Chapter 11 - Grandpa Claude (2/2)
And with my illusion magic, I just show all the ghost, zombie and various creepypasta monster from my previous life, and now, Infront of me is a pale ghost and a calm Elise telling the other to open their eyes. Well, since this ghost never harm people, I'm reluctant to kill it with light magic (which is my tricked of sleeve that I mentioned) plus it's quite hard to do so until
”Mr Ghost, can I have a moment?” [Elise]
”?” [Ash, Mr Ghost]
”Do you wish to go to the other side?” [Elise]
”!” [Ash]
”No, I don't want that” [Mr Ghost]
”And why is that?” [Elise]
”Because I love this mansion, and also my master who used to leave here, if possible I wanted to continue to preserve this mansion until the day my master come back” [Mr Ghost]
”But it has been a hundred year since this mansion was last occupied” [Diana]
”My master is an elf who become an awakener of the holy light when the devil attack us, killing his entire family in the process, including me, I know this might sound irrational but I just wanted to believe that he will come back one day...” [Mr Ghost]
Devil attack? Holy light awakener? There hardly any info given to me by the goddess, so is this one of the test Goddess Achalasia mentioned? Well for now let just settle this ghostly problem, plus this ghost right here, he is quite similar to me, wanting the warmth of a family, so I would rather settle this peacefully and if it's still not working, well let just find ourselves a new home
”I see, I'm sorry Mr Ghost, I know what it feels like to lost somebody, and this kid also know it very well, so can I propose something?” [Ash]
”and that is?” [Mr Ghost]
”How about you live together with us from now on? You can become the grandfather to this cutie pie here” [Ash]
”Are you serious, you aren't joking right?” [Mr Ghost]
”I am serious here, while I don't want to kill you with my light magic, or safely send you off to the other side with Elise help before you meet your previous master, I also doesn't want this children to live in constant fear in this mansion, that's why I'm asking you to live with us as a family” [Ash]
Well, there you have it, a win-win situation if you ask me and now it all depends on the ghost answer
”Claude” [Mr Ghost]
”huh?” [Ash]
”Call me Granpa Claude from now on” [Claude]
”Now that's what I wanted to hear, I am Ash, the eldest of this ten brother and sister of mine, it's a pleasure to meet you” [Ash]
”Same here, but I must said while I am happy, I can't help to feel disappointed as I can only interact with you only through voice and illusion magic in the morning, and those kid will be asleep at night...” [Claude]
”Well, I have a solution for that as well” [Ash]
”!” [Other]
I have considered that of course, he is a ghost after all, and while he can manifest himself shortly during sunlight, it will still cost so much burden to his soul and mana, even just by using his magic and shouting at us loudly when we first enter, I can sense a ridiculous amount of mana being spent, something that can be fixed with this
”That's the Behemoth magic core, wait don't tell me!” [Diana]
”That's right, I will use the magic core of the behemoth for the fortress defense magic and set a favourable conditions for Grandpa Claude here” [Ash]