Kiku approached Yume's direction and read through the article. Her head gave sudden throbs of pain as Kiku exclaimed with disbelief. His breathing once again became intense as he started to slightly stumble upon his footsteps. [i]"Kiku?"[/i] Yume quickly grabbed Kiku by both of his shoulders and rubbed his back to reassure his state. By then, his breathing was normal after all. [i]Look, the date over here,"[/i] He pointed out. [b]September 18th, 1973.[/b] Yume's eyes widened. 1973? What a long time ago.... [i] "See? We couldn't be in that school. This paper is really old."[/i] [i]"M-mm..."[/i] Yume nodded in agreement. [i]"So it's still and will be alright. Let's go?"[/i] Yume gave a long deep sigh and did her best to push up a smile at him. Brushing off thoughts, she clasped onto Kiku's sleeve and slowly made their way, carefully avoiding loose floor boards. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [i]"Kiku. Let's look for something useful that could help us escape."[/i] Yume suggested. An open classroom was just near by as she stepped inside ahead of Kiku, but had never let go of his sleeve. She pushed the classroom door wide open to let in light. With careful steps inside as creaks of the floor echoed, the sight that met her eyes inside the room gave her heart a leap of relief. A figure of a body was found lying on the ground by the far dark end of the room. Someone! Someone was here! Maybe it's one of the others! [i]"Kiku look! I found someone!"[/i] With excitement, Yume ran and reached out her arm towards it. [i]"Hey! Are yo- Ahh!!"[/i] But Yume's assumption was completely wrong. It was a body, but not alive. It was a corpse, freshly rotting with a part of it's skull revealing. It's uniform showed that it was a male student from another school. Yume halted and fell down, crawling backwards and reaching out to Kiku.