The Haunted Town

Chapter 9

CHAPTER 9A
"Race Of Death"

※This Chapter is for Bell Cranel. Thanks for the 300+ Inspirational Words.※

-Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. (Thomas Edison)-

The Occult Clubroom
AAW Academy
10:30 am

"This isn't good. Without Lenka the success rate of this mission is only 2%." Ikoma munches crackers while reading occult-related 1.5K pages hardbound book. He's flipping the book like a professional. His eyeglasses is sparkling for some reason too.

"How much if he's here with us then?" Kaoru asked. She's drawing circles and shapes at the floor.

"Around 2.001%." Ikoma replied.

Shirou stood up and stretched. He bumps his back with Oga who's standing while reading chants.

"Oh, sorry. Dont just stand there and sit down Oga!" Shirou apologized.

"I'm trying to concentrate." Oga answered.

"Heh, first time you say that. Could it be, you're trying to impress someone?" Shirou teases Oga and poke his cheek.

"Ggh!? What are you talking about?" Oga shoved Shirou's hand away and frowned.

"No need to be embarrassed. Tell me, who is it?"

"There's no one!"

A book fell from L's desk and that interrupted the moment.

"I found it! As I thought it really is a hundred years quest!" L then announced.

The five stopped from what they are doing and went around L's back.

"A hundred years quest? Which one?" Oga asked.

"Idiot. Its the mission! M-I-S-S-I-O-N!" Kaoru even spelled it out for Oga.

"Does that mean that this quest or our mission has been around for so long?" Shirou's turn to ask.

L nodded. He clicked a button at the keyboard and a map flashed at the screen. "Its called "THE HAUNTED TOWN QUEST"."

"Haunted Town Quest?" Ikoma asked.

"The former name of this quest was "THE MISSING TOWN 97" but it got changed because there were so many Missing Town titles at its becoming popular among fellow supernaturalists. Hmm...it seems like the title were changed by jarokspookyneedlexxx of the World's Mystery Online." L said.

"Who's that?" Oga asked cluelessly again. He acts like he dont know anything.

"I know that guy! We're buddies." Dazai said and smiled.

"Ohh...what kind of a person is he?" Kaoru asked and showed interest about the guy.

"Yeah. He's a popular horror blogger of the World's Mystery Online. There were even rumors that he owns the site WMO himself but there were no proof. He's also an extremely rude guy!" Dazai answered cheerfully like he always do.

"And also, he's the one who sent the quest to us." L added and showed them the folder earlier.

"Seriously?!" Ikoma cant believe.

"Its true....its really from jarokspookyneedlexxx. Hey wait! Does that mean this guy is from OEA Quad? This folder was sent from OEA Quad...then, its probably that guy then!" Shirou rubs his chin to think deep.

"Which--" before Oga could finished his question L, Kaoru and Dazai spoke on unison to say the name.

"Karasu Jarok!!!"