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[b]Uchima Senior High - A Hallway, 1st Floor, Classroom Building???[/b]

"Eeh, Takahashi-san, I think stabbing someone is a「big problem」," replied Ai with a mild awkwardness, even as she still gripped tightly onto the hilt, shuffling closer to Ryoma. Her atrocious English accent aside, the third-year girl clearly seemed like she was still unsure of where everything was going, but with her underclassman producing a knife, the monster that was somewhere on their tale, and the general superpower-y stuff that they were all wrapped up in, it was pretty obvious that she was at least trying to just stay with the flow, no matter how much everything felt like a plot from a late-night anime that she still didn't own the DVD of. "And [i]hey[/i]! Why does Ryo-kun get to be called senpai and not me? That's not fair at all!"

And she did her best to stay afloat by trying not to worry about all the fearful things that made her body tremble and her hands clutch onto somebody else's knife in worry. In this instance, it was the faux-indignation (and grumpy pout that kept shaking as she tried to hold in a smile) in her voice as she addressed Jin. Even though she was a third-year too, the younger student wasn't showing her any respect there! That was super lame! 「Uncool」!

"I'll call you Jin-kun instead," she grumbled out, though the worried, scared look in her eyes as they trained themselves upon the barricaded door were definitely different from her attempt at grumpily trying to keep her spirits up. "Or Jin-chan? No, TakaJin? ... Taka-taka~?"

Her brows furrowed.

"Um, 「T-Money」 ...?"

As she trailed off awkwardly, realising that she was losing steam in the "try and raise everyone's spirits", there was a bump at the door.

A bump that had followed the sound of what clearly had been footsteps.

Human footsteps.

Something was inside. Someone was inside.

Someone who had noticed Ryoma knocking, and someone who might have heard them.

The faint sound of breathing beyond the barricaded door.