Ten minutes later, they arrived somewhere in the club building together.
Thinking about his objective, aside from the Horticulture Club where Wakaba Mū was, the remaining confirmed locations seemed to be clustered around here—though the Horticulture Club itself was outdoors.
"Why are we coming here, and to some weird club I've never even heard of..." Nagasaki Sōse looked at him as if he had something wrong with his head.
They had arrived outside the door of a certain club.
Its name was—the Horror Research Club.
Since she had no impression of it, she had specifically gone to ask around first.
Ogura Asahi looked at her in surprise. "You don't know? This club is pretty famous, you know?"
"Famous how? So famous that even I, a student of this school, have never heard of it?" Nagasaki Sōse scoffed.
"If it were a well-known club like the Sweets Research Club, which often wins awards and even books the cafeteria on Valentine's Day to hold the 'Chocolate Artisan Festival,' then sure, I'd know about it... But the Horror Research Club? It doesn't sound like a serious club at all."
She stared at the door with a peculiar expression, as if trying to see through it.
A Horror Research Club at a prestigious girls' school? Who had approved that application?
"I heard all the members inside are ghost members. Isn't that strange?"
"...What do you mean?"
Ogura Asahi introduced it to her with a straight face. "Legend has it that there are clearly multiple members, yet none of them know the others exist."
"Because they never come here and are all go-home club members, right?" Nagasaki Sōse saw through it in a second.
"No, no, if this were another school, maybe that would be the case." He cleared his throat and continued.
"But the