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Then, on the Emperor's order, he delivers a single strand of hair brought as an experiment sample, and it is revealed that the poisonous mist in the Grand Duchy consists of fuel gases and that the gas lamps in Lunos Mansion burned due to a leak from the factory.","summary_language":"en","summary_source":"chapter_translation","summary_status":"editorial","summary_verification":"verified"},"summary":"The Mansion Awaits Spring Chapter 19 focuses on Director Dieus's meeting with the Emperor and their discussion of the 20 deaths in the mist case. Dieus remains distant toward the Emperor's friendly attitude, is asked to meet with academy scholars, and disappoints the Emperor with the drink he brought back. Then, on the Emperor's order, he delivers a single strand of hair brought as an experiment sample, and it is revealed that the poisonous mist in the Grand Duchy consists of fuel gases and that the gas lamps in Lunos Mansion burned due to a leak from the factory.","key_events":["Revealed the mansion owner can endure prolonged mist exposure.","Director Dieus reports to the emperor on the Mist Case with 20 deaths reported so far.","Gas lamps burning in Lunos Mansion explained by factory gases leaking into gas pipes.","Researcher explains poisonous mist forms when toxic gases from fuel mix with soot as temperature drops.","Scientists discuss covering up the mist cause by declaring a woman a witch.","Dieus delivers a single hair sample from the mansion owner for mist resistance research."],"characters_involved":[],"transcript":{"available":true,"format":"plain-text","language":"en","content":"SUPERINTENDENT DIEUS REQUESTS AN AUDIENCE.\nYOUR MAJESTY.\n\nWELL, WELL.\nMY MOST CHERISHED PEJIN HAS COME!\nUGH...\nPlease...\nPLEASE MAINTAIN THE DECORUM EXPECTED OF AN EMPEROR, YOUR MAJESTY.\n\nTsk... Why must you be so fussy?\nMEMBERS OF THE IMPERIAL FAMILY ALWAYS GREET ME SO AGGRESSIVELY WHENEVER THEY SEE ME...\n\nALL RIGHT.\nHOW IS THE FOG CASE PROGRESSING?\nNOT WELL.\nTHERE HAVE BEEN 20 DEATHS ALONE...\nI SEE...\n\nWHAT A TERRIBLE THING.\nTHE MERE THOUGHT OF\nMY SONS AND DAUGHTERS FACING SUCH TROUBLES\nLEAVES MY HEART RESTLESS.\n\nI AM THINKING ABOUT A WAY TO RESOLVE THE FOG.\nI WILL FIND ONE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.\nTHE CAPABLE SCHOLARS OF THE ACADEMY ARE RESEARCHING IT.\nIT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOU TO SPEAK WITH THE SCHOLARS TOO...\n\nWOULD I UNDERSTAND EVEN IF I LISTENED TO SCIENTISTS?\nAnd I receive all the important reports.\nI AM TELLING YOU TO TAKE MORE INTEREST.\nTHIS IS WHY SCIENCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN TAUGHT PROPERLY AT THE MILITARY ACADEMY.\nTHANKFULLY, I GRADUATED BEFORE THAT.\nUNFORTUNATELY, CONTINUING EDUCATION EXISTS IN THIS WORLD TOO.\nSERIOUSLY, SHOULD I QUIT BEING A POLICE OFFICER?\nYOU WOULD LOSE ONE CAPABLE POLICE OFFICER.\nBecause of science studies.\n\nTHAT CAN'T BE RIGHT!\nYOU WILL WORK AS AN IMPERIAL POLICE OFFICER UNTIL YOU SEE YOUR GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.\nPlease do not say such horrifying things...!\nI AM SCARED THAT MIGHT ACTUALLY HAPPEN.\n\nSo prickly..\nNOW, YOU SHOULD HAVE SOME TOO.\nIT CANNOT BE EASY TO EAT FRUIT IN THE GRAND DUCHY,\nSO EAT PLENTY BEFORE YOU GO.\n\nI HAVE NO INTENTION OF EATING WHILE ON DUTY.\nTsk, what a stiff fellow..\nDID YOU ENJOY THE LIQUOR I SENT LAST TIME?\nIT DID NOT SUIT MY TASTE, SO I BROUGHT IT BACK.\n\nOH DEAR, AND IT WAS SUCH PRECIOUS LIQUOR.\n\nOUR PEJIN DOES NOT UNDERSTAND MY FEELINGS AT ALL...\nIT CANNOT BE HELPED. I WILL GIVE THIS TO SOMEONE ELSE.\n\nYOU DELIVER IT YOURSELF.\nPARDON? ME?\n\nYOU HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED!!\n\nBLESSED WITH HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR'S GRACE...\nAN EXPERIMENT SAMPLE!\n\nDO YOU KNOW HOW DESPERATELY I HAVE BEEN WAITING?\n\nWHAT WAS THAT? THAT HURT.\nSORRY, YOUR HAIR GOT CAUGHT IN THE CLASP.\nYOU STILL FUMBLE AROUND THE SAME WAY, WHETHER BACK THEN OR NOW.\n...SIR.\n...SUPERINTENDENT!\nSUPERINTENDENT!\n\nDID YOU HEAR ME PROPERLY?\nWHAT?\nI ASKED WHY YOU ONLY BROUGHT ONE STRAND.