Ground Floor, Flower Bunny Inn.
Exactly 1 hour after Theo and his friends started searching throughout the inn for clues to solve the mystery, they gathered once again at the Layout Room to discuss what they found.
Theo, Max, Kin, and Shoko were responsible for searching the basent. Ayia, Aurora, Ryoko, and Gwen were responsible for searching the ground floor. Kaori, Sam, Lauren, and Sayuri were responsible for the inn's first floor. And finally, Shizuka, June, Kumiko, and Grandma Iko were responsible for searching through the second floor.
Theo and his team appeared to have erged from clouds of dust. But they showed happy expressions with what they had found. Ayia and her team also showed satisfied expressions after searching through the ground floor; they seed to be discussing sothing about numbers. Kaori and her team talked to each other between whispers as they pointed to their phones; it seed they were looking at so pictures. And lastly, Shizuka's team was seen discussing sothing as well, but it seed that their the seed to be constellations.
Theo, seeing this scene, was sure that each team had found sothing on their search.
"Okay, guys, let's start our discussion." Theo suddenly said loudly.
Everyone looked at him with expectation.
"How about we start with the basent team and then each subsequent floor team goes?" He proposed.
Everyone nodded, and soon it was Theo's turn to explain their findings.
"Just as Grandma Iko explained, the basent is divided into two sections. The Service Area serving the inn and the storage area." Theo started.
"Yeah, we started searching through the Service Area, but after going through every inch and nook of it, we didn't find anything related to our mystery." Max chid in as he shook his head.
"After seeing we wouldn't find anything on the Service Area, we headed to the storage area," Theo said.
"I have to tell you guys. That place was hella creepy." Kin said with a chuckle.
The four of them described the storage area, and the girls who get scared easily were thankful that they were in the team responsible for searching through that place.
"We even had to use flashlights to search; otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see clearly down there," Max comnted.
"Anyways, we searched through every wall and pillar in the basent. But we didn't find anything. The basent walls are basically bare of anything." Shoko comnted.
"Seeing that, we decided to start searching through the things stored there, like the boxes, objects, furniture, and others," Kin said.
"There were so many things there!" Max comnted, "We had searched for a good while without finding anything when Theo said he had found sothing."
Theo nodded as he picked up a box and placed it on the table.
The box was clearly old as the ti had left marks on it.
"What is it?" Ayia asked curiously.
"Hmm, it could be nothing." Theo comnted as he opened the box, "But I found it especially interesting."
Everyone's eyes, usually sharp and observant, now held a shared look of pure curiosity. They leaned in, a collective murmur of anticipation rising as they gazed at the object Theo held.
Inside the discovered container was a drawing, rendered on what was unmistakably ancient paper. The texture was brittle and yellowed with age, the ink faded in places, all testants to its imnse antiquity. However, as their initial surprise at its age subsided, their eyes focused on the image itself. It was a simple, mottled sketch, depicting what appeared to be a room. But at first glance, no one could see any connection, any hint whatsoever, to the complex mystery they were so desperately trying to unravel.
A voice, laced with bewildernt, broke the silence. "What is this?"
Another chid in, their voice tinged with disbelief. "Am I the only one seeing a drawing of what looks like a perfectly ordinary room?"
A ripple of amusent passed through the group. "Theo must be losing his marbles," soone quipped, their tone light and playful.
The jest was t with laughter, and even Theo joined in, a wide grin on his face. "I had the exact sa reaction as you guys," he admitted, his voice suddenly taking on a more serious, suspenseful tone. "But that was before..." He paused, letting the unspoken question hang in the air, drawing everyone closer.
"Before what?" a voice prompted, eager to hear the continuation.
"Before I read *this*," Theo declared, his hand moving with deliberate grace as he carefully flipped the ancient paper over.
On the reverse side, previously hidden from view, they could now see words ticulously inscribed. The script was archaic, clearly written in Old English, a language that, while challenging, was still decipherable by their learned minds. As they collectively pieced together the faded letters, a specific phrase erged:
'The house of flower and hare.'
The mont those words were read aloud, an audible gasp swept through the group. The air crackled with a sudden, electrifying realization, and a wave of profound shock washed over them.
"No way!" one exclaid, their voice a mixture of disbelief and awe.
"Those words... they're from the poem inscribed on the key we found!" another sputtered, their eyes wide with astonishnt.
"That's incredible! Utterly incredible!" a third person breathed, the sheer improbability of the discovery dawning on them.
