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Regardless of what the group would say, Bul decided that it would be in his own best interest to merge their group with the others as soon as he could, which meant they'd be exploring more classrooms. While not splitting entirely from his own troop the boil made it painfully obvious where he was going and that he hoped they too would follow and stick together. "Heeey!" Bul called out rather hoarsely towards the west wing as he walked.

"Hey guys, wait up we're coming to join you!" Bul stopped to take a breath and checked to see if he was being followed before continuing towards the group. On the way he passed the blown-out lockers and winced. He glued himself to the opposite side of the hall as not to get close to the obviously dangerous things before crossing to the next hall.

Like the others in her group, Aurian kept exploring the classrooms. having read the note that Raziel had found, Aurian picked it up and tucked in under a tight belt around her waist. She was worried out what the writer mentioned - winning, which meant people had lost. Some sort of game? Perhaps even a deadly one, considering the state of the island ad the vicious glee of the author's words.

Done in the room, Aurian moved on to another. Room 104, the door sign stated. After another hunt around, she found another note. Her stomach dropped out as she read it. Things were not looking up.

When Raziel called out that he'd found keys, Aurian picked up the second note and made her way back to him. "Does it say what they're keys to?" she asked. "Oh and I found this."

She held the note out to the others, letting them read it and the first. "I don't like the sounds of whatever happened here. It was enough to make someone talk about never forgiving, and winning, and it all sounds like something terrible."

What had happened to these winners? To the losers? Were either group the violent reapers and other creatures that kept attacking them?

West had found, read and left behind room 104's note and was rummaging around in a back corner of the same room when Aurian came exploring as well. She appeared to take the note and then leave, and the demon decided it was time to rejoin the others. Standing around looking at creepy busts wasn't getting him anywhere.

He heard and felt a couple of rumbling booms and by the time he reentered the hall there was a new hole into one of the bathrooms. West tried to peek inside, then kept walking. He found his companions plus some new additions, and stood silent for a while, listening to their jumbled conversation before adding his two pumpkin seeds. "There're only two room'son the'map that're still locked: adminissrashun 'n th'gym. The rest'er..." He paused, letting a faint explosive boom make his case for him. "Th'rest've been blown open. Anyone wanna go check th'locked ones out?"

Savior wasn't so sure she liked the sudden bustle of activity that seemed to come with the arrival of new students and with everyone going their own ways. while it was possible that she was just feeling ansty because a larger crowd made them an easier target for a group of Males, it may have also just been because she was uneasy. Of course it was in her unease that caused her to wander away from the group and towards the gym. She didn't get very far before she turned and found herself near Colette and nearly walking into the Janitor's closet. Thankfully the monster had arrived after the explosion and was only there to witness the aftermath, but that didn't stop her from poking around rather cautiously. All of this had her on edge but at least she wasn't hearing anything anymore.

"Wut." Savior's orange-hued hand pointed over at the keys in Colette's hand, the tip of her nail actually poking at the Reaper's hand in an effort to either get attention or to get said item. Thankfully she didn't draw blood with how hard she poked but it certainly was enough. "Wut." The monster should have remembered Colette's name, they'd met twice now, but for some reason it was . . . not even on the tip of her tongue or in the back of her mind. Oops.

As much as he loved to be surrounded by numbers, which was clearly a no, he decided it was time to check up on the others and opened the classroom door to get out. There was quite a mass of people in the West hall now, as he blinked owlishly at the gathering. "Well, that's one way to open a closed path, contraband explosives." he said as he peered at a few in an open locker, hopefully they were just duds. "And it was in abundance, that's the scary thing." It couldn't help but make him feel bad for whatever the students that attended here had to go through.

He kept an open ear to West's suggestions, while weighing the two choices, while reading the note that Aurian managed to find. "Well, ain't that somethin'." What it was he wasn't sure, but it went hand in hand with the scratching on the wall near the entrance. "If those are the two places left to look, I'm thinking about the Administration, If we were lucky, the faculty might be there." But the nagging feeling in his head also said that they might find something worse too. If there was some sort of "game" afoot, the faculty must have known about it, might even have enforced it.

Jove's ears drooped, more because Tomoko's ears drooped than in reaction to the wound. She was right, it wasn't very convenient... Wiping the blood off on his already bloodied pants yet again, the pup accepted the bandages and then sort of stood there. Put it on the spot where it was bleeding? Like on his skin, right?

It was a good thing the blindfolded boil came forward when he did, or Jove might have just made a mess of it all. The pup's ears drooped a little more, since he didn't know the taller boil, but if the others from the school were exploring with him he couldn't be all that bad...

Jove blinks up with wide eyes for a minute before passing the unwound bandages along to the older student. Then he lifted his own shirt in imitation. The deep, dark bruises all across his left side were normal for the ghost, but they seemed darker after he had been attacked, and the skin had split open along his lowest rib to ooze dark blood. Superficial, but messy. Strangely enough, it looked more like he had been hit by something blunt and very strong, rather than cut by the scythe-wielding figure who had come at him.

He hoped it didn't take long to... uh, have his wound dressed, he wanted to go see the explosives that had been found, he was a boil after all, even though he wasn't so sure if he wanted to be opening doors with them. Once his curiosity was sated he hoped to go back and find Seiji and Junko, and the other two he didn't know.

Nothing else useful, not at all. The toilet paper spotted wasn't even in great condition -- Colette wouldn't bet a regular pumpkin seed that anyone would use that! The Reaper was so wrapped up in her find and surroundings that she didn't notice Savior approaching, and she gave Colette such a surprise! The pricker like feeling in her hand startled the ghoul even more so.

"Ow!" Colette had said quite softly upon the p***k, despite the surprise. She had also jerked away her hand quickly at that moment and began to rub the spot, as if just touching the thorn of a rose on accident, which let the keys fall to the floor. However, Colette felt ten times better once she saw what it was that caused the pain, or more like who. "Savior!" she exclaimed happily. She hadn't seen her since the boat -- it was good that she was alright! And she was going to be the first being Colette shared the good news with!

While leaning down to pick up the keys, Colette told her, "They're keys! THE keys. I think they're for the gym." The Reaper could at least focus enough to tell she wanted to know what they were, but she wasn't watching as to what was going on while leaning down to reach for the keys.