Layton Mystery Journey: The Mysterious Mansionレイトンミステリージャーニー：神秘的な大邸宅

"Layton Mystery Journey: El Château Misterioso" - XI

“Layton Mystery Journey: El Château Misterioso” - XI

レイトンミステリージャーニー：神秘的な大邸宅 -章 - XI

-------17:00, “The Mysterious Mansion”, London-------

---------- 17:00, 「神秘的な大邸宅」, ロンドン----------

After a while of Phoenix reluctantly walking through a few of the corridors, Ernest and Phoenix ended up in the central room where the mysterious piano was still located. Fortunately for them, the piano was not playing by itself nor was it doing anything “out of the ordinary” – everything was as it should be.

“So what exactly happened here?” – Phoenix asked as he was still a bit nervous regarding the fact that a dead body was around them – also, there were police around the area still doing their own investigations.

“Well…” Ernest began to say while looking down a little bit – “We started to look around a bit due to the letter that we had received and we ended up in this room" Ernest added.

"Right...and then what did you find inside of this room that made you leave?" Phoenix asked, still a bit worried about the situation that he was in

"Well...we then heard this piano playing and the three of us started to walk towards it" He responded

"But who was playing it? Miss Layton, perhaps? Although it does seem a little odd that she would do so in the middle of this room during the time you were looking around" - Phoenix slowly began to walk around a little bit.

"Yeah...about that..." Ernest slowly began to stutter

"Nobody was...Nobody was playing the piano" - "We all turned around to look at the centre and there was nobody at that piano"

Phoenix then immediately looked at Ernest with quite a confused expression then he shouted to one of the police officers who was investigating the scene at the time.

"Um...excuse me, but is there anything strange about this piano? As in...have you investigated it and found anything strange?" Phoenix asked while also looking around the scene of the crime, himself.

"We are still currently investigating around the centre of the room, but all that we have found so far, are blood stains and fingerprints on the piano; but we have not been successful in identifying them, yet" The random police officer said as he got back to doing his job

"Ernest? Are you quite sure that the piano was playing itself?" Phoenix asked, a little concerned.

As soon as he said this, Sherl started barking at Phoenix as if to say "How dare you say that we are lying?! Of course we are sure that's what happened! Because it did happen!"

They all just sighed and they began to look around the room more, as well as some of the other rooms around the mansion, just in case there was anything of any relevance or just any other clues that were scattered about the area. Luckily for them, the three of them were able to at least manage to find a few different items and objects that might be of use to them in court but they obviously couldn't know until the day after - the day when Katrielle's trial was going to take place. It was a while before they had decided to finish investigating for the day.

-----21:00, Outside the "Mysterious Mansion”, London-----

----- 21:00,「神秘的な大邸宅」の外では,  ロンドン-----

"I...I think that is enough investigation for the time being; if the trial gets postponed then hopefully the police will be able to find other different clues or pieces of evidence that we can use" - Phoenix said while smiling but also yawning a bit as he had been up for a long time.

"I must agree..." Ernest said while smiling but sighing - "It is beginning to get a little late now; I believe we have been in there for like...4 hours was it?"

Sherl also weakly barked alongside what Ernest was saying due to the fact that they had woken up quite early as well because of Ernest evidently worrying about Katrielle.

"I presume that you have somewhere to sleep, Mr Wright?" Ernest asked while smiling

Phoenix then chuckled - "Of course I do, I have rented a room at a local hotel for a couple of weeks; so I'll be fine - He chuckled and smiled

"Well, regardless, I'll see you tomorrow for the trial...but I wonder who the prosecution will be..." Phoenix said then waved at the two of them before walking off back to his own apartment through going through the route that he took to get here.

Ernest and Sherl also slowly walked back home...worried about the trial that awaited them tomorrow...