It during the morning announcement that I woke up this time, I was thinking about what I discovered in the boiler room yesterday as I put on a fresh set of clothes before heading to the dining hall.

On my way there, I saw Kokichi and Kiyo talking again, it sounded like the latter was planning to spend most of his time in his lab. The supreme leader was pestering him to have a closer look at the golden katana in exchange for helping the anthropologist sort through things. Given who he was, a 'closer look' probably meant playing with it.

Luckily, Kiyo wisely refused his help under those terms, since Kokichi handling a blade couldn't lead to anything good. I hurried my pace when I caught the anthropologist's eye so he couldn't ask me either.

I've got a bigger mess to clean up right now as it is, thanks. Technically a creepier one too. I thought to myself as I went to the dining hall.

The arguing had already started back again from where last night left off when I got there, Kaito ready to go as ever. Shuichi, Ryoma, Maki, and Miyuji stood on either side of him, while Angie, Tenko, and Gonta sat at the table with their morning meals. Kaede was also there trying to restrain the astronaut from attacking along with the vocalist.

"Calm down Kaito, there's no point talking until everyone shows up. With this group, the same problems from last night will happen again." I told him, trying to take control of the situation best I could for now.

At least it was enough for now, as while Kaito still looked conflicted, he reluctantly went to get some food for himself and the other five and they seated themselves as far away from Angie as they could at the end of the long table.

When I went to do the same, I saw that Kirumi looked rather hurt that the six of them chose to do this for themselves, so I tried to ease her stress by offering to help the maid with the cooking.

It was hard to keep up with her sudden lesson, but 'teaching' me did help lighten her mood and it was fun in it's own way, I knew what I was doing given the food I had to make for my friends during the Killing Titan War along with Fiora, so I kept at it until everyone else had arrived. I helped lay the plates out the best I could too, which wasn't easy with fifteen dishes. Kirumi even laughed a little for a change as I struggled a bit with balancing some heavier dishes.

But now it was time to get back to the business at hand.

"Alright, now that everyone's here do we all know what the student council did yesterday?-" I started, trying to be as neutral as I could before Kaito interrupted.

"ANGIE BLOCKED OFF OUR ONLY FUCKING ESCAPE ROUTE DAMMIT! As if her attempt at enforcing an unbalanced curfew wasn't enough of a problem." The astronaut exclaimed.

"Now, now you have to think of the bigger picture. Atua knows best, and we all saw how the false hope the idea of escape drove Miu to murder before. Had Kaede not asked her to make her special hammers then her lab wouldn't have been attacked in the first place and her paranoia wouldn't have driven her to such extremes. And now one of the most practical talents among our number is gone." Angie said, putting her hands as if in prayer despite her face never losing her 'gentle' smile.

After a huge argument, I overheard a conversation between Kaede, Miyuji, Kaito, and Maki that night. The three girls were gonna approach Angie to 'join' the council to find out what exactly her plans were for the resurrection ritual. Maybe even try to curb how controlling or dangerous they were becoming.

I followed them to Angie's lab on the fourth floor, but both doors were tightly locked. Kaede tried knocking and calling to get the artist's attention, but it was no use. Neither was Maki's attempt to break the door down with her pounding, much to the pianist's distress. Miyuji saw me but didn't say anything.

"What are you three doing up here so late at night?" Kirumi asked as she approached us. "There is a curfew in effect as you may recall. Shouldn't you all be off to bed? Me and Sharla can escort you if you'd like."

"H-Hi Kirumi. Wasn't expecting to see you and Sharla here. I thought you two went to bed. How-" Kaede stuttered out.

"That would be because I left my Monopad in my room tonight and I assume Sharla did the same." The maid explained. "I suspected that's how they were able to tell us where everyone was so reliably, and wanted to test the theory a little. I assume Kiyo's been doing the same thing, seeing how he's in his lab right now despite what your map may tell you. I was fairly certain he'd end up sleeping in there, or not sleeping at all, if I didn't stop by to remind him to go to bed at a more reasonable hour. Finding you here was more unexpected. Do you wish to speak to Angie?"

"Yes, that's why we're here. Or rather that's why Kaede's here. I decided to follow her so she wouldn't be dragged off to bed before she got to try." Maki admitted.

"Aren't you supposed to be enforcing this curfew she set up?" Miyuji asked.

"Of course, for that is the will of our President and as her maid I will gladly carry out her wishes, regardless of if it is for her or Atua. But as the curfew is for your own protection, escorting you all back to your dorms after you finish talking should be following the spirit of the request. Allow me to get her for you, she had mentioned earlier that at night time she'd only open her doors for council members."

As Kirumi predicted, Angie had no problem opening the door for her, she wasn't even bothered by our presence even if it broke her rules.

