Illustration for The Last Night Of The Quarter, from the adult visual novel The Bell-house

The last night of the quarter is Thursday. The bequest is due in January. If the bell is not rung the school loses eleven thousand a year and closes in the spring.

CorvinaAnd I cannot ring it. I have rung it thirty-six times and the thirty-seventh is the one where it takes me, and then this school has no one who knows how to run it.

MalfoidThen I will ring it. It is my family's name on the ordinance and it is my house that the money holds up.

MioneYou will not ring it alone. If a body has to decide, it decides better with something to decide about.

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