I was sleeping soundly when, in my daze, I heard someone knocking on the door.
I hazily opened my eyes, but the knocking continued.
"Knock, knock-knock-knock-knock..."
The knocking was very soft, and it seemed to be coming from the door to my room.
I raised my head slightly and listened to its rhythm.
Something was wrong.
I had experienced that rhythm before in the Cursed House.
People knocked three times. Ghosts knocked four.
This was my master's home. Who the hell had nothing better to do than knock outside my door for fun?
Stirring up trouble on the Grandmaster's turf? Were they looking to die?
Unless the thing in that locked room next door had gotten out?
Other than whatever was in the neighboring room,
I really couldn't think of anything else that would dare act up in my master's house.
And knock on my door so brazenly.
That was what I was thinking.
But the "knock, knock-knock-knock-knock" continued.
I sat up warily, but I neither responded nor opened the door.
Because I clearly remembered what my master had told me.
No matter what sounds I heard, I was to ignore them.
As for safety, I wasn't worried at all.
It was just annoying. I couldn't even get a peaceful night's sleep.
Then, at that moment, I heard a door open outside.
It should have been my master's bedroom door.
Immediately afterward, I heard my master's furious voice.
"Get your ass back in your room! Don't you know I sleep like shit? You're annoying as hell."
The moment my master spoke, the knocking stopped abruptly.
Then came the sound of my master closing his door.
A few seconds later, footsteps sounded next door again. Tap, tap, tap.
Now, I was basically certain.
My master was raising a ghost. He was