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Arel hesitated for a second before chasing Red's tattered cloak, the two of them quickly heading into the gym office. He managed to managed to slip in right behind the gym instructor, though the window blinds did not quite make it as the door came crashing closed with a loud wham, giving the cleaning gnomes loitering outside a nice portrait of a Not Very Impressed Red staring down the school secretary.

For a second, the secretary glanced outside the office from the corner of his eyes, as if expecting something outside the window, expression unreadable. Finally seemingly satisfied that noone but those useless cleaning gnomes were there, he continued conversation. Unfortunately, it was rather hard to hear through the vaccuming noise of the cleaning gnomes outside, though it was a question in itself as to why cleaning gnomes were vacuuming a waxed floor.

"- Convince me otherwise-" came a phrase between the large intervals of the shrill noise "-responsible for the students." Arel unfolded his arms, gesturing angrily. "I am warning you that this is a trap to get any students -" the rest was entirely drowned out, though there was no mistaking the secretary pulling out from what pocket something unmistakeable for quite a few students involved in the last incident on the Island, a slate-grey pendant with a single blue rune embedded within it. He pointed at it and mouthed angrily, though his words were still lost entirely through the noise.

"I don't like that name." Mot pouted, following Pepin down the hall. He took the offered hpone, guessing he was using the camera function to sneak some evidence for her story.

Mot furrowed a brow. What are they going on about in there? He thought as he leaned against a wall beside the door. It seemed bad. A trap for students? Were they in danger?

Mot pointed the camera through the opening in the blinds long enough to get a glimpse of a pendant. The object meant nothing to him personally. He didn't even know what---

DAMNIT PEPIN!

Levi had already begun her creep towards the door. Slow and steady...silent but deadly.

By the wall she crept, keeping her tail up like a submarine viewer. Something being discussed in that room could be of concern to her peers as well as herself. Mystery was afoot and in the depths of her sneaky guts, Levi wanted to get over to that door as best as she could to-

She froze at the loud announcement.

"No you don't~ I could last without mine~" Shehk teased back at her fellow hound, her tail wagging slightly, before she actually did relent and give her name to him. "Well, it's Shehk." She said, grinning at the little back-and-forth teasing that was going on. Up until about the point the PA blared a voice that wasn't actually as familiar to the pricolici as it probably could have been. Either way, her ears perked up and this look of 'WELL s**t' came over her face. However, unlike Demi who had ducked into a locker to hide, Shehk just..


Stood at another locker and pretended to be unlocking it using the combo.

Yeah. This was totally her locker. s**t. It wasn't, but if she pretended to forget the combo, she could use it as a pretense man.

A pretense.

Twitching at Pepin's loud announcement, Shun shot a glare in the direction of the ghost before grabbing onto Mitsu's arm to start pulling her away from the hallway if possible.

"Kuso... come on, let's get away from here," he hissed lowly. There was no way that the professors didn't hear that.

Israfel was by nature, very bird like. And when Red and Arel moved, he cocked his head as ear wings flicked around. The sane student part of him was all but screaming in his brain. NO. NO. THIS IS BAD. THEY ARE HAVING A SECRET LOVE AFAIR. DO NOT MEDDLE. NO MEDDLING. YOU WILL BE A MEDDLING KID AND GET THROWN IN TO THE CAR OF CURIOUSITY. AND THEN CEREMONIOUSLY DRIVEN INTO THE RIVER. RIVERS RUIN CLOTHES. RUINED CLOTHING IS TERRIBLE. JUST LIKE THE IDEA TO FOLLOW THEM.
To bad for the sane student self preserving side of the siren, Israfel’s curiousity core was winning. Icy Hot, a new ship. His little shipping heart needed answers. Eye wide, he tried his best to creep, to sneak, and to generally not look utterly foolish towards the cleaning gnomes lining the halls. And the other students. A ship was tethered at port in his bird brain, and he want to see it sail. For better or for worse.
Doing the creep, the blue eyed boil wiggled his way over to the door, squatting and trying to make out just what his hopeful ship was saying.

Too bad what he heard was anything but the sounds of two illicit lovers having affairs. It sounded like they were talking about school things. Bleh, how boring. He wanted something juicy! Something to post on groanspring later and gush about. Ships! Ships sinking while others were in port, ready to sail! Keeping his attention focused on the chatter, the siren’s eyes widened as he heard the word ‘trap’ and ‘students’. Traps for students? Wait, was this ship a joke? An illusionary ship? That wasn’t any fun. That was like..an anti-ship. Boooo. That was boring. Israfel felt jipped. He wanted a refund. The SS Icy Hot was a joke. A bad one. Shame on this false ship. Shame and- And.

That.
Pendant.

NO.
NO.
NO.
He remembered seeing one of those. Those were bad. Bad. Do not want. They came around when bad things happened. He did not want anything to do with them.
Thankfully the PA system diverted all his attention. There was a wedding? For a student? What? Israfel just turned and looked at Pepin. “…..which student?”
A NEW SHIP HE COULD SAIL?

The fact he had been trying to be sneaky and had just been trying to ship Arel and Red was gone. Icy Hot probably wouldn’t have worked anyway.

Red seems like the type of ghoul to prefer tall boils.

The jikininki had only just arrived when their professor and mister Arel had noticed them all lingering about, and he gave the two faculty members a rather blanket stare before they continued on their way. Frowning as he glanced down to Lizzy as he answered his question. Up to something? Great, that didn't sound good at all.

He didn't ask what exactly they were up to, guess that the girls wouldn't be following them if they knew. He would instead stay rather quiet as he followed along with the small group. Casting uneasy glances over his shoulder every now and again to keep a watch on the hall behind them. As if yet another teacher might show up and catch them ease-dropping. He had to guess snooping about after staff members was frowned upon. A detention earning sort of offense. Why was he following along after Lizzy and the others?

Ugh, because he wanted to know what the Jack was going on. he knew there was a trip coming up, and he was assuming it was either just for the knobs, or that the knobs were getting the more dangerous end of the stick when s**t hit the fan. Either way, if he could learn something..

Would it change much? Not really. He and Junko had had their huge fight over it, they'd reach an impasse, she'd signed her waiver. There was no going back and changing things, and he wasn't going to risk another fight by throwing anything he did find out under her nose, but perhaps it was something she could prepare for? That would be good, in a manner of speaking.

When the two faculty members entered the office it looked as though they weren't going to be finding anything out, but a little carelessness had gotten a bit of the door blinds caught, keeping it from closing completely. A crack was all they needed. As Levi cept forward, so too did Seiji. Leaning towards the door to turn his ear towards the crack to catch anything he could between the whir of the vacuum. What he did hear did nothing to reassure him about the trip to come. Something about a trap, and Arel sounded really worried.

He'd have liked to listen for more, but all of a sudden there was the sound of feedback and Pepin's voice blared over the PA system. DAMMIT PEPIN! The ghost flinched, eyes going wide as he stared at the door before turning tail and darting off at a jog down the hall they'd all come down. Grabbing Lizzy and the baku by the wrists as he passed to drag them along with him if he could. Had he more hands, he'd have tried to get more of them to run with him, but he only had the two. They had to go, they had to go now!

Do not want detention, kthnx!