Three days after the attack, students who had attended had been making quite a buzz. The press had done their best to calm the public but it was a work in progress. Parents were advised that children should not re-attend and to find a different alternative. But authorities assured all of the concerns.

'Rest assured. We have speculated some type of animal had tackled these students while they were visiting the basement. No evidence shows itself why the students went down there but, one's things for sure: we will find whatever did this and-'

The television clicks off as Mifuyu puts it beside her, glancing at her phone. An hour before noon. She gets up and stretches, soon straightening out her light green blouse. She rubs her tired eyes and puts her cell phone in her back jean pocket, walking down the steps down to the living room. Hina blinks up from reading her book and frowns, a worried look starting to form.

"Mifuyu, did you do what I suggested?" Hina asks.

Mifuyu nods, putting two hands on her hips. "Yep. I called him and scheduled an appointment for next Wednesday. He seemed...welcoming." She mumbles that last part, looking to her left.

"Well of course he would be, Mifuyu! You haven't seen him in a couple of weeks. So I'm sure he's worried." Mifuyu doesn't say anything and shrugs, walking toward the front door as she grabs her brown coat, throwing it over her arms. "I'm gonna go to my meeting. I'll be back later."

"Please be safe! Do you have your-?"

The door slams shut before Hina could finish that sentence. She quickly walks down the steps and walks to her left, instead of usually leaving for her right to the school. Her heels clicked against the sidewalk, walking past a few civilians as she was approaching the town. Regardless of what had happened, life still continued. People were still tending to their jobs, family, and whatever normalcy they have. The ravenette kept her gaze trained forward but was off lost in her own thought.

'Mauled and drained of their blood…'

Mifuyu remembers the articles she was reading for the past couple of days. They kept updating with whatever new information was relevant and most of it was press talking...but the death still remained the same, just now more detailed. She knew she couldn't make out the bodies of the corpses while in shock in the basement. But now knowing what she had missed…

Identities have been revealed to be Izanagi Rei and Hideyoshi Mako. The two men were found mauled and drained of their blood at the scene of the crime. Multiple gash wounds, much like claws, were scarred across their bodies. Both had significant and massive bite marks, teeth unable to be verified. The draining of their blood is a cause yet to be identified.

Mifuyu's right eye twitches in annoyance at how minimal the suspects were but that was to be expected. What kind of person or human would have been able to achieve such a feat? Unless they have incredibly sharp nails, unnatural shark teeth, and the sense of a cannibal. But…those people online, however.

'This is so scary!'

'What could it have been?'

'A crazy psychopath!? A savage animal?'

'A fucking vampire? Werewolves?'

'That's not funny! Don't make fun of this!'

Mifuyu crosses her arms and huffs, doing a small chuckle. "Vampires, eh? It isn't some type of animal...it had to have been a person. The question is what the human body is capable of…?" She mumbles to herself, placing two fingers on her chin. No animal can even get into the basement, right? Unless she looks down there herself. Shaking her head, her phone buzzes. She reaches into her pocket to pull it out to see a text message, a member of the meeting asking if she was coming. Mifuyu quizzically looks at the stupidest question alive and quickly types back an approval, putting it in her pocket. She then spots the recreational center up ahead, up past the old telephone booth.

The ravenette slowly stalks up the stairs of the building and yanks open the big brown doors, peeking her head in. Huh. No one was here. Mifuyu steps inside the tiny lobby and looks to her right to see the mirror that always had fingerprints on them. Guess no one had the time to clean the mirror after the kids were done using them. She opens the next pair of doors and sees a circle of chairs lined up like always. She saw a few people there and one girl with long black hair seemed happy to see her.

"Mifuyu! Oh I'm so glad you're okay!" The older woman says as she runs to her, embracing the already annoyed adolescent. Mifuyu rolls her eyes but pats the woman's back doing a small smile.

"Of course I'm fine, Akino-san. How have you been? How's your son?"

She gently lets go of Mifuyu and sighs, grinning ear to ear. "I get to have him for a weekend finally! He seems to be more comfortable with me and I'm very happy about that...I thought I wouldn't see him again…" She starts to sniffle and Mifuyu places a hand on her shoulder, nodding. "Yeah. You were pretty worried about that. Glad you uh, get to see him. Heh." Akino tilts her head to the side, looking curiously at Mifuyu.