A surge of excitent erupted, and everyone instinctively crowded around Theo, their gazes darting between the drawing and the cryptic inscription, scrutinizing every detail with renewed intensity.
Once the initial fervor subsided and everyone had had a proper look, their faces transford. The confusion and playful skepticism were replaced by expressions of pure, unadulterated excitent.
"This drawing... It's definitely from Woodwright!" a voice declared with absolute certainty, recognizing the distinctive artistic style.
"I agree! And this room he's drawn here," another added, pointing at the sketch, "might very well be the very place we've been searching for! The hidden location tied to our mystery!"
"It's absolutely brilliant! Without knowing the poem from the key, there's no way anyone would ever associate this simple drawing with our grand mystery," soone mused, marveling at the subtle brilliance of the clue. "Those words simply point to the inn itself, a seemingly innocuous detail!"
A renewed wave of enthusiastic analysis swept through the group. They began dissecting the drawing with fervent energy, theorizing about every line, every shadow, and every symbol, now ard with the knowledge that this ancient artifact held a direct and vital connection to their quest. The "house of flower and hare" was no longer just a poetic phrase; it was a tangible clue, brought to life by an ancient drawing.
Soon, it was Ayia's turn to explain their findings.
"It's our turn." Ayia said with a smile, "And I assure you guys, what we found is groundbreaking!"
Aurora, Ryoko, and Gwen, who had searched the ground floor as well, nodded in agreent.
Seeing their attitude, the whole group beca curious about what they had found.
"The whole ground floor is enormous, so we decided to search first through the places we thought had the highest chances to hide clues." Ayia started explaining.
She explained how the group searched throughout the east garden every inch, but found nothing.
"It was then that Aurora noticed sothing interesting about the inn's layout," Ayia said as she looked at Aurora with a smile.
Aurora replied with a shy smile, "It's nothing amazing. I'm sure the sempais who searched the first and second floors noticed sothing as well. But this inn's original layout had a triangle for inspiration!"
As soon as Aurora said that, everyone turned their heads to the floor layouts plastered on the walls, and they showed enlightened expressions. Especially Kaori and Shizuka's team, who had searched the first and second floors.
"That's right!"
"I kind of suspected before, but after hearing Aurora, there is indeed a high amount of triangles everywhere throughout the inn!
Aurora nodded, her expression calm as if she had anticipated their reactions. "And there is more," she continued, her voice drawing everyone in. "It seems that Woodwright was searching for a kind of perfect, balanced harmony when he built this inn. He ticulously incorporated symtry into every aspect of its design. Look here..."
She began to ticulously point out instances of symtrical congruence and the recurring use of triangle shapes throughout the inn's architecture. As Aurora elaborated on the precise geotric principles at play – how one side of a hallway mirrored another, how the placent of windows created perfect reflections, how even the roof trusses ford repeating triangular patterns – the crowd's initial skepticism began to transform into a dawning realization. The sheer pervasiveness of these geotric motifs led them to believe that Woodwright wasn't rely building, but was perhaps intensely, even obsessively, focused on symtry and triangles.
"At first, we had our suspicions, but we lacked concrete evidence to truly prove Aurora's theory about Woodwright's intentional construction thods," Ayia suddenly chid in, her eyes gleaming with newfound excitent. "But just a few minutes ago, we discovered sothing that might serve as definitive proof that Aurora's hypothesis is indeed correct."
With a dramatic flourish, she pointed to a detailed illustration of the inn's grand main staircase, displayed alongside a blueprint of the inn's layout.
"Have you all observed the main staircase?" Ayia inquired, her gaze sweeping across the captivated faces.
A chorus of nods confird that the staircase was indeed familiar to most.
"The main staircase," Ayia explained, "is strategically positioned at a remarkably significant point within an equilateral triangle. This specific location is known by several nas, including the incenter and the centroid. In essence, it represents a crucial nexus of geotric importance within an equilateral triangle. Now, if Woodwright, as Aurora suggests, deliberately built this entire inn incorporating these elaborate symtries and triangular patterns, it stands to reason that he would mark or emphasize the most vital point of such a fundantal triangle, wouldn't he?"
"Yes!" the crowd responded in unison, their anticipation building.
"And Woodwright, it appears, has indeed left a clue right there!" Ayia exclaid, her voice laced with unconcealed enthusiasm. "I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with the concept of the Golden Triangle and its connection to the Fibonacci Spiral?"
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