-Eien : Kisaragi Academy-

The boy stood near a window on that dreary October night, solemnly staring outside the window in wonder before returning his attention to the group. He kept his eyes and ears glued to the conversation at hand, despite the fact that he looked bored out of his mind. As he looked on, he listened to a tale, or rumor of sorts that was supposed to be a scary story of sorts. He heard a familiar name run out within the bundle of students speaking. Why would such a boy tell someone such an absurd and ludicrous tale, much less to a bunch of high school students. Was he that desperate to warn the people of real sorrows they encountered or was it some way to hog attention? The boy quietly sighed as he ponders to himself within the confines of the darkened classroom. He felt there was some sort of glimmer of truth within the story, but it was too surreal to believe. He will admit that some of the few students of that class were acting a bit strange because of that incident they went through, but he still dismissed the possibility of it being something so insane and supernatural.

Most of the students were in a circle trying to tell scary stories with himself dismissing himself from the mix. He felt he couldn't related or conjure up a good ghost story to spook the group, so he just excused himself from the circle. The stories were getting ridiculous by the minute, with Naomi getting all pissy over a little joke. She was blunt and rude at times and he feelt that she at least should loosen up a tiny bit... Then again, it was plain morbid to joke around about a killed being around someone's neighborhood. Paranoia can be a great ally times, and a persons worst nightmare if not used in the correct sense, and Yosuke was trying to cause that to escalate. I mean he could of been a bit more sensitive due to an unforeseen event that happened to her... Too bad he didn't predict another event was about to transpire, one that would possibly hurt his heart.

As he prepared to start cleaning up, he heard a sweet and familiar voice puncture the air around him. He turned his head swiftly to face the girl and hear what she had to say. Her voice was filled with grief and sorrow, and Eien wondered what he could do to comfort her, before the bomb was dropped. The boys face was molded into an expression of shock, speechless at what he heard. He didn't want to believe it at the moment, but he couldn't deceive himself of the truth which laid be for him. As he tried to reassure himself that this was some joke, he uttered something to the group at hand, mainly Mayuri.

"Wh-what? Wait, thats just a joke, right? You're not actually leaving... Right? I mean, why would you leave this place and all your friends behind?"

He felt that he grasped the answer at hand already, but he felt he needed to hear her reasoning to confirm if not only his suspicious were true, but if she was truly being genuine about leaving. As he spoke in his solemn voice, his heart began sinking a little into the depths of his chest because of the words she spoke. She wasn't really leaving, right?