Chapter 16: Catching a Ghost II (2/2)

Now, as a pretty strong Alter himself, Ghost could easily deal with low rank Variants like Strikers But there was always the off chance that soh, he could just use his ability and run away

Ghost took the tenspot Meanwhile, he checked his Eye-Phone's photo gallery, a sh his norh pictures of bare-naked women he had snapped while they were passed out senseless fros he slipped theht club in Haven

One of them was a coraduated frootten passed out and used all the way He licked his lips, watching snippets of the videos he had taken of her

Ghost reached the clearing where his du out a ses and a few small empty plastic boxes that once had pills in them He laid the contraband by his side and withdrew a hand shovel

Shovel in hand, he started to dig away at the little pit that held his secrets Until he hit so that cracked

"What the fuck?" he whispered as he uncovered soolden…seed? Its outer shell was lined with cracks from his shovel No, not just one seed, there were two others too laying beside it

Ghost registered confusion for a split seconds before he started to groary, and this single split second costed hi a concentrated gas of yellow dotted with glowing speckles of pollen Ghost coughed violently before covering his , and he is and h

One breath of that concentrated gas had buckled Ghost to his knees, his entire body growing numb and still, and he fell face first into the pile of seeds He felt stabs of pain as used up needles in the dirt pile pierced his face

Ghostas he could, but he still needed to breathe The gas stayed there for longer than he could hold his breath, and he was forced to gulp in another breath of it

Ghost blinked and grih, was not paralyzed, keeping him conscious

Paralysis from the head doas a co This, he knew fro down at the dirt, struggling not to have needles puncture too deeply into his cheeks, his mind raced

How?

Why?

Moss Beasts released their gas through tubes, not through seeds like this And why had a Moss Beast planted these seeds in this specific hole of all things?

Nothing made sense

Ghost felt his body kicked over, flipping him over face up His pale red eyes widened near ireen eyes looking down at hinized te face

It was a face he thought he would never see again

"W-what the fuck? You-you're that Dud!?" whispered Ghost, finding it incredibly hard for his nus to draw breath

"Aldrich That's my name A name you never bothered to learn"