[009 | voice, Japanese]

[sweetdeath]

Aah--!

Shit. There was one right outside the window - there was one in here just a little while ago -

Ichinomiya? Why can we all see them now?

W-what do they want?

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[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

Except it's all kind of pointless, because I don't know what I can do to help anyway.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

In some cases the attempt to help, the willingness or simply remembering is enough.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

Not as good as actually making a difference.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

Those efforts can make a difference.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

Asking them, at the moment, might work....

Something is writing on the chalkboards.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

[...]

Writing seems to be appearing in a number of places.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

Oh? What have you seen?

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

There's some writing outside Latimir.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

And on the chalkboards in here... and in one of the stairwells.

I think we may be close to finding out what the ghosts want after all.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

If they want us to.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

What they've written so far doesn't look all that helpful.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

The messages might not be intended for us.

What have you seen so far? The writing outside Latimir says 'ashes ashes we all fall down'.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

"They're hiding in the dark," on the chalkboard... and a poem about someone named Sofia in the stairwell.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

... I see.

Then, of course, there's the question of how literal or metaphorical these messages are.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

I guess we'll have to wait and see if anything is literally hiding in the dark.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

A lot of things hide in the dark. Whether it's what the messages are referring to, perhaps only those who wrote the messages will know that for sure.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

...true enough.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

It seems it's just going to be a matter of having patience.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

You're pretty calm about all of this, Naruse-san. You haven't run into ghosts before, have you?

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

...Here I have.

[...] Besides, what good would it do to go around panicking?

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

So this same thing has happened before...?

And it doesn't help a whole lot, but that doesn't mean most people can stop themselves.

[angelic-lawyer.livejournal.com]

Not this, no. I suppose you could say that past occurrences were more [...] personal in nature.

I suppose not.

[cinnagami.livejournal.com]

Oh. ...Great.