JOJO, The Escape from Real Diavolo

Chapter 109 The Mystery of the Haunted House

"I can't get in..."

Yali really didn't know what to say, so she decided to leave the vicinity of the haunted house at a distance of ten meters away from Theresa, where she wouldn't be noticed by the other party, to see if the problem was with the haunted house.

"No...why? What's wrong with you all of a sudden?"

The bald man suddenly looked even more confused.

"As a substitute, I cannot appear without your permission, because you are my host, and that's the rule... If you didn't call me out, then something else is interfering, forcing me to appear... and even preventing me from entering."

Yali stopped talking. She caught Theresa's attention and then approached.

"What's wrong? Afraid to come in?"

Yali remained silent, quietly watching the weeds around her. But even after so long, the weeds were still full of life and showed no signs of dying.

"Bald guy, your curse ability seems to have stopped working too."

The bald man stood beside her, deep in thought. After glancing at Theresa who was approaching, he said:

"If it won't bring bad luck, that's great! I can finally go out and see the world, can't I?"

Yali walked back inside without expression.

"Never mind, I don't care."

"Oh, what's wrong?"

Theresa wiped the dust off her hands and put her arm around Alyssa's hand, expressing her confusion.

"It's alright, let's go in and take a look, see if there are any traces of our past in this former secret base."

Everything inside the haunted house is very old-fashioned, because it's a thatched hut, so there's only grass, everything is grass.

A thatched table, a thatched door, a thatched staircase, and a two-story thatched building.

"Where's the mirror again...?"

Theresa wandered around and finally found a small mirror on the table, which she pointed out to Ari.

"Remember? This mirror was our secret weapon for reflecting ghosts and monsters..."

The mirror in Teresa's hand was already half broken, but after wiping off the dust, it was still usable, and she could still see the two blonde girls in the mirror.

Ah...it feels so good, like I've returned to my childhood, except there's an invisible bald head next to me.

"Ah...ah? Ah!"

Theresa suddenly fell to the ground, smashing the mirror aside, and then suddenly grabbed Ari's leg, pointing tremblingly behind her.

"There's...there's a ghost!"

Yali felt confused and turned around, only to see the bald man. But he was also something that ordinary people couldn't see. It seemed that if there was a ghost, it could only be him.

"You saw it? Who did you see?"

"No...no, I can't see it now, but...but in the mirror, I see a bald head reflected!"

You can't see it now... but you can see it through a mirror?

Yali glanced at the bald man, blinked, and gestured for him to stay away and not appear in front of her.

"Let me see... You must be seeing things, right?"

She picked up the mirror, tilted it so that it didn't reflect the bald head, but captured his position, and then flashed past him.

"Look... a ghost suddenly disappeared... you should have seen it, right?"

Theresa was terrified and clung tightly to Aly's leg, afraid to let go.

"A mirror that can reflect a substitute... I think I can take it with me."

Yali thought to herself, then calmly comforted Theresa, "Don't worry, don't worry, even if it's a ghost, it didn't attack us, did it? Besides... I'm here, don't be afraid."

"I... how could I not be afraid? I'm not like you, who's always been this brave since I was little... let's go outside."

Theresa's legs were trembling as she pleaded.

"I told you not to be afraid... Look in the mirror again, look at that bald guy, hasn't he already run away?"

The so-called bald ghost, following Yali's inner instructions, began to hide in the thatched hut.

"Look, look around again, nothing there, right? He must be afraid to attack us because of this mirror. No, no... he wouldn't attack us. If he wanted to, he would have already done it, wouldn't he?"

"I...I still..."

"Don't be afraid, let's go to the second floor. We can hide there and use our old exorcism formation to drive away the ghosts, okay?"

Yali interrupted the other person with a smile, though her smile seemed to convey an undeniable sense of authority.

Theresa remained silent, knowing that the other person was serious and unyielding, and there was no way to change their mind.

"Okay then."

"Okay, this is the Teresa I like the most, but you can choose to leave. I won't force you."

Theresa values ​​friendship above all else and never refuses anyone. Yali knew this, so she didn't think that the other woman would just leave like that, leaving her alone here.

As for why Yali insisted on staying here, it was because she wanted to find more traces of this kind of item. She remembered that this thatched hut had more than just this mirror.

"No need... let's go upstairs."

Theresa seemed to have calmed down, patted her knees and stood up straight. However, this time, she only dared to walk with her arm around Yali's, and did not dare to lead the team forward alone.

During the journey, Yali handed a mirror to Theresa and said, "If you're scared, take this mirror and see what's going on," but the other woman shook her head and refused.

So Yali gave the order from her heart to have the bald man follow her, after all, she also had to be wary of other beings, because this thatched hut was indeed too unusual.

"I definitely didn't notice anything unusual about this haunted house when I was a kid..."

Yali said it aloud, then pretended to be brave and stepped onto the stairs.

Because of the time and the weight of the two people, the wooden planks under the weeds creaked under their feet, as if they were about to collapse.

"How creepy..."

Theresa hugged her tighter, but Aly ignored her and told the bald man to follow immediately.

The bald man could walk or fly, and seeing how dilapidated the stairs were, he chose to fly up to the second floor first.

Although there wasn't much to his interest, he felt somewhat saddened. This little thatched hut reminded him of the place he had lived as a child, and the two were the same size and structure.

He would be very happy to live here.

Despite his joy, the atmosphere of the thatched hut still felt somewhat eerie to him in his current state.

He peered over and saw that the rooms on the second floor were all made of straw, due to the passage of time. However, there seemed to be some red stuff on the straw doors of these rooms, he didn't know if it was blood or something else, and the two girls didn't see the red stains.

Just as the bald man was about to explain the situation to Yali, he suddenly saw a woman standing in the last room on the second floor.

"Is...is there really a ghost?"

The bald man turned and flew backward, but Yali had already arrived here.

"Who is that woman?"

"Huh? Ya-li, what did you say? Where are the women? Are you trying to scare me...?"

Clearly, Teresa couldn't see the woman either, meaning the woman was likely a ghost, but more likely a Stand, such as a humanoid autonomous Stand.