Somehow she'd mao get out of the cathedral quite quickly using her cheat sheet.

  Medina immediately g to Rumi's side and sat down.

  "How is it, is the food good?"

  "Um, it's det enough to eat."

  Medina started eating without even praying.

  "Wow, it really is! Why is it so good?"

  Just then, the ghost-like girl heard that and put her spoon into the tomato soup.

  But suddenly a rge eyeball popped out of the soup.

  "Eek!"

  The girl let out a short scream.

  "What? did the food just get cursed?"

  Medina stood up as if she'd found something iing and very obviously peered into the girl's soup.

  "Ack, there's an eyeball floating in there!"

  The girl just frowned without responding.

  "You prayed before eating, right?"

  "She raying even before we came."

  Rumi spoke while looking at the floating eyeball.

  "Wow, I thought I was unlucky today, but looks like your life is ruined."

  Medina spoke rudely to the silent girl.

  "But... why is there an eyeball iomato soup, ugh!"

  Medina said while shuddering.

  The girl stood up with her tray, wearing an expression of extreme suffering.

  Just then, an uppercssman girl with white bangs passed by and ented.

  "Looks like you're the one who got it today... As you'd know if you studied the rules, don't pin to abel no matter what.

  If you do... you won't be able to eat tomorrow."

  The uppercssman wore a bck head cover like a nun would wear.

  But what was strange was that everything from her hair to her face was unbelievably white.

  Moreover, a subtle fragrance like that from sted dles wafted from her, and while her tone was calm and rexed, there was somehow a tired energy to it.

  Behind that uppercssman stood another person wearing the same nun's habit, but with her entire body ed in bandages like a mummy.

  Rumi wondered if that bandage-ed uppercssman was the mummy ghost pretending to be a studeioned in the rules.

  "Oh, hi sister."

  Just then, Raoul greeted the white-haired uppercssman.

  "Oh, Raoul. So you enrolled this time."

  The two seemed to know each other.

  Meanwhile, the mummy o the white-haired girl was staring ily at Rumi's eyes.

  Rumi thought 'what's this?' and stared back.

  The white-haired uppercssman sensed something strange and greeted Rumi.

  "Hello, you must be that new girl."

  "Huh? How do you know that?"

  "That's... something you don't o know. Well then, see you ter children..."

  The uppercssma without answering Rumi's question.

  And the mummy uppercssman behind her silently followed the white-haired one.

  "Raoul! You know those people?"

  "Um... the sister I greeted is actually a distaive. I lived with her briefly when I was young... She's han she was just now."

  "Hmm... really? But do you know who that mummy was?"

  "Ah, that..."

  Raoul suddenly came close to Rumi and whispered.

  "Rumi, look that up in the rules."

  "..."

  Hearing Raoul's answer, Rumi was vihat mummy student was that mummy student.

  Just then, Medina hurriedly flipped through her booklet.

  "Ugh it's true, 'The cafeteria is off-limits after 7 PM. No matter what food is served in the cafeteria, do not pin to rs. Mabel.'"

  "Did you really e out without memorizing the rules?"

  Rumi looked at Medina in disbelief.

  Just then the ghost-like girl started moving with her tray again.

  Rumi and Medina watched to see if she was going to the cook, but she just kept her biscuit and threw the tomato soup in the food waste bin.

  And with that, the girl left the cafeteria.

  Shortly after, bells rang and a voice came over the school broadcast.

  'Dong... dong... dong... dong... dong... dong...'

  "The sun will set in 10 minutes. All school building doors will be locked in 10 minutes, so all students please quickly e ihe buildings."

  "Ugh scary... They really strictly enforce curfew at this school."

  Medina said while stuffing mashed potatoes in her mouth.

  "By the way, what room numbers were you assigned?"

  "I'm in Room 49."

  "I'm in the rht o Rumi's. Room 50."

  Raoul said.

  "Nooo! I'm in Room 27."

  "Whew, that's a relief."

  Rumi said with a sigh of relief.

  "What's a relief? We're in different dorms. Don't you want to be close friends with me? Isn't that why you saved my life?"

  "What are you talking about? I just helped someone who fell on their own, I didn't save your life."

  "What's that! If that's the case, you should have left me to die!"

  "No... what?"

  Rumi was too bewildered by Medina's twisted logic to respond.

  Just then, suddenly an uified crashing sound rang through the cafeteria.

  'Thudududududu!'

  The studeing looked toward the cafeteria windows where the sound came from, and tless ghosts had their faces pressed against the windows.

  "Ack, ugh! Are those all ghosts?"

  Medina, with her goldfish-like attention span, was already making a fuss looking at the windows.

  And the ghosts watched the studeing dinner while lig their lips like predators eyeing prey.

  Just then, uppercssmen stood up and very calmly started closing the cafeteria curtains.

  But the few udents who had already seen that insane sight were in shock.

  "Aah! How there be hundreds of ghosts at the school? That makes no sense!"

  Though Rumi had experienced simir situations several times already includierday, other students seemed less aced to such situations than expected.

  But even so, having so many ghosts at the school was clearly suspiciously nonsensical.

  Rumi finished what turned out to be a det meal aanize her luggage in the dorm.

  But it looked like someone had already aheir belongings on the left bottom bunk.

  Everything was arranged in a and perfect state.

  Just then, someone came in dragging luggage into Rumi's dorm room.

  Rumi checked to see who her roommate was... it was Niel.

  "Oh! Rumi... it's been a while..."

