"Are you afraid of ghosts?"
Hearing Lin Bai's first question, both Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana's expressions subtly changed.
Then Yurikawa Hana awkwardly touched her head:
"Actually, I'm really scared of ghosts, and generally speaking, many girls would be, right?"
"Miko, what do you think?"
After speaking, she turned to look at her best friend.
If it weren't for the bright sunshine and the crowd of people, she probably wouldn't have agreed to this interview.
Even if Lin Bai was very handsome.
"Hmm, me too."
Yotsuya Miko withdrew her gaze from Lin Bai, looked at Yurikawa Hana, and echoed with a slight smile.
Her smile was just a little forced.
Of course, she was scared.
How could she not be scared?
If anyone here was the most scared, she thought it was definitely herself.
"Okay, second question."
Lin Bai nodded and continued,
"Do you think ghosts really exist in the world?"
"Ah..."
Yurikawa Hana couldn't help but be stunned.
Do ghosts really exist?
As someone who had received compulsory education, although she was very scared, she didn't actually believe that ghosts truly existed.
So after a moment of stunned, she couldn't help but say with a smile,
"Of course, they can't really exist, right, Miko?"
As she spoke, she looked at Yotsuya Miko again.
"Right..."
Yotsuya Miko suppressed the complex emotions in her heart, clenched her fists tightly, and forced a smile.
Her peripheral vision glanced to the side.
The terrifying evil spirit that had been following Yurikawa Hana had, at some point, closed its large mouth.
It was staring directly at Lin Bai.
Endless malice seemed to be contained within its dark, hollow eye sockets.
It extended its shriveled, bluish right hand, like that of a dried corpse, waved it in front of Lin Bai, and then pulled it back.
It opened its mouth again to absorb Yurikawa Hana's life energy.
A blood-red eye quietly opened on its left cheek, its pupil rotating, seemingly staring at everyone present.
"Do you have any more questions?"
Yurikawa Hana, who hadn't noticed anything unusual, looked at Lin Bai.
If possible, she hoped this topic would end soon.
After all, she really didn't want to discuss ghosts.
As if sensing her thoughts, Lin Bai said with a smile,
"No, that's all. Thank you for accepting my interview."
"To show my gratitude, how about this? I'll treat you to a drink. What do you think?"
"No need, that's too kind."
Although Yurikawa Hana's heart fluttered for a moment at his words, she still shook her head, about to refuse.
After all, this interview only asked two questions.
Yotsuya Miko didn't offer any opinion beside them, as she was currently suppressing the fear in her heart.
The evil spirit seemed to have grown stronger!
The blood-red eye that had appeared on its face, even just a glimpse from her peripheral vision, sent a chill down her spine.
She felt her mind being polluted.
Terrifying, so terrifying!
Lin Bai ignored the evil spirit's changes and, seeing Yurikawa Hana about to refuse, smiled and said,
"It's necessary. After all, I asked you about something you dislike, so please allow me to make a small compensation."
"Then... okay."
Yurikawa Hana hesitated for a moment but eventually agreed.
Then she looked at Yotsuya Miko.
Yotsuya Miko, trying hard to focus her attention on Lin Bai and Yurikawa Hana, nodded gently in agreement.
She always felt that Lin Bai was strange.
So she wanted to interact with him more, perhaps to discover something.
Thus, the three people and one evil spirit headed to a nearby drink shop.
The three walked and chatted.
Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana also revealed their names.
Lin Bai looked at them and asked with a smile, "From your appearance, you're high school students, right?"
"Yes, first year."
Yurikawa Hana nodded with a smile.
Lin Bai asked again, "Which school are you from?"
Yurikawa Hana didn't hide it: "Private Tougou Academy."
Private Tougou Academy, full name Private Tougou High School.
"What a coincidence, I'm also from Togo Academy."
Lin Bai raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in his eyes.
"Oh, you too!"
Both Yurikawa Hana and Yotsuya Miko were a little surprised at his words.
They clearly hadn't expected the handsome guy who suddenly struck up a conversation with them on the road to be a classmate from the same school.
This was truly too much of a coincidence.
Lin Bai: "Yes, it seems we have quite a bit of fate."
He was genuinely a little surprised in his heart.
Because in half a month since starting school, he hadn't met Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana at school.
They didn't meet at school.
But they met outside of school.
Of course, this was also the result of his active choice; otherwise, he wouldn't have met Yotsuya Miko and them today.
After knowing they were classmates from the same school, Yotsuya Miko and Yurikawa Hana seemed to relax a bit more.
A moment later, in the drink shop.
This place not only had various drinks but also offered desserts.
Lin Bai and the two girls arrived at six automatic beverage machines, briefly waited in line, and then chose the drinks they wanted.
"You two go find a seat first, I'm going to look at the desserts."
Yurikawa Hana handed the filled drink to Yotsuya Miko and said to Lin Bai and the other girl with a grin.
She quickly walked towards the dessert area.
After seeing the dessert pictures, she was already drooling.
Seeing this, Lin Bai and Yotsuya Miko took their drinks and found an empty table in the shop to sit down.
Lin Bai took a sip of his drink.
Looking at Yotsuya Miko opposite him, he smiled slightly and said softly,
"Yotsuya, you don't seem to have slept well last night."
"What do you mean?!"
Yotsuya Miko's expression changed slightly at his words, her heart like a calm surface of water suddenly hit by a large stone.
"Nothing."
Lin Bai transformed into a riddle-solver at this moment.
He smiled and then said, "I'm just a passing enthusiast of supernatural stories; don't overthink it."
"???"
Yotsuya Miko was filled with suspicion and uncertainty.
Although he told her not to overthink it, with Lin Bai acting like this and saying these things, how could she not overthink it?
Both overtly and covertly, he implied something.
'Could he also see those ghosts like me?'
'And he also discovered that I can see ghosts?'
'But from earlier until now, he doesn't seem like he can see ghosts at all.'
'Is he pretending?'
'Can he really see ghosts? And why is he deliberately saying these things to me?'
Thoughts popped up one after another in Yotsuya Miko's mind.
Although she really wanted to understand, she knew that Lin Bai was being deliberately mysterious and clearly wouldn't say anything now.
Damn riddle-solver!
A moment later, Yurikawa Hana found them, carrying desserts.
Twenty minutes flew by.
The three walked out of the store, and Lin Bai looked at them and said with a smile,
"How about we exchange email addresses? Since we're from the same school, we can hang out sometime."
As he spoke, he took out his phone.
"Sure."
Yurikawa Hana immediately smiled and nodded in agreement.
At the same time, she took out her phone and exchanged email addresses with Lin Bai.
After exchanging, Lin Bai looked at Yotsuya Miko and smiled slightly:
"Yotsuya-tongxue, aren't you going to exchange with me?"
"Okay."
As her eyes met Lin Bai's, Yotsuya Miko's gaze flickered.
Then she took out her phone.
The two quickly finished exchanging.
Putting away his phone, Lin Bai bid farewell to Yotsuya Miko and the other girl:
"Then let's part ways here. See you next time."
"See you next time, bye-bye."
Yurikawa Hana had a bright, energetic smile on her face.
Lin Bai smiled at the two of them, then turned and left.
"!!!"
Yotsuya Miko's eyes widened slightly.
The ghost that had been following Yurikawa Hana suddenly looked at Lin Bai and actually left with him...