Rumi didn't drink even a sip of water befoing to bed tonight.

  And Rumi woke up at dawn like a biological clock.

  The time she opened her eyes was exactly 2:22 AM.

  Success.

  Rumi immediately came to her senses and approached the corridor, cheg outside through the round window.

  As expected, an eerily beautiful singing voice could be heard.

  But again, Medina wasn't visible in the corridht now.

  But that was fioday's pn was to go out into the corridor to look for that Medina ghost anyway.

  First, she approached Niel sleeping itom bunk.

  And shook the shoulder of Niel, who was deeply asleep while tied iraining straps, pletely unaware of the world.

  "Wake up Niel..."

  But Niel didn't move at all.

  "What...?"

  "Niel, wake up! What are you doing? We o go look for the ghost."

  No matter how much she shook her, Niel showed no signs of waking up.

  Rumi lightly spped Niel's cheek.

  "Hey wake up. I said wake up!"

  Niel showed no response even when spped.

  Rumi panicked, w if Niel had died from a curse too, and put her ear to her body. She could hear her heartbeat, though very slowly.

  Rumi hadn't known Niel was such a deep sleeper.

  Having no choice, Rumi thought she should at least wake Raoul door and knocked on the side door.

  'Knooock'

  But there was no response no matter how much she knocked.

  Finally, she groaned as she opehe door herself and crawled into the room, calling out to the sleeping Raoul.

  "Raoul, wake up, it's time."

  "Raoul!"

  Oh no, for some reason Raoul showed absolutely no signs of waking up either.

  Mal sleeping below was the same.

  Rumi couldn't uand why they all wouldn't wake up together.

  This was definitely strange.

  As Rumi shook Raoul o time, a chilling voice came from behind.

  "You really are insane, Rumi."

  Rumi was startled by the sudden void turned around to see Eve standing beside the bed, with dark circles reag down to her neck.

  "What? You... why are you awake?"

  Rumi couldn't believe her eyes. Of all people, the one she had hoped would be asleep was the only oh both eyes wide open.

  "You, are you really going to go look fhosts alone? Even with everyone sleeping?"

  "Of course!"

  Rumi came down from the bed with a grimace.

  "What about you? You know better than ahat being awake at this hour is against the rules. You're always going on about rules..."

  "It would be crazier to sleep after hearing such things ihroom. e to think of it, I woke up just now because you were being so noisy."

  "Ugh... why of all people are you awake?"

  Rumi pulled at her hair.

  At that moment, she saw Eve wearing a satisfied smile for the first time.

  That expression looked like a ghost smiling after pleting its revenge.

  "...What? What's with that expression?"

  Rumi showed her disfort while gathering the Y-shaped cross, holy water bottle, salt, scripture and other items she had prepared on her desk.

  "Whatever, don't try to stop me. Even if you go tell a teacher right now, I o find Medina's ghost."

  "... ..."

  Eve said nothing.

  So Rumi deliberately ignored Eve ao the dorm room door.

  Though Medina's ghost wasn't visible yet, she po wahe corridor alone.

  Rumi grabbed the dorm room doorknob.

  But Eve quietly watg beside her was b her.

  "What...? Are you not going to stop me?"

  "I'm just gonna watch."

  Eve said cisely with no ge in expression.

  Rumi found this situation irritating.

  So she grabbed the dorm room doorknob and tur defiantly.

  'Click'

  When the door opened, it felt like some sacred barrier had broken.

  The dark corridor visible beyond the door was simply eerie.

  Though no school ghosts were visible, it would be a lie to say she wasn't a little scared.

  Rumi swallowed hard and slowly stepped into the darkness of the corridor.

  'Creak thump'

  Just then the door behind her closed.

  Eve had closed the door.

  "...!"

  Eve stood with her arms crossed beyond the round window.

  This... wasn't a situation Rumi had expected...

  "..."

  But having already e out to the corridor alone, she had to do what o be done.

  The first thing she noticed was that the singing was a bit clearer out in the corridor.

  This strangely beautiful singing - Rumi thought Medina might have e out here because of this singing too.

  Like trying to find the owner of the voice...

  So Rumi decided to move toward where the faint singing sounded clearer.

  But no matter where she went, the sound was too quiet to tell where it got louder.

  "Damn..."

  Rumi decided to first move east where the cafeteria was.

  The school at night was very different from during the day. During the day it just felt like an old, worn building, but at night it was just like a haunted mansion.

  And ing out to the corridor, she learned for the first time how many strange sounds there were at night.

  The sound of wind blowing, water dripping, things falling, and occasional ughter.

  Ghost shadows flickered outside the distant windows, creating tension like they might pou any moment.

  Rumi started to slightly regret ing out alone.

  But with Eve being like that in the room, she just couldn't not e out.

  Approag the cafeteria, she heard a 'chop chop chop' sound.

  It sounded like meat being chopped.

  Rumi recalled the cafeteria rules.

