Chapter 13: Who were you talking to? (2/2)

“Please enter.”

To Suyang, those two words were like the opening gunshot that allowed athletes to begin the race. Suyang immediately entered my room. “If I find someone here, you’re dead!”

“Feel free to look around, but if you can’t find anything, I am not going to willingly allow you accuse me!” I knew he wouldn’t be able to see Sheyu, so there was nothing I had to be afraid of.

As expected, Suyang couldn’t see or sense Sheyu even though she was in front of him. He directly passed by her.

“I swear I heard you talking to someone….” Suyang muttered under his breath as he began to flip through my wardrobe. He even cautiously explored underneath my bed.

“Wow, you went as far as eavesdropping outside my door? You have no class!” I rolled my eyes at him as I watched him try to drill himself underneath my bed.

I turned away and decided to ignore him as I took my bloody top off and looked for a clean top to wear.

Suyang got up from the ground and noticed I only had a tank top on. Right away, he covered his eyes and turned around as he stuttered nervously, “Y-you….why did you take off your clothes? Are you crazy?”

“My clothes are covered in blood, of course I have to change! What do you expect? You want me to wear this to celebrate the New Years*?”

Suyang’s extreme reaction was quite interesting to me.

He was ….so….pure?

Suyang was speechless.

After being silent for a moment, he pointed towards me as he hotly stated, “In the contract, it states that you must not expose yourself in a public space. Did you forget? You want to go against the contract?”

“Bro. Is this a public place? This is my bedroom! And I’m not naked. Can’t you see this tank top?!” I smacked Suyang on the back.

Surprisingly, Suyang jumped as if I had stabbed him with needles. He closed his eyes and hopped off my bed as he ran out. Before he closed the door, he also crashed against the wall.

“I can’t believe you would take off your top in front of a man. You pervert!” Suyang yelled from the other side of the door.

“You!” I violently pulled my door open as I glared at Suyang. I crossed my arms and held it at the bottom of my tank top; pretending to pull it up.

As expected, Suyang couldn’t handle it. He instantaneously bolted back into his room.

Psssh, you want to fight me?

I slapped my hands and grinned victoriously. I turned around and closed the door as I gave Sheyu a victory sign. “I found the annoying goblin’s weakness.”

Now that I got rid of Suyang, I continued our previous discussion. But we couldn’t come up with a solution. So I turned on my laptop as I researched about spirits that have left the bodies.

Sadly, most of the results were useless. The more I searched, the more hopeless I felt. I had the mindset of barking up to any tree possible in my desperation, and left a question on a forum roughly seeking for advice on how to return a spirit back into the body.

After waiting for many hours, someone finally responded, but he was mocking me…

A few moments later, there was another response. But it was either a sarcastic comment or some weird advertisements. I felt like my method had failed. As I pondered deeply once again, I suddenly thought of something. I excitedly slammed my hand down, “Sheyu, let’s return back to the hospital!” Then, I put on my jacket as I was about to leave the room.

“I have seen it on TV before. Since your spirit exited through your body, why can’t it enter it again? Scientifically, your physical body is still living. You should be able to return…. Regardless of the result, we must go back to the hospital and attempt!”

I was anxious and eager at the same time as I tried to open the door.

“Huh? Strange… how come I can’t open the door?”

I increased my strength and twisted the knob left to right, but it wouldn’t budge at all. I swear, it was fine earlier when I was teasing Suyang…

I came to a realization as I banged the door and shouted, “Suyang! What the hell are you doing?!”

No response.

“Suyang! I know you did something to my door! You better let me out! I have something urgent I have to do!” I didn’t understand why he was locking me in.

A few moments later, a note entered through my door crack.

It said: “Considering what you went through today, I am not going to investigate your abnormal behaviour and punish you for violating the contract. As a kind-hearted roommate, I have decided to let you rest well to show my considerate side.”

*In the Chinese culture, it is common to wear red to celebrate the New Year. Red is considered a lucky colour.