"Hello, hello? Hey you're doing great!"

"Thanks," Dee grinned.

"Most people don't last this long."

"I guess I'm just a natural."

"I mean, you know, they usually move on to other things by now. I'm not implying that they died. Th-th-that's not what I meant."

"That doesn't sound very convincing."

"Uh, anyway I better not take up too much of your time. Things start getting real tonight."

"What do you mean?"

"Uh... Hey, listen, I had an idea: if you happen to get caught and want to avoid getting stuffed into a Prince suit, uhh, try playing dead! You know, go limp. Then there's a chance that, uh, maybe they'll think that you're an empty costume instead. Then again if they think you're an empty costume, they might try to... stuff a metal skeleton into you."

"That would probably be worse than being stuffed in a suit."

"I wonder how that would work. Yeah, never mind, scratch that. It's best just not to get caught. Um... Ok, I'll leave you to it. See you on the flip side!"

"See you tomorrow."

The phone guy was right. It was more difficult. Dragon Prince started moving, making multitasking even more stressful. Rem and Pathos were also more aggressive and moved around faster.

But, just like the other nights, Dee was able to survive it.
———
Dee took a look at another article he had gathered a few weeks back. He didn't feel like he was getting anywhere with rereading these, but it didn't really hurt to try.

"Local pizzeria threatened with shutdown over sanitation.

Local pizzeria, Dragon Prince's Pizza, has been threatened again with shutdown by the health department over reports of foul oder coming from the much-loved robotic mascots.

Police were contacted when parents reportedly noticed what appeared to be blood and mucus around the eyes as mouth of the mascots. One parent compared them to 'reanimated carcasses'."
———

"Hello, hello?"

"Greetings," yawned Dee. He stayed up all day and, it being 12 am and all, he was starting to get tired. At least he chugged a bunch of coffee before hand, so that should start to kick in soon.

"Hey! Hey, wow, day 4. I knew you could do it.
Uh, hey, listen, I may not be around to send you a message tomorrow."

"What? Why?" Dee asked, concerned.

Dee heard a banging sound on the tape, probably from Foxy hitting the door.

"It's-It's been a bad night here for me. Um, I-I'm kinda glad that I recorded my messages for you, uh, when I did."

Dee's eyes widened. He hoped that guy was okay. He started to like him.

"Uh, hey, do me a favor."

More of that banging on the doors.

"Maybe sometime, uh, you could check inside those suits in the back room?"

Even more doors being banged against.

"I'm gonna to try to hold out until someone checks. Maybe it won't be so bad."

"It will, though!"

Double bangs on the door.

"Uh, I-I-I-I always wondered what was in all those empty heads back there."

The Toreador March, Prince's theme song Dee heard he played when the power went out, started to chime.

"You know..."

Dee heard a groan, one matching with either Rem or Pathos.

"oh, no-"

Dee heard a loud screech, then silence.

"Why did the company send these here? Did they even listen to them?" Dee asked himself. "Would they care if they did listen?"

Dee shrugged. "Probably not."

The night was even harder than before. Anx sprinted from Pirate's Cove over to the left door about three times. Rem and Pathos appeared maybe about six or seven times each, and Freddy appeared in the right door twice.

Dee was glad when the 6 am bell rang.
———
Dee was almost down with this week. He had gotten a notice after his shift that he would be let go at the end of the week for "tampering with the robots" and "foul oder".

The "tampering with the robots" was to help them. Set their souls free.

And the "foul oder"? Well, Dee was an equivalent to a rotting carcass, so it would make sense

He started to read another article about the former pizza place.

"Five children now reported missing. Suspect convicted.

Five children are now linked to the incident at Dragon Prince's Pizza, where a man dressed as a cartoon mascot lured them into a back room.

While the suspect has been charged, the bodies themselves were never found.

Dragon Prince's Pizza has been fighting an uphill battle ever since to convince families to return to the pizzeria.

'It's a tragedy'."

———
"Final night," Dee told himself as he sat in the office chair.

The phone call was just a weird incomprehensible message. It sounded like someone talking, but it was super distorted. It unnerved Dee a little bit. He hoped that phone guy wasn't dead.

Prince and Anx appeared four times each. Rem was in the doorway eleven times, while Pathos was by the left door nine times. Dee also swore that he saw a strange green, glitchy, limp version of Prince.

Then it was done. Dee could finally leave this restaurant. Because of his boss firing him, now Dee really didn't have to come back here.
———
Once Dee returned home, he read the final article about that certain incident out loud.

"Local pizzeria said to close at year's end.

After a long struggle to stay in business after the tragedy that took place there many years ago, Dragon Prince's Pizza has announced that it will close by year's end.

Despite a year-long search for a buyer, companies seem unwilling to be associated with the company.

'Those characters will live on. In the hearts of kids- these characters will live on.' -CEO."

Well, the company did get bought after a while. Dee forgot what happened exactly, but some upstart businessmen bought the business for pretty cheap, just a few hundred dollars. Those characters and restaurants never did die.