Chapter 54: The School Ghost

“Every school has its ghosts, especially the old ones. For Wani Academy, the most notorious of all was the Ayakashi, the vengeful spirit of a former student who took her own life by jumping into the drink. Eyewitnesses described a spectral being cloaked in a dark, watery aura, her long brown hair and clothes moving as though suspended, forever sealed in a coffin full of black water. She wore the old Wani Slayer uniform that people said was the same thing she wore when she dove to her death at the bottom of the Arctic sea; another victim of bullying who had sought reprieve by drowning herself. Whenever the ghost attempted to communicate, all one could hear was a hair-raising gurgle, a choking sound from someone who was eternally drowning.

“She’d be floating horizontally towards you. The eyes were bulging, the hands reaching and the legs kicking nothing but empty air. In the exact manner the female student had died, the Ayakashi was trying desperately to surface but she was anchored dow