Broki-chan wakes up in a daze, looking at the cement flooring. He quickly tries to remember what happened before looking up to see Sakura, creepily close to him, smiling. Broki-chan, jump-scared by Sakura being so close, tries to jump away from her; however he realises quickly that he's tied up to a chair as he falls back, now seeing the wooden floorboard ceiling. Sakura looms over him as he struggles to untie himself before she lifts the chair back up. Broki-chan, still struggling to untie himself, nervously asks Sakura "Sakura what's going on? Why am I tied up? Can you untie me Sakura? Please? For me?"
Sakura frowns at him before going into a completely neutral expression as she says in a monotone voice "You know I can't do that Broki-chan, you'll just go back to Miyoko and forget about me besides...". Sakura pauses, her breath getting slightly heavier as she quietly says "I-I can't go back on this now". Broki-chan helplessly looks at her as he says "Sakura... please". Sakura sighs as she slowly back away towards the only door in the room as she says "Broki I can't do that so stop asking, oh you know what that's just reminded me of something, I've got a gift for you I'll just quickly grab it".
"Sakura come back... Sakura... SAKURA!" yelled Broki-chan as Sakura opens the door and takes one step onto what Broki-chan could only assume was a staircase. Sakura is about to walk up the staircase but stops as she looks back at Broki-chan, now smiling, as she says, "Oh and also I wouldn't try to scream if I were you, the basement is soundproofed, and you would just be wasting your beautiful voice". Before Broki-chan could say anything else, Sakura shuts the basement door and locks it. Broki-chan looks around the basement with panicked breaths, thinking of his escape plan but he can't think of anything. It was only less than a minute of Broki-chan being left to himself before he had given up, looking at the door hoping someone would save him. Whilst he's looking at the door, a girl wearing a mask like his and a school uniform, emerges from the floor in front of Broki-chan, scaring him which in return, scares the girl who floats towards some boxes nearby before phasing through them to hide. Broki-chan is confused as to what just happened but before he can think about it anymore, the girl phases her head through the boxes as she confusingly says, "You can see me?"
Broki-chan looks at her even more confused as he says "Yeah?". The girl is shocked but quickly flies over to Broki-chan and says "But how? I mean only people who are insane or have been revived before can see ghosts and I don't think you're either. Maybe it's your mask which makes you able to see me because it kind of looks like a ghost's, but it has actual eyes underneath, this is weird". Broki-chan looks at her blue and green eyes before asking "wait what do you mean by me having actual eyes underneath, you have eyes too I can see them". The girl tilts her head before realising what he meant and quickly replying "oh these aren't actually my eyes, there more just where my eyes should be but I can kinda just have like 360 vision or was it 270? Anyways, that's beside the point, basically, these weren't my actual eye colours, when I was alive I mean, like these colours were just my favourite colours that's why I have two different eye colours, make sense?"
Broki-chan looks puzzled but nods anyway before the girl looks at the door and then back at Broki-chan as she says, "I'm Monika and to be honest, it looks like you're in quite the predicament". Broki-chan goes to outstretch his hand but fails due to forgetting that he's still tied up before saying "I'm Broki-chan."
"Broki-chan? Is that like your full name, honorific and all?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Oh no reason, I was just a bit surprised because that name sounds familiar, but I can't remember where from."
Broki-chan sighs quite loudly, looking at the floor before looking back at Monika and saying "y'know I don't think I'm going to get out of here, I can't see any way out and Sakura has these ropes tied pretty tight, I still don't know why she would do this". Monika shrugs as she says "Huh is that so? Well, I doubt that you won't escape, I mean look at the window, someone's here and I don't think that's Sakura judging by how they're sneaking around". Monika points towards one of the basement windows and Broki-chan quickly turns to look. Broki-chan sees the legs of a woman in a school uniform, holding something which Broki-chan couldn't see very well due to the snow before the person quickly and sneakily walks to the left.
Monika's eyes move slightly down as she looks at Broki-chan, almost as if she was giving Broki-chan a sad look before she says, "I'll have to go for a couple of seconds, I'll be back as soon as I can". Monika doesn't wait for a response as she quickly phases through the roof. Just as Monika leaves, Broki-chan begins to hear the footsteps of two different people albeit with one of them being significantly quieter. Monika quickly comes back, somewhat panicked, however before she can say anything other than "Broki-chan", they both hear the door being unlocked, making Monika quickly decide to phase through Broki-chan and hide behind him.
Sakura opens the door, sinisterly smiling, and takes one step forward as she says "Broki-chan, I-". Before Sakura could say anything else, she was hit with a sharp axe going directly through the back of her skull, causing blood dripping from the back of her head as she instantly fell to the floor. Once she fell, blood began to pool around her as her lifeless body held the door open. Monika and Broki-chan both look at Sakura's lifeless body in shocked horror, completely unable to move as the killer who they could only see the gloves of, quickly leaves with the sound of their footsteps being almost deafening to Broki-chan. He couldn't even think, the only thought he had in his head now was that his best friend was just murdered right in front of him.
