"Sachiko, in light of what has happened and those who have managed to escape these grounds, I wish to make a deal with you..."

"I'm listening," the girl in the red dress spoke.

"I can guarantee eight of the nine souls of the Kisarahi Academy group be trapped to these grounds forever, Sachiko-san..."

"Oh? Really? How fascinating! More people to play with! But how?"

"Please, alter time, and bring me to life! Undue my death, and mix our times! I promise, you eight of the nine to be trapped here for eternity! Just please, give me a shot! Eight out of nine is better than four out of nine!

"Consider it doable, but why?"

"I wish to get to know one of them better..."

"I see. If you fail your promise, you are to suffer here, for an eternity of eternities, to rot here and forever be one of my spiritual entities"

"I understand! Sachiko-san, I beg of you."

"Consider it done, Naho-san. Do not break your promise."

"Arigato, Sachiko-san."

There was a massive earthquake. Sachiko, faded into oblivion as the room shook harder and harder. The floor I knelt on collapsed and opened up into a vast black cavern, swallowing me and the nearby desks and tables nearby into its tangible blackness. The dim light from the room, shrunk into the distance as I fell deeper and deeper into the bowels of this black hole until it was no longer visible. There was just blackness I had lost all sense of time and movement, I could have been falling for seconds, minutes, or hours, even days...in fact it didn't even feel like I was falling anymore. Then I heard thunder crash and a lightning bolt flash before my eyes, straining my dilated pupils and blinding my vision. I felt the sensation of wooden ground beneath my knees.

My vision came back, and I was kneeling over a deceased Kou Kibiki. My hands still constricting his neck and wind pipe. Sensei...

I quickly threw myself off of him, scooting as far away from his body as I could until I was up against the wall of the room.

"Sensei! Noooo! Why?!"

A voice echoed in the room, it's speaker not visible. It was Sachiko's voice.

"You, said nothing about your beloved Kibiki-sensei! Hahahahahahahaha!"

The voice and it's cruel laugh trailed off and silenced like the end of a song on a CD.

The darkness, the black mist engulfing my body, I remember it from before. Except this time, instead of consuming me, it began to dissipate, and vanish. Soon i could see myself. I could see my hands, my legs, the blue skirt I wore, the blue jacket I had wrapped around my waist. I could now see the maroon sleeves of the maroon blazer I wore. The Paulownia Academy Highschool uniform. I placed my hands against my chest, and unlike before, I could feel my heartbeat, slow and steady. I had to take a breath of the air, that was refreshing! In my coat pocket, I felt the scrap of the Sachiko Ever After charm proxy doll. It was still there! I felt my breath against my hand. I was alive again. In my inside coat pocket, I found my small notebook. The last page was torn slightly and had handwriting which did not match mine. Crudely written in eerie and large text were the words,"DO NOT FORGET YOUR PROMISE!"

Right, now down to business. If Sachiko did appeal to all my parameters, then the time period of my interactions in this world and when the nine souls from Kisaragi Academy entered this world should be intertwined now.

That boy... Satoshi... I had to find him.