I am heading to Japan. Why you ask? Is this one of those stupid questions again? Must be the social protocol. But only ghosts ask me. So it must be the ghost protocol. Must be my ghostly sense of humor.

It is because Mt. Fuji is in Japan. Where else do you think I will go. I want to level up after all. But the two flyboys with me are not interested. Why did you ask then? Must be because they are birdbrained. Why else will a pair of ghosts pretend to fly a plane when they are floating? And who the hell is Roger? They both can't be named Roger, right?

By the way I am floating really high. Even higher than the clouds. It's so that I can see the sun longer. Ghosts are bad with directions. Ever heard of that story. A ghost walks in a temple and ends up on a mountain. Seems like it is a true story. I think I was pretty good with directions before. I mean before I became a ghost. I am not now.

In any case we are really bad with directions. That is why ghosts don't travel. They stick to places they know. Oh some don't. The stories have to come from somewhere. I have to be careful not to get lost.

You think ghosts could use compasses. I tried. I got a headache. I learned ghosts can get headaches from 3 things. Clocks, watches and compasses. Why is that?

Ah but I follow the sun. The sun always rises from the east. Japan is somewhere in the east. If I follow the sun, maybe I won't get lost. Not like ghosts can carry maps. But I cannot travel all day. If I keep following the sun I will go around in circles. So I travel only till the sun reaches high. And then I travel when the moon rises. Moon also rises in the east.

The sun has risen quite high. I have to stop. I will go see what's down there. Looks like a village. Oh there is a small girl playing in the mud. She is making dolls out of mud. They seem like some of the ghosts I know. Pretty good likeness I think. Oh her mother comes out of the house. Wait, she looks like the older sister. She looks young. Did she finish high school?

Her figure is fine. Amazing breasts and long legs. And a face to remember. She is wearing those chinese style cosplay dresses. I know about them. They were in some of the games I played. I think Random Guy has a few of them. The games I mean. Let's call her Ms. Sexy Elder Sister. I think she is not married. Otherwise she must be newlywed. I can't tell.

She punches a wooden dummy. Ah I have seen those too. In Jackie Chan movies. So this must be kung fu. I am in China, right? But I need to head east. Maybe I will see her when coming back. If I don't get lost. I hope I am not lost.

I cross many mountains. Wasn't it yesterday I crossed another one? Or was it day before? Ghosts are no good with time. I think I passed the Himalayas already. I need to go through them I think. And then there will be many rivers and the sea. I still don't see the sea. Only mountains. I need to fly really high to avoid them. Just can't go through them.

Is that a river? Or sea? I see something from high up. At my speed I think I will get there sometime tomorrow. Ghosts float reaaallly slow. It doesn't matter. Ghosts don't get tired or run out of ghostly fuel. Another ghostly joke. Oh that cannot be just a river. I cannot see the land on the other side. So I have reached the sea.

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I feel a strange attraction. Like butterscotch ice-cream with a hint of vanilla. In that direction. Not sure if that is east. But it is towards the sea. Oooh I am getting pulled over there. It must be so nice over there. Let's just go over there.

Ah floating is slow. This is like the waiter who is walking a step every hour just to bring that ice cream to your table. It is tantalizing. Ghosts cannot smell anything. But we have a nose. I am just getting a really strange feeling though. Like my favorite ice cream is over there. Even though I can't smell it. It just feels like it.

Ghosts are really good with feelings. Both negative and positive. We are ghosts after all. Did you just ask why? Stupidity is contagious.

Ah I see land at the distance. Wait it's a mountain. Is that Mt. Fuji? But it doesn't look very nice now. It is bubbling with red liquid. Oh that's lava. So it must be erupting. Still I am drawn strangely towards it. It looks like that cherry topping on the cake I like. I can drool on that. Ghosts can't drool though. We don't have a sense of taste. But I am sure feeling like drooling now.

It just went Kaboom, didn't it? Does not look good for the people nearby. But I am a ghost. Oh it shoots out a big rock. It is heading towards me. It looks delicious. I stay still with my mouth open. The rock just passes through me. I feel like Midas.

Oh I am getting shocked. Ghosts do get shocked. And they get scared too. But they don't have skin. So they cannot get shocked. I tremble. I got so much power. I got all the power in the world. Oh I am getting sleepy. Ghosts don't sleep though. But I am getting sooo sleepy.

Maybe this is a sign that I will ascend. The divine beings letting me finally sleep. Ah the darkness spreads around me. Thank you, the ones living above. Where will you send me? To heaven or hell. I would like heaven. I wish for heaven. I pray for heaven.

Ah the darkness surrounds all around me. I have finally gone. I have finally ascended.

I blink. I am still a ghost after all. I think I am standing at a traffic crossing. I got here somehow. Wasn't I in Japan? Wait I remember. This was the place I died. Time repeat? But I am still a ghost.

Oh that guy just walked into a green light. A car smashed into him. He died. I can tell. I can see his ghost standing next to it. New ghosts are difficult. They don't get they are dead. I didn't either. But you don't become a ghost until you are dead.

Maybe I should help him. I walk to his body. See, you are dead. I wave my hands through his body. He will see now that he is dead.

"You can now possess this body. If you possess this body, you can register this body as your possession. Do you wish to possess this body?"

A strange message cropped up before my eyes. Seems interesting. I say yes.

"Aaahh!" the pain. It's painful. Very painful. I am fading. I remember. This is dying. I am dying once again. But I am a ghost, right?