In the first week of June 2025, one student from grades 1-2 died.

However, he was not related in any way to Class 3-3 so this did not arouse suspicion.

This student died of multiple organ failure, and was also an acquaintance of Shion Urushibara.

Shion herself made herself known to the rest of the class and school from a rather unusual side, she liked tinkering and gardening, Shion, however, cut off contact with Tohru after she materialized.

The curse was about to take its first toll.

Michika and Misaki ran away from school, and they got into the car of one of the yakuza's subbosses - Ryouta Hayashida.

Ryouta was 35 years old and was the older brother of Yoshito, who died in 2007.

Ryouta had a scar on the right side of his face, having acquired it while still a delinquent in high school.
It belonged to the Fukuda family - subordinate to the Hironiwa and later Minamiyashiki clans.

Only Ryouta , Chitose and also Michika with Misaki knew that he would take them near the target's house.

Ryouta: You have 20 minutes maximum, the sooner you finish the job, the less chance of a quick arrival of the police.

Misaki nodded, she went close to the door and knocked it.
Michika soon got out of the car too.

Sou Hiratsuka, who was on target for Chitose, opened the door.

Sou: Yes?

Sou was confused at first, but in time he noticed the similarity of Misaki's hair and face to her mother, Mei.

Sou: Are you by any chance..?
Misaki Sakakibara?

Misaki frightened, she thought someone had told about all the action, she nodded, to which Sou invited her inside.

Sou: Yomiyama North huh?
History likes to repeat itself doesn't it?

Misaki: How do you know my name?

Sou: I was a friend of your mother's, we broke off contact, however, after what happened to her in 2007, since then I started looking for information on who did it, and it turned out that the Yakuza was responsible.

Misaki: I've come to this very thing

Sou: Huh?

Misaki stood up, and took a deep sigh..

Sou: Something happened to your parents?

Misaki was silent, She quickly drew her gun and fired one shot in Sou's direction.

However, her hands were shaking, so she did not hit the head, but the neck.

After a while, she came up and finished Sou off.

She ran away from his house after that, however, an old woman noticed all this, Michika quickly looked at her, her eyes began to bleed.

Misaki and Michika quickly got into the car and drove off to the Minamiyashiki mansion.

Misaki tried to pretend to be tough and unemotional all the way through, realizing that she had killed her mother's friend.

Upon arriving, they entered Chitose's office.

Chitose: How did it go?

Misaki: It went smoothly, there were no obstacles or witnesses.

Chitose: Give me back my guns, I want to see the clips
Hm, Good job no additional bullets were fired.

Sakakibara-san, where were you aiming?

Misaki: In the head Chitose-sama

Chitose: Well, well,well, first contract and done like a pro.

Misaki nodded.

Chitose: You are slowly gaining my trust Misaki... Do you know what it means?

Misaki: That I will have more contracts?

Chitose: Close, but what I mean is that you will soon be getting orders without Michika's guard.

Misaki: Yeah, I think I got it Chitose-sama..

Chitose: Misaki, is your family descended from the old nobility?

Misaki: No, I'm just a common girl. Does it have any importance these days?

Chitose: It depends where, in Yomiyama we are valuing our ancestry.
Do you think why Michika was carrying suitcases? And why does she know me at all?

Michika: That's right, Misaki.

I come from the Muneyoshi clan, which once ruled the area, along with the rest of the great clans - Anju, Minamiyashiki and Hironiwa.

Chitose: Listen Misaki, if you prove to me that I can trust you.

You're the one who will take care of eliminating targets where little discretion is needed.

Michika is an expert in knives and other ways of silent killing, at least in theory and in training.

That's why I advise you, Sakakibara to practice shooting, you will be in charge of firearms.

Misaki: I used to attend archery classes, so I think I can handle this role.

Chitose: Excellent, that's about it for today.

On her way out of the mansion, Misaki passed Naohisa.

Naohisa: Sakakibara-san?

Misaki didn't said a word and just left alongside Michika.

In the evening Misaki could not sleep, she stared dully at the ceiling all night.

