Chapter 2 Minerva Part 2

That day, I was ordered by my math teacher to collect my classmates' workbooks. I'm currently walking towards the teacher's room.

Arriving at the teacher's room, I was surprised by something. The mysterious girl I met last night is here. She was talking to a teacher. I don't know what are they talking about.

As soon as I arrived at the math teacher's desk, I immediately put my friends' assignment books. When she turned back to the mysterious girl, she was not there. I looked around to find her. However, her figure was indeed not in the teacher's room.

Out of curiosity to know what they were talking about, I ventured up to the teacher who had been talking to the girl to ask her directly.

"Excuse me, Sir."

The teacher turned when she heard my greeting. "Oooh, yes. What's wrong?"

"My name is Angie from class 1A. Can I ask you something?"

"Sure. What do you want to ask?"

Pausing for a moment, I decided to ask the point without further ado. "Earlier I saw you talking to a student, if I may know, what were you talking about?"

The teacher was silent for a few moments until he finally opened his mouth to answer. "Ooh, that... she was asking about a teacher who died recently."

"Was there a teacher in this school who died recently?"

"Yes, there is, it happened about a year ago. A literature teacher named Mrs. Minerva was found dead behind the school in a very sad condition. Both of her legs were broken as if they had been hit by a hard object."

I was stunned without being able to say a word. So the girl thoroughly investigated the identity of the ghost she saw last night. Looks like I'll have to come over tonight to see what she's up to.

As usual, tonight the atmosphere at Grandes High School was so quiet and tense. The enveloping darkness adds to the eerieness of this place.

I remember last night the mysterious girl told me to come to the teacher's room. Because of that, I rushed to go there.

As soon as I arrived in front of the teacher's room, I didn't see anyone, maybe she hadn't come yet.

I thought she had tricked me into not coming even though I had been waiting here long enough. When I decided to leave, I was immediately discouraged because I saw someone walking closer. I can't see her face clearly because it's so dark in here.

Once she was standing close enough to me, then her face was clear. Turns out she's that mysterious girl. She came as she said last night.

"Ooh, you came too. Looks like you've been waiting a long time," she said casually, not the slightest note of regret in her voice.

"I thought you weren't coming."

"Of course, I will come, I want to immediately put an end to those annoying rumors. Why are you here yourself?"

"I want to know what you're going to do with that ghost."

"Hooo, I see. Then watch what I will do to the ghost of Teacher Minerva who is right behind you now."

My eyes widened, surprised to hear the ghost was right behind me. It was true that I had been feeling a chill from earlier, but I never thought that a ghost was right behind me.

"I know your spirit is filled with vengeance, Mrs. Minerva. It looks like you have been killed, but what you did was still wrong. You shouldn't have possessed female students at this school and hurt them. I can't forgive what you did."

The girl walked closer to me, then suddenly she crouched beside me.

"H-hey, what are you doing?" I asked, surprised.

She took out a nameplate from her shirt pocket. Then put the nameplate on the ground. There is an inscription on the nameplate. I looked at it carefully, and how surprised I was when I saw that the writing was in the form of the word 'Minerva'.

"W-what are you going to do?" I asked her again.

"I will seal her so she will stop bothering humans."

After saying those successful words made me dumbfounded. She closed her eyes as she lifted the nameplate.

"O Minerva's wandering spirit, I will quench your heart filled with vengeance. Enter this nameplate and don't ever come out as long as I lock you up. Minerva ... follow my words, and I lock you up inside this nameplate. I order you to enter this nameplate. Minerva... I lock you up!!!"

The wind suddenly blew very fast. The nameplate she was holding shook violently. She put it on the ground. Finally, the nameplate stopped moving, and the gust of wind also stopped.

The mysterious girl took the nameplate and tied it with a black rope.

"From now on Mrs. Minerva's ghost has been locked away. She will no longer possess humans."

"Y-you sealed it?" It's still hard for me to digest what just happened. This girl has great abilities.

"Yeah, that's how it is." She replied with a shrug.

"Who are you?" I finally said this question, a question I should have asked since our first meeting.

"My name is Sylvia. As you can see, I can see and seal ghosts."

I was dumbfounded at her confession, not expecting someone to have such special abilities. Even though all this time I was the one who hoped to have extraordinary abilities like that.

Flashback Off

"Angie, Oi... Angie!"

I flinched at the sound of someone calling, waking me up from a long daydream where I was reminiscing about memories.

"You told me you wanted to ask for help. What kind of help did you want?"

With confusion and seriousness on her face, the girl asked while glaring at me. I smiled a little, remembering we had promised to meet here and I just ignored it.

"There are still ghosts who haven't returned to their world. Not only one ghost but there are still several ghosts." I said, getting straight to the point.

"Wh-what? You told me Celia was the last ghost?"

"Yes, Celia is indeed the last ghost that is still free to roam in this school. The ghost I mean is the ghost that was sealed."

"Haah? I don't see what you mean, Angie?"

Chuckling in amusement at the confused expression of the girl before me, I touched her shoulder with a light touch. "Tonight we meet at school, I have something to show you."

The confusion on Leslie's face became even more obvious. However, I ignored it and chose to walk away from it. It still seems to me that this school is still not completely peaceful before calming all the spirits that were sealed by Sylvia.

***

If I wait alone in the middle of the night in front of this room, I will be reminded of past events. At that time I stood alone in front of this room to wait for Sylvia. Like tonight, I was standing in front of the teacher's room waiting for someone. Leslie is the person I'm waiting for.