The phone ghost who liked teaming up with people—the strange little boy—had spent most of the night battling Annie in the hospital's little garden. After dozens of duels, he'd pressed his phone so hard it was practically smoking. He'd even used all kinds of supernatural phenomena, terrifying hallucinations, and dirty tricks to throw her off, but in the end, he hadn't won a single match!
At the time, the look on his face had been so aggrieved, so wronged and resentful.
Meanwhile, after winning dozens of matches in a row and asking a few pointed questions, Annie gradually learned why he'd become a strange entity who liked playing on his phone while retaining a fairly clear mind.
It turned out to be nothing complicated. A few years ago, he'd been a mischievous child who loved playing games. After being coaxed by customer service agents from some unscrupulous company, he'd spent all his parents' money on the game. When his parents came home from work and discovered that their account balance had been almost wiped out, they'd tried to get a refund from the game company and failed. Naturally, he'd gotten a thorough beating from both of them.
A few days later, he saw his parents arguing heatedly again over how to get their money back. Realizing that another beating was imminent, he got scared and hid on the balcony.
Then, somehow, he lost his footing and fell. By the time he was brought to this hospital, it was already too late.
In the end, the unscrupulous game company had refunded every cent he'd spent under pressure from public opinion after the incident blew up. But he could never come back.
One day, as he drifted around the hospital in a daze as a spirit, he saw that red moon—and became