scary monsters ~endless halloween night~ 1-9 "it's totally busted"

[mandytl]

 

 

Location: Mirror Chamber

Crowley: What exactly happened?!

Ruggie: Ah! Headmaster, Leona-san!

Jamil: It’s serious. Take a look over there!

Crowley: The Dark Mirror’s linked to someplace…?

Silver: Hm? Didn’t the remaining students take shelter here?

Yet all I see is you three. Where’d the rest go?

Jamil: About that…

Crowley: O Dark Mirror! What’s gotten into you, pray tell?

Dark Mirror: …...

Crowley: I said, Dark Mirror!

… Hellooo? Anyone in there?! Are you even listening?!

Dark Mirror: …...

Floyd: It’s totally busted.

Crowley: How dare you say that about the precious Dark Mirror!

Ruggie: Uh, actually—Floyd-kun’s telling the truth!

We moved everybody to the Dark Mirror like you said.

But after that…

Fades to a scene in the past.

Jamil: There. That should be everyone.

Floyd: Okay, but like, we’re not gonna get anywhere just standing here afraid of our own shadows.

I’ll just pop outside and have a peek since I’m bored.

Ruggie: Hold it, Floyd-kun. Splitting up’s the worst scenario here!

Ortho: I’ll keep Floyd Leech-san company!

I can’t sit still when I’m worried about Nii-san.

Jamil: Cut it out, you two. We don’t need to go rattling everyone’s cages right now.

Scarabia Student A: Dealing with the guys who act up without our dorm leader here’s gonna be rough…

Heartslabyul Student B: …Huh?

Diasomnia Student C: Something’s wrong with the Dark Mirror.

Jamil: What’s this light?! Where’s it coming fro...—ah!

The party will begin

once our selected guests have arrived.

Jamil: Everyone back away from the mirror!

Everyone: U-UWAAAAH!!!

Fades back to the present.

Ruggie: … Soon as we heard that weird voice, everybody got sucked into the mirror.

We would’ve had it bad too if Jamil-kun hadn’t erected a magic barrier around us.

Jamil: My apologies. I could only protect those closest to me in that split-second…

Only Ortho and us were able to make it out, since we were the ones standing furthest away from the mirror.

Crowley: T-This can’t be…

Everyone: ……

Crowley: Ahh… ahhh… for so many of my students to disappear like this…

How… how will I…

How will I go about explaining this scandal to the public?!

Riddle: That was your first thought?!

Leona: All he cares about is saving his own ass.

Crowley: An apology press conference… ah, no, first we’ll have to inform their respective guardians… oh, no no… 

Jamil: Headmaster! You’ve got to pull yourself together!

The culprit said, “the party will begin once our selected guests have arrived”, then abducted them.

That must mean… until we’re ‘there’, everyone should still be safe!

Crowley: Gasp. That’s good. That’s to say, there’s still a chance to come back from this?!

Leona: Whether they’re alright in there or not…

There’s a lot of bizarre crap going on with the mirror. It reeks of some magic I’ve never encountered.

Crowley: Though I don’t know where the Dark Mirror’s connection lies at the moment…

If you sense something reflected in it, that mana must be powerful indeed.

Whatever it is, it had to interfere with the barrier cast over our entire campus in order to completely alter it into a spell that prevents leaving, rather than preventing intrusive entry.

Both people and time have become trapped inside as a result.

Riddle: Then that mana emanating from the Dark Mirror is the root cause of this endless night?

Crowley: Maybe so.

Floyd: Why not smash the thing?