After meeting up with Mikana and Haruna, Fang Zheng led the two of them through the mansion to search it. There was no one else on the entire first floor besides them, and the mansion itself did not look run-down at all. It could even be called lavish and magnificent. In the dining room, they even found prepared tableware and food, with the dishes still steaming hot.
It could be said that everything about this mansion looked perfectly normal—except for the absence of people.
That only made it all the more eerie.
"Yuuki-kun, this really isn't some game Miss Lala designed, is it?"
Haruna nervously hid behind Fang Zheng and asked in a low voice. Fang Zheng shook his head.
"Lala has no concept of Earth horror movies at all. Even if you took her to a haunted house, she'd be as happy as if she'd been let out to play. I don't think she could come up with any especially scary game program..."
"Then who did this...?"
"I don't know either. Anyway, as long as we find Lala, we should learn what's going on."
Fang Zheng led the two girls through a thorough search of the first floor, but they did not find so much as a ghostly shadow.
"Looks like there aren't any clues on the first floor. Let's check the second."
Fang Zheng swept his gaze around once more, then led the girls up the stairs and into the second-floor corridor. Like the first floor, it was brightly lit everywhere. Unlike downstairs, however, several armored Knight statues stood in the hallway. They held swords and spears, looking like guards protecting the place.
Staring at the Knight statues ahead, Fang Zheng took a step forward.
Whoosh—!!
The instant Fang Zheng stepped forward, the statues on both sides of