The teacher looks at Nahoko sternly as she says "Well? Are you going to explain yourself young lady or will I have to give you some extra cleaning duties in the morning?". Nahoko looks slightly paler as looks up at the teacher sheepishly and says "Well... I just have a study class here and my teacher should be coming soon so I thought that I would get here earlier to get some more studying in". Nahoko shifts her weight slightly to block the view of Broki-chan, giving the teacher a nervous smile as the teacher continues to look at her sternly. They were both silent for a few minutes before the teacher sighs and says "Don't let me stop you, get back to studying" before walking out of the library, the sound of her heels tapping getting quieter and quieter until the library was completely silent.
Nahoko sighs loudly as Broki-chan quietly gets out of his hiding spot. Nahoko turns around to look at Broki-chan who looks back at her as he asks, "Why did you lie to her, she could have helped". Nahoko shakes her head as she whispers, "No she wouldn't, she would only stop our search but from now on we have to be quieter to avoid the teachers". Broki-chan shrugs before nodding to which Nahoko replies in a whisper "You know I think I might know of a book that could sort of make that text more readable so I'll keep an eye out for that but for now I'm going to take that book with the hidden message, it might have a clue to where that book could be" as she proceeds to take the book out of the bookshelf.
click.
The click sound surprised Broki-chan almost making him jump, unlike Nahoko who looked fairly unfazed. Broki-chan looks a bit shocked as he asks "Is- is it a trap?". Nahoko shakes her head in disagreement as she says "No, a trap click would be much louder, but it was almost like a door unlocking click, we should probably try to check to see what it unlocked, it could lead to some clues about what's going on". Broki-chan makes a mm-hmm sound before they both begin to check every bookshelf, however, they find nothing related to the sound. Nahoko starts pacing as she ponders what the click sound could have unlocked. After a few minutes of pacing, she comes to a realisation as she says "Aha, it has to be the boiler room that's been locked ever since I started school here". She quickly takes her bag and grabs Broki-chan's hand as she looks up at him and says, "We should probably quickly check there, don't you think?". Broki-chan nods in agreement as he says "Yeah, good idea".
They both sneak over to the boiler room quickly and quietly, avoiding anyone still roaming the silent halls. Once they make it to the boiler room the first thing they notice is that the door was swung open, tapping back and forth against the wall due to the slightly opened window blowing in a slight breeze nearby. Just as Nahoko is about to walk into the boiler room, they're both jump-scared by the sound of the bell going off. Nahoko quickly rushes Broki-chan out of the school the moment she spotted some of the students moving to their homeroom classrooms. They get out of the school before anyone notices, Nahoko looks around to see if anyone else saw her before looking back at the school to see if any teachers were after them. Whilst Nahoko has her back turned, Broki-chan's heart starts beating faster as he quietly approaches her bag, the UV flashlight sticking out of it. He quickly takes it and hides it behind his back, just as Nahoko turns around and says "Okay. I think we're in the clear, I'm going to inspect that book to see what's up with it but for now I have to go and get back to my homeroom asap, so I guess I'll see you later Broki-chan".
Broki-chan watches as Nahoko runs back into the school just as Monika emerges from the ground behind Broki-chan, noticing the flashlight and saying "So in the span of an hour or two, you turned into a criminal? What did you even get up to with Nahoko?". Broki-chan looks somewhat surprised as he turns around and says in a somewhat defensive tone "I'm not turning into a criminal, I'm borrowing this, I'll give it back to her after". Monika lets out a slight chuckle as she says "Uh-huh... sure Broki-chan, I believe you wholeheartedly". Broki-chan looks at her somewhat annoyed as he replies "I'm serious!... really, I am... but that's beside the point as for what I was doing with Nahoko, we were just in the library and we found a book with a hidden message which opened the boiler room, nothing else".
Monika tilts her head as she says "The boiler room? That's... weird, please tell me you didn't give her the book". Broki-chan nonchalantly replies "Yeah I did let her take it, why?". Monika facepalms as she says, "Oh my god, you have to be the dumbest person I've ever met and that's saying something."
"It's not that serious, Monika."
"Yes, it is! Why did you let her take it?"
"I don't know, I just didn't think it would be a problem besides she'll probably translate it better than me after all she did figure out how to unlock a door that has been locked for ages."
"I mean yeah true but still, that's beside the point, this is a really really bad idea Broki-chan, you shouldn't trust her at all, she'll probably backstab you for her own agendas and when she does, don't say I didn't warn you Broki-chan."
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Broki-chan shrugs before saying "Well I guess we'll have to investigate the boiler room without the help of Nahoko, will that make you happy?"
Monika's mask turns into a smiling expression as she says, "Do what you want Broki-chan, I don't care."
