Under the dark night, the gymnasium of Repert High School was surrounded by starry lights.
"Take this." Laura held a breastplate and handed it to Louise. This is the guardian badge for the Leapter Ball. Alice can bring it in with the 'willfulness' of Miss West End, but Louise, as an adult, has no such possibility.
Laura and the butt and chin teacher struggled for a long time before they got this badge. "After you go in, you are responsible for getting the drinks." Laura explained to Louise apologetically that today is an important night for these boys and girls. Adults People are 'staff' who serve as background.
Louise put on her name badge and didn't mind. She hugged the nervous Alice and smiled to comfort the nervous banshee who was standing among a large number of peers.
"Matthew!" Everything was ready, Laura pulled up the skirt of the burgundy dress and turned to the bewildered young wolf.
Why is it burgundy, a bright color that only adults can handle? Because Matthew's only tuxedo waistband and bow tie were this color. In order to match Matthew, Laura also tried it for the first time.
The exposed shoulders and arms, whether because of the fabric or some other reason, were slightly reddish on the fair skin.
"hand!"
The pendant reflecting starlight and lights swayed by her ears, and the golden hair that was tied up diffused the somewhat hazy light in the darkness. With her bright red lips opening and closing, Laura was ashamed and angry at Matthew's dullness!
Matthew stretched out his hands in a daze, but Laura slapped them away. The girl's arms fiddled with Matthew's strong and stiff arms like building blocks, bent them at her side, and pressed down the spread, somewhat rough fingers. , placed on the ventral side covered by a burgundy corset.
Laura pursed her lips and carefully placed her arms for her male companion. The side of the neck, which was elongated due to the lowered head, appeared in front of the young wolf Matthew, not far away. Making his body stiffer.
Who knew that adjusting someone's position could make a girl tired to the point of shortness of breath and flushed face. Laura lowered her head and stood in front of Matthew's face. She adjusted her breathing and put her white arms through Matthew's arms. She gently held him up and leaned on him, "Okay. Let's go."
It's time to enter, and the dance party with these boys and girls as the protagonists is about to begin.
After Matthew and Laura, there was no need for the female companion to fiddle with Jackson, who had already taken Elena's arm very naturally. Behind him, there was Alice who was nervous and almost leaning on Kepler.
"Kepler, is this your boyfriend... uh, dance partner?" Teacher Buttchin stood competently in the gymnasium, which was now the entrance to the dance.
"No way!" Kepler stared at the other party. There were tears in her reddish eyes, "This is my dance partner!" A willful way of entering the stage.
Seeing that the tear stains were getting wet again, I let the door open with a bitter look on my butt and chin, and said helplessly, "Have fun."
Kepler glared at his butt and chin, and pulled Alice in arbitrarily. Recall that at that time, Yuri's sudden transfer of schools, Lola even skipped class to find Grande to vent her anger on her friend... It was a high school game. Kepler had his own reasons for being willful.
In addition to clinging nervously to Kepler's side, Alice stared closely at the unknown front where there was already a noise. While being pulled in and out, there was nothing I could do. However, her nervousness was soon replaced by something else.
It was only a short period of darkness, but the girl soon came to the end, and the space suddenly opened up. It was like a rotating ceiling lantern, projecting its colorful light on everyone.
Just like Lola and Kepler promised. Are the boys and girls in gorgeous clothes buried in colorful lights, dancing to the music with the smiles of the protagonists? no.
"Alice!" Kepler felt the girl next to him lean on him with all his weight! Alice's fingers tightened on Kepler's arm and began to soften without warning!
"Alice! What's wrong with you?!" Kepler pulled Alice with an unsteady center of gravity. When the two girls in dresses were about to officially enter the ball, they fell awkwardly where the colorful lights could not reach them.
*Two red dots drew two clear lines of blood on the edge of the crowd.
