Scene 1 — Morning Announcements
The intercom crackled like something was chewing on the wires.
Principal Harada's voice came through, strained, too calm to be normal.
"Students… please remain in your classrooms. Several… individuals have not reported to school today. The situation is under review."
Everyone exchanged glances. This wasn't the first time someone didn't show up. But this was the fifth day in a row new names were added to the whisper list.
Akira froze halfway through packing her bag.
"Wait… Haruna too?" she murmured, reading the homeroom attendance sheet. Haruna, who literally never missed a day. Ever.
A nervous laugh rippled through the class.
Nobody believed it was funny.
The lights flickered once. Twice.
Then stayed a shade darker.
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Scene 2 — Hallway Panic
By second period, the school was in shambles.
Teachers whispered. Students clustered in groups, restless.
The walls felt… wrong. Thicker. Like they were listening.
Then someone screamed.
A boy from Class 2-B stumbled into the hallway, pale and shaking.
"T-The floor— it moved— it swallowed— Miki, she—"
He couldn't finish. The floor beneath him throbbed subtly like a heartbeat.
Chaos detonated instantly.
Some students ran for the entrance.
Doors refused to open.
Classroom windows distorted like rippling water.
Akira grabbed her head, dizzy. "What the hell is happening?"
A soft tapping came from the ventilation shafts.
Not mechanical.
Knocking.
Something was awake.
Something that had been trapped here for years.
Something that finally sensed fear strong enough to feed on.
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Scene 3 — The Awakening Below
Deep under the school, in the old sealed basement—
A thin membrane of darkness peeled back like eyelids opening.
Creatures Kylori had unintentionally weakened the seal on stirred.
Feral shapes with too many joints.
Half-finished things built from shadow and old memories.
They crawled toward the surface, drawn by panic like sharks to blood.
One whispered in a voice like shattered glass:
> "Fear ripens them… the doorway weakens the walls… we can rise now…"
Footsteps echoed above — frantic, clueless students.
The monsters smiled without mouths.
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Scene 4 — Kylori Steps In
In the upstairs hallway, chaos raged —
Students sobbing, teachers yelling, paper scattering like feathers from a slashed pillow.
Kylori stood in the center of it all, eerily calm.
Shadows around him flickered like candles starving for oxygen.
He felt them.
The creatures below.
The thin veil tearing.
His eyes darkened, and his own shadow stretched long, twisting at the edges.
Akira approached him, terrified but drawn to him anyway.
"Kylori… what's happening to us?"
He didn't look at her.
He was listening to the chorus beneath the floors.
Finally, he spoke — voice quiet, almost gentle:
"They're waking up. Because of me."
The hallway temperature plummeted.
From the staircase behind them, a wet scraping sound echoed upward.
Something had arrived.
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Scene 5 — The First Breach
A cluster of students shrieked as a hand—long, jointless, almost liquid—slid out from under a locker.
Fingers wrapped around a girl's ankle. She screamed as she was yanked down, but the floor beneath her turned soft, consuming her like quicksand.
Her last cry was cut off.
Silence.
Then the floor hardened again.
No trace left.
Panic exploded into full chaos.
Students trampled each other trying to flee.
Akira stumbled back, eyes wide with horror.
"Kylori— do something! Please!"
Kylori inhaled slowly.
Shadows coiled around his legs, rising like smoke.
Something monstrous smiled from behind his eyes.
"I already did," he murmured.
"And that's why the school won't survive today."