It was around one or one and a half hours later before a soft moan brought their attention to the couch. Cye brought a hand up to rub at his temple. Ryo knelt beside the couch and rested a hand on Cye's shoulder.

"How are you feeling, Cye?"The green eyed boy blinked up at him, taking a moment to focus his eyes on who was speaking. "Ah... Yeah. Just, just a little disoriented."

"That's understandable. Your blond friend had about the same experience."

"Here," Ryo started, "Try sitting up." He slipped an arm under Cye's shoulders and gently began propping him up.

Cye slid his legs off the couch and after Ryo had him lean against the back of the couch, he asked, "So, what happened, anyway?"

"You were possessed."

"W-what?"

"Yeah, by the same bastard who possessed Sage yesterday."

Cye snorted softly. "Wonderful. I was probably a right jerk to you guys, too." At that moment, Shi walked over and handed him a teacup. "Oh, thank you." He smiled and took a sip.

"You're welcome."

"...Wait, yesterday?"

"Kento's right, Cye," Sage answered. "We spent a night here."

"Oh dear. We'll never get home, will we?" His shoulders drooped a little as he took another sip.

"Not... necessarily." Five pairs of eyes turned to Shi, or was it Hito? "The only thing standing in the way of leaving is the man."

"I'd like to pop him where the sun don't shine for tormentin' us like this." Kento growled.

Hito laughed at that. "Be a bit hard, seeing as he's a ghost an' all."

"But seriously," Shi continued, "He has to be out of the way."

Rowen put a hand on his chin, thoughtfully. "Short of calling an exorcist, I don't know how to go about expelling ghosts."

"Would have been better if he had flung himself outside like we were hoping."

Cye looked at Sage and blinked. "Throw himself...? Just what went on while I was possessed?"

"Well," Rowen answered, "Let me fill ya in on that."

As Rowen recounted the previous events, Ryo turned to the twins. "How are we going to get him out of the way?"

"We thought we'd ask his wife for help. He's so upset at you, however, that she probably won't be able to calm him down."

"It's worth a shot, though."

"Quite," Sage agreed with Hito. "Please go ask her."

"Alright." Shi excused them, then he and Hito turned and faded from view as they walked.

After the twins had left, Kento flopped down on the couch next to Cye, leaning his head against the back of it. "I really hope we don't have to spend another night here. The first one was taxing enough!"

"There's no telling, Ken." Ryo sat down next to Kento. "Hopefully, the man's wife can help us."

"Or at least point us in the right direction." Rowen added, sitting on the other side of Cye.

Cye finished his tea and nodded. "If all we got was a clear hint, we could probably figure it out."

They didn't have to wait much longer for the twins to return, as they emerged from the direction of the kitchen two or three minutes later. Following them was a young woman with slightly wavy, long black hair. She was wearing a white sundress with little daisies on it and the yellow ribbon tied around her head complimented it nicely. She smiled at the group as they approached.

Rowen blinked and stared at her for a moment. _Where have I seen her before...?_ Almost immediately after, he jumped up and pointed at her. "It's you!" His friends gave him a look.

"What's with you?" Kento asked.

"Are you nuts? It's totally her!" He sighed at some of the blank stares he was getting. "It's the woman from the necklace. Plus her portrait is on the wall opposite of the man's in one of the rooms upstairs."

"Oh!" Kento grinned sheepishly and shrugged a shoulder. "I forgot you showed me the picture from the locket."Rowen waved that off dismissively. "Nah, don't worry about it. A lot has happened since then."

Sage shook his bangs out of his eye and nodded at the trio. "I take it that your presence means you are willing to help us?"

"Yes, I am. I'm so sorry Frederick's been bothering you this much."

Cye smiled at her. "It's not really your fault he seems possessive, you know.""I know, but still."

"So how do we get out of here?" Ryo sat forward and propped his elbows on his knees.

