"There's a ghost in the house!!"
Denji suddenly looked all around.
He wouldn't have believed anyone else talking about ghosts.
But he believed every word Meng Fan said.
"Not a ghost, but the Ghost Devil." Meng Fan wasn't afraid of the Ghost Devil in the house overhearing him and even made a point of explaining it to Denji.
"The Ghost Devil! Master, do you know where he is?"
"No, but I know the Ghost Devil can turn into any object and hide in someone's home. Then, when only one person is home, he attacks them mentally. Once their fear reaches a certain level, the Ghost Devil can turn the person under his control into an object."
"He can turn into objects and turn other people into objects too?"
"That's right. It's like prop hunt in CSGO. We're the seekers, and he's the hider. But we don't get any hints in this game. Even destroying all the furniture might not help us find him, because he can slip away while we're searching."
As Meng Fan spoke, his gaze kept sweeping over everything in the house.
"What about Aki? Has he turned into something in the house too?"
"That's right. It's the Ghost Devil's usual trick. He turns your companion into some random object in the house so you can't just destroy things, because whatever you break could be Aki. If the object Aki turned into gets destroyed, he'll die too."
"Until we find Aki, we have to be careful with everything. Break him by accident, and he's gone."
Listening to Meng Fan's words,
Denji slowed his movements.
He began keeping his body away from anything he might knock over.
"Ahh~" Just then, Power emerged from her room, stretching and yawning. Seeing people in the living room, she casually asked, "Have you