"My, my, now this is a surprise. What could Kaede, Sharla, Miyuji, and Maki be wanting so late at night? Oh, I know! You all wanna join the student council, don't you? You'll need to get acquainted with Atua first, but I'll gladly introduce you to Him if you like. Come in, come in~" The artist without dropping her cheerful expression.

Well that was anticlimactic. I thought she'd be angry, well her version of angry, at Kirumi for breaking her rules to help us or something. I thought.

"Yes! Exactly. Sorry for the intrusion, I just… I wanted to help you so we could unite everyone again." Kaede said. "I'm not sure I'm really fit to be leading everyone anymore, so I thought joining your group could help smooth things over with the others, like Kaito. Though Maki and Miyuji were just keeping me company and Sharla followed us here."

Miyuji said that she was calling it a night and ran back downstairs to her room. The pianist took a moment to tell Maki to wait for her outside the lab to be on the safe side. She might be too hostile or brutally honest about some of the things Angie might say so me and Kaede were best off on our own here.

But when the two of us entered Angie's lab, we were in for a shock, as Tsumugi stared back at us. Not just her either, Rantaro, Miu, and Himiko were all there. Statues of them at least, but the likeness was uncanny. Though oddly enough Himiko's hat looked like it was the same one she actually wore, rather than a wax replica like the rest of her.

Kaede could barely process Angie's explanation of them as she tried to calm herself down, faced with everyone she's failed like this. But when the resurrection ritual came up she was able to focus again.

"Divine aren't they? Atua took possession of me to make these wax effigies for the resurrection ritual and I'm quite happy with how they've turned out." The artist admitted. "It didn't really say how they would be used so Atua wanted to make them look as lifelike as possible, and Tenko even helped me get one of Himiko's hats."

"The ritual? He did an amazing job with them. We almost thought they were real." I said.

"Yup! The book says we needed an effigy of the deceased we intended to revive them, though we did go a bit overboard. Tenko made an excellent case for Himiko being the one we bring back so we didn't need any of the others." The platinum blonde-haired girl explained. "I just thought I- WE might make a series out of it, to memorialize those we've lost. Just because murderers are too much of a risk to bring back it doesn't mean I think they should be forgotten. And Rantaro's a case where it'll just be easier to trust Himiko, regardless of how things would turn out."

"W-We see. So that's why Tenko's a part of the council? To make sure Himiko can come back?" Kaede wondered.

"Yup-yup-yup! I have my doubts how much she honestly believes in Atua, but she's loyal if nothing else."

"And when exactly are you going to do the ritual? Did you finish these recently?" I asked.

"Indeed I did! It might be a bit too late to finish it tonight but I think tomorrow will work."

"Are you sure? Because, if I'm a member of the council I could spend tomorrow trying to get everyone else on board with your plan. So we could all do the ritual together. No hard feelings between anyone." Kaede said.

"Huh? Are you sure you'd be able to convince them all? Kaito was rather against we do this at all before. As were you. Have you really changed your mind?" Angie asked.

Kaede better know what she's doing. Lying can't be too hard like before. I thought to myself.

"Yeah, I mean look at how ridiculous some of these deaths have been! None of that could be real. And I'm sure he's objecting because of issues with your previous ideas. I'm positive I could get him to listen!" The pianist responded.

"Hmm… Well in that case Atua doesn't mind putting it off until the day after. This isn't a timed motive after all. And I'm sure our friends are all just waiting for us." The artist pointed out. "Maybe we'll even be able to bring all of them back! That's what Atua tells me at least, and Atua is never wrong. We wouldn't want Him to punish us."

"R-Right! Thank you Angie, me and Sharla will do my best tomorrow! For… For Atua! And everyone else. Would you mind if we take a look at the Necronomicon, to see if there's anything else I can help you with?"

"Sure~ But you aren't allowed to take it from this room, okay? I still need it to set things up."

With Angie's permission and under the artist's watchful eye, the two of us took in what information she could to further delay things if possible. The effigies were already prepared so nothing could be done there, and it'd be easy to replace them even if she broke one since the requirements for it were so basic.

But we could prevent Angie from burning the book for now.

There aren't many sources of fire in the academy after all, so Maki and Miyuji could help us remove the candles from the side rooms. If the Necronomicon couldn't be reduced to ashes, Angie wouldn't be able to do things ahead of schedule. That could give Ryoma time take this book and stop Angie's plan entirely, no one would be able to catch him at his speed, and if the book couldn't be burned the motive was useless.

We thanked the artist for her time as the pianist returned the book and spilt up to go to tell Maki, Ryoma, and Miyuji about our plan with them.

Afterwards, I went to my room to head to sleep. Angie hasn't noticed that Kaede had lied after all, Kirumi would surely be better at it than she was.

As I went to sleep, the melody from before the first trial played within my heart and the last thought I could remember was the wish that I was really doing the right thing.