Meanwhile, Fang Zheng and Teacher Shishido Yui returned to Class 1-A with Suzumoto Mayu, whom they had rescued. There, Fang Zheng saw the other two students Teacher Shishido Yui had mentioned: Kishinuma Yoshiki and Shinozaki Ayumi.
Kishinuma Yoshiki looked like a delinquent, while Shinozaki Ayumi was a petite girl with twin ponytails. Both were quite happy to see Suzumoto Mayu. After Mayu recounted what had happened to her, everyone was shocked and astonished.
"I never thought those ghosts would be so terrifying..."
"Neither did I..."
Suzumoto Mayu looked rather dejected. She had genuinely treated those two ghosts as friends before, never imagining that they would actually want to kill her...
Fang Zheng, however, clearly found nothing unusual about it.
"That isn't strange. They're ghosts, so there's bound to be a gap between their values and those of the living."
"Is that so, Kasugano-kun?"
"That's right."
Fang Zheng shrugged, then spread his hands toward Shishido Yui and the others.
"Think of it this way: you can regard the Vengeful Spirits here as suffering from a kind of mental illness... I don't mean that in a derogatory sense. Fundamentally, these souls have been trapped here for a very long time. The pain they've endured is beyond what ordinary people can imagine. So no matter how innocent and adorable a ghost may seem, once provoked, her reaction will definitely be far more extreme. Not to mention Vengeful Spirits..."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng looked at Suzumoto Mayu again.
"Just like what you said before—you wanted to stay here and keep them company. You think that's simple, but how likely do you think it is to work? You're alive, while they're already dead, and there's no food here. Do you really naively believe that simply keeping those children company will let them rest in