,,Home sweet home! Finally! I missed you so much!” Midari hugged a pillow that was randomly thrown on the ground of the living room ,,I’ll never leave you again, my beloved!”
,,You realize that that’s my pillow right?” Erika questioned. Midari opened one eye.
,,Obviously. But whatever belongs to you, belongs to me too.”
,,I’m not sure I quite agree with this…”
,,But I do” Midari threw the pillow at her ,,I missed you too, MY beautiful couch! No other couch compares to you!”
The kid threw herself on the couch and ended up startling poor Mily.
,,Hey Midari, watch it!” was her reaction, but she let Midari rest without showing her off of her.
,,HEHEHEHHEHEHEHHEHEHE!”
,,Lord, stop the weird laughing, you’re not impressing anyone” Erika yawned.
,,Mily did you see that? Oh right, you didn’t…uhhh…LUNA you saw how cool I was today right?! I deserve a prize!”
,,I’ll buy you another rubber duck tomorrow” Mily said and relaxed.
,,But I want to go to an amusement park…you know? A THEME PARK???”
,,Boringgggggg” I found myself saying. I guess miss Evil Luna affected me quite a lot.
,,Are you sure you don’t want me to get rid of your other self?” Mily opened her eye and stared at me.
,,I’ll handle her myself! But uhm , not right now. I’m too tired. I had to fight miss boss lady today.”
,,Well who cares?! She’s gone now! I can finally rest in peace!”
,,Midari, you’re already dead, and eversince you died you have been anything but peaceful. You literally blew up the school yard.”
,,Sorry Mily.”
Mily stood up and left the living room quietly, along with Saki.
,,Pfff you know, there’s something I wonder” Midari glanced at the door Mily had just closed ,,Why didn’t Merlé react in a more…violent way? We killed her boss after all. Jeanette was her favorite person in the whole world after all…so why didn’t she even bother to fight us?”
,,I was hoping you’d provide the answer, little miss genius.”
,,Nonsense” Erika started playing with a stand of her long hair ,,If Midari doesn’t know then no one knows.”
Midari giggled ,,I’m just special like that!”
,,Luna, I believe you are aware of your sisters species…”
,,Obviously. What does it have to do with Merlé?”
,,My theory is that Merlé didn’t attack because Millie was with us. Ahem… Merlé is a Reaper as well and from what I heard, Reapers aren’t allowed to attack other Reapers.”
,,It still doesn’t explain why she didn’t attack the rest of us.”
,,Hmm maybe because she was scared” Midari pointed out ,,Everyone there knows what Mily can do. They’re scared of her.”
,,And you” Erika added ,,Midari you’re one scary kiddo.”
,,Erika you’re a scary grown up!”
Midari shook her feet, then gave up walking and teleported to the door.
,,Goodnight everyone. Uhh I mean Luna and Erika and Lord that’s been hiding in a dark corner! Bye bye!”
Midari left leaving us in a very awkward silence. Lord came out of the corner and sat next to Erika. As me and Erika were discussing different subjects, he fell asleep and Erika covered him with a pink blanket.
,,So, you wanted to know about Hell’s ruler?” she asked and crossed her legs.
,,Mhm! I mean, I want to understand why Mily and uhh the rest of you don’t want Millie to go to her.”
,,Well, Hell’s queenie ain’t that bad. She’s very well mannered, unlike some other people.”
,,Okay…? And why is she terrible?”
,,I mean, it’s not about her it’s about her working schedule.”
,,And that would be?”
Erika let out a very tired sigh ,,Basically Millie won’t be home very often if she goes to work there. I mean, she’ll have tons of money…but it’s just not worth it. Not to mention the fact that Tsuki might send her on dangerous missions and we really don’t want to loose Millicent…”
,,Excuse me, Tsuki?”
,,Hell’s queenie.”
,,And her name is T-s-u-k-i? Am I supposed to even take her seriously?”
,,Of course you are. T-s-u-k-i is a darkness user, she can pulverize you to bits and pieces.”
,,Pardon me? There are so many terms I do not know…”
,,Did you even read Mily’s guide for magical species: a synthesis?” Lord said, as he stared at me with one eye opened.
,,No, have you?”
,,No…”
,,Then don’t comment” I turned back to Erika ,,Millie will find out the truth eventually. She isn’t stupid.”
