It only takes one small thing to set something off, for Renko this was no exception. They were walking down a quiet part of Kyoto, after Maribel's appointment for her condition. Something the blonde suggested although Renko wanted to say no and go straight back to the campus, but quickly gave in due to having next to no stubbornness towards her friend. Such tranquility the two were given, birds chirping in various trees, the sound of leaves rustling in the wind, in the far distance someone breaking planks of wood. Instantly, Renko froze immediately. Maribel soon followed suit, although not as suddenly as she turned to Renko a little confused until she saw the frightened look on her friend's face.

"Renko?"

She didn't respond, her eyes widening and face draining of colour. Maribel immediately realised what is happening and rushed to her friend's side. Who suddenly shut her eyes as she placed her hands over them to block out what she was seeing. However, it only made it worse. The memory of the shrine, old wood flooring. Falling. The sound of her own screaming filled her head. She looked around, the moonlit rocks replaced with a dark lavender colour, verging on black. But that wasn't what terrified her. It was the many eyes surrounding her, all looking in her direction. Rather disgusting looking, Renko was repulsed at the sight of them. Their disgusting stare bore into her as if they could look into her mind. She turned in hopes of getting them out of her sight, however, she turned to face one that was up close to her. Renko could only stare in disgusted terror, fearing to look away in case another eye caught her attention that was even more grotesque. She shrieked as a hand shot out of the pupil of the eye, disfiguring the iris as it shifted to accommodate the limb. Dark Indigo in colour, the arm continued to reach out in an alarming speed. Stopping once it gripped Renko's right shoulder harshly. Another arm appeared as the same rate as the one before. The sickly colours, the pupil, the iris bleed together at the base of the arms before a figure emerged, covered in a gooey purple substance. The free hand found Renko's head and instantly a heavy burning sensation filled her senses. She wanted to scream out, but no voice came, instead wincing in pain as she tried to wriggle free of whatever was doing this. Grasping at the silhouette, but her fingers sank through the gooey substance as if it were slime. The hands kept their strength as she continued to free herself, albeit struggling less and less as her energy is sapped. Then nothing, the hand on her head released. But it wasn't a second later when she felt searing pain tear through her shoulder, blacking out a moment later due to the immense pain.

"Renko!"

She immediately snapped out of her trance. Thrown back into reality as she jolted awake. She threw her head up too quickly as the back of her head collided with one of the metal bars on the fence behind her. If Maribel's voice didn't bring her back, this certainly will as the metallic twang resonated through her head, ringing in her ears as her vision became dizzy. Renko winced in pain, rubbing the back of her head as she realised that she was sitting.

"Are you ok Renko?"

"Yeah, I think. A little dazed though. Why-"

"Why we are sitting on the ground? When you had your episode, you kept leaning in all sorts of directions, so I dragged you here. When I say dragged, I had to pull you as you were adamant to stay where you were. I finally managed to get you here and you immediately went into a fetal position, muttering something about a void. You also muttered something about eyes as well."

Renko rested her head on her arms and sighed.

"It wasn't...the accident you were thinking of, was it?"

She didn't answer, but Maribel took this as a sign that she was right. That time at the abandoned shrine was anything other than ordinary. The weird shift in atmosphere, her strange visions. Renko's injury to add on top of that. The fall would have caused some injury, a broken bone at least as it wasn't very deep. But once the paramedics lifted her out, her injury looked far worse than what it should have been. Maribel physically gagged once she knew what the injury was and promptly asked if her friend was going to be alright. Maribel sighed as she saw Renko reach for her previously injured shoulder in comfort and lay her own hand on top of Renko's. She knew for something like that to happen, you need to fall a number of feet that would kill you as soon as you hit the ground. So why did Renko receive an injury like that?

Maribel looked behind her, past the iron fence that separates them from the cliff edge to see the sun starting to set. She turned back to Renko as she removed her hand from Renko's as she proceeded to stand.

"It's going to get dark soon. Do you want to head back, Renko?"

Renko looked up from staring at the ground a little expectantly. She nodded her head and grasped Maribel's outstretched hand to stand up, grabbing the fence behind her for balance. Once she was standing, she felt something was missing. Renko reached up and realised her hat wasn't on her head, only to notice Maribel holding it with both hands. Renko smiled as she let Maribel place the fedora on her head, fixing the orientation a little until she was satisfied. But she didn't move her hands, keeping them on the fedora a little longer than necessary. Then moving her hands so they were resting on either side of Renko's face, lifting it up slightly so they were face to face. Renko placed her hands on top of Maribel's as she leaned forwards so that their foreheads were touching, eyes closed as they embraced the silence around them before letting go and returning to their dorms.