When Jiang Xia stopped, Eating Cat seemed to sense something. It jumped down from Spider Lady's arms, wandered over to the box holding its own corpse, and craned its head toward it.
Spider Lady let out a melancholy sigh and reached out, wanting to pet the unfortunate cat.
Before she could touch it, the cat padded over to the box, peered inside through a gap, and was immediately choked into sneezing twice.
It scampered back behind the other ghosts, gagged twice in disgust, then ran off without looking back.
Jiang Xia: "..."
...Not bad. It looked like an open-minded cat that had let go of worldly attachments and had no worries left.
Of course, perhaps it had never really looked in a mirror and did not know what it looked like, so it had failed to recognize itself...
He silently withdrew his gaze, stopped observing the ghosts' lives, and followed the elderly couple into the house.
Masuo Eri's home.
A photograph stood on the shoe cabinet in the entryway. It showed a young man and woman.
The woman looked somewhat familiar. She was Masuo Eri. Jiang Xia had met her once at the Police Station before. At the time, Masuo Eri's uncle had been imprisoned for murdering his wife, and no one was left to care for his cat, so Masuo Eri had gone to the Police Station to take it in... But now that she was married, her surname should have changed.
Come to think of it, the man in the photo also looked somewhat familiar...
After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Xia picked up the photo frame and examined it.
When he turned it over, he found two signatures written on the back: "Koichi" and "Eri," linked by a heart drawn between them.
Jiang Xia stared at