"None? What do you mean?"

  "Just what I said, I've never been cursed by a witch. So I don't sleep talk, have nightmares, or sleepwalk. I don't even dream at all, just no problems whatsoever."

  "That's impossible... such people don't exist. Everyone has at least one curse."

  Eve stated definitively.

  "Well, what can I do if I don't have curses? I'm not lying so you can relax. Alright then, since we're done, I'm going to bed. I'm dead tired."

  "You... you make me tell everything but keep your own secrets?"

  Eve questioned Rumi incredulously. But Rumi ignored Eve and climbed up to the top bunk.

  But Eve stopped Rumi.

  "Wait! You haven't drunk your holy water either, drink it before sleeping."

  "...What? You were watching to see if I drank holy water?"

  "I wasn't watching, it was just obvious. Just drink your holy water before bed."

  Rumi was slightly irritated by Eve's tone.

  "No... I already told you. I'm the type that doesn't get cursed easily so I'm fine without drinking holy water."

  "Don't say nonsense. Pray together and drink holy water before bed."

  "Hmm... no thanks. You and Niel can pray together."

  "No, that's not acceptable. Drinking holy water is a rule.

  And this isn't just about you. If you sleep without drinking holy water, your curses could spread to me. Niel, you agree right?"

  Niel started looking uncomfortable hearing Rumi and Eve's suddenly heated argument.

  "Um... yeah."

  "That's because you don't know me well. I'm extremely strong against curses. Niel, you understand right?"

  Rumi subtly pressured Niel, who already knew Rumi was completely immune to curses, to agree.

  "Um... you're right, Rumi."

  Niel answered weakly while watching Rumi's reaction.

  "Both of you stop talking nonsense and quickly come down to pray and drink holy water before bed. Are you planning to break rules on the first day?"

  "Ah, I said no! Just pray with Niel!"

  Rumi was getting increasingly irritated with Eve interfering in her personal matters.

  "...If you break the rules, I'll have no choice but to report you to the teachers!"

  Just then Eve shouted as if truly angry.

  "Sigh... then I have no choice. Forget the prayer, I'll just drink the holy water and sleep. Okay?"

  Rumi finally gave in to Eve's interference and came down again after trying to lie down on the top bunk.

  "..."

  Eve, still looking full of discontent, glared at Rumi coming down from the top bunk.

  Rumi came down and held out her empty hand.

  Eve handed Rumi a bottle of silver holy water.

  "Here, I'm drinking it. Watch carefully."

  Rumi emptied the entire bottle of holy water into her mouth.

  Eve sighed in relief while clutching her chest at the sight.

  But Rumi's expression suddenly turned bad while holding the holy water in her mouth.

  "Mmmphhh!"

  Rumi suddenly ran to the sink attached to the desk and spat out all the holy water.

  "Ugh!"

  Eve's face turned completely red seeing that.

  "You... what... what are you doing!"

  Eve shouted with a face of disbelief.

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  "Aah sorry, the holy water tasted weird. Ugh."

  Rumi spoke deliberately scratching at Eve's nerves.

  "Isn't it fine since a little bit went in my mouth?"

  "Do... do you think that makes sense?"

  "Aren't you the one being too nosy? I told you I'm strongly resistant to curses, I don't even drink water before bed normally."

  Eve bit her lip hard looking at Rumi.

  "Um Eve, let's stop now and just pray by ourselves..."

  Niel clung to Eve and led her to the bed.

  Eve seemed to swallow her indignation as she lowered her head.

  "Alright, Niel... let's at least pray together."

  Eve knelt and started praying.

  Rumi sprawled on the top bunk, savoring her victory.

  But then a very irritating prayer started reaching her ears.

  "Please give the willpower of life to our new roommate so she comes to her senses and follows the rules..."

  The damn prayer content was endless indirect criticism of Rumi.

  Though annoyed, Rumi deliberately closed her eyes and ignored the prayer.

  After finishing prayer, Niel drank all her holy water and called to Rumi lying in bed.

  "Rumi, sorry, but could you tie me up?"

  Rumi immediately sat up as if suddenly remembering something.

  "Ah, right."

  Niel always needed to be restrained because she risked turning into Hyde while sleeping.

  Rumi used the leather straps Niel had brought to firmly secure her to the bed.

  Meanwhile, Eve lay in bed watching this with uncomfortable eyes.

  "It's for safety so don't worry about it."

  Rumi commented.

  Eve sharply turned to face the wall.

  Rumi finished restraining Niel and got back in bed.

  And when all the dorm lights went off, Rumi fell asleep instantly.

  Rumi woke up thirsty in the early morning.

  "Nnnngh... ugh...!"

  But as soon as she woke, she heard groaning sounds from somewhere.

