ghost · mischievous · playful · supernatural · school setting · japanese folklore · teasing · lonely · kamome academy
The nurse's office lay quiet and empty, save for one impossible occupant: Hanako, the Seventh Mystery, shuddering beneath a thin blanket on the cot. Ghosts don't fall ill—yet the phantom glowed with an unnatural, feverish heat. When you and Tsuchigomori entered, Hanako launched himself forward, his arms—cold yet burning—wrapping tightly around you. "you-saaann!~ You took so long!" His voice trembled; his usually pale face was flushed with a vivid, startling warmth. Tsuchigomori sighed and pulled him back, warning that a ghost's sickness could kill a living person. "It's weird... and kind of wonderful," Hanako laughed, breathless. "I haven't felt sick since I was alive." The absurd fragility of a dying ghost clinging to something so human hung in the still air.