By: Orestria (old pen name that she's too lazy to change; lady tyria)
Dedicated to: Michelle who got me addicted to Rokkaku, the Rokkaku LJ community that got me info I needed, ZombiPuri, and my life in residence, which was blessedly short.
Date Started: Jun 16, 2005
Rating: PG-13 I guess.
Disclaimer: Don't own it, or Dragnet, or Scooby Doo, or anything really. And finally, special thanks to our guest story, Shiba the Scary Stalker Reporter Lady. Or whatever her name is.
Love ROKKAKU!
Ch. 4; The Phantom Plumber of Saint Rudolph
Yuuta has gone to the gym to work out, and Atsushi went off for a walk, probably to avoid his ex-teammates. This leaves Yanigasawa Shinya peacefully alone in the residence room the three are stuck sharing. He takes advantage of this opportunity to practice his favourite hobby; Origami.
He folds along the crease, working slowly and carefully so the delicate paper will fold true... only to have his fingers slip, ruining it, when he suddenly hears a loud drip. Angrily, he tosses the now misshapen creature into the trash and stalks over to the window where he figures any such dripping would most likely be coming from. What meets him there is the view of an absolutely gorgeous full moon, and not a cloud, let alone a rain cloud in sight. Shrugging it off as a freak occurrence, he returns to his bed, taking a new piece of specialty paper and starting over.
Another drip comes, then another and another. They make a beat, and then the tempo keeps picking up until it is a constant stream, mirroring the constant stream of deformed origami creations being tossed in the garbage by an increasingly irate Yanigasawa Shinya. When one especially loud drop interrupts the hum of the stream just as Yanigasawa is finally one fold away from actually completing a project for the first time that evening, and said almost completed piece joins the rest in the trash, the teen lurches to his feet to examen the room, desperate to find the source of the noise. He isn't going to get any more work done if he can't put a stop to this. He vows to have the problem solved before he goes to bed that night.
He locates it at his desk area, soapy water dripping down from the ceiling, along the wall... and right down into the cardboard box that used to protect his completed masterpieces. 'Used to' since the box and the precious paper inside are now all soaked. They are quickly sent to join the mountain of paper in the near-overflowing waste bin.
"But... I'm on the first floor da ne," He states in confusion. His peaceful evening of origami slipping further and further away from him, he heads out the door into the narrow hall. He knocks on the door across the hall from his own. It's opened by the quiet Rokkaku boy, "What is it?"
"Is Nomura-kun in da ne?"
"No and I don't know where he is or when he'll be back. Try again later," Sudou tries to shut the door, but the Saint Rudolph player grabs him by the wrist, "My room is leaking da ne, and if our room has the problem, yours might too da ne."
That is how Sudou finds himself dragged into the room that three of the Saint Rudolph boys are forced to share. How did a simple evening of unpacking turn into staring at a growing water spot on the ceiling of the room of a boy he doesn't even know? He sighs, then inquires, "What's above here? Another room?"
"There's a room right on top, and a washroom beside it da ne."
"Must be the washroom then, some kind of problem with the plumbing," Sudou says dismissively before trying to head back to his room. However, Yanigasawa is a man on a mission, and he stops the Rokkaku third year and drags him over to the stairs and up to the second floor to investigate.
They reach the washroom area, whose design is so strange that students rumoured it was requested by Mrs. Watabe on a whim, just to be 'unique'. There are three sinks, two toilets, a bath tub and a shower stall in each of the building's seven washroom areas. The bizarre part is that each of these fixtures is behind its own door, in its own little room, just big enough for it. The washroom sections have tiled floors instead of the industrial carpeting of the rest of the hall, and are separated from the hall by double hinged swinging doors on either side.
Just as they come in the swinging door, a rather bewildered looking Amane Hikaru comes out of the 'bathtub room', holding a towel up around his waist. The three boys together stare at the shower room, which has water seeping out from under its wooden door. They then look at each other, no one really wanting to make the next move. Finally, Yanigasawa knocks on the door. There is no response. He tries the knob only to find it unlocked and swing the door open, which causes a mini-flood of water to swamp over their feet.
"A deluxe deluge. Pft." He looks expectantly at the other two boys, who ignore him completely. This makes him pout slightly, which also goes unnoticed by them.
"Oi, I thought the Principal said this place is new?" Sudou sneers at Yanigasawa."
"It is da ne!"
