A thick-browed ghost, bawling his eyes out?
Teruzo Kurogane rubbed his eyes in disbelief, then looked again.
The living room was empty, and the sound of a man crying that he had heard earlier had vanished too.
"What on earth is going on? It really was a hallucination..."
Teruzo involuntarily stepped forward and looked around. Sure enough, he found nothing.
Just then, Teruzo felt a stab of pain on the back of his right hand. Looking closely, he saw that the bright red Cursed Seal had become even clearer.
Teruzo hurriedly wiped it with his other hand, rubbing hard.
"That's weird. Why won't it come off?"
Teruzo stared at the bright red Cursed Seal on the back of his hand, his face full of bewilderment.
The design resembled a leaf, with a spiral pattern in the middle.
Yet another inexplicable occurrence.
"Maybe getting slammed into the ground yesterday messed up my head."
Teruzo pressed between his eyebrows and rolled his listless, dead-fish eyes as he spoke helplessly.
Even if he wanted to get checked at a hospital, he had no money for it.
When in doubt, sleep it off. Maybe everything would be fine when he woke up.
Nobody would care if a gloomy loner like him missed a day or two of school anyway.
"Young man!"
Suddenly, a large face with thick, dark eyebrows thrust itself right in front of Teruzo.
Teruzo was so startled that he fell onto the floor.
The thick-browed ghost had appeared again!
The insubstantial figure floated in midair, looking down at him as he asked:
"Tell me, are you my..."
"Huh? Did you pass out?"
"You said your name was Might Guy?"
In the classroom of Class 1-D at Kobe Second Boys' High School, Teruzo lay sprawled over his desk in boredom, asking