Scary Monsters! ~Endless Halloween Night~/Story/Episode 5-10

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Episode 5-10: Did I Get Your Heart Pumping?

The Other Dimension - Sparkling Chamber
Ghost A Ghost A	We were so certain you would all have fun, but…
Ortho Ortho	That we would have fun?
Ruggie Ruggie	You've got some nerve saying that after literally endangering the whole school!
Ghost B Ghost B	But we heard that it was popular with living humans right now! We made it because we thought you would feel joy at solving puzzles, running from your enemies and then finally making it here. That's why we made this… …escape game!
Riddle Riddle	E… Escape…game?
Ortho Ortho	W-We spoke about escape games in that haunted town, didn't we?! Were we actually close to the answer to all this the whole time?
Ruggie Ruggie	Nah, probably not. I think it would've been difficult for us to come to the conclusion that all of this was set up to be some kind of game at that point. But, uh…given we've got someone who loves solving puzzles quickly here, I highly doubt he's gonna be happy about this.
Riddle Riddle	I… I… I said that I hadn't ever experienced an escape game before! If I'd had even one chance before now, I'm sure I would've realized right away! We never would've had to take such a roundabout way to get here!
Ruggie Ruggie	Welp. Riddle's gonna be so frustrated he's gonna struggle to sleep tonight, I'm tellin' ya.
Silver Silver	But what about that scream of Lilia's I heard?
Lilia Lilia	That was also a hint. Everybody else had magic cast on them while they were asleep and were taken away by the ghosts through the windows. So they made not even a peep as they were taken. And yet, you heard me screaming, despite that? That should've set off alarm bells ringing in your head. It's clear that I was the one behind it!
Silver Silver	…
Lilia Lilia	I even went to all the trouble of standing in front of the door to your room and screaming. Did I manage to give you the shivers? Did I get your heart pumping?
Leona Leona	Tch… I knew something felt off from the start.
Silver Silver	There's no way I could doubt you, Fath…Da… Lilia! You both took this way too far!
Lilia & Malleus Lilia & Malleus	Hm?
Silver Silver	I understand that you and the ghosts just wanted us to have fun. But those who were taken over by the ghosts tried to fight us. All it would've taken was one mistake and someone could've gotten seriously injured. Are you saying that was a hint, as well?
Lilia Lilia	Like we've been saying, wasn't there an explanation at the start that no one was to injure each other?
Silver Silver	What?
Malleus Malleus	…Don't tell me you weren't told that this was all just entertainment for the party? Explain yourselves, ghosts.
Ghost A Ghost A	U-Uhm…
Ghost B Ghost B	The living humans attacked us before we could get the chance to explain!
Ace Ace	Uh, excuse me? Don't shove it on us!
Ghost B Ghost B	Ah! Him with the droopy eyes over there! He stole our mirror shards and ran away from us! So we tried real hard to chase after him to get them back… …but then they were was all, "Time to shut you all up," and they beat us to a pulp!
Ace Ace	…Uhhhh. Now that you mention it, I do vaguely remember something like that happening. Were, uh, we the bad guys all along?
Floyd Floyd	Why ya lookin' at me like that?
Leona Leona	You got something you wanna say?
Ace Ace	N-Nah, definitely not! Nothing at all!
Silver Silver	B-But then how can you explain everyone that had their bodies taken over?
Lilia Lilia	We just borrowed the bodies of the Halloween Committee for a tad. Some of the ghosts may have been a little eccentric, but they were all superb actors. Naturally, there are no negative effects to the body. …Wait. You didn't all attack the ghosts without waiting for an explanation, did you?
Jamil Jamil	Well, uh…
Floyd Floyd	Maaaybe.
Riddle Riddle	W-We were so sure they were the enemy. Most of us, including myself, were only thinking about defeating them. When we attacked them, they returned back to normal, so…
Lilia Lilia	Are you all really this generation's young folk?! We're way past the days of whacking your appliances when they don't work! This means the students that were taken over by the ghosts may have been beaten up by the Halloween Committee! This isn't good. Let's go see how everyone is faring. Grim, Yuu, come help me clear up this misunderstanding.
Grim Grim	Fgnyaa, stop dragging me!