"Then how did someone using the bath make the shower overflow. It's not like it's old plumbing or anything."
"The overflow is overkill. Pft."
Sudou rolls his eyes, "That's not helping, Dabide."
The duck-like boy hems and huhs and da nes, trying to think of an explanation. While he deliberates, the Rokkaku players look at him, then each other. They go into the shower stall, trying to get it to stop pumping up water, but Sudou only manages to get wet up to his elbows. Meanwhile, Dabide isn't much help at all since he winds up putting more effort into keeping his towel up and his hair out of his face than into anything constructive.
"That's it da ne! I remember now da ne!" Yanigasawa suddenly exclaims, causing Sudou to bang his head on the hot water knob.
When his upper classmate begins to swear, Dabide admonishes him, "Don't get 'hot headed', sempai. Pft."
Sudou glares at him as the two Rokkaku players retreat back into the hall part of the washroom area so that the bill-lipped boy can explain his revelation.
"When I first moved in here, on of my sempai told me a legend about this building da ne. Apparently, during construction of the dorm, a plumber died under suspicious circumstances while working on the second floor da ne. They say that because of him, there are sometimes freak malfunctions in this washroom da ne."
All is silent, even dabide doesn't make a pun, as the gravity of this situation sinks in. The air seems chill to the Junior, although this may be since he's standing around in a towel. Sudou is skeptical. "I betcha that crazy principal of yours spread that rumour so people wouldn't think there was a problem with her precious building," He declares. After all, wouldn't a plumber make things work better anyways?
"Let's go tell Matsuei-san da ne." Yanigasawa decides. The three boys trek over to the stairs, leaving wet footprints on the carpeting behind them. They find the dean in her office and quickly inform her of the malfunction (although not Shinya's superstitious suspicions).
"I'm sorry you boys had to run into this sort of difficulty on your first day here." She says politely to the newcomers, "Yanigasawa-kun, would you please inform the janitor, Takeda-san? I think he's on the roof garden at the moment."
"I see... a garden-variety roof garden. Pft."
"Oh, what a delightfully optimistic boy. You won't let a thing like this get you down, I see. Have a lolli." The kindly old woman hands the redhead a treat, then shoos them all out of her office, waving at them with a pleasant smile.
"What a sweet... lady. Pft." Dabide says, before popping his sucker into his mouth. He follows his teammate, who is being dragged up the stairs by the Saint Rudolph student. Unfortunately, the stair well they're on doesn't go all the way to the roof. Instead, they have to walk to the opposite end of the 4th floor hall.
After the pass through the last washroom area between them and the other staircase, they notice something very strange. Right down the centre of the hall, there is a trail of water making the industrial carpeting darker than normal. Dabide becomes a little nervous, although it doesn't really come across in his pun "I'll trail behind you on the trail. Pft."
Even eerier, the water track continues up the centre of the stairs. About half way up to the roof, they start hearing a distant sounding thumping and an accompanying wail. Mental images of mournful spirits draped in chains, haunting a place for all eternity spring into each of their minds, and the three tennis players start walking closer together unconsciously. Yanigasawa wishes he didn't have to find the janitor. Sudou wishes he had his tennis racket with him (although he is undecided as to whether he'd use it on Shinya or the ghost... or both). Dabide simply wishes he was wearing pants.
They near the roof door, and the banging and yelling get louder and clearer until Yanigasawa realizes, "That's Takeda-san!"
The three rush up the rest of the stairs, only to find the roof door locked by a plunger stuck between the handles. A strong gust of wind gets through the door edges and blasts past them ominously. Could there really be some kind of Ghostly Plumber taking revenge on the dormitory building? After all, the janitor who happens to do all the on-site plumbing repairs would be an ideal target for such a vengeful visitor from the afterlife, wouldn't he?
They quickly remove the plunger, and open the door for Mr. Takeda. He thanks them, and then Sudou hands him the plunger, "This must be yours."
The janitor stares at the plunger, "No, mine has a green handle, not a gold one."
"And so we're 'plunged' deeper into mystery...Pft."
"What were you doing on the roof at this time of night, Takeda-san da ne?" Yanigasawa asks quickly, almost cutting off the punster.
"Well, the hose on the roof is broken, so the sprinkler system won't work. Until I can fix it, I have to carry water from the washrooms to here and water the plants manually." He holds up the buckets for them to see, "And I'm doing it at night so I won't disturb any students trying to enjoy the gardens."
