Chapter 3: Luna's True Self
"Hey Administrator! Why can I go through her office?"
[BEEP… BEEP… I DON'T KNOW… THIS IS BEYOND MY EXPERTISE… BEEP…]
"What! I thought I was a ghost and freely moving anywhere I wanted."
[I CAN ONLY COME UP A THEORY… BEEP… BEEP… I AM NOT BOUND TO ANY RELIGION… BUT THIS ENTITY COULD LINKED WITH SOME PEOPLE BELIEF… BEEP… BEEP…]
"So that means Luna had an amulet with her, she's afraid of ghosts… That's why I can't get inside since the amulet was shielding me, a wandering ghost… Crap, the USB is with her. She can open it anytime soon!"
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In the room, Luna was drying the USB with a hairdryer. Wrap it in a towel and repeat the process until it fully dries. Raku was desperate about what's going on inside, he flew outside and found any opening he could find.
"Found it! I'll just go through the aircond vent." He squeezed through the vent like a liquid goo. The effect of the amulet makes any ghost within its range can't penetrate through things but if there's an opening or a hole they can get through it. It was like the physical things were applied to ghosts too as the same as humans or living things.
While Raku is struggling inside the vent, Luna has already finished drying the USB. She opens up her laptop and immediately connects the USB to her laptop.
"Administrator!" Raku shouted and the Administrator appeared.
[WHAT CAN I DO… BEEP…]
"I need your assistance for slow motion only." Raku was smart enough to come up with the idea, with the Administrator around, time moving in slow motion and Raku can buy enough time to get where Luna is before she browses the USB.
Finally Raku reached Luna's office and once he was about to squeeze inside, invisible walls prevented him from advancing. The amulet force is stronger here and it is only 3 meters away from where she was. He can only inspect from a distance, Luna was already browsing the USB.
[IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO ASK… I WILL JUST DISAPPEAR… BEEP… BUT YOU ARE NOW PENALIZE BECAUSE SUMMONED ME WITHOUT ANY INQUIRY… BEEP… YOU CANNOT SUMMON ME AGAIN FOR 24 HOURS… BEEP…]
The Administrator disappeared and time moved normally.
"What! I didn't know there was a penalty for that. Damn it, Luna is already browsing the USB… My life ended here, now everyone will hate me, especially Luna." Raku didn't make it in time, the worse things he was struggling to prevent from happening now had already happened in front of him.
"Ahh! Damn that Raku! I didn't know he kept all this file with him." Luna was mad when she found out the content inside the USB.
"Yeah, I know she will be mad… I was expecting that." Raku now felt hopeless, his longing crush now throwing curse words for him.
"He's as good as dead now, I'll find him and kill him". The harsh word that came out from Luna's mouth makes Raku even more hating himself. He wanted to vanish and reincarnate now but he can't as he was given a penalty for 24 hours before he can summon the Administrator again. He had no choice but to listen to Luna cursing him before leaving this world later.
"He must have another copy, he was absent today… Maybe he was going to the police station and file a report, damn it! How could I be this careless!" Somehow Luna blurted something not linked with what Raku was expecting.
"She what? What was she talking about?" Raku was starting to get confused, he thought Luna was mad at him for keeping her photos, but it was because of something else. Raku tried to focus on what she was currently browsing.
"He outsmarted me, he kept a lot of my photos for supporting evidence." The moment he realized that Lina was browsing the CCTV footage from last night, Raku had a copy on the USB.
"Why was she mad with the footage? Did something happen? I didn't know what was inside, I haven't checked the footage yet." Luna's face turned red and grinning with fear, she pulled the USB out and hammered it with thick books until it shattered into pieces then she threw it into a toilet bowl and flushed it.
"Wh-what just happened, I don't know I should be happy or shocked after she destroyed the USB but Luna was mad at me now not because I was secretly keeping her photos, it was because of the CCTV footage that I don't even know what was inside." Raku leaves the office immediately after he sees Lina psycho face. That time he knew something was off, Luna had a secret. A big secret that could lead to a police case.
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"Not my problem though, she destroyed that USB now my task here is done… 24 hours from now I'll summon The Administrator and reincarnate. I will leave this boring world, lot's of girls waiting for me to be fucked on the other side said The Administrator. I gave up on Luna, after what I saw with my own eyes before, she's not a normal girl as I thought she was. She had done something terrible, and that CCTV footage says it all. Haha, now she tried to find me and wanted me dead but little did she know I was already dead. Good luck on finding me."
Raku wanders around the forest where his corpse is. It was an unsightly view, blood splatter everywhere around the tree and bushes. Wild insects started to crawl over his flesh. Only his upper body was in contact, his other limbs nowhere to be found. His little sister's bicycle was crumpled badly and almost split in two.
"This forest so thick. Might take some time for people to discover my corpse if they're lucky enough before other wild animals found and devour my corpse. Pftt."
He stayed there and procrastinated beside his corpse.
"Not much longer Raku, you will leave this cruel world… You have complained to God before that you didn't ask to be born in this world, a product of your father's affair with another woman. Mom was kind enough to accept you even though you are not related by blood. Dad was a coward, he ran off with another woman when mom was carrying Aya… Mom worked all day and night alone to feed both you and your step-sister. Now she's bedridden, as the sole breadwinner of the family, your sacrifice all these years to pay mom back was not enough as she was. With your death, the insurance might be enough to cover their expenses for ten years to come… Tsk… I'm sorry mom… That's all I can do."
Raku stayed until night came, he decided to roam the city and pay a last visit to his mom. As he flies to the city, he stops by at his favorite cigar kiosk down the alley. A blind girl was the kiosk attendant. Almost every day he would stop by this kiosk, but today he didn't make it.
"What was she doing? She should have closed her kiosk by this time. What makes her still open late at this hour? Did she start overtime?"
A girl from another shop came to the blind girl as Raku watched from afar. He did not hear what both of them were discussing but he could see that blind girl was just smiling until the other girl went away, Raku moved closer to the girl.
"Stupid girl, why would you stay open late… It's dangerous at night for a blind girl, have you not learned the lesson before?" Raku babbling beside the blind girl.
"Mister! I thought you were not coming. I was waiting for you all this time before closing ." That blind girl can hear Raku! But how? Raku was speechless. Of all people why this blind girl can hear him. He wanted to ask the Administrator but he's still in penalty.
"Y-you can hear me? H-how?" Raku became stuttered while asking the question.
"How? It's like the usual mister… I'm just blind, not deaf. And I can recognize your voice mister, cigar as usual? I can light it up for you." The blind girl offers him a cigar, the ghost.
"N-no thanks, I've stopped smoking. Y-yeah, I've stopped by today, that's why I'm not coming today. But you're still open so I came to ask." He tries hard to lie to the blind girl.
"... I see, It's great for you. Smoking is bad for health, you can die faster just by smoking." The blind girl replied with a smile.
"I'm actually d-..." Raku just realized he was about to tell the truth to the girl, luckily he stopped before spilling any more words.
"Yes mister? You actually what?" The blind girl now in question after Raku suddenly pauses.
"I actually had no friend, that's why I came to you even though I stopped smoking, y-yeah I'm lonely." Raku came with quick but relevant replies.
"Don't worry mister, you can come to me everyday like before. I'm always here for you even not as a regular customer but as my friend, my savior… You are always welcomed here, always..." When she said that, suddenly tears came out from her eyes but she quickly brushed it off.