"We folklorists do not readily believe claims about supernatural phenomena."
The professor immediately emphasized, then lowered his voice somewhat:
"But this claim is most likely true. I have seen similar records as well. Also, do you know where the Hoy Family's bodies were found after the great fire was extinguished?"
Seeing that Shade and his "female assistant" both shook their heads, Professor Wood mysteriously continued:
"The entire house had nearly burned down, but strangely, the tables and benches in the 1st floor banquet hall were merely charred black. And after the house collapsed, all those burned corpses were found seated around the table. It was said that several of the firefighters went mad on the spot."
After the manor was rebuilt, the banquet hall from back then remained a banquet hall. Or rather, the layout of the rebuilt building's 1st floor was almost exactly the same as it had been. It sounded extremely ominous, but no one knew what Director Kant was thinking.
The 1st floor banquet hall was also being used as an auction venue today, and it was the most important venue of this Charity Auction. Curious to see whether he could truly encounter a ghost, Shade returned to the 1st floor with Miss Danist to look around after saying goodbye to Professor Wood.
He did not see any ghosts, but Shade did see something that astonished him:
"An arrow?"
Inside a display case against the wall sat the "Elven Antique Arrow" that the Elf Girl had been asking Shade to find. Though he had not touched it directly, Shade had already found two of them before. He could not possibly be mistaken.
The label for the auction item read, "Antique Arrow Excavated from Vesta Woodland," and its starting price was 10 crown, roughly 130 pounds. Even by