The God of Jesters

e.

And who knows, Grifter might also turn into the normal killer rat from before.

Well, he is still the same, skinning another rat-like itself in such a small amount of time just shows how much of an expert killer he is.

”No, I don need to ask, I need to see it for myself. Too many bizarre things have happened recently and I can ignore them anymore. ”

Opening the cage, I slowly pushed my hand toward Grifter. I feared that he might bite me and try to kill me.

But, Grifter was a lot calmer than I had imagined him to be.

Well, he was capable of speech. So this was not much of a surprise after I thought it through somewhat.

”Basement, lead me to it, ” I said to Grifter that had climbed to my shoulder, close to my carotid artery, which gave it an ample chance to attack and kill me. But even then, the little vengeful rat didn kill me. And instead, it pointed in the direction of the room.

And when I came to, Grifter was pointing at the rat.

”Under this? ” Looking at this unfamiliar room, I felt a bit of strangeness in me. As If I didn belong in this place.

”Yes! I am moving the bed. ” Under the small slaps of Grifter, I dragged the bed to the side and found what was under it.

”Truly a basement. ”

Opening the basement door, I found just darkness down below. And from this darkness, I can feel some cool air coming from it.

”Is this really safe? ” I asked the little guy on my shoulder, which just nodded at me.

”I might be truly going mad. ” There was no other way to explain why I would be led by a rat and treating it so normal.

But, I don wish to say this.

But everything became pretty entertaining to me.

And I think the same is true for all of you folks.

”This is my escape route? ”

I said before turning to the bed. I need to hide this gate under the bed somehow.

Which would seem a bit problematic as the door to the basement opened from above. And I can drag the bed over to hide the gate unless I keep it open.

And I don wish for others to find out my location so easily.

”If only I had a companion. ” I wondered, recalling Menna.

Yes, if its her, she might help me.

But knowing her, she would probably choose to follow me in this whole situation instead.

”Lets leave it all to luck. ” Dragging the bed closer to me, I descended slowly into the dark cave with a lantern in my hand.

While I covered the entrance to the basement like a cave with my bed.

”Goodbye. ” I shave one last look at the room that now looked alien to me and then dropped down completely along with Grifter.

”It truly was a cave. ” I wondered as I illuminated the path with the lantern while slowly crawling forward.

And yes, you heard it right. I was crawling on all my fours as the path forward was a lot smaller than I had anticipated.

Someone dug it, a singular person dug this cave and I can feel the struggle and hard work that person put into this hidden pathway.

”But from whom was this person hiding from? Making someone like this in secrecy? ”

I wondered as I gave little Grifter a curious look.

There was a high chance that little Grifter might be possessed by the dead spirit of the man who dug this path.

It would explain Grifters intelligence and his knowledge perfectly.

This also meant that I need to be cautious toward Grifter, who knows if the stories of ghosts are actually true, and Grifter is just leading me away from people in order to take over my body.

Though, chances of that seemed slim as they came to the end of the path and heard a familiar sound that I have been hearing for a long while now.

”The waterfall. ” Crawling out of the path, the area expanded till it was spacious enough to act as a room. With lots of things attached to the wall.

A room that was hidden behind the waterfall at an elevation that people might not even notice.

”So this is the place for me to rest until things in the village are over? ” I asked the little grifter on my shoulder that just shook its head and pointed at the room.

As if asking me to illuminate it.

And so I did.

”Wha… ”

What I found was a scene of carnage. Odd pieces of organs from multiple cows were sewn together to form a simple anatomical structure of a human body and around it, there were different herbs and books kept carefully on the shelf.

”Did you take me to the hideout of the demon? ”

I asked with horror as I looked at the little rat on my shoulder.

”Are you the demon? ”