Chapter 133 - Sanji (1) (1/2)

(Jane's PoV)

Siji came back before dark. When he appeared in front of me, he was wearing his stoic expression. Even though I knew he would use this expression most of the time while we were dealing with shadows, I could sense he was deliberately trying to hide something about Sanji from me.

Using this expression right after I asked you to check on Sanji? You really couldn't hide your expression well, Siji.

”Speak, what happened to him?” I asked. ”Do I need to visit him?”

”There's no need, Milady. He is fine.” Siji replied.

Normally, I would find his reply as nothing went wrong. But, somehow today I felt like he was hiding something from me. Seeing that Siji didn't want to tell me about it, I could only take care of it by my own means.

Since the day had just darkened, I grabbed my jacket and went to Sanji's place after I checked on all of the windows and doors. Surely I still didn't want my house to be visited by burglars, right?

Siji didn't say anything, but from the corner of my eyes, I could see the helplessness in his eyes. He didn't have a choice but to follow me.

I rarely went out when the night had come. I preferred staying inside the house only because I didn't want to meet ghosts on my way. There were many of them, but since my house had many guardians, it was rare for them to come and disturb me at my house; Lisa's case was the exception.

However, now I had stepped out from my comfort zone. I was bound to see 'them', like it or not. Fortunately, even though sometimes I would flinch and startle when they appeared out of nowhere with their hideous appearance, I managed to control myself not to freak out.

Well, when I was handling a mission of eradicating shadows, I knew that I turned into fearless young woman. But, handling shadows and seeing ghosts were two different things. When I handled shadows, no matter how horrible and scary their appearances were, I would not feel scared. There was a goal inside my mind, which was to help people and to exterminate evil beings. But, meeting hideous ghosts meant just seeing them. I couldn't control where they could pop out from, or how they would look like. I couldn't hurt them unless they wanted to hurt me.

So yeah, I didn't feel much fear, but they always startled me.

I rode my father's scooter towards where Sanji lived. He lived not far from my house, so I could reach him in no time. After parking the scooter in the safe place, as well as ignoring the look a Kuntilanak gave me, I went straight ahead to Sanji's room.

Knock, knock, knock!

I knocked on his door lightly. After waiting for while, I couldn't hear anything from the inside, so I knocked again. This time, I barely caught the rustling sound. Not long after that, I heard raspy voice asking behind the door.

”Who is it?”

I frowned. His voice sounded like he was sick.

”It's me. Open the door, please.” I answered.

”Jane? What are you doing here?”

”I'm coming to check on you. Are you okay?”