"Wah... where is this...?"
Looking at the pitch-black corridor around her, Yukina could not help trembling as she pressed herself tightly against Touma. Touma, meanwhile, seemed to have regained her composure and was using her phone to illuminate their surroundings.
"This looks like a school... and an elementary school, at that..."
At Touma's reply, Yukina's face instantly turned pale.
"D-Don't tell me we ended up inside the movie we just watched..."
"Calm down, Kogisora."
Touma shook her head.
"There wasn't any school in the movie we watched."
"But what are we supposed to do now?"
Gripping Touma's arm tightly, Yukina anxiously looked around.
"There are only the two of us here. Everyone else is gone, and our phones can't get through..."
"Eek-----!!!"
However, just as Yukina finished speaking, a scream suddenly rang out from somewhere not far above them. Both girls froze at the sound, and Yukina clung to Touma in terror.
"W-What was that?"
"Maybe it's someone else. Maybe something happened... Either way, we should go take a look."
"Okay..."
Though reluctant, Yukina knew it was the best option. She nodded and hurried up the stairs with Touma, arriving on the third floor.
This place was just as dilapidated and old as the rest. At that moment, however, a girl's pained cries came from the room at the very end.
"Please... please... don't..."
Hearing those agonized pleas, Yukina and Touma both swallowed nervously. Then they carefully approached the source of the sound. Peeking inside cautiously, both girls' eyes widened in shock.
It was a bathroom. At its far end, a short-haired girl in a sailor uniform was stretching out her hand with a sinister chuckle, slipping a rope around another curly-haired girl. The curly-haired girl's hands were bound behind her back, and she stared at the short-haired girl in