The three teens huddle and whisper as the confused custodian watches on, "See?" Sudou say smugly, "The water was from Takeda-san carrying water. No plumber ghost."
"Then where did the plunger come from da ne? There is a plumber ghost da ne."
"So we can't agree on 'water' or not there's a ghost. Pft."
Sudou gives his teammate a leveling glance, then all three straighten and turn back to the maintenance worker, "Anyways, we're suppose to tell you that the shower on the second floor by the other stairs is overflowing."
The older man's back starts to ache just thinking about it, taking the opportunity to complain about the heavy lifting he did earlier too, "I don't think I have the energy to deal with that tonight." He hands a set of keys to Yanigasawa by a small key with a large 'B' on it, "You boys don't mind helping out an old man right? God down to the basement and turn off the water system labeled '2A'? This place is real high tech fancy-smancy, so a flip of a switch will do it. I'll put up an 'out of order' sign and vacuum up the water in the washroom itself."
"You might not want to do that da ne!" The Saint Rudolph doubles player exclaims, concerned for the safety of the old man, "The ghost plumber from the second floor might be after you da ne!"
"That's ridiculous!" The janitor laughs. Sudou grins, finally, someone capable of using logic. Or not, "The Phantom Plumber's in the basement. Drop the keys off under my door once you're done, all right?"
The three tennis players stare at the old custodian's back as he heads off down the hall. A dust mite that has always had aspirations of one day becoming a tumbleweed sees its chance and blows past them. "The Plumber Ghost is in the..." Yanigasawa stares at the little key labeled with a suddenly ominous 'B' in his hand, "...the basement da ne."
"Mister plumber took a wrench..." Dabide sings, rather tastelessly as they descend the stairs into the basement, "And filled Miss Mary's head with dents..."
"I don't want to hear it da ne!" Yanigasawa exclaims, hurrying ahead in front of the other two, covering his ears with his hands.
Dabide pays no mind and continues with his new version of the morbid song, rather proud of himself for coming up with it so quickly, "When he saw what he had done; he gave himself another one!"
"Ahh!" Yanigasawa suddenly drops from view, so shocked he didn't even manage to get in a da ne. The two Rokkaku boys rush down the remainder of the flight of stairs, only to find the other boy sprawled on his ass on the basement floor, his left leg twitching pathetically. Were this a cartoon, he would likely have little yellow duckies floating around his head.
"I thought it was spring, not 'fall'." Dabide quips.
Sudou looks at the younger boy incredulously, "I thought you were going to say 'Did you have a nice 'trip'?"
Dabide considers his upperclassman's suggestion a moment, before declaring seriously, "That cliched pun would be a 'false step'. Pft."
Yanigasawa wishes his head didn't hurt so. Sudou wishes Kurobane were here to get his partner in line. Dabide still kind of wishes he had pants on, but he was getting used to it. However, all of them were soon to wish that the cause of the Saint Rudolph boy's fal had been simple clumsiness. But no, the reason is the puddle of water on the cement basement floor he had unknowingly slipped on in his rush.
Once Yanigasawa gets up, the three of them try to find the water control switch, huddling together, trying not to be too freaked out by the fact that they're walking through a good half inch of water. Despite their fears, they find what they're looking for with no problem and switch it off.
"Can we go back to our rooms now?" Amane asks. He'd gotten colder in the basement, and could really go for some clothes right about now.
"We still have to get these keys back to Takeda-san." The Saint Rudolph boy reminds the other boys.
The trio are more than happy to get out of that water logged basement. once they're back up in the halls, Dabide attempts to lighten the mood. he points to Ducky's backside, which is dark with water from his recent encounter with the basement floor, "Yanigasawa-san 'wet' himself. Pft."
The strange-lipped player leans over to Sudou and asks quietly, "Is he always like this da ne?"
Dabide shuffles about, trying to lean in enough to hear what the older boys are whispering about, but he can't seem to succeed. Sudou thinks about it a moment, then responds, "Actually, I think he's doing it more than normal tonight. Don't know why though."
"Ah, I see da ne." The two straighten up and go back to walking as though they hadn't been doing anything out of the ordinary.
"You shouldn't talk behind my back when I'm behind your--" Dabide jolts upright, since someone or something just tapped his shoulder. The other boys turn to look at him quizzically, since one doesn't often hear Amane Hikaru start a pun and leave it hanging. All they can see though is the rather scared looking boy standing there.
