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The House in Which Nightmares Dwell 3.5
5
"... ...I wonder if they're all right... ..." Mai softly whispered, facing the intercom.
"What is?" She heard the blunt voice from the headphone. The jarring was terrible.
"Midori's mother. What happened just now, isn't that dangerous?"
"I wonder about that. -- Mai, you're going too quick."
"Insensitive person," Mai whispered and before her eyes she saw a camera that was placed in the hall of the second floor.
There was a moveable arm on top of a tripod and a video camera was set up on that. The camera chased after Mai's right hand as if it were a pair of human eyes. A small pouch dangled from her moving right hand. The pouch contained a mix of dry ice fragments and round bearings. In the corner of the room a thermographer was established near the ceiling that was linked to this camera and now was chasing the place with the lowest temperature -- the pouch that Mai's right hand was holding.
As she moved her arm very slowly, Mai whispered in the intercom.
"I wonder if it's a neurosis... ..."
"Ignorant people shouldn't use such words so easily. -- The check is over. You can come back."
"You're calling me ignorant?"
"Still, do you know what the symptoms are of a neurosis?"
Mai scowled, but to be honest she could not refute it.
"Wasn't it abnormal just now?"
"Are you talking about the equipment? Or the current circumstances?"
"Either."
At this he bluntly replied, "None."
She went downstairs and passed in front of the door of the living room. The door had several small glass panels, so she could see that two or three people had gathered and were busy talking about something. Because Hirota seemed to be talking about something in a stern voice, it seemed that he was probably persuading Midori once again.
"Hey, Naru? Why does Hirota-san know your name?"
"Don't ask me."
While she cowered her head, Mai stopped her feet in the corridor. In the front there was a large full-length mirror and there her own figure was reflected.
"But it looks like you were exposed somewhere, isn't it?"
"Who know. -- I'm just keeping quiet about it. It's not like I'm hiding it, so I guess it was leaked from somewhere."
"You are hiding it though."
While she said that and opened the sliding screen, the person himself looked over his shoulders to Mai.
"I just think that it's better if it's taken care of without letting people know."
"If you use an alias, you're not keeping quiet, you're hiding something. -- Eh? The living room?"
Inside the monitor that was pushed in a rack, there was no image of the living room. The camera's that were set up in other places showed normal images.
"They're in the middle of private talk."
"Ah, that's right. If you moved the camera, you would be peeping, I know. The mike would record the sound."
"If they end it before the evening, it would be a great help."
Mai sighed.
"Hirota-san is, how to say it? A stubborn person, right?"
"Idiots are found anywhere."
At his easy way of speaking, Mai grimaced at his easy manner of speaking.
"You, you think that all people excluding yourself are idiots."
"Unfortunately, I rarely meet people who are more intelligent than myself."
"This narcissist."
"I'm merely acknowledging the facts, Taniyama-san."
Mai glared at Naru's unruffled profile.
"Then tell me in what year the Taika Reform happened."
"Unfortunately, I have no interest in the history of an island country in the far east."
"... ...Ah, if you say it like that, I'll do it that way. Well, in what year was Shakespeare born?"
"Unfortunately, I have no interest in bald old men."
Mai sighed when he only made a superficial smile. She thought, if it had no relation to psychic phenomena, he simply didn't know about it, but as she already got exhausted of talking, she shut up about it.
"-- The jarring in the intercom is terrible, boss."
"The situation with the electro-magnetic waves is no good. I'll try to investigate that."
"What should I do?"
"Take the ammonia meter and--"
Naru stared in the direction of the entrance and Mai looked at it too. Noisy sounds came from the corridor.
"Hey, Nakai!"
"Shut up, you stubborn person. I'm not talking to you, Hirota-kun."
Those were Hirota and Saki's voices. The loud footsteps came closer. Mai involuntarily gazed at the two people inside the room.
Naru softly sighed and muttered, "This house really is incredibly noisy."
