The Mermaid's eyes lit up when she saw Jiang Xia nod, and she happily swished her tail.
Then, before Jiang Xia could instinctively reach out and pet her tail, she turned and pounced back toward the Ghost Mint, which was still burning faintly, and continued eating.
As Jiang Xia fed the ghosts, he imagined the wonderful future awaiting him tomorrow.
When he finished feeding them and looked down, he discovered that he was clearly not the only one looking forward to it—the ghosts were all excited too.
Eight spider legs extended from behind Spider Lady as she rapidly counted the few wisps of Killing Intent on the ground like a machine tallying chips. Those were bits Jiang Xia had torn off for the ghosts to play with whenever he was bored, and at some point, they had become currency among the ghosts. Now, they seemed to be taking bets on the flavor of Akai Shuichi's Killing Intent.
Matsuda Jinpei decisively bet on "smoke," and the Parent Ghosts chose the same.
Unlike those two ghosts, whose mindsets were relatively close to normal human ones, the Mermaid, Xiao Bai, and Spider Lady boldly bet on "assorted pudding." Miyano Akemi, meanwhile, rationally slapped her Killing Intent down on "gunpowder smoke." After thinking for a moment, she hesitantly moved out another wisp and placed it on "stewed potato" instead.
For some reason, the Mist Tengu chose "gems"... Perhaps it had consumed too many Energy Cores and unconsciously associated gems with Energy Cores. It was therefore looking forward to gem-flavored Killing Intent, even if that sounded a little hard on the teeth.
The Cat Ghost did not quite understand what its coworkers were doing. It paced around with its tail swishing, then noticed that most of the ghosts had chosen flavors they liked. So it