Before SPK could even think about leaving to investigate the house, they had to prepare information about it. Naru called everyone and told Mai and Yasuhara to find some information about hunted house.

Mai and Yashuara immediately went to their work as their client left. Mai was searching old newspaper archives in search for some 'mysterious phenomena'. She waited for results to load and sighed heavily when she saw at least five pages of long articles. All to check.

"I got something." Yasuhara said with a big smile on his face.

"You did?" Mai raised her eyebrows in surprise how it easy went for him.

"According to this article, troubles with the manor started before it was built." Yasuhara scanned the article and looked at Mai. "Seems like this case will be really interesting." He smirked.

"Have you found anything?" Naru spoke as he walked out from his office for the first time since their client left.

"Yes, Shibuya-san." Naru nodded his head and waited for Yasuhara to continue. "There were troubles as they were building the house. Construction crew worked 24/7, what wasn't the problem at all. The ground made people go mad. A teamster... killed couple of constructors and then left. Police found him later in a bar, but he claimed he didn't remember anything from breakfast till he came to the bar." He scanned the text again

"While building that house there were others accidents like..

one man was decapitated by the falling glass while other one choked on a piece of apple." Mai gasped when she heard that.

"What about you Mai? Found anything?" Naru turned to her and she looked at the screen and shook her head 'no'. She wrote other keyword and there were couple of articles that might fit in the story.. after reading them.. maybe. Naru sat in the armchair and read some notes Yasuhara did, while Mai was searching the articles.

She wanted to give up, but one thing caught her eye.

Article like every other she read. She stared at the article and photograph of the house. Looked like the one from the photograph.. but was it really about it? She read it hastily and stopped at the mention of 23 people who disappeared in that house.

"Did you find something?" Naru asked from the armchair, breaking her concentration and making her jump slightly in surprise.

"I don't know.. It seems .. I don't know.." she looked back at the article uncertainly 'That could happen in every other house.. In the end it doesn't look exactly like the one that man showed us... Maybe that's not related She thought. Naru stared at her for a moment. He sighed and asked, "What did you find. "

"It might not be related.." Mai narrowed her eyes "..maybe.." she stared at the article again as looking for an answer.

"Mai?"

Mai jumped at the sound of Naru's voice coming close from the side of her desk. She turned her head and he stood there with his arms crossed looking at her with his cold stare.

"Huh? What are you doing here?" she looked at him confused since last time she looked at him he was sitting on the armchair reading the notes.

"I see.. So you've learned how to sleep with your eyes open." He said raising an eyebrow "I'm here since two minutes when you didn't finished your sentence. What did you find?"

Mai titled her head to the side, still confused, but immidiately focused her mind on the article.

She pointed at it. Naru glanced at the article briefly.

"I don't know why, but to me it might be related." She said with confusion still on her face. Yasuhara walked over to them and also read the article.

"Shibuya-san.. I agree with Taniyama-san." Mai raised her eyebrows at Yasuhara. "Takagi-san said there were woman disappearing." He pointed at the screen. '18 woman and and 5 man disappeared..' She looked at Naru, he once again decided to look at the article.

"..Last victim was with gruop. After the tour was over, they realized someone was missing... The police did not find her body, but her bloody, ripped purse." Naru read. "Print it. It might be useful somehow later."

Naru went back to his office and returned minutes later, as Mai and Yasuhara were adding what they found to the case file.

"Mai, tea." Naru commanded as he sat down in the armchair

"Coming." She replied going to the kitchenette.

"Others should be here soon." Naru added.

Just as Mai returned with tea for Naru, doors opened and little chime attached to the doors rang, announcing arrival of rest of SPK. Mai offered them drinks. Everyone agreed on ice tea. Yasuhara offered Mai his help. There were almost everyone. Masako couldn't come since she had something important to deal with.

As Yasuhara and Mai served everyone their tea, Naru decided to tell everyone about the case.

"Our new investigation will take place 50 km away from Tokyo. There's a hunted manor as our client said. This manor is pretty big from what I saw on the photograph and we will need to exorcise this house, if there is anything to exorcise."

Naru looked towards Yasuhara, waiting for him to tell everyone what he found about this house.

"We searched old archives today and found some interesting information. However, that were murders in the manor, weird behavior of people working there. We also got dairy of landlady. From what I read they never finished building the manor during her or her husbands life. Their daughter disappeared one day in the kitchen, when servant left for a while to get her something to eat."

"So we got here some hard work to do." Bou-san said as Yasuhara handed him his notes along with photograph of the house.

"Before the house was closed for good, there were often groups of tourists visited that manor, but after last disappearance of one woman they closed the house. Our client went there last time and before he left in hurry he noticed weird behavior of his fiance and disappearance of his friend." Naru said and took a sip from his tea.

"Isn't it more like a police job? All this disappearances?" Ayako said with a sigh.

"We've got not much information about the manor. All we got is what we found and this dairy." Yasuhara replied.

"That might be interesting case.." John said for the first time he entered the office.

"Well, I've got time so I will help in this investigation." Ayako said shrugging.

"Likewise. I'm free for the next week" Bou-san said with enthusiasm heard in his voice.

"If everything is clear, we leave tomorrow at 7 am from here." Naru said. Just then Lin appeared in the room. "Lin, how's the equipment check?"

"It will take a some more time, but with help I might finish it earlier." Naru nodded and looked at others.

"So, I can help with the equipment." Yasuhara said with smile.

"Good. Then we'll meet up tomorrow's morning." Naru said and left to his office as others decided to leave and prepare for investigation.