Chapter 4

04 . I’ve become a neighbor of the heroine .

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Why are you here……?

As soon as I saw the person standing at the door, I hardened .

“Hi……”

But for now, I also responded to her wishes . Then a radiant smile rose on her face . It was a woman like a dewy lily of the valley who visited my house . The thin and fine hair like silver thread was glittering transparently in the sunlight at noon, and the soft green eyes like freshly bloomed leaves were singing . Her eyes, which looked as if they were gentle with drooping tails, projected me in them .

“It’s so nice to see a woman of my age living right next door!”

As she said that, there was a hint of joy in her face .

“I’ve moved around a few times, and every time there was no one around me or my sister and her age . ”

I thought it said ‘I am friendly’ in her eyes . I felt a little burdened because it looked as if I were a friend of the future . By the way, I’m sure she introduced her name as Annmarie . Then is it really right? She’s the female lead . At first, I doubted it, but I didn’t think there would be a woman in the world who looked the same as the novel’s description left in my memory, or who would have the best appearance in the world .

Besides, she lives with her sister . Then why did the heroine move next door…? When I was lost in though, the girl who introduced herself as Annmarie said something .

“Well, I heard from a neighbor, who I just happened to meet, that you’re working for the largest coffee house in the neighborhood . Is it the right store on Ferret Street?”

I heard the following question and I stopped .

“Yes, that is correct . ”

Since I got out of the lab, I’ve been living like a normal person since I got a job . I moved here to work at a coffee house on Ferret Street from about two years ago .

I thought I’d save some money and settle down, I decided to take a day to find a good place to live alone . I stopped at a nearby cafe and drank a cup of coffee . After looking around the surrounding landscape, I turned my head a little later, and there were many customers around me . The store’s business seemed to be good . But when I was leaving, the owner of the place suddenly jumped out and asked me if I could start working here . Of course the offer felt absurd and I tried to refuse . But if things didn’t work out, I could just come out of the store and sit still . So I ended up getting a job on Ferret Street on unfavorable terms . I am given a day off once a week, and during that time I usually stay at home . So it was true that Annmarie heard something from the other neighbors . I don’t know exactly who the neighbors are that told her this, but it’s probably from the mouth of the pawn shop owner or Mrs . Mary Elle at the repair shop . They’re the only two in Grey Ferret who like to talk to others that way . I don’t think they heard the warning I gave them last time about not leaking personal information to people like this . After eating the fragments of the remains at the institute, I was somewhat dulled by the emotions of the people . So I wasn’t particularly angry or offended, but the fact that somebody was still spreading stories about me was a little annoying . But Annmarie noticed . Seeing my awkward reaction, her eyes flashed a glimmer of regret and remorse .

“Ah……I’m sorry to ask you this kind of personal question when we’ve never met, I was rude, wasn’t I?”

Soon she apologized to me in a hurry as if she had made a mistake .

“Well, I’m going to work at the clinic across the street starting from tomorrow . So I was surprised that you were my neighbor but also near the place where I work, and so I was so forward and kind of rude . ”

In explaining so, she was at a loss .

……It’s like our Coco .

The sight of Annmarie reminded me of a puppy I had raised in my previous life . Her drooping ears and tail seemed to overlap . If anyone saw her with such a sad expression, they wouldn’t be able to stay angry . I wasn’t even mad at her in the first place . Moreover, perhaps because she reminded me of Coco, a more softer voice came out of my mouth .

“It’s okay, if you work at a medical clinic, I’ll often see you out in the future . ”

You’re going to work in a clinic more than me . You’re the real heroine of the novel . I was just saying something, but the woman standing in front of me laughed as if she were really happy . She smiled like a main character . She must have had a hard time coming here to save her sister after the family collapsed, but she didn’t show that to a surprising extent . But this is not the house where the main character lived at the time of the novel, is it? I think there’s still a year or two left before the novel starts, and I’m sure she moved to a shabby house . But this is one of the best places around here . Do you happen to live here and move to a smaller house because of the cry of Gose? Somehow the idea seemed right . Seeing such an innocent person, I felt that somehow it would be hard to raise money from the bottom . When I rolled from the bottom of the ladder, I could feel the way I imagined it . The woman in front of me right now smelled like a pure, good-natured girl who couldn’t doubt anyone, to say the least, it smelled like a good catch . In the novel, she brought an unidentified man who was lying in front of her house and treated him with utmost care . The author added episodes that emphasize her goodness in several novels, whether she intended to make the main character a saint . As a result, a bad person who tried to use Annmarie and tried to harm the story appeared . And they were punished for it in the hands of Lakis, the neglected villain-servant .

Of course that doesn’t mean he was good .

In any case……

It’s probably not her final destination, as Annmarie just said, “I’ve often moved before . ” I’ve been looking back, but I can’t remember the address of the main character’s home in the novel . Still, at the beginning of the novel, she lived in a hot place where the male leads and side characters got in, so such a lonely place could not have been the main stage . Then at least next year or the next, the main character will move out . I don’t really intend to be close to her, but I thought I’d at least be a neighbor for a while .

“You can call me Yuri . ”

“Oh my that’s a really pretty name . ”

Arachne was the name I was given in the lab, and when I was living in the slums I didn’t have a name . So now I was using the name of my previous life .

“Well, by the way……”

Then, as if remembering something she had forgotten, Annmarie asked me a question . But somehow she couldn’t talk easily .

“……I hear there’s a ghost in my house, is that true?”

When I heard her question, I lost my voice and didn’t know how to respond .

“Of course I don’t believe in superstitions like that, but I’m afraid my sister will be scared when she hears about them……”

But her cheeks were a little flushed, so I didn’t believe it . I told her without hesitation .

“Don’t worry—it’s a false rumor . ”

The reason it was rumored to be a haunted house next door was because of me . But I couldn’t say that . It’s a rumor when I moved here for the first time, but it’s gone on too long . However, she was relieved to hear that it was not true .

“Is that so? People said that this house had been empty for a while before I came in . I guess that’s why there’s a rumor . ”

While listening to her, I felt a prick of conscience that I had been lost . After all, I was so nervous that I wanted to buy a house like this . No one has entered the house for about a year and a half because of the rumor that ghosts are coming out . Oh, maybe that’s why she bought the house a little cheaper . But when Annmarie said that, I had no choice but to stay silent .