"You're more awkward than usual, Mifuyu. Are you doing okay?"

Mifuyu scoffs and crosses her arms. "I'm doing just fine!" She could feel the seething heat of her ears which aggravates her more.

"...I heard about your school. I'm really sorry for-"

"They were just second-year students. Probably troublemakers." Mifuyu blurts out and looks away as she feels her heart drop like a penny down a well after saying that. Shit.

"Mifuyu…! " Akino attempts to respond but sees a couple of others walk in the room, to which she happily masks her shock to greet. Leaving Mifuyu alone. The ravenette mentally kicks herself in the gut while walking over to her assigned seat. After everyone had arrived, the meeting had begun.

It had only been two hours of talking about problems as usual and nothing to really note. Some had done great in their therapy for their own problems, some didn't- including Mifuyu. Akino does a soft lecture to her after the meet-up to which Mifuyu apologizes sincerely for sounding out of line. Akino mentions her therapist and about seeing him as well and she reassures her that she is.

Mifuyu steps outside the rec center and decides to take her time getting home. She holds her scarred hands in the front of her chest, holding them tightly together as she keeps walking. Why was the noise so loud? The car honks, the sound of people walking and talking- it was all too much. The ravenette quickens her pace occasionally bumping into a few people on the way. She quickly navigates a nearby secluded bench and sits down, one hand holding her head while the other rests on her lap. Her head was killing her.

Everything that was happening was giving her whiplash and she punished herself more the fact she couldn't handle it all at once. Mifuyu takes one deep, deep breath in. Inhaling through the nose and letting out a quiet exhale while she closes her silver eyes, swallowing a lump in her throat. She does this a few more times, the clouds in her head starting to dissipate for the time being.

Mifuyu keeps her left hand on her forehead, rubbing it gently. Those dreams about the murder were getting to her and it was only because she was letting it. Her father always had those kinds of terrors at night whenever he would wake up, yelping out his daughter's name...fearing that whoever it was he put in jail had snatched her away. If he had bad dreams, she would rub his head and he would do the same for her. In some way, this calms the ferocity and she does a heavy sigh, letting her hand drop.

She stares at the sidewalk and her right eye twitches. Wonder what her uncle knew about all this? He did work in the force as a detective so maybe she could ask him...or get the information some other way. One thing's for sure she knew for a fact she was going to get to the bottom of this.

They're just second-year students. Probably troublemakers.

"...Why do I talk like that? They were probably innocent, to begin with. I don't know that for sure, though…" Mifuyu mumbles to herself. The continued walks and talks of other people still audible as they walk past a troubled young girl. "I need to put a cap on my anger or I'll never be able to do what he did…" Mifuyu clicks her tongue and then lets her head rise. It was a cloudy day so it wasn't incredibly sunny.

"Yeah." She says, nodding to herself. It may not be my business...but this just doesn't sit right with me.

Mifuyu then stands and continues to walk back home, shoving hands in her front pockets- back straight in line.

"I'll do what I can. I have to."

…

"You're still looking through those flimsy articles, Yuma-kun?" Kou's voice tiredly rings beside the taller vampire peering at his phone.

"Tch! Don't look at my phone without permission!" Yuma exclaims, getting up from the couch. Kou makes a disappointed face, puffing out his cheeks. "You know vampires are the ones who did it and it was just two measly humans so...why be curious?"

"I dunno. Thought it was fucked up to look at so I looked at it."

"Usually Ruki-kun would be looking at that stuff, ya know."

Yuma groans in annoyance and puts the phone in his pocket. "Alright, I get it! Guess I can't look at this shit because I'm not book-smart." Kou then laughs but then also yells out in agitation. "Aww c'mon Yuumma-kuuun! I was kidding!" Yuma ignores his brother and walks out of the living room, stalking down the hallway.

"Vampires that didn't have blood. That's what caused it. So if we don't have Eve's...is that what'll happen to us?" Yuma pauses for a second in the hallway and takes out his phone to look at the article again. He shakes his head.

"Wouldn't hurt to poke my nose in for a little bit…"