Hearing these crazy sounds, the masked person stopped halfway up the loft stairs.

  The person paused for a moment, then quietly hid behind the dormitory door.

  That damn... no, Saint Medina had voluntarily become bait to save her friends' lives.

  Now they just needed the masked person to leave this room.

  Rattle rattle BANG BANG heeheeheehee, ugh...

  Medina was going wild like she was truly insane.

  Woof woof woof growl...

  And seeing Medina like that, Winnie seemed to be going wild too.

  Finding this suspicious, the masked person left completely into the corridor.

  Their footsteps could be heard getting fainter and fainter.

  Rumi went down the loft stairs and poked her head out toward the corridor to see if the masked person had gone far enough.

  "Phew..."

  Fortunately, the corridor was empty.

  Rumi made an X sign with her hands to Raoul coming down behind her to indicate no one was there.

  Malcolm came down supporting Niel, who was hanging limply with slightly crazed eyes, and picked up the broom.

  Rumi sighed deeply watching Malcolm and Niel.

  "Someone nearly got us killed..."

  "That's because you were acting suspicious... never mind. Let's just get out quickly. We don't know when that person might come back."

  "You guys... what happened?"

  Raoul looked confused.

  "It's nothing, just run!"

  When Rumi ran out first, the rest of the kids ran toward Rumi's dormitory room.

  As the kids approached the dormitory room, Eve was holding the door open as if she'd been waiting for them.

  And so all the kids returned safely and tried to calm their racing hearts.

  "Ugh, we nearly died..."

  "Are... are you guys okay? Earlier when that masked person appeared..."

  Eve asked fearfully, looking at the pale-faced kids.

  "No, we are not okay. we nearly died... that damn masked lunatic came in and... wait a minute...

  You saw the masked person? Then why didn't you warn us?"

  "Uh...?!"

  Eve suddenly became flustered and couldn't speak.

  "I... I tried of course... but there was no way. By the time I discovered them, I couldn't get out into the corridor anymore. But I did try throwing things to lure that person outside, then some random ghost and Winnie appeared and started fighting... No, I mean, I told you not to do this in the first pce...!"

  "Ah, spare me the lectures. That's not what's important right now. The question is who exactly that masked person is."

  "Well... they were quite tall, so... They don't seem to be a student. Must be either an outsider or one of the teachers."

  Malcolm said firmly.

  "And while I'm not exactly sure what kind of ritual it was, it definitely looked like bck magic.

  Looking at that smoke, it seemed like they were searching for something... Maybe they were trying to find Medina's soul?"

  Raoul also spoke with a serious face.

  "I'm going to kill that person!"

  Suddenly Niel, who was still somewhat agitated, shouted.

  Rumi quickly went to Niel and covered her mouth.

  The kids looked startled at Niel's aggressive behavior.

  Malcolm also stepped aside for a moment, as if seeing her like that for the first time.

  "Niel, are you... okay?"

  Raoul asked.

  "Y-yeah, she's always like this."

  Rumi stroked Niel's back again and whispered in her ear.

  "Hey, calm down if you don't want everyone to find out."

  Rumi roughly calmed Niel down, pushed her to Malcolm, and said.

  "So what do we do now?"

  "Hmm... Well, we found Medina, so we should talk more with Medina... but she was acting pretty erratic..."

  Raoul fell into thought while speaking.

  Rumi thought for a moment and came up with an idea.

  "Then shouldn't we... follow that masked person instead? With Medina being so erratic, that seems like our only way to understand what's going on..."

  But Rumi's idea sounded insane to anyone who heard it.

  And there was one person who immediately objected to that statement.

  "Wait Rumi, how can you even suggest that? You were the one who almost died back then, not me."

  Eve suddenly blocked the door and spoke.

  "None of you... can leave anymore. Remember when I said I should have stopped you, Rumi? This is that moment. If I don't stop you now, someone's really going to die."

  Just then, a ghost suddenly phased through the door and slipped into Rumi's dormitory room.

  "... ..."

  "There's already a dead person behind you."

  "Eek!"

  Eve screamed in surprise.

  "What are you guys doing..."

  "Me... Medina?"

  Eve stared at the ghostly Medina with shocked eyes.

  "This isn't the time for this, you need to come quickly - there's somewhere we need to go!"

  Medina shouted.

  "What? You guys... did you perform the summoning ritual to call Medina? And... and you succeeded with that horrible dance?"

  "As if. She was just already there."

  Malcolm suddenly answered.

  "What...?"

  Eve looked up at Medina with a confused expression.

  "What are you looking at!"

  Medina yelled at Eve. and then she stamped her feet while shouting.

  "You guys need to go to the morgue right now. Someone's doing something to my corpse there!"

  "What are you talking about?"

  "That masked person went into the morgue and is talking with my corpse! With my corpse!"

  "Hah, we're doomed. So you're saying your corpse and that masked person are working together?"

  "This is awful! How could my corpse be working with the witch cult? How could my corpse be evil?"

  "Your corpse tried to strangle Rumi to death. Don’t say such things if you don't know about yourself."

  "What's with you? Why aren't asleep at this hour?"

