The Troubles of Miss Nicola the Exorcist: Volume 1 [Complete] by Ito Iino

Author:Ito Iino
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf

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Nicola and Sieghart walked straight past the staircase in the center of the entrance hall, proceeding directly to the passage on its right, which led deeper into the first floor of the mansion. Despite her skills in the occult arts, searching for lost items and people was not her strong suit. Therefore, she only had a rough idea of what direction she should head in to find Alois.

After reaching a dead end at the back of the first floor, they, unfortunately, found no sign of Alois.

“If he isn’t on the first floor, I suppose we’ll have to look upstairs... Though I hope we don’t have to wander around here for too long.” As luck would have it, they did not need to double back to the central staircase in the main hall. What they thought was a dead end had its own staircase leading up to the next floor, which they went up through.

The stairs were simpler than those in the main hall, and the effects of decay on the wood were far more apparent. As they climbed the stairs, the steps creaked under the weight of their footsteps, causing Nicola to worry that they might fall through them at any moment. If we’re not careful, she thought, these boards could snap.

The two could not find the courage to climb these precarious steps together, so they gingerly went up them one at a time.

It looked like anything of value in the house had either been taken by the former owner upon abandoning it or looted in the years since. There were patches of wallpaper less faded by sunlight, showing that vases were once displayed on the landing and paintings hung on the walls, but these seemed to have all vanished.

Once Nicola and Sieghart had reached the second floor and found their feet on solid flooring, they breathed a sigh of relief. The very moment that they did so, an unexpected shriek pierced their ears.

“Ahhhh!” screamed someone barely visible in the gloom, apparently half-crying. Nicola prioritized bashing whoever did that with the bag she was carrying instead of covering her ears.

“Sieg! Nico—Gah! Eh? Eh? Why...?” The distance between them was not too great, as Nicola had dealt Alois a critical hit with her bag.

Alois lay sprawled on the floor and glanced up at Nicola with a look of bewilderment. She marched over to him and crouched down to speak to him.

“We do not. Use each other’s names so carelessly. In a place such as this. Repeat what I just said.” Each time Nicola paused for emphasis, she prodded Alois’s forehead with her finger.

“Ooh, sorry... We do not use each other’s names so carelessly in a place such as this.”

“Very good. As long as we’re here, please call me Nica, Prince Alo.”

“Got it.”

“Well then. Just to make sure, you haven’t drunk or eaten anything while you’ve been in this realm, have you?”

“We mustn’t eat anything we find in another world... Right? Don’t worry, I haven’t. In the first place, it doesn’t look like there’s anything to eat.

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