Burn the Castle Down

Elliot snorted after hearing Sayu. When he realized that he was the only person who laughed, he immediately recovered his posture. "Sorry. I just thought that for a moment, you were joking."

"What even are ghosts?" Hope asked. 

"Ghosts are the souls that roam the world," Sayu said. "Usually, when a person dies and they have unfinished business in this world, they stay and haunt the living. Souls prey on humans who have weak mental fortitude."

"That would make sense," Lance said. "Among all of us, these three have the weakest mental fortitude, Viper being the weakest."

"And you really believe such thing?" Elliot snorted. "Ghosts are not real. They are just fictional stuff they tell you children so they would behave or something. It's not–"

Before he could finish, the room shook and everything went cold. He looked around and saw everyone having the same shocked expression.