Luigi explained hesitantly.
A haunted house, true to its name, was certainly a house with ghosts. However, the ghosts here differed from the undead of the outside world. They were a unique species that lived in the Mirror Ghost Domain—Mirror Ghosts.
As for why Mirror Ghosts wandered around this little house, that had to start with the house's origins.
Shoke's Haunted House was not a mysterious object, but it possessed certain mysterious properties. In other words, it was a semi-mysterious object similar to the Unbreakable Heart Mirror.
Such semi-mysterious objects were called secret treasures in the Mirror Ghost Domain.
Its birth was peculiar, originating from the thoughts of a man on the brink of death.
A human named Shoke had accidentally fallen into the Mirror Ghost Domain. Pursued by Mirror Ghosts across hills and fields, he fled into a pitch-black underground chamber.
This underground chamber temporarily concealed his presence, allowing him to cling to life.
But the chamber had no other exit. Outside its sole door lurked a great number of Mirror Ghosts. In other words, his retreat had been completely cut off. Once the Mirror Ghosts found him, death was his only road.
Seeing that his life was nearing its end, he took out the diary he carried with him and began writing down the sights he had seen over his final days, his thoughts, and his last words.
Three days later, the Mirror Ghosts found the chamber, and Shoke still died. Yet after Shoke's death, a passage of emotionally charged last words he had left in his diary perhaps happened to conform to some unspeakable law, causing some changes to occur in that chamber.
His last words went like this—
"The laughter of those fiends is already outside the chamber door. I can hear footsteps too! They've found