Book 2: Chapter 9

After I accuse May’s ghost, there are a few seconds of brief silence when a sudden dark miasma explodes out of her mouth and eyes. The other girl’s gasp and take their distance, although Grimhilde, Elysa, and Millie look like they are ready to fight.

“Excuse me, ladies, I’ll be taking this to the ghost realm for a bit. I’ll be back shortly. Don’t worry too much.”

‘Huh? Ghost realm?” Grimhilde asks in surprise.

“I’ll see you soon Hero!” Ariel accepts it while waving without any restriction.

I move into the ghost realm, which looks like the normal realm except there are no people and everything is tinted blue. The black miasma is already out of May at this point and dives into another room. I teleport, heading the Miasma off. The black stuff rising towards me and then stops, falling to the ground.

It starts to coalesce and gather into a human-shaped form. Finally, a person bursts out of that form. I eye her up and down curiously. My magic is giving me an idea of what she looks like, but this is the first time I get a chance to see here with my own eyes. She has very long black hair, absolute white skin, and dark eyes. She is wearing a long white dress, and, for all intents and purposes, resembles the typical vengeful spirits from Japanese lore, like from the movie the Grudge. Well, it’s not like I am born in Japan, so this kind of spirit doesn’t scare me.

In fact, her dress gives a bit of nice cleavage that makes any ounce of fear dissipate. She is staring at me with one eye through her hair. In Japan, that is usually one of those scary things, but for a non Japanese, the wild hair look is pretty hot. She also appears to have two different colored eyes, one blue, and one red. It is the red eye that is shining through her black hair. Her hands are splayed out like she intends to slash at me with her nails, but I'm not terribly concerned since I buffed all my stats accordingly.

“Hey, what’s your name ghost girl?”

The girl cocks her head like she heard me, but she doesn’t make a sound. Instead, she starts to gradually approach me one step at a time. Well, this might be a little scary in a horror game, but I am powerful now, so it isn’t like she is really a threat. Still, I decide to ease the tension by continuing to talk.

“Let me guess. All the girl’s tortured by that old bastard moved on, but their broken spirits left something behind. All that sadness and hate and bad energy mixed with all the lust we are generating last night allowed you to manifest yourself into existence. Sound about right?”

The ghosts step falters as I spoke, so I am certain I'm not too far off the mark.

“You know, I killed that asshole, right? Do you have any memories? I got your vengeance.”

This time the ghost stopped for a second, then it opened its mouth. “Remember pain… Remember suffering…”

The voice that came out contained several tones as if it is many people speaking at once. It seemed to be shed of any emotion, kind of like a robot talking. As I consider this, it continues to talk.

“Kill… kill… must kill. Must kill all men. Men cause pain. Men cause suffering. Kill. Kill. KILL!” she starts approaching once again.

“Ah, about that. I am genuinely sorry that a sick bastard like him has abused all of you, however, I plan for my mansion to be a place where women can indulge themselves. I’m a generous guy, so I’ll help you rehabilitate too, how does that sound?”

“Kill, kill, must kill. Vengeance. Must kill! No choice!” she continues to approach as a knife suddenly appears in her hand.

She finally reaches me as she raises the knife up in a stabbing motion and I give her a smile. “Well, it’s about time your rehabilitation starts. No worries, I’m a pro.”

I snap my fingers and the white dress covering her body suddenly explodes, ghostly cloth fluttering away as the ghost is suddenly standing their butt naked with a knife mysteriously absent from her raised hand.

“Eh?” The ghost looks down and lets out a silly noise.

I pull down my pants. “Now, let’s begin!”