  Medina snapped at Eve with an annoyed face.

  "Hey, shut up and tell us where the morgue is?"

  "It's right next to the infirmary. We need to hurry."

  "Next to the infirmary?"

  Rumi had no idea there was a morgue next to the infirmary.

  Moreover, that infirmary was located in the north corridor she had explored yesterday.

  "Ah... so that's what happened."

  Rumi realized that the pce Medina's corpse had escaped to was none other than the morgue.

  That's when Eve shouted again.

  "What are you guys thinking? Are you really pnning to go out again? And you're voluntarily going to look for Medina's corpse that tried to kill you?"

  But strangely, Eve had a genuinely terrified expression.

  "What's it to you! You're not even going. How dare you interfere when we have a chance to find out who possessed my corpse. You fallen family Bronte!"

  Medina watched Eve and spat out harsh words.

  "Wh-why bring that up suddenly? Besides, if we're talking about families, you're from the Mora family. The filthy Mora!"

  "What, how dare you call us filthy?"

  "Hah..."

  "Hey, if you two are going to keep fighting, we're leaving without you!"

  Rumi was exasperated watching the two who had somehow become archenemies.

  "No wait, Seriously... Sometimes people get blinded by impossible possibilities and do reckless things. When that happens, they can't judge objectively how insane their actions are.

  Come on, think about this one more time.

  The Medina here really died! Try to understand how serious this is."

  Eve tried to focus the kids' attention and spoke.

  Medina was looking at Eve with contempt.

  "If anything, Medina might have been lucky, since she didn't become an corrupted evil spirit.

  I understand you don't want to miss this opportunity, but if you lose your one and only life, there's nothing but pain afterward..."

  "Eve, I'm sorry but what you said is exactly right. An opportunity like this might never come again. But if we miss this chance, we might have to sit by and watch something far more terrible than just us dying happen.

  We're willing to risk our lives on the possibility that by going now, we might prevent something truly horrible from happening. So even if we die, I don't think that death would be meaningless."

  Raoul suddenly spoke these grave words.

  "Huh...?"

  Eve looked at Raoul with slightly bewildered eyes.

  "Y-yeah, Raoul's completely right. We pce the greatest value... on that possibility to save every...

  I mean, we're not idiots, and I'll be more careful this time.

  And this time you don't need to come save me, Eve, so just stay here.

  Besides, if we die and become ghosts, you'll have to do what we say, Eve."

  "Please just speak like a normal person."

  "And Niel, you stay here too."

  "No, I want to go too!"

  Niel still didn't seem to have calmed down from her agitation.

  "No, you can't. If you get agitated again there, everything will be ruined. You and Eve both stay here."

  That's when Raoul stared at Rumi and said.

  "Then you stay too, Rumi."

  "What?"

  "This is really too dangerous. Malcolm and I can gather enough information by ourselves."

  "Raoul, I'd rather be here with Niel..."

  Malcolm muttered.

  "That's absolutely not happening. This is something I started. And do you think you two going there would be safer? Better three of us die than two."

  "Yeah yeah, everyone just die together. It would be too unfair if I died alone."

  That's when Medina butted in with nonsense again.

  "Sigh... so what are you pnning to do when you get there?"

  Eve asked with a resigned face.

  "Well, I'll take Raoul and Malcolm, and Medina's ghost will do all the dangerous stuff first. And we'll definitely stay hidden. So it'll be fine."

  "..."

  Eve fell silent.

  "If you have nothing else to say, let's hurry up and go now!"

  Medina urged Rumi.

  "Raoul, Malcolm, you guys ready too? Let's go!"

  With that, Rumi left the dormitory room with Medina. And Raoul and Malcolm followed Rumi out into the corridor.

  The corridor was still empty, and Medina flew ahead alone toward the north corridor.

  Rumi's group followed Medina and arrived at the wide windowed corridor that served as the gateway to the north corridor.

  Through the windows, countless ghosts could be seen floating in the night sky.

  The kids crouched low and passed through the corridor, trying not to be noticed by the ghosts outside.

  They moved to the north building and stopped beside where Medina was standing.

  "This is it..."

  Medina was pointing at the morgue next to the infirmary door.

  "Are they still inside?"

  "Yeah..."

  "..."

  Just thinking that Medina's corpse and the masked person were separated by just one door made goosebumps rise all over their bodies.

  "Can we go in now?"

  "No... if you go in, you'll become a corpse to be stored here."

  "Sigh... how did I end up in a pce like this..."

  Malcolm muttered from behind.

  Rumi ignored Malcolm and asked Medina again.

  "What do we do now?"

  "It's obvious, isn't it? The morgue and infirmary are connected by one door. Plus, the infirmary is empty right now."

  "So you're saying we should go into the infirmary now?"

  "Yeah, hurry and go in now."

  "..."

  Rumi and the kids looked around and slowly opened the infirmary door.

  And they checked the door connecting to the morgue inside the infirmary.

  But damn, that inner door was slightly open. And their conversation could be through the gap.

  "...!"

  Rumi was startled and quickly crawled under a nearby desk.

  Raoul and Malcolm also hid under the desk and started listening to the conversation coming from the morgue.