This is Lieutenant Colonel Guren Ichinose, using the phone tree as a means to deliver a message. A person has been found dead in the cafeteria and the students who were here before us—the "clone students" in some words—have been acting erratically. Stay on your guard.
[ They don't have to reply to this if they don't want to! ]
Oh. Somebody you know already went missing? Sorry.
I wouldn't say it happens a lot... There's way more people coming in than going out, you know? But it's not the first time, or even the tenth, by now. Sometimes they disappear for weeks, then show up again, but most of the time... They just don't come back.
[Good question. There's a slightly longer pause this time between replies as Kouha tries to think of similarities between the people disappearing, but he comes up empty.]
Never noticed much of a pattern myself. Sometimes the people who go missing are kinda withdrawn and you don't see them around too much before they go, but being in a place like this does that to everybody at some point. It's not easy to tell, and it seems like they just vanish into thin air out of nowhere, most of the time.
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This is Lieutenant Colonel Guren Ichinose, using the phone tree as a means to deliver a message. A person has been found dead in the cafeteria and the students who were here before us—the "clone students" in some words—have been acting erratically. Stay on your guard.
[ They don't have to reply to this if they don't want to! ]
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[He's torn between shock and anger, but he tries to be calm on the phone.]
Yeah, I got it. Thanks for the heads-up, Ichinose.
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All right, then. Do people disappear on a frequent basis?
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Oh. Somebody you know already went missing? Sorry.
I wouldn't say it happens a lot... There's way more people coming in than going out, you know? But it's not the first time, or even the tenth, by now. Sometimes they disappear for weeks, then show up again, but most of the time... They just don't come back.
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No, everyone I know is safe, thankfully. It was something interesting I heard from around the school.
There's no real pattern to it?
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Never noticed much of a pattern myself. Sometimes the people who go missing are kinda withdrawn and you don't see them around too much before they go, but being in a place like this does that to everybody at some point. It's not easy to tell, and it seems like they just vanish into thin air out of nowhere, most of the time.
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Thanks. I guess I'll just keep my eyes peeled. This place really is "hell" in a sense, huh?
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You can say that again! The only upside's that we're not by ourselves. Being alone in this place would be even worse.
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[Is he trolling or serious?? You might be in trouble here, Guy.]
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Wouldn't I be subtler if I was a spy?
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I guess I'll just have to report this to my superiors.
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