Broki-chan and Monika wait beside a tree near the school entrance until it's pitch black and silent. Broki-chan quietly walks through the halls as Monika follows him silently, giving Broki-chan some form of light from her ghostly glow. They first find the library then, after some trial and error, find the boiler room again. They stare at the dark staircase for a few seconds before Broki-chan begins to slowly walk down it. Whilst Broki-chan is walking down the staircase, Monika grows more and more anxious as she says, "This is a bad idea Broki-chan".
As he walked further and further down, Broki-chan noticed that with each step, the air was getting heavier and heavier. Once Broki-chan gets closer to the bottom of the staircase, he sees someone floating in the centre of the room, surrounded by doors. Broki-chan gets to the bottom and takes a step into the room, getting a closer look at the back of the ghost's hair which Broki-chan noticed being fairly like Sakura's due to the similar hair colour and twin buns. Whilst Broki-chan was trying to figure out if the ghost was Sakura, the ghost turns around, its yellow eyes fixated on Broki-chan as it says almost in an infuriated tone "Broki-chan, get out of my sight, I don't want to see you ever again".
"Sakura? Is that you? what- what did I do?" said Broki-chan, very confused at the ghost's anger towards him. The ghost seems more and more angry as it yells "What did you do? WHAT DID YOU DO? ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW? I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU RIGHT NOW, YOU'RE KIDDING RIGHT?". Broki-chan looks even more confused as he says, "I'm serious, I don't understand what I did to anger you?". The ghost makes a humph sound before they say "Well first off you're still hanging out with my murderer and what? You just thought I wouldn't notice while I was in that void?"
"w-what? -" said Broki-chan, confused about who she was referring to. He pauses for a second, looking at the ground before looking back at the ghost and saying, "What are you even talking about?". Broki-chan doesn't get an answer as the ghost stares at him before it says annoyed "I'm not telling you, that's for you to figure out yourself, also before you even ask, I won't help you find what you're looking for here, goodbye Broki-chan".
The ghost flies up into the roof as Monika shrugs, flying towards Broki-chan as she says, "Well I guess that's that then, we should-". Monika gets pushed back by an invisible barrier of some kind, confusing both her and Broki-chan. Monika tries to break through the barrier but she's unsuccessful, eventually giving up as she says to Broki-chan "You'll have to go without me Broki-chan, I think I'm going to try to track down that ghost or Nahoko, good luck". Broki-chan nods and walks closer to the centre of the room, albeit somewhat reluctantly.
Once he's at the centre of the room, he's spooked by the door he just entered the room from, quickly closing behind him along with all the other doors opening, however completely dark inside. Broki-chan looks around the room and its doors for a few minutes before walking back towards the centre and getting the idea to use the UV flashlight he 'borrowed' from Nahoko. He turns the UV flashlight on, albeit with a bit of fiddling to get it working.
Once he got it working, he flashed it at the walls, first noticing that there were different words on the 12 opened doors which said in order: 'resonance, fragmented, ties, verity, strife, axe, veiled, murmurs, requiem, torn, ensnared, splintered'. As Broki-chan is looking at the words above the doors, he fails to notice the arrows pointing towards the ceiling for a few minutes. When he finally notices the arrows pointing towards the ceiling, he noticed that there was a message on it appeared to be the solution to the puzzle at least in Broki-chan's eyes. It read: 'In the echoes of fractured bonds, the truth, obscured by rivalry's axe, whispers it's requiem.'
Broki-chan quietly chants the phrase, trying to think of the answer before he realises what it could be. He looks at the doors with the UV flashlight in hand, looking for the door with the word 'resonance' as he quietly mutters it. He finds the door and points at it as he says, "In the echoes...". He moves the UV flashlight towards the two doors to the right which has the word 'fragmented' on one and 'ties' on the other. He looks towards the doors as he continues "...of fractured bonds, the truth...". He pauses as he moves the UV flashlight in the same direction as before, pausing on a door with the word 'axe' above it and continuing the phrase "...obscured by rivalry's axe...".
He moved the UV flashlight past the 'veiled' door and onto the 'murmurs' and 'requiem' doors as he says "...whispers it's requiem". He moves the flashlight past the 'requiem' door to the 'torn' door then the 'ensnared' door and then finally, he pauses on the 'splintered' door. He looks behind him to see if the 'axe' door is opposite to it as he mutters to himself "This has to be the right door". After a bit of hesitation, he eventually walks through the door, revealing a never-ending hallway, at least from Broki-chan's perspective. Once he walks through the door, it shuts behind him, locking itself in the process. Broki-chan gets the idea to use the UV flashlight again, looking around for a moment, only to find the puzzle on the front of the door with a combination lock to his left which read 'Echoes of choices, veiled and sealed... Moments of truth are subtly concealed... Lost in the dance of fate's own hand... Digits etch stories in silent sand...A stranger's past, enigmatic play... Numbers unlock the hidden way'.