"Smack~"
A crisp slap rang out.
The people nearby couldn't help turning toward the sound.
The ponytailed girl withdrew her palms after the combined strike.
"Qiqi."
The ponytailed girl slowed her speech.
"I think... you're overthinking this a little."
The corners of her lips lifted as she said jokingly, "I didn't know you believed in this sort of thing."
"A female ghost?"
"Are you serious?"
"Qiqi, it hasn't even gotten hot yet."
Why did her friend's mind seem a little muddled?
The expression on the short-haired girl's face grew somewhat anxious.
"No..."
"I..."
The short-haired girl opened her mouth.
For a moment, though, she didn't know what to say.
"...I'm serious."
The short-haired girl's hands clenched tightly into fists.
"You don't know..."
"At the time..."
"I..."
"All right."
Seeing that her friend couldn't get out a complete sentence after all that time, the ponytailed girl interrupted her with a smile.
"If you can't explain it clearly, don't force yourself."
"At the end of the day, that was only your own feeling, wasn't it?"
"You just encountered too many unfortunate things today, so you started imagining things."
"It's all right."
"After one night's sleep, you'll feel tomorrow that you were just overthinking it."
"But..."
The short-haired girl bit her lower lip unwillingly.
"You don't understand how I feel..."
"Do you really believe female ghosts exist in this world?"
The ponytailed girl asked seriously in return.
Short-haired girl: ...
"...I... was just using it as an example..."
"She might not be a female ghost..."
"Maybe she's some other kind of being..."
"What?"
The ponytailed girl's eyebrows rose slightly.
"Other than humans, what else in this world can speak human language?"
Short-haired girl: ...
"...A ghost..."
The short-haired girl mumbled.
Ponytailed girl: ...
Had