When Misaki Mei walked out of the classroom again, her face was deathly pale.
"How was it? Did you find them?"
As Mei came up to her, Shizuku asked. Mei hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"I found them. The deceased is... Teacher Misaki."
"That really was a blind spot."
Staring at the roster in her hand, Shizuku ran a finger across Mishami Reiko's name and frowned. Strictly speaking, she had been misled as well. The list Chiyuki Tatsuharu had given her only confirmed students as the deceased over the past twenty years, so Shizuku had initially searched among the students.
She had never expected this time's deceased to be a teacher.
Thinking about it carefully, it made sense. The deceased were randomly selected from people who had died accidentally in previous years. There were teachers among them as well as students. If students could return, then teachers naturally could too.
"What are you going to do?"
Mei looked at Shizuku uneasily and asked in a low voice. She now knew Shizuku was an exorcist hired to resolve the curse of Class 3-3, but she still did not know what Shizuku intended to do.
"It's simple. We just need to return the deceased to her original state."
"Do... do we have to kill her?"
Though she had expected it, Shizuku's answer still made Mei's heart clench.
"We won't need to do it ourselves."
Shizuku shook her head, then turned to Mei.
"Do you know why, after one extra deceased person appeared, accidents and deaths kept happening in Class 3-3?"
"..."
Mei shook her head. She was not an expert, and in truth, none of Class 3-3's students knew much about such things.
"Put simply, the world noticed the distortion, so it wants to restore things to normal. Let's use an