See! I did have a good reason not to want to go in there!

[She looks so worried, though...]

Do you need me to go first?

You came here to help me, you know. [Nevertheless, Keigo walks in first.]

I never saw them inside the school. [That would be reassuring if seeing them at all wasn't a problem.] But that's normal school. Who knows with this school from another world stuff!

I'm not supposed to have to repay you for the thing you're doing while you're doing it.

[No spirits roaming the halls so far. Just the two of them and all that green.]

My first year class is right over there. If we check out one classroom, that's enough, right, and then we can leave?

No. My school isn't haunted like that. Or no more haunted than any other school. The ghosts I'm worried about are giant spirits called Hollows that eat other souls. They're too big to float around a classroom.

[That's reassuring, right?]

Lots of schools have mysteries and ghosts!

[Has she never read a manga?]

I won't argue that they shouldn't exist. [He's had a similar thought on more than one occasion. Usually with a side of whyyyyy meeeee?

However, despite his ability to constantly find new ways to feel sorry for himself, Keigo has yet to make the human shield connection. Instead, the way Shiho clings to him is making him feel a bit bolder. He's the expert who can accept the existence of ghosts here, and she's relying on him.

It helps that he hasn't seen or felt anything in the hallways. It's nothing but an empty school, making it easy to be brave.]

But whatever they are or aren't, they're not here.

[He slides open the door of the classroom with what he intends to be a manly, dramatic flourish. It's just a door sliding open.]

They weren't here to start with! It had nothing to do with how I opened the door!

[Of all the people to fail at looking cool in front of, it had to be Shiho.

He notices it wasn't embarrassing enough for her to stop hanging on to him.]

So this is what my classroom looked like. You're standing at the site of my high school debut.

It didn't.

[Part 1 and Part 2 of a key moment she might read from him as he remembers the lowest points of his first months of high school.]

[The smothered laugh gets past him, but not the pause.]

You don't really think so. You were thinking of a way to insult me!

[Somehow, he is not proud of her, but he does have to give her some credit.]

I guess it's better than actually insulting me.

[His standards are proven to be low.]

Is there anything you'd like to know about the school besides how no one truly appreciated my coolness?

I don't want to think about them anyway!

[Her non-existent because she's not scared anyway secret is safe!]

We used to eat lunch on the roof. Do you want to check out the view? [Then again, their path into the school started mid-hallway. Is this even the full Karakura High?] Do you think there's a roof?

[Keigo makes his way to the roof, and no one is as surprised as he is that the path he remembers continues to appear in front of him, every hallway, door, and stairwell.

If they walk by anything different, like the art room or the first time they pass by a set of restrooms, Keigo points it out, but otherwise he focuses on making sure their world isn't going to end in a sudden drop off.

It doesn't. And when he pushes one final door open, there is a roof. Keigo almost tries for a dramatic presentation, but he remembers how that went. He just steps aside.]

Here we are.

[Why?]

It's a roof. That's the part that's supposed to wow you.

[Walking to the edge of the roof and slumping over the railing seems like the mood of the moment. That's when he notices the first problem with this world. When he looks out over the school grounds, he can see the gymnasium and athletic fields, but the farther he tries to see beyond school grounds, the more the image blurs.]

Everything's fuzzy. Do you see that, too?

Some schools don't let you go on the roof!

[It could have been impressive.

Oh good, she sees it too, so he's not going blind from stepping into the portal.]

Usually I was talking to my friends, so I wasn't really looking anywhere. [He would check the track for girls running.] But this school's on the edge Karakura. You should see buildings from the town over there.