(Last Time)
He only gets three classrooms down before Yoshiki grabs his shoulder and pulls Hitoshi to face him, "Stop it!"
"She's the only family I have left! I will die to protect her!"
"You're going mad Hitoshi it's scaring your sister!" Ayumi says after she's caught up.
"I'm not going insane! If I was I would have killed you both and not have cared what that little bitch did to Oni! But I do care about her and you two are still alive!" He starts walking again.
"Wait!" Ayumi stops him again.
"What?" He looks at her.
"She… may have been moved to another dimension." Ayumi breaks it to him as calmly as possible.
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"It's all my fault… I should have never done it… I should have never let her do it… Now she's gone!" Hitoshi's brave face breaks and he breaks down. "I'm sorry Oni! I'm sorry!" Tears run down Hitoshi's face. Ayumi looks at Yoshiki sadly as Hitoshi apologizing to Oni.
"We'll find her okay? Hey I uh… found the other two tongues…" Ayumi tries to get his mind off of what happened.
"That won't help now…" His sobs slowly stop and he stands up quietly.
"Come on, let's take a look around the school first, before we give up…" She suggests quietly.
"Whatever you want…" He begins to walk away from them but Yoshiki stops him.
"Idiot we have to stay together!" Yoshiki runs after him again.
Hitoshi looks back at him, "Then come… but I'm going to look for the forth ghost…" He continues walking again and Ayumi follows him. Yoshiki not believing anything that's happening follows after Ayumi. He and the others walk down the hallway looking for anything strange, eventually they come across a strange side hall leading to a pair of double doors. Hitoshi stops in his tracks and looks at Ayumi and Yoshiki, "Any ideas?"
"There might be another building…" Yoshiki looks at Hitoshi quietly.
"Then let's go!" Hitoshi runs down the hall and pushes the doors open, to an open corridor he looks at his new surroundings and keeps running. He enters the new building and stops so Ayumi and Yoshiki could catch up.
"No time to waste." Ayumi says when she catches up.
"I know that," Hitoshi responds, "Never knew a school could be so creepy…"
"We should check the principal's office first…" Ayumi says thoughtfully.
"Why do you say that?" Yoshiki responds skeptical.
"That's the only place I'd think not to look." She responds quickly.
"But wouldn't the science room be a better guess?" Yoshiki retaliates.
"That's too obvious!" Ayumi snaps.
Hitoshi sighs in disbelief as Ayumi and Yoshiki continue to argue, "Geez You're both acting like children! Why don't we just check both rooms?!"
They don't seem to hear him and continue to argue. "She wants us to think that so we would go to the science room instead of the office!" "She'd know that we'd go to the office because we'd think the science room was too obvious!"
"ENOUGH!" The lights burst as Hitoshi breaks the argument.
Ayumi and Yoshiki stare at Hitoshi and then look up at the ceiling. They stand in silence for a moment before Ayumi speaks up, "Sorry…"
"I am too… now, let's go to the science room first. It's probably closest…" Hitoshi had calmed down a little before heading down the hallway while following the signs. Ayumi looks into the windows of each classroom as they walk down the broken hall. They tried the doors the all the science classrooms, most of them were locked. The continued walking until Ayumi finally got one room open. She looks at the two behind her and slowly walks in with them following her.
"Oni..?" Ayumi whispers quietly.
"Oni? Are you here?" Hitoshi walks in and goes to lean against one of the counters when his hand goes through the structure. He quickly pulls his hand back and puts it behind him. He looks at the others and see's Ayumi looking at him shocked.
"Hey! Ayumi! Keep looking!" Yoshiki looks over at her when she'd stopped moving. She gives a second look at Hitoshi before continuing. Hitoshi looks at his hand quietly and to the counter questioning silently what had happened. Yoshiki walks over quietly, "Nothing, no trap doors or secret passages… We should go to the principal's office…"
"Y-yeah…" Hitoshi nods and walks out of the room and down the hall, again, following the signs. He looks behind him making sure that the two are still following him. Ayumi is behind Yoshiki, staying away from Hitoshi. The wood creaking a threat of breaking before they reach a staircase. They carefully walk up the stairs and to the office. They go into the office and look around, there were spiritual seals on the walls and filing cabinets. They looked around in silence before the whole school started shaking. Hitoshi fell backwards into the desk. When the earthquake stopped, a part of the wall had collapsed revealing a ladder going down. Hitoshi's eyes widened and he quickly stood back up and went over to the ladder. He climbs down the ladder with Ayumi and Yoshiki following behind him. He lands and runs down the ruined mine-like corridor. He stops at a room and walks inside.
"Aww you're too good at hunting me down…" A child's laughter echoes in the room.
"Come out Sachiko!" Hitoshi shouts into the room. Almost on command she appears next to a bloody table, "My sister…?"
"Oh! How could I forget?" She looks at the table as Oni appears unconscious, "Now that you all are here what should I do first…?"
"Leave her alone!" He glares at Sachiko.
"She may be 'alive' but she can't leave here anymore…" She chuckles.
"Little bitch… what did you do?!" He steps forward.
"Heheheh! Trust me you never want to know!" Before Hitoshi could grab her, she disappears.
"She's dead isn't she..?" Hitoshi momentarily becomes see through then goes back to normal. "Now I remember happened… When we fell through the floor… I was… impaled by a piece of wood…" He looks at the silver-haired girl as her hand moves slightly. "Oni..?"
Oni sits up slowly holding her head she slowly looks around gathering her surroundings. Hitoshi hurries and hugs his sister. Oni looks at Hitoshi worried, "What happened? Where are we?"