Haseo

=//**Phantom of the mansion**//=

It was around the 17th century, in a peaceful French town there laid a huge mansion of a royal household. The master of the mansion named Mazarin-an unsocial aristocrat, a wealthy man. He inherited the entire fortune of his father because of the death of all his brothers. And strangely, their bodies were found hanged on the ceiling of the Ball room right in the day his father shed his last breath. However, he never interested in his father fortune, he usually held many feasts but he never appeared in any of it. Some said he wanted to showed how wealthy he’s, some said he held those party just for the fun of it, but no one know for sure.

One day, he decided to hold a feast which he said he would attend. He invited a total of 50 aristocrats from every corners of France. All the aristocrats were very delighted when they received the invitation from Monsiuer’s Mazarin cause they all wanted to see his appearance and the note which he left in the letter attracted them: “I have a special gifts for each of you, so please leave your guards outside the mansion”. And so the day of the feast came, a cold wind blows and trees ringing created a melody that gave the guess a chill in their bones, but the desired to see the gifts blinded those greedy pigs that they don’t even care about anything and left their guards behind without worries, liked an innocent child taking candies but doesn’t know what inside. As they entered the Ballroom, the doors suddenly closed by themselves and the light turned off make them open their eyes, all of them were panicking and wanted to get out. Then, they all calm down as the music started to play and on the golden staircase, a figure appeared. It was a man, his whole body cover in a mystical mist and his face is white and pale – a soulless man. The man introduced himself to everyone as Monsieur’s Mazarin and he spoke to everyone with a wicked voice: “I’m delightful to see everyone join the feast, and for that I’ll show you the gift and it will be the symbol of this party”. As the gifts are presented on each guess seat, the light turned back on, and when they open the present, a gasped of horror appeared. In everyone present is a part of an arm holding a knife and a part of a rope, they were all frightened and scream out loud. Their miserable scream woken up the whole town and all the guards outside the mansion rushed in, the doors which were closed now opened and the soldiers rushed into the Ballroom. Not a trace of anyone found, not a sound of any footsteps or even a weak breath, a gasping for air. Such a silent, too silent that it is suspicious, and when the soldiers stopped searching and frightened, a loud scream of a soldier burst out, they all looked up the ceiling where that soldier looks. A terrible scene, all the guess joined the party were hanged on the ceiling. The soldiers were so scared that they couldn’t speak out a word, some gone insane and tried to run away from the mansion but the door was closed. And when the town’s people rushed to the building, the mansion suddenly engulf in fire.

And in the middle of the flame, a man smiled silently, whispering with a blissful voice: “Come my dear friends, everyone….join me”. And then, he screamed: “Come to me! People born ignorance, come! Sinners whose drank the blood and ate the flesh of their fellow man. Cause today is the day you will know the true suffering of those poor men who you robbed and exploit to their death. DIE!”.

That night, no one was able to sleep, the whole town was deep in their thought while they desperately put out the fire. The next morning, the glorious plane where laid the mansion is now become a cemetery of 50 aristocrats buried in ruins. While the town’s people search what’s left of the mansion, they found a diary. In the last page of the diary, they found out that the “fellow man” Mazarin referred to was his father and the “poor men” were the workers that died because of those aristocrats exploitation. The note described that the workers were died in poverty and squalor cause the aristocrats force them to work without paid giving excuse that the workers haven't paid for the shelter on the land that the land lord owned, Mazarin’s family was trying to help poor workers with their fortune but they were killed afterward. And mysteriously, Mazarin as described in the diary was already died in that murdering attempt.