Surviving in a School of Ghost Stories-Chapter 48

Are you more tolerant of magic than ghosts? The standards are so weird.

I was a little taken aback, but now was not the time to joke around with him.

I saw the ghosts running away behind Leonard's back.

When the guys reacted like that, it was usually either Noah-senpai or an evil spirit. One of the two.

I naturally thought Noah-senpai would show up.

But surprisingly, the person who showed up was Dante, who I had encountered at the fountain yesterday.

'Huh?'

This time it was different from yesterday.

Dante had his eyes closed. It was as if he was sleeping.

"Ha. Seriously, what should I do with that guy? Why does he suddenly start sleepwalking and make people tired?"

Leonard muttered next to him.

It seemed like the roommate he had come out to find was Dante.

‘It was sleepwalking, after all.’

Leonard linked arms with Dante who was struggling and led him away. I walked toward them and-

‘Wait.’

The closer I got to Dante, the more I felt something strange.

‘What is that?’

It was dark and far away, so I didn’t notice it, but when I got closer, I saw that someone was pulling Dante’s wrist.

No. To be exact, there was a black lump attached to it.

“Why is he walking with his hand like that?”

Leonard also expressed his doubts.

Of course. The one pulling Dante’s hand wasn’t a human.

I instinctively grabbed the cross around my neck.

‘It doesn’t look like the door is opening or there’s a medium.’

Then it must be an evil spirit.

Usually, evil spirits were solved by sprinkling holy water, pressing the cross to the forehead, and reciting an exorcism prayer, as Father Cesario did.

However, since I hadn’t anticipated this situation, I didn’t have any holy water prepared.

‘What should I do?’

Leonard approached Dante first.

At that moment, the black mass attached to Dante moved.

To be exact, he raised his head.

As I looked, his long hair was wrapped around his entire body, so I couldn’t see his face.

“Okay, wait a minute!”

I grabbed Leonard’s arm as he reached out to Dante.

Meow.

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At that moment, I heard a cat meow.

The black cat that jumped in at my feet had a necklace string with a glass bottle in its mouth.

A black cat with blue eyes. I immediately recognized it as Senior Noah.

He put the glass bottle down on the floor and looked up at me.

[Melody, now.]

At those words, I reflexively picked up the glass bottle and pulled the cork out.

‘Leonard is watching, so it’s okay, right?’

But I couldn’t just leave Dante like that.

“What is that? Why are you suddenly like that?”

Leonard looked at me with a puzzled face.

Instead of answering, I ran straight to Dante, sprinkled holy water on him, and pressed the cross to his forehead.

“You descendants of Abaddon will not be able to receive the salvation of Kritovan if you do not help the believers of Clutha.”

And then I recited the liberation prayer,

Kuaaaaah-!

As expected, the evil spirit disappeared right away. Soon, Dante slowly opened his eyes as if he had come to his senses.

“Why am I here....”

He muttered, looking around with a surprised face.

As expected, his forearm tingled, and a cross tattoo appeared and disappeared. The evil spirit had disappeared.

Thud-

I had a nosebleed again this time.

“Melody’s nosebleed again.”

Leonard took a handkerchief out of his pocket and covered my nose.

It seems that the boys at this school always carry handkerchiefs.

“Thank you.”

I answered in a slurred voice and started to block my nosebleed with the handkerchief.

After the nosebleed stopped, we took Dante and sat on a ❖ Nоvеl𝚒ght ❖ (Exclusive on Nоvеl𝚒ght) nearby bench.

Senior Noah also followed us obediently, looking like a black dog.

Dante looked at me with haggard and sullen eyes and asked.

“Hastings, do you think you don’t need to go to the hospital?”

“I’ll go tomorrow. Thanks for worrying.”

Dante scratched the back of his head in embarrassment at my answer.

“I didn’t know I had sleepwalking.”

“I didn’t have it before. It just suddenly started last week.”

Leonard responded indifferently to Dante’s words.

I thought for a moment because it seemed like neither of them would believe me if I told them that I was possessed by a ghost.

At that moment, Leonard added the following.

“Do you remember when you won the international cricket tournament and stayed up all night to celebrate the victory? It was after that.”

Winning the international cricket tournament? He was a much more amazing person than I thought... ...!

I think there was a lot of talk about it on the school bulletin board. I quickly forgot about it because I wasn’t interested.

Dante stroked his chin as if he was remembering.

“I think so. It was a party the dean threw, and I remember that curfew was lifted that day, so I played with my colleagues up on the back mountain all night.”

I tilted my head in confusion at Dante’s words.

“The back mountain?”

Usually parties are held all night in a place like the back mountain, but? And it was a party thrown by the dean of all places.

When I heard from Noah that Raven was an easy student to manipulate and that the Dean was taking advantage of her, I felt somewhat distrustful.

“So, why are you having a party in the back mountain?”

When Leonard answered my question, Dante nodded as if he understood.

“There was a strange cabin there, but it was too big and fancy for a mountain cabin. Anyway, I think I started sleepwalking after that day.”

“Was there anything else unusual that day? Anything strange?”

Dante thought hard about Leonard’s question and wrapped his head around his memory.

“I don’t think there was anything. I don’t know.”

Leonard and I both looked disappointed at Dante’s answer.

“If you remember anything later, tell me, Wellington.”

Dante nodded obediently.

Meow.

The cat at his feet started to cry and his eyes sparkled.

[The dean is suspicious after all. I should investigate the mountain lodge in the back mountain.]

After a while, it seemed like it was time for the Ghost Story Investigation Department to step in.

“Why is this cat crying like this? Noisy at night.”

Leonard looked at Noah with a displeased look and said.

It seemed that the senior’s words sounded like a cat’s cry to their ears.

Noah glared at Leonard. His glare was very sharp.

[I don’t want to hear him say that I’m noisy.]

It was the first time I’d seen him express his likes and dislikes to someone.

Regardless, Dante, who couldn’t help but know that the black guy was Noah, asked me.

“By the way, Hastings, why did you sprinkle holy water on me?”

“Oh. That, that.......”

I hesitated for a moment, then Leonard interjected.

“Hey, Hastings sprinkled you with holy water and you came to your senses. I think he has some kind of special ability.”

“If you splash water on anyone’s face out of nowhere, they’ll come to their senses.”

Dante answered incredulously. Of course, Leonard didn’t seem to be paying much attention.

Leonard was more friendly toward me than before.

It seemed like he thought of me as some kind of ‘weird kid who needed to be taken care of.’

“Whatever it was, you brought me to my senses. Thanks, Hastings.”

Dante thanked me.

“You won’t have to sleepwalk anymore.”

I shook the empty glass bottle and continued.

“Holy water helps with sleepwalking.”

It was ridiculous. Of course, neither Dante nor Leonard believed me and laughed.

Two days later.

I arrived at class F, 2nd grade, early in the morning and started my morning study in a refreshing mood.

The ghosts were still floating around, trying to get my attention, but I focused as much as possible on my textbook.

The students started arriving one by one, and class was about to start.

Bam!

The front door suddenly opened violently and Dante came into the classroom with an excited face.

He strode toward me and asked me.

“The sleepwalking has really gone away. Are you really a wizard like Leonard said?”