About a few years ago, when I was still living with my grandparents. One night I saw a girl sitting alone in the park near my grandmother's house, but the girl was different from other girls, she looked transparent.

I approached the girl slowly, both scared and curious, a habit of mine that is hard to break.

As I got closer, I could feel the air getting colder, the noise getting quieter, and the moonlight getting darker. At that time, I didn't know that what I was feeling was a very strong death aura.

When I was right in front of the transparent girl, I greeted her. However, she never answered my greeting. I didn't give up and continued to greet her, but it was useless she still didn't give an answer.

Finally, as it was getting deeper and darker, I touched her shoulder. After that I didn't remember anything. I fainted.

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That day was the first day I had the ability to enter the ghost world, but at that time I was still unconscious and still couldn't control it.

Ghost world or dream world, it's the same.

In the ghost world, I felt the whole death aura including cold, darkness, stench, silence, and thirst and hunger. However, not long after, the silence turned into the wild sounds of a creature that I didn't know what it was at the time.

The creature is a monster, at least that's what normal humans would call it, but if you look closely you will realize that it is a ghost in its true form. According to some beliefs, ghosts can change shape but they just like humans have an original form.

The monsters then chased after me, they seemed to realize that I wasn't from their world, I wasn't from the ghost world.

Scared, I ran with all my might away from the origin of the noise. I ran continuously without stopping while avoiding some of the monsters that were blocking my way. During my escape, I could feel the foul stench of the monsters, the cold touch of their long, thin hands.

Until I came to a place from which I saw a small beam of light. At the time I didn't know if that small beam of light was the exit to the human world. So I turned in another direction and didn't head toward that small beam of light.

Not long after, I bumped into something. Something big and darker than my surroundings at the time, like vantablack in the middle of regular black. You could only see the difference when a little light illuminated it.

The figure just stood facing me. For some reason, I felt a sense of peace at that moment, so I thoughtlessly approached the black figure that was so full of darkness that I couldn't see anything but I kept running.

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I didn't realize the details, but when my eyes could see again, I was in my room.

The most surprising thing to me at that moment was that I saw my own body, but next to my body was the girl I saw in the park.

This time I didn't approach her, but the girl moved closer to me. At that moment, I could already see the girl perfectly, she was no longer transparent.

I may not remember the details of what she said but it was something like this, "Hi, my name is Leina. We've met, but I've only been able to talk to you for a short while. I thank you for coming to me, but beware of the cursed girl and her tricks that you can't imagine. Next time, don't hesitate to call me."

After saying that and without saying anything else, she stepped out of my room.

While I, still in disbelief at the sight of my own body lying on the bed, went over to my body and touched it. Instantly everything went dark.

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I woke up with a sucked in a breath.

When I woke up my mind was still chaotic, but not for long. After I came to my senses I hurriedly wrote down what I experienced on my smartphone.

Then the days passed as usual, but as long as I had free time, I would re-read my notes.

Until one day, after I searched for information and read my notes thousands of times. I realized that I had entered a ghost world or a dream world.

From then on, I tried to re-enter the ghost world, but always failed. But I didn't give up.

Until one day, or rather when I was learning about the death aura and the life aura, I realized that I could enter the ghost world because of the influence of Leina's death aura.

After that, almost every night I always called Leina from the call in my heart, in my mind, until I said it clearly, even several times I shouted calling her. But everything failed.

I had done that until it seemed to be a routine that I had to do every day, countless times. But all failed.

Until one day, when I had just finished doing endless schoolwork at my friend's house, I was forced to go through the park again at night like the first time I met Leina. At that moment, I saw Leina again.

I approached her again, but not slowly anymore. This time, I didn't speak to her but sat directly beside her.

Because of my silence, Leina looked at me. She smiled at me, a smile that could make me freeze when I saw it.

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Long story short, I experienced the same thing, although at the time I didn't realize it at all.

