Chapter 15

I found this room underground at the very end of a staircase while roaming around the mansion. It had a big steel door, double the size of an ordinary human. There were patterns drawn on its front that told a story about the history of my father’s family. It was hard for me to understand the flow, so I stopped checking them. I pushed the steel door instead. The clanking sound it made echoed through the stairway behind me. The moment I opened up the door, a vacant space greeted me from the other side. There was nothing inside, and water flooded the room a foot high.

I turned around when I heard footsteps coming down the stairs. I saw Mike walking slowly. “What is this place for?” I asked him. I wanted to know if they used the room for conducting ceremonies.

“It’s a training room,” Mike answered me as he approached me. “Master used to train his children there every day. But he suddenly stopped when you were five.”

“Why?” I let go of the door and it closed on its own.

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