression on them.

"Stop them…"

A familiar ghostly female voice suddenly rang in my ears, I turned around to saw Ruka standing in the dim hallway with a sad and painful expression but something different about her this time, there was dark aura around her.

"Use…to save…us…" Ruka crying out red blood tears before disappearing into thin air.

Use what? What she mean by that?

"What the hell is going on here!?" Ayako screaming in shocked snapped me out of my thought.

I immediately turned around to see Ayako and (almost) the others with widen eyes, I was not sure what they were shocked about before I saw something on the floor; it was blood-stained.

"This…" I immediate grasped, looking around to saw even some part of the couch and tea-table also had some new and old blood-stained.

"We have been staying in a room with all of these around?" Bou-san had a shocked expression, he seem to be unable to believed what he saw right now.

If the blood was real then the things I had saw yesterday and in the bathroom just now…

"Where is Mio?" Akatsuki asked out, catching our attention as we realized Mio was nowhere to be found.

Just now Ruka words…

"Naru!" I realized something and called out, turning around I saw Naru who was standing right beside me had his arm dripping down blood, "You are bleeding…"

When did he get injured?

"Noll!" Lin immediately went toward Naru.

"It's fine." Naru shook his head before turning to me, "Mai, what you want to say?" he asked with his usual tone.

He should care for himself more!

"The mask man must have taken her!" I raised an eyebrow as I remembered what I was going to said and answered.

Naru didn't say anything, he was just in thought.

"This could be bad…" Akatsuki murmured to himself with a slight frowned before walking to a corner to made a called.

"Jou-chan, how you…" Bou-san turned to me, his words were stop halfway as he focus his glanced on my shoulder, "Your shoulder are injured!"

"Mai, let me see." Ayako immediately came toward me to checked onto my newly add injuries, "Your palm is bleeding again!" she frowned as seeing my hand was holding onto the mirror shard again.

"I'm fine, we have to go find Mio, she might be in danger!" I shook Ayako off slightly and put the shard in my pocket as I said in anxiety.

"Jou-chan, calm down." Bou-san patted my uninjured shoulder to calm me down.

"That's right, Mai-san." John said with a comfortable smile.

"But…" The time we are talking, Mio might…I can't let this happen!

"I can't make any contact." Akatsuki words caught everyone attention.

"Lin!" Naru turned to Lin who immediately went to made contact with Madoka using the laptop before shaking his head.

"Well, even with we can't make contact to the outside, we can go outside…" Bou-san tried to lighten up the atmosphere.

"But what if we unable to left?" Akatsuki words made me and everyone else turning our glanced on him with wide eyes (Naru and Lin just raised their eyebrow slightly) before looking at each other.

Remembering those words the ghost appeared in the bathroom had said, I immediately rushed out of the base to make sure of it.

"Mai!"

Ignoring the pain around my body and the others calling out for me, I run toward the entranced to be stop immediately and grasped at the sight in front of me.

"Mai, stop running off…" Bou-san scolding was stop halfway, he stop right behind me.

"This can't be real…" Ayako grasped.

In the hallway was some bloody corpse and blood-stain around like I had saw when we first get into the mansion, so what I see was real? But that's not the problem right now!

I tried very hard to ignored those corpse as I ran toward the door, putting my uninjured hand on the bloody handle, I tried to pulled it open but it won't move at all.

"I can't open it…" Widen my eyes, I tried pulling it again with my now shaking hand.

"Jou-chan, let me try." Bou-san patted my shoulder, indicating me to move back as he tried to open the door, "It really can't be open." no matter what he had done to pulled or pushed it, the door won't open an inch at all.

"You are kidding me right? We are stuck in this place!?" Ayako stayed in the hallway but she could clearly heard us, she immediately let out a panicking cried.

"We are going back to the base." Naru said calmly, only he and Lin can be still this calm in this kind of situation.

Since we can't leave, we had no choice but to return to the base rather than staying here with all those corpses, it just made me felt sick.

