Chapter 36

"To be honest, compared to the Mist Tengu, the old abbot is the truly terrifying one."

"That's true too!"

"Ran!"

"What's wrong?"

"Do you think ghosts really exist?"

"I... I guess so."

Mouri Ran squatted in the bathroom.

Once again, she recalled the legend of the Mist Tengu told by the abbot monk.

It likes to appear on rainy days and in the dark.

It likes to suck souls.

Especially young girls like her and Sonoko.

They are extremely easy to be snatched away.

If there really is such a thing as ghosts, then can my dream be explained?

Suzuki Sonoko said to herself.

"The dream was so real."

"Actually, sometimes I also wonder."

"Does Hoshino-kun like me in the same way?"

"Perhaps it is his longing that makes everything entangle me like a ghost event."

"Ran, are you listening?"

Suzuki Sonoko saw that Mouri Ran was no longer replying to her.

So she took the initiative to ask:

"Ran?"

Just as Suzuki Sonoko intended to open the door to check.

"Oh? Is that so?"

Suddenly, a terrifying red dog head appeared from behind Suzuki Sonoko.

Suzuki Sonoko turned her head to look.

"Ahhh!"

A blood-curdling scream.

Suzuki Sonoko was so scared that she took a few steps back.

One foot stepped into a gap in the floorboards.

Her shoe got stuck, and she couldn't maintain her balance.

Her body was swaying non-stop, as if she was about to fall.

So she anxiously tried to grab the window next to her.

But she didn't expect the window next to her to be open.

She lost her footing and tumbled out of the window.

"Sonoko!"

Mouri Ran took off her mask.

With quick eyes and fast hands, she rushed over and jumped out of the window following Suzuki Sonoko's fall.

She dove recklessly, reaching out her hand to try and grab Sonoko.

The floor was not high.

Only two stories.

But Suzuki Sonoko was falling headfirst.

If she didn't catch her.

The consequences would be unimaginable.

Looking at Suzuki Sonoko, who was within reach but impossible to grab.

Mouri Ran closed her eyes in despair.

"Sonoko!"

Just at this moment when they were about to be separated by life and death.

The two of them fell steadily into someone's arms.

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