Backdated to Thursday| Afternoon

[dis_integrates]

[Haruhi, as you're about the bustling streets of Raitou, you may notice a student of yours collapsed in an alley, seemingly unconscious. There's a cast on one of her feet, and she looks dangerously pale.]

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[...Because today wasn't enough pain! But he heads down the alley, still in the plain clothes he'd arrived here in. Hopefully, seeing the drama teacher dressed like a normal person won't scare her.

He reaches out, cautious, to check her pulse.]

[dis_integrates]

[It's still there, and she's still breathing, but not really stirring.]

[farewelltopain]

Shirosaki, can you hear me? [The next step is to check for injuries. ...Besides the cast.]

[dis_integrates]

[None really, aside from the bruises where she fell. She's pretty sweaty, though, and surprisingly there's a little bit of blood under her fingernails.]

...Nn? [Stirring very slightly.]

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[...Not good.]

Shirosaki, listen. Do you know who I am?

[dis_integrates]

[Very weakly, and barely seeming to comprehend.]

D-don't take me back... I-I'm not going back...!

[farewelltopain]

Shirosaki...Yui. Listen to me--I will never take you back. I will never let any of you go back. Do you understand me?

[dis_integrates]

F-friends tried to... S-sensei tried to... Kawatake...

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Listen. Listen. You won't go back. I won't let anyone take you back. But I need you to tell me what happened.

[dis_integrates]

...M-my pills. Poisoned. I couldn't think.

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...[...Poisoned? Shirosaki is shizophrenic, and yet...]

Can you give what's left to me? I'll deal with it, but right now I need to get you somewhere you can rest. Where do you want to go?

[dis_integrates]

[Drawing back, shuddering violently.]

C-can't trust anyone...!

[farewelltopain]

I'm not asking you to trust me. [His tone is flat.] I'm asking you to help me protect my brother, Yui.

[dis_integrates]

Why?

[farewelltopain]

Because I need to know what your medication was poisoned with. Because I...cannot allow him to suffer more than he already has. Because I can't let things continue on the way they are.

Now will you help me, Shirosaki Yui? Help me solve this...and help me keep that place from ever being made again?

[dis_integrates]

...T-trying to trick me?