Somehow she'd managed to get out of the cathedral quite quickly using her cheat sheet.

  Medina immediately clung to Rumi's side and sat down.

  "How is it, is the food good?"

  "Um, it's decent enough to eat."

  Medina started eating without even praying.

  "Wow, it really is! Why is it so good?"

  Just then, the ghost-like girl heard that and put her spoon into the tomato soup.

  But suddenly a large eyeball popped out of the soup.

  "Eek!"

  The girl let out a short scream.

  "What? did the food just get cursed?"

  Medina stood up as if she'd found something interesting and very obviously peered into the girl's soup.

  "Ack, there's an eyeball floating in there!"

  The girl just frowned without responding.

  "You prayed before eating, right?"

  "She was praying even before we came."

  Rumi spoke while looking at the floating eyeball.

  "Wow, I thought I was unlucky today, but looks like your life is ruined."

  Medina spoke rudely to the silent girl.

  "But... why is there an eyeball in the tomato soup, ugh!"

  Medina said while shuddering.

  The girl stood up with her tray, wearing an expression of extreme suffering.

  Just then, an upperclassman girl with white bangs passed by and commented.

  "Looks like you're the one who got it today... As you'd know if you studied the rules, don't complain to Cook Mabel no matter what.

  If you do... you won't be able to eat tomorrow."

  The upperclassman wore a black head cover like a nun would wear.

  But what was strange was that everything from her hair to her face was unbelievably white.

  Moreover, a subtle fragrance like that from scented candles wafted from her, and while her tone was calm and relaxed, there was somehow a tired energy to it.

  Behind that upperclassman stood another person wearing the same nun's habit, but with her entire body wrapped in bandages like a mummy.

  Rumi wondered if that bandage-wrapped upperclassman was the mummy ghost pretending to be a student mentioned in the rules.

  "Oh, hi sister."

  Just then, Raoul greeted the white-haired upperclassman.

  "Oh, Raoul. So you enrolled this time."

  The two seemed to know each other.

  Meanwhile, the mummy next to the white-haired girl was staring intently at Rumi's eyes.

  Rumi thought 'what's this?' and stared back.

  The white-haired upperclassman sensed something strange and greeted Rumi.

  "Hello, you must be that new girl."

  "Huh? How do you know that?"

  "That's... something you don't need to know. Well then, see you later children..."

  The upperclassman left without answering Rumi's question.

  And the mummy upperclassman behind her silently followed the white-haired one.

  "Raoul! You know those people?"

  "Um... the sister I greeted is actually a distant relative. I lived with her briefly when I was young... She's nicer than she was just now."

  "Hmm... really? But do you know who that mummy was?"

  "Ah, that..."

  Raoul suddenly came close to Rumi and whispered.

  "Rumi, look that up in the rules."

  "..."

  Hearing Raoul's answer, Rumi was convinced that mummy student was that mummy student.

  Just then, Medina hurriedly flipped through her booklet.

  "Ugh it's true, 'The cafeteria is off-limits after 7 PM. No matter what food is served in the cafeteria, do not complain to Cook Mrs. Mabel.'"

  "Did you really come out without memorizing the rules?"

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  Rumi looked at Medina in disbelief.

  Just then the ghost-like girl started moving with her tray again.

  Rumi and Medina watched to see if she was going to the cook, but she just kept her biscuit and threw the tomato soup in the food waste bin.

  And with that, the girl left the cafeteria.

  Shortly after, bells rang and a voice came over the school broadcast.

  'Dong... dong... dong... dong... dong... dong...'

  "The sun will set in 10 minutes. All school building doors will be locked in 10 minutes, so all students please quickly come inside the buildings."

  "Ugh scary... They really strictly enforce curfew at this school."

  Medina said while stuffing mashed potatoes in her mouth.

  "By the way, what room numbers were you assigned?"

  "I'm in Room 49."

  "I'm in the room right next to Rumi's. Room 50."

  Raoul said.

  "Nooo! I'm in Room 27."

  "Whew, that's a relief."

  Rumi said with a sigh of relief.

  "What's a relief? We're in different dorms. Don't you want to be close friends with me? Isn't that why you saved my life?"

  "What are you talking about? I just helped someone who fell on their own, I didn't save your life."

  "What's that! If that's the case, you should have left me to die!"

  "No... what?"

  Rumi was too bewildered by Medina's twisted logic to respond.

  Just then, suddenly an unidentified crashing sound rang through the cafeteria.

  'Thudududududu!'

  The students eating looked toward the cafeteria windows where the sound came from, and countless ghosts had their faces pressed against the windows.

  "Ack, ugh! Are those all ghosts?"

  Medina, with her goldfish-like attention span, was already making a fuss looking at the windows.

  And the ghosts watched the students eating dinner while licking their lips like predators eyeing prey.

  Just then, upperclassmen stood up and very calmly started closing the cafeteria curtains.

  But the few new students who had already seen that insane sight were in shock.

  "Aah! How can there be hundreds of ghosts at the school? That makes no sense!"

  Though Rumi had experienced similar situations several times already including yesterday, other students seemed less accustomed to such situations than expected.

  But even so, having so many ghosts at the school was clearly suspiciously nonsensical.

  Rumi finished what turned out to be a decent meal and went to organize her luggage in the dorm.

  But it looked like someone had already organized their belongings on the left bottom bunk.

  Everything was arranged in a neat and perfect state.

  Just then, someone came in dragging luggage into Rumi's dorm room.

  Rumi checked to see who her roommate was... it was Niel.

  "Oh! Rumi... it's been a while..."

