Not many murder cases happened at Teitan High School, and the cases were never too horrific. So today, although Jiang Xia had come, he honestly had not held out much hope of finding a ghost fetus.
But now, he had only walked around on the stairs... and there was suddenly an extra ghost beside him.
It was practically like a dream.
Unable to hide his surprise and delight, he turned his head, already preparing to direct the ghosts to pounce. But when he looked closely, the ghost standing beside him and going downstairs with him looked a little familiar.
Jiang Xia: "..." Wait, looking carefully, wasn't this the Snow Woman?
...If she was so bored, why wasn't she playing cat's cradle with Miyano Akemi and the others? What was she drifting around everywhere for!
—Unlike the other gullible ghosts, this self-important yokai ghost had not yet formed a contract with him. So although Jiang Xia could sense that she had been following nearby the whole time, he was not that sharp about her exact position.
In his impression, the Snow Woman always wore that ethereal plain white kimono of hers, reservedly floating in midair on a mass of cold air, and she rarely stepped on the ground like a person. Add to that the faint expectation hidden in his heart... when he had glimpsed her from the corner of his eye just now, he had actually thought a ghost had really spawned on the stairs.
Beside him, the Snow Woman was a little curious about what these humans were doing. So when Jiang Xia walked back and forth, she also descended to the ground and followed Jiang Xia's steps, hopping down one stair at a time.
Who knew that halfway through hopping, the human beside her suddenly stopped.
The Snow