Unfortunately, the ghost girl in her white-haired form clearly could not communicate normally. She merely kept repeating things like "I'll eat you" and "I'll absorb you" as she charged at Xia You. Even when Gardevoir blocked her, she kept hurling herself against its invisible barrier, over and over.
Seeing her make no attempt to dodge, so persistently trying to attack Xia You as though driven by some powerful obsession, May could not help finding it strange.
"Xia You, why does this ghost girl want to... eat you so badly? You didn't do anything weird to her while we were resting earlier, did you?"
Xia You reached back and rapped May on the head, then rolled his eyes at her!
"What nonsense are you talking about? Haven't I been with you the whole time since we entered the mansion?"
May held her head and stuck out her tongue.
"I know! I was only making a little joke..."
Cheryl was both surprised and amused that these two could still fool around in such a tense atmosphere, but she was in no mood to join them. Instead, she asked nervously, "Xia You, are ghosts... all like this?"
Even Cheryl herself probably had not realized that, after knowing Xia You for only a few short hours, she had already come to regard him as her pillar of support.
That was hardly surprising, though. In such a strange and dangerous environment, with someone so powerful and calm-a "captain" figure-beside her, it was difficult for someone with Cheryl's personality not to instinctively choose to trust him.
"Of course not." Her question reminded Xia You of the female ghost at Maiden's Peak in Kanto, and he shook his head. "Ghosts aren't all bad, and some are stronger than others. Their particular circumstances mainly depend on the reasons