The spider-like corpse continued to pursue the group of kids with hellbent fury shining in its inhuman eyes. Its creaking rang out in the dark alleyways, echoing off the brick walls. Despite the sun being out and held high in the sky, it seemed the pathway was darkened significantly, as if they were trapped in some kind of horror flick.

The moving body twisted its neck viciously and suddenly, the sound of bone being snapped adding to the mix of noises. If the drained group dared to look back they’d find the corpse now pursuing them by crawling on the walls themselves. With one mangled, broken arm, the unholy creature reached forward and lunged straight for the boy that dared to defy her.

A brief struggle on the ground occurred, ending with the twisted thing lying on top of Hikaru. Recognizing that it had separated the boy from the others, it crawled slowly off of him to stare him down with quite literally dead eyes, face just inches from Hikaru’s. Opening its mouth into another soundless wail, it revealed a row of missing teeth before lunging in like a predator.

To the surprise of all present, the thing plunged right through Hikaru’s body. It continued to phase through, plummeting down to the ground to who knows where. It didn’t matter at the moment though. All that did was that the damn thing was gone. For now.

Was it just an illusion? Maybe. It felt too real to be a mere trick of the mind. The fact that it had passed right through both Hikaru and the ground rose up one interesting theory.

The woman was a tortured spirit.

Somewhere nearby, Kenji Nagato was chuckling to himself.

Back at the school, Ruki had ceased informing Haruki about the wonders of Miso City to watch Seth moving around like a possessed doll. She couldn’t help but snicker aloud as the cat boy continued to hurl himself at walls and then bite his own arm as well. Probably Ren messing around again.

Wait, she knew about Ren and Seth’s link? How much of Miso City were the Tsugumi twins aware of?

[color=f49ac2]“Heh, you make a nice door stopper Seth,”[/color] she called out to the boy. [color=f49ac2]“Righty, righty, let’s go explore some more! Or should we get to class? Third period is about to start. Hmm…nah, Onee-chan won’t be that mad at us. Right Akane?”[/color]

The other girl nodded once, continuing to cling onto her new self-appointed lover.