Kuchiba Chisa

"Follow me? Why?"

After a moment of surprise, Mo Bai quickly collected himself.

Fortunately, there weren't many people in the hallway at the time. Otherwise, someone might have taken him for a lunatic talking to thin air.

And given how neurotic the students at this Academy were...

He would probably be trending on the campus forum the next day.

He had even thought of the headline: "Shocking! One of the Voidworm Knights who saved the Academy is actually a lunatic?!"

All right, imagining things like that probably made him the more neurotic one...

"Hello? You there? You there?"

Seeing Mo Bai standing there in a daze, Aemeath waved a hand in front of his eyes.

"Sigh... why do you want to follow me...?"

Mo Bai felt a little out of his depth dealing with Aemeath.

She was practically an intangible version of Lynae!

With Lynae, at least he could blow off some steam by competing against her in various contests.

But against this Digital Ghost, he genuinely had no recourse.

"No particular reason. In this whole huge Academy, you're the only one who can see me whenever, Mo Bai." Aemeath sounded utterly casual.

Mo Bai had learned a few things about her along the way.

Although Aemeath could enter electronic devices to let other people see her, doing so took a certain toll on her.

In that case, rather than waste energy on trivial things, she might as well stay in power-saving mode and remain invisible to everyone else.

What if someone needed her power sometime?

That was how Aemeath had explained it to Mo Bai earlier.

[Hohoho, you're quite the celebrity now.]

[More like I've got a ghost haunting me...]

[Then I guess we'll have to keep our conversations secret from now on?]

*[We'll have plenty of time at