The statue that was actually a painting suddenly appeared.
(Crash!)
It crashed as it moved. Fiona was startled and fell to the ground.
Fiona: "Ugh… what…"
It was an armored suit… its eye burning.
Fiona: "Huh…"
(Crash!)
It was so heavy that the floor cracked when it walked. Quickly she stood up and ran up the stairs; the armor followed her.
Fiona: "Hahhh… hahhh… Dark… armor!"
She threw off her cloak; it transformed into a soldier who blocked the attack.
(Clang!)
Both swords clashed so hard that Fiona was thrown back.
Fiona: "Ghhh…"
(Crash!)
Fiona: "Urk…"
A dark aura from both sides.
Bob: "You won't hurt my mistress… do you hear me…"
Sword against sword, armor against armor, soldier against soldier.
(Clang!) (Clang!)
Bob: "Rrrrrr…"
Fiona: "I have to help him."
She took out a card.
Fiona: "Hahhhh… Dark Scarf!"
A scarf appeared and lunged toward the armor.
Fiona: "And now devour him!"
It swallowed the soldier.
Bob: "Now it's my turn!"
He drove his sword in.
(Crash!)
Smoke rose, the armor collapsed to the ground, and the scarf returned to its card — the Card of the Mysterious.
Fiona: "Hahhh… first time I've used it… I have to say it's good… the powers of the Mysterious objects are strange and symbolic… but practical…"
She went to the armor and examined it.
Fiona: "Hmmmm… this is the killer… I'm sure of it… the mother's body was struck by a sword… I still have to go to the morgue in the city center of Dehls… there I can see it…"
(A few minutes later)
She left the castle and wrote a letter to Lady Natasha saying the castle is dangerous and needs immediate investigation, with mind-controlling mages known as Dark Hoods. She also wrote that she was leaving the castle and going to the morgue in the city center of Denora, the capital of Dehls.
Lady Natasha: "I understand… hehehe."
(Train station)
(Tshu… tshu!)
The train whistled and Fiona was inside.
Fiona: "Hahhh… finally some peace… peace from ghosts… ah… I love being on trains, I love the whistle of the trains, the sound as they move on, it's even more beautiful when you look down and see the clouds and stars and above the sea."
A quiet moment for Fiona — one of the moments when she could rest.
(tshu!… tshu!)
(A few minutes later)
Announcer: "Next stop: Denora Cemetery… next stop: Denora Cemetery."
Here the morgue is also nearby, for bodies not yet identified.
Fiona: "Excuse me… did the body of a woman arrive here a few days ago — the woman found dead at Veronica's castle?"
Employee: "Oh… yes… it's there, Room 431… I'll take you."
He stood up and walked with her.
Employee: "They say they suspect the child who found her near the garden might be her child… but they're not sure."
Fiona: "Hmm… did you notice anything about the body?"
Employee: "Yes… it looks as if the body had been bitten after death… maybe scavengers…"
Fiona: "Could be… does that mean there's a sewer nearby?"
Employee: "That's the strange part… there isn't one near the castle…"
He opened the door to Room 431.
Employee: "Here we are."
Fiona: "Hmm… okay… thank you, please close the door behind you."
Employee: "But…"
Fiona: "I'm sure you don't want to see this… you'd disturb the Dark Screen."
Employee: "Oh… sorry…"
He left the room.
Fiona: "Victim… struck by a sword…"
Fiona took her watch and set the date.
Fiona: "Hmm… May 14, 11 p.m."
She took the pistol and shot herself in the head.
(Bang!)
She became a ghost.
Fiona: "Hahhh… all right…"
Fiona traveled back to the date thanks to her watch.
Fiona: "Hmm…"
There was the victim.
"Goodbye Dina."
Fiona: "Dina… so that's the victim's name…"
Dina: "Goodbye…"
She moved on.
Fiona: "Hmm?… ah… I see… her job is nearby, she must always pass the castle…"
Dina: "Hmm…?"
She heard crying.
Dina: "Hmm… hello… is someone here?"
She went to the big door.
Dina: "Hello…"
Just as she opened the door… a huge sword came out and stabbed her in the chest.
