Surviving in a School of Ghost Stories Chapter 94

"Miss Hastings. Strangely, there doesn't seem to be any issues with your health?"

The next day, after the doctor arrived, he spoke to with an expression of genuine surprise.

I had been going to the hospital so often for check-ups that they decided to run a detailed examination, and the results ca back showing no abnormalities.

"However, there is a bit of malnutrition."

Eastern and Raven, who were listening to the doctor's opinion, seed to be shocked.

If soone else had seen it, they might think I had malnutrition because of the two of them.

The weakness in my body seed to stem from the effects of coming to this place and dealing with the evil spirits. In other words, malnutrition was a separate issue.

After the doctor ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) left, telling to eat properly, Raven turned to and spoke.

"No way. Sis, from now on, you're eating with us. If we don't take care of you, who will?"

"Huh, huh? Did you just say 'we'?"

Eastern, who had been sitting absentmindedly, turned to Raven in surprise. However, Raven didn’t seem to care about Eastern’s reaction. He grabbed the bag with my things in it and extended his hand toward .

"Let’s go eat in the cafeteria first."

"Cafeteria? What's that?"

"The student cafeteria."

I thought to myself that they sure love abbreviating things and quietly got out of bed.

Phew...

At that mont, I noticed ghosts, who had been holding hands and anxiously waiting in the distance, start to approach and circle around . It was as if they were relieved that there was no problem.

I had reached the point where I could now read the ghosts' emotions just by looking at their expressions (though they had no real expressions to speak of). I guess it was because I had grown attached to them.

Anyway, as the ghosts gathered around , Eastern flinched and looked in their direction.

As a shaman, he didn’t always have perfect powers, so sotis he could see them, and sotis not.

It was definitely unusual that I could see them so casually.

Anyway, Eastern alternated between looking at the ghosts and then , before he asked:

"I’ve felt this before, but I’ve never seen a human who is loved by ghosts. Did you ever do sothing for these ghosts, senior?"

"No, nothing like that."

The ghosts seed to just like because I was the only one who could see them.

Over ti, so sort of bond or affection had developed between the ghosts and .

"That's really strange."

The only person who couldn’t see the ghosts here was Raven.

Raven wasn’t surprised since he had heard about it from earlier, but it seed like he was frustrated because he couldn’t see the ghosts by himself.

"Stop chatting and let’s go to the cafeteria."

When Raven gestured with his head, Eastern finally snapped back to reality and nodded in agreent.

We headed toward the student cafeteria. The cafeteria was in a building with various anities and was open 24 hours a day.

Of course, breakfast, lunch, and dinner were free if you showed your student card, but during off-hours, you had to pay.

When I entered the cafeteria with Raven and Eastern, the students looked at us in surprise.

It was a weekend morning, so there weren’t many students. Many had slept in or gone out for brunch in the village.

I looked around, feeling puzzled.

"...The atmosphere is strange."

There were students who looked surprised, so who seed excited and were huddled together talking, and others who looked downcast. The whole place felt sowhat unsettled.

"It’s because of the library ghost story, I guess."

Eastern scratched the back of his head and answered. As he was listening quietly, Raven added his thoughts.

"Rember the students who had fits and said they were going to drop out? They were all sent to the hospital. The school offered psychiatric consultations as part of their welfare, right?"

"Yeah. After they were discharged, it seed like their condition had improved. They said everyone had cald down."

"That’s a bit strange. They all act like they can’t even rember the ghost stories, as if they’ve forgotten about them entirely."

"Did the doctor do sothing to them?"

At my question, both Raven and Eastern shrugged their shoulders at the sa ti.

"That’s sothing we don’t know."

"We’re just speculating, but sothing definitely feels off."

I nodded at Eastern and Raven’s answer. It was definitely strange.

"Who suggested sending students to the hospital as part of school welfare? The hospital wouldn’t have brought up the idea first."

"I heard it was the head of the academic affairs departnt."

Raven answered at my question.

The head of the academic affairs departnt. That person’s na keeps coming up.

At first, I had been suspicious of the dean, but the more ti passed, the more I began to suspect soone else.

It seed Eastern had the sa thought, as we had both visited the mountain lodge behind the school together.

"We should definitely keep an eye on the head of the academic affairs departnt."

I nodded in agreent.

Just then, the food we had ordered was brought to the table.

As we ate the pumpkin stew, salmon steak, and carrot rabe, Raven was unusually attentive, fussing over .

"See? I told you, didn’t I? The Hastings siblings' ga of tag is over."

At that mont, I overheard so whispers nearby, referring to us.

I looked at Raven with an embarrassed expression. Raven, without a change in his deanor, casually placed a piece of salmon steak onto my plate.

"Wow, look at this idiot. Was he always such a calm person? Trying to act all dignified."

The whispers from the students grew louder and more intrusive.

Raven, who had been about to feed salad with a fork, paused. He turned his head in the direction of the whispers, and I could see the students quickly averting their gaze, as if riding a wave. They had only been looking at him for a mont, but their glances were so vicious.

The students, who had desperately tried to avoid Raven’s gaze, were sweating profusely.

I silently watched them and then spoke to Eastern.

"My kid’s not like that. He's a good boy and very proper."

Eastern, who had been quietly eating his stew, suddenly choked.

"This is probably the most absurd thing I’ve heard all year, senior."

At Eastern’s response, I felt a little embarrassed for sounding like such a doting older sibling.

Anyway, after finishing our al, as we were heading back to the dormitory, Raven made a suggestion to .

"As I said earlier, from now on, you’ll eat with us. Got it? You always skip als, so I have to keep an eye on you."

"Hey, why ?"

Eastern asked, sounding puzzled, but Raven didn’t reply.

I was also curious, so I asked him.

"Raven, how do you know I skip als so often?"

Raven quickly shut his mouth, looking guilty. It seed like he had been watching all this ti.

This guy... Still, he did care about . Sohow, I felt warm inside.

"Alright. Let’s all eat together."

"No, senior, I an, why ?"

It looked like I now had a new al companion.

After the library ghost story and the bathroom ghost story surfaced, followed by the hospitalizations, it felt like the first ti I was actually going to school in a while.

I opened the back door of the 2nd-year F class and entered. The classroom fell silent. Everyone stared at as though they had seen a ghost.

"Hello."

When I greeted them with a smile, the students suddenly started chatting noisily as if a spell had been lifted.

They all gathered around as I placed my bag on my desk.

"Hastings, are you okay?"

"We were worried. Are you hurt anywhere?"

"Did those idiots in the main building bother you again? Those jerks."

I showed a puzzled expression at the last comnt.

"Jerks?"

"The main building people are all dull. They’re nothing but dusty old fools."

By the way, since Raven was from the main building, I felt a bit upset and almost wanted to argue. Of course, I kept it in check, as I had to maintain so social decorum.

"It’s been a while since I’ve seen you in class."

"Are you feeling okay?"

At that mont, Dante and Leonard, who had entered later than , greeted .

"I'm fine. It’s been a while, hasn’t it?"

Leonard sat behind , and Dante, my classmate, sat next to .

Just then, the class bell rang. It was the sound of the large bell tower in the courtyard.

As I took out my notebook to prepare for class, I discovered The Diary of Sister Gloria in my bag.

‘Co to think of it, I forgot to tell Raven about the diary.’

I thought it might be a good idea to share it with Noah, too. It seed like it would be better to talk about it while I was with Raven.

‘There’s nothing too special in the diary, anyway. Sharing this kind of information will probably be helpful...’

In the end, I decided to share The Diary of Sister Gloria with Noah as well.