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It was a couple of minutes later that Naru opened the door to the Base, allowing Lin and the others, who had returned from whatever duties he had assigned them, in.

Without prompting, Lin immediately took the camera and recorder, and began to go through them to see whether any clear evidence had been caught during the EVP session.

While Naru sat in silence, Mai told the others about what had happened, along with her own thoughts on the matter.

"So you actually saw him…" Bou-san frowned.

"What's wrong?"

Bou-san shook his head. "It just feels like Jack is…upping up his game. It also seems like he's getting stronger and stronger as time goes by. I don't like it."

John seemed to agree with him. "It is as if Jack is preparing himself for something big," he stated, only to have Bou-san nod in agreement.

"But what's he getting ready for?" wondered Ayako.

The others shrugged, unsure. Jack was such a bizarre spirit, they all knew that he could be planning anything, but…what could that anything be? And the bigger question perhaps, was, would they be able to stop him?

"Noll."

"Have you found something?" Naru was immediately at Lin's side, and was quickly handed the headphones Lin was offering. Naru put them on and waited while Lin pressed some keys. Naru both watched and listened intently, a small frown appearing on his face.

It seemed he and Mai had succeeded in gathering quite a bit of evidence. Lin beckoned the others over, and they crowded around eagerly.

They heard Mai's voice come out of the speakers, deeper than it normally was due to the way Lin had enhanced it. 'Shin-nii, are you here?' Then they heard Naru's voice, reporting a spike in EMF.

'…Ma…i…'

The team looked at one another, amazed. Mai blinked, evidently surprised.

"Did he- Did he just say my name?"

"That is what it sounds like," said Lin with a nod.

Yasuhara frowned. "Or did he say 'hai'? They both do sound really similar."

" 'Mai' or 'Hai', they're both relevant and intelligent answers," said Naru.

They heard Mai asking her brother to come closer to them, and then Naru saying the EMF was getting higher, as well as reporting a temperature drop. Mai then asked Shin why he was haunting Akira.

'No… I'm… ng _ _ck…'

The group frowned, and they all closed their eyes and listened intently as Lin played that bit again, knowing they hadn't caught it.

"Oh! 'No, I'm haunting Jack'!" exclaimed Bou-san suddenly.

Naru's eyes widened and then narrowed. Was that what he had said? He had heard something else. "Lin, play it once more."

Lin complied, played the sequence again, and noted how everyone was listening closely, trying to hear what the monk had heard.

"He's right," said Naru abruptly. "Apparently, we have a spirit haunting another spirit." He wasn't entirely surprised. He'd already been thinking that earlier, but this was the confirmation he'd been wanting.

"Is that possible?" asked Mai with a frown.

"It is rare, but not unheard of."

They continued to listen. They heard Mai ask Shin whether he knew what had happened to Ryou and Mai. They got another response.

'I… couldn'_ pro_ _ct th_m…'

Though they couldn't hear it clearly, it was pretty obvious what was being said. Everyone looked at a teary eyed Mai. Her dream had been accurate then. Ryou and May were definitely gone for good. Lin decided it was probably best to continue, and did just that.

They heard Naru's voice, once again enhanced, ask Shin about what had happened the day he had died, and what had occurred after he had told Mai to run.

'Aki_ _ sho_ _ _. _ tri_ _ _ run, _ _ _ Jac possess _. _ _ was_ _ Akira, but Mai w_s _ _fe. Tha_ _as goo_.'

"Wha-? That sounds like gibberish," said Ayako.

"It isn't." Naru seemed to have figured it out. 'Akira shot me. I tried to run, but Jack was possessing him. It wasn't Akira, but Mai was safe. That was good'."

"And that's why Shin-nii's after Jack," said Mai slowly, suppressing a sob.

And more, thought Naru, proof that the person who had kidnapped Mai was a possessed Akira, and not a possessed teenager, as they had been thinking. The reason they'd been thinking that was because witnesses had described a teenager skulking around at the time of the kidnapping, but perhaps they'd been suspecting Shin all along.

The questioning for Suzaku then began, and though their equipment hadn't picked anything up, their recorder had. A voice did come through, and it was such an odd voice that Mai didn't even have to tell them didn't belong to her uncle for them to realize it.

'I killed him… I ate him… He's gone!'

The voice had come through so clearly that it had even surprised Naru, who hadn't heard a Class A EVP in a long time.

"I knew it," said Mai softly. "I knew he didn't commit suicide. Jack-he killed him too."

They then watched Jack's apparition manifest on the other end of the room. None of them liked what they were seeing.

And despite what Naru and Mai had been thinking, Jack hadn't just stood there staring at them mockingly. He had said something as well. He said something that immediately made their blood run cold.

'One, two, three on Akira!'

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