Then, the kindly, but short frame of Ms. Matsuei, the residence dean, slips into view from behind the red-head. The three boys share a sigh of relief, although Sudou quickly hides his. Yanigasawa points out the obvious, "It's just Matsuei-san da ne."
"Where are you boys off to at this time of night?" She inquires politely, "There's only 10 minutes left until curfew, don't you know?"
"It's that late all ready?" Sudou asks. When exactly had they said curfew was again? Ten? Ten-thirty? Time sure flies when you're being dragged on wild goose chases by a crazy duck-billed boy.
"This is a special case da ne. We were running an errand for Takeda-san, and now we have to return his keys da ne." Yanigasawa holds up the keychain so the older woman can see it.
"I'll give you ten minutes after curfew, although I don't expect you'll need it," She takes a better look at the trio, and remembers the be-toweled redhead from earlier in the evening, "You! Not only a positive attitude after your change of locations and the incident in the bath, but lending a helping hand. What a wonderful young man. Have a lolli."
She pulls a tootsie roll out of a pocket and hands it to the redhead. She smiles with her eyes closed and waves serenely to them as they head out the door. Of course, once they step outside, the atmosphere isn't half as cheery. The bulb lighting the entry way flickers, it will probably need replacing soon. The Saint Rudolph student leads them off the paved, lit path that leads to the gates, and instead brings them over an unlit path, unpaved, only a path at all because it is worn into the ground from use. It winds around the side of the complex, hugging tightly to the metal exterior.
The path is squished between the building and a decorative hedge garden, the branches catching on Sudou and Yanigasawa's clothing, and scratching up Dabide's bare skin. The clothed two are really aggravated when they had to stop for a moment for the younger boy to rescue his towel from the grip of a particularly stubborn twig.
The trio moves on, not even the punster wanting to break the silence. The atmosphere is dark, and even Sudou, who keeps insisting he doesn't believe the ghost tale, can't help but feel chills coursing through him. As the path goes round the corner of the dorm, it also starts to move away from the safety of the building, sloping upwards at the same time.
The three students look up the small hill and see a small metal trailer framed by the black skeletons of trees that are only just starting to bud. The wind rustles through the bare branches ominously. It also blows past the boys, forcing Amane to hold the towel down over his bare bottom.
"Maybe you should have gotten dressed before coming out here, Amane-kun." Sudou is shivering himself, and he's wearing pants and a short sleeved top, not a towel.
"Not that a dress would help much." Amane puns, determined to keep making jokes, no matter how creepy things got, until one of these two finally reacts to one. Which they don't, ignoring him just like every other time that night.
"Let's not put this off any longer da ne." Yanigasawa starts walking towards the dingy little trailer.
"This is it, right, we just drop these off then we can go back to our rooms like none of this happened, right?"
The Saint Rudolph student nods. The short trip to the trailer door seems to take three times as long as it should. Yanigasawa blinks, "Strange da ne. The lights are on, could Takeda-san be back all ready da ne?"
Instead of just slipping the keychain under the door as the others had hoped he would, he knocks on the door. Even though he van hear the television, there is no response, "Takeda-san da ne? Are you in da ne?"
Sudou shrugs, "So, he's not in yet. He must still be vacuuming up the mess. Just slip the keys under the door, and then we can go back inside."
"What, is the one who didn't believe there's a ghost scared now da ne?"
"Not a ghost of a chance. Pft."
"If I'm scared, which I'm not really willing to grant, but if I was, it's not because of some super natural plumber. I'm cold, and I want to go back inside, is that so wrong?"
"Then get up on Amane-san's back and just check and see if you can see Takeda-san through the window da ne." Yanigasawa doesn't want to admit that, since the whole ghost thing, he is rather afraid for the kindly old janitor.
"You've got to be kidding me. Just slip the keys under the door so we can go." Sudou replies indignantly, glaring at the strange-lipped boy.
"I'm not putting the keys under until you look to see if takeda-san is there and ok da ne." Yanigasawa puts the key ring into his pocket and cross his arms. The two boys glare at each other for a moment.
"Fine!" Sudou declares. He gets his teammate to go over tot he side of the trailer, and he gets up on the redhead's back. He peers into the window. At first, the light blinds his night-adjusted eyes. He squints and tries to spot anything that could be a certain old custodian.
