Ghost Driver!

Chapter 46: Ghost Driver!

It was already late.

Thick clouds obscured the moon, leaving only the streetlights to illuminate the world.

Almost ten o'clock.

This was already quite late.

Except for those who worked night shifts, most people should have returned home.

Of course, this only applied to adults who didn't typically work overtime.

But for certain students bursting with unused energy, this might just be the beginning of their energetic activities.

"Bye Yumiko~"

"Bye," Miura Yumiko also greeted her friends.

After school, she had attended a friend's birthday party and had a great time playing with everyone.

After the party ended, although she still wanted more, she declined her friends' suggestion for the next gathering and walked partway home with a few classmates who had curfews.

But after parting ways, she was left walking alone at night, and her current location was still quite far from home.

Miura Yumiko looked at the dark street ahead, only the flickering streetlights providing illumination.

The supernatural events she had experienced recently still left her with lingering fear.

Should I take a taxi back?

Miura Yumiko thought for a moment, made up her mind, mustered her courage, and started walking forward.

If I see a taxi, I'll just get in~

She refused to believe she could run into ghosts every single day.

Besides, after encountering an evil spirit and Luke while taking out the trash that day, he had given her a talisman after dealing with the spirit, which could be used to ward off ghosts.

Miura Yumiko clutched the talisman in her pocket, filled with a sense of security.

With that thought, Miura Yumiko took out her phone and started looking through the messages her good friends sent, filled with photos from the birthday party...

Yuigahama Yui, Ebina Hina, Hayama Hayato, the noisy Tobe Kakeru, etc... everyone was there.

Miura Yumiko recalled calling Hayama Hayato out alone at the party to express her feelings.

Just like that guy said, true friendship wouldn't break just because someone tried to push the relationship forward.

As she continuously expressed her feelings to Hayato, her nervous, flustered body gradually relaxed, and her true feelings became clearer: her feelings towards Hayato were just like those towards Yui and Hina, purely based on appearance, thinking he was 'cute'.

It was rare to see the usually smiling Hayato turn gloomy over such matters.

And he visibly relaxed with relief as she continued speaking her true thoughts...

Thinking of this, Miura Yumiko couldn't help but feel annoyed.

That Hayama guy, was he really that happy and relieved just hearing I wasn't confessing to him?!

How disheartening!

Miura Yumiko still stomped her foot in frustration, straightening the curled ends of her hair.

"Ah, even though I cleared things up with Hayato, I'm still so angry! That Hayama guy—! Even though I'm so cute!"

But recalling Hayato's unprecedented shy blush when she called him 'cute', she couldn't help but chuckle softly.

"Didn't expect Hayato could make that kind of expression."

After reminiscing, Miura Yumiko's mood relaxed even more.

The underlying burden she felt when interacting with everyone usually also disappeared.

Now, only Tobe and Hina remained...

"Expressing feelings, this is pretty good too..." Miura Yumiko couldn't help muttering to herself.

"Hey! Little lady, need a ride?"

A female voice sounded from the side.

Miura Yumiko looked up and saw a female taxi driver calling to her from the window.

She didn't know when the car had pulled up; perhaps she was too engrossed in reminiscing and looking at her phone to notice...

"Yes!" Miura Yumiko looked at the creepy night road, pushed her seemingly drowsy head (perhaps from fatigue), and agreed.

Miura Yumiko opened the back door, tossed her shoulder bag inside, got into the car, and told the driver her destination.

The taxi started moving...

The scenery outside the window continuously receded.

Miura Yumiko prepared to message her friends on her phone, also planning to send some photos she took to the group chat.

However, Miura Yumiko looked at her phone, which suddenly had no signal, and shook it strangely twice.

"Huh? Why did the signal suddenly disappear..."

We're in the city center.

She looked out the window strangely, only to find the glass had completely blocked any view outside.

"Little lady... have you, have you heard the story of the ghost taxi?"

The driver suddenly spoke in a low, eerie voice.

Having experienced evil spirit incidents, Miura Yumiko instantly froze, not replying...

The driver didn't wait for her reply and continued narrating:

"In the year 2000, there was an exceptionally talented genius race car driver who had already made a name for herself on the world stage..."

Miura Yumiko quickly took out the triangularly folded talisman from her pocket, crying out in fear, "Let me out quickly, or I'll hit you with this."

The driver glanced at the talisman in her hand.

"Little lady, that spirit-calming talisman of yours won't scare me..."

Then she continued, "She was preparing to challenge the highest level of competition, but unexpectedly..."

Miura Yumiko, realizing she had the wrong talisman, quickly swapped it for another one and, without a word, slapped it onto the side of the driver's face.

"She... Ouch ouch ouch! Burns like hell!" The driver was indeed an evil spirit.

Half of her head was instantly set ablaze by the talisman...

Miura Yumiko, who had been playing on her phone, only now noticed the driver only had half a head.

The other side was just an empty cavity, fresh blood constantly dripping down the fragmented skull.

"Honestly, almost burned my car... Kids nowadays are so short-tempered. I deeply worry about the future of the country..."

After the talisman burned out, the ghost driver patted the ashes off her face and said speechlessly.

Seeing the talisman was useless, Miura Yumiko slumped back into the seat disheartened, hands limply gripping the hem of her skirt, tears gathering at the corners of her eyes, her face turning deathly pale.

She didn't understand why that talisman didn't work...

The car continued driving smoothly.

"Wh-what exactly are you?" Miura Yumiko asked, her lips trembling.

"You can ask Luke later," the driver suddenly said.

Hearing the familiar name, the previously powerless Miura Yumiko regained a glimmer of hope.

"Y-you know him?"

"Mm, I knew it when you took out the talisman. He's the only exorcist in this area. It would be strange not to know..." the driver paused.

"Anyway, I'll take you to him in a bit. Your situation is quite serious."

"Wh-what situation?"

"In the eyes of us evil spirits, do you know what you look like right now?" the driver asked.

"N-no."

"Compare the surroundings to a pitch-black night. You are a streetlight standing tall in the darkness," the driver explained.

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