"Wh-What? Itsuki, why did we end up back here?"
"...I wish I knew."
We thought we had stepped out onto the school grounds, but then Nina-chan's face appeared right in front of me. It made no sense. What was happening?
"We stepped outside, but then we were back inside…"
"Are you serious? Why?"
"...I have no idea."
I really didn't know. In all the stories I've heard about monsters, I've never come across one that traps people inside a school.
"Could we be… stuck in here?" Nina-chan asked nervously.
"Try it yourself, Nina-chan. Maybe it's just me."
"O-Okay."
At my suggestion, Nina-chan hesitantly stepped toward the school entrance. The moment she walked out, though, she reappeared, walking back in through the door.
"Itsuki, why are you here?"
"Well… because you just came back too."
Was "came back" even the right way to describe this? All I knew for sure was that we were trapped.
