Disciple Bizarre!
Ch. 37 - Ghost Village

Giana, Erza, Yurina, Rock, Keiko, Hide, and Nana stood on the side of the road that vehicles rarely pass. Behind where they stood was the area towards the forest and mountains. There were sounds of insects that could only be interpreted by Erza.

The seven of them stood there long enough, waiting for the time to go to five in the afternoon.

"Oh yeah, I just realized. If you go to a ghost village it will be difficult to get out, right?" said Keiko.

"Yes, why then?"

"There is Yurina! If we have trouble getting out, just teleport by Yurina!"

Keiko's brilliant idea got a positive response from her friends.

"Right, I just thought."

"Yurina hasn't used her curse in a long time, I've forgotten."

"If you don't have to be afraid to go home."

Yurina who was talked about just put on a face flat.

"How do I go? Who will teleport me?"

No one can answer, everyone feels guilty.

"If the situation is precarious, just teleport them, Yurina. I'll stay there with you." Erza smile.

"If that's a gapapa." Yurina nodded.

As the sky began to turn orange, a bus suddenly appeared and stopped at the stop where they were standing.

"Anjir, there really is!" Keiko was shocked at once stunned.

"Is this really a ghost bus?" Rock looked at Hide.

"There has never been a bus that has stopped at this stop in years. It's definitely a ghost bus."

Rock gulped.

"Suddenly, I hesitated to enter."

"You afraid of ghosts?" ask Keiko.

"No, no, let's go in."

The seven of them got into the bus. To their surprise, the bus had no driver, and the seats inside were filled with transparent people.

"You guys seen her?" ask Giana.

"It's so obvious."

"I-I'm scared!!!" Nana was half screaming.

They walked towards the back seat, preparing to occupy an empty seat.

"I'm sitting with Rock-hentai, yeah," Nana pinta.

"Ehh, Rock with me!" Keiko.

"Yes already, with Erza-hentai!"

"You want to make a fuss with me?!"

"Ehh.. ehh...."

"You're with Giana alone, I can be alone." Hide sat in one of the empty seats.

Instead of sitting with Giana, Nana sat down next to Hide, barging in to sit next to the window.

"Nana... Why don't you sit with me?" Giana looked at him from the front seat.

"I want to sit by the window, hehe."

Giana pouted.

"You've contacted your parents yet? This trip may take a long time, you know." Erza reminded.

"Oh yeah, I'll tell them first."

"I am too."

"I don't need to, my parents are in Russia."

Shortly after, the bus drove.

***

The sound of birds singing was heard from outside. Morning sun barged in through the window.

When they woke up, the bus they were riding had stopped at the end of the road. The other passengers have come down. Only leave them seven.

"Uhum... Why won't the door open, huh?" ask Keiko.

They were about to get out, but the bus door couldn't be opened.

"Do we have to pay first?"

Hide suddenly put seven pebbles near the windshield. After that, the door opened by itself.

"Well, pay him a stone doang? Very cheap," said Erza.

"It doesn't have to be stone, really, the important love of goods" Hide replied as he descended.

"That means you can be uplifted too, huh?"

"I think I can."

Giana looked curiously. "Hide, have you been here before?"

"No, my friend told me."

"Oh...."

They descended right on the side of the road, in front of an old archway bearing the name of the village. There were no other buildings around that street, only trees that stretched along the road.

"Onika's... Kush... Mura?" Yurina.

"Mura Onikakushi. That's how you read it" Hide said.

"The ghost village, yes."

Hide nodded.

Without further ado, they walked through the gate.

"No, there's something strange...." During the walk, Erza felt that something was off.

"Well, is it morning?! Didn't we leave yesterday afternoon?!" Keiko was first conscious.

"Eh. Yeah, too, yeah. How just sober."

"I slept during the trip."

"I am too."

"I am too."

Everyone fell asleep while the bus was traveling.

"If it's morning now, it means the bus that we ride...how many hours, yes?"

"12 hours more."

"Wow, what is this place, anyway?!"

"Of course, the writing on the gate was Japanese."

