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The Two's Secret
And thus, I tried opening the new door and took the lead. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Beyond the door was a pitch-dark room.
「It’s dark, I’m going to light it up in a bit」
「Un」
Floating Lightball in the air, it illuminates the pitch-dark room.
The room is strangely filled with furniture that gives the impression of someone using it, but it’s not as tidy as the other room.
You could say it’s like a man who is not used to housework is trying to keep things tidy by himself.
「Just a room?」
Ra-chan let out a disappointed comment after looking at the room.
I don’t understand the reason why he made such a showy hidden room just to hide a normal room.
It’s impossible there is any more space hidden further back judging from the layout of the mansion, so if there’s anything then it should be below. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
Thinking like that, I roll up the red carpet underneath us, revealing a wooden hatch.
「Bingo」
「What’s that!?」
「Maybe, there is a stairs leading down」
「Heeー! But, it won’t open?」
「In such a situation, you can solve it with the non-attribute magic, Psychic」
After checking the structure of the lock of the hatch, I used Psychic to open it.
「You can open locks with Psychic!? Amazing! How do you do it!?」
「I will teach you about this later」
「Waiーi！」
After opening the hatch, I saw a staircase leading down.
Judging from the length of the stairs, it doesn’t look like it’s going to reach the second floor where I’m staying.
「Let’s try going down」
「Un!」
Having come this far, turning back was no longer an option.
The stairs are pitch black since there’s no sunlight at all.
Since there’s not enough light, I increase the Lightball to brighten up the stairs.
I went down the stairs carefully while keeping an eye on Ra-chan so she won’t fall.
I wonder where this stair leads to? From the feeling of going down, I think it’s not the second floor, but the first floor.
If it were the east side of the mansion, there would be the kitchen and pantry, as well as the servants’ bedrooms, but... www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Ah」
「What’s the matter, Al?」
「……no, it’s nothing」
I ended up coming up with a strange guess, but I quickly denied it.
No matter how you look at it, that’s overthinking things.
The Misfid house is a Magic Noble house. Since it’s room hidden by the head of the house - Schugel -, I’m sure there must be a lot of amazing research papers about magic.
I’m sure, that’s the case. Or rather, I wish it to be so.
「It’s a door!」
As we continued down the stairs while hoping it was like so, I saw a door.
「I’m going to check if there is dangerous stuff or not so stand back a bit」
「Un!」
Ra-chan obediently stood back up as she properly remembered her promise to me.
Saying that I’m going to check whether it's safe or not is just an act.
If the things inside are just like what I imagined them to be, then there is no way I could let Ra-chan enter.
While pretending to check if the door had any magic mechanism or something, I peered inside through the door’s gap.
As expected, it’s pitch dark and I can’t see anything so I try to secretly shine a Light inside.
Then just as I expected, there was a bedroom inside, wasn’t it?
There can only be one reason why the head of the house’s room is connected to the servants’ bedroom. If it were to be connected to somewhere else a bit, then it would be possible to use the reason that this is a secret path to escape or something, but this is definitely an out.
Contrary to his tough appearance, Schugel seems to be quite lustful.
I’ve heard something unsettling from Ra-chan and Shelka so I wasn’t flustered, but I had an indescribable feeling about this. www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「How is it, Al? Can you get behind the door?」
Ra-chan - who is behind me and waiting - asks me with an excited look on her face.
'The room in front of us is a room where Ra-chan’s papa used when he enjoyed a meeting with servants’. No way I could say such a thing to her daughter, Ra-chan. The Misfid house is going to be in serious trouble.
「Hmmーm, it’s locked with magic and it won’t open 」
「Even Al’s Psychic can’t open it!?」
「Un, it looks like even my magic can’t open it」
「Ehhー!」
When I told her that, Ra-chan looked very disappointed.
It’s understandable since we’ve managed to reach this far and were stopped here.
Actually, it wasn’t locked with magic but with a physical lock so I could open it with Psychic, but I couldn’t let Ra-chan enter this room.
Ra-chan touches the door and the doorknob.
Of course, it was locked with a physical key so she couldn’t open it.
Ra-chan looks very dissatisfied.
「Let’s break down the door?」
「That would be very dangerous and we will get scolded by everyone in the mansion」
「Ehhー, but I want to go insideー!」
Ra-chan is throwing a whining in front of the secret door.
Even if you do that, there’s no way I can grant that wish. I need to divert Ra-chan’s attention one way or another.
「We are not good enough for now」
「Ahh! Then, let’s ask Papa to open it!」
Is there a father who would open the door to his secret rendezvous room if his daughter were to ask him? www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
「Ra-chan, this is Schugel-sama’s secret room, remember? It is called a secret room because it is not something you tell others 」
「I see! It’s a secret room!」
Ra-chan nodded as if she suddenly realized it after listening to my obvious remark.
「If someone else were to know your secret room, what would Ra-chan do?」
「……I will move it somewhere else or hide it」
「That’s right. So we should keep the fact that we know Schugel-sama’s secret room a secret so that won’t happen. A secret between me and Ra-chan」
「A secret just between me and Al!」
She’s probably happy because it’s a secret between the two of us. Ra-chan is very satisfied.
「It will be interesting if we enter here again after we get better at magic」
「That’s interesting! Okay! I will do my best with magic! And at that time we will enter here together, right?」
「Yeah, let’s do that」
……hm? I feel like this is a dangerous promise.
When I tried reading too much into it, didn’t it seem like Ra-chan and I would use this secret rendezvous room when we grew up?
No, as expected that’s thinking too much. This is nothing more than stalling for time.
While Ra-chan keeps the secret and stays quiet, I will somehow tell Schugel-sama to turn the room into an amazing room filled with various magic tools and magic research papers.
「Shall we return then? Schugel-sama might notice us if we stay too long here」
「Okay!」
In order to keep our secret, Ra-chan climbed the stairs with light steps.
It deeply pains me to take advantage of Ra-chan’s innocent heart and deceive her. However, I didn’t even feel an ounce of guilt when I did it toward Torr and Asmo.
Although, I can’t let the young Ra-chan know the truth.www.ihavesinnedtranslation.com
In order to protect the peace of the Misfid house, there’s nothing I can do but endure it here.
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