I don't want to be a human being, the protagonist of the otome game

"Good evening, are you still up?"

The tense mood is only fleeting, Chihiro asked in a low voice.It was Zhongya Nakahara she met instead of anyone else, which made her feel a little more relaxed.

"Hmm. I heard a little sound, so I came out to have a look." Leaning casually on the wooden railing next to the stairs, Zhong Yuanzhong also glanced at the first floor immersed in shadows.

The guests' rooms were all on the second floor, but her room and Nakahara Chuya's room happened to be scattered on both sides of the corridor, so Chihiro thought that she would never meet him again at night.Perhaps the nostalgia of people at night is more easily aroused. When the other party looked away, Chihiro quietly moved her nose again.

The smell belonging to the previous owner was even stronger than before, maybe her sense of smell has improved again?In addition, there is a faint smell of alcohol in the corridor.

Although Nakahara is also a person who likes alcohol, he only drinks alcohol in his spare time after work.What's more, he was still wearing daytime clothes, so he didn't look like he just came up from below.

Even if it is a person with supernatural powers, he has to run over from there quickly and change a set of clothes during the period... It's not that it is impossible, but it is not necessary for him.

Chihiro recalled the scene she saw through the window in the room, and confirmed that it was definitely not a hallucination caused by her mental weakness.The white shadow looked very slender, more like a woman, but apart from the maids who were in the mansion, among the guests who came this time, only her and Miss Tomima were the only women of similar stature.

...Sure enough, it was a servant, right?

"I can't sleep well, and I'm just a little hungry, so I'm going to go downstairs to the kitchen. What's the voice you said? I don't seem to hear it." Chihiro, who was about to go downstairs to check the situation, casually thought about her Action found an excuse.

"Maybe it's the sound of the mouse. The sound stopped a few minutes ago." His blue eyes were still bright in the middle of the night, and Zhong Yuanzhong also turned his face sideways, with a cold expression for some reason.Out of some considerations, he took the initiative to ask, "If you need anything else, it's better to ask the butler?"

"After all, it's past twelve o'clock now. I think the housekeeper may have already rested. It's not a troublesome thing."

"The lights are not turned on underneath. Since you want to go down, I will go with you." Hearing her response, Nakahara Zhong also said kindly. He walked to Qianxun with his arms folded, as if waiting for her to step down Walk.

...?

It's just a gentleman's move, but that's Chuya Nakahara.I don't know why the previous owner would do this. In fact, Chihiro, who is not afraid of the dark, suddenly had a lot of not-so-good conjectures in his mind, such as she was discovered, or the other party suspected that there was something wrong with her, but when she looked up and Zhong Yuan After Chuya met his gaze, she dispelled all these conjectures with a dog punch.

——But that’s Nakahara Chuya! ! !

Embarrassedly responding to his words, Chihiro's mind was still a little dizzy.Who told her to be the evil appearance association? She used to regard Zhongya Zhongya as the most beautiful paper figure in her heart, but this time she was bewitched by him in person.

However, Chihiro, who was walking downstairs obediently, also stopped quickly, and when she stopped, Zhong Yuanzhong, who was standing on her left, also frowned.As soon as they walked downstairs, they smelled a pungent smell, not very strong, but it had a strong sense of presence.

Smelling this smell, Chihiro only felt that her nose was uncomfortable, and she couldn't help sneezing, so she covered her mouth and nose with her hands.Zhong Yuanzhong, who had already guessed what the smell was, just kept silent, and the light in his eyes dimmed slightly.

After nightfall, the first floor of the mansion is almost completely dark.The servant lived in the room on the other side of the second floor, and the master's bedroom was on a higher floor, so there were no lights left on the first floor.Chihiro tried to press the switch on the wall... There was no response, it may have directly pulled off the main power switch on the first floor.

Even if it is out of economical considerations, there is no need to do this.Chihiro was so slandering in her heart, she still walked in front of Zhongya, and groped the surrounding walls with her hands from time to time.Following the memories of the day, she led Zhong Yuan Zhongya slowly towards the kitchen.

They walked quietly together for a few minutes, thinking that they were not far from their destination, Chihiro stretched out his hand again to touch the door on the right to see if he found the right way.In the darkness, Zhongyuan Zhongye suddenly held her hand.

Rather than holding her hand, the other party seemed to want to hold her clothes corner or wrist, but happened to hold her hand in the dark.

This little accident silenced both of them, Chihiro seldom had physical contact with men, the unfamiliar temperature on her hands made her feel at a loss, and for some reason her heart began to beat faster.

Thinking that this was her former owner, she managed to calm down her obviously overreacting little heart, leaving only a hazy warmth on her cheeks.

Inadvertently made an overstepping move, Nakahara Chuya's first reaction was to let go and say sorry, but he also did this action to stop the opponent, Nakahara Zhongya hesitated for two seconds, and failed to seize the best time to let go.

The girl held by him seemed to be greatly frightened. Although she didn't try to withdraw her hand, her fingers curled up nervously.It may be that this behavior of hers has brought uneasiness to the other party, and it has also made her regard herself as an inferior man who uses the environment to prey on women.

"I didn't mean that, sorry. I saw something on the door. It's better not to touch it with your hands." He turned his face to the other side without looking at her, and said in a slightly stiff voice.