Dina: "Urk… urk…"
She fell to the ground and died.
Fiona: "Hmm… wait here."
She looked through the door… it was the same armor she'd faced.
Fiona: "I knew it… it's the same armor…"
She looked at the woman.
Fiona: "Hey… Crane… can you tell me if you know her?"
Crane: "Hmm… look over there… there's her ID."
Fiona: "Hmm…"
She took the ID — or rather, a spiritual copy.
Fiona: "Elona Mussink… wait… I know her…"
Crane: "Really?"
Fiona: "Yes… she was a member of a bank group with several complaints… I remember because I once visited as a child… she was still very young then… about 18…"
Crane: "Ah I see… good work…"
Fiona: "Hmm… apparently the castle lures people at night… that also explains why most people avoid it…"
Crane: "Why didn't she?"
Fiona walked on.
Fiona: "Not everyone believes in legends, you know…"
Crane: "Mmhm… you're right…"
She took out her cigarette.
Crane: "Oh… you smoke."
Fiona: "You're annoying… I do it sometimes… you know that…"
Crane: "Smoking is unhealthy…"
Fiona: "Yes… but for a cursed one who doesn't age it doesn't matter… my body regenerates…"
Crane: "But you do know you can still die from diseases…"
Fiona: "I know… diseases… but only things like congenital diseases."
Crane: "I thought you had to be careful since you suffer from the mana disease…"
Fiona: "You mean the amount of mana in my body, my stomach…"
Crane: "Mhm."
Fiona: "I know… that's why I have to take my medicine…"
Crane: "Hmm."
Fiona: "I guess we're done, don't you think, we've found the cause."
Crane: "Mhm…"
Fiona: "Okay… huh…"
She noticed something else.
Crane: "Something wrong?"
Fiona: "Hey… do you see that over there…"
Crane: "Huh?"
Eyes… behind the window… eyes… and a hat.
Fiona: "What… is that… is it a person."
Crane: "It's too dark… I can barely see because the moonlight hits the window."
Fiona: "Hmm…"
She returned to her body.
Fiona: "Urk…"
Crane: "You'll have to get used to the headaches."
Fiona: "Can't I just not…"
Crane: "You shot yourself in the head …"
Fiona: "Hahhh… we really should stop."
Crane: "You should learn more to use the Card of the Mysterious."
Fiona: "Hmm."
Crane: "It's about time, don't you think…"
Fiona: "Okay, okay… but now I want to go back… okay?"
Crane: "Okay."
They left again and got back on the train.
(Tshu… tshu!)
Fiona: "Hhhmmm…"
(Clack!) (Clack!)
Fiona: "Hmm?"
Someone aimed a pistol at her.
Fiona: "Ugh!"
(Bang!… Bang!)
He shot her several times; she fell to the floor.
Fiona: "(Silent)"
The shooter wore a mask.
(Screams everywhere!)
Shooter: "No need to worry… my people… I just had a target… Lady Mystery… and I killed her too…"
Fiona: "Oh yeah?"
Shooter: "Ugh!"
He turned.
She slowly stood up. She pulled the bullet from her head.
(Splat!)
Fiona: "I shoot myself in the head often… you idiot should've known more about me…"
Shooter: "Huh."
Fiona: "I have the Card of the Mysterious… it gives me strong power and bullets don't work on me…"
Crane: "But stabbing does."
Fiona: "Shut up… are you stupid, why say it out loud."
Shooter: "Ah… stabbing then…"
He took his knives and attacked her.
Fiona: "Hmm… if you can hit me."
She dodged.
Shooter: "Ugh…"
Fiona: "Hmp."
She hit him in the back with her hand.
Shooter: "Ugh."
Fiona: "I broke your ribs."
She grabbed his hand and broke it.
(Crack!)
Fiona: "Your hands too… now tell me who sent you…"
Shooter: "I won't."
Fiona: "I'll kill you… not just you… if I must I'll go to your family and find it out from them… I'll even torture them if I have to… did you hear me…"
Shooter: "You monster."
Fiona: "You started it… now will you tell me."
She looked around.
