Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140801024539/@comment-397235-20140802122654

It could work.

My idea for the second arc would've been things go bad in a hurry (the Head of Countermeasures is the third person to die), but they eventually start to figure things out, and April passes without any deaths...it seems.

The class leaves town for a month, coming back at midnight on May 1st, thinking they've managed to cheat and break the curse (not realizing someone, not sure who, had died in town and just hadn't been discovered). Then the bus is hit by a semi truck or something, and things go south from there.

This even is mentioned in the manga and indirectly in the anime as why the third years don't go on school trips anymore. I thought it'd be interesting to have the climax of the arc here, since it'd mostly focus on the kids wandering around in the wilderness trying to get help while one of them is going around killing the others.

As for the extra, he knows what he is because Mei had explained it to him, but finds she still doesn't actually have the will to kill him. He goes around actively trying to get killed by the curse, but instead ends up saving a bunch of other people instead. He comes clean to Tomohiko's sister and her buddy, who panics and falls off a cliff. They manage to stabilize her, but he explains to Tomohiko's sister she'll probably die if the sister doesn't kill him, and even if she doesn't, he'll still cease to exist again in a month.