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After a few minutes of stunned silence, they both hear someone open a door and walk around. Broki-chan quickly hears that it's Miyoko as she yells out his name, making Broki-chan come back to reality as he yells out "Miyoko, Miyoko can you hear me I'm in the basement?". "Okay I'm coming Broki-chan" said Miyoko as she went to open a door. "Before you come in here, I thought I should let you know that Sakura is... Sakura's dead" said Broki-chan as Miyoko's footsteps got louder and louder. "Oh god no," said Miyoko as her footsteps got more panicked and louder before she audibly gasped as she entered the room and stepped over her corpse with tears in her eyes.
Miyoko runs over to Broki-chan, quickly trying to untie him as she asks, "Are you okay Broki-chan, are you hurt?". Broki-chan shakes his head as tears quickly run down his face. Monika finally comes back to reality as she quickly flies over to Sakura's dead body and screams "SAKURA". Broki-chan looks down at Miyoko who almost looks like she's side-eying Monika before Miyoko sighs and the ropes are untied. Miyoko quickly helps Broki-chan up before she looks back at the corpse and says "I- I think I'm going to try and find a phone to call the police".
Broki-chan also looks at the body as he says, "Yeah I think that would be best, I don't even know what to think right now". Miyoko quickly leaves up the stairs and Monika continues to stay near Sakura's corpse before she notices something and says "Broki-chan... Sakura's holding something, it's a book and I-I'm a bit curious as to why she is holding it. Do you mind picking it up? In all honesty, I can't even believe this would happen but maybe the book might have some of our answers". Broki-chan quickly picks up the book trying not to even look at the body before both he and Monika quickly leave the house.
The next day, Broki-chan watches from outside the auditorium as Sakura's death is announced to the whole school in an assembly. Just as the assembly ends, Broki-chan quickly leaves, walking over to where Sakura and he used to eat lunch together. He sits in the chair before looking down at the table, trying to process what happened as Monika floats towards him and says, "Well I figured out why Miyoko isn't here today, she was questioned but they couldn't pin anything on her, so they let her go and she has the day off". Broki-chan doesn't really engage with the conversation as he just quietly says "Uh huh". Monika floats closer to him as she says "Hey Broki-chan are you okay, I mean like of course you wouldn't be but uh- how are you holding up?".
Broki-chan looks up at her and says, "I'm holding up fine I guess, I just- I just don't know what to think or feel, like I know that I should be distraught over the fact that my best friend died right in front of me but I'm not and I don't know why, it's weird". Monika tries to put her hand on his shoulder without phasing through him as she asks, "do you want to talk about?". Just as the lunch bell goes off, Broki-chan shakes his head and Monika nods before floating to the seat next to him. "So, what about that book, do you still have it?" said Monika to which Broki-chan nods as he reaches for a loose brick on the floor, moving it and revealing the book as he places it on the table.
The book didn't look like a regular book, however, it had strange symbols on the cover with a distinct red eye in the middle. The book had no title however on the front the words 'Ghost Book' was scratched into it. Almost immediately, Broki-chan picks up the book and attempts to read it; however he finds out very quickly that the handwriting is almost unreadable. "Monika, can you make sense of this book? I can't read it because of the handwriting" said Broki-chan as he looked up at Monika. She tilts her head in confusion before floating over to the book and trying to read it for a few seconds before saying "Huh, in all honesty, I can't read it either, maybe we should-". She pauses as she notices Nahoko walking over to them, making her mask change to a smiling expression as she says "Broki-chan hide the book, now". Broki-chan is confused but does what she told him, hiding it under the chair the best he could before he watches Monika hide behind him as she quickly says, "Just try to end the conversation as soon as possible, I wouldn't trust her if I were you, something seriously wrong with her".
Broki-chan, still confused as to what she's talking about, says "Who are you even- oh". He pauses upon seeing Nahoko standing right in front of him, holding something before continuing "Uh hi Nahoko". Nahoko hands Broki-chan a lunchbox as she says "Hi Broki-chan, I'm sorry about what happened to Sakura, I know this won't make you feel better, but I brought you some food because I thought it would help". Broki-chan takes the food and begins to eat it albeit with slight hesitation at first. Whilst he's eating, he says "This is my favourite food, how did you know that Nahoko?". Nahoko chuckles as she says "Oh really? I didn't know that, so it was just a lucky guess".
Monika, looking annoyed, begins to slowly come out of cover and she floats above Broki-chan as Nahoko says "So Broki-chan do you even trust...". Nahoko immediately stops speaking and goes as white as a ghost as she makes eye contact with Monika. Nahoko stares at Monika, wide-eyed, for a few seconds before she takes a step back and runs away, almost bumping into Ishi in the process. Monika's mask goes back to how it was when she first met Broki-chan as she says "See? I told you something was wrong with her''. Broki-chan ignores her as Ishi walks up to him and they greet each other before Ishi says "You know it's kinda weird hanging around here, I still can't process that Sakura died, man, I can't even imagine what you're feeling."
"Yeah, it's weird, I feel conflicted about it like I don't feel sad about it, but I don't feel happy about it either, maybe it's because I was there and saw it happen."
"Wait wait... you saw it happen, could you tell me what happened because we weren't told anything, no pressure though".
"no, it's fine, basically what happened was that she was- she was murdered, I didn't see who the killer was though."
Ishi audibly gasps out of shock before saying "Oh my god that's horrible, the murderer is probably still out there we've gotta find that killer and-". Ishi cuts herself off as she notices the book and points at it as she says "Uh Broki-chan? What's that thing under the chair? What type of book is it, I've never seen anything like it before"