Hmm, not quite what he had been implying, but that’s fine. If Dankovsky wanted to dance around his actual state of being, Hanako wasn’t going to push.

The Bachelor seemed stressed enough as is.

Hanako’s gaze followed to the unusual wraith. “I did notice that. Either it’s giving us a break, or maybe it isn’t as malicious as its associates.”

The boy had dealt with a lot of spirits, back at the school, so the idea that there were ones spurred by negative emotion or want and others more stable wasn’t a foreign concept.