"So what are you doing here then, Lord Hell?" Shen Minyao asked the grim reaper with sarcasm. She already knew the answer to her question, but she wanted to hear his reason from his own mouth.

The grim reaper raised a slender brow at her, wondering why she was even asking him such a question when it was obvious why he came here.

"There's a disturbance among the spirits of the departed ones we, grim reapers, have to collect. The spirits of the dead coming from the city hospital were missing, and we're wondering where they went," he answered her nevertheless.

"So it led you here?" Li Fei'er was the one who asked him another question, only for her eyes to catch a familiar ghost inside the laboratory room. It made sense to her why a grim reaper like him would appear so suddenly in their school, given how much ghosts had accumulated inside.

Wait. Wasn't that Jin Qian? How did she end up here in their school laboratory?

The ghost girl was visibly confused herself, looking around the room and wondering where she was and why she was here. Seeing her troubled face, it reminded Li Fei'er of the promise she made with the child. She was planning to visit Jin Qian this weekend and would help her find her mother as promised, but Li Fei'er didn't expect that she would see Jin Qian here in school aside from the hospital.

"The demon inside the mirror lured them here. It's currently hibernating, but that doesn't mean it couldn't sense our presence," Shen Minyao stated the obvious, "I don't know what kind of demon it is, but it feeds on the spirits of the dead that refused to cross the mortal realm."

She then wondered if the other demon could sense her..

No wonder Jin Qian and the newly deceased spirits were here. Since they felt that they had unfinished business here on earth, they refused to cross the boundaries and go to the spirit realm.

The grim reaper walked towards the door of the laboratory and attempted to open it to free the ghosts.. but failed. No matter how hard he tried to break the spell that trapped the ghosts, he was being repelled by it. He narrowed his eyes and glared towards the mirror on the wall.

"Such a troublesome demon," he muttered to himself. At least the demoness next to him wasn't as irritating as the other demons he had met in the past.

Shen Minyao knew that she was too weak in her current condition to even attempt to break the spell of the other demon inside the laboratory room. She might even die if she forced herself to face it head-on. Ah, she wasn't that stupid. If only Xiao Bai and Yu Yan were with her, they would easily defeat whatever demon it was.

Li Fei'er also attempted to help him break the spell. She then called out to Jin Qian. The ghost girl hurriedly went to the glass window and pressed her palms against it. As a spirit, she should be able to get through it with ease, but she couldn't do it right now.

"Jiejie! Please help me!" The girl looked like she was about to burst into tears upon seeing Li Fei'er. She hadn't seen her mommy yet and was still waiting inside her hospital room where Li Fei'er left her, but the demon inside the mirror managed to drag her here.

"We'll do our best to save you, Jin Qian, but can you tell us what you are doing here?" Li Fei'er asked her in return. They needed to know more about the demon they were facing.

Jin Qian looked at her and then to the odd girl wearing the same outfit as Li Fei'er and the strikingly handsome man wearing black robes, standing next to the other woman. As a ghost, she could feel the tremendous spiritual presence coming from the two. She didn't dare to ask Li Fei'er who these two monsters were.

"I don't really know, Jiejie. Someone removed the papers you stuck on my door last night, so the demons came back to bully me," the girl started to explain, "The next thing I knew.. I was here."

Her eyes sought Li Fei'er in despair. "Jiejie, what's going on? Why am I here? Is that demon going to eat me?"

"That sounds right." Shen Minyao rubbed her chin with one hand, eyes watching the mirror several meters from where she stood.

Jin Qian gasped in shock. She must not perish like this! Not when she hadn't seen her mother yet!

"Jiejie, please help me!" This time, she broke into tears, her hands rubbing her eyes. "I still want to see my mommy. What if she comes back to the hospital and does not see me there?"

Well, technically, if her mother was still alive; she wouldn't be able to see the ghost of her dead child. However, Shen Minyao bit her inner cheek to stop her from voicing out her thoughts.

As if the grim reaper knew what she was thinking, he threw her an accusing look to which she answered with a scoff. What? It wasn't like she was wrong, though. Did they really expect a demon like her to have a compassionate heart and feel sympathy for other creatures?

The demon in the mirror attracted a lot of spirits to come here, but it wasn't planning to consume them immediately. What was it even doing in a place like this anyway? Shen Minyao thought.

"I guess we'll have to wait and ask people around what they know about that mirror," she told Li Fei'er. If Little Jiu's incarnation insisted on helping her and the grim reaper again, she needed to make sure that Little Jiu wouldn't sustain any injury from the other demon, or she might kill it herself.

"Oh, I remember we'll have a class here tomorrow," Li Fei'er replied.

"Then, you better not look at your reflection in the mirror," Shen Minyao reminded her. historical