【ᴛʜᴇ ᴇʟᴇᴠᴀᴛᴏʀ】

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'I am Yashiro Nene, who is participating in the overnight stay learning...

But fun times were fleeting... Scjool Mystery no. 6 suddenly appeared and took Aoi..

And me, Hatsume-chan, and Akane-kun are now..'

"We're going to Hanako-kun and Hatsume-chan's place!" Yashiro declaired as she pulled on Akane's arm. "Let's go!"

"No! Way!" Akane protested, trying to pull his arm back from her. "Never!"

"You guys...P-please don't fight! We can talk this out!" Hatsume tried to stop the two but seems like she was just ignored.

"It's imposible with just you and Hatsume-chan is that's why!" Yashiro kept on tugging.

"It's too troublesome and unnecessary to ask him!" The present clock keeper insisted. "And besides, we have honorable lady no. 7! I think she's enough to be our guide!"

"P-please don't drag me into this! I don't even know that much about No. 6 or his boundary!" The female supernatural stuttered out.

"What?! Well that makes you useless then!" Akane glared, letting go off Yashiro's hand, making her fall into her back.

Hatsume look down in shame as she bit her lip. Yashiro noticed her saddened form making her send a menacing look towards her classmate.

"Leave Hatsume-chan alone! Surely we don't know where Aoi was taken, if that really is No. 6 of the seven mysteries... The best thing to do is to ask Hanako-kun!" Yashiro explained. "Hatsume-chan just doesn't know about the mysteries that much since Hanako-kun always got that covered!"

"I won't stop you if you want to rely on him, Yashiro-san. Or even her." Akane gave a cold glance towards the teary eyed mystery. "You may like both Lord and Lady No. 7 who are both dead but I don't trust them. If it's for you, they would. But I do not think that they would move to help Ao-chan."

Hatsume got even more upset. She doesn't blame Akane for hating supernaturals including.

But that doesn't mean that he had the right to say that she won't help Aoi. Hanako wouldn't but she would.

She actually grew fond of the girl ever since she started hanging out with Yashiro in her class. Aoi was kind and being able to talk to her fake world self back at Shijima's boundary made her like Aou even more.

Even if the violet haired girl wasn't aware of her presence.

"So that's why I will go find Ao by myself." Akane started walking away. Yashiro was about to call him back when Hatsume decided to speak up.

"Akane-san. It's dangerous to go inside a mystery's boundary if you're not prepared." Hatsume told, making the present clock keeper stop from his tracks. "Storming into No. 6's boundary is a definition of recklessness so I suggest that you need to stop acting on your emotions. I'll help you to the best I can."

Akane glance at the supernatural who only gave him a small smile. Hatsume added. "We'll save Aoi-san. Okay? So please, calm down."

The first mystery stared at her in shock. She was completely genuine. Akane sighed. "Alright..."

A silhouette of a woman muttering, pass the three making them turn to look at her.

"Everyone...is there...Staying up all night..." She picked up the basket, Aoi dropped earlier, making it lightened up."Waiting for the moon... Waiting for the morning..."

She started floating away on the hallway. "Until when... I can't leave..."

"The basket that Aoi dropped. She picked it up." Yashiro muttered before following the mysterious female. Hatsume and Akane rsn after her. Yashiro called out the woman. "Um..."

"This way..." The woman told them as she entered through a door. "I'll take you to that child..."

Hatsume blinked as Akane and Yashiro stared at each other. Her being the center of the two. "Eh?"

"Wait!" Yashiro suddenly dashed towards the entrance where the woman passed.

"Nene-chan?!" Hatsume gasped as she ran after her assistant.

"You two?!- Yashiro-san! Lady Seven!" Akane ran after the girls. "Wait a second!"

"Huh? No one's here?" Yashiro said as she picked up Aoi's basket on the ground. "Only the basket is here."

"Where are we?" Hatsume asked as she look around the small space. "I never seen this before."

"It's look like an elevator." Akane told her. "There shouldn't have been this in the old school building."

"Let's go back." Akane told the girls, not noticing that he placed his hand on a button. "We have to help Ao-chan, quickly."

The elevator door swung closed.

"Akane-kun, what are you doing?!" Yashiro asked as she hugged Hatsume in fright. The supernatural did the same and hid her face on her assistant's shoulder. "Nene-chan, I'm scared!"

