I flew on a sword at the magic academy

Chapter 77 Catching Ghosts

The stained glass sword is about four feet long and is made entirely of seven-colored glass. It is surrounded by colorful light, dazzling and extremely beautiful.

"Look, isn't my wife Cai Li beautiful?" Shen Tianyu proudly displayed his natal flying sword in front of the group, waiting for their praise.

"Uh..." Jing Xinyu was stunned for three seconds before she reacted, giving Shen Tianyu a big eye roll and saying speechlessly, "You call a broken sword your wife? I thought... Seriously speechless!"

Shen Tianyu frowned slightly, took a step closer, and stared at Jing Xinyu with his deep eyes. Their foreheads were almost touching.

"What...what do you want to do?"

Jing Xinyu was flustered by his inexplicable behavior, and a blush rose on her pretty face.

"You're saying my wife Cai Li is a broken sword?" Shen Tianyu's tone was cold, revealing his sharp and domineering side for the first time.

Jing Xinyu was even more speechless, not expecting Shen Tianyu to take such a remark so seriously.

"Apologize to it," Shen Tianyu said coldly.

"What?" Jing Xinyu asked, somewhat surprised.

Shen Tianyu cornered her, his breath hitting Jing Xinyu's cheeks and ears.

"Wow! This straight guy actually knows how to do a wall slam?!"

Shi Daohan exclaimed as if he had discovered a new continent.

The other passengers in the carriage also looked over, but there was no significant change in their emotions; they simply assumed it was a couple in love flirting.

"It's so good to be young," an old man with white hair remarked.

In the corner, Shen Tianyu and Jing Xinyu's lips were almost touching, their breaths hitting each other's faces.

"Apologize to Cai Li!" Shen Tianyu said coldly.

Jing Xinyu's entire face turned bright red, her heart pounding wildly like a deer.

"Okay, okay! I apologize, I'm sorry!"

Jing Xinyu kept her eyes tightly closed, no longer daring to meet Shen Tianyu's gaze.

"She's shy? The witch is shy?!"

Shi Daohan leaned down, taking in everything, her face beaming with an undisguised auntie smile.

After hearing Jing Xinyu's apology, Shen Tianyu finally withdrew her arm, stepped back to the side, and remained calm and composed, as if nothing had happened.

[That stupid straight man! He actually argued with me over a piece of junk sword and even wanted me to apologize to it!]

Jing Xinyu stomped her feet in anger, and when she looked at Shen Tianyu again, she gritted her teeth.

"Don't blame him for being angry with you. For us sword cultivators, our natal flying sword is like our brothers, wives, and husbands. You said it was a broken sword, and it's already good enough that he didn't attack you directly." Shi Daohan walked over and explained with a smile.

"It's just a sword, is it really that big of a deal?" Jing Xinyu pouted, unable to understand why anyone would treat a cold, hard piece of iron as a family member.

"So the wife that Shen Tianyu was talking about was a sword. I thought... I was really scared to death." Locke patted his chest and breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Weirdo." Fiona uttered these two words expressionlessly.

Not long after, the group exited the subway and arrived at the entrance of a luxuriously decorated hotel.

"This should be the place, right?"

Shen Tianyu looked up at the line of Western text on the hotel sign and asked in surprise, "How come such a luxurious hotel is so deserted? There's not a single person here?"

Shi Daohan rolled her eyes at him: "Isn't that obvious? If it's haunted, wouldn't everyone be scared away?"

"Let's go in and see what's going on." Jing Xinyu strode inside.

The hotel lobby was deserted, with only two or three staff members playing on their phones.

Upon seeing the arrival of guests, a poised waitress put down her phone and quickly approached, saying, "Gentlemen, our hotel is currently temporarily closed."

"We are students of Horagaka College, and Headmaster Donaldson sent us here."

As Shen Tianyu spoke, he released his divine sense to explore the entire hotel.

Upon hearing that the visitors were all magicians from the Horagaka Magic Academy, the waiter immediately showed excitement.

"Oh, so you're the magicians from Horagaka Academy! You've finally arrived!"

The waiter led the group to the elevator and then to the room that had been arranged for them in advance.