  '*The cafeteria is off-limits after 7 PM.'

  "..."

  Having already broken two or three rules, Rumi wondered if breaking one more would make much difference.

  So thinking Medina's ghost might be in the cafeteria, she carefully stepped inside.

  The cafeteria wasn't much different from during the day, except for being dark and feeling like something might jump out.

  But the kit was dimly lit with an e glow.

  Just then a 'bang' sound came from ihe kit.

  Rumi hunched down in surprise.

  And as she stayed that way watg the kit serving ter... suddenly the zombie cook revealed her grotesque fad stared at Rumi like she would kill her.

  "Aah!"

  Rumi was terrified seeing that green monster-like fad immediately fled the cafeteria.

  Rumi ended up ba front of dorm room 49.

  Holy, she wao just go baside the dorm, but knowing Eve was standing there with crossed arms, her pride absolutely wouldn't allow it.

  Finally, Rumi started walking toward the tral lobby, opposite from the cafeteria.

  Since she had always found Medihe lobby, she was fident that if she was anywhere, it would be aorund here.

  But no sign of life, no, spiritual presence was felt from the lobby either.

  It was the same even reag the front of the cathedral.

  If she couldn't find anything on the first floor she would o check the sed floor or basement, but even Rumi wasn't very keen on that...

  But she found herself already climbing the stairs to the sed floor without realizing.

  Then she discovered someone's back reflected in the huge mirror hangiween the first and sed floors.

  "...!"

  Rumi immediately lowered her posture and firmed it looked like Medina's back.

  She had finally found Medina. And more easily than expected.

  And sihere was a mirror, she could judge whether Medina was a ghost or nht now.

  The method of using mirrors to judge whether something visible was a ghost or not was simple.

  If you see it only in the mirror or only in real life, it was a ghost.

  But strangely, the Medina in the mirror was visible in real life too.

  "...?"

  Rumi was fused again for a moment. How could a ghost be visible in both the mirror and real life...

  But it seemed there was o think more now. Now that she had found Medina's ghost, she just o talk to find out.

  Rumi carefully spoke.

  "Medina, is that you?"

  The Medina ghost didn't respond.

  "Medina?"

  Rumi called out again while climbing the stairs.

  Rumi ght o Medina.

  "You're... Medina right? How did you die? Where did you get that book from..."

  Though Rumi tried to force her voice out, she felt her words losing strength standing before Medina who could be an evil spirit.

  "It's you again."

  Medina answered without showing her face yet.

  The voice itself didn't seem very different from the real Medina. Still, it had an unpleasant quality with some low tones mixed in.

  'Whoosh'

  But suddenly the Medina ghost whirled around and grabbed Rumi's arm.

  "Eek!"

  Intense pain shot through the grabbed arm.

  "Aah!"

  Rumi tried to pull her arm away in panic because it hurt so much, but at that moment she discovered arahing.

  The fact that the ghost could grab Rumi's arm strongly enough to crush it meant this wasn't a ghost.

  Realizing this chilling fact, she looked up at Medina's face.

  Medina looked dead.

  Her face was so pale white she didn't look alive at all.

  She was literally Medina's living corpse.

  Rumi suddenly realized her life was in danger.

  "What... what are you? Are you a zombie too? F-Fraein?"

  Medina made no expression and gave no answer.

  Instead, Rumi's captured arm just kept hurting more.

  "Aaah!"

  Seeing the situation was more serious than expected, Rumi decided she o do something.

  And with her other trembling hand, she pulled out a bottle of holy water from her bag.

  'Whoosh'

  Rumi threw the holy water bottle hard at Medina's face.

  The bottle shattered and white smoke erupted from Medina's corpse.

  Medina's face burned up as if scalded where the holy water hit. But she showed no iion of letting go of the arm.

  Damn, Rumi's arm felt like it would be crushed - was a living corpse's strength normally this strong?

  "Aaugh! It's me, Rumi. I saved you before! Let go already, ack!"

  "Rumi, you're wandering around breaking rules again. You should be sleeping at bedtime."

  The zombie Medina suddenly reached out her other arm and grabbed Rumi's neck, pushing her back.

  Rumi fell backward from the powerful ford hit her head on the floor with a 'thump'.

  "Ugh!"

  After that, the Medina corpse let go of Rumi's arm and started strangling the fallen Rumi with both hands.

  "Gaaack, somebody help!"

  Rumi shouted thinking she would die now, but her voice wouldn't e out properly as she was being strangled.

  Meanwhile, Medina's face was eerily cold and peaceful.

  She was absolutely not that talkative Medina.

  And not an evil spirit either.

  But what mattered now was that the crazy zombie Medina was truly strangling Rumi's neck like she would kill her.

  While her vision gradually darkened.

  Rumi panicked and thrashed realizing she would soo this rate.

  "Mmmmph mmph!"

  But at that moment, with a 'sizzle' sound, white smoke rose from Medina's back.