Her sister noticed this, however Naomi did not want to say anything, for she knew that Misaki and Michika were ignoring her, even though they themselves were ignored.

The next day the 3-3 class had shortened lessons, the 3-3 class teacher felt unwell and excused herself.

Her health condition was so bad that she did not show up at school the next day.

Two days later she died, as did a student from Class 1-2 of multiple organ failure.

Many thought it was an outbreak of some new disease, so there was panic in the classroom, even Yagami and the rest of Countermeasures were afraid.

However, that's when Shion Urushibara came in.

Shion: What do you think? What could Honma-sensei and Sakayori-kun from Class 1-2 have died of?

An epidemic?

Seriously?

Have you perhaps heard of ricin?

Shion looked suspiciously at the entire class, who began to listen to her like a preacher.

Kaya: I think it's some kind of poison right?

Shion: Yes

Issei: But why would someone poison Honma-sensei and Sakayori-kun?

Shion: Have you heard about the murder yesterday?
A man was shot in his home, an elderly neighbor who witnessed it died a few hours later in the hospital of a heart attack.

Ken Yagami stood up

Ken: What's your point?

Shion: What if Yomiyama is home to a serial killer-truster?

Honma-sensei lived not far from Sakayori.

Even in the same part of town - Asamida wasn't it?

Natsuki Sugimoto and Hayato Nishikata were slightly frightened, both also lived in Asamida.

Natsuki: Hey, Urushibara-san so do you think the residents of Asamida might be a target?

Shion: Rather not, but I would not rule out the possibility, there is nothing to be afraid of.

Ayumi Teshigawara, however, was suspicious of Shion.

Ayumi: How do you know they were poisoned with ricin?

Maybe you poisoned them yourself?

Shion: Teshi..
Shion thinked about it again, she might be caught so she corrected herself

Shion: I am interested in history, especially the history of espionage, you probably don't know who Mata Hari, Yoshiko Kawashima or Georgi Markov were.

However, I learned about ricin by reading about the latter, Markov was a Bulgarian journalist who was killed with ricin.

The symptoms that Honma-sensei had were similar weren't they?

Sakurai-kun, you were familiar with Sakayori?

Didn't he suffer from cold-like symptoms? and then it led to multi-organ failure and death?

Yutaka: Well, yeah..

Shion: So the verdict is clear, Sakayori and Honma-sensei were victims of a serial poisoner.

Anyway, not every death in the 3-3 class starts a curse.

3 years ago, a boy died, who at this point is probably with us.

Ken: Please tell us Urushibara-san! It's crucial!

Shion: I don't remember everything, I know only that he played with the occult with his friends, and sadly died.

In fact, two of his friends died, one of whom only died a clinical death.

Hearing these words, Naomi realized one thing - her brother's friend must have died 2 years ago, and Mizuki must know something about it.
It left the school and called Mizuki.

Mizuki: What? I'm quite busy right now.

Naomi: Mizuki, is it true that you died 2 years ago?

Mizuki: Didn't you know?

Yes I was dead for 16 hours.

I don't know myself what happened then, I was with Mamoru, Tohru? and some other girl, her name was *broken connection* Interestingly after I came back to life Mamoru didn't remember *broken connection* I'm still friends with Mamoru Ogata but I don't know what happened to Tohru.

I don't know at all what happened then, but from what my mother told me I had a nail in my head.

Naomi: What the hell happened here?

Mizuki: Oh, I remember.
That's why I was confused when Mamoru told me that his father claimed that *broken connection* and it turned out to be true

Naomi: Can you text or UMessage me who you mean?

Naomi hung up, and later Mizuki send a message

-I can't send their identities, even the first characters from their names I can't send.

-Try to send their initials in Romaji

-N.S, T.O

These are the ones I was referring to

Naomi was distraught, Tohru Ogata turned out to be an extra student this year, however, she was interested in the second initial.

Besides herself, only Natsuki Sugimoto had such initials,

Which, however, would mean that she and Tohru were back this year.