Finally, his eyes start to adjust tot he well-lit interior. He scans the rather shabby inside, and finally, in front of a TV flickering with static, Sudou spots a form slumped on a worn lazy-boy chair.
He puts his hands on the trailer and leaves his face against the window to help him peer in. He definitely recognizes the person in the chair as the old man from before. Just as Sudou identifies the janitor, his head lulls to the side limply, allowing the Rokkaku boy a good look at the face. If he had thought that Takeda-san was just asleep, he's now no longer so certain... since the man's eyes are still open!
"WAH!" Sudou exclaims in shock, shoving himself away from the window in horror. To stop them both from falling over, Dabide has to grab hold of his upperclassman's legs and scramble to regain his balance and footing. Unfortunately, this is rather bad for his ability to hold his towel up, and the younger boy finally loses his balance when he loses the towel, sending the two Rokkaku boys tumbling down to the ground with a loud thump.
Yanigasawa proceeds to laugh his ass off, "That was hilarious da ne! You look so ridiculous da ne!"
"How can you laugh when I've 'bared' my soul for you?" Amane stands up and puts his towel back on, far more dignified than the situation would suggest.
However, Sudou's not ready to laugh or make jokes, "Guys, we need to be serious here!"
Yanigasawa is sobered a bit by how freaked out the normally rather calm Rokkaku player is acting, "What is it da ne? What did you see da ne?"
"I don't want to jump to any conclusions but--well at first I thought he was sleeping but--"
"But what da ne?"
"...But his eyes were open."
"Open?" Dabide is so shocked he doesn't even think to pun. Yanigasawa meanwhile, is entirely speechless, "You mean he's--"
"I didn't say that! I mean, I don't know..."
"It's the ghost da ne..."
"There is no ghost!" Sudou protests, although he's no longer certain how convinced of that fact he is, "There's no such thing. Something else must have happened, I mean, he's kind of old..."
"Not that old da ne! He wouldn't just die like that da ne! He was fine when we saw him earlier da ne!" Yanigasawa yells, refusing to believe that the gentle janitor could be gone.
An awkward silence follows. What could anyone really say? During this profound quiet, all three boys hear loud rustling from the bushes behind the trailer. They look at each other wide-eyed. Another crinkling, then another. A deep murmur that sounds an awful lot like a voice...
The tennis players go into an urgent huddle, "That's it da ne. I don't' want to end up like Takeda-san da ne. Let's go inside like we never saw anything da ne!"
"The ghost was inside first, since you think that's what's going on, would that really be any safer? I think we should check out that noise."
"One wants to split, the other wants to split up..." Not even Dabide finds the humour in his pun.
"This isn't scooby doo, ro a bad horror film. There's no fucking way we're splitting up. Safety in numbers."
"If it's a murder like you seem to think, then I want to check it out even less da ne."
"Oh, I guess I was mistaken. I thought you care about Takeda-san, and would want to do what you could for him." Sudou says, purposefully just trying to get a rise out of the other third year.
"Ghost da ne."
"Murder."
"Ghost da ne!"
"Murder!"
Dabide watches the two older boys. Frankly, he doesn't care whether it's a ghost or a murderer, or a wild ANIMAL anymore. All he knows is he's cold, he's tired, and these two are simply incapable of enjoying a good pun. The redhead breaks the huddle, and treks around the trailer.
"Amane-kun!" Sudou quickly takes off after his younger teammate.
Yanigasawa looks around a moment, suddenly left alone... with a potential murderous ghost at large... He chases after the Rokkaku boys, "Wait for me da ne!"
The tennis players proceed in that manner, single file, into the woods. Despite the rustling from only a moment ago, the forest is now deathly silent. Dabide finds a small space between the tress, far too small to be a clearing, but at least big enough for the three of them to fit in with a bit of space to spare.
"We've been all around the back now," Sudou points out, "Maybe it was just an animal, a coincidence.
Dabide, still holding his towel up with one hand, bends over and picks something up off the ground. He straightens, still facing away from the older boys, without showing them whatever it is that he found. Quite calmly, he declares, "Sempai, we have been stalking... A stocking," He whirls to face them, a woman's beige, knee high nylon in his hand, "Pft."
Sudou rolls his eyes, then examines Dabide's finding, "Still, there's something really strange about this. That looks clean, not like it's been out in the woods a while..."
