An Abnormal House

Ding-dong! Ding-dong!

A strange child dressed in a dead man's shroud stood before a two-story wooden house, raising its bruised-black arm to press the doorbell beside the front door.

In the unnaturally quiet Kobe City, the not particularly loud chime sounded hollow, echoing silently through the streets and carrying far into the distance.

The bell rang again and again without stopping.

It seemed like a prank, but in the current state of this city, no one would be bored enough to pull such a prank. And if there were, the homeowner whose doorbell was being rung would surely have come out to stop it.

Yet while the bell continued to ring, the owner of the house never appeared.

It seemed to be an empty house with no one living inside. Or perhaps someone had lived there before, but they were already dead.

The ghost child was very patient. It treated the doorbell like a toy, pressing it over and over.

Yang Jian, standing some distance away, did not stop it. His expression remained calm as one Ghost Eye peered into everything inside the house.

The Ghost Eye could not see through the house shrouded in darkness.

A supernatural force obscured his Ghost Eye's vision. After all, this was within the Door-Knocking Ghost's Ghost Domain. Yang Jian did not know whether the Ghost Domain's power was blocking him, or whether there was something wrong with this two-story wooden house itself.

Yang Jian did not force his way through with his vision, nor did he use his Ghost Domain. If he did, he might leave this place, just as he had back at Seventh High School. He had used his Ghost Domain to resist the Door-Knocking Ghost's Ghost Domain, and the result had been that he left the school with the surviving