Returning to the base safely without any trouble, Lin immediately went to the monitor area which was the cleanest part around the base while everyone standing around there.

"Naru-bou, what should we do now?" Bou-san was the first one to speak as we all tried to calm ourselves down.

"We will find Akatsuki Mio and exorcise the ghost." Naru simply answered.

"Naru-san, do you have an idea on where to find her?" John asked calmly.

"She should be at the empty space Mai had dreams before." Naru took up a file from the table with monitor and look at it.

"But we don't know where was it or even if it was in the mansion!" Ayako seem anxiety, she look like she really didn't like the idea of staying in the close-off ghost mansion.

"There should be a secret pathway…or something leading there…" I automatically spoke out those words with a slight groan of pain before even realizing it, where those words came from?

"Mai, let me see your wound!" Noticing my slightly painful expression, Ayako immediately came forward to look at my injuries.

"You had a dream of it?" Naru look up from the file to me.

"No…" I slightly shook my head before adding, "That place just look like a basement or underground cave to me…"

"Sit down, I'll treat your wound." Ayako frowned before indicated me to sat down on one of the office chair before glaring at the others, "You all turn around!"

"Shounen, doesn't the diary you found said something about 'that place'?" Bou-san gave Ayako the first aid-kid before turning his glanced away to Yasuhara, except for me and Ayako everyone focus their glanced on him.

"Wait, let me see…" Yasuhara took out the small diary from his pocket and simply look at it to see if he could find anything related to that, "There had been 'That place' and 'those things' written in some of the date but he doesn't go into detail…Oh, I forgot to said before, the last date of the diary was a year and half before the whole family murdered."

"Maybe 'those things' refer to ghosts?" Akatsuki suggest, catching everyone attention again and caused him to make a step back like he had said something wrong.

The ghosts and that place ha…it make me remembered about my dream earlier…uh…that's right!

"Yasuhara, are there anything written in it related to a mirror?" I immediately look out from the side of Ayako to asked Yasuhara, this action just make me groan in pain yet again.

"Mai, stay still!" Ayako scold.

"Sorry…" I sat back still and apologized.

"I don't think so…" Yasuhara flip the pagers of the small diary, giving me a shake of head as an answered.

"Jou-chan, why did you suddenly ask?" Bou-san was clearly puzzled by my sudden question.

"I was thinking maybe the haunting had something to do with the broken mirror…" I said with uncertainty but somehow deep down inside I had a feeling I was right.

"Explain." I could feel Naru glanced on me but off course I was being block off by Masako and Ayako or else I might be blushing blood red for sure.

I'm worried about Mio safety but the situation now can't really let me to be rushed, I had to tell them about my dream that could be of some help.

"I had a dream, I was Ruka in my dream…" I deep breathe to make myself calm down before telling the others about my dream, during those time I had stop halfway because of groaning in pain or panting a little, it's hard for me to talked in this kind of situation.

"Mai, you know who are they?" Naru asked right after I end my 'dream telling'.

"I don't know but both of the voice sound like the 'mother' and 'me' in my other dream." I tried to search through my mind to see I can remember their face but it just end up with me having a headache.

I keep having headache after those dream since I came here, what's wrong with me…?

"Mai, your head is hurting?" Ayako asked in worried as she finished bandaging my shoulder and rolled down my shirt.

"A little…" I said a bit weakly.

"Jou-chan, how are you sure that they were talking about the mirror?" Bou-san turned to me and frowned slightly, my face must be pale with all these blood lost.

"Just a feeling and I dream of it because I touch the mirror shard." I answered and carefully took out the mirror shard with the other completely fine hand and then place it on the table.

"Ah! I had read somewhere before that a holy mirror had the power to purify anything it reflects!" Yasuhara suddenly clapped his hand and told everyone.

"I never heard of it…" Bou-san frowned.

"That was some kind of old legend, It said that the holy mirror usually was put in a small shrine, keeping that area 'clean'." Yasuhara added.

"The empty space had a small shrine but I don't see any mirror on it, it was just a shrine with nothing." Talking about it made me frowned, that was really strange.

