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Mai flopped down on the bed in the hotel that they were staying at. She was completely exhausted, and it sucked not being with the others. Being left on the sidelines sucked, but this was the best choice. Not to mention she wouldn't be much help being so drained.

"You look pretty rough." Madoka was in the middle of changing into something a lot more comfortable. They had packed an overnight bag just in case they had to stay. It was good to always be prepared.

"It takes a lot of energy to do back to back dreams. Not to mention astral projecting to figure out where the storage room was." Mai rolled to her side and closed her eyes. "I'm just happy it worked out in the long run."

"I didn't know you were able to do dreams back to back. From what I understood they just came whenever they wanted." Madoka had finished getting dressed and went to sit down on her bed. She took out her phone to look at a couple things.

"It's not recommended that I force the dreams." Mai leaned up off the bed and raised her shirt to show off a massive bruise across her stomach. "I have more of a chance sustaining the injuries of the spirit I'm projecting. It's not as fatal as the ones in the dream, so this one was probably what killed her. Usually, separating the dreams gives time to allow things to heal on the other side. So, by forcing out dream after dream it gives less time and occasionally I have several injuries." Mai hummed thinking for a moment. "It's different though if I'm being one of the people the spirit is killing. That all depends on the malice of said spirit."

Madoka blinked a little shocked as she looked at the bruise. "I mean…I know sometimes injuries can transfer. You shouldn't do dreams back to back. What if something really bad happens?"

Mai laughed and shook her head. "Relax. It always comes in the form of a bruise. The actual wounds can't transfer over. At least from what I've known. I'm pretty good about separating during that time, so I don't get hurt that much."

"Separating? Like what you do for astral projecting?"

She hummed to think about how to actually explain it. "Sort of, but they're two different plains. It's like my own plain connects with the other and we connect for a short time? It's really hard to explain honestly. I know there is a lot of different research, but I think everyone might just be different." She decided to shrug it off and flop back down on her bed. "Anyways, we should sleep. I'm exhausted." Mai rolled back over and closed her eyes to relax. "Goodnight."

"Yeah, goodnight." Madoka smiled as she looked at the young girl. She only got to meet her for a small bit in Japan, but she could tell how much she has grown. Naru is going to be in for a shock.

Mai opened her eyes slowly as she saw the familiar sky and blank plain that had those little floating balls of light. She couldn't help but smile a little seeing them, before turning and glaring at the one who pulled her here. "Gene, you couldn't let me rest? Really? I'm exhausted and this doesn't help."

The young man was standing and had a smile on his face. "That's no way to great your brother-in-law."

Mai let out a groan and hit her forehead with the palm of her hand. "You're not. Why did you call me here?" Usually she is pretty excited to see him, but she was tired. She just wanted to sleep and not deal with his jokes. It's literally all the time.

"I noticed that my brother doesn't know you're in England."

He was stating the most obvious thing and Mai just sighed in frustration. "Of course he doesn't. I'm trying to hide it for as long as possible."

"You might need to help them. It's a little more complicated than just finding a body."

"What? I'm not going. Yasu is there with them. They'll be fine." The case would become complicated if she decided to show up suddenly. Naru wouldn't be able to think of the actual case and probably be more upset with herself.

All the sudden things changed around them, and it always caused her to get a little woozy when it happened. She felt herself lose her balance for only a moment as the plain switched to the room.

"Gene." She started up, but cut herself short when she actually understood where she was. Not to mention what she saw in the room. "What the hell is this?"

"This is what they're about to walk into."

Mai covered her mouth and willed her stomach to calm down. "I don't remember this being part of any of my dreams." She managed to mumble out. She was sure she would remember something like this.

"You were tied up for most of your dreams. You wouldn't be able to see behind you. Not to mention…" He glanced around the room taking in the rest of the room slowly. "These guys have been here for a long time. Most of them are dead though."