"Here you go, it doesn't matter, we're looking for Lullin now."

They walked around a completely empty village. No sign of life. There were no people, or human voices. This place is like abandoned.

"That's a damn piece, yeah."

"Yes, his name is also a ghost village."

"But the house is still on good, loh. It's not the broken houses that have been hit by the storm."

"Yes, ghosts want to live in a nice house, too."

"Whatever."

They continued to walk around the village whose breadth they did not know. No matter how far they walked, they never reached the end of the village. The road continued to stretch, and the houses and shops they passed through were all different.

Two hours passed without finding the slightest hint of Lullin's whereabouts.

"Lullin! Lullin! Where are you?!"

"Lullin.. Let's go home!"

"Lullin, Nishimura-sensei is not angry, let's get out!!!"

They were screaming for his name, but there was no reply.

"This is how... Lullin did not answer."

"Is he sleeping in one of the houses?"

"Lullin's in one of the houses? But which house? It's a lot, you know."

"We're trying to tap one-on-one?"

"Eh... won't bother?" Nana's worried.

"We just came here to be disturbed. All right," replied Erza.

"When what ghost comes out?"

"Yes, this is a ghost village. It's even weird that your dad came out."

"Erza-hentai!" Nana pinched his hand.

They also agreed to knock on one of the closed doors.

Tok tok tok tok

"Excuse me, there's package~"

"Oi, Erza, don't you joke!" Hide snapping.

"If not, it won't open the door."

The door is open. A headless black human figure appeared before them.

"Yeah!!! Ghost!!!" Nana yells.

"Yes a ghost, Nana," Keiko replied flatly.

Rock suddenly moved behind Keiko. Grip the sleeve of his uniform.

"Rock... Are you scared, huh?" ask Keiko.

"No-no, really."

Keiko just laughed.

"Anu... Is there Lullin here? Our buddy?" giana asked the ghost, daring to ask.

The ghost did not reply, only thrusting his hand.

"What?" ask Giana.

The ghost moved his hand back, like asking for something.

"No, he asked for a package! It's your fault, Erza!" Hide patted his back.

"E-uh...." Erza confusion.

"This is the package." Yurina handed him a rubber band that was still wrapped.

The ghost accepted it, then closed the door again.

"Sorry Yurina, you're gonna have to hand over your bracelet. It's new, huh?" Erza feels guilty.

"It's okay. It's just a bracelet." Yurina smiled.

"You're good, Yurina."

"Yes dong, hehehe."

Looking at Erza and Yurina who were acting so familiarly, Giana and the others always felt suspicious.

"You two are dating, huh?" ask Giana.

"No, no." Both of them refuted quickly, without feeling embarrassed, or a face that suddenly flushed red.

Both are really just friends.

"Lullin's not in that house, is he? The ghost didn't hide it, did it?" Giana curious.

"No, take it easy, Lullin wasn't there. One thing my friend told me about when she was kidnapped here. He said, there are no evil ghosts here. So it's possible that the ghost wasn't hiding Lullin." Hide explained.

"Well, if the ghost isn't evil, why would they kidnap your friend?"

"My friend says ghosts here can be human when they're on our side of the world. He incited depressed people to come to this place, but did not hurt, instead giving them a place to stay. People who have come here, can not return, the reason is because they are happy here, happy to live side by side with good ghosts. That's why no one ever wants to come back after arriving in this village."

They're nodding.

"So your friend got depressed, got kidnapped, but just wanted to go home?"

Hide nodded. "That's how."

Erza sighed.

"So, if Lullin's happy here. He won't come home either?"

Giana jerks.

"No, he has to go home! Whatever happens, he has to go home!" Giana.

"Yes, Lullin has to go home!" Nana added.

Hide smile.

"Then let's find him in the other house."

"Well, Hide smile," commented Keiko.

"No, yes?!"

"Hahaha, sorry-sorry, it's rare. Hide is always serious."

"Yes, Hide just smiles when he's with Inami." Giana nodded.

"Well, baby broke up." Yurina.

Hide blushed in embarrassment. "Here you go. Let's tap the other house."