Gintama: After I Was Haunted by a Female Ghost

[Gintama Kamui Fanfic] The universe's strongest battle maniac, Kamui, has recently been afflicted by a “curse” more annoying than a fight: a female ghost is haunting him!

Ever since he smashed a jar in some laboratory,

a creepy female ghost has followed him everywhere.

Going to the bathroom? She hides nearby. Trying to sleep? She gives him sleep paralysis. The Seventh Division even suspects their commander has killed so many people that he's attracted a vengeful spirit bent on taking his life.

After every physical method he tries to exorcise her fails, Kamui can only smile and threaten the empty air:

“Sadako-chan, no ghost sneaks up on someone while they're sitting on the toilet, you know.”

“Why not? That's when humans are at their most vulnerable!”

But during their strange, forced cohabitation, a quiet familiarity begins to grow.

He gets used to the apparition that flickers in and out beside him, while the gloomy, stubborn ghost clumsily uses her meager strength to protect him

all because of a warm embrace, buried deep in her memories, the only comfort she knew in her despair while she was alive.

When the ghost Kamui calls “Sadako” vanishes like a bubble,

his world returns to normal, and no one knows she ever existed.

Only Kamui sometimes pauses and murmurs to the empty space beside him, just as he used to:

“Sadako-chan, come be my snail girl again sometime.”

…

There is no reply.

Only silence, and the phantom warmth in his palm that he can never touch again.

This is the only proof he has that the troublesome ghost was ever there.