The Last Wish

The Lonely Ghost

As Ray gave them all their answers, more questions formed in their mind, but they stood wordlessly as shock prevailed.

“Ah, look at the time. You all need to sleep,” said Haru, breaking the silence with a clap of his hand.

“He’s going to stay here with us for a few days, so you can talk to him anytime. Now go to your rooms and sleep!” Hajime called out. You raised his hands in surrender as everyone headed to their rooms to sleep, but sleep evaded them as they thought about the ghost in their dorm.

The next morning, the middle and junior groups woke up rather late. Arriving at the common room, they saw a handsome young boy with apple-red hair and lime-green eyes sitting on the couch, his knees pulled up as he rested his chin on them.

They stared at each other until the boy’s face screwed up with annoyance. “What’s the matter? Why are you staring at me like that? Perhaps you’ve never seen a boy before?” He laughed. The others simply continued staring as his laughter didn’t cease.

“It’s not that!” Aoi laughed nervously. “We were wondering who it was, but now I think I know who.”

“How is it that we can see you?” asked Yoru, his voice hinting curiosity.

“That’s because of the white-haired guy. He did something to me and now I’m visible to everyone. Such a pain this is.” Ray told them with a sad tone in his voice.

“I see it was Shun who did this. At least he sometimes does something useful,” said You, leaning against the couch.

“You, you shouldn’t say something like that about me,” said Shun, appearing behind them.

“It’s the truth.”

Ray looked at them with wistfulness on his face as they bantered. Shun and You were still arguing as Ray was lost in thought, until someone interrupted his thoughts.

“What are you thinking about, Ray?”

Ray looked around to see who had spoken, and answered. “Nothing. Just… nothing.”

“Is it really nothing?” Kai asked, walking forward. “It doesn’t seem like ‘just nothing.’”

Ray got up from the couch and walked away in silence.

After breakfast, the younger members surrounded Ray. They were staring at him with curiosity in their eyes, but Koi still hung slightly in the back.

“We forgot to introduce ourselves to you,” Haru said, before they could begin bombarding Ray with questions.

Ray shook his head. “I know all of you very well, but sometimes, I get confused when it comes to your names.”

“Everyone, let’s introduce ourselves to Ray.”

“Wai-Don’t .” Ray raised both his hands as Haru looked up and blinked. “Let me try it. Let me start from the junior group. That yellow-haired short guy is Shiwasu Kakeru.”

Kakeru patted his blond hair.

“Beside him, the pink-haired guy is Kisaragi Koi, the brown-haired guy is Kannazuki Iku, and the little green-haired one is Minnazuki Rui.

“Then moving on to the middle group… The blondie is Satsuki Aoi. The food he makes is especially delicious, especially that strawberry milk you made last week-”

Before he could finish his sentence, Arata interrupted. “Huh? So it was you who drank it! And I was blaming everyone!”

“Ah… Yes? I'm not sorry about it either. So that black-haired guy is Nagastsuki Yoru. Your cooking is tasty too.”

Yoru smiled and ran a hand through his hair. “Thank you.”

“That orange hair is Hazuki You. I like his attitude the most. Then the senior grou-”

“Wait, what about me?” asked Arata. “You didn’t say anything about me?”

Ray glared at him, before turning it into a playful smile. “I did say something about you, didn’t you notice?”

Arata was lost in thought after that, and the others started to giggle, but Arata paid them no heed.

“So, the next is the senior group. The black-haired guy is Mutsuki Hajime, leader of Six Gravity and beside him is hmm… Yayoi Haru?”

Haru smiled and nodded.

“And the white-haired magical boy is Shimotsuki Shun. He’s the reason I’m visible to all of you. And finally, the one beside him is Fuzuki Kai, right?”

Kai smiled. “Yeah, you’re right about all of us.”

“I still don’t remember what you said about me,” said Arata, confused.

“I did. I said it just after I spoke about Aoi,” Ray said with a teasing smile on his face. “Perhaps you don’t remember because you were thinking about strawberry milk?”

“Ray, how long have you been here? You know about all of us,” asked Hajime.

“Approximately three months I think.”

“Three months and you’re only showing yourself now?” Haru asked.

“I saw them all watch a horror movie,” said Ray, gesturing to the boys in question, “And I thought, ‘Why not scare them all?’” The smile on his face was creepy, and shivers ran through the boys. “To be honest, I don’t know why, but there was a sudden urge to come out, as if someone told me to do it.” He stared at the middle and junior groups as if he planned to scare them all again.