That evening, they all had nightmares. Tiffany woke up in the middle of the night feeling something extremely heavy on her chest, making her unable to breathe. Opening her eyes gradually, she discovered a doll standing on top of her duvet, which was advancing towards her with extended arms and bloodshot eyes, endeavouring to choke her. Tiffany wanted to sit up but she discovered that she was completely paralyzed, so she could neither move nor use her voice to scream and call for help. Nevertheless, the moment the evil doll touched Tiffany, an electric shock repulsed it away. Hissing angrily, the doll rolled onto the floor and jumped out of the window.
"I must've been dreaming!" Tiffany thought to herself as she discovered that she could move again. She felt something warm on her wrist and discovered that it was the prayer beads radiating warmly. "No, this is too real to be a dream!"
On the following morning, Tiffany woke up at 10 am, only to discover that everyone else were already up and appeared to be discussing something solemnly.
"Whatcha guys doing? Why so serious?" joked Tiffany.
"Mr Enomoto has passed away," said Shaun gravely.
"Who?" questioned Tiffany, bewildered.
"The headmaster of your school!" said Jeffrey. "Apparently, he jumped off the top of the school building. Strangely, he also had a pickax with him." He showed Tiffany his laptop, which he was using to browse the webpage of NHK's breaking news section, detailing the tragic death of the headmaster.
"Looks like Mr Enomoto must have returned to the school last night treasure hunting without his senpai Professor Kiriyama," conjectured Shaun.
"And he was so frustrated for not finding anything that he decided to commit suicide?" answered Jeffrey. "Seems like an unlikely story to me."
"He must have been lured to the top of the building and pushed down from there by the spirit," responded Blythe. "Such a shame that we didn't put two and two together last night after that incident. Otherwise, we could've saved his life."
"Wait, what spirit? What are you talking about? I thought we've already exorcised Yuki! And how the heck is Enomoto's death connected to last night's incident?" exclaimed Jeffrey, frustrated. "Urgh, for god's sake, stop being so secretive and explain to me what happened last night!"
"Sorry for not communicating anything last night, as we feared our conjecture was wrong and that the spirit might overhear us," apologised Blythe. "We'll explain everything now."
"We suspected that there was something else haunting the school grounds, which is not Yuki and which had followed us back to the hotel in the morning," elucidated Shaun. "And that entity was what had eaten all of Tiffany's snacks and later on possessed her last night. We conjectured that it might be the ghost of a baby, considering the size of the spirit and its actions. After leaving the hotel, the ghost must have returned to the school to kill Mr Enomoto. What we're struggling to figure out is: whether it is somehow related to the baby's white kimono which the professor dug out in the yard during his treasure hunting. And how, if so, is the baby related to Yuki."
"It came back again last night and tryna choke me to death," exclaimed Tiffany. "Luckily, Blythe's beads sent an electric shock to the ghost and it escaped. OMG, Blythe, you're my savior! If it wasn't for you, I'd be as dead as a dodo!"
Everyone was extremely shocked to hear this additional piece of news and only after a few moments of deep thought, Jeffrey said: "This is purely my hypothesis, but what if Yuki was pregnant when she died and the baby's kimono in the yard was buried there as a tribute to her unborn baby?"
"You mean, she buried it herself or someone else buried it after her death?" asked Shaun.
"Well, I dunno," shrugged Jeffrey. "It could be either, to be honest. I mean, that could explain why Yuki couldn't go to heaven, because her baby was still there."
"If that really is the case, it means big, big trouble," answered Blythe, shaking her head. "From what I know, fetus ghosts are the hardest to deal with, especially in the absence of its mother. I think we've made a huge mistake by forcefully exorcising Yuki. Perhaps that's what had freed the fetus from its bond to the place."
~To be Continued~
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