Alex, walking inside the school building at night, his path is illuminated by the radiation from the full moon. The reason for him to walk alone inside the silent hallway is unknown. Perhaps, he just wants to take a walk alone.
"I eat a lot at the barbecue party earlier my stomach is stuffed..." Looking in the third person, Alex is on the first floor as the ground is visible to Alex as he's looking out to window. And then, as he yawns of sleepiness...
"*Yawn...* Maybe it's time for me to go to bed, tomorrow is a holiday, but I don't know what to do. Maybe I can take a quest at the guild- Eh?" Alex then sees someone vividly inside the shadow-covered hallway.
"Ah, it's Meryna. Meryna!" Alex recognized the shadowy figure which was Meryna. From his perspective, she's dragging two sacks. The content inside it is unknown. Alex thought it was something unimportant as he was not trying to be bothered about it. But then he realized the red liquid from the bottom of the sack.
As Alex walks ahead, everything seems to be more visible. The path opposite to Alex leaves the red trail which comes from the bottom of the sack. It scares Alex a bit, but he has known Meryna for a while, she loves to go hunting in deep forest. But then, something else scares Alex even more.
"Mmmmmmm!!!" The sound comes from the sack and sends a chill down to Alex's spine as he smiles awkwardly. Meryna, as she heard Alex who was calling for her, slowly turned her head towards Alex. At first, her expression is emotionless, but as time goes by, she then slowly smiles back at Alex.
"Oh! You haven't slept yet, Alex?" The sweat slowly flowed down from Alex's head as he gulped a large amount of saliva.
"O-Oh... I just don't feel like sleeping, so I decided to take a walk for a bit..."
"Is that so? Then... good night." Meryna seems to not care about Alex who saw her. Maybe she had nothing to hide, to begin with, that's what Alex thought as he asked a question to Meryna out of curiosity.
"S-Say, umm... What's in that sack? It seems alive from the looks of it." At first, Alex thought she wouldn't answer his question, but Meryna gave the answer after she thought for a while.
"Uhh... You know goblin? Ah yes, Goblin! I see them sneak around our school at night so I had to take them down. You know, it'll be bad if someone else got attacked by goblin inside our school isn't it?"
"Uh... yes, it is. But why wouldn't you kill it?"
"Because, I'm gonna tell the teacher about it, yes, teacher it is!" At the same time, Alex could hear the word come from the sack.
"Somebody! Help!" Although it's vivid, Alex could make a word that comes from the sack. But then, its voice went silent when Meryna gave a big, hard stomp on the sack. Hard enough for Alex to hear the sound of bone breaking from inside that sack.
"Uh, is that goblin can speak-"
"Ah! What time it is now? I gotta go to bed soon. Alex, you should too! Yes? You'll go to bed right?! Then, good night!" Meryna hurriedly dragged the two sacks beyond the doorframe. Leaving Alex speechless.
(If I'm not wrong, that door lets you into the basement. Maybe, just maybe, I don't have to be concerned about this and just go on my way...)
As Alex tried to go back to where he came from, at some point he stopped. He then looked back to the basement door.
(I'm scared... But, if it's just a little peek...)
It seems like Meryna leaves the door unlocked as Alex goes into the basement. At the bottom of the stairs, there is a long hallway with multiple doors inside of it. Alex noticed the multiple iron doors in the long hallway. It seems the place to store something of some kind. Alex could tell, that beyond the door, there were multiple footsteps touching the ground. Beyond every door.
(There are people here?)
As Alex tried to back off, he seemed to be hitting something behind him. No, it's been behind him for a while. Alex turned around, and it turned out to be Miss Sunny, one of the teachers in the school. Smiling at him the same way Merynasmilede at him, at that moment, Alex knew he wasn't safe anymore.
...
"So you have arrived, Ryuma Ochirou..." Ten, as he leaned on the window glasses, illuminated by the radiation from the full moon. He then walked over to the table and took a sip of the cup of coffee.
Ryuma and Kiyo, watching Ten take a sip of coffee. Ten then walk over to the other table. Ryuma noticed something that was covered in cloth standing on the table. Ten, take off the cloth from it, revealing some kind of object that takes shape almost the same as an hourglass.
"That's... Hourglass?" Hourglass of some kind. But it has a weird shape to it. The top part, is shaped like an eye-colored pink. Meanwhile, the bottom part is shaped like a cube.
"You might think this is an hourglass, but it's not. It's an artifact."
"Artifact?" Said Kiyo with the sweat flowing down from his head.
"Yes, its ability is to change... No, I'll be specific now, it's actually a mind control artifact."
"Mind control?!" Ryuma shouts as he hears Ten's words.
"Yes, and so just to let you all know, you all have been controlled from within, by this artifact..."