Chihiro, whose ears were starting to burn, didn't dare to look at the other party at all, for fear that he would see her embarrassment and keep her away. As for why she was shy, she didn't know.

It's not that Zhongyuan Zhong never pinched her paws before, and he just made up some messy things in his head. Isn't this no different from a real pervert?Chihiro thought embarrassingly.After Zhongyuan Zhongya finished speaking, she suddenly let go of the hand she held with the other party like an electric shock, "Ah, um... ok."

"The situation doesn't seem right, be careful." In fact, he didn't have time to take into account the other party's reaction, and after quickly suppressing the unnatural part of his heart and words, Zhong Yuanzhong also calmly added.

As if responding to his words, the overhead lights in the corridor on the first floor suddenly flickered twice, and gradually lit up.However, Chihiro didn't have time to think about whether her face had revealed too many secrets at this moment, and when she looked at the side door, her fluttering mood quickly sank.

A peculiar ornament hung from a sharp metal hook over the door, something none of them had evidently seen during their daytime visits.It seemed that certain tissues that were soft and rotten were forced into a ball, and Chihiro took a closer look to tell that it was a bloody, human face.

... This time, I really want to thank her previous owner.

If at the beginning, even just a few seconds ago, Chihiro had time to think about things when the two of them were alone, at this moment her mind can be said to be completely blank.If her tail was still there, it would probably be caught between her legs by now too.

She wasn't that afraid of the bloody scene in front of her, mainly because Zhong Yuanzhong was by her side, so she wasn't afraid.But Chihiro was actually taken aback by the limited-grade jumpscare that was suddenly found next to her face after the lights were on. Thinking that she was about to reach out and touch this thing, she couldn't help feeling sick.

Even the current self is pretty good at fighting, with the habit of the past, Chihiro still shrank behind Zhongya in a blink of an eye.She didn't scream, she just hooked her head and looked at that face vigilantly like a puppy.Considering the shock the scene might have on a woman, her move seemed less abrupt.

"You have a good sense of smell, don't you?"

Not understanding what Nakahara Chuya meant by asking, Chihiro answered honestly, "Compared to others, it should be pretty good?"

"That smell, I think it's probably coming from this thing, can you confirm it again?" He paused, "I don't know why the smell is so diffuse."

"Okay..." Qian Xun came to his senses after agreeing, ah, did he just ask her to confirm?How to confirm that?There was bewilderment in her eyes.Taking another look at the very mentally polluted human skin on the door, Chihiro gritted her teeth, and leaned forward to smell it twice with a stiff body.

If the pungent smell was still floating around them at the beginning, to this piece of human skin, it was not much different from pickling. The dog’s nose couldn’t stand this kind of grievance. The smell just came in. Chihiro's physical tears were forced out of her eyes.

And although Nakahara Chuya said that, he didn't expect Chihiro to be so brave.Facing the other party's teary but still bright black round eyes, he froze for a while.

The sense of sight that those eyes gave him made him want to turn his face away, but Nakahara also controlled his urge to do so, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket and handed it over.

"I'm sorry, I just want you to smell this place to see if it smells stronger than other places, not that... Are you okay?" He asked awkwardly.

"It smells bad." Chihiro sniffed, not realizing that because of being stimulated, there was a vague nasal sound similar to crying in her own voice, so that it sounded like she was acting like a spoiled child.She asked, "What the hell is this smell?"

Zhong Yuanzhong also felt uncomfortable for a few seconds. He touched his nose, not daring to look into her eyes anymore, but he didn't know where else to look.If you want to talk about the woman who is closer to him, it is probably Koye-san, but it is impossible for Koyo Ozaki to talk to him in this tone.

He replied absent-mindedly, "Should be some kind of chemical agent, maybe a preservative."

While they were chatting, footsteps came from the right again, and the two turned their heads in tacit understanding.The person who came back was a stranger to them all. It was a young boy with curly hair in the photography team.

Although the thunder has subsided, it still has a frightening effect.After being woken up in the middle of the night, Asashima Shuji, the second in command of the photography team, felt a little thirsty.

It's already this time, and he doesn't plan to call the servants in the hall, they are probably asleep, so it would be immoral to wake them up again.So after putting on his clothes, he went downstairs by himself.

Is the house sprayed with disinfectant? It smells disgusting... Ah, the kitchen is probably in this direction, right?

Turning a corner, he yawned a few more times.As a result, before reaching the door of the kitchen, Asashima Shuji saw the young and promising industrialist among the guests whispering something to a girl—he remembered that they were also guests today, right?

Then he shifted his gaze and saw the blood-stained kitchen door of Rahu with a face.

The drowsiness was scared away, and the face quickly turned white to the same color as the wall.In the midst of excessive fright, Asashima Shuji opened his mouth and let out a scream that could run through the entire mansion.

Damn, Chihiro, who had chatted with Nakahara Nakahara unknowingly, felt her right eyelid twitch twice... Doesn't this make them suspicious.The two of them forgot to be scared just now! !

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The author has something to say:

Originally thought that this chapter would be able to enter the part of solving the case to write about the elementary school students of death, but it turns out that there are a lot of scenes between them and I didn't write it. The next chapter will definitely.

It feels like chatting at the murder scene and no one is responsible for screaming, which is not too different from "I have a problem!" written on the face2333