ESCAPE {Corpse Party}

STORIES

Sachi is my pride and joy
She'd do anything for me
I don't think she even recognises me anymore
But I still love her with all my heart

"It was a rainy evening after school, just like this one... Running down the stairs, the kindly teacher lost her footing. She tumbled, and she fell...and she died... You've all heard the stories, no? Before Kisaragi Academic was built here, there was another school on this property. Heavenly Host Elementary School, it was called. Such a horrible thing to happen... The principal was completely devastated. He cared for the school almost as if it were his own child, you see. But one thing led to another after the incident...and ultimately, a decision was reached. The school was to be shut down. The principal was so stricken with grief over losing his precious child that on the day of its closure...he climbed up to its roof and threw himself to his death. Or so the story goes..."

"That's stupid!"

"{Y/N}, shut up!"

"People thought Heavenly Host was cursed, you see. This was just the latest of many deaths to occur there. That's why it was torn down... However! They say the teacher who fell down the stairs still has no idea she's dead, even to this very day... And on rainy evenings like this, after our school days come to an end...some claim she roams these darkened hallways...still believing them to be her own... In fact, it's almost time for her to make her rounds! Just after seven o'clock... That's when she appears, always accompanied by a sudden blackout that leaves the entire building as dark as night... 'Knock knock,' you'll hear from the blackness...followed by the sound of the classroom door slowly sliding open... As her pale white face cuts through the stillness, her soft voice always echoes the same question: 'is anyone still here?' And then..."

As Ayumi was about to come to the conclusion of her story, you all heard the rumbling thunder and the strikes of lightening fall down, a blackout occurred. Satoshi screamed, causing Seiko and Naomi to scream, too.

"It... It's a blackout!" Satoshi shouts in a panic.

"Satoshi! Pull yourself together! Don't scare us like that!" Naomi scolds Satoshi.

"But. It was scary!" Satoshi tries his best to defend himself.

"I don't like this... This shouldn't be happening..." Ayumi looks around nervously.

"Not bad, Shinozaki. You had me going there for a minute." Yoshiki laughs, as do you.

"Yeah, for a moment, I thought all that Heavenly Host stuff was true, and I almost thought you didn't cause the blackout!" You praise her, she looks at both you and Yoshiki with concern.

"It wasn't me! I've been standing right here the whole time! This is a real blackout!" Ayumi tells you all.

You all stood silently as you heard a sudden noise.

"Does...anyone else hear that?!" Mayu asks, we all look at each other for answers.

"Sounds like it's coming from the music room..." Morishige confirms, then footsteps were heard. At first they sounded distant, until they got closer and closer and stopped.

"No way... First the blackout, now the door..." Ayumi whispers to herself, Satoshi grabs onto Naomi and whimpers.

"What the hell is wrong with you, Satoshi?! Get ahold of yourself! And get off of me, that's my chest!" Naomi pushes Satoshi away from her, he falls to the ground with a loud thud.

"Ack! Sorry, sorry! I couldn't see where I was grabbing!" Satoshi apologises as he quickly stands up, looking around nervously.

Then you heard a knock on the door.

"I told you it was a bad idea to stay here so late and tell ghost stories!" Satoshi tries to act like you all should of listened to him.

"Hey, Satoshi, aren't you gonna get the door?" Yoshiki pulls Satoshi aside, you make your way over to them.

"What?!" Satoshi's jaw drops.

"It's scary, Satoshi! None of us girls want to get the door!" You decided to join Yoshiki in attempting to scare Satoshi.

"The girls are all trembling in fear. Doesn't it just break your heart to see them like that?" Yoshiki asks, nodding down to you, you tried your best to give the biggest puppy eyes.

"So why don't you get the door?!" Satoshi snaps back.

"Well, it doesn't break my heart..." Yoshiki says simply, you look up at him and furrow your eyebrows.

"... That's cold, man." Satoshi sighs as he makes his way to the door, he goes to open it, but stops when a voice is heard.

"Is anyone still here...?" It was the voice of a women, it was a soft voice.

"Go home children..." The women's voice quickly grew creepy and you were all looking at each other in a panic.

Then, the door opened, Satoshi screamed and fell to the floor, quickly scurrying away from the door.

"Did I scare you?" Ms. Yui walks into the classroom with a big smile on her face, all panicked faces dropped and gave her a blank stare.

"... Ms... Yui...?"