"Ah... Okay..."
Sky's Story - Curse or Gift.
This will be the story about a 'gifted person'.
"I don't believe in ghosts and spirits, I found that those who believed in these things are really stupid, but I'm good at using this kind of stupidity and trick them into giving me some benefits. Since I'm good at 'reading' people's mind, I like to trick those superstitious people into believing that I have the ability to see and communicate with the 'spirits'. It's really funny to look at their stupid look after I told them they are haunted by some 'spirits' and it's more entertaining to watch them drinking all those disgusting solutions I make with dirt and dust, some of them even paid a generous amount of money for it. Haha! Those idiots!"
"Today I'm going meet with an old classmate, who is really weird since we know him in middle school, most importantly he is really obsessed with those spiritual things and the reason he wants to meet with me is because he heard about my 'special gift' from another friend. This is a really precious chance, how could I let go of it. Ah! There he is! Still looks as weird as always." He walks towards a shabby-looking man and sits down in front of him.
He looks at the man in front of him and found out he might be actually quite rich right now. "Haha! How can I let go of this precious chance." he thought. So he pretends to 'examine' the man a bit before asking him if he having problems with sleeping, he nodded without saying anything. "Ha! I knew it, those heavy eyebags had exposed him well."...
At that moment, this 'gifted one' did not even notice that his classmate was actually looking at the area behind him since the beginning...
"You have a curse on you." he said to his old classmate, but beyond of his expectation, the man in front of him did not show any sign of shock or fear, he calmly taking a sip from a cup of black tea in front of him. "How did you know about that? I thought I hide it well enough." said the man who was silent since the beginning. "Ha! You know I'm 'gifted' with this special ability." Although he was a bit nervous after hearing the man's response, he still managed to put on a fake smile on his face due to his brilliant 'acting skills', and as he said so, he felt a weight on his right arm, then he saw the man in front of him suddenly smirked. "Are you sure it's a gift?" said the man with a slightly creepy voice. The atmosphere suddenly became really heavy, he doesn't know what should he answer him. "Do you know over consuming of lead can be fatal?" the man asked again. "Why do you ask me about that?" he asks with a slightly trembling voice. "*sigh*... Pencil leads are leads too." said the man again, while looking at the right shoulder of that 'gifted one' with a serious look. "Pencil..." Then he suddenly remembered what he did a few months ago.
That day, a superstitious mother brought her daughter to meet that 'gifted one', the mother said that her daughter did not do well in the study so she wished to get some advice from him. Then he told her that her daughter was disturbed by a demon that feeds on human intelligence and he could help to cast it away with his special 'remedy' which is actually just a mixture of pencil dust and soil. The mother paid a generous amount of money for it and will come back to 'restock' every week, but she stops coming to him a few weeks ago, which he feels so disappointed with it, it's such a big amount of money, he thought.
"What else do you know ..." he asks the man. "Well, I don't know... Maybe about a girl that passed away due to lead poisoning after been forced to consume a big amount of lead every day by her mother, or maybe a mother that committed suicide after found out that she indirectly killed her own daughter a few weeks ago?" said the man who is still looking at his right shoulder. "The girl died?... No... Wait! How did you know about that?" he asked with a frightened look. "She told me about it... Tsk... I thought you are able to see them." said the man while pointing at his right shoulder with a smirk...
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Sky blows out the last candle and the whole room turns dark.
"Hey! Have you ever heard an urban legend?" said Seito. "What urban legend?" Sky asks. "About when a group of people talking about anything related to the spiritual being, and those spirits will gather around those people?" said Seito again. "Ah, I had heard about that from the tennis club, they said if someone were talking about those from the other side, they will gather around because they are interested to know how the living people think about them. Especially during midnight." said Chris. Just as Chris finished his words, all the five candles light up again by itself. "Hmm... Looks like them didn't get enough of it." said Chris. "So... Who wants to continue?" said Sky and all five of them staring at a direction with a slightly creepy look... Yes, Your direction...