Chapter 51

Hoshino Ki took out a rag

and gently wiped the dust off the ornament.

“What am I asking! A house where someone died, how could it be expensive...”

Mouri Ran suddenly covered her mouth.

She secretly regretted it,

knowing full well she had said the wrong thing again.

If it weren’t for the hardship of living alone,

no one would be willing to spend money to buy a haunted house.

She slightly raised her beautiful eyes,

discovering that Hoshino Ki hadn’t been hurt by her words just now.

So she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

“Hoo~”

Mouri Ran secretly shifted her gaze

and started to focus on cleaning.

Just as she was halfway through sweeping,

she was suddenly attracted by a giant object at her feet.

So she bent down, intending to move it aside,

but discovered that with her strength, she couldn’t even lift it easily.

So,

“Huh? This box is very heavy! What’s inside?”

Mouri Ran raised her hand to touch the cardboard box and tore off the tape on it.

She was just about to open the box.

“Don’t...!”

At this moment!

Miyano Akemi, hiding behind the pillar, suddenly let out a gasp.

But fortunately, she covered her mouth in time.

“Ho... Hoshino-kun!”

Mouri Ran suddenly raised her head,

her pupils shrinking.

She stiffly turned her head and looked around.

“Did you hear that?”

Mouri Ran seemed to have heard some strange sound.

It was a woman’s voice,

and the voice seemed to carry a trace of resentment...!

Mouri Ran’s body suddenly stiffened.

Thinking of the previous legends about this “haunted house,”

she was suddenly horrified.

The hair all over her body stood up.

A huge sense of fear rushed straight up her spine.

A tingling sensation came from her heart,

sweeping through her entire body.

“What did you hear?”

Hoshino Ki still had a calm expression.

He was still wiping the vase in his hand non-stop.

“Hoshino-kun, are you sure this house... doesn’t have ghosts?”

Mouri Ran swallowed nervously.

“I don’t know!”

Regarding whether there were ghosts in the villa,

Hoshino Ki didn’t give a clear explanation.

Anyway,

he wasn’t the one afraid of ghosts.

Whether there were ghosts or not didn’t matter to him.

“Hoshino-kun, but I clearly heard a sound just now...”

“Is that so?”

Hoshino Ki continued wiping his cup,

looking like he didn’t care about anything outside his own world.

Today, Mouri Ran was wearing an off-white short-sleeved shirt,

blue high-waisted jeans,

and red sneakers.

She looked full of youth and vitality.

Her long, straight black hair,

and blue eyes seemed both panicked and somewhat defensive.

She looked around.

The sound just now wasn’t an auditory hallucination.

Mouri Ran was very sure she had heard a girl’s voice just now.

When she turned her gaze toward Hoshino Ki,

she found that he hadn’t heard anything.

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He was still busy with his own business.

No matter how tough Mouri Ran was, she was still just a delicate girl.

She was still somewhat resistant to the idea of ghosts.

“Mouri!”

Hoshino Ki turned his head to look at Mouri Ran.

Seeing that she looked very scared,

he felt a bit helpless.

“You should go home, I can do it by myself.”

“But...”

Mouri Ran was truly scared,

and was somewhat hesitant.

“Go back!”

Hoshino Ki didn’t care at all.

“Go back quickly!”

At this moment!

Suddenly, a strange roar came from somewhere!

It wasn’t Hoshino Ki’s voice.

The real Hoshino Ki had been tidying things up the whole time.

That sound,

it was clearly the strange woman’s voice from just now.

Without any surprise,

it scared Mouri Ran so much that she jumped up!

After Mouri Ran left,

Miyano Akemi slowly walked out from behind the pillar.

She narrowed her eyes,

leaned her body against the pillar,

crossed her arms,

and looked at Hoshino Ki with interest.

“Girlfriend?”

“No!”

Hoshino Ki fiddled with the rag in his hand,

and glanced at her with a helpless look.

“Ah, what a pity, she looks very cute!”

Miyano Akemi looked regretful,

as if she felt sorry for Hoshino Ki not knowing how to seize the opportunity.

“...”

Hoshino Ki looked at Miyano Akemi indifferently,

and continued wiping the vase.

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“Hey, I’ll introduce my sister to you!”

Miyano Akemi suddenly said something shocking.

“Ah, forget it, you’re a delinquent, you’ll lead her astray.”

“Eh? But your personalities are very similar.”

“You should be able to get along very well!”

“Hmm... no no, my sister is so innocent...”

“...”

Hoshino Ki ignored her talking to herself.

He just glanced at her and started his own movements again.

Having lived with Miyano Akemi for over a month,

he had long discovered that she had the potential to be a chatterbox.

Usually, she was either nagging like a mother,

or complaining about this and that.

It was as annoying as keeping a lark in the house.

Hoshino Ki shook his head helplessly,

letting Miyano Akemi talk to herself in place.

She shook her head for a while,

nodded for a while,

pondered for a while,

and then secretly looked at him for a while.

Shaking her head and swaying,

she was the spitting image of a charlatan.

“I’m going to the second floor.”

Hoshino Ki carried the bucket

and climbed the stairs leading to the second floor.

This villa, including the basement, had a total of three floors.

The first floor had the living room, kitchen, conference room, and other rooms.

The second floor mainly had the living quarters, bathroom, and study.

Hoshino Ki discovered

that this villa had many rooms.

Besides the master bedroom,

there were secondary bedrooms, guest rooms, etc.

The house was too big,

and cleaning it was really a pain.

Living alone was indeed a bit lonely.

Having a lark around to add some life wouldn’t be bad.

Hoshino Ki walked up the stairs.

“Zhao Si-kun! I haven’t finished talking! You can’t be so impolite, I’m a whole seven years older than you...”

Miyano Akemi shouted at Hoshino Ki angrily from the first floor.

“...”

He somewhat regretted saying his name was “Nicholas Zhao Si.”

It was too ugly.

By the time the two finished cleaning,

it was already late at night.

The moon was already hanging high in the sky.

A dark cloud intentionally tried to block the moon’s light,

but it seemed to lack the strength.

It was pierced by the moonlight through a gap,

and gradually the whole thing was scattered.

The moonlight shone straight onto the earth,

entering through the windows,

and shooting into every room.

“Hoo! Finally finished cleaning!”

Miyano Akemi slumped on the sofa,

taking a short rest.

“I have to say, Zhao Si-kun, your luck is really not bad.”

Miyano Akemi leaned her head against the back of the sofa,

enjoying the comfort brought by the high-end leather sofa.

“To be able to buy such a big house.”

“Thanks to you.”

Hoshino Ki placed the coffee in front of Miyano Akemi,

as a reward for her hard work.

“Zhao Si-kun!”

“?”

Hoshino Ki looked puzzled.

This woman was always jumpy.

“You haven’t been in a relationship yet, right?”

“...”

Hoshino Ki shook his head.

He looked lost.

He couldn’t even save his own life.