"So, uh, what would you like to do?" Shujinkou asked. He didn't really have much of an interest in any of the events, so he really didn't have anything that he wanted to visit.

"Um…" Yuri closed her eyes and contemplated Shujinkou's question. She didn't pay attention to any of the events, meaning she didn't know what was being offered. "Do you happen to have any suggestions, Shujinkou?"

Shujinkou closed his eyes and tried to remember the many events he came across.

"Well, there are a few cafés around the school," Shujinkou suggested. "There are also some games to play, a dance contest in the gym, a Haunted House…"

Shujinkou noticed Yuri's eyes light up with curiosity once he suggested the Haunted House and instantly remembered that she once mentioned that she was into horror.

"So, you want to check out the Haunted House?" Shujinkou asked.

Yuri smiled and silently nodded her head. Shujinkou himself wasn't too sure about going into the Haunted House, but he couldn't find it in him to protest, considering it wasn't often that Yuri looked so excited. Walking to the other side of the school, Shujinkou and Yuri eventually stumbled upon a much worn out classroom door.

"I think this class may not have had enough money for props," Shujinkou weakly chuckled.

"I don't think the door is like that because of monetary reasons," said Yuri. "I think its appearance is supposed to give off a derelict feel. Perhaps this house has been abandoned for years and is in disrepair or it's a situation where the exterior is a stark contrast to the interior, setting us up for a twist."

"I see…" Shujinkou nodded. "I guess I let the school budget blind me to that fact."

He reached for the door's handle and noticed that the door felt like it could fall off its hinges at anytime. He cautiously opened the door and the two walked into a dark hallway, one wall had a dirtied chalkboard on it and the other was made of dented cardboard.

"So that's how they made a Haunted House out of a single classroom," Shujinkou said, impressed by idea.

"The dark hallway invokes a sense of dread that makes a person start to regret their decision," said Yuri.

"Yeah, all that's missing is…"

The classroom door suddenly slammed itself shut, making the already dark hallway even darker.

"…that," Shujinkou finished, his voice cracking.

"The door closing to imply a supernatural force may be involved," Yuri noted.

"Cliché, but still effective when used right," Shujinkou added. He walked to the cardboard wall to inspect it more closely. "These family pictures on the wall must be the original owners. Something most likely happened to them."

Shujinkou then glanced to his right and noticed Yuri patiently waiting next to an open passageway.

"I believe we discovered the entire story this room has provided us. Shall we move on?" Yuri suggested. Shujinkou nodded his head in agreement and followed Yuri into the next room. There they found the school desks neatly tucked away in a corner behind a dusty and ripped coach. Next to it was a rickety nightstand with a blinking lamp on top of it. The room was filled with the stench of rot, the walls were covered with tattered wallpaper and the closet was sealed off by bricks. Shujinkou then took one step forward and heard a loud creaking sound.

"They're appealing to all senses," Shujinkou thought. Yuri casually walked towards the nightstand and found a book on it. "Whatcha got there?"

Yuri opened the book and turned towards Shujinkou.

"It's a journal that belonged to the previous owner of the house," Yuri answered.

"What's it say?" Shujinkou asked. He watched Yuri quickly flip through the pages of the book, before stopping near the end with an interested look in her eyes.

"The journal is mostly about the owner's personal life and how much maintenance the mansion requires," Yuri said. "But this latest page is different. His writing is different. More erratic."

"Erratic?" Shujinkou repeated.

"This latest entry is states that someone approached him and tried to get him to sell his property. He refused and was left with a cryptic threat," Yuri summarized, flipping through the next pages. "The next few days, strange occurrences started to happen. The crops started to die, the water supply was tainted, etc. Then the worst thing possible happened."

"What happened?" Shujinkou asked.

"His family was killed in a tractor accident," Yuri answered.

"None of those were accidents were they?" Shujinkou shook his head.

Yuri nodded her head in agreement and continued to read.

"The owner thought that too and invited the potential buyer over to talk business," said Yuri. "This part is where his writing became really erratic."

"What do you mean?" Shujinkou asked, approaching Yuri. He quizzically looked down at the book tucked between her hands and couldn't believe what he saw. The pages were covered in different colored stains and the writing was almost impossible to read. "I think erratic is putting it nicely… What happened next?"

"The owner stopped writing as soon as soon as he heard the doorbell ring," Yuri read. "He capped off his final entry with three final words."

"WE'RE GOING TO HELL!"

The closet door burst open, sending the bricks flying and a man wearing bloodied overall and a shattered glasses walked out with a broken hockey stick. After the two of them spent an entire minute screaming, Shujinkou instinctively moved in front of Yuri as the Owner removed his glasses.

"Hoped you enjoyed Class 7's Haunted House," the "Owner" grinned.

Moments later, Shujinkou rested on a bench to catch his breath. Deep down he knew that the scare would have come from the closet, but the fear still took over.

"It appears that in the end the owner murdered the murderer and took his own life," Yuri concluded. "Perhaps to avoid justice or perhaps to be with his family again."

"So he instantly went for murder?" Shujinkou asked.

"Ah… I did skip over a part," Yuri remembered. "The murderer also employed tactic that psychologically tortured the owner, who himself had a bit of a dark past himself. He was a complex figure, but I thought I should have given a short summary since I wasn't sure how much time we had in there."

"I see…" Shujinkou said, staring at Yuri with a blank expression.

"W-What's wrong?" she timidly asked.

"You know other then the scare, you didn't seem freaked out at all in there. It actually looked like you were enjoying yourself," Shujinkou pointed out.

"Ah… well you could say that I was enjoying the overall atmosphere of the scenario along with the scenario itself," Yuri answered, averting her gaze. "But you probably I'm really weird for that."

"Why would I think that?" Shujinkou chuckled. "A lot of people enjoy horror filled atmospheres. Just because some people's enjoyment of them is more pronounced than others doesn't make them weird, at least I think that."

Yuri breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to Shujinkou with a small smile on her face.

"So, what do you want to do now?" he asked, curious as to what she may pick next.

"Well…" Yuri contemplated the question. "We already did something I wanted, so it would only be fair if you got to choose the next event."

"That's true, but…" Shujinkou wasn't sure what to say. Nothing at the festival interested him enough, but yet he did enjoy the Haunted House, something he didn't expect to happen. Could it be that he was able to enjoy because he was with someone else? Suddenly, the words he told Yuri earlier popped into his head.

"When I said that these things are more fun with friends, I didn't think of how that could apply to me," he thought. He then closed his eyes and thought very hard on what he wanted to do, but nothing in particular popped into his head.

"I… got nothing," Shujinkou admitted. "What about you?"

"Ah…I…" Like before, Yuri carefully considered how to answer the question. After spending an entire minute remaining silent, Yuri answered with, "There's nothing I can think of."

It was at that moment that Shujinkou realized that even though being with friends can make school events fun for people like Yuri and himself, they weren't going to get anywhere if they aren't interested to try anything out. It seems that there was only one thing for them to do to slove their current predicament.

"Let's go find the others," Shujinkou suggested.