,,Sometimes I believe she already did figure it out” Erika patted Lord’s head, urging him to sleep ,,Maybe she’s waiting for you or Mily to tell her. Or for Tsuki to just knock at the front door and ask Millie to join her.”
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,, T-s-u-k-i usually does that?”
,,Why are you spelling her name? And no, she doesn’t. She usually sends a letter with the offer.”
,,Her name is too funny for me to take her seriously, sorry. Also didn’t she already send a letter or something?”
Erika nodded ,,Of course she did but Mily burned the letters.”
,,What’s up with Mily and burning stuff?”
,,Eversince they burned her, she burns everything else. A weird coping mechanism if you ask me!”
,,So…” I interrupted ,,There’s a possibility that T-s-u-k-I will just POOF here and take Millie away?”
,,Yep” Erika said, not looking very bothered ,,I hope I answered all of your questions, because I’m tired and I want to sleep.”
,,Oh right, of course. Goodnight Erika, it was lovely chatting with you!”
Erika nodded and stood up, leaving Lord behind to sleep on the couch. I quietly went to my room, only to find Edgar fast asleep with a book on his face. I didn’t remove it and instead I took a picture.
Fastforward an hour later, I couldn’t sleep. Trying to keep myself occupied by counting sheep (Mily said it would work, but I think she was just messing with me) and creating fake scenarios of my fictional boyfriends, I soon realized that going to the kitchen for a 1 am snack would be the best solution to my problem.
As soon as I opened the door, I saw someone opening the fridge door and taking something out. The person was too tall to be Midari (because only she eats random stuff at ungodly hours) so, like the ghost policewoman I am, I yelled:
,,HANDS UP YOU THIEF!”
The person yelled and soon I got hit in the head with a yogurt.
,,That really hurt! If I were alive and I could have felt it, it would have hurt!” I complained.
,,Luna what are you doing here?”
,,I don’t know Millie, what am I doing here? Getting a snack of course! I was going to eat that yogurt!”
,,Sorry not sorry” was all my sister said. She took out a slice of cake, sat down and started eating like she didn’t just throw a yogurt at me.
I lifted my poor snack off the ground, grabbed a spoon and started eating, while giving my sister angry stares.
,,You can’t sleep?” she asked.
,,Exactly wow, bingo!”
,,Stop it with the sarcasm, it’s 1 am.”
,,Bleh!”
,,Don’t bleh me!”
,,I’ll bleh you all I want!”
,,Luna, you’re acting like a child!”
,,Obviously, because I am one!”
The door opened with a loud bang. Lord was angrily staring at us.
,,I can hear you talking FROM THE LIVING ROOM! Either shut up or go away!” he yelled, even louder than I was talking, and then ran away.
,,Ahem…what was that?” my sister calmly asked.
,,I honestly don’t know but…why don’t we go for a walk like he suggested?” I suggested ,,I mean, we can’t sleep either way…”
,,And where do you suggest we go?”
,,I don’t know…just outside! Maybe there’s a few ghost shops open!”
,,Do you even have money? Luna, you’re broke.”
I didn’t listen to her not very nice comment and instead grabbed her hand and ran outside.
Our city wasn’t very big but not very small either. Located somewhere near Toronto, the town didn’t even appear on Google Maps when you searched for it. From what Saki had explained, it was one of the towns in which a lot of ghosts settled in. Not to mention, it was apparently close to Tsuki’s kingdom entrance.
As I’ve said earlier, the street in front of our school was filled with shops. What basic mortals didn’t know was that ghosts secretly worked there too.
In each shop there was a ghost working. For example in a café, while a human would serve the other living beings their coffee, so would a ghost to the other ghosties that ordered.
So basically it was a double business.
In front of our school was that coffee shop or restaurant or whatever where Edgar criticized Elizabeth’s fashion sense.
We checked if it was still open and surely, a ghost was there to serve us. We both got Latte’s and went out on a walk.
,,Wow the sky looks pretty at 2 am” my sister pointed out.
I looked up so see what she was looking at. Indeed the sky looked very pretty but it made me wonder…
,,Do you think Elizabeth created the sky too?”
,,Probably, yeah.”
,,Do you think Elizabeth is a nice person?”
Millie stared at me and then thought for a while. Then she took a sip from her Latte.
,,I don’t know. Maybe she is. I think that she’s the type of person who is nice but only with certain people she likes. And that’s definitely not us.”
,,I agree” I drank some of my Latte as well ,,Hey Millie…have you ever wondered..if she wrote the whole bullying thing?”