Louise smiled and picked up the ladle. Filling the two paper cups held by Jackson with drinks was just a distraction from Jackson's request to put in an extra cherry. The girl beside him, Elena, had already met two points of red!
The moment the light was removed, Senbai's sharp teeth were revealed in the darkness!
The colorful rays of light that seemed to overlap on the ceiling shone instantly, and the light points like meteors rushed down. The shadows hidden in the darkness were instantly wrapped in the stream of light, and were thrown uncontrollably into darker corners!
Even the noise of the ball could not cover up the sound of the collision. The people closest to him heard the strange sound first, and Louise turned her head in confusion.
The red eyes locked on the human figures that started to gather in mid-air, like broken brilliance!
Instantly, sharp nails dug into both shoulders, and bright red began to overflow from the wounds!
Like melted snowdrifts, the flowing colored light seemed to be scattered and peeled off!
Matthew, who had finally learned the dance steps Laura taught him, turned his head in surprise, pushed away the crowd in Laura's confused eyes, and pushed impatiently toward the edge of the dance floor amidst the incomprehensible complaints of the people around him.
The man with red eyes and sharp claws looked across the crowd and saw the young wolf squeezing towards this side.
It was just a brief stagnation. The colored lights rotating at the top of the dance floor once again cast light into the corner here. It provided a brief image for Louise, who was looking over there in confusion!
Louise threw away the ladle in her hand, pulled over Jackson and Elena who didn't understand what was going on, and fled in fear, stepping into the bright 'thing' from the shadow in the corner!
The light spots radiating around the phantom's body were pulled and rotated into scattered light pillars, entangled and crashing into the people scattered at the dance venue.
Louise, Jackson, Elena, wolf cub Matthew, Lola, Kepler and Alice.
These people's steps became incredibly light, and they were inexplicably pulled towards the exit in the crowded venue.
When these people safely left the venue, they merged into a vampire dance party.
The events seen by the Banshee have just begun! *
Louise quickly approached, squatted beside the two fallen girls, and tried to pull them up. But when she noticed that Alice was still staring at the crowd who had just started the dance even after falling, she realized something.
"Kepler, you go in and play first. This is the first time for Alice to come to such an occasion, so she is too nervous. Let me accompany her." Louise adjusted her breathing and said to Kepler with a smile.
Kepler frowned. Alice had advantages, but her shortcomings were also obvious, and they were even serious enough to affect getting along with her.
But Kepler couldn't deny that she was very grateful for Alice's character of being easily nervous even when she was clearly scared. I'm still willing to go out and relax with her for two days in a row, so it's not hard to blame her.
Kepler twitched his lips and said, "I'll go over there. Come find me later."
Louise did not respond directly, but nodded. She helped Alice up, "Alice, did you see anything?"
Alice, who was trembling all over, nodded without asking about the specific thing she saw. All the Banshee can see is death, but whose death is it
After spending two consecutive days with Laura and the others, Alice did not see anything, and no events that triggered death were activated! This means that death is far away from the people Alice calls friends and family!
Well, think about it! Whose deaths did Alice really see? !
But even though her whole body was so tight that she almost scratched Louise's arm holding her, Alice's eyes were still not on the dance floor in front of her.
Those ignorant boys and girls used clumsy dance steps to please their dance partners. These strange faces appeared in the eyes of the banshee for the first time, on this occasion where they were having fun. The end of their lives as humans is about to come!
The event that triggers death has already begun! It opened up on people like Alice who shouldn't have appeared at the Leipte High School dance, but this incident didn't lead to their deaths!
It was they who brought death to this place!
It was they who attracted the 'murderer'! In the scene that Alice 'saw', they began to flee to protect themselves. In the venue where commotion had begun, from the first question of "What is that?" from the mouths of boys and girls, On this occasion, at this ball, the events of death unfolded in full!
"Let's get out of here first. Inform Danny and Dylan." Louise didn't mind Alice's nervousness, and she started planning.
