"Ghk... ghk... ghk..."
The scholar whipped his head around, only to see Lin Qingfeng, who had deliberately positioned himself with backlighting and uplighting.
It would have looked quite terrifying, if not for the cursed spirits outside the light barrier for comparison.
"M-Master! Please... please don't scare me. I'm not very brave!"
"By the way,"
the scholar said, still shaken as he pointed at the Talisman Cards on the table in confusion,
"Master, these cards we're playing with... why do they feel a bit different from before?"
He pointed to a character card in his hand.
It depicted a woman named "Gaye."
He then pointed to the card in front of Lin Qingfeng, which showed a female ghost in white crawling out of an old well, and the card in front of "Ji," which showed a floating calligraphy brush.
"You see, yours is 'Sadako,' this Master's is the 'Pen Immortal,' and mine is 'Gaye'... How come all the characters are yin spirits this time?"
"Oh, that,"
