Chapter 23

All of us are helping out in making a fire to cook the boar that Fesil caught. Fesil cleaned up the boar and while Kaishin went to look for sticks...on the other hand, Val gathered dried leaves and prepared the place for the campfire.

Comil and I were arranging the tents for us to stay for we decided to camp there because the sun is going to set soon at those times...

We were having a lot of fun in doing our parts. When Kaishin returned, they emidiately started the fire and put the stick in the boar so that we could cook it in the fire.

I was craving for some mushrooms but sadly, there were no edible mushrooms arround...

As we watch the boar getting cooked, we formed a circle near the fire for as the night comes, we want to warm ourselves with the campfire from the cold air of the night.

There, we shared some horror stories we know... We decided our turns to tell stories with rock-paper-scissors... Val, Fesil, Me, Comil, and Kaishin.

Val is about to share his story when the atmosphere suddenly changed with his introduction.

"This story was a story i heard when i was still training as a fighter... I was still quite young when I entered the army and would let curiosity get to me... I found a diary from my room that seemed to belong to the former owner of the room... Diaries were not supposed to be read by the others right?...but i read it..."

"It was after training for the day when all of them would naturally gather at the canteen to get their dinner. There was a boy that just came and was left alone. He overheard a conversation from some older guys that was sitting in the table behind him."

"Hey...did you heard about the ghost wandering and crying in the forest? Could it be her?..." The man asked his friends...

"Hahaha! Silly, there's no such thing as ghost at all. And, nobody knows about 'that'." The other man said.

"The new comer then, decided to have a test of courage and went to the said forest and decided to look for the ghost all alone."

"The forest was a little bit far from the camp and is already pitch black for the moon was being covered by the clouds...just like now..."

As Val said that, the wind got stronger and gave me the chills... From behind, i heard the sound of an owl and jump up from the fright...

Everyone was holding up their laughter...

"Val, please do continue..." i said and they regain themselves and the story was continued

"Without realizing, that person got lost and was going around on a circle. It was at those times when the guys from earlier seemed to come too."

"See, She's over here." one man said as they seem to pick up something...

"It was at those times when the moon decided to reveal itself... The person was surprised to see the person that the guys was carrying..."

"The corpse was untouched so I'm sure that nobody was here..." One guy said

"The one they were carrying was covered in bruises and had a wound in her head from a gunshot...Now, the person remembered now..."

"The corpse being carried, was her..."

"She was sent to the army with her gender hidden so that her parents would get money in exchange... She was found out by those guys and was raped and killed at the forest..."

"She then tried to attack those guys but she could not touch them... All she can do was cry alone at the forest and decided to write of the truth with a blood that came from her for that was the only thing she could touch... In the next morning, she seems to not remember and would wander aimlessly at the camp when daylight and cry at the forest when it's night time... the end..." Val said

In the entire time... i could feel chills all over my body...

I wonder if i'll be able to sleep peacefully here at the forest for the entire night after this story i just heard...