Awakening back at the shrine, Joy seemed to behave just like it was another day - until she got the rude surprise of being naked!  When she tried to dress, she discovered the only option open to her were the clothes that had attacked her the night before at the school!  And asking Aika was no help, because she wasn't here!  Nobody seemed to be - not Aika, not Nori, not Yuyu!  It was like she lived at the shrine all by herself...no matter, she had to move forward and see what she could do about the situation.  The options presented themselves to her, and heading back to the school - morning though it was - seemed the right choice.<br/><br/>At said school, it looked lively, like nothing had ever really happened like what she and Aika had been told about by the residents.  More to the point, she hadn't noticed a single Azure Rider anywhere on her way in, and while her excursions to this part of town were limited, she had always spotted a group of them hanging about in the area.  At the gate, she was presented with the option to investigate some of the<tt class="bbc_tt">RUMORS</tt>she and Aika had picked up...but only some of them!  Where the hell were the rest?  But no matter - they had come here to find missing people, and Joy now selected the option once more.<br/><br/>She would find herself moving into the school, as if on a track - putting her shoes in the locker, changing to her indoor footwear, heading into the school, heading past a group of girls speaking to one of the female teachers...<br/><br/>"Aika-sensei, won't you be our club's sponsor, please?"<br/><tt class="bbc_tt"><br/>"I'm sorry, girls, I really am.  But I already sponsor two other clubs, and it wouldn't be fair to them, or to you, to keep dividing my time like that."</tt>They made noises of disappointment, but did disperse.  Aika-sensei, who Joy for some reason now knew was her grade's literature teacher, started to walk away towards her first class, herself.  Joy would find herself passing by another pair of girls, ones she vaguely recognized.  "That's the third one this month Aika-sensei's turned down."<br/><br/>"I hear it's because she's trying to get Souji-sensei, the PE teacher, to go out with her.  She's only a couple of years away from being a Christmas cake, you know."  While not one herself, Joy would recognize the expression.  Christmas cake.  The idea that a woman over the age of 25 had passed her prime marriageable years by, and that most men wouldn't even take a look at her.  "She wants<em>Souji-sensei</em>?  I guess you don't have to have good sense to be a teacher, do you?"<br/><br/>Just then, Joy would remember where she had recognized the girls from!  She'd (somehow) remembered their names as students in another class...and the names of a couple of the missing people that she was looking for!<br/><br/>But if she turned around to speak to them, they would have just<em>vanished</em>into thin air, like she'd only been hearing their voice and not actually seen them.  Everything was weird, here.  Nothing made sense.  She was somehow in high school as a student and Aika was a teacher and...this had to do with the night she and Aika had come here to investigate the disappearances.  This was<em>all connected to it.</em>But how?<br/><br/>The phenomenon from the entryway repeated itself - she recognized people that were officially missing, and then when turned around, they were gone.  By the end of the morning, she had made almost no progress...but...<br/><tt class="bbc_tt"><br/>RUMOR ACQUIRED: STRANGE HISASHIRO HIGH</tt><br/><br/>...maybe this would help!