Mai went up to the glass and ran her hand across it smoothly. "This case is pretty simple…but the facts of everything is just disturbing."

"It's simple, because the death is still fresh. Imagine what would happen in another couple ten years." Gene walked towards Mai. Stepping on a couple of the dead bugs bodies. Beetles actually. The bugs were beetles that Charlie was messing around for several years. Most likely conditioning them. Which, Gene really didn't want to think of how or what possessed him to do it.

"I need to talk with Yasu." Mai pulled away and closed her eyes to focus back on her body.

"Not going to tell my brother?"

Mai just smiled as she felt herself slowly start to fade away. "Sorry, but it's not time yet."

Gene sighed deeply and shook his head.

Mai slowly opened her eyes and looked at the ceiling for a moment. Her body was exhausted, and it was going to take several minutes for her to move.

Day Four – 5:45 am

Yasu and Lin were in the base watching the monitors. They really didn't need to keep watching though. When everyone eventually wakes up they were going to find the room. Which, was what Yasu was trying to figure out. He was matching the old blueprint to the new one. It looked like that whole hallway got cut off from the house. Which means they might need to break something, but they needed to get permission from the owners.

"Yasu?"

Madoka. He blinked looking at the walkie-talkie that was resting on the table. Yasu glanced at Lin before going to grab it. "What's up?"

"Are you okay?"

Ah. They decided to do something simple in seeing if he was alone, or with Lin. This way it was simple and he could say yes if the others were around. Naru might be suspicious, but no one else would know. "Lin is the only one with me. We're safe."

It was silent for a moment before Mai's voice came through. "Yasu. It's not what we were thinking at all. There are bodies in that room, but I don't think any of them belong to Alivia."

Yasu blinked as he stared down at the walkie-talkie. That made no sense at all. He glanced at Lin who was completely focused on the conversation going on. He looked equally confused. "Does that mean she's buried on the property? Do you have any idea where?"

More silence before Mai's voice came through. It was very shaky, but it sounded like she was trying to calm herself down.

"I'll be honest…I think the beetles ate her."

Both men completely froze at the information. Beetles? They knew there were bugs…but beetles? Lin was the first who managed to move and grabbed the walkie-talkie to talk. "Why do you think they ate her?"

"If the beetles were starving they would eat the bones." There were silence on her end for almost a minute before she continued. "Plus…Charlie kept the bones as trophies. Given the facts of everything and his job…I think Charlie was a serial killer and he used his job to grab the bodies…"

They both didn't know what to say with this information. It was a lot to process and there were still things that made no sense. "Wait, how did he not get caught? There were obviously multiple ways to catch him if he was taking the bodies." Yasu had moved to grab a notebook and Lin had ended up asking the questions.

"Yeah…Madoka and I were trying to figure that out. We made a late night trip to the hospital, because that's where they usually do the autopsies. Apparently, after Charlie died a lot of things came to light about his identity. He had a few people who had helped him out at the hospital. One was in security, apparently he was having an affair with her. It would explain the lack of evidence with the cameras. The other was the guy who was running autopsy. Apparently, at one point in his life he was studying beetles. I'm pretty sure those are the same as the ones Charlie was using. There was a police report, but it really didn't say much of what happened or if anyone got caught. They had their suspicions, but after Charlie died they looked around the house. They couldn't find anything."

"Wait. How do you know where the storage area is then?"

"The place I circled is the area that has the underground passage. I'm pretty sure there is a door on the floor that leads down there. The first time when I tried to find it that was as far as I could go. It's got to be somewhere in there."

Lin sighed deeply shaking his head. "What the hell did we get ourselves into?"

Yasu had written everything down in the notebook he had brought. "Ask her how she thinks we can get Alivia to move on." Lin nodded and asked the question.

"Honestly, I think she just wants to be found. You guys got lucky that you didn't take the case when her spirit's malice turned worst. She should still be at the stage where she can pass on easy enough."

