Vol 1 Chapter 8 (1/2)
Decision
Taiwan — 6:00 PM
As the sun was setting, the entire area was dyed bright red I sat on a bench in a park Although it was a lot safer now, being chased by a ghost and then pushed off the bridge, these incidents caused my hands to shake uncontrollably
The phone had also unknowingly returned to me
“Take it” An icy cold beverage can was held at one side of my face I quickly took it, raised my head and saw senior, who had walked over to the side of the vending ht two cans of fizzy drinks, had already returned
“That thing frorated all the questions in s I’ve read from manhua, I came to a conclusion, “This can’t be a daht?!” This was the host child to appear at the right tie with the enemy and what not
“I’m not that bored” Senior, who had opened the can and drank a mouthful, threw a cold remark His expression also see black clothing he earing when I first?”
Oh right, the ghost child see so chased by that evil spirit, as totally ignored, but was elated with his one sided conversation
“What is a Ghost King?” I only know of a Ghost King Zhong Kui, but I’host, so for what reasons did he have to order his underlings to get me?
[T/N: A figure of Chinese Mythology Traditionally regarded as a vanquisher of ghosts and evil beings, and reputedly able to command 80,000 demons – Wikipedia]
“…It’s the host”
… I really don’t understand the answer senior had given me
“Really” Senior stood up and threw the e bin The sunset was reflected off his silver hair — a shi+ning bright spot of light For a moment it felt like his hair was dyed red with blood, so dazzling that it , “No matter which world you are frohosts, demons, devils,etcetera”
“Ah, ah, I understand” Those kinds of big monsters always appear in Manhua and movies
“It’s also practical if you use those things as a reference Those things are affected by the region, psionic, ley lines, etcetera These different types of factors will cause theether, and the leader they revere will be the king or, have soave a little affirion of dead people The thing you thought of just noas already a little deified, which is considered as a type of ghost God, but the Ghost King that’s after you is not acknowledged… in other words, it’s what you guys would call the head of the evil spirits”
I was starting to get a little dizzy listening to senior, but I got a hint of what he was trying to say
“Also, there are several Ghost Kings, one as after you earlier was Evil Ghost King, Bishen”
I’ve never heard of it before
Lots of questions were flashi+ng through my mind, but the question I currently wanted to ask theafterthat occurred tothe classroom and the line of corpses, but I’ve not had any encounter with ghosts
“… It was attracted to you because of your bad luck”
…
“I’m very sorry I know I’hosts wanted come and chase me
Senior looked at me, “Don’t worry, you are not the first one to be chased” He said, “Your life energy was changed because of the school Your personal ability will slowly be drawn out, so in the future, the rate of these kinds of occurrences would most probably only increase and not decrease”
“Ah?” Would only increase and not decrease?
Ma, ah! Why was it that only I have to experience these things? I just want to be an ordinary person and finishchased by ghosts?
“Do you really think you can be an ordinary person?” Senior looked atsharper, “The school definitely did notyou to apply into this school It’s only people, with special abilities, are able to apply into our school Even if you are not going to study at our school now, the ability of yours will still slowly increase with your growth Being chased by ghosts was so that would have happen in just a matter of time”
I didn’t knohy but, I think senior seeh he didn’t seemed to be very happy the entire ti
The whole area gradually quieted down
Senior was silent for a long time before he said slowly, “You, will one day understand theof this sentence”
I looked at senior, and the gear offaster
It was exactly like what senior had said What if by some unlucky chance I really had some unknown ability (and maybe the ability was called Millenniu sihost would still come and chase after me
I rehost presuI don’t want my family to be involved in this because of this reason
If I was destined to be unlucky, I would rather be unlucky just by myself, since I’hosts co into my house, what am I supposed to do?
I looked at senior, there was a deter in my mind They had said earlier that Atlantis was a school to help with the development of special abilities It was the very saistered to study in
“Hush” Just as I’d wanted to say so, senior suddenly raised his finger to his lips and narrowed his red eyes, “They’re here again”
I’ve still yet to understand what it was that he had said was here
“There” Senior raised his hand and casually pointed at one direction I skeptically looked across, and was stunned Its clone was here, and he even took a whole lot of comrades and covertly came here
“That, that, that, that—” The nightered right in front ofvery badly, evenhad increased in speed
A group of around a dozen of those gray-eyed beings eed from the direction of the public toilet There were males and females, with their mouth were slit open, all the way to the botto out
“AAAHHH—!” Toilet ghost!
“Shut up” Senior glared at roup of lesser underlings Your favorite Mikayla can cope with a large group of these without uttering a single word of complaint”
That’s because you guys are not human!
Thinking of the sweet sht I finally irl, but the “cat” she carries around with her was really huous!
“You’d better look carefully, this is the s” With an unchanging expression, senior slightly bend his body, and took out a piece of white paper with the size of a char and soe, “This is an explosive charm If you ever choose Charm Arts as an elective course, you will learn how to draw the characters of basic curses”
[T/N: This is what a paper chare]
I looked at the piece of paper in s that looked like flaold-like silk
If I looked at it in another way, it was fortunate the paper hite instead of yellow, otherwise it would look awfully similar to Joss Paper
[T/N: Also known as ghost money, are sheets of paper and/or paper-crafts s which are co the veneration of the deceased on holidays and special occasions Joss paper, as well as other papier-mâché items, are also burned in various Asian funerals, to ensure that the spirit of the deceased has lots of good things in the afterlife – Wikipedia]
“Chu, you need to look carefully”
When senior said that, I didn’t realize he was calling me It was only after a few seconds later did I realize he was calling ners would directly address others by their surnames
“Basically, no matter what kind of stuff you want to use, yourthat sounds a lot like a irls
“Mind’s intention, mind’s intention,joss paper-like char my eyes hurt
In fact, I didn’t knoas , what I currently as, for that group of evil spirits that were closing in to immediately disappear
But it was strange, as there were so many people in the park at this tiot off work or, was co a blind eye towards these evil spirits, even senior, as such an outstanding person, had stood here for quite soh school girls who came to approach him This situation was rather unusual
“Bursting Fire resound withto cause the ene out another piece of charhtly in his pal a brief incantation
Wait a moment, in manhuas, didn’t those people anted to launch so sentence of some Demonic Sanskrit no one else can understand? Why was senior’s incantation so easy and simple?
“I just said it’s the mind’s intention that’s most important, didn’t you understand?!” Senior reminded me about the maxim a second time
The whole area was already surrounded by the group of evil spirits Don’t talk about my mind’s intention, I’m currently not even able to produce a fart A horrible s to spread out It can’t be that they just climbed out of the toilet bowl from the public toilet?
Sly likeme a little nauseous
Just as the first gray eyed ferab us, senior’s action washis hands, a streaht in front of my eyes
The second the sun set, I saw a line appearing from senior’s pal bullets with a bang, but the ancient Chinese long spear
[T/N: In this sentences, the author used the character that can also be a word for “gun”]
On top of the black spear were odd carvings of red and gold patterns Reflected frolowing, as if there were fireflies on top of it
After the spear drew out a circle, the spear was pointed at the forehead of the gray-eyed feh her head
“Bursting fire, destroy” Senior’s voice was very soft He chanted an incantation similar to the one he did earlier on, but it was a lot simpler
Just as senior had finished chanting, the fe a blackboard with a fingernail