  "Oh... you're in Room 49 too?"

  "Yeah, looks like we're sharing a dorm room..."

  "Hmm... really? Then that might be good..."

  "Yeah... have you been well?"

  "Yeah, you?"

  "Me too..."

  Just then the Black boy from the bus appeared behind Niel.

  "Is that your new friend behind you?"

  "Oh, this is Malcolm. Malcolm's in the room next door."

  "Room 50?"

  "Yeah."

  Rumi realized Malcolm would be sharing a room with Raoul.

  "Hi..."

  Rumi gave Malcolm a casual greeting. But Malcolm disappeared behind them without responding.

  "What the...!"

  "Ahaha... Malcolm's just a bit shy. But he has a really gentle personality so you'll probably become friends eventually..."

  "... ..."

  The two stood awkwardly with luggage between them.

  "But... have you seen who else our roommate is?"

  "Oh... I just came from the cathedral."

  "Really?"

  It seemed Niel had just finished memorizing the rules and come out.

  "Then you haven't eaten yet either."

  "No I haven’t..."

  Niel came into the room and quietly put her luggage next to the ground floor bed.

  Then she left the dorm room again.

  "Well... I'll go eat."

  "Yeah, the cafeteria's at the end of this corridor."

  Rumi pointed east.

  "Oh, thanks... Malcolm, let's go."

  After Niel left like that, Rumi thought for a moment about the dorm life she would be sharing with Niel.

  Niel was fine but had several problems due to being under a terrible curse.

  No, she had very serious problems.

  Thinking about it made Rumi's head start to hurt slightly.

  10 PM. The bell rang and the nightly holy water bath time that would apparently happen every day approached.

  While their roommate still hadn't come to the dorm room, Rumi and Niel went together to the holy water bath in the school basement.

  And after bathing and finishing evening mass, Rumi and Niel returned to their dorm room.

  When they returned to the dorm, someone was already settled in.

  With neat and glossy long black hair, already changed into pretty pajamas, the girl was recognizable even from behind.

  It was that ghost-like girl who had received the eyeball soup at dinner.

  Rumi instantly had a feeling that dorm life wouldn't be too comfortable.

  "So you're our roommate?"

  "Eep!"

  The girl who had been absently organizing her bedding turned around in surprise.

  The girl slightly raised her eyes as she recognized Rumi.

  "It's you..."

  "Oh, so you do talk."

  "Um... hello. I'm Niel. Looks like you're our roommate."

  Niel shyly greeted from beside Rumi.

  The girl relaxed her eyes seeing Niel's kind expression.

  Indeed, Niel appeared to be a really kind and gentle girl on the outside.

  "I'm Eve."

  "I'm Rumi."

  "Yeah..."

  Eve's response to Rumi was very brief.

  Just then Professor Myers' voice echoed in the corridor.

  "Don't forget to drink your silver holy water before bed. Read the rules before sleeping. And pray before going to bed."

  Rumi caught a glimpse of Professor Myers checking the dorm rooms while walking the corridor.

  She closed the dorm room door and looked back at Eve.

  "Looks like no one else is coming, so it seems just the three of us will share this room."

  "Oh, seems that way."

  Niel responded.

  "Eve, you've already chosen your bed?"

  Rumi asked, looking at Eve who had already finished preparing for bed on the left bottom bunk.

  "Yeah, if you're okay with it I'll take this one. You weren't wanting this bed, were you...?"

  Eve asked with an unnecessarily anxious expression.

  "I'll definitely take the top bunk, which bed are you going to choose, Niel?"

  "I should probably take the right bottom bunk..."

  Hearing Niel's answer, Rumi remembered she would need to restrain Niel before bed.

  "Ah, right..."

  Rumi thought for a moment and decided their roommate Eve should know about Niel's special curse.

  "Then before bed, let's each talk about our curses and situations to be careful about."

  Rumi gave Niel a look to speak first.

  "Well... um, I have somewhat of a dual personality due to the red ignition curse."

  Rumi knew very well about Niel's dual symptoms.

  And calling it "somewhat dual" was far too understated. It would even be insufficient to call it a Jekyll and Hyde or Hulk level split personality disorder.

  Rumi could definitively say there probably wasn't anyone in the whole school with a more serious curse than Niel.

  "Aren't you going to say how severe it is?"

  Rumi finally spoke up.

  "Well, even if it might seem severe, those incidents hardly ever happen normally."

  Rumi frowned at Niel not telling the whole story.

  Eve sensed the awkward atmosphere between Niel and Rumi as she watched them.

  Rumi was about to say the severity could get both Eve and Rumi killed, but seeing Niel's pleading look not to tell, she just closed her mouth.

  "Your turn now."

  Rumi passed the question to Eve.

  "I'm... gr... ahem. I do have green terror, but it's not that severe.

  I sometimes have nightmares so I might be a bit noisy with sleep talking, but it's definitely not a curse that harms others, so feel free to wake me if I'm too loud."

  Eve shared about her curse.

  "That's milder than I expected. Are you sure that's all?"

  "Of course, why would I hide anything?"

  "No, just when I saw you in the cafeteria today you seemed pretty unlucky."

  "That was... just then. It's not usually that bad!"

  Eve reacted quite sensitively.

  "Okay. I just wanted to make sure your curse wouldn't have any negative interactions with Niel's curse here, which could be insanely serious."

  Rumi said while grabbing Niel's shoulder.

  Niel smiled awkwardly while watching Rumi's reaction.

  "Then what's your curse?"

  "I'm curse imm... no, I don't have any curses."