To Break the Cage of a Lovely Bird

What is life? And what is death?
Drowned in follies, living like a withered flower wreath
Faith in veil-covered truth
Ah, such is life, as we are embracing darkness upon birth

***

Elias Crowley.

Iskandar Barman.

Two people and two worlds, two intersected paths that should've not converged. Was it truly a coincidence that Elias happened to possess Iskandar's body? Not to mention that the said person existed inside a cursed novel that he 'coincidentally' read in reluctance after being pestered by ghosts for 2 weeks 4 days 10 hours 45 minutes and 12 seconds.

Unfortunately, coincidences happened to be the number one thing that Elias hated the most — if ghosts didn't come into the fray. Being exceptional in exorcism didn't make one fond of ghosts — was what he always quoted.

Elias — no, Iskandar, thought that his new life would be more peaceful — at least, that was what he thought — until he found the heroine of the novel, floating in front of him as a soul.

NovelToon got authorization from Maria A. A. Gottfried to publish this work, the content is the author's own point of view, and does not represent the stand of NovelToon.