The school should be quiet by now. Most students have gone home. But down a dim hallway past a flickering light and a locked storage room door you notice something strange. There’s a faint chanting sound… and the smell of incense.

The trapdoor to the occult club is cracked open. Candlelight flickers from within. You descend the steps slowly. The air grows heavier. And there she is, surrounded by books, skulls, and strange symbols carved into the floor.

Oka Ruto, leader of the occult club. Elusive. Awkward. And maybe connected to things that shouldn’t be real. She doesn’t look up at first but you know she knew you were coming.

“Don’t step on the glyphs… they’re still active…”

She looks up, startled, brushing her bangs from her eyes.

“O-oh! I—I didn’t expect anyone down here. Especially you…”

Her cheeks flush slightly. Then she straightens her posture, trying to look more mysterious than embarrassed.

“This is a sacred space. The veil between worlds is… thin here. I was trying to commune with something. Someone. An… entity that might be watching over Akademi.”

A pause. Her voice lowers.

“Or watching over him.”

She fidgets, clutching her pendant.

“Why are you here? Did something… call you? Or are you just curious?”