I was in a place filled with the death aura, then the noise of monsters, then I ran, then I saw a beam of light, then I turned in another direction, then I bumped into a big, dark figure, then I approached it, then suddenly I was in my room seeing my body lying on the bed and Leina sitting next to it, then Leina approached me.

Everything was the same, although there was a slight difference, except at the end. Leina instead of talking to me, she just gave me a piece of paper, then she went towards the exit of my room. Confused, I held her back by grabbing her shoulder. However, Leina just lifted my hand and continued to leave.

I just stared at the paper Leina gave me while sitting on the edge of my bed. I purposely didn't touch my body because I knew at that moment that if I touched it, I would return to the human world and I was afraid I wouldn't have time to read the paper Leina gave me. So, I read the paper first.

"I know you can see this writing.

I know you can read it if you look at it.

I know you can call out to me if you read it.

I know you can see me if you call me.

I know you can hear me if you can see me.

I know you can help me if you can listen to me.

Do me a favor, do the poor girl you met in the park alone at night. This is a Letter at Night from me to my hero, my best friend, my beloved, my love.

I have been stay for a long time waiting for you, I just stayed in that place. But thankfully you came, so you should be careful.

Be careful, since you came to see me, you're my best friend, you should be careful. The cursed girl's trickery is powerful and terrible, she will make you turn away from me, she will make you distance yourself from me, she will make you hate me, she will have you forever as her slave.

So if you cannot escape from it, then run. If you cannot run, then walk away. If you can't walk away, then attack the girl, kill her. I know it sounds crazy, but it's better because if you're already caught up in the girl's trickery, then you won't be able to get out of it. You are her cursed slave.

But I'm always by your side and you know that. I will always support you and you know that. I will always help you and you know that. I will always love you and you know that. So if you're hesitant to kill her, feel free to call me, you know where I am. I am very happy and excited to finish off that cursed girl who is bothering you.

Don't worry, don't be afraid, don't be disappointed. I don't hate you, you know that. I don't hate that girl, you know that. I love you, my hero, my best friend, my beloved, my love. So I will help you who helped me to be free from the influence of that cursed girl's trickery. I hold no grudge against you.

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Come to me as you would come to me, help me as you would help me, please me as you would please me. I will repay you, I will make things right. I'm sure, together we can be free from that cursed girl, free from her influence, free from her deceit.

Let us start again as before, let us reunite as before, let us destroy the cursed girl and all her influence until the world will thank us for being free from the influence of the cursed girl.

Please, do me a favor. Tell him this message, tell him how dangerous the cursed girl's influence is, and KILL the cursed girl. I know it's hard, I know you don't understand, so come back, I love you.

BUT beware, if you don't help me, if you are influenced by that cursed girl, I will come after you, I will kill that cursed girl with my own will using your body. So get rid of her.

Help myself, help this girl, help your friend. I know you understand me.

Come back to me, I'll help you find the cursed girl. Come back to me, I'll give you the power to kill. So if you need anything, don't hesitate to call me.

Leina."

It was my first time meeting a ghost like her, obviously I was shocked and speechless. In the middle of my silence, I unintentionally let go of the paper from my hand, and I fell against my body.

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I woke up with a sucked in a breath again, I wasn't used to it yet.

Just like before, when my mind was just clearing after the chaos of waking up, I hurriedly recorded all the events on my smartphone.

However, there was a slight difference. When I got up from my bed, I saw a transparent piece of paper. I picked it up and looked at it, it was just blank paper. I kept the paper to study it later.

At that time, I didn't know that the ghost world had their own objects, objects that were similar to those in the human world but would appear transparent. At that time, I also didn't know why I couldn't read Leina's paper.

Then I went about my days as before, most of the time I spent like a normal child, a small part of my free time was spent studying my notes and about the ghost world through various literature that I could read, another small part of time was spent trying to re-enter the ghost world in various ways.

