Chapter 1 - Part 12
Why is Mikan... posed like that!?
Is this what Hajime meant about her falling over!?
I-I'm sorry! I tripped again!
How do you trip and land like *that*?
Yaaaay, an erotic pose! That's obviously a fanservice moment!
Eek... Nooooo... P-Please don't! Please don't look at me!
Eeeeeeee-hehehehe! I can't take this at all...!
Hyeh... Please forgive me...! Just forgive me...alreaaaadyyyyy!
E-Everyone...I think it would be best if we help her already.
Uyu... I'm terribly sorry for all this trouble...so sorry!
Yeah, from now on... just be careful.
Naw, Mahiru didn’t snatch some shots?
Th-There's no way I could do that!
How’s she gonna take a photo without a camera?
W-What do you mean? I have my camera right...
...Eh?
As I went to grab my camera, realization hit me.
The weight that should be resting against my hip...
...It’s gone.
When my hands felt nothing, I looked down to see my fears confirmed.
My camera... it’s gone!
Huh? It's not here?
Did it fall off?
It can’t fall off, it’s clipped to the strap!
Hey! Why can't you all act a little more responsibly...?
*Beep beep!*
...Hm? What was that sound just now?
* ka-chack! *
...
...
...What?
Why...is it suddenly pitch-black?
Huh? The power’s out!
The... power’s out?
Eh!? Why is the power out!?
Hey, I can't see anything!
I-It's pitch black! My future is pitch black!
Adrenaline suddenly rushed through me, and I almost let out a scream.
These feelings... I couldn’t believe it... I didn’t want to believe it...
E-Everyone, calm down! We gotta stay calm in a situation like this!
Waaaah! Don't step on my feet!
What the hell!? What's going on here!?
Because of the iron plates covering the windows, the room was thrown into complete darkness.
Th-This is...!
Ow!
Turn the damn lights on! I can't eat like this, y'know!
I-I don’t mind a sandwich or two, but some of you are getting really pushy...
Perhaps the breaker overloaded?
H-Hold on a sec! I'll go along the wall and...do something about it...!
I could feel my stomach twist and turn...
We waited for what seemed like forever, until finally...
* ka-chack! *
Ah...!
The light returned to the hall, drawing the panic to an end.
Oh, I'm glad! The lights are back on here, too!
So you were the one who fixed the breaker, Kazuichi! You were unusually useful this time!
Well, no... I couldn't find my way to the office with the circuit breaker...
Huh? So why’s the power back on?
Search me...
Don’t say “search me”! You're so useless!
Argh! It's not my fault, you know! There's no way I could've found my way to the office in that darkness!
...Oh my.
Sonia... did something happen?
No... Byakuya is missing. Did he go somewhere?
...Eh? Byakuya?
We looked around the dining hall. Sure enough...
...Byakuya was nowhere to be found.
That’s weird... He was here before the power went out.
Did he run off somewhere...during the blackout?
In that pitch blackness...?
I'm... a little worried. We should split up and go look for him.
I’ll go look in the storage room. Mahiru...
Yeah... You can search the storage room, I think I’ll check the entrance.
Then... I guess I'll go look in the office.
I shall go look around the hallway.
I'll wait here, since I'm kinda in the middle of eatin' anyway...
How can she still be eating!?
I-I must... Bathroom...
I must man up and check the bathroom! [leaves]
Jeez! These guys seriously have their priorities skewed!
Oh. Mr. Ham Hands ran away just because there was an itty bitty blackout...
Hehe... Such a shameful leader. If I find him, I'm gonna finger-flick him in the face as punishment... [leaves]
But, where did Byakuya run off to?
I’ve got a bad feeling about this...
Um, I said I was going to the entrance. Chiaki should still be there, too.