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Chapter 42: New Learning

It was like someone is watching her.

She unconsciously looked around to see anyone alive. But there was no one. Only dead.

"Kei-kun, you better not scare me." She said and then turned the computers on for the input of the body's identification.

Then, she went back to the body and was ready to remove the cloth, but she hesitated upon remembering what the nurses said that the body would be difficult to look at.

That's when she noticed that her hand is shaking.

Her heart started palpitating. Is she scared? Of course, she would. Any normal person would be scared to be alone in that place.

She decided to close her fists forcefully and then closed her eyes.

"Don't be scared, Yukino. You got this. You've done this before. Remember, people who are alive are scarier than these people." She talked to herself with her eyes closed.

"Just think of this as helping them find their p...eace..."

But she feels her blood ran cold because as soon as she opened her eyes, the body was already seated with the white cloth covering its face.

She couldn't move. She just quietly looked at it.

Being a doctor and a woman who believed in science, she doesn't really pay attention to supernatural. But this experience is different.

She started to tremble and shake in fear. She doesn't know what to do. Whether to scream for help or run for the elevator.

She quietly took small steps backwards.

But as if sensing her intention to escape, the body no—the man starts to turn to her direction. Then, it starts to move towards her direction slowly.

She couldn't help but start tearing up, because of fear that she's feeling.

As the corpse stood, she felt her knees weaken. She fell on the cold floor and froze where she was, all while looking at the white figure in front of her.

The man started to walk towards her direction slowly.

"D...Don't... hurt me..." She said hopelessly with a tear escape her eye.

But it seemed to have fallen on deaf ears. The man only walked closer and closer to her.

"S...S...Someone...please...help me...th-there's..." She stuttered and cried even more.

"K-Kazu...tora...kun..." She finally calls a name.

At this point, her back felt a cold surface, marking a dead end. All she could do is look up the creepy figure. The man slowly raised his hand to remove the cloth covering his face.

She couldn't bear to look at it, so she unconsciously hugged her knees to cover her face.

But there was silence for a few seconds there.

She inwardly thought that maybe, everything is just her mind playing tricks on her. Thus, she decided to open her eyes. She slowly lifted her head, only to see...

"Boo!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!"

"Pwahahahahahahaha! Damn it! You should've seen yourself! So hilarious!"

Laughing his head off is a man in his gray three-piece suit and his typical sophisticated classy aura. He was laughing so hard that he had to hold his stomach while trying hard to stop himself from wheezing.