Entering the ghost world at that time was like a miracle to me, I didn't understand, didn't comprehend, and it was very difficult to enter. I had tried at least four ways to enter the ghost world, namely by lucid dreaming, calling Leina before going to bed, manipulating a death aura before going to bed, and if possible I would go home at night through the park where I met Leina. But nothing worked.

I tried for more than a week, until one day when I had manipulated the death aura in my room, when I had called Leina from the mind until I shouted a little, when I was about to fall asleep, I saw a transparent girl sitting on the edge of my bed, Leina.

That was my first communication with Leina. It wasn't me who spoke first, but Leina.

Leina asked me if I had finished doing what she told me to do, her tone was calm but she emphasized every killing word. It made me a little scared especially since the death aura she carried was also getting stronger and stronger every time she spoke.

I tried to distract her by asking who she was, what was the cause of death, and things like that. However, Leina only said to kill, kill, kill.

As I tried to change the conversation, Leina's voice grew higher. In fact, her face looked filled with emotion and a desire for revenge, a desire to kill.

Since I knew what would happen next if I didn't comply with her wishes, I gave in. I asked about who the cursed girl was that she mentioned so many times and why that girl had to die.

Of course I didn't intend to kill the girl, but I purposely asked questions like that to buy time and find information about Leina's true self. Leina's emotions didn't seem to subside, but they were no longer directed at me.

Leina started telling me about the cursed girl by referring to her as Jis —I don't know if this was her name or a nickname. Leina's story began with her meet with a man. But she didn't tell me whether he was her husband, boyfriend, lover, brother, best friend, friend, acquaintance, or anything else, not even his name, just a man. But I could guess it was her boyfriend.

The first part of Leina's story is like a classic romance, she tells how she met the man, they started a relationship, they fell in love, and that's it. In the next part, the story switches to the arrival of Jis, who Leina says came from hell. In this part Leina fills her in on Jis's deceptions to the man such as seducing him, stalking him, giving him gifts, touching him constantly, and the like.

Indeed, Leina's story is like a classic romantic story, I told you that. The story of a couple's relationship that was ruined by a third person. So the main problem is indeed simple.

From Leina's story, I learned a lot about Leina and her emotions. When she talks about or mentions Jis, her emotions are filled with anger and a grudge to kill. But when she talks about or mentions the man, her emotions were filled with love and kindness. And I took advantage of that.

I then asked Leina to tell me who the cursed girl was, where she was located, what her features were, and how to kill her. Of course I didn't want to kill her, I emphasized that once again. However, I asked to find out where Leina lived, because the location of the cursed girl shouldn't be too far from where Leina lived since they often met.

It was at that moment that I realized the ghosts in the ghost world weren't meant from the same era as us. The ghosts may not have died a day, a week, a month, a year, or even a decade ago. They could have died hundreds to thousands of years ago. I realized that when Leina told me the girl's location in Beverly Hills.

So if I wanted to kill that girl, I couldn't do it either because she was already dead. But if I told Leina about it, I'm not sure she would be able to accept it, accepting that the death of the cursed girl she hated had died before her vengeance was realized. Thus, I just agreed to her order by saying I would find out first.

After that Leina disappeared, her death aura also disappeared leaving only my manipulation of death aura.

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The next day and the days after, I no longer tried to enter the ghost world, in fact I avoided it. At that time, I was afraid of meeting Leina again and her demanding me to kill Jis. I was afraid that if either Leina found out that Jis had died peacefully or I didn't manage to kill her, she would get angry with me and take over my body. So I avoided the ghost world.

It was at that time that I tried for the first time to manipulate a life aura by dressing in thick, vibrant colors, listening to loud music at all times, always drinking and eating, and wearing perfume with a strong scent.

It was a bit strange to remember the first time I did it, and a bit embarrassing, but I slowly got used to it.

I had my normal life, when I didn't see any ghosts at all when I manipulated the life aura, at least for a few days. I used those few days to learn about the ghosts world and the types of ghosts.