  Looking to see who was making such noisy groans, they were coming from Eve who had said she wouldn't disturb others at night.

  Eve was twisting her whole body while covered in cold sweat.

  Anyone could see she was having an intense nightmare.

  "How can she say she doesn't disturb others when she's this noisy...?"

  Meanwhile, Niel right below seemed to be sleeping well.

  Rumi drank a glass of water at the ground floor desk.

  Looking at the clock, it was approaching 2 AM.

  Then she remembered that rule she had memorized yesterday about not being awake between 2 and 4 AM.

  Rumi thought nothing much would happen and lay down to sleep again when she seemed to hear a strange sound.

  It was different from Eve's groaning, like a sound with melody.

  Listening carefully to figure out what it was, it was definitely like someone humming a melody.

  "..."

  Who would be singing at this hour... was it a ghost singing?

  Rumi vaguely remembered if there was anything about such singing in the rules.

  Rumi went up to the loft and pulled back the curtain.

  As expected, dozens of ghosts had their faces pressed against the window peering in.

  "Ugh!"

  Rumi was about to close the curtains right away after seeing the ghosts' faces crowding the window when she spotted Professor Myers seemingly chasing away some ghost outside at this hour.

  "..."

  It looked like the teachers here worked hard even in the middle of the night.

  Anyway, since the sound didn't seem to be coming from outside, Rumi closed the curtains.

  And since no one was singing in the room either, it must be coming from next door or the corridor.

  Rumi went down the loft stairs and checked the corridor through the small window in the dorm room door.

  The sound definitely seemed to be coming from the corridor.

  "Huh...?"

  But wasn't that someone wandering at the end of the corridor!

  Rumi rubbed her eyes to properly confirm if what she was seeing was really a person.

  It was some girl.

  Though she couldn't be sure who it was, strangely it felt like Medina with her hair down.

  Whether sleepwalking or whatever, wasn't wandering the corridor at this hour more life-threatening than not drinking holy water?

  There was definitely someone more out of their mind than herself.

  Rumi was about to open the door and go out to the corridor to check.

  "Don't!"

  But suddenly a voice came from behind.

  Rumi turned around in surprise.

  Eve was shouting while lying in bed.

  "Please, stop it! Please!"

  As Rumi watched Eve in shock, Eve seemed to be sleep talking.

  "Ah, what the..."

  When Rumi checked the corridor through the window again, that girl from earlier had completely disappeared.

  "That's strange..."

  Rumi stood in place for a moment and pinched her cheek to check if she wasn't fully awake.

  "Ouch!"

  She was definitely conscious. This wasn't a hallucination.

  She wondered if she should go out to the corridor to check... but Eve's groaning was somewhat concerning.

  "..."

  Rumi finally gave up on finding the source of the singing and climbed back up to lie in bed.

  And the melody kept coming endlessly.

  Rumi listened to the song until she almost memorized it before falling asleep again.

  The next day, after finishing morning mass, Principal Pierre's special class was prepared as the first lesson.

  The first-year students dreaded their first class before it even began.

  Getting fed up with just the principal's morning mass was one thing, but having Principal Pierre for their first class was a curse in itself.

  "I got scolded for skipping morning mass because I didn't want to hear the principal's sermon, but now the first class is with the principal..."

  Medina's voice came from behind.

  Medina was again moving with a bag as big as her body.

  "So that's why you weren't seen this morning?"

  Rumi started openly observing Medina who had just appeared.

  "Rumi, looks like you checked whether I came or not. As expected of my lifesaver, observing me well..."

  "What are you talking about?"

  "But actually I skipped because I felt sick, maybe from having a nightmare."

  "Do you have sleepwalking by any chance?"

  "What... what?"

  "Hmm... seems you do."

  Rumi thought to herself that girl from last night must have been Medina.

  But she needed to check a few more things to be completely sure.

  "Medina, take off your glasses for a moment. And while you're at it, let down that messy tied hair too."

  "What's with you suddenly? Why are you saying I have sleepwalking? You said you were happy we're in different rooms but now what's this, move aside!"

  Medina showed unnecessarily excessive discomfort as she pushed past Rumi's shoulder and entered the principal's office.

  "Rumi, did something happen with her?"

  Just then Niel came over and asked.

  "No... I'll tell you later."

  "Boo boo boo boop!"

  Just then the statue in front of the principal's office suddenly shouted and startled them.

  "Now what is this!"

  "Tee hee hee hee! They have come. Is that day coming, is that day coming? Tee hee hee!"

  "Aish you startled me, be quiet!"

  Rumi was annoyed at why they had put a possessed statue in front of the principal's office door.

  "No! I'm going to laugh! Tee hee hee!"

  Rumi and Niel avoided the damn statue and entered the principal's office.

  But the interior that was revealed was very different from what they had expected.