Surviving in a School of Ghost Stories-Chapter 95

After school, the student council room.

Raven and Noah had arrived first and were waiting for me.

Why are they like that?

The two men were sitting far apart, with their legs crossed and arms folded, staring at each other intently. They weren’t speaking at all.

Why are they doing this?

Meow.

At that moment, Kkamang, who appeared out of nowhere, jumped up onto Noah's lap.

That untrustworthy cat again!

"President, what exactly is your relationship with my sister?"

"I've told you countless times, we're just a senior and junior."

"It doesn't seem like it, based on your words and actions."

Raven scrutinized Noah from top to bottom with a sharp, menacing gaze. Can a freshman really act like this towards the student council president?

Ahem.

Feeling like they weren’t paying attention to me, I decided to assert my presence unnecessarily.

Only then did the two men turn to look at me. As soon as they noticed me, they both immediately stood up.

"Sis!"

"You're here."

I sighed and approached them, placing my bag on the desk.

"What's with the atmosphere?"

At my question, both of them closed their mouths without answering.

Right now, something more important than their little squabble was at hand.

I opened my bag, took out the diary, and placed it on the desk.

"I got The Diary of Sister Gloria."

"What? Really?"

"The Diary of Sister Gloria?"

Both Raven and Noah looked at me in surprise.

"How did you get it? I thought it was supposed to be in the 'other world'..."

Raven looked at the diary with wide eyes.

"I got it by eliminating the victims of the bathroom ghost story."

Noah raised an eyebrow at my answer.

He ran his fingers over the surface of the diary and then expressed mild doubt.

"You mean, not the evil spirits of the bathroom ghost story, but the victims?"

"Yes. The victims of the bathroom ghost story seemed to want to be eliminated too. They gave me the diary as a reward for helping them."

"I’ve never seen something like this before."

As soon as Noah finished speaking, Raven opened the diary.

I leaned in with them, and we all read through the diary together. Then we found something I hadn’t noticed before.

June 21st, 802.

The king often comes to see me in the form of a black cat. Now, just seeing a ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) cat gives me chills.

Sometimes, the king possesses that cat. Even when he is not possessing it, the cat follows me.

Please leave me alone, you stalker.

Sister Gloria was quite the character.

She must have really hated the king. But why did it seem like she and the king had a close relationship?

"A black cat? Now that you mention it..."

As Raven read through the diary, he looked at Kkamang, who was sitting comfortably in Noah’s lap, with a puzzled expression.

Meow.

At that moment, Kkamang, with his yellow eyes, let out a meow.

The ordinary Kkamang, when he wasn’t possessed by Noah, was actually a very clever cat. He knew that I was watching and cried like that.

"But where did this cat come from? Didn’t you say this was the cat you’re raising, sis?"

I nodded.

"I met him in Chesswind Village, but didn’t the president meet him first?"

Hadn’t Noah appeared already possessing Kkamang’s body when we were in Chesswind Village?

At my question, Noah, with his chin resting in his hand, said nothing.

"Why aren't you answering?"

"...Well."

He opened his mouth with a meaningful look. Raven and I both focused, sensing something important was coming.

"I don’t remember."

What? freēwēbηovel.c૦m

"What do you mean, president? You have a good memory, so why can’t you remember something so important?"

I scolded him, and he scratched his chin awkwardly.

"It was a long time ago when I met him."

"So, are you saying this is the cat you brought when you entered school? He’s your pet? But why is my sister raising your pet?"

"Yeah."

I looked at Noah in disbelief.

"I never brought him. He followed me."

"No way. So, you’re saying he’s not the cat you met as a child? Then, when could he have started possessing him? Can he possess other cats too?"

At my question, Raven’s eyes went wide with surprise.

"Wait, what are you saying? Possessing a cat? Who? The president?"

He pointed his finger at Noah and asked me. Noah looked at Raven’s finger for a moment before answering.

"I’ve never possessed another cat, so I’m not sure. I didn’t bring him here; he followed me. But after meeting you, Melody, he only followed you."

Noah’s words gave me a strange sense of déjà vu.

Wait a minute...

I looked down at the diary again.

The content in the diary... is exactly the same...?

"Ah, so what exactly does it mean to possess a cat? Does it have something to do with the way you were talking to a cat in the library?"

I was about to follow my thoughts when Raven's next question brought me back to reality.

"Yeah. Noah, the president, has the ability to possess a cat’s body."

"...What? How is that even possible?"

"Evil spirits are walking around openly, so it’s not impossible."

Noah answered in a calm tone in response to Raven’s disbelief.

Raven, with a distressed expression, alternated his gaze between Noah and Kkamang. I could understand how he felt. Possessing a cat's body was a difficult thing to process.

Most importantly, since I was the only one who could understand the words when Noah spoke through the cat’s eyes, proving it to anyone else was even harder.

Eastern, being a shaman, seemed to be able to sense Noah in some way, but ordinary people would find it difficult.

We needed to share information.

Raven had no idea what kind of time I had spent with Noah so far. Likewise, Noah didn’t know anything about Raven’s curse.

"I thought you two would have a lot to talk about, so I called you here."

I said this and quickly explained Raven’s curse to Noah.

After hearing about the curse, Noah finally understood why we had been looking for The Diary of Sister Gloria.

"Is that all there is to know about the one who placed the curse? The birdcage?"

At Noah’s question, I suddenly remembered the birdcage from the ghost story about the bravery test in class F.

"Wait..."

I had been so distracted that I had forgotten, but I definitely remembered seeing Noah inside that birdcage.

"What’s going on? Why does it keep overlapping like this?"

I looked at Noah with a troubled expression.

"Other than that, the only thing I remember is that the air changed the moment he appeared. The evil spirits were trembling in fear. You couldn’t miss that immense presence."

We had been talking about the one who cursed Raven, but I kept thinking about the "King of Evil Spirits."

On top of that, Noah and the King kept overlapping in my mind.

The fact that the beings from the ‘other world’ feared Noah and the existence of the black cat seemed to connect the two.

‘It must be a coincidence.’

There was nothing else that seemed to overlap.

"Is this why you’ve been running away from Melody all this time? You’re scared? You’ve been doing useless things. It would have been better if you’d shared and found a way earlier."

"I don’t want to hear that from a cat."

At Raven’s response, Noah let out a laugh, almost as if he was amused.

This was the first time I had seen Noah respond like this. Normally, he wouldn’t react to any situation.

Oh, wait. There was one time.

When Dante had asked me who I would prefer to teach me cricket, Noah had reacted similarly back then.

"Alright, you two. Stop fighting. There are a lot of torn pages in the diary, so we don’t have enough clues about the being who cursed Raven."

At my words, both men turned to look at me.

We needed to set a new plan, so we had to cooperate well without fighting.

Noah, understanding my thoughts perfectly, smiled and answered.

"Who’s fighting? I’m just accommodating our junior."

I take back what I said about him understanding perfectly.

"Yes, yes. Who would fight with a senior as great as you? And me?"

Raven shook his head, sneering.

I sighed and stood up from my seat.

"I’m leaving."

Then, the two of them grabbed me at the same time.

"I apologize for acting childish. We’re not done talking, so stay here."

"Sorry, sis. I’ll behave."

In the end, I sat back down.

Raven, I could understand, but I never expected Noah to act this childish.

It’ll be fine, right?