Part 5: Dark Stories

I did it. I finished Candiere’s Cafe. The ending gave me mixed feelings about what I did before completing the game.

The abandoned library I visited before… Well, it had three books lying on the table. Each of them contained stories about these other players who had been claimed to be transferred into Tartropolatté. The lore stated that a specific day when the sun “ran away” would cast a curse on players of the game every year. I was aware that the three that went missing at Dream Academy High coincidentally fit these books’ descriptions.

Since the curse was over, I could have my best friend Imagi Hosato help me figure out where they went. Nothing came out of completing the 45 days except winning as expected. Imagi didn’t play that much of the game with me. She didn’t even own one which means I would have to tell her everything about what happened.

Oh, that’s right. I forgot to introduce Imagi. Well, she is basically a lovable goth. Her favorite color is purple. Really obsessed with horror and as you’d expect… The curse. She knew about all of the rumors from her brother, Toma Hosato, who safely graduated and lived to tell the dark stories. When “The Day Of The Dark Sun” happened, I was 10 years old. The exact same date I went on hiatus from playing Candiere’s Cafe.

Toma, around that time, heard the news regarding missing reports or deaths every month in his first year attending Dream Academy High. This was how it started. 36 stories went by with exactly 1,320 students gone. After that, the killings went on yearly.

There are five striking ones that proved how devastating it was. Staff at the school were hesitant to believe it, but even they caught onto the superstitious activities. They never really knew how to get rid of it.

People at the academy toss these stories around the Halloween season because that was the time the deaths began to occur. Someone had been watching it unfold too, leaving writing of what happened in hidden spots from where the events themselves took place.