Volume 3 Chapter 26

"...Can you move?"

Move my ass! Did she look like someone who could move? She would be able to move once she became a ghost. Then she could see whether she wanted to drift away leisurely, or fail to let go and turn into a grievance-fueled malicious ghost to haunt someone—though she didn't need to worry! Even if she became a malicious ghost, she wouldn't haunt him!

"...Is that so? Then who do you want to haunt?"

The source of the voice grew closer beside her ear, almost pressing against her auricle. She could feel a wave of warmth blowing into her ear along with the voice, gradually shifting from warm to scorching. The blurred figure in her field of vision also slowly gained a sense of reality. That figure bent down in front of her, first brushing fingertips across her swollen and cracked lips, then taking off an outer robe to wrap around her body. He gently lifted her hands, and with a slight exertion of force, made her entire stiff body slump over his back and lifted her onto his back.

Carrying her on his back, he walked step by step toward the outside of the prison cell. "I came back late, but you still aren't allowed to kick the bucket."

"...You—who are you!" Her voice was hoarse, filled with thick dissatisfaction. Three fire-provoking syllables drifted from her fever-scorched throat, but simply upon uttering those three words, her swollen and cracked lips began to ooze a bunch of saliva.

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Extreme suffering for Little Eight in this chapter... just this once! I promise!

Volume 3 Chapter 26

"..." He was silent for a moment, but his footsteps did not stop as he strode outward. "As you please. Whomever you want to come save you,