sevenhorrors | MINGLE BINGLE

[ Her hand loosens from the hilt of her katana... ]

I guess I don't have the others around to help with maintenance...

It's just a bit– [ a lot ] –of grass. Take care of your sword for when you really need it.

Yes, yes.

[ She doesn't need to take advice from her kohai!! (She does.) Instead of slashing and hacking down the grass, Nei will take care to just brush the greenery out of their way with her hands instead. ]

[ It isn't the swiftest venture in the world; Koharu is clearly unused to climbing through the worst of nature's overgrowth. But at least, not far from the school building: ]

—Hm? ... It looks like something is over there.

[ Nei's usual jobs usually take her to the forgotten places of town. She's not used to venturing through such vegetation, herself, but she is very used to stubbornly forcing her way through everything! ]

Yeah. Do you want to get closer? Or turn back?

[ Nei knows what she wants to do, but she wants to be clear that she won't drag Dove along if she doesn't want to get closer. ]

[ shakes her head ]

I think it should be okay. That's glass, isn't it? It might be a window.

[ She nods. ]

I see it. Alright, then let's go slowly. Just in case...

[ In case they're not alone, though blessedly, it seems that they are. (This time!) Nei approaches carefully, making sure to stay in front of her kohai as they go. ]

Right. I'll stay right behind you.

[ Not too close behind, but not too far either. She's keeping a close eye on what's ahead of them. ]

[ With a nod, Nei starts approaching the mysterious structure in the middle distance... as they get closer, it becomes more apparent that there's not just one window, but in fact many. ]

That... Could it be a greenhouse?

... Oh, you're right! It doesn't look like it has any other walls to it.

We have to take a closer look! Maybe we'll find more clues about this place... or something good for our team!

[ or y'know just a bunch of overgrowth but at least they won't get haunted there... for now ]

[ she's like internally (sweats) but, ]

I guess it wouldn't be normal for anything strange to be sitting around in broad daylight, huh... Okay, let's go.

We can't be sure that the ghosts only come out at nighttime, though it would definitely be kinda weird for them to. Still, keep your guard up. Be ready to flee if you need to!

[ She'll press forward until they're able to get right up to the outside of the greenhouse. ]

Still with me, Dove?

[ nod nod; Koharu climbs through the overgrowth, sticking close. ]

So far so good. It seems... quiet.

[ a pause, then, ]

You seem like you've done stuff like this before, senpai.

Well, of course! It's part of what I do for work! I mentioned that I have experience with monsters, yes?

You did… but I guess I never asked for more.

What kind of experience?

Going around and hunting for monsters. Think of them like the undead. That's all you really need to know!

[ When they're close enough to the greenhouse, she'll go ahead and just try to look into the windows. ]

[ Oh. Well. She gets the hint. ]

Ah... Sorry for prying.

[ Koharu pushes some of the brush aside, leaning as close to the glass as the growth allows. Looks like it's just more out-of-control vegetation within, too. ]

It's just classified, is all.

[ Honestly, she would boast freely about the work she does, if she was at liberty to. Maybe it doesn't matter here, where they're far away from the district, but the same prudence that keeps them from sharing their true names has Nei feeling a little too careful to share too many specifics about her life for the moment. ]

Jeez. Everything here's totally out of control and unkempt, huh? I wonder how long this school has been abandoned...

[ "Classified", huh... Koharu is starting to wonder if maybe she should've stayed a bit more tight-lipped about her own deal if classified info was a real issue to think about. ]

Decades, probably. It isn't that small of a building either, so I wonder why it stopped being used.

...Huh. You know, I wonder if this place became haunted because it was abandoned, or if it was abandoned because it was haunted. Do you get what I mean?

[ a beat, then a nod ]

Well... I had been thinking about it. Nowadays, a lot of rural towns are having a hard time keeping people, right? A lot of them move to the bigger cities, which means schools like this get shut down. That's what I've been assuming what happened, anyway.

So, you're thinking along the lines of it being haunted because it was abandoned - because everyone moved away and they had to shut this place down.

[ Well, anyone's theory is as good as the other at the moment, but that does seem to track. ]

A greenhouse like this one, though... it must've been really nice before. Not every school has something like this, right?

[ while inspecting one of the broken windows, debating on whether it's safe to climb in through the hole: ]

Maybe a really nice school, but mine never did.

[ ... hol up ]

Huh? You went to school?

[ like... a school... for cupids?? ]

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