Fiona: "Everyone get out of here… did you hear me… everyone!"
They ran away and she closed the door.
Fiona: "All right… my dear… tell me now."
She sat on the chair and crossed her legs.
Fiona: "Tell me… and I'll think about it…"
Shooter: "The… the Scythe of the Grave…"
Fiona: "Aha… I see… what do you know about them."
Shooter: "They want to kill you because you interfere too much…"
Fiona: "Aha…"
Shooter: "There's… a place… where they found me… or rather summoned me… in the Hall of Sentoria…"
Fiona: "Aha… okay…"
She stood up.
Shooter: "You… you'll let me live, right?"
Fiona: "Hmm… let me think… hmm… should I… should I not…"
Shooter: "Please… I have a family…"
Fiona: "Hmph… you tried to kill me… if you had a family… you should have thought about it."
She lifted him up and bound his hands.
Fiona: "I'll bring you to the Dark Screen…"
Shooter: "Please… not them, they'll kill me there…"
Fiona: "They won't be able to kill you there…"
Shooter: "Ugh…"
Fiona: "Hmm…"
Suddenly he began to scream and convulse with pain.
Fiona: "Ugh."
She opened his mouth… she noticed it was… poison.
Fiona: "Poison…"
Shooter: "Please… they have my family… please… save them… I beg you."
Then he died.
Fiona: "Hahhh…"
Crane: "Guess he's dead."
Fiona: "Hmm…?"
She found a ring.
Fiona: "Hahhh."
Crane: "And… will you save them?"
Fiona: "Hahhh… no… I have no interest in going there…"
Crane: "You sure…"
Fiona: "Hmm…"
(A few hours later in Sentoria Hall.)
Fiona: "Damn."
Crane: "You came."
Fiona: "Shut up…"
Crane: "You feel guilty."
Fiona: "Shut up now."
She went into the building.
Fiona: "Ugh…"
Crane: "We're… probably too late…"
Fiona: "Damn."
On the floor lay four bodies… a woman and three children.
Fiona: "Tssss…"
(Sobbing!)
Fiona: "Huh."
She heard sobbing.
Fiona: "Hmm."
She went there… a small girl was there.
Fiona: "Hello… hey…"
She looked at her.
Fiona: "Are you okay?"
She shook her head.
Fiona: "Come with me… I'll bring you to safety."
(Suddenly someone appeared)
Fiona: "Huh."
"Hello Fiona… long time no see."
Fiona: "Ugh… that voice."
She turned… it was Mona.
Fiona: "You… Mona… what are you doing here."
She pulled back her hood.
Mona: "I'm now a member of Rapunzel's Forbidden Library."
Fiona: "Ugh…"
Mona: "Hmm."
Fiona: "Please… don't tell me you did this."
Mona: "Hmm?… you mean these people. In fact, yes."
Fiona: "Why!…"
Mona: "They knew too much… symbol…"
Fiona: "I should have let you die back then."
Mona: "Hehehe… you're angry… nice to see you angry."
Fiona: "Damn…"
Mona: "Hehe."
Fiona: "But… what does this have to do with you… I thought the Scythe of the Grave was behind it."
Mona: "Well… that's true… but… we're not friends. The Forbidden Library has already killed everyone of the Scythe of the Grave by now… they were too much in our way… and this family knew things… so I killed them."
Fiona: "Ghhhhh…"
Mona: "Don't be angry… sacrifice is always necessary."
Fiona: "But not children!"
Mona: "In the guilty there are no children… guilty is guilty, whether child or adult."
Fiona: "You think like a monster!"
Mona: "Hehehe… it's just my revenge on this world… for what it did to me."
Fiona: "I saved you… so you'd stop these things… and I see you go this far."
Mona: "I have to go now… that girl over there… she barely saw anything because she hid… take good care of her this time… so she doesn't… become a monster… like me… hehehehe… hahahaha."
She vanished.
Fiona: "Ugh… ghhh."
Crane: "Fiona… calm down."
Fiona: "Damn!!!"
A shocking moment for Fiona… Mona, the shy girl… has joined the Forbidden Library. Fiona thinks she's to blame for why the family had to die.