Nori smirked faintly, raising an eyebrow at Keigo’s description. [i]This[/i] was the big rumor? This was what the students had been rambling about for the past few days? It honestly didn’t sound any different from the ghost stories he scared his little sister with.
The mention of how Keigo had found a list of numbers which he supposedly had not written himself made the story only slightly more believable; but how could he prove that he wasn’t lying and actually hadn’t written the list himself? Even so, even if Keigo hadn’t, maybe one of his friends had in an attempt to play a trick on him. (Nori had some experience with this himself after all...)

His thoughts got disrupted when a small, dark figure bumped into him. When he looked down he noticed it was the girl from before who had left the classroom so assertively just moments before he had.
Slowly a name came to mind. “Rin...” Seeing her almost childlike expression of fascination Nori couldn’t help but smile. “I don’t want to spoil the fun for you, but you know it’s just another ghost story, right?” he said nearly apologetically.

“Don’t you have anything better to do with your time?” he heard from behind him.
Turning around towards the source Nori could hardly distinguish a dark-haired boy facing Keigo’s group.
“Well at least he isn’t talking about us,” he murmured, more to himself than to Rin. Moreover though, how did Nori realize only now that he was not wearing his glasses? He must have lost them in the small collision just then.
“Ah, don’t move...” he ordered Rin and gently grabbed her by the shoulders as to ensure that she indeed wouldn’t. Bending down, he reached for his glasses which had fallen exactly in between the girl’s feet. He got up again and held them up against the light, checking for any scratches, before putting them back on their original spot.

The first thing Nori noted when he had regained his vision was how teeming the classroom had gotten. Around him had gathered students from all years. Being in one of the higher classes, he hardly recognized anyone. One particular person he could immediately identify though.
Making his way through the crowded room, rising above all other students, was his classmate Gruffydd. With a thunderous voice he overwhelmed the remaining murmurs.

“My, my, how positively [i]noble[/i],” he spoke as he approached the center of attention. “You’re Keigo, right?” he paused for a moment, awaiting the boy’s response. “I just have to tell you how courageous that is. You go around telling everyone about how somehow got this mysterious code, to text from this mysterious building, and then suggest that [i]someone else[/i] go and try it out. How unspeakably [i]brave[/i] of you.”

Nori watched Keigo stiffen up completely. He could understand his reaction; although Gruffydd was a good-natured person, you definitely didn’t want to get on his bad side, especially considering his muscular build.
He saw the smaller male struggling to find words and believed he could even smell his cold sweat. A small chuckle escaped his lips at the thought, breaking the tension in the room.
“He’s got a point there,” Nori immediately added, not wanting to create the impression he was laughing about the large Welshman.
“Why don’t [i]you[/i] show us the way, and go on in first, Keigo?” he suggested with a teasing voice.