Spoiled by Eight Uncles

Chapter 72 Josh Runs Into A Ghost Again

Lilly forcefully dragged Josh to a sprint.

The blazing sun still hung overhead. The trees in the school grove weren’t particularly short but provided just enough shade.The moment he set foot in the grove, he noticed Cheryl there with her head hanging low. She looked downcast.

She sluggishly looked up to stare at him when he approached.

He could feel every hair on his body stand on end.

Lilly turned around. “Are you scared, Drake? You can head back if you are!”

Josh was ready to leave but stayed out of stubbornness. “…Real funny. You think I’m scared?”

Calm… I have to calm down.

Nothing in the world scares me.

A resounding scream tore through the air just as he was thinking. “Ah!”

Josh jumped. “Eek!”

That startled Lilly who chased after the boy who began to run wildly. “That’s Polly, Josh!”

Polly was sitting in the school bag singing. “….Take the red string of fate… You and I… Ah…”

The bird couldn’t reach a higher octave leading to a hideous scream.

Josh was rendered speechless.

He wanted to weep so badly.

That was when Cheryl began to take light, mincing steps toward them.

“You’re here, Josh.” She giggled.

The subject of affections had been shocked stupid. “…”

His tears stopped and a chill ran down his spine.

Cheryl had a pale complexion with eyes bruised and sunken in.

Her features were stiff, leading to her efforts in smiling leaving everyone unnerved.

Josh felt numb. “Uh…”

Lilly got in Cheryl’s way and started with a frown, “Stop scaring him!”

serious expression on

Lilly

Where is he?

close.

had deep-set eyes, a tall nose bridge, and rouge red lips. His appearance made him

this time?” Pablo indifferently patted the

him

wrong with my

timeout and left the

came back while I was

to be found…until

least of their problems. Lilly asked,

She was puzzled.

Pablo’s teachings, the vanity spirit shouldn’t have been able to overtake Cheryl’s

eyes. “This is a phenomenon known as

to a host and influencing them. Spirit substitute is when a

nodded vigorously. “Oh! So that’s

turned ashen. “W-What

boy who thrived on logic was reacting just like a normal

explain what she learned from Pablo to him.

her tiptoes. “A spirit substitute is a ghost trying to manipulate its host. There’s a ghost behind her right now. Its feet are padding Cheryl’s

“Huh?!”

found himself unable to look

the back of her foot was straight.

ready to make a

him down. “Never run when facing a ghost! A human can’t outrun a ghost. Running will also reveal

Josh was speechless.

he supposed to

a tiny part of his

of our feet cannot leave the ground. We cannot move away,

and pondered a way out of this. There was only one way to

our best way out of this is to defeat the

cling to Lilly’s

reassuring pat. “You’ll be okay,

like that is not enough to scare me

hair ties tied to the top of her head fluttered

spirit couldn’t help but snicker at the child’s

Her alone?

only thing I’m

body and asked, “And

the tree and said leisurely, “Nothing. This

can also settle the matter of the eighteen lives who were

barred her fangs and

in