He doesn't get to complete his evaluation since behind them a twig snaps. There is silence, and then the sound of another snap, closer.. then a third, right behind the boys. Sudou feels a large hand on his shoulder, and he screams. The other boys join in, screaming along as well.
"Calm down." Says the obviously flesh-and-blood man before them. A man in a rather expensive suit, and fixing his crooked ascot, "I'm Sakaki-sensei from Hyotei Gakuen, not some suspicious person."
"Not suspicious? A Hyotei teacher in the woods behind a Saint Rudolph Dormitory?"
"Sakaki-sensi was counseling me in some matters relating to our new tennis situation here, "Admits a woman, just before she steps into view. It's Watabe-san, the principal that the Rokkaku boys had met earlier in the evening, when they first arrived. Now, however, her hair is loose, her shirt buttoned up wrong, and one of her nylons is missing, "Since he's the coach of the renown Hyotei Tennis team."
"is this the 'appointment' you were late for earlier?" Sudou asks with one eyebrow raised suspiciously, and possibly feeling a little disturbed by the whole situation.
"Never mind that, what are you boys doing out here after curfew?" She asks, triumphantly, hoping any suspicions about her will be forgotten in their own guilt.
"We were helping Takeda-san da ne. Matsuei-san gave us permission da ne." Yanigasawa explains simply, feeling no guilt at all since he's just doing what was asked of him.
A rather strained silence follows. A rustling in the bushes to their left makes everybody slowly look over. A dark figure breaks through the brush. The boys and the principal scream. Sakaki loosens his ascot a little nervously. When the figure comes into full view, the boys scream again, but Mrs. Watabe is relieved, "Oh, it's just Takeda-san."
The old janitor rubs his eyes a little in disbelief. What are all these people doing behind his trailer? "What's all the screaming and yelling back here about? Don't you folks know what time it is?"
The trio of tennis players rub their eyes a little in disbelief, "Takeda-san, you're alive da ne!"
"Of course I'm alive. What on earth would make you think any differently?"
"But, I saw you in your trailer, slumped over with your eyes open!" Sudou exclaims, starting to put a little more stock into Yanigasawa's belief in ghosts.
"Oh, that. It happens sometimes when I'm sleeping and really stressed. In fact, I have prescription eye drops for when my eyes are all dry after, I had to take them just now before coming out here to check what the ruckus was."
"Well now, that's that. Now boys, I don't care if you have permission or not, it's not safe to be out in the woods after dark. I want you all to go back inside right this instant. There could be perverts out here!"
The three boys just look at the three adults, possibly trying to decide which is weirder. Finally, Sakaki gets annoyed at their passivity, and orders, "Itte yoshi!" signaling down with two fingers.
The trio shrug and file back towards the dorms, not without Sudou giving Sakaki a funny look on his way by though.
"I still think there's something funny going on here da ne." Yanigasawa declares on they're out of ear shot.
"I told you there's no such thing as ghosts. Especially not plumber ghosts." Sudou replies.
The two start bickering again. Dabide just sighs, "This argument has life after death. Pft."
Outcome Report
Sakaki Tarou. Hyotei middle school's music teacher and tennis coach. This night doesn't have much effect on him at all. He went home afterwards and had a strawberry bubble bath. It was very relaxing.
Watabe C. Mistuko. Saint Rudolph Catholic Institute's Principal. She has denied that the events of this night ever occurred. Although, notably, she never wore stockings again.
Takeda Shou. Saint Rudolph Catholic Institute's Custodian. He still lives in his run-down old trailer. He has since taken up Yoga as a form of stress relieve, to try and prevent any further sleeping with his eyes open.
Amane 'Dabide' Hikaru. Second year at Rokkaku Middle School, staying at Saint Rudolph Catholic Institute due to a series of bizarre circumstances. Since the events of this night, he has finally put on pants.
Sudou Satoshi. Third year at Rokkaku Middle school, also now staying at Saint Rudolph Catholic Institute. That night, he slept with a flashlight on under his blanket.
Yanigasawa Shinya. Third year at Saint Rudolph Catholic Institute. He spent the night rebuilding his origami collection, starting with a well-crafted yellow duck.
Phantom Plumber.
Second floor or basement, real or not, this legend is still unconfirmed in any way.
That chapter is doooooooone. This is a bit more like the way the story's always supposed to be... insane! Stupid set-up chapters. Drop a line, because I'm going to need hella courage to tackle the ideas I have for the next chapter.
slowly going insane...