"At first, only a few guests said they saw ghosts, but we didn't take it seriously. Until recently, many guests also claimed to have seen ghosts, and our hotel's surveillance cameras also captured some photos. That's why we chose to contact your Horagaka Academy and ask you magicians to solve the problem."

Inside the elevator, the attendant recounted what had happened.

"Did many people see this?"

"Yes, many people claim to have seen ghosts and have been quite frightened."

Shi Daohan and the others exchanged glances, realizing the seriousness of the situation.

If something can be seen directly by the naked eye, it is definitely not just an ordinary ghost; it must be at least a vengeful spirit, and there should be quite a few of them.

"Were there any casualties?" Shen Tianyu asked.

"No." The waiter shook his head, then thought for a moment and added, "The only injury or death was when a customer was so frightened that he jumped out of the window on the fifteenth floor and died from the fall."

"So many vengeful ghosts, yet no one was injured?" Shen Tianyu frowned slightly.

The character "厉" (lì) in "厉鬼" (lìguǐ) indicates that the ghost is an evil spirit.

Logically speaking, once it appears, it will surely take people's lives, but no one in this hotel has died because of the vengeful ghost, which is very strange.

"Take us to each floor first," Shi Daohan said.

The Latafia Hotel has twenty-three floors, and the waiter led them to check out each floor in turn.

After checking the fifteenth floor, just as I was about to continue up, the elevator buttons showed that someone was coming up.

"Didn't you say the hotel was temporarily closed? How come people are still taking the elevator up?"

The group stood at the elevator entrance waiting, and the hotel staff were also wondering who would be taking the elevator up.

"bite"

Shortly after, the elevator arrived, and when the elevator doors opened, a young maid with blonde curly hair stood inside.

"Oh, this is Duke Harvey's maid, Kelly. They live on the 23rd floor of the hotel," a hotel staff member said with a smile, recognizing the visitor.

"Sister Grace, what's going on here..." The young maid Kelly glanced at Shi Daohan and the others. Her skin was very fair, and with her wavy golden hair, she looked like a porcelain doll.

"They are all magicians from the magic academy. As you know, something a little strange has been happening at the hotel lately."

Waitress Grace led everyone into the elevator, preparing to go to the next floor.

The elevator's interior space was already small, and with seven people standing inside, it felt somewhat crowded.

During this time, the maid named Kelly stood in the corner, clutching a leather backpack tightly to her chest.

"Is Duke Harvey feeling any better lately?" the waiter Grace asked politely.

"Hmm, much better."

Kelly's eyes darted around, and although she tried her best to hide it, she still seemed a little nervous.

Upon reaching the sixteenth floor, Shi Daohan and his group exited the elevator and parted ways with the young maid.

"Something's not right with this person," Shen Tianyu secretly transmitted to Shi Daohan and Jing Xinyu using her divine sense.

Shi Daohan nodded and said, "She is indeed alive, but she has a different smell about her, somewhat like poison gas, and somewhat like the fragrance of medicine."

"Have you noticed that the yin energy and ghost energy are strongest on the middle few floors, and then gradually thins out as you go up?" Jing Xinyu shared her discovery.

"That's true." Shi Daohan and Shen Tianyu both nodded.

"If they're all vengeful ghosts, then this case is going to be quite a tiring one."

Upon arriving at the twenty-second floor, the waiter Grace said, "I don't think there's any need to go up to the twenty-third floor. Only Duke Harvey lives there, and there have never been any supernatural events."

"Who is this Duke Harvey?" Shen Tianyu didn't press the matter, but instead asked this question.

"Duke Harvey is the major shareholder of our Latafia Hotel. He was granted the title of Duke by Her Majesty the Queen ten years ago, but something happened to him afterward, and his health has been deteriorating day by day. He now lives on the top floor of the hotel and is being taken care of by Kelly, the young maid we just met."

As Grace spoke, she led Shi Daohan and the others to the rooms that had been arranged in advance at the hotel.

"There are five of us, and you only prepared two rooms?"

The group was stunned when they saw the two rooms Grace pointed to.

"Because the deposit that Headmaster Donaldson gave us was only enough to book two rooms," Grace said apologetically.

"Holy crap, isn't Dean Donaldson incredibly stingy?"

Shi Daohan and the others were speechless.

