Chapter 6 The Master Who Appeared Out of Nowhere
In the empty hospital room, there was no one there to speak, and Susie didn’t see any ghosts, either.
She gripped her bed sheets and asked, “Who are you?”
Her heart was gripped with fear.
The voice said confidently, “I’m your master. You can call me Master.”
Susie’s little face scrunched up in skepticism.
“I don’t have a master-” she started to say, but then her throat seemed to
close up.
At that time, on the table beside the hospital bed, sat a ghost who was invisible to normal people. He was a young man in a white robe.
His face was pale, and his eyes were dark and deep. The bridge of his nose was high, his lips were bright crimson, and his eyebrows had a defined arch that gave him a demonic aura.
He stared at the little toddler in front of him, who couldn’t even understand what he was saying.
Hmm, she might be harder to convince than he thought…
“Sweetie…” he tried again coaxingly.
Susie said flatly, “I’m Susie, not Sweetie.”
The man:
He stroked his chin and said, “I really am your master. Your mother apprenticed you to me while she was still alive.”
Susie was very resistant when she heard this.
“My mother wouldn’t do that,” she said.
Her mother wouldn’t give her away to others. She knew her mother wouldn’t abandon her like that.
The man was speechless for a moment.
When Clara saw him on her deathbed, she’d begged him to watch over Susie and the Murray family after her death.
Susie was only two years old at the time, and she wasn’t able to see his spirit form. But he had received the appropriate payment, and he was indeed her master!
Two days ago, when Susie was on the verge of death, she heard his voice for the first time, but now she didn’t believe him….
The man scratched his nose and tried coaxing her some more. “Your mother’s name is Clara Murray, and your name is Susie Murray. See? I know all about you.”
Susie frowned. “Everyone else knows, too.”
Man:
Oh, right… He’d forgotten she was a little kid who would have been
taught to fear strangers. It wasn’t easy to win her over at all.
If it weren’t for her small, weak frame and her desire to be accepted into a home, he figured the Bishop family wouldn’t have been able to bully her so easily.
The man smirked and said. “Don’t think so much, kid. When you get better. give me an offering of three sticks of incense and a piece of pork, and our apprentice ceremony will be complete. Now, my name is Mitch Dubin, and trust me, I was a real big shot when I was alive.”
Susie stared at the empty air beside her in amazement. Mitch? Why was the voice called Mitch?
Mitch had no idea what Susie was thinking, but he could see the confusion in her eves. He said. “You haven’t heard from me, since I’m not from your time period. But trust me, I’m very skilled. I can teach you a lot of things, and no one will be able to bully you anymore…”
Susie suddenly blurted out, “Are big shots easy to kill?”
Mitch: ”
Not getting a response, Susie asked again, “If you’re so powerful, why did you die?”
Mitch was speechless. He was starting to think this little toddler would
be a bit difficult to deal with.
Susie pulled the sheets up to her chin, and her eyelids drooped slightly. The corners of her lips turned down as she asked her last question: “If you’re really my master, why didn’t you talk to me before?”
After her mother died, no one had paid any attention to her for a long time. Even when she was crying or in pain, no one seemed to care.
Over the past year, she’d learned to read her father’s face to avoid making him angry. But no matter how much she tried not to be annoying, she still never saw any love in her so-called family’s faces.
She had also been secretly beaten by her stepmother, and no one came
to her rescue.
Mitch was taken aback for a moment, feeling a little uncomfortable with the way things had transpired. He didn’t try to explain, but said. quietly, “You’re a good girl, Susie. From now on. Master will protect
you.”
Susie frowned, turned her face away, and stopped talking.
Mitch touched Susie’s head gently and said, “You just get your rest. Master will come back later. Here, let me give you a gift.”
He’d traveled up to the physical world too hastily, and he had to go back to the underworld to settle a few affairs before he would be able
to return to Susie.
Susie felt nothing but a slight warmth in her hand. When she looked down, she saw a red string tied around her wrist.
She didn’t know how long it had been, but the hospital room fell back into silence. Susie opened her eyes and looked around. She still didn’t see anyone. But somehow, she felt a mysterious warmth, and the pain in her body disappeared!
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