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.

Master?” Lilly

Where is he?

close.

tall nose bridge,

it this time?” Pablo indifferently

threw him

wrong with

a timeout

was in

nowhere to be

of their problems. Lilly asked, “What’s wrong with

She was puzzled.

vanity spirit shouldn’t have been able to overtake Cheryl’s body yet

narrowed his eyes. “This is a phenomenon known as the

substitute sound similar but they’re completely different. Possession implies the ghost attaching itself to a host and influencing them. Spirit substitute is when a ghost is trying to manipulate the host

nodded vigorously. “Oh! So that’s a spirit

ashen. “W-What do you mean

thrived on logic was reacting just like a normal

to explain what she learned from Pablo to

a ghost trying to manipulate its host. There’s a ghost

“Huh?!”

afraid but found himself

indeed on her toes but the back of her foot was straight. That wasn’t how

more than ready to make a

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

Josh was speechless.

was he supposed

hear a tiny part of his subconscious

our feet cannot leave

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

course, our best way out of this is to

cling to Lilly’s

reassuring pat. “You’ll be okay, Josh.

is not

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

but snicker at the child’s

Her alone?

thing I’m afraid of is

and asked,

the tree and said leisurely,

of the eighteen lives who were

twisted. She barred her fangs and viciously lunged

your own business and stay in your lane! We’re

ghost by her feet and flung her

ghosts but Master is not some