Naho looked at Ayumi through her dead fish eyes. Their friend, Mayu was now dead and Ayumi was taking it out on the ghost of the author whose advice did not help. Yoshiki opened the door to the classroom with a bleeding forehead.
"I've said it before, I'll say it again; your voice really travels,"
"Kishinuma"
Ayumi took out some bandages from her "prop closet" and bound his injury. Naho then continued to explain that appeasing the ghosts should have worked. She said that the hammer-wielding man was the murderer and just before she vanished, she said, "It's your own fault your friend is dead," causing Ayumi to shudder.
Together they head down to where the doll of the suspected murderer began to weep. The little doll gave directions as to where to go in a very strange manner. Evens so, they knew where to go as they had seen in a cabinet of classroom 2-A a way of understanding the little doll's instructions. Under the floorboards they were able to find a bag with the name tag saying Ryo Yoshizawa. The doll tells them to return it.
They look and found the ghost of a young little boy in the infirmary. There was no way of catching his attention from the side so Yoshiki gets in front of the boy. He is soon paralyzed, unable to move so Ayumi helps him by calling out the boy's name. He looks and listens to what Ayumi has to say. She gave him his tongue and he put it in his mouth.
"Thank you, miss" he says before disappearing.
Yoshiki is impressed but Ayumi complains. He tells her to blow her nose and she does so- on his shirt.
They were about to continue their search for the other tongues when they heard a deep, soft sigh. They turn around and Yoshiki begins to look around. Ayumi was still shaken by the appeasing of the ghost child, so she waited by the door.
In the darkest and most cluttered part of the room, Miki was in a tight ball on the ground and either sleeping or unconscious. He shook her, trying to wake her so that he could know if she was alright. She stirred and opened one eye. Then she shut it. She opened her other eye and did the same. She tried opening both eyes but failed. Yoshiki smiled recognizing his sister's old habit.
"You OK?"
She nodded. "Nii…-chan…" Her eyes still hadn't opened completely. Her head nodded to the side as if it were too heavy a load on her neck. Slowly, she opened her eyes and Yoshiki gasped. They were as empty and blank as the girl with the eyes like the dead fish. She smiled in a way that her brother had never seen on her and she began to ramble.
"Nii-chan! Nii-chan! Nii-chan!" each time it was more shrill and hysteric. She looked psychotic.
"Nii-chan is going to diee in the schooooool! I wonder how he'll die? What will his corpse look like?" She giggled softly. Then it escalated to a cackle that did not at all sound like her. Yoshiki didn't know what to do.
He wondered if it was possible that his sister was possessed or whether she had just gone insane. Either way he said "Miki... I don't know what's going on but… you have to fight it! Come back to us! Please"
Miki giggled maliciously. Whatever it was, it had not gone away. Nor did it have plans of leaving. In a panic, Yoshiki gave her a hug. "Please," he said, "come back to us…Please," He could feel Miki's eyes shut against his shoulder. She did not laugh or smile or say anything. She took a deep breath and readied herself to speak.
"Nii… Nii-chan?" His stomach fluttered with hope, "What's wrong?" she turned to look at him. "You look sick… pale at the least," Yoshiki smiled, glad that she was OK and that whatever had bothered her had left. Evens so, he was worried. Worried because that was not the first time he had seen her eyes go blank and empty like that. He worried because he knew it would happen again. And that, he knew, made her very vulnerable in this dangerous school that wants to cause them an agonizing and painful death in all ways that it can.