RP Shinjuku Academy Paranormal Investigation Club

“Ooh, taking over someone else’s lair, even better!” Sayane let out a laugh as Eiji relayed information. She certainly wasn’t afraid of squirrels, but she’d had more than her fair share of run-ins with them. She’d found they were very territorial, and didn’t really understand the concept of “I’m just looking around to see if there’s anything cool here” very well.

Regardless, the lack of squirrels was a net positive, and Sayane was ready to stop letting Eiji have all the fun. She somewhat awkwardly stepped into Akina’s hand before roughly boosting off and grabbing Eiji’s. She probably could have gotten herself up there, nobody helped her up in her previous excursions after all, but she appreciated the help. And if Eiji thought she was stronger because of it, well that was just an added bonus.

Sayane copied Eiji’s previous movements, scanning the area with her flashlight and grabbing one of the notebooks to inspect as soon as the last member of their trio was with them. She let her arm hang by Eiji’s and called down.

“Jump for it, Akina! We’ll pull you up!”
 
Nothing came chittering out of a corner once the second girl invited herself into the nest, so perhaps there really weren’t any squirrels hiding up there. Or, maybe they were just waiting for the perfect moment to attack. If that was their plan then Akina was blissfully unaware of the potential fuzzy trap. Instead, she reached her hands up towards those of the other two girls to do what was possibly their third or possibly fourth best idea of the afternoon.

“Okay, I’m going to jump up on three!” Akina said, bouncing on her heels a couple of times, because that felt like it might warm her muscles up some, which would help her jump higher!

“Right! One, two… three!” She did not hesitate as she hopped up, reaching for the hands dangling down from above. If they caught her, there looked to be a nice pipe she could step on to help boost herself up into the ceiling.

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“Right… but if we catch a glimpse of it then maybe we can figure out who the thief is.” Chiasa said, clearly once more getting more caught up in the moment than she was with good sense. It was just another little peek after all, and it wasn’t like they had damaged anything with the last one, right? “Let’s just take a quick little looksie and we can head back to your club room.”

Chiasa caught Kyo as the girl swooned into her, which did bring a little heat to her cheeks. “See? Kyo will just take a little look and we’ll be on our way.”
 
Kyo happily scrambled up Chiasa, letting the other girl boost her up into the vent. Once there, she poked her head inside, narrowing her eyes. She could've joked about something. It probably would've been funny. Something like - a vent ghost, in the shape of a rectangle, with a bloodied face. But -

There was something there. Something real. She barely caught sight of it as it disappeared further back into the shadows. Something long and snakelike, covered in mottled markings.

Without a word, Kyo kicked off of Chiasa's shoulders and face, pushing herself deeper into the vent. Deeper, and deeper, until only her shoes were hanging out, until the girl was gone altogether, crawling forward in hot pursuit of whatever little critter had gotten itself caught inside the school.

"Kyo's gonna get your ghost," she called back in a muffled echo, the sound of her thumping elbows disappearing into the ducts.
 
Akina made her jump, and Eiji caught one of her hands, letting Sayane grab the other so that the two of them could help pull her up into the lair of... squirrels? That didn't sound particularly terrifying. Eiji was trying desperately to think about it as the lair of squirrels and not the lair of whoever had left all those little trinkets and where were they now and what had happened to them and had it been horrible or were they still out there and they were going to show up in about ten seconds and ask what everyone was doing up there and that was going to be the worst, absolutely the worst-

Eiji made herself take a deep breath, which made her sneeze. She probably should have expected that, given that it didn't seem like this place had been cleaned any time recently. Actually, it would probably be pretty nice if it were tidied up. She wondered if it had been clean, when whoever-had-been-here had been here. And when that had been. And if they were about to show up again. Eiji glanced back the way they had come, but no cross-looking individuals seemed to have followed them in.

"Look, there's these little things up here," she said to the others after pulling Akina up - because sharing a problem meant you could pretend it was someone else's problem. "I don't think we're the first ones to find this place. I wonder who it was, before us?"
 
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