Chapter 12: Why now ghost?!
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Chapter 12: Blood and Flesh
The monster stood amidst a strange place.
"Who's there?"
A figure of light asked me, but I couldn't respond.
"I need a body. You're not suitable!!"
It opened a portal and vanished.
"Wait!!"
But I was left alone, unable to do anything.
A universe of time and technology—peaceful, advanced, and better than any place I'd ever known.
No war. No pain.
Perfect.
Until it noticed this world.
Tentacles wrapped around the necks of anyone who saw it.
Screams filled the streets.
People ran in terror.
"No... None of these are suitable!!"
It killed. It absorbed.
It was looking for something.
Something that matched it.
The police pointed their weapons at the monster.
And then... death.
Only death.
Nothing could even touch its body.
It was like a walking shadow of immortality.
And me?
I was just a floating soul. Helpless.
The military arrived.
"Attack now!"
But the tentacles were faster, stronger.
And then—
BOOM!!
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