"There is nothing to be found though." Yasu had stood up and toke the walkie-talkie back.

"At this point I think her spirit is more of attached to that room and to the people her husband killed. Honestly, I think we just need to go to the police. Let them take over and she should pass on willingly after that."

The two men glanced at each other and nodded. "We'll talk to Naru about all of this once he wakes up. It shouldn't be that long now until he is awake."

"What do you need to talk to me about?"

The two completely froze for a moment as they looked towards the door. They should have realized Naru was going to wake up sooner rather than later. Mai was more than likely going to talk again, but it'll be in English. So, he shouldn't figure it out right away. Right?

"You guys can let me know if you need me to call the police. I don't know if your phones work yet or not."

It was Madoka. They were safe and confused why it switched. They would ask her later what had happened to Mai.

"Sounds good." Lin replied to not draw any more attention from Naru.

Yasu walked over to hand Naru the notebook he was writing in. The other gave him a questioning look before looking down and reading. He was silent as he walked to his chair and sit down. "We'll wait until the others are awake and pack up. You guys can start now though…"

The other two got to work and paid no mind to the other. Naru glanced at the other two before flipping the notebook to the first page. He blinked as he looked down at the entry. It wasn't Yasu's handwriting he noted as he read. The whole thing was like a series of events that must have happened at one point. He frowned as he tapped his fingers against his desk.

There was only one person he could think of who have had that sort of psychic power. Which made no sense, since those powers have probably long since vanished. There was no way it was her. This was probably someone else.

Day Four – 10am

They had everything packed up in the vans and were watching the huge mess that was the house. The police had come several hours before and from the looks of things had found the room that they had explained. The clients and the people who were living in the house were talking to the police. Basically, their work was done.

Yasu and Lin walked over to Madoka who was one the phone talking to something. "I think I'll go back with her, since we technically are heading in the same direction." Yasu glanced at the car eyeing it for a moment. "Where is she?"

"She's in the backseat sleeping. Her body was just completely exhausted and she's basically been asleep since after your conversation." Madoka was very worried when she was suddenly handed the walkie-talkie this morning and Mai basically flopped on the bed and was out in seconds. They were up for most of the night getting all the data, so she really didn't blame her.

"She probably overused her powers these last twenty four hours. I don't blame her." Lin was pretty impressed with the young woman. She basically did their whole case for them without even stepping foot in the house. He couldn't help but wonder about the cases that happened in Japan.

Naru was with the others as they had their own questions about what was happening. He was ignoring them for the moment, as his attention was on the other group. They were hiding something and he was very much curious about what was happening. Considering Yasu was here and Lin seemed to be interested in everything…his mind kept going to one person. Which made no sense at all. There was literally no way she could be here.

It had to be someone else.

-EEEEEE-

Naru had been sitting in his desk since he got back from the office. He had taken the notebook that had all the information from the case. Just staring. It's been almost two hours and all he has been doing in staring.

The writing was all in English, and he was trying desperately to connect the writing with anyone. If it was someone from Japan there was already an issue. One, he couldn't read kanji so he never actually read anything that anyone wrote. Lin had always read everything to him.

It couldn't be her.

There was no way she would be going to Cambridge, with Yasu. Her powers probably left her after Gene's body left Japan. Plus, Parapsychology was different than just ghost hunting. There were a lot of different layers to the subject. Ghost hunting was only a very small part.

It would make sense for her to just move on and get a regular job. Move on…

He gripped the notebook as he stared down at the words. Everyone just seemed to melt together.

He didn't understand why it made him upset that she would just turn her back. Moving on from that path…

Moving on from him.

He grind his teeth at the very thought and threw the notebook in the trash. The feelings made no sense at all. He had no idea why that thought even crossed through his brain.

It wasn't her.

He left her there in Japan. Of course she would move to a new path. A new life without ghost hunting or him.

He brought his hand up and ran it through his hair just trying to make sense of his thoughts. He has thought about this when he came to England. He knew what he was doing.