\nSINCE YOU WENT THROUGH THE TROUBLE OF GETTING IT, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TO BRING MORE.\n\n...DO YOU THINK BRINGING IT WITHOUT BEING SUSPECTED IS EASY?\nThis is why people who only sit and do research are..\nIF YOU ARE ONLY GOING TO COMPLAIN, I AM LEAVING.\n\nUH, UH, UH! WAIT, WAIT!!\nSINCE YOU CAME AFTER SO LONG, YOU SHOULD LOOK AROUND BEFORE YOU GO!\nIS THAT NOT WHY HIS MAJESTY ORDERED YOU TO COME?\n\nIN THE GRAND DUCHY,\nMOST OF THE LAND WAS OCCUPIED BY PRIMEVAL FORESTS INSTEAD OF FARMLAND.\nTHIS WAS ONCE ONE OF THE FACTORS HINDERING THE GRAND DUCHY'S DEVELOPMENT,\nBUT ONCE IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT LARGE QUANTITIES OF FUEL WERE BURIED IN THOSE PRIMEVAL FORESTS,\n\nTHE GRAND DUCHY WAS ABLE TO ENTER A NEW PHASE THROUGH DEVELOPMENT.\nTHANKS TO THE RASA EMPIRE'S UNIQUE FUEL EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY,\nMANY FACTORIES WERE ATTRACTED THERE, JOBS WERE CREATED,\nAND THE GRAND DUCHY WAS ABLE TO GROW RAPIDLY.\n\nTHE.\nPROB.\nLEM.\nWAS THAT TOXIC GASES BURIED ALONG WITH THE FUEL\nWERE SPREADING INTO THE ATMOSPHERE!!\n\nAND WE DISCOVERED THAT WHEN THE TEMPERATURE DROPS\nAND THE SOOT IN THE ATMOSPHERE MIXES WITH THIS SMOKE...\n\nTOXIC FOG IS CREATED!\nIS THAT NOT AMAZING?!\n\nYES, AND IT IS SOMETHING I ALREADY REPORTED WHILE I WAS IN THE GRAND DUCHY.\nCOME ON~ STILL, THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME SEEING THE FOG REPRODUCED, IS IT NOT...?!\nI HAVE SEEN PLENTY OF IT IN THE GRAND DUCHY, SO I AM NOT CURIOUS.\nHAAAH...\nANYWAY, WITH THIS,\nTHE CAUSE OF THE GAS LAMPS LIGHTING IN THE LUNOS MANOR HAS ALSO BECOME CLEAR.\n\nSOME OF THE GASES PRODUCED AT THE FACTORY BELOW THE MANOR LEAKED,\n\nAND MUST HAVE FLOWED INTO THE GAS PIPES.\nYES, THAT IS CORRECT.\n\nLIKE THIS, EXACTLY.\n\nAND ON TOP OF THAT, THE \"OWNER OF THE HOUSE\"\nHAPPENS TO HAVE A CONSTITUTION THAT LETS HER ENDURE LONG EXPOSURE TO THE FOG!\n\nI AM DELIGHTED THAT WITH A SINGLE STRAND OF THAT WOMAN'S HAIR,\nWE CAN MOVE ONE STEP CLOSER TO THE SECRET!!\n\nTHAT IS ENOUGH TIME WASTED.\nI HAVE DELIVERED THE SAMPLE, SO I WILL BE GOING BACK NOW.\nEEK, YOU ARE LEAVING ALREADY?\nNEXT TIME, I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE RESULTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY USEFUL.\n\nHE CAME AND LEFT AFTER DOING NOTHING BUT PRESSURING US AGAIN.\nWELL... HE MUST HAVE A LOT TO WORRY ABOUT.\nIN AN AGE LIKE THIS, WHEN SCIENCE PROVES EVERYTHING,\nCOULD IT BE EASY TO COVER UP THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM BY BLAMING ONE WOMAN AS A WITCH?\n\nIT IS FORTUNATE THAT THOSE GRAND DUCHY PEOPLE ARE STUPID ENOUGH TO FALL FOR IT, THOUGH...\n\nWE'VE BRANDED HER A WITCH SO INTENSELY THAT\nIT WOULD BE QUITE A PROBLEM IF SHE WERE TO DIE TOO SOON...\n\nBUT IF THEY LET HER GO TOO MUCH AND HER INNOCENCE IS PROVEN, THAT WOULD BE TROUBLESOME TOO.\nHOW DIFFICULT\nIT MUST BE TO MANAGE.","bubble_count":113,"pages_count":36,"source":"community"},"spoiler":{"level":"auto","safe_teaser":"The Mansion Awaits Spring Chapter 19 focuses on Director Dieus's meeting with the Emperor and their discussion of the 20 deaths in the mist case.","spoiler_summary":"The Mansion Awaits Spring Chapter 19 focuses on Director Dieus's meeting with the Emperor and their discussion of the 20 deaths in the mist case. Dieus remains distant toward the Emperor's friendly attitude, is asked to meet with academy scholars, and disappoints the Emperor with the drink he brought back. Then, on the Emperor's order, he delivers a single strand of hair brought as an experiment sample, and it is revealed that the poisonous mist in the Grand Duchy consists of fuel gases and that the gas lamps in Lunos Mansion burned due to a leak from the factory."},"source":{"canonical_path":"/series/the-mansion-awaits-spring-943smigg/chapter-20-a5m39f","citation_title":"WebtoonLib — The Mansion Awaits Spring #20: Chapter 19","content_type":"chapter_summary","last_updated":"2026-10-24T10:39:35.176Z"},"data_status":"complete"},"untrusted":{"user_comments":[]},"see_also":{"for_series_detail":"/llms-series/the-mansion-awaits-spring-943smigg"}}