Chapter 5 Marco Part 1

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Terrible events have returned to terrorize Grandes High School. Many students suddenly disappeared. If you look at the photos of the girls, they have beautiful faces. I, who have been quite close with Sylvia lately, came to her class to discuss this. I'm sure Sylvia will do something because this incident I'm sure is related to the ghost that still haunts this school. The reason I can be this certain is that I can feel the presence of a ghost that seems to have quite a bit of power because I can feel it from its aura.

As soon as the bell signaling today's lesson ended, I hurriedly left the classroom and ran towards Sylvia's class which was not too far from mine.

As soon as I arrived in front of Sylvia's class, I saw her walking out of her class, I rushed after her.

"Wait, Sylvia!"

Sylvia who heard my call stopped and looked at me. "Oh, you again. You've been appearing in front of me a lot lately."

"I want to learn from you, I also want to have abilities like you."

"Didn't I say, this ability of mine has existed since I was born? No matter how hard you try, you will not be able to master abilities like mine if you are not born with special abilities."

I snorted at her words that belittled me too much. "I won't give up. I'm sure one day I will be able to have abilities like yours."

"Yeah, whatever." Sylvia resumed her steps leaving me.

"Wait, Sylvia! There is something else I want to ask you."

Suddenly she stopped and she turned back to me. "What?"

"Regarding the frequent occurrence of beautiful girls disappearing, I suspect that this incident is the work of one of the ghosts in this school. I can feel his presence."

Sylvia gave a faint smile, "Your suspicions are correct, all these incidents are indeed the work of one of the ghosts in this school. I've even seen that ghost."

"Is it true?"

"That's how it is."

"Then what's your plan?"

"Of course, I will stop the ghost and will save the missing girls," she answered firmly without hesitation.

Sylvia kept walking, where would she go? But I continued to follow her by walking beside her.

"Why did you follow me? Why didn't you come home?"

I grinned widely "I'm coming with you. I also want to stop that ghost and want to save the missing girls." Until finally I stated my purpose and reason for following it.

"What can you do?"

"Anything else? Besides, Sylvia, it seems that from now on you will have to get used to seeing me every day, I will always follow you. I want to be like you. I also want to stop ghosts from bothering humans."

Sylvia exhaled slowly as if she had given up on banning me from going with her, maybe she could have guessed how stubborn I was. "It's up to you."

Even though Sylvia tends to have an indifferent nature and can sometimes be very curt in her tone, I will never stop following her. I decided I would help Sylvia stop the ghouls.

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Tonight, I promised to meet Sylvia at school. I was so happy that she allowed me to participate in investigating the ghost.

Not too long after meeting Sylvia, she asked me to go to one of the classes. This class is class 3A.

"Why did we come here?" I asked surprised because she suddenly brought me here without explaining why.

"I just want to confirm whether the ghost is from this class. I've seen him come out of this class."

I was silent without saying a word. I felt envious of Sylvia being able to see ghosts, even though I always wanted to be able to see ghosts. I'm very curious to see their figures.

"Turns out it's true, when he was alive he was a student in this class."

Sylvia said that while smiling.

"Did you see it?"

"Yes. He's floating right in front of us. Hmm, that's true you can't see him. Let me draw his figure for you. Give me paper and a pencil."

"Hmm, okay!"

I immediately followed Sylvia's words and gave her the paper and pencil as she requested.

Sylvia drew quickly, I just watched her silently. In no time she finished her drawing and gave the paper to me. On the paper is a picture of a man wearing a suit. Yes, I believe she's wearing a suit. I didn't see anything terrible in the picture, as if it were just a picture of a normal man. However, I realized the man was a ghost when I saw the picture, his feet didn't even touch the floor at all. Sylvia described it so vividly that I could see the man she was drawing was indeed a ghost.

"In your picture, this ghost looks less terrible."

"Yes. His appearance was not too terrible. It seems he died naturally not because of an accident or was killed by someone."

"That ghost is he wearing a suit?"

Sylvia nodded, "That's how it is. I'm also surprised it's my first time seeing a ghost this neat. I've seen his face clearly, let's go!!"

Even though I still felt confused, all I could do now was follow Sylvia.

The next day, during recess, I saw Sylvia walking alone. I immediately approached her.

"Sylvia, where are you going?" I asked after now I walked beside her because I caught up with her.

"You're like a ghost, huh, out of nowhere. Besides, I'm surprised you always find me," she said, squinting at me suspiciously.

I laughed at that moment too. "That's because I'm always watching you."

Sylvia shook her head after hearing my relaxed and innocent response.

Then ... she resumed her steps which had been stopped because of me. I didn't even ask where she was going, because I thought if I continued to follow her like this then I would soon know where she was going.

I was stunned when Sylvia finally stopped as soon as we arrived in front of a room. The room is the principal's room. I had been wondering why Sylvia had come to this room, but I immediately understood after seeing her borrowing a book from the Headmaster. The book is a biographical book for all students who have studied at Grandes High School.

"What are you doing? Why did you borrow this book?"

Sylvia didn't answer my question at all. All she did was open and pay close attention to each page of the book. Sylvia looked so serious that I didn't dare to ask again. I'm afraid to disturb her concentration.

"Here it is, I finally found it!"

I flinched when suddenly Sylvia said that quite loudly. Moreover, for the first time, I witnessed Sylvia smiling cheerfully.

"What did you find?" I asked curiously.

"Of course the identity of the ghost. His name is Marco, he should still be registered as a student in this class. He should still be in grade 3. Here is his home address. Come on, let's go to his house. We have to find out the cause of his death. "

Even though I was still confused, I nodded my head in response to Sylvia's invitation. I also feel very happy because it seems like Sylvia is allowing me to come along and help her. Maybe she's getting used to my presence.