,,She obviously did. Either she or the other two.”
,,I don’t know what to say. Have you looked at their faces? They weren’t happy with Elizabeth, not one bit” I told her and then noticed a constellation I recognized and wanted to show it to her. Just as I was about to share my unnecessary knowledge regarding stars, a voice yelled something like:
,,HELP ME!”
I stared at my sister.
,,Why should I help you?”
,,I didn’t yell that. The voice doesn’t even match me, dumbass!”
,,Oh, right. Then who yelled? Maybe if we help them, we can make good money out of it!”
We looked around but it was too dark to see anything so we gave up.
,,HELP ME!” the annoying voice called again.
,,I swear if it’s Lord but with a deeper voice that got stuck in some place…!”
,,If it’s Lord let’s not help him.”
,,Good idea” my sister agreed.
,,HELP! SOMEONE HELP!”
,,Oh for Heaven’s sake!” my sister yelled ,,WHERE ARE YOU PERSON THAT NEEDS SAVING?!”
,,Over! HERE!”
We turned around and just followed the voice. We ignited two flames (we could have done it earlier, but we were too lazy) and stared searching for mystery person.
,,If it’s another long lost sibling, I’m quitting the book!” Millie shouted at me.
,,I gave up on being a protagonist!” I shouted back.
,,Huh?”
On the ground, wrapped in bandages, looking like he’s just escaped a mental hospital, was a guy.
And then I started glowing.
And then he started glowing.
And Millie gasped.
The glowing stopped and the three of us just stared at each other. Millie opened her mouth to say something but then stopped. Then she opened it again after giving what she was about to say more thought. Then she shook her head and just said:
,,Kiddo, are you dead?”
,,Millie! Such an insensitive question! Of course he’s dead! You can literally see right through him!”
,,I just wanted to make sure!”
,,Are you here to help me or to fight on who asks the most awkward questions, hm?”
I crouched and took one of his bandages for further inspection.
,,Uhh how did you die? When did you die?”
,,A few seconds ago” he said ,,When I was shouting for help.”
Millie almost laughed.
,,Shut up! Don’t laugh at him! It’s not nice.”
,,You’re not nice either sis” she smirked (wow Millie was happy).
I turned back to the boy.
,,What happened to you? Why aren’t you shocked that you’re dead?”
,,Oh believe me I am, I’m having a panic attack on the inside” he responded ,,Let’s say I escaped a certain…place…”
,,Are you alright? Should we take you with us back home?”
,,I’m not sure if I should trust you…”
,,WELL WELL WELL IF IT ISN’T THE KIDS!” Erika’s voice could be heard very very loudly.
,,What? YOU SAID YOU WERE GOING TO SLEEP YOU LIAR!”
,,I lied that…is true…very saddening indeed. Anyway, what do we have here?”
Erika crouched next to me, perfectly copying my pose. The boy probably wanted to run away, but he was surrounded.
He looked around trying to find a way to escape and then he yelled in fear and covered the eye that wasn’t wrapped up in bandages.
,,COME back! Where are youuuuu?” a woman called out. She gave me the creeps.
,,Ah there you are!” the woman ran towards us. Because I was the closest to her, I pulled out my magic sword (it’s magic because it scares people).
,,Whoaa what do we have here?” she said and scanned all of us ,,Wow Erika, you look great!”
,,Thanks? I know.”
,,But I am not here to make compliments to Spectre commanders. I am here to take little Eric back.”
Our mystery guy, whose name apparently was Eric looked absolutely terrified.
,,Well?” she said ,,Hand him over.”
,,Nuh uh!”
,,What? Nuh uh? I’d rather hear an affirmative response to my demand.”
,,Errr” I looked at my sister who had pulled out her weapon as well. I was glad I had backup ,,How about no? No means no!”
,,In this case, no means yes” she replied.
,,No never means yes, even toddlers know that. If we say no, then it’s no!” Erika argued.
The woman took a step back but then charged at us. I wasn’t sure if I could hit her, because she was alive. But then I remembered that Millie had broken the curse, which meant I could do whatever I want.
I suddenly remembered all my fighting lessons from Mily and Edgar and made a what I thought was a bold move.
As the woman ran, I grabbed her collar and threw her on the ground (ghost muscles go brr). She hit her head on the wall and I was about to eat her soul but Erika stopped me and we made a run for it.