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"... ...I wonder if they're all right... ..." Mai softly whispered, facing the intercom.
"What is?" She heard the blunt voice from the headphone. The jarring was terrible.
"Midori's mother. What happened just now, isn't that dangerous?"
"I wonder about that. -- Mai, you're going too quick."
"Insensitive person," Mai whispered and before her eyes she saw a camera that was placed in the hall of the second floor.
There was a moveable arm on top of a tripod and a video camera was set up on that. The camera chased after Mai's right hand as if it were a pair of human eyes. A small pouch dangled from her moving right hand. The pouch contained a mix of dry ice fragments and round bearings. In the corner of the room a thermographer was established near the ceiling that was linked to this camera and now was chasing the place with the lowest temperature -- the pouch that Mai's right hand was holding.
As she moved her arm very slowly, Mai whispered in the intercom.
"I wonder if it's a neurosis... ..."
"Ignorant people shouldn't use such words so easily. -- The check is over. You can come back."
"You're calling me ignorant?"
"Still, do you know what the symptoms are of a neurosis?"
Mai scowled, but to be honest she could not refute it.
"Wasn't it abnormal just now?"
"Are you talking about the equipment? Or the current circumstances?"
"Either."
At this he bluntly replied, "None."
She went downstairs and passed in front of the door of the living room. The door had several small glass panels, so she could see that two or three people had gathered and were busy talking about something. Because Hirota seemed to be talking about something in a stern voice, it seemed that he was probably persuading Midori once again.
"Hey, Naru? Why does Hirota-san know your name?"
"Don't ask me."
While she cowered her head, Mai stopped her feet in the corridor. In the front there was a large full-length mirror and there her own figure was reflected.
"But it looks like you were exposed somewhere, isn't it?"
"Who know. -- I'm just keeping quiet about it. It's not like I'm hiding it, so I guess it was leaked from somewhere."
"You are hiding it though."
While she said that and opened the sliding screen, the person himself looked over his shoulders to Mai.
"I just think that it's better if it's taken care of without letting people know."
"If you use an alias, you're not keeping quiet, you're hiding something. -- Eh? The living room?"
Inside the monitor that was pushed in a rack, there was no image of the living room. The camera's that were set up in other places showed normal images.
"They're in the middle of private talk."
"Ah, that's right. If you moved the camera, you would be peeping, I know. The mike would record the sound."
"If they end it before the evening, it would be a great help."
Mai sighed.
"Hirota-san is, how to say it? A stubborn person, right?"
"Idiots are found anywhere."
At his easy way of speaking, Mai grimaced at his easy manner of speaking.
"You, you think that all people excluding yourself are idiots."
"Unfortunately, I rarely meet people who are more intelligent than myself."
"This narcissist."
"I'm merely acknowledging the facts, Taniyama-san."
Mai glared at Naru's unruffled profile.
"Then tell me in what year the Taika Reform happened."
"Unfortunately, I have no interest in the history of an island country in the far east."
"... ...Ah, if you say it like that, I'll do it that way. Well, in what year was Shakespeare born?"
"Unfortunately, I have no interest in bald old men."
Mai sighed when he only made a superficial smile. She thought, if it had no relation to psychic phenomena, he simply didn't know about it, but as she already got exhausted of talking, she shut up about it.
"-- The jarring in the intercom is terrible, boss."
"The situation with the electro-magnetic waves is no good. I'll try to investigate that."
"What should I do?"
"Take the ammonia meter and--"
Naru stared in the direction of the entrance and Mai looked at it too. Noisy sounds came from the corridor.
"Hey, Nakai!"
"Shut up, you stubborn person. I'm not talking to you, Hirota-kun."
Those were Hirota and Saki's voices. The loud footsteps came closer. Mai involuntarily gazed at the two people inside the room.
Naru softly sighed and muttered, "This house really is incredibly noisy."
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