"No, no!" The strength in Alice's arm suddenly became stronger, "I, I can't leave. I can't leave these people!! Yes, it's my fault! We, we brought them..."
Louise frowned unconsciously.
Since coming to Grande, except for Zach, she and Alice have always had a good relationship. Remember when she taught Alice how to do makeup? Maybe at first, it was inevitable that she wanted to use the Banshee's ability to protect her insecure self, but now Louise really likes this 'sister'. This is family.
When Alice said Jersey anxiously, Louise began to think. She looked at the boy and girl not far away and began to understand what Alice meant.
Louise forcibly covered Alice's eyes, cutting off the banshee's sight. Louise couldn't let the Banshee fall into such a powerless feeling of guilt at a moment like this.
"Alice, Alice!" Louise took Alice's arm, "Are you going to just keep blaming yourself and watching things happen! Then regret it for the rest of your life, or do you want to make some changes to save these people?! "
Alice pulled away Louise's hand that blocked her sight, and looked at her with red eyes, "I... I want to save them!"
Louise nodded, smiled, hugged the still trembling Alice, stepped into the venue, and went to her work station - a table with a huge glass drink jar and paper cups.
The task assigned to Louise by the teacher called Butt Chin was to watch the drinks and not let some little guy add anything that shouldn't be there, such as alcohol.
Behind the table, colorful lights and cyan lights gathered around Alice. Louise smiled and filled drinks for the teenagers who came, while discussing in a low voice with the people behind her.
"Can't we just leave?" Undead Dylan wondered.
Alice lowered her head, folded her arms and huddled up on the chair. She shook her head with a cry, "That's not the case! When I 'see' it, it means that the death process has begun. No matter who dies, Things have developed to this point, that vampire will definitely find us and find Elena!"
It may be difficult to understand, but please continue to listen. It may be Louise's words that have an effect. Even though the Banshee is immersed in complex negative emotions, she still remains objective!
"If we leave here, don't we take Elena and Jackson with us?!" The banshee stared at Dylan with moist and red eyes.
Louise tilted her head and whispered, "What Alice means is that she has seen the vampire find Elena. This will not change. If we leave now, he will just waste some time and find her again." That’s all.”
Louise heard Danny the Phantom's voice, "Dylan is over there."
Louise raised her eyebrows and turned to the other side, facing the empty space, "They are Laura's friends and Alice's friends. We will not leave them alone, so the vampire will still find us in the end. ,understand?"
"Alice, you said that in the scene you saw, the other party knew how to destroy my ability, so I had no choice but to escape with you, right?" Danny was very considerate and asked Louise to 'listen' too. to his voice.
Alice nodded, "And Matthew, Matthew felt the vampire's blood, and the other party also discovered him! But I couldn't see the follow-up. I, I could only see death..."
Alice's emotions were turbulent again, her voice was choked, and she tried to take a deep breath to calm down. She looked at the people on the dance floor, "So all I saw was the death of these people, and we just started the trigger event of death." That’s it, the next scenes all happened here! I can’t see what will happen to us after we escape!”
The phantom man lost his voice. This is the reality at this time, experience it.
"So we can't leave." Louise didn't turn around this time. "We don't know what will happen if we leave, but we know what will happen if we stay here. We can prepare countermeasures in advance and save people." These kids. Do you all agree?"
Louise waited for a long time and emphasized again, "It's very simple. Danny can only protect us from escaping in Alice's 'sight'. It's not directed at you Danny, but I think you know what this means." What." Louise paused for a while, "There is Elena and there is Matthew. Whether we leave now or follow the scenes we 'saw' and escape after the battle, we will definitely be overtaken again. The battle will definitely be It’s happening again and we need help.”
"I agree." The phantom voice sounded, "Dylan, go find Zach. No matter what the situation is, we will ask for help. Now, at least according to what Louise said, we are prepared to face the next thing possible."
The cyan light and shadow disappeared in the corners occasionally swept by colored light. (..)