Daku: D-Darkening?

Naho: Yes. It's one of the factors that changes and perserves the form of the school. It runs on the emotions of those who are trapped here. With those who succumb to despair in their hearts...They will lose their humanity...

Chojo: Eh?!

Kokuma: Oh my...T-That's terrible!

Daku: I think I heard of something like this...

Chojo: You have?

Daku: It was once on a paranornal novel I read. It once said...The more the darkening progresses, those who are possessed by it will grow unstable and their violent tendencies increase...

Naho: Correct. If it advances further. The body begins to necrosis and their soul will ashened.

Kokuma: Y-You mean like?

Naho: They will be swallow and become a part of the school. So I must warn you. The darkening is also starting to affect you all as well.

Chojo: W-What?!

Daku: What do you mean?!

Naho: Have you ever noticed yet Chojo-san, take a good look at your friends.

Chojo looked at Daku and Kokuma who both look confused. Chojo sensed a dark aurora around them. He gasp in horror, Naho was telling the truth! The darkening is around them!!!

Kokuma: S-So you mean...We actually are...

Naho: Yes....Soon...You all will be swallowed by the school if you don't make it out in time.

Chojo: Wait...! So in that rate, I have to leave them behind?! No way!

Daku: Chojo....

Chojo: NO! THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN! I REFUSE TO LEAVE THEM!!!

He was about to shout more at Naho until he saw her hand....It was complety black.

Chojo: N-Naho?

Naho:.....I once commited a horrible sin...

Daku: Wait...You know?

Naho: Yes...I know what I done to sensei...I only wanted to be a use for him. So I open the entrance to this school to many innocent people just like you.

Daku: So you were the one who put the charm and the wrong coordinates on the internet.

Naho solemnly nods as she for the first time makes a guilty look.

Naho: I thought if I increase the victims, the project he was working on would be ring true and would be a hit. But I was wrong...He was investigationing on his own free will...I chased after him by using the charm with my friend Sayaka. I lost Sayaka and I went to look for Kibiki-Sensei. But I despaired of never being able to see him. So once I died. I was still able to maintain the current form I had when I was alive with my psychic powers.

Kokuma: Oh...So that's why you didn't look like one of the ghost here.

Naho: Yes...But now I can't see him. And worse of all, I never saw or heard of Sayaka again either. So I guess...This is my punishment for my sins.

Daku: I'm...Sorry to hear that.

Naho: Don't be...I'm not making excuses and I'm not looking for forgiveness or pity. But I'm asking for you all to atone my sins.

Chojo: Atone?

Naho: I...Don't want anymore people to die anymore. But there is still a way for you all to escape.

Daku: Yes. We found out by reading your notes and looking at Kibiki's log.

Naho: Good. Then you might be lucky. But if the darkening take it's toll on one of you...You will not be so foruinate.

Kokuma: -Gulp-

Naho: I'll disappear for now. If I stay, I might attack you guys...I hope you all escape this cycle of hatred. But before I go...

She walked up to Daku and the others.

Naho: I sensed a very porwerful presence in your friend. Oka Ruto was her name. She could be your only hope. Judging from her power, she isn't an ordinary human. Good luck...

The goth teens look at Naho in shock and watch as she vanish.

Kokuma:...What did she mean by...Leader is not an ordinary human?

Chojo: Who knows...

Daku: But is Oka-san really our only hope?

Chojo: We just have to see...

Daku: What now?

Chojo: Let's go to the infirmary...We might find out more about Sachiko.

Kokuma:...

Daku: Kokuma-san? Is something wrong?

Kokuma: Oh!...Ummm....It's nothing...

Chojo and Daku: Huh?

Kokuma:............

-TBC-