Chapter 12: Solution.

*Avariena’s POV*

Talking to Mana was an exhausting endeavor. It was like she had a predisposition to not say the truth, or at least hide parts of it. If we wanted the full truth, we had to ask her many different questions, just to answer one question fully.

Kaito: “The most important question of ours, how do we solve this door?” Kaito asked.

Mana: “The core must be destroyed. Which was my punishment. Only when it is destroyed, can I leave this hell. It cannot be destroyed by physical means.” She explained.

Avariena: “Then why did you advise us to destroy it?” I ask with an annoyed tone.

Mana: “I was told that it can’t be destroyed like that. But I never had the chance to actually test it out. Now I know that it can’t be destroyed via physical attacks. It can only be destroyed when the will of the pocket dimension is destroyed.” She answered.

Kaito: “Mana… that’s even more vague.” She said with a sigh.

Mana: “It’s simple, just kill every monster.” She replied.

Every monster? Like, in the entire fucking world? Even if we could do that with a handgun, we barely have enough ammo as it is… Ah, right. If you’re wondering why our principle had a handgun, she didn’t. The ammo and the handgun, were stolen by Mana.

Mana: “Those looks that you’re giving me don’t give me much confidence…” She said with a sigh.

Avariena: “How are we supposed to deal with every monster in the whole world?” I ask.

Mana: “Monsters only appear near the core. So it won’t be the entire world.” She replied.

Well… that makes our job easier. But it’s still a very difficult job regardless. We wanted to ask Mana more things, but she disappeared. Which means that the pocket dimension opened up once again.

I don’t know if her mother is messing with us, or something like that. Why? Because this theme was the same stupid fucking ghost girl one.

Kaito: “Shall we try to get revenge once again?” She asked with a smile.

Avariena: “The students and teachers are just fakes, so instead of going to them, we should look for the ghost girl’s real body.” I propose.

Kaito agreed with my plan. Now all we had to do was find her real body. Which is easier said than done. It would be somewhere within this school. It’s just that this school is pretty big.

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Thinking back, the last time we ended up in this theme, we didn’t find anything that could have been her real body. So instead, we looked outside and around the school.

*Two hours later.*

Looking around, all we found was nothing. That was until we came across an old shack.

Kaito: “Do you remember this shack ever being here in this school?” She asked.

Avariena: “No. It’s definitely original to this pocket dimension. Let’s head into it.” I reply with a serious tone.

Before we went in, I made sure my handgun was loaded, and that there was a round in the chamber. We opened the door, which was barely hanging onto its hinges, and walked inside.

We were greatly disappointed. It was just an old porta-potty… We were about to leave with an annoyed mood when the floor of the porta-potty fell out from under us.

After waking up from the fall, we were now in a very girly room. No, really. It was like a little girl’s room. With stuffed animals, and pink frills everywhere.

We searched the room for a while, but found nothing that could be the ghost girl’s true body. The only place that we haven’t looked, was on the other side of a locked door. On the door was a sticky note.

Ever heard of an escape room? Well, we had to figure out where the key was, using only a very vague hint on the note.

Kaito: “Let’s see… the note says, “I am fluffy, I am dangerous, and I live in a forest.”… What the heck are we looking for?” She asked with a confused tone.

I glanced around the room, and there was only one stuffed teddy bear in the entire room. It was on the bed. Thinking that I solved the shitty puzzle, I climbed onto the bed to grab the teddy bear.

Once I grabbed it, thin blades shot out everywhere. By some goddamn miracle, I managed to dodge most of the blades. Like I said, MOST of them. I was still very injured.

I don’t think that there was a single part of my body that didn’t have a huge slash on it. Ah, my vanity… at least my face is uninjured. Kaito quickly rushed over to me.

Kaito: “Avariena! Are you okay?” She asked with a worrying tone.

Avariena: “Just a little cut up. Nothing a visit to the hospital can’t solve.” I say with a shrug.

Since I was annoyed at that fucked up trap, I quickly tore up the teddy bear. Inside its stomach, was a gold key. Going over to the door, I was able to unlock it with the key.

Inside the room was five chairs. Each chair had its own doll of a little girl sitting on it. The dolls looked just like the ghost girl.

Avariena: “Ah! Finally, we have found their real bodies!” I exclaim.

Not taking any chances, I shoot one of the dolls. Which completely destroyed it. I heard a guttural scream, which came from behind Kaito. One of the ghost girls was sneaking up on her, it seems. When I looked over at her, she was in the process of vanishing.

Kaito: “Did I almost get sneak attacked again!?” Kaito raged.

Her rage was quickly forgotten due to our current situation. The remaining ghost girls came out of hiding, and started attacking us like their life depended on it. Which is, because it did.

Every time that I tried to take a shot at a doll, either I was being attacked, causing me to miss, or one of the ghost girls used their bodies to block my shot.

Kaito: “Fuck this! I am too tired for this shit!” Kaito yelled.

She then grabbed my hand, and dragged me out of the room. I was very confused. She also made sure to lock the door back as well. So the ghost girls were slamming onto the door with loud thuds.

Avariena: “Do we need a new plan?” I ask with a head tilt.

Kaito: “No need. 5… 4… 3… 2… 1!” She said with a cheeky tone.

I was greatly confused at this point… That was until I heard a loud *BOOM!* from inside the room. Ah! She tossed the grenade into the room. I wanted to thank her, and call her a genius, but the next second, I was in a hospital…