Chapter 74: Retaliation
“Is everything settled?” Sprawled on the floor, Ethan watched in stunned disbelief as Writing and his followers vanished from sight. His gaze then swung towards Miles.
“Must you always use such dramatic language?” Miles chided, lounging languidly on the couch, a chocolate egg cradled in his hand. “As a fellow ghost tamer, it’d be rather embarrassing if word got out that you were overwhelmed by a mob and beaten to a pulp.”
Smiling slightly, he offered the other guy a different Kinder Surprise egg, “Want a taste?”
Ethan retorted and glanced at the nail pining his hand, “Couldn’t you have bothered to free me first before eating?”
“Hold on a minute,” Miles replied, his eyes suddenly shut tight. “I need to settle whatever’s stirring within me first. I can’t risk your blood agitating it.”
While he appeared to be enjoying his treat, Miles was acutely aware of something unsettling beginning to churn within him. It felt like a restless eye twitching inside him, a sign that the ghost within was close to awakening.
“The red paper isn’t working anymore,” Miles sighed, eyeing the tattered red sheet on the floor. “The only way to remedy this is by snatching another red newspaper from that ghost. However, finding a concealed ghost in a city as big as Dachang is almost impossible.”
The red paper lay discarded, useless, slowly disintegrating to ash.
“The paper is just a vessel. The true suppressor of my ghost eye’s resurrection is the spectral power contained within. But it’s almost depleted. After a few suppressions, it’s now utterly useless,” Miles mused, his gaze unfocused. “Writing might have been onto something.”