Surviving in a School of Ghost Stories-Chapter 108

At first, I couldn’t understand how I had become the student representative. There was no reason for it.

But shortly after, I suddenly thought of a brilliant move.

“Senpai, maybe...?”

As I explained the idea that had come to mind, Noah-senpai chuckled.

[As expected, you understood immediately.]

Student representative. I could probably do it.

As long as public opinion follows me.

“Hastings! The president has woken up!”

Someone urgently called me while I was talking to Noah-senpai in the hospital hallway. It was Liam-senpai. freёnovelkiss.com

‘The president has woken up?’

I looked at Noah-senpai in surprise. He was right next to me, so how could he have woken up?

Noah-senpai, unfazed, calmly crossed his arms and spoke.

[Either it’s a spirit that got lost or an evil spirit, or perhaps something I can’t identify has taken over my empty body.]

“You’re saying that so nonchalantly?”

“What?”

Liam-senpai asked in return. He must have thought I was asking him. Since Noah-senpai wasn’t visible to him, it was understandable.

I shook my head and moved my feet.

“It’s nothing. I’ll go.”

I needed to see with my own eyes who had actually woken up.

So, I followed Liam-senpai back to Noah-senpai’s hospital room.

“Senpai, are you okay?”

“What on earth happened?”

As soon as I entered the room, I saw not Noah-senpai, but something that looked like him sitting on the bed.

The student council members were all surrounding him, offering worried greetings.

Raven, Eastern, and Erika were absent. I was the first to finish the police investigation.

“But what happened to your eyes...?”

Liam-senpai looked at the fake Noah-senpai’s face, puzzled. His eyes were bright red.

I looked back at the real Noah-senpai. But even as I scanned the room, I couldn’t find him.

Startled, I stepped out of the room, only to see a breathless figure standing in front of the door. It was Noah-senpai, but his body was becoming transparent.

With a look of disbelief, Noah-senpai grabbed the front of his chest and muttered.

“This doesn’t make sense, how...?”

“Senpai, are you okay?”

I grabbed his shoulder. Thankfully, I could still touch him.

[It seems like him. If I get too close, I feel like my soul might be consumed as well.]

“Him?”

[The king.]

Noah-senpai said something shocking.

[The king of the evil spirits. It seems that’s what has taken over my body.]

What?

Knock knock.

Just then, someone knocked on the wall. I turned around to see a fake Noah-senpai, with red eyes, grinning and leaning against the hospital door.

“It’s been a while, Sister.”

“Senpai, that fake...”

Do you understand what that fake is saying?

I turned my head to ask, but the real Noah-senpai had vanished.

“He ran away. Left his sister behind. What a coward.”

The fake Noah-senpai lowered his head and laughed. His shoulders were trembling slightly.

“Who’s a sister?”

“Aah. Sorry. Right now, it’s Melody.”

He tilted his head and looked at me. His red eyes slithered over me like a snake.

“I’m not whole yet, but I’m slowly adapting to this body.”

It was then that I realized. The king of the evil spirits. The giant blue eyes and red eyes. And Noah-senpai, trapped in a cage.

“I’m in a state where I’ve left my body. What they’re probably afraid of is my vessel. And the out-of-body state, I think it was because of that mist...”

I remembered what the real Noah-senpai had said earlier.

If Noah-senpai’s body is the vessel for the king of the evil spirits, then all the mysteries until now would make sense.

The things the student council president from 903 said, and the special ability he had that allowed him to turn back time.

The fake Noah-senpai’s eye color was slowly changing from red to blue.

So, this is what he meant by adapting. Slowly taking over the real Noah-senpai’s body.

“Surprised? You seem to know who I am.”

“Are you the king of the evil spirits?”

“Something like that. Ah, don’t look at me like that. I’m him, and he’s me. And the one who deeply worries about you is also me. Though, not in the way you’d want.”

“What do you mean by that...?”

“What’s this? You leave and suddenly act like this?”

