21st Century Necromancer-Chapter 469 Collision with a Ghost (Seeking Monthly Tickets, Seeking Subscriptions)

Because Chen Yu had cured her legs, Nanami became very lively and active, perhaps hoping to make up for the years of inactivity due to her paralysis. Although she was the daughter of a high-ranking official from the Ministry of Health and Welfare and could enjoy being chauffeured to school every day, Nanami chose to ride a bicycle, a change that came about after her mother’s persuasion; originally, Nanami had planned to walk to school on her own.

Having returned to her studies, Nanami also gave up her original membership in the Wind Instrument Club and, along with a few friends, founded the so-called Urban Ghost Stories Research Club to explore various urban legends and ghost stories. Although Member of Parliament Kanai felt such changes were unbecoming, his daughter’s health and well-being were undoubtedly the most important to him, so he did not constrain Nanami.

Recently, after hearing that strange ringing sounds emanated from Kawakami Cemetery at night, Nanami dragged the vice president and main members of her Urban Ghost Stories Research Club to Kawakami Cemetery, intending to uncover the truth behind the urban ghost stories during a night exploration.

"Nanami-chan, let’s go home, it’s so late, I’d usually be asleep by now!" Nanami, having heard the bell, was pulling her two friends deeper into Kawakami Cemetery, but the bespectacled girl following her wanted to go home.

The graveyard at night... such a place really had the perfect atmosphere for ghost stories.

"Chun Jiang, you are, after all, the vice president of our Urban Ghost Stories Research Club, and you agreed to come to Kawakami Cemetery to seek the truth of urban ghost stories, didn’t you?" Nanami turned her head and looked at her friend, feeling slightly displeased, but she was not inconsiderate of her friends’ feelings. So she stopped and said to the short-haired girl beside her, "Kei-chan, Chun Jiang is getting scared, should we just stop here for today? We’ve already heard the bell, which confirms the existence of urban ghost stories. Shall we come back during the day tomorrow?"

To have maintained a close relationship with her during the years she was paralyzed, these two friends by her side were obviously true friends to her, and she was quite considerate of her friends’ feelings.

Hearing Nanami’s words, the girl called Kei-chan stopped as well and looked at her two good friends. She hesitated for a moment before saying, "But the sound of the bell is just ahead. Don’t you want to know the truth? If we come back tomorrow... we might not be able to find it!"

"That’s true!" Hearing Kei-chan say this, Nanami hesitated and turned to Chun Jiang, asking her, "Do you really want to go back, Chun Jiang? Shall we continue walking a bit further? Don’t you want to know the truth behind the urban ghost stories?"

"I... I still want to..." The girl called Chun Jiang was clutching her flashlight with both hands, looking timid, but before she could finish speaking, she suddenly pointed behind Kei-chan and screamed, "Ah—! There’s a ghost!"

At Chun Jiang’s scream, Nanami and Kei-chan both turned around to look. Behind them was a blurry figure, glowing faintly and floating in mid-air, at least a meter above the ground.

Seeing this, Nanami and Kei-chan didn’t even have time to make out the figure’s appearance before screaming out loud themselves, dragging the dazed Chun Jiang as they ran towards the exit of Kawakami Cemetery.

Watching the three flee, the figure couldn’t help but emit a light chuckle and, with the figure’s laughter, a pleasant bell sound echoed around them.

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The three of them, after sprinting out of Kawakami Cemetery, didn’t stop until they reached the bus stop, gasping for breath.

Kei-chan leaned against the bus stop’s billboard, one hand pressed against her chest, trying to alleviate the feeling of her lungs being torn apart due to the intense running. She turned to Nanami and asked, "Nanami-chan, did that thing catch up to us?"

"I don’t think so, I didn’t hear any bell sounds." Nanami was also gasping for air, supporting herself on a pole at the bus stop, struggling to breathe. Even though she liked to bounce around after being able to stand up again, such vigorous activity was not what she was hoping for.

Nevertheless, after saying that, Nanami still turned back to glance over her shoulder, and not seeing anything following them, she nodded with certainty.

"Thank goodness! That really scared me to death!" Hearing that the figure hadn’t followed them, Kei-chan finally breathed a sigh of relief and collapsed onto the bench at the bus stop as if she had burned out completely.

Chun Jiang, on the other hand, because she was dragged along by Kei-chan and Nanami, wasn’t as close to collapsing as the other two, even though she was also panting heavily. Still, she had the strength to ask them, "What on earth was that? Did you get a good look?"

"I didn’t see it clearly; it seemed like a person in clothes." Kei-chan replied directly. She leaned her head against the billboard behind her and shook it slightly, "I was too busy running just now, I didn’t see clearly what happened at all. Nanami-chan, did you see clearly?"

Nanami, upon being asked this by Kei-chan, also shook her head and said, "I didn’t look carefully either. I was scared when Chun Jiang yelled, I just saw that the figure was floating in the sky, and it seemed to be glowing. Chun Jiang, you were the first among us to see it; did you see it clearly?"

"I... I didn’t see it that clearly either, it looked like a woman..." Chun Jiang, under the gaze of Kei-chan and Nanami, still appeared timid, but she spoke seriously, albeit quietly, "That... thing seemed to just appear suddenly. I was just following you guys and talking to Nanami when I looked up and saw that thing, it felt like it was a... female ghost?"

"A female ghost? A ghost from the cemetery?" Hearing Chun Jiang say this, Kei-chan also couldn’t help but widen her eyes in surprise, "Although we’re the Urban Ghost Stories Research Club, to encounter a female ghost on our very first official outing... Isn’t this an ill omen?"

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"No, Kei-chan, you should think of it this way, since we were able to meet a female ghost, it proves that ghosts really do exist in this world! That also means there must be other strange and unusual things in this world! Isn’t researching and discovering these things the very reason our Urban Ghost Stories Research Club was founded?" Nanami seemed rather pleased with encountering the female ghost and refuted Kei-chan’s words while encouraging her two companions in an over-the-top, adolescent tone.

"Arnold, it’s getting late, and we’ve seen the female ghost, shouldn’t we head home?" Chun Jiang seemed to no longer want to stay around and suggested to her companions, "Also, it’s so late now, there probably aren’t any buses, how are we going to get back?"

"I had my dad send a driver; I’ll call him!" Nanami was clearly well prepared, pulling out her cellphone from the bag she had been carrying all along.