Chapter 314.2
“That building looks big, but there are no other buildings around it,” she said.
Kasser nodded. “It’s in the outskirts, but even then it’s not normal to have that much vacant land,” he said. “There’s not enough space in the Holy City for everyone as it is. The place is always under construction and there are buildings everywhere. So, it seems like this land has been left vacant on purpose.”
“How owns it?”
“It seems like even the realtors in the area don’t know,” Kasser said. “They have a middle-man that they transact with, so they haven’t met the actual owner.”
The place seemed even stranger the more he had learned about it. The businesses in the area didn’t seem to care that the large piece of land had been left vacant. They were told that some people had tried to contact the owner, but they gave up eventually because the owner wasn’t willing to sell.
As he told Eugene this, she couldn’t understand why those people gave up so easily. Wasn’t it only natural for people to seek something that would bring them so much benefit?
Additionally, no one stayed around the area. There was a forest area around the land and the security wasn’t good. There had been a few kidnappings in the vicinity and none of the victims had been found, which probably contributed to people avoiding the place entirely.
“Is it a mansion?” Eugene asked.
“Not a mansion,” Kasser said. “Even the people who live near there don’t know what it is. But an old man told me that, when he was younger, the adults would say it was a jail.”