Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

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!”

She wore a serious expression on her chubby, child-like face.

Lilly

Where is he?

close.

eyes, a tall nose bridge, and rouge red lips. His appearance made

is it this time?” Pablo indifferently patted the

him

wrong with

while I was forced into a timeout and left the school to go take

I was

nowhere to

was the least of their problems. Lilly

She was puzzled.

to Pablo’s teachings, the vanity spirit shouldn’t have been able to overtake Cheryl’s body yet but Lilly no longer felt Cheryl’s

a phenomenon known

influencing

“Oh! So that’s a

turned ashen. “W-What do you mean ‘spirit

thrived on logic was reacting just

to explain what she learned from Pablo to him.

host. There’s a ghost behind her right now. Its feet are padding Cheryl’s own. That’s how she’s

“Huh?!”

afraid but found himself unable

her foot was

more than ready to make a run

outrun a ghost. Running will also reveal one’s sole of their feet to

Josh was speechless.

was he supposed to

hear a tiny part

earnest. “The soles of our feet cannot leave the ground. We cannot move away, jump, or

out of this. There was only one way to

of this is to

chose to cling to

him a reassuring pat. “You’ll

that is not enough to scare

his fears by patting herself in the chest. Her hair ties

but snicker at the child’s

Her alone?

thing I’m

Cheryl’s body and asked, “And what are you planning

said leisurely, “Nothing.

of the eighteen lives

expression twisted. She barred her

in your

grabbed the ghost by her

ghosts but Master is not some