The Disowned Queen's Consulting Detective Agency by Sarasa Nagase

Author:Sarasa Nagase [NAGASE, SARASA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J-Novel Heart
Published: 2023-02-22T00:00:00+00:00

The scenery changed. The mansion vanished, and their surroundings became one vast flower garden—a flower garden at night. The night sky, which should not have had a single cloud in it, was suddenly cloudy, so that neither the moon nor the stars were visible. In spite of this, the small flowers growing all around them glowed with a faint purple light, so it was possible to survey one’s surroundings.

It was a place that closely resembled reality, but it wasn’t real. This was a mental image constructed from Colette’s memories, a place where her wish could be granted. A location where the Demonic Heirloom would try to swallow her whole, in exchange for granting that wish.

“Damn it!” cried Hat. “Have we been dragged to the other side?! What happened to those girls?!”

“Look, over there! The lighthouse!” Under the lighthouse, which emitted a solitary red light, Colette was making a flower crown. Headed in her direction was Ann—who, for some reason, was missing an arm. In her remaining hand, she held a sharp object that might have been a fork. It glinted in the red light.

Don’t tell me she doesn’t intend to control Colette, but to kill her?!

Colette was the doll’s user, and the owner of this world. If one were to destroy this world—in other words, to register the doll, the tool that had created it—Colette would return to the world of the living. On the other hand, if her life force were to be used up by this tool before that happened, she would die in the real world.

“Octavia, register that doll! If you do that, we can stop—”

“Tee hee hee!” With a shrill laugh, a doll holding a knife appeared beside Octavia and Hat to attack them.

“What?! It can still move in this realm?”

“Hat! My spear!” Octavia evaded the knife thrust at her and aimed a high kick at the doll. It merely laughed again, floating into the air.

“Yes, Your Majesty!” responded Hat loudly. “System start up. Authentication cleared, summoning ‘Spear.’”

Hearing Hat, the doll turned slightly, but it was too late. Octavia already gripped a spear in her right hand.

“Glorify Our Majesty’s victory!”

Octavia aimed and hurled her spear at the doll. There was a sound of it striking something hard. The doll, turning back, had stopped the spear with a magical barrier.

Hat was astounded. “Damn it, you’re only supposed to be an imitation! Don’t tell me it’s absorbed the real doll’s power!”

“We’ll deal with this one later, Hat!”

Each moment they fought with this doll, Ann drew one step closer to Colette. Octavia tensed up, preparing to leap to the lighthouse in one bound, but suddenly something had gotten hold of her legs.

Hands were sprouting out of the ground. It was the dead.

Octavia snatched up her spear and severed the wrists of the hands holding her, but one by one, they sprang up out of the earth, ready to devour any living humans they found in their world.

“Hee hee hee!” Its laughter as wild and discordant as ever, the doll looked down at Octavia, who was surrounded by the dead.

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