"The clues splatter at our face,
Lives taken away without a trace.
We shall run through the big Maze,
And answer the very questions we raise.
This cycle will end someday...
but at what cost?"
"Ah? What's phantom?"
Marv asked with confusion on his face.
"Oh! I have heard about him." Parmiss lifted her finger,
"Appearentily he is a thief that was spotted near the school not long ago."
They all looked at her, then at Cornelius.
"Oh hey you both, would you like to eat something?"
A calm, gentle and happy voice came from behind Marv.
"Ahh!"
Marv took a sudden shock as he moved forth and looked back at the voice behind him.
"I remember you. You are the boy from that night."
Marv recognized the blonde boy that helped him and Kazuto with that dorm cleaning spell.
"You guessed right. Nice to meet you all. Would you like something to eat?" The boy asked with a sweet smile on his pale face.
He wore a brown-white robe with the cafeteria's logo on it.
"Ah, no thank you, I am fine." Parmiss was the first to reject.
"Yes, thanks for offering but we will pass." Kazuto then politely refused.
The blonde boy raised his hand and put him on his chest, "Oh, no worries. I am Edric Fiore. I work part-time here at the cafe. If you need something feel free to ask me any moment."
"Wait! Are you Eurika's brother!?" Parmiss shouted.
Edric face lot up with a surprised expression, "Oh, you know my younger sister? Good to know that she has friends. Yes I am her brother."
"Eh… you both have enough? We are trying to investigate something."
Marv tried to play off, but deep down he knew that he was a little left out.
Bang!
With a huge bang two figures in a large clock appeared.
One that appeared to be in Red was female and one in blue was male.
"Attention all students! You are all to evacuate to your dorms at this moment!"
All the students started to look at each other.
Parilis facepalmed herself, "Oh no! We are late…"
"Ah… What's happening?" Marv asked, looking at Parmiss while his face sweating.
"How am I supposed to know?" Parmiss replied.
As well as all the other students were caught in a surprise.
The red and blue robed figures: "We will guide you all as all the other students safely to the dorms. Please create a line for girls and a line for boys"
The confused students didn't know what to do, so they ended up doing as they were told.
Shinigami, who was silent till now holded Parmiss's hand and tightened her grip on it.
Marv looked here and there in a confusion.
The red and blue robed figures: "Now we shall move!"
As the doors of the cafeteria opened and outside where more students waiting to be joined in lines came to be.
There were the same looking authority figures with each line.
As each student moved outside in the hallway the Red robed figure emerged with the same looking red figure and vice versa with the blue robed figure.
Parmiss at this moment asked a girl who she was join lines with,
"What happened?"
The girl on the other line appeared to be shy, She wore a different kind of uniform and wasn't in Parmiss's dormantory. She slowly moved closer to Parmiss and replied,
"They say someone has been murdered here."
Parmiss's eyes widened while Shinigami's fist tightened.
Someone murdered?
At this hour where the evening was slowly turning into the night.
Waking down the hall that was the only way to their Dormantories, on the pale glass of it they saw crimson red blood and an unrecognisable body filled with brouzes and splashed faces that made their heart run fast.
Some students started to throw up on the way and the available nurses carried them to be treated.
There were teachers like Greadrock who was covering his nose with a cloth and another person with a wicked face and his sharp grey hair tied up.
There was also a man with light green eyes and blonde hair accompanied by another teacher they haven't seen in a doll-like dress and short hair.
Parmiss took a pauseand then finally asked, "Wait! Who exactly was killed?"
She asked, only to be met with the disgusted and struggling face of a student and a cold answer.
"The person who died…"
There was a long pause,
"She always helped me."
"Why why her!!??"
"She was a kind person."
So many of the students were sad, screaming or shocked.
"The person who died... was 'Cora Harman.'"
Shocked by this, Parmiss struggled to find any words.
Marv's eyes widened for a second as gaze fell to the dead body; His body jerked by a shock of the trauma he carried.
…
Last night,
"See you, brother," Marv said as left the room he shared with Kazuto.
His face turned from cheerful to a very serious face.
While walking he holded his heart, the sweat appeared on his face and he walked down the stairs and into the kitchen,
"No, not now please!"
He said to himself like talking to someone.
Creak~
He opened the kitchen door and laid by the door.
His face was sweating, his grip on his chest tightened.
"I always hate this… I Hate life! It hurts! It hurts! I want to die! Please!"
He was blinking fast, his heart beat could be heard clearly, though there was no one to hear it except Marv himself.
Splash
Marv looked up as a green hollow face appeared on the toaster like a neon glow and the toaster grew up slowly.
"What the hell, I wasn't serious about toast."
Bang!
And Marv was hit by it.
…
"Are you alright, Marv?" Kazuto asked.
Marv then smiled, "I think she was waiting for us! Hahahahahahah. Well now it's too late!"
He sounded manic, laughing loudly and uncontrollably while walking in the hallway.
His eyes were getting red and wider; saliva fell out of his mouth.
In the pitiful world happy endings are hard to look for.
All that's left in the human heart is despair.
Will they be able to escape this world? Or some day change it?
All four of our heroes now had to face this mysterious school's horrors.
They all have an unsettling past, but can they now survive the Maskveil's horrors in one piece?
Or is it just the beginning of their nightmare?