The Demon King's Paladin Part 1 Vol 2.

Chapter 309. Into The Harvey's Home

" Wow..."

My surprise leaked out of my mouth as we saw the door to Ms. Victoria's home. It was a giant grey metal door that was horribly dented in multiple places. Windows were busted up as well.

" The plant-controlled Demons must've been the ones who did a number on this place."

Anna explained what most likely happened. I agreed with her. Before coming here, we actually left the walls of the city so I could confirm something for later after healing the victims that were controlled by the plants. That's left me a bit low on mana, but I don't think I'll be needing to use the rest since I confirmed the experiment outside of the walls earlier. After I was done outside the town, we began our walk to the Harvey's house. On our way, I made note of just how beaten up the town had gotten, from smashed windows, broken weapons, bloodstains all around the ground and ash everywhere from the fires that everyone needed to use to protect themselves. It all led me to have a new respect for Zana, they fought hard, and they eventually won, but not without sacrifices.

" Do you think that they..."

Princess Alice assumed the worse, but from what I can tell it looks like nothing was actually able to get inside the house... But still, that begs another question to me.

" No, I don't think anything's gotten inside the house... But I don't think anyone's left recently either."

" What?"

Princess Alice didn't seem to see the sign I was looking at, I pointed down at the ground so she could see it.

" What? Why the ground?"

" There should be a trail in the dirt from the door opening, right? But look, nothing's there. Nobody's been in or out of this door. But that doesn't make sense..."

/Knock! Knock! Knock!/

I quickly knock on the door to see if anyone would answer, but no one answered the door. Instead, a head stuck itself out from the middle of the door.

" Who is it?"

" It's me Victor."

Victor stuck his head out of the door to see who it was. He seemed to be in a bad mood judging from the way his brow is furrowed.

" Why is Lord Matthew staring and talking to the metal door?"

I heard Flare's voice. I now remember that only Sarah, Anna and Princess Alice know that Ican speak to ghosts now. Before I could explain it, Sarah answered it for me.

" Paladins can speak to ghosts, right now he's speaking to the ghost of a little boy who happens to be the son of this home."

" Really? Cool!"

Flare sounded excited at this new information.

" How could you think that ghosts are cool? Aren't you worried about being cursed?"

" No way! You can do so many cool things with that ability!"

Flare seemed to be imagining some crazy ideas, but the only thing that I can really do is perceive and talk to them, it's not like I can command them or anything... Now that I think about it, instead of me commanding them, it's the other way around with me listening to their requests. Princess Alice on the other hand is still not a big fan of the whole " ghost" thing. Maybe she's imagining more gruesome things than what I actually see?

" Hey, just come around back, there's a door there and a key under the potted plant next to it. Be warned though, our house doesn't usually look like this."

" Don't worry, I've seen some horror shows as the renovations for abandoned houses in Paradise, I doubt it'll be that bad."

" Suit yourself, Matthew."