"It's... actually kind of simple, but I'd rather not say outright, in case he's listening in on us." She shuddered slightly. "I'm not exactly too fond of him, any more, either."

Shi took Cye's cup, as he saw he was done with it, and excused himself to go put it away. Cye thanked him, then asked, "What are we to do, then?"

"In that book your friend found, you'll know what to do. It is towards the end. I'm sorry that at this point, that's as much information as I can give you."

Sage stood and bowed. "That is all we could ask for. Thank you."

Kento stood as well. "Would you guys like to accompany us upstairs?"

"We'd be delighted."

Kento grinned and soon the group was headed up the stairs. Rowen had gotten disoriented for a moment, forgetting where the library was, but was pointed in the right direction by the woman. Once at the library (and after the group filed in), he set about relocating that book. It wasn't easy, however. It was almost as if someone had rearranged all the books to delay them further.

Ryo sighed. "This is going to take forever." He picked a shelf and started looking through the titles. "Ro, do you remember what it was called?"

"Not a clue, sorry. If I had known it was going to be important, I probably would have written it down or something." A few moments later, he caught a sort of light flickering out the corner of his eye and turned to look in that direction. When he did so, he saw one of the books a shelf or two down glowing. Since this happened the last time he tried to find the book, he walked over there immediately, knowing it'd be the one they needed. He slid it off the shelf and onto the floor.

Sage walked over to join him. "Did you find it?"

"Yeah. It was glowing again, like last time."

"Interesting."

Cye cleared off, then picked up the little side table that was next to a chair he had sat in before, and brought it over to Rowen. "Here, set it on this so we don't have to sit on the floor."

"Oh, good idea." The blue haired boy picked up the book and set it on the table, then began flipping through the pages to find the story they had read before.

As they were doing that, Shi, Hito and the woman had been discussing something between themselves. When their conversation was over, Hito nodded and left the room. Shi and the woman turned back to their guests to see if they made any progress.

"Here it is!" Rowen read through the story again, aloud, but paused before the ending.

"What is it, Ro?" Ryo asked.

"Hm, well... It says here that the husband and wife died in a fire. Like it's implying that the house went up in flames while they were in it, but there's really no info on that other than it was a fire and they died in it."

"Does that mean," Cye started, "That we have to burn the ghost before he's gone for good?"

"That would be too difficult, I think."

"Kento's right, Cye," Sage said, "He could just disappear before the fire even got to him and it's possible that we'd go up in the flames instead."

"I see. Then it would have to be something of his that he's closely attached to."

"In that case," Shi interjected, "I'd suggest his portrait. It's probably where he goes to recharge, so to speak."

"I'd have to agree with Shi," the woman said. "He's said before, when he was still alive, that he was quite beside himself at how well that picture was done. I'm quite tired of looking at it, though."

"I bet." Rowen looked back at the story, then frowned a little, turning back towards their two hosts. "Why do I get the feeling that you two have something to do with this story?"

Shi glanced at the woman quickly before addressing Rowen. "That would be because Miss Reina and I are from that story. The whole thing is truth."

Five pairs of eyes stared at them, stunned to hear that. This meant that the twins and Reina were siblings, though they shouldn't have been too surprised at that; they three did resemble each other. The story being true also meant that the man had murdered the twins.

_No wonder they never said his name, even though they knew who it was._ Kento thought.

Reina smiled sadly at their reaction. "It's shocking, I know, but there's not really much to be done about it now."

"That's true," Sage agreed. "But now that we know what to do, we can at least stop him from hurting any more people."

"Right!" Ryo said. "And also, where did your brother go?"

"He's watching the man in order to see when the best time to destroy the portrait will be."The black haired boy nodded. "Good thinking."

At that moment, a stomach growled and everyone turned to see Cye looking sheepish. "Ah, sorry. I guess being possessed made me hungry."

Shi laughed and motioned for them to follow him. "No problem, I'll get you something to eat."

The group followed Shi out of the library and back down to the kitchen.