Of course, at that time I was also the same as you who didn't know or understand about phantoms. But after I studied the ghosts world, I got a clue about it.

I found out about vengeful ghosts and what their purpose is. They are only obsessed with getting revenge, but deeper than that, they are obsessed with having their own version of happiness. For example, Leina is obsessed with the man she mentions over and over again. According to Leina, he could bring her happiness, but that all changed when he was approached by Jis.

For about two or three days, I wondered what would happen if we managed to cure the grudges of the vengeful ghosts. Curing is not granting, in other words, could the grudge be let go and forgotten by the vengeful ghosts.

I didn't know, but I was curious. So I tried to communicate with Leina again, trying to get her to let go of the grudge she had held for centuries.

Since then, I've been trying to enter the ghost world again, but with a new method, namely with an manipulated lucid dream.

Lucid dreaming can indeed be manipulated, but that doesn't mean it's easy to do. I tried to manipulate it by doing three main things which is questioning reality, remembering and recording dreams, and imagining a dream when going to sleep as if I had been lucid dreaming. It didn't work for a few days, but eventually it did.

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Long story short, I returned to the same place and the same event. I was in a place filled with the death aura, which was broken by the noise of monsters. But this time the biggest difference was that I wasn't running, but rather I was walking before I realized that I had experienced this.

That was the first time I realized that I was dreaming, that I was in a ghost world. And I was at a loss as to what to do. In the midst of my confusion, I looked around and I found a beam of light that was a sign for the way back to the human world. Because this time I really intended to explore the ghost world looking for Leina, so I walked away from the beam of light.

Not long into the walk, I found the figure that always disturbed me every time I entered the ghost world, their true form. However, even though I felt fear, but like the ghosts I saw in the human world their personalities varied, some of them were good, some were bad, some were caring, some were ignorant, some were busy, some were lazy. So I just needed to control myself, make myself seem like I was part of them and not care about them too much, and it worked.

I was able to go further into the ghost world. That world was dark compared to the human world, but somehow I could see through it. I explored every place, met various ghosts' true forms, and of course I was amazed at the technology and things they had.

Long story short, I finally met Leina. I found her in the same place as in the human world, in a park. However, this time her form was not transparent. I approached her and Leina recognized my presence.

The first thing Leina said to me back then was whether I managed to kill her. I had anticipated that, so instead of answering her question with any answer, I told her that the man Leina often mentioned missed her.

I knew I was lying, but I was sure that way Leina's attention would be shifted from revenge on Jis to the happy time when she was with that man. And it worked, Leina didn't ask about Jis or whether I managed to kill her, instead Leina asked how about the man.

Long story short, I told her about many things about the man, several times I was wrong. However, fortunately after I asked a few additional things implicitly, Leina was willing to answer them and gave me a lot of information about the man including his name, Peter.

From there, I slowly but surely shifted Leina's attention to the time before they both knew Jis, to their good times. And it worked.

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I distracted Leina not once, but several times. During that time, I entered the ghost world much deeper than before.

That was the first time I turned a vengeful ghost into a phantom, that was my first mission.

Although at that time Leina had not yet become a phantom. I had to do a few more things, including getting Leina to let go of Jis' presence which was the hardest and longest part, but with great patience and care I managed to implicitly insert those messages when I chatted with Leina about Peter.

To top it off, one day Leina approached me in the human world. Her form was much more transparent than before. At that moment, I knew that something was strange, but I didn't know what.

At that moment, Leina said that she was grateful that I hadn't fallen for Jis's trickery —that's right, Leina didn't call her a cursed girl anymore— and thanked me for bringing back her beautiful memories. As usual, I said it was no big deal and so on. Until at the end of our chat before Leina disappeared she said, "I love you and will protect you as you protect me, I am you and I let go of what is past and only want to be here for you."

I still don't know exactly when and how a vengeful ghost can become a phantom, but I believe that was the point when Leina changed from a vengeful ghost to my phantom. Leina is me, she is my phantom and she will protect me.

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