"In the end we still had to find that basement or so…" Bou-san sighed before turning to Naru, "What should we do now? I don't think Jou-chan should walk around in her stat now."

"That's right! Moving around might causes her wound to split open and faint from lost of blood!" Ayako stood on the same side as Bou-san, this was quite new to me.

"Bou-san, I'm fine, we should go find that place." I tried to move about to show him I'm fine but it end up making me groaned in pain.

"You are not!" Bou-san and Ayako both said with a serious tone at the same time.

"We'll go together." Naru decided as he place the file on the table before turning to me, "Mai, if you see anything tell me immediately."

"Yes." I nodded slightly.

"Naru, are you listening to…"

"Matsuzaki-san, Noll is right, it's dangerous to split up in this situation." Stopping Ayako's words was Lin-san, he stood up following Naru out of the base.

"We should go Takigawa-san, Matsuzaki-san." John said with a comfortable smile.

With that the whole load of us went out together to search for Mio, I hope we were just make it in time.

We had been walking to every place in the first floor, touching the wall or things to see if it might open the door or something to the basement but we've no luck at all and most of the time we saw something that will make us vomit.

"This place is much worst then the Urado case…" Ayako shivered at the thought of that dangerous case, her look was still pale from seeing all those gruesome looking corpses.

"It sure does…" Bou-san agreed with a nodded.

"This was the last room, if not here it would be in the entrance." Yasuhara said as we walk in the study room.

"I don't want to go there…" Ayako shivered more at the thought of going to the entrance with scary corpse.

Stepping into the room, I frowned as I felt somehow sick, something was not right here…

"There are really a lot of book here." John looks around the right book shelf with Yasuhara while Ayako and Masako on the other side.

"Mai, what you want to tell me before you lost conscious?" Naru seem to had remembered something and turn to me to asked.

"Uh…the lower drawer of the desk was lock." I snapped out of my thought but can't remember for a few second before answering Naru.

Lin squatted down to open it, I went behind the desk with Bou-san and Akatsuki to saw him unable to open it like the last time I had tried.

"Let me try, maybe I can open it." Akatsuki suggested as he took a needle from his pocket.

Where he find this thing?

Naru and Lin stood aside to let Akatsuki open it, he put the needle on the keyhole turning it a few time before the drawer finally pulled open but at the same time I saw him murmuring something under his breathe.

"It open." Akatsuzki stood up with a smile, getting out of the way to let us see what was inside.

"A photo?" Bou-san said out everyone thought.

Yes, we immediately saw was a photo of two people, one of them was Ruka and the other one was a middle age man with brown hair and eyes.

"The female was Ruka." I told the others.

"The other one is Rudolf." Akatsuki said another shock thing next.

So Ruka was the cause of Asumi taking both of her children to her family place…Wait, if they were lovers that mean…

"He was that mask man!?" I shout out my thought in shocked.

Everyone stop searching around to turn to me and then the light went out and those knocking and ghostly sound could be heard again.

Does that mean I was right?


Opening my eyes, I noticed I was standing in the middle of the forest, not far away was a rock and beside it was a corpse.

"What was that?" I caught a side of something shining right behind the corpse so I move forward to have a clear look.

Was this the mirror frame?

I reach out my hand to tried to took it but someone stop me, I was being pulled to a side and then a sound of shape object hit onto something hard could be heard in the next second as I bam onto something.

"Mai, you must return and left that place." A familiar voice came from right above me.

I move back a step to saw it was a serious looking raven hair boy I knew.

"…Gene?" After a few second then I realized it was the older twin, they really look alike with a serious expression like that.

So, he was really fine…

"You won't be returning…" A creepy male voice could be heard beside then I realized the mask man was here.

Gene immediately pulled me away before turning around to ran, another impact sound could be heard before I felt something chasing after us.

"You are…" I heard a familiar female voice from not far away.

I want to turn around but then everything suddenly went black, the last thing I heard was Gene's word.

"Left before he went back."