Chapter 56: Now tell me... Why you brought me here, Xenovia.

"Big sister! Wait for me!" The little boy ran after the teenage girl with white hair and a black dress, while she walked steadily without slowing down. She really seemed not to want his company, but the little boy kept pestering her as he followed her to a mansion slightly older than the others.

He looked at the mansion's entrance and trembled slightly with fear at how old it was. Cobwebs hung everywhere, and the pillars were covered in black dust, as if it hadn't been cleaned in years and had been abandoned.

"S-sister! D-don't go in there!" He trembled with fear as he watched his older sister enter the place, her black dress starting to get dirty with dust, turning the edges of her skirt gray as it brushed against the mansion's old wood. The boy clenched his fists tightly, glanced at the place, and took a deep breath to follow his sister inside.

"Calm down, it's just an abandoned mansion," he thought, mustering up courage and entering the foyer.