As soon as Akihiko shows up, Saya winces again.
"Oh! Hey, Aki-kun. Honda here was just...ahh..."She winces again, rubbing the spot in the back of her neck where she'd felt that pain; where all of them had felt the pain. A worried, concerned look suddenly crossed her eyes.
Mildred and Akihiko realise, in that moment, that something has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
She stared, a look of pure fear in her eyes, at Akihiko.
"Aki-kun...what's happening to me?"A single moment passes.
Shiro rounds the doorway, looking for whatever it was that was in her vision, and....nothing. Nobody. Whatever was in her field of vision had disappeared again.
Along with all of the sound in the school. No more students talking, no more cheering, no more distant cars. The entire school was filled with a faint, bluish light and a light fog, as if in the dead of night under the light of a full moon. It had shifted between moments, seamlessly, like Shiro had been looking at a normal school one moment, and somewhere else the next.
If Shiro were to look behind her, Rise and Touma have disappeared. The sky, rather than the light blue with nary a cloud it had been before, was a sickly blue, a too-bright yellow moon lighting up the sky. The city has disappeared, enshrouded by a thick fog.
Aika finds her words fall on deaf ears. Or no ears, really.
The cafeteria is empty, her friends and Ayaka have disappeared. A faint bluish light shines through the windows, a wispy mist filling the air. Not a sign of anyone, except a few distant footsteps.
Aika was alone in the cafeteria.
The same fate befalls Yui, Mori, Shoji and Masaru. One moment, they are surrounded by students, the next, the school is abandoned. Yui is fortunate; her path takes her to the entrance to the cafeteria, where she encounters Aika standing alone. Like all the others, they see the same thing; the school is lit up in a ghostly blue, a mist permeating the entire place, a too-bright moon shining outside.
While Veep has disappeared, Mori manages to run into Shoji, also dragged into this strange otherworld.
Masaru is less fortunate than Yui, Aika, Mori or Shoji; Masaru was now alone in the classroom.
Misa, too, finds herself plunged into this mysterious world as she and Chiyo head to the nurse's office. One moment, Chiyo was explaining to her something.
"Uniform? Ah...yes. That....you wear that at school, right. Uh, well, I-"The next, the world turned blue, the fog filled her vision, and every other student and teacher in Hermelin had disappeared. A few distant footsteps could be heard, a distant sobbing....
...and yet remained Chiyo, a clear look of concern on her face.
"...oh no."
Mildred and Akihiko look around, finding themselves in the same situation.
And no Saya. Mildred doesn't realise when the weight had disappeared from her arms; Saya was here one moment, and the next, she wasn't.
Akihiko's blood froze.
"....Honda. What...Saya was just here a moment ago. Where's Saya? Honda, where is she?!"A distant sobbing can be heard, coming from the front of the school. Akihiko looked to Mildred.
"....that's Saya. Honda...we have to get to her. But...where's everyone? What happened? Wasn't it daytime just now?"
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