[1-200] THE EVOLUTION OF A GOBLIN TO THE PEAK

Chapter 168 - Diary

'Next page... I think I have an idea about it.' Souta heard Saya's voice in his mind. He turned to the next page and continued to read the diary along with Saya.

"Today, a miracle happened. The duke and his family recovered from their illness. It was so sudden that they could already walk and talked like a normal person. Everyone was happy for them including me."

"Today, I've received a news that some of the people in the dukedom were killed. All of their internal organs were gone. I got scared when I received this piece of news but then I remembered that I'm in the safest place in this dukedom so I don't have to worry about myself. I'm sure that all the guards were going to capture the perpetrator in no time."

Souta frowned when he read this passage. It seems that the killings in this dukedom weren't ordinary. The internal organs of the people that died were gone. No sane person will do this. Even Souta will not do this to the person that he killed.

He will not hesitate to kill his enemy but taking their internal organs and using them for some kind of ritual. That's insane.

'You're disgusting you know. What you did to the people that you kill was even worse than this. You're taking all of their soul and preventing to live another life. That's the worse for me. You're sending them into oblivion.' Saya's voice sounded in his mind.

Souta ignored her and he continued to read the diary.

"Today, some of the maids that stayed here left the mansion. I don't know why. They just suddenly leave without telling anyone. At the same time, the killings in the dukedom appeared in my mind."

"Today is the duke's first wife's birthday. The maids were preparing for a banquet. Everyone should be happy on this occasion but I found that they all have the same plain face. They don't show any emotion including the duke's children. It's weird."

"It's weird... Everything is weird. I don't want to stay here anymore. Right now, only five maids were working here in the duke's mansion. The rest of the maids were gone and I didn't even hear anything about them. It's impossible for them, including my roommate, to leave without saying anything."

"I'm going to leave this place... Actually, I found the duke's wife eating my roommate in the basement of the mansion. It scared me. Even now while writing this I couldn't get that thing out of my mind... I'm packing up my things and will leave this place tonight."

The diary ends in that passage.

Souta closed the notebook and placed it back on top of the table.

"Soraya, thanks for the information." He muttered in a low voice and thought that the maid was dead. If she knew that, there's no way that the duke will let her leave this place. The same must be said from the rest of the maids here.

They were all dead.

But Souta gained a lot of information from this diary.

The guards hid the thing that all people that died in the killings didn't have any internal organ at all. They were brutally killed.

"So why are they taking all the internal organs? Also, why they vanished in this mansion." Souta muttered as he rubbed his chin. He then recalled something that he read in the diary.

The basement. The place where the maid saw the duke's wife eating her roommate.

Souta walked towards the door and he decided to know everything now that he's here in the duke mansion. Everything will come into light as long as he discovered the key information in these killings.

He placed his ear on the door and tried to sense if there were people in the hallway. After making sure that no one was in the hallway, Souta opened the door and exited the maid's room.

This mansion looked deserted. It feels different inside than outside the mansion. The atmosphere here was chilly.

Souta stopped on his track as he felt the ground slightly shake. If he wasn't focusing on his surroundings, Souta wouldn't be able to sense it at all.

He frowned and looked outside the window. He guessed that the tremors came in the underground and the cause of it was his party members.

"It seems that something is hiding there in the ground," Souta muttered and he shook his head. He ignored the tremor in the ground and focused on the task in front of him.

...

Souta checked all the rooms on the second floor. He discovered that all the rooms here were abandoned for a long time now. No one was living here on the second floor of the duke's mansion.

He went downstairs and checked the first floor of the mansion. This place was the same as the second floor. There's no sign of people living here except for the two rooms.

The duke's room and the wife's room.

Also, the children that were mentioned in the diary. Souta couldn't find them at all.