"It's not me! The elevator is moving on it's own!!" Akane frantically pushed the button, repeatedly. "Gah! The button isn't working!!"

The elevator stopped all so sudden, Making the three stare at each other in confusion.

The door was forcefully swung open making the three jump. A huge animated toy poke it's huge head in, as more toys came inside.

The three look absolutely frightened. Hatsume's hug around Yashiro tightened, both backing up on the wall with Akane, who has similar expression.

The toy began speaking gibberish.

The three fearfully greet it as it entered the elevetor, joining them.

The elevator soon made a sound, opening, making the toy speak more gibberish as it leaves the three, who fearfully waved at it good bye.

"What now..?" Yashiro asked, still spooked out.

"I don't now..." Akane responded, feeling creeped. "Let's get off for the time being..."

Only for them to see somethings that will scar them for life in the next stop.

"Close!Close!Close!Close!" Akane rapidly pushed the button again, before the creatues could get to them.

The elevator went down, as the three panted.

'I want Hanako-kun...' Hatsume thought as she sat on the corner of the elevator, crying silently. 'Things like this, sometimes make me regret taking Hanako-kun's offer of becoming a mystery with him...'

"This is all Yashiro-san's fault." Akane accused as he sat on the floor. "Following a strange ghost."

"S-sorry..."

'Didn't...Hanako helped us before?' Hatsume thought, staring at the two humans. 'Right. Back at that nowhere place... He contacted us.'

"Shit. There's nothing we can do." Akane punched the wall.

Just then, they heard a radio static and a familiar voice that made both girls sighed in relief.

"Ah.. Test...Test?...This is an emergency call center. Customers in the elevator, can you hear?"

From the line, Hanako smirked, amused at the whole situation his assistant was in. "What are you doing at such place this time, Yashiro?"

"Hanako-kun!" Yashiro cheered.

"Oh? No. 1 is also there?... probably being unfaithful?"

"I'll break this speaker." Akane threatened, smiling as he raised his fist.

"No! Calm down! Hanako-kun is just joking!" Yashiro exclaimed as she tried to stop Akane.

"I'll stop you two, right there...." Hanako said in the radio, his voice suddenly became worried and he seems to be panicking. "HAVE ANY OF YOU TWO SEEN HATSUME?! SHE DISAPPEARED, AGAIN!! I ASKED LITERARY EVERY SUPERNATURAL I KNOW, BUT NONE OF THEM KNOW WHERE SHE WAS!-"

Akane raised an eyebrow, amused as he saw Yashiro facepalm. Hatsume approached the speaker with a deadpanned.

"Stop worrying. I'm right here-"

"There you are! What did I say about following a walking vegetable?!" Hanako scolded making her sighed.

Yashiro look offended. Was she really look like a vegetable?

"Alright. Now I know that my wife is there. I already know the situation." Hanako told them.

"Wife?" The present clock keeper look confused.

"S-stop saying lies... I-I'm your g-girlfriend not your wife!" Hatsume stuttered out, angrily. Yashiro stiffed a squeal.

"Yet..." Hanako laughed, smirking on the other line. His face was slightly red, though. "Now, back to that girl... What did you say, Aoi-chan? She's been taken, right? By No. 6."

"It seems that you are very familiar with the details Lord No. 7" Akane retorted.

"Well~ I was just having a meeting about it right now."

"What was the meeting all about?" Hatsume asked.

"I'll tell you later, wifey~ When you get home~"

Hatsume blushed again. She can't believe that Hanako was literary flirting with her on the radio, with Yashiro and Akane in present, listening to everything.

"Then I'll ask. Who is that strange mystery?" Akane questioned, crossing his arms. "Taking Ao-chan. What does he intend to do?"

"That's a secret~"

"What?!" Akane was ready to throw the radio now, but luckily, Hatsume and Yashiro manage to stop him from doing it.

"Now, let's think about ourselves. This is a gap between the near shore and the far shore. A place that is nowhere, where you can go anywhere. Hatsume and Yashiro knows because they've been there before, right?"

Both girls nodded.

"If you act carelessly, you will be farther from helping Aoi-chan. You will end up wandering in a place that is nowhere forever."

"I see.. Hey Hanako-kun. Using the elevator, could be we go to Aoi?" Yashiro asked.

"That is imposible...But..."

"...Lord No. 7. Can you operate the elevator?" Akane asked, hesistatingly.