Shen Tianyu took out a cloth bag containing fifty crystal-clear spirit stones and said, "Book three more rooms for us."

"Sorry, we don't accept these." Grace smiled and pushed the cloth bag back.

"This is the West, spirit stones are no longer effective, we need to use this."

Shi Daohan glanced at Shen Tianyu, then took out a bag containing fifty magic stones from his storage ring and handed it to Grace.

However, the waitress Grace smiled and pushed it back, saying, "Sorry, we don't accept this."

"Tch, you still have the nerve to laugh at me? You got humiliated just the same way, didn't you?" Shen Tianyu said gloatingly.

Jing Xinyu couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward, saying, "This is the mortal realm; we need to use their mortal currency."

"Do you have any Western coins on you?" Shen Tianyu turned to look at Shi Daohan.

"No, there's basically no need for that kind of thing," Shi Daohan shook her head.

On the other side, Locke and Fiona were also rummaging through their backpacks, and eventually looked disappointed, as they didn't have any money on them.

"Um, how about we deduct it from our commission first?" Shi Daohan looked at the waitress Grace in a flattering manner.

"No, that won't work." Grace shook her head with a smile.

This is a completely different matter, and she wasn't sure if these young people in front of her really had the ability to solve the paranormal events at their hotel, so she didn't dare to make a decision on her own.

Grace left, and the five of them stood in the hallway, looking at each other.

"There are only two rooms, how should we arrange them?"

Shen Tianyu broke the deadlock by speaking first.

"You and Jing Xinyu will share a room. As for me, I'll just have to make do and squeeze in with Fiona and Locke," Shi Daohan arranged.

Her arrangement was to avoid Locke and Jing Xinyu having too much contact.

How could the latter not see through her thoughts? Jing Xinyu smiled charmingly and said, "How can I let Sister Daohan suffer? Let me squeeze in with the two of them."

Neither of them was willing to back down, and neither wanted the other to share a room with Locke.

The final result was that Shen Tianyu, Shi Daohan, and Jing Xinyu shared a room, while Fiona and Locke shared a room.

Fortunately, the rooms at the Latafia Hotel are quite large. Although there is only one bed, there are sofas, tables, and chairs to rest on. It's only for one night, so it's manageable.

"I'll rest for a bit, call me again tonight."

As soon as Jing Xinyu entered the room, she took over the only bed.

"Do demons also need to sleep and rest?" Shen Tianyu asked quietly.

"Originally, it wasn't necessary, but after staying in this human world for so long, I've naturally developed some of the habits of some people," Jing Xinyu said lazily, hugging the bedding.

Shen Tianyu didn't say anything more. He found a sofa, sat down, and took out his natal flying sword, Cai Li, to carefully wipe it.

Shi Daohan then went to the tea table, brewed a cup of hot tea, and asked, "Have you figured out what's going on with this hotel?"

"At first I thought this hotel was full of vengeful ghosts, since ordinary ghosts cannot be seen by the naked eye. But it seems that this is not the case. Although the hotel is full of yin energy and ghost energy, I did not sense any particularly fierce energy."

Shen Tianyu carefully wiped the precious sword in his hand, even though there wasn't a speck of dust on the blade.

Shi Daohan took a sip of hot tea, pointed to the floorboards, and said, "I think there must be something strange about the top floor. My divine sense can't even detect it. Also, that young maid we met earlier seemed very nervous when she saw us. She must have a secret."

Jing Xinyu pulled the blanket over her head and said in a muffled voice, "When night falls, we'll just go up to the top floor and see for ourselves. Why think so much?"

It was quiet here, while in another room, Fiona and Locke were in the same room, both of them looking a little awkward.

"There's only one bed, so Fiona, why don't you sleep there?" Locke scratched his head awkwardly.

"You go to sleep, I'll look at the tarot cards."

Fiona shook her head slightly, her face showing little emotional change, appearing rather cold.

She walked straight to a table and took out a tarot deck from her backpack.

"You can also tell fortunes?" Locke asked, his mouth agape in astonishment.

"Yes, I've learned a little bit."

Fiona placed a whole deck of tarot cards on the table, closed her eyes and meditated for a few minutes. Then she randomly drew three cards from the deck, unfolded them one by one, and began to interpret them seriously.

(End of this chapter)