The maid nodded vigorously to show that she understood.
"Don't forget what I just said."
After giving the maid a final reminder, the owner of the female voice slowly let go of the maid's mouth.
After her mouth was freed again, the maid was very obedient and did not scream loudly or say any more irrelevant words.
"First question - where is Konnosuke?"
"On the third floor...in his room..."
Because of fear, the maid's voice was shaking so much that she couldn't even speak a complete and smooth sentence.
"Second question - where is his room?"
"Go up the stairs next to... and turn right to the second room... which is Konnosuke-sama's room..."
"The third question - Is Kinnosuke in the room now?"
"At...definitely at...normally at this time...Konosuke-sama is already getting ready to go to bed..."
"The fourth question - has Konosuke ever practiced martial arts? For example, he has studied jujitsu, aikido, etc."
"No……"
"The fifth question - Does Kinnosuke have a guard? There will be guards in front of the door of his room after he goes to bed."
"nor……"
"...That's it. Thank you for your answer."
Having said this, the owner of the female voice suddenly fell silent.
Her sudden and strange silence caused the maid to start thinking wildly. The fear in her heart became more and more intense, and her body trembled even more violently.
After a while, the owner of the female voice finally spoke again:
"Last question for you - what's going on in this room?"
"Ah...this..."
The maid took a look at the three huge lockers clinging to the three walls.
"This is...Kinnosuke-sama's storage room..."
"These three cabinets... are the lockers that Konnosuke-sama purchased five years ago... a total of... 210 cabinets and buckets..."
"Kinnosuke-sama put all his belongings in this locker..."
"...Why are there no characters on the outside of these cabinets and buckets to identify the contents of the cabinets and buckets? With so many cabinets and buckets, and no characters indicating the contents, wouldn't you forget which cabinet and bucket something is in?"
"Everything in these cabinets... is arranged according to certain rules... So Konnosuke-sama doesn't need to put reminder characters on the outside of the cabinets... He has never missed anything or
I forgot which cabinet and bucket I put the things in..."
"The pattern...? What pattern?"
"This... I don't know... only Konnosuke-sama himself knows what his rules are for putting things away..."
"That's it... Okay, thank you for your answer."
As the voice finished, the maid felt as if something had been hammered hard on the back of her neck.
The intense pain caused the maid's eyes to darken, and then she rolled her eyes and fainted...
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After knocking the maid unconscious with the bottom of the knife's hilt, Atachi waved to the ceiling above her head.
Ogata, who had been hiding on the ceiling just now, moved a piece of the ceiling away, then jumped down, landing right next to Omachi.
While working together with A-Machi to place the unconscious maid, Ogata asked A-Machi in a helpless tone:
"You just needed to ask the maid where Konnosuke is. Why bother asking her what these lockers are for..."
"Because I'm really curious. This is the first time I've seen a locker with such an exaggerated number of buckets..."
After placing the maid in the corner of the room, Amachi couldn't restrain his curiosity and walked towards the locker closest to him.
After casually opening a cabinet bucket, Ating let out a small exclamation:
"These cabinets and barrels are so big..."
Ogata followed and took a look at the cabinet bucket Amachi pulled out.
Just like what Atachi said - although these cabinets are not very wide, they are all very narrow and long.
There were only two cups in the cabinet that Atachi opened casually.
There are only two cups in such a long and narrow cabinet - it looks quite awkward.
"Okay, stop looking." Ogata said angrily, while taking back the cabinet bucket that Amachi pulled out, "While the maid hasn't woken up yet, let's go find Konnosuke quickly.
."
"I know. Let's go."
After that, A-Machi walked back to the place where Ogata had just jumped, jumped up quickly, followed the hole left by Ogata when he removed the piece of ceiling, and jumped to the ceiling.
Ogata, who followed closely behind, jumped back to the top of the ceiling with Amachi, and reinstalled the piece of ceiling that he had just removed.
The room, which had been a little noisy, returned to calm.
Only the maid who had been knocked unconscious by Amachi was left sleeping soundly in the corner of the room.
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The dim light emitted by the candlelight hit Konosuke's body, and a long shadow was cast behind him.
This long shadow pressed against the wall behind Kinnosuke like a mountain.
Although Kinnosuke was about to fall asleep, he had already changed his clothes, but he did not immediately curl up into the quilt and fall asleep. Instead, he sat on the quilt and looked at the sky outside the window. He didn't know what he was thinking about, with a heavy look on his face.
At this moment, Konnosuke suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing behind him.
Before he could turn around and look behind him, two small hands stretched out from behind him on his left and right sides, quickly controlling Konnosuke.
The person who controlled Kinnosuke was naturally Atachi.
Atachi covered Konnosuke's mouth with his right hand and grabbed his shoulder with his left hand.
Kinnosuke's reaction was much calmer than that of the maid just now.
Someone suddenly appeared behind him and took control of him. Although Konnosuke's pupils shrank suddenly in shock and his body was shaken, he quickly regained his composure.
There was no scream or any struggle.
Konnosuke's calm and composed reaction made Amachi couldn't help but let out a small exclamation.
"Good evening, Konnosuke-sama."
After Atachi controlled Konnosuke, Ogata also said hello to Konnosuke, jumped down from the ceiling, and landed steadily in front of Konnosuke.
"Sorry, I might have frightened you if I came to bother you late at night."
"We didn't mean any harm."
After saying that, Ogata took out the sword Zonghai gave him.
"This is what Zonghai from Tenmanji Temple asked me to show to you."
"He said that as long as I give you this sword, it will prove that we are friends and not enemies."
Ogata placed the sword in front of Kinnosuke on the tatami so that Kinnosuke could take a good look at the sword.
Konnosuke glanced at the sword and raised his eyebrows.
Ogata could clearly feel that after seeing the sword in his arms, Konnosuke's aura of alertness immediately diminished a lot.