Editing Ghost Hunt:Volume 5 Chapter 2 (section)

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The next morning I was woken up by someone (don’t ask me who) then I went to the Dining Room, gobbled down breakfast then we gathered at the base.

Lin-san, as usual, was replaying the tapes that were recorded last night. There wasn’t a single tape which caught anything out of the ordinary. Occasionally it caught the image of a passing psychic peering curiously down the camera, and that was contrarily rather strange. The tapes recorded by the microphones were the same. The temperature records also appeared normal. And on the other equipment which I still don’t quite understand nothing abnormal had occurred.

“Is there nothing going on?”

Yasuhara asked. Naru nooded.

“The first day is just like this. There probably isn’t any danger around the area where the equipment was set up last night.” Naru has and will always be of the prudent type.

Ayako looked a little dissatisfied.

“Is this alright? When we are leisurely doing this type of thing, the credit will be snatched away by the others.”

“I don’t particularly wish to achieve any accomplishment.”

“Then, why do we doing this type of thing?”

“This is what we call volunteers. – Yasuhara-kun, Bou-san, John. You lot and Mai, continue to construct the floor plan.”

This fellow, he completely doesn’t take Ayako seriously.

Masako, who started acting together with us since this morning, said,

“If there is anywhere I can help…”

“Please go with Matsuzaki-san and check if there are any suspicious places. You said you’ve smelt the smell of blood, right? Find out where that smell is the strongest etc. You all have to be extremely cautious, even if you find a suspicious location, don’t enter it carelessly. Report to me first.”

“Understood.”

“Everyone must return here in the afternoon. Right, at 11:30. Let us calibrate our watches; everyone must not be late.”

Yes~ yes~. It was really like the tone of a life guidance coach, this fellow. 


Despite the efforts of Bou-san, Yasuhara and John yesterday, the floor plan was still practically blank. With great effort, the corner of the Dining Room, the Base and our living quarters was drawn. Anyway we first measured the corridor to the north of the Dining Room that was skipped yesterday. We roughly measured the corridors’ length, width and direction then drew it on the paper. Following that we also measured the rooms on either side of the corridor.

Just like that we started measuring from one end of the building, this time entering every room.

“Ee?”

I recorded the measurements while tilting my head.

“What’s up?”

Bou-san walked over and looked at what I had recorded.

“That place was recorded wrongly.”

This room was about as large as a classroom. Because the room was surrounded by corridors on three sides, and the corridors and the adjacent room had already been measured, the external measurements of the room should be very clear. If the room was measured on the outside, this room should be a rectangular room. But somehow, when the room was actually measured on the inside it was practically square shaped.

I finished explaining; Bou-san couldn’t help smacking his lips.

“Not again. Ai, we have to re-do the measurements.”

The trio of Bou-san, Yasuhara and John left the room to measure the room’s external. The three people who came back shortly after had their heads tilted in incomprehension.

“… How is it?”

“The external measurements are accurate just like this.”

“It isn’t possible. Even without measuring, I can tell this room is square. The actual measurements also show it is practically a square-”

“But there isn’t any mistake outside either. This is the second time we’ve measured so there is definitely no mistake.”

Ai ai~~?

There were doors on three sides of the room. If I opened one I could estimate the thickness of the wall. And it didn’t look like it was because the walls were extremely thin… 

I looked at the wall without a door.

“Could this wall possibly be 3 meters thick?”

“If that’s not the case we must have made a mistake from the very beginning and the error continued to be carried forward.”

Just like buttoning the wrong button, Bou-san ground his teeth and said that.

Yasuhara pointed towards the wall.

“A hidden room.”

… There shouldn’t be, right? Please let me off that.

“Yeah~~, it’s more and more like a maze.”

Yasuhara somehow looked very satisfied.

“This issue will be resolved if we open a hole in the wall.”

It was Bou-san who spoke such extreme words.

John talked sense into the pair of them.

“… anyway let’s leave this and continue to measure. Perhaps when we measure some other parts we can find out where we had made a mistake.”

Exactly.

Just like that we continued working; if there were indeed wrong measurements; we would find out and resolve it after taking more measurements. We repeated the measurements multiple times, ran around many times, in the end we were all thoroughly frustrated.

Why did they have to build such a complicated house? I really don’t understand how rich people think.