The walk to school felt like an eternity and you could clearly feel the tension between them growing every step they took. Soul and Maka ignored each other completely while Crona awkwardly walked between them, not really knowing what was wrong and what he could or should do to loosen the atmosphere. Maka didn't lock arms with him as they usually did, and it made him feel even more insecure. Maybe she got tired of him. Maybe she didn't want him in her house. Maybe he should just leave. Crona woke up from his thoughts as he saw Tsubaki running towards them, anxiously looking at Maka when she arrived. "Maka, you need to go see Lord Death. It's really important." Tsubaki immediately received Maka's full attention. "What's wrong ?" she warily asked, but meanwhile slowly started walking towards the Death Room. "I don't know, but it didn't sound too positive. Come on!" Tsubaki slightly pulled Maka's arm, but Maka quickly turned to Crona before following her. "Crona, can you go to class yourself ? I really-" "Mh, don't worry about me. I'll be fine" He tried to show a little smile, which caused Maka to smile too. "Okay. I'll see you later, mh ?" She turned around again and started running after Tsubaki.

"W-What ?" Maka couldn't help but stutter when she heard the terrible news. "You heard it. It seems Medusa never really died and is now planning on revenge. Especially on you and Soul, since you were the ones who almost killed her." Kid seemed careless when he repeated the words his father had just explained. But then again, he never really had an expression at all. Maka felt a bunch of emotions well up in her stomach. Anger and pugnacity, but she also felt slightly afraid. Not really because of herself, but because of Crona. She had this feeling that Crona won't be able to deal with her twice, and the poor thing finally started to believe we got rid of her. "But, how- how to you know she's not really dead ?" Lord Death 'walked', more like bounced, towards his mirror and whispered something. A few seconds later, the screen flashed and then showed a video. Maka didn't really know what she was watching. The video was apparently taken in a forest, but the thing was, there was nothing special about it. The video showed normal, everyday people walking around and talking. "What you're watching is the footage we found when checking one of the security cameras. Pay attention to the couple with the baby" Maka, for once, obeyed her father's words and followed the couple with her eyes. She was about to say that nothing really happened, when she noticed a familiar, black snake with a yellow arrow crawl underneath the stroller. The snake then quickly slipped next to the baby, what he did wasn't clear from this angle, then almost jumped out of the stroller and disappeared in a bush. That all without even one person noticing. "Oh-" "Wait, it's not done yet. Look at the woman with the black hoodie appearing a few seconds later." Her father interrupted, and she continued watching. As he said, a woman with a black hoodie appeared not long after that. Lord Death paused the video. "Notice the little black thing disappear in her sleeve ?" I immediately saw what he meant. "We believe that woman is Medusa and the thing crawling in her sleeve is the snake." I went silent for a moment. "What happened with the baby ? What do they need it for ?" "There is a possibility the snake killed the baby and ate its soul, to stay alive." I wanted to throw up. "That's disgusting" I mumbled, then looked up to Lord Death again. "We need you to protect Crona even harder. Medusa will not only try to kill you and Soul, she will do it the way she likes. You have to accept that she'll try to make Crona help her with it. You'll have to protect Crona, and at the same time stay away from him as much as you can, because he may not be aware of it, or want it, but he could try to kill you under Medusa's influence." Lord Death stared at her for a minute, attempting to gauge her reaction. "Do you understand ?" he asked, and his voice sounded a lot more serious than his usual, silly voice. Maka pulled herself together and her expression hardened. "Yes. I will try my hardest to protect Crona and destroy Medusa once and for all!"

With a concerned look in her eyes, Maka returned to the classroom and prepared to explain everything to Dr Stein, But he didn't really seem to care and let her get away with it. That, or he was already informed about the situation and didn't want to cause an uproar by letting her explain everything in front of the class. Soul saw her come in and looked at her from the corners of his eyes as she sat down beside him. He was about to ask her to explain why she had to go to the Death Room, but Black Star was first. "Hey Maka, what was all that about ? You missed my entrance, you even came in after me! You better have a good explanation" Maka seemed to have her mind somewhere else when she answered. "Mh, uh. Just some stuff that I needed to know, just, uh nothing really- nothing really that special" Black Star, being his ignorant self, didn't notice anything and just began freaking out about how irresponsible Lord Death was because he let students skip lessons and far more important- his entrance. Tsubaki slapped him on his head and he fainted for a second before he started nagging again. Soul ignored him and stared at Maka, he was kind of worried, but he'd ask her later. At the moment she wouldn't respond anyways.