  "Oh... you're in Room 49 too?"

  "Yeah, looks like we're sharing a dorm room..."

  "Hmm... really? Then that might be good..."

  "Yeah... have you been well?"

  "Yeah, you?"

  "Me too..."

  Just then the Bck boy from the bus appeared behind Niel.

  "Is that your new friend behind you?"

  "Oh, this is Mal. Mal's in the room door."

  "Room 50?"

  "Yeah."

  Rumi realized Mal would be sharing a room with Raoul.

  "Hi..."

  Rumi gave Mal a casual greeting. But Mal disappeared behind them without responding.

  "What the...!"

  "Ahaha... Mal's just a bit shy. But he has a really gentle personality so you'll probably bee frieually..."

  "... ..."

  The two stood awkwardly with luggage between them.

  "But... have you seen who else our roommate is?"

  "Oh... I just came from the cathedral."

  "Really?"

  It seemed Niel had just finished memorizing the rules and e out.

  "Then you havee either."

  "No I haven’t..."

  Niel came into the room and quietly put her luggage o the ground floor bed.

  Then she left the dorm room again.

  "Well... I'll go eat."

  "Yeah, the cafeteria's at the end of this corridor."

  Rumi pointed east.

  "Oh, thanks... Mal, let's go."

  After Niel left like that, Rumi thought for a moment about the dorm life she would be sharing with Niel.

  Niel was fi had several problems due to being under a terrible curse.

  No, she had very serious problems.

  Thinking about it made Rumi's head start to hurt slightly.

  10 PM. The bell rang and the nightly holy water bath time that would apparently happen every day approached.

  While their roommate still hadn't e to the dorm room, Rumi and Niel went together to the holy water bath in the school basement.

  And after bathing and finishing evening mass, Rumi and Niel returo their dorm room.

  When they returo the dorm, someone was already settled in.

  With and glossy long bck hair, already ged into pretty pajamas, the girl was reizable even from behind.

  It was that ghost-like girl who had received the eyeball soup at dinner.

  Rumi instantly had a feeling that dorm life wouldn't be too fortable.

  "So you're our roommate?"

  "Eep!"

  The girl who had been absently anizing her bedding turned around in surprise.

  The girl slightly raised her eyes as she reized Rumi.

  "It's you..."

  "Oh, so you do talk."

  "Um... hello. I'm Niel. Looks like you're our roommate."

  Niel shyly greeted from beside Rumi.

  The girl rexed her eyes seeing Niel's kind expression.

  Indeed, Niel appeared to be a really kind ale girl oside.

  "I'm Eve."

  "I'm Rumi."

  "Yeah..."

  Eve's respoo Rumi was very brief.

  Just then Professor Myers' voice echoed in the corridor.

  "Don't fet to drink your silver holy water before bed. Read the rules before sleeping. And pray befoing to bed."

  Rumi caught a glimpse of Professor Myers cheg the dorm rooms while walking the corridor.

  She closed the dorm room door and looked back at Eve.

  "Looks like no one else is ing, so it seems just the three of us will share this room."

  "Oh, seems that way."

  Niel responded.

  "Eve, you've already chosen your bed?"

  Rumi asked, looking at Eve who had already finished preparing for bed on the left bottom bunk.

  "Yeah, if you're okay with it I'll take this one. You weren't wanting this bed, were you...?"

  Eve asked with an unnecessarily anxious expression.

  "I'll defiake the top bunk, which bed are you going to choose, Niel?"

  "I should probably take the right bottom bunk..."

  Hearing Niel's answer, Rumi remembered she would o restrain Niel before bed.

  "Ah, right..."

  Rumi thought for a moment and decided their roommate Eve should know about Niel's special curse.

  "Then before bed, let's each talk about our curses and situations to be careful about."

  Rumi gave Niel a look to speak first.

  "Well... um, I have somewhat of a dual personality due to the red ignition curse."

  Rumi knew very well about Niel's dual symptoms.

  And calling it "somewhat dual" was far too uated. It would even be insuffit to call it a Jekyll and Hyde or Hulk level split personality disorder.

  Rumi could definitively say there probably wasn't anyone in the whole school with a more serious curse than Niel.

  "Aren't you going to say how severe it is?"

  Rumi finally spoke up.

  "Well, even if it might seem severe, those is hardly ever happen normally."

  Rumi frow Niel not telling the whole story.

  Eve sehe awkward atmosphere between Niel and Rumi as she watched them.

  Rumi was about to say the severity could get both Eve and Rumi killed, but seeing Niel's pleading look not to tell, she just closed her mouth.

  "Your turn now."

  Rumi passed the question to Eve.

  "I'm... gr... ahem. I do have green terror, but it's not that severe.

  I sometimes have nightmares so I might be a bit noisy with sleep talking, but it's definitely not a curse that harms others, so feel free to wake me if I'm too loud."

  Eve shared about her curse.

  "That's milder than I expected. Are you sure that's all?"

  "Of course, why would I hide anything?"

  "No, just when I saw you in the cafeteria today you seemed pretty unlucky."

  "That was... just then. It's not usually that bad!"

  Eve reacted quite sensitively.

  "Okay. I just wao make sure your curse wouldn't have aive iions with Niel's curse here, which could be insanely serious."

  Rumi said while grabbing Niel's shoulder.

  Niel smiled awkwardly while watg Rumi's rea.

  "Then what's your curse?"

  "I'm curse imm... no, I don't have any curses."