Why did it all feel wrong though? It's always felt wrong. He just didn't know what to with everything he was feeling. It's been five years. He should be over everything that happened in Japan.

-EEEEEE-

Mai yawned as she walked out of her room. She went to head for the fridge intending to get a bottle of water. She was thirsty and still very exhausted. Powers were draining.

"Oh! Look who is up!" Madoka came right up from behind her.

Mai was still in her half daze of sleep didn't really react. "Oh. Hi." She mumbled as she opened the bottle to take a sip.

The older woman just blinked and looked at the two men on the couch. "I was expecting a scream or something."

"I'm way too tired for that." She moved to where their living room was and flopped down on one of the chairs. "I don't remember coming back to the apartment though. When did that happen?"

Yasu was working on some of the homework from the class they had missed. Lucky for them it was Friday and they had basically all weekend to rest and do it all. Which, they probably only need half a day. "It was about a couple hours or so. We stopped at Cambridge so I could pick up our assignments. Martin really missed you in class. Said debates weren't the same."

Mai laughed as she drained the rest of the water in the bottle. She was thirsty, now that she thinks about it hungry too. "Did you happen to make any food?"

"We brought pizza. It's in the fridge." Lin had been working on something on his laptop. Actually, it was just a bunch of e-mails that he needed to go through.

"Oh my gosh. Pizza. I need." Mai managed to get up, which was probably the wrong move as she flopped back down. "Ugh." She groaned as she laid her head back. Her head was swirling at the sudden movement and it sucked.

However, it was Lin that was suddenly in front of her. "Are you okay?" He even went so far as putting a hand on her forehead. Probably to check for a fever or something from overusing her powers.

"She just needs food. I'll get her some of the pizza." Yasu left his seat and went to the kitchen. "Usually I force her to eat when I can during cases and her using her powers. With everything that happened I guess it was just forgotten."

"So this is normal?" He decided it should be fine if he went back to his seat for the moment, but he was going to keep his eye on Mai.

"It's like running or doing any sort of exercise. You use way too much energy you have to basically fill it back up?" Mai blinked a couple times just trying to stop from feeling so dizzy. Which was a very wrong move, because there were colors everywhere. So many colors it was overloading her senses and she just needed to close her eyes again. Of course she couldn't focus enough to calm down the auras around her. Which was just annoying.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Madoka had come up beside her this time. She, of course, was very worried about her. If she would have known she would have stuff food down Mai's throat herself.

"I'm fine. I just can't concentrate enough to calm down the auras. If I open my eyes it's just a blast of colors, but it's not that bad if my eyes are closed."

"She'll be fine. Just give her some room and some space to eat." Yasu came over with a plate with a pile of pizza slices and set it in her lap.

"Wait, I thought she could sense the auras better with her eyes closed?" Madoka was trying to think of all the times they had talked about Mai's powers.

"It's easier to focus on one person's aura that way. Having your eyes open is a whole new ball game. From what Mai has told me anyways." Yasu just wanted the other to eat, so it should be fine for him to answer the questions. "I'm trying to think of a good example, but I'm not really coming up with anything. I guess glasses? Mai basically has to put on invisible glasses just to see what is happening with the world. Take the glasses off and it's like everything is one big blur of colors."

"I think it makes sense enough, but wouldn't it be easy to just train the power more? If that's the case, then it sounds really easy for her to just be completely overwhelmed from it." Madoka was in deep thought trying to think over all the information.

"I get overwhelmed by it most of the time. It's not permit and that's what I really need. The monks didn't know what to do with something so intense, so I've been trying to train. Nothing we do works though. Just us going around in circles." Mai was already starting on her fourth slice of pizza. She was pretty hungry and this peperoni pizza was super good. She needed to figure out where they got it from.

Lin, who was being silent the whole time, finally talked after thinking through things. "Maybe I can help?