"Well, yes... I could do it if I came there?"

"Then, if Hanako-kun comes here..!" Yashiro beamed, but was then cut off by the  said male mystery.

"But it's no good..."

"Why?!"

"Well, if Yashiro is helping other people then... Ah... But that's right..." Hanako smirked from the other line. "Akane-kun is the one who wants to go to Aoi-chan. I'm an apparition, so I could take you to sixth's place, but... What should I do? It's a little bothersome.."

"Hanako! How can you say that?!" Hatsume stared at the speaker in disbelief. "We need to help Akane-san! Since it was one of us mysteries who caused this problem in the first place!"

"Aww...But Hatsume-chan~" Hanako whine.

"No! You're the one who's incharge with the mysteries right?! Then act like their leader and be responsible!" Hatsume glared, she could feel herself getting teary eyed.. "If you taught me these things from the beginning then maybe... I could actually be useful and help them for once..."

"Hatsume-chan..." Yashiro whispered.

"......Alright.... How about this?" Hanako sighed from the other line. "If No. 1 is going to do what I say no matter what it is, I'll go over there and help you."

"I do what you..?" Akane questioned, looking annoyed.

"So that... I'll definitely do it! I swear."

"What are you planning, Lord No. 7?"

"Isn't anything fine.... To help Aoi-chan? My other half and I are Hanako and Hatsume-san, so we will grant wishes in exchange for a price."

Hatsume stared at the speaker in disbelief.

"What will you do, No. 1? Will you ask me for a wish?"

"A wish? Me to you?" Akane laughed. "Do you understand the situation properly, Lord No. 7?"

"What do you mean?"

"You must be stupid." Akane told him.

"W-wha?-" Hatsume blinked. Next thing she knew, she was now in Akane's grasp, with her back on Akane's chest as he held her by the waist from behind. Akane smirked. "I mean there's a hostage here!"

Hanako's eyes widened when he heard that.

"Akane-kun, What are you doing?!" Yashiro exclaimed in shock. "Let go of Hatsume-chan!"

Now Hanako was alarmed when he heard what Yashiro said.

'Play along.' Akane mouthed to his classmate. He turned to the speaker. "You know well, Lord No. 7. I can do anything to help Aoi-chan. I will have you cooperate quietly."

"A-akane-san?" Hatsume nervously glance at the human-supernatural holding her.

"Are you threatening me?" Hanako let out a cold sweat. "It's useless..."

"How about...."

"N-no way... Akane-kun, don't do such thing!!"

"A-akane-san... Y-you're...Too close- Eeek!"

Hanako look a little panicked now. He was in shock to think that Akane would go that far to use his girlfriend to threaten him.

"Ehh No. 1? What are you doing..."

"Actually, the other day... I learned from president Minamoto..."

Akane held Hatsume close to his chest, his left arm around her waist, his free hand under the female mystery's chin. Their lips dangerously close to each other.

Hatsume had her hands on Akane's chest, wanting to push the clock keeper away but it seems that Akane wasn't faltering.

Akane leaned a little closer. His face serious.
❨Honestly, Akane in this part is so hot- //Slapped//❩

"There are various types of threats, Honorable Lord No. 7. Do you want anything happens to your precious wife now, do you?"

Hanako now looked really threatened.

"A-Akane-kun! Wait a second!" Yashiro panicked As she stood in the corner. At the same time, she wanted to squeal. The room suddenly became warmer due to the intense moment happening between her classmate and ghost friend.

At the same time, she want to stop it. Hatsume was taken and she knew that. But Yashiro was caught into her own little fantasy to bother stop Akane.

She just froze there.

Akane leaned in, ready to close the gap between him and Hatsume.

"A-akane-san?!" Hatsume panicked as she shut her eyes, with so much force. She screamed. "H-Hanako!"

Haku-joudai, popped above them. Hanako soon appeared in between the two and pushed their faces away from each other.

"H-Hanako-kun..." Hatsume sniffled as her boyfriend hugged her tightly and moved her away from the present clock keeper.

"...That was unfair." Hanako glared at Akane, face tinted pink.

"Whatever." Akane stuck his tongue out as he raised his hands in defense.

Yashiro sighed in relief.

"Now that we joined forces..." Akane then held Hanako up by the back of his uniform.

"I ask you to guide is to that strange mystery, Honorable Lord No. 7."

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