Ji Meng looked utterly disdainful.
When it had first met her, the girl hadn't seemed particularly special.
She'd fainted at the sight of it?
Wasn't that perfectly normal?
What was strange about humans being afraid of demons?
But...
After spending a long time with her, it realized it had been wrong.
This girl was special.
Specially timid.
Specially useless.
Ji Meng ground its teeth.
Just looking at her made it angry.
Yet it couldn't hurt her or get away from her. It couldn't even avoid seeing her.
Oh.
That coward was quite good at pretending not to see it.
Ji Meng gave a mocking laugh.
"When I woke up again... I was in the hospital."
She smelled disinfectant.
She didn't like that smell.
Just as she didn't like hospitals.
When she opened her eyes, she saw the worried faces of her parents.
"I thought what happened before was just a nightmare."
The girl pursed her lips.
"But then I saw it again."
Right beside her hospital bed.
Behind her parents.
Fear filled the girl's widening eyes.
Ah!
"...I scared my parents."
The girl nervously picked at her fingers. "Neither of them could see it."
"The doctors couldn't see it, either."
"No one could see it."
"Only I could."
"They said I was mistaken."
"They said I was too tired."
"They said I was hallucinating..."
During her time in the hospital, those were the sorts of things she heard most often.
What she saw most often were her parents' sorrowful, worried expressions and the doctors' and nurses' sympathetic, pained looks...
She suddenly understood...
"I told myself..."
The girl paused. "It was a hallucination."
"It wasn't real."
"...I realized it only appeared around me."
"But it never did anything to me."
That was also why she was able to hypnotize