These people probably all knew something. Mrs. Shimada was hiding the truth, and Miss Sakai and Ms. Yoshinaga, the two biggest stars in the cast, had likely heard something from the director.
But the person I was possessing wasn't either of them.
The woman I'd possessed wasn't oblivious to people's moods, but she wasn't paying attention to this matter.
I felt a little regretful and instinctively looked around.
My next host might be somewhere in this room...
My gaze stopped, and I looked around the room again in disbelief.
A cold sweat broke out across my back.
Without my realizing it, a faint trace of yin energy had filled the room.
All these women had been tainted by the ghost's yin energy.
The few exceptions were the four members of the Shimada family, as well as Miss Sakai and Ms. Yoshinaga, who had originally been staying in this suite, along with their assistants, personal makeup artists, and other entourage.
Cold sweat slid down my back.
Maybe it was just my imagination, but for an instant, I thought all the women's faces had twisted out of shape.
I blinked and looked closely again. They seemed normal now. Still, I couldn't shake the feeling that their eyes had grown lifeless, overlapping with the eyes I'd seen beneath the house.
Shimada Daiki shifted, seeming to try to wriggle out of his mother's arms. She held him and murmured a few words to soothe him, but the child began to fuss.
All the women looked over.
Shimada Daiki looked as if he were about to cry. His mother seemed terribly embarrassed.
"This child... Stop fussing. Be good and listen."
"Daiki, listen to your mother. Lean against her and take a little nap." The Shimada family's daughter-in-law tried to coax her grandson, too.
I suspected