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Chapter 23: The Cursed Book (4)
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When Leyte Baler approached the apartment building, he did not knock on the door and introduce himself to Nathaniel Garcia as his neighbor. No, he had yet to picture himself doing something like that.
Instead, like a ghost, he phased through the walls directly and then voila! He was already inside and was even greeted by the sight of a hanged male ghost writhing in the air.
"Sh*t!" Profane words involuntarily escaped his mouth.
Then again, when the male ghost saw, scratch that, when the ghost felt the oppressive atmosphere coming from his direction, it immediately freaked out and hurriedly escaped the room. It was like a thief scared away by the sudden appearance of a cop armed with a gun and beautiful handcuffs. It instinctively wanted to run and to never come close.
Leyte was quite shocked though. Reading it in paper and experiencing it firsthand were two different matters.
But just like what he said to the girl, with him as the living
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