At that moment, student council members came out of the room and started worrying over the fake Noah-senpai.

“President, are you okay?”

I grabbed him by the collar and whispered in his ear.

“What do you want? Give me back my senpai.”

The fake Noah-senpai chuckled and answered.

“What I want? Well, Melody, no, Hastings, you’ll have to figure that out yourself from now on.”

He deliberately changed his tone as he answered. And I felt a sense of déjà vu from his words.

It was exactly how the student council president from 903 had spoken when he came to find me.

When I made a realization, he smiled with an unreadable expression.

Then, he moved away from me. The student council members, awkwardly standing in front of the hospital door, spoke hesitantly.

“Can’t you two keep the romance for the right time and place?”

“President, we thought you were sick, but it looks like you can leave the hospital right away.”

“It’s not like that.”

Even with my answer, the student council members didn’t try to hide anything, and their chatter was getting louder.

I looked at the fake Noah-senpai with a troubled expression. When our eyes met, he smiled again.

It was the same face as Noah-senpai, but the feeling was completely different.

‘Where did Noah-senpai go? I have to find him first.’

But Noah-senpai was nowhere to be found.

I searched for him until dawn. Eventually, I was found by the dorm supervisor and dragged back, but...

Reluctantly, I returned to my room and lay down on my bed, but sleep wouldn’t come.

It was a shocking night.

The next morning.

I had spent the night with my eyes wide open. How could I not worry, considering the man who seemed unshakable was now in this state?

Above all, the king of the evil spirits had appeared. I needed Noah-senpai’s opinion more than ever.

‘Father Cesario probably doesn’t know where Noah-senpai is either.’

Maybe Father Cesario was hiding Noah-senpai somewhere.

Why did the king of the evil spirits come in the form of the student council president from 903? Why did he send me back in time? What does he really want?

Does he want the release of the evil spirits and to make the world his?

If that’s the case, what role did I play in his plan?

While getting ready to go out, I read the daily newspaper delivered to my door.

The incident at the House of the Dead during the pre-festival wasn’t much of an issue.

Since there were several other small incidents during the festival, it didn’t attract much attention.

Things like thefts, fights, alcohol-related incidents, and even a fire, which had kept the police and reporters busy.

Because of that, the events we experienced passed quietly. Since there were no casualties, it seemed to have been dismissed as just a mishap.

‘Was there really no casualty?’

I clearly heard that a student had gone missing, and when I first arrived at the House of the Dead, I overheard people talking about the disappearance.

But after that, such discussions completely vanished, and the response was more like, ‘Disappearance? What are you talking about?’

‘I wonder if the male student who saved me that time is okay.’

The evil spirit that had shouted about the human scent had dragged the brown-haired male student into the ‘other world.’

But since he seemed fine, it didn’t look like the male student had escaped from the ‘other world.’

There were so many things to worry about right now.

My priority, as always, was breaking Raven’s curse. And no matter how much information I gathered, there was no being that could curse a human.

Ordinary spirits or evil spirits might torment or take lives, but they couldn’t place a curse.

There was only one powerful being that could do that.

The king of the evil spirits.

And now Noah-senpai’s body had been taken by the king.

‘I have to find Noah-senpai soon.’

I had experienced two ghost stories during the pre-festival, and though I was exhausted, I couldn’t just stay in my dorm room.

I had to meet Father Cesario first, and then I’d go to my part-time job. I finished getting ready and was putting on my shoes in front of the door.

At that moment, Erika approached me with a worried expression.

“Melody, are you really okay?”

When I saw Erika’s face, I remembered the lantern she gave me the previous night, saying it was from Noah-senpai.

“Erika. You gave me a lantern last night. You said Noah-senpai told you to give it to me. Did you really get that from Noah-senpai?”

At my question, Erika tilted her head, puzzled.

“I did?”

She looked at me with a confused expression.

“You said Noah-senpai told you that I would definitely need ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) it.”

“I did?”

She asked again, her face turning serious, clearly not understanding what I was talking about.