Judging by the expression on the other girl's face, she probably found Haruto's proposition weird. After all, it's not as if a random third year girl asks you to find her articles connected to various deaths and murders. Most Journalism courses are taken up during the fourth year in other schools she's heard of. Perhaps Castle follows the same system? Given that it was a correctional school though, it's highly unlikely that they focus on a lot of things academic around the place.
"Sure." Surprisingly, the girl accepted. "So you have a lot of free time as well huh?" Haruto thought. Why else would she accept the proposition? Unless she didn't bring any money for her own lunch which was probably impossible, seeing that she just ordered coffee a while ago.
"Cool. Well, I'll be upstairs. I reckon I'm not that difficult to find. Not in a library this small anyway." Having accepted the offer, Haruto and the girl parted ways for a while, with the former climbing up the stairs to the second floor.
Haruto has always had a favorite spot on the second floor. It was one of the desks on the right, near the gap that allows one to see on the floor below, near a wooden railing with a characteristic crack. Other people usually avoid those seats, preferring the ones close to the window because of the light. Plus, there was always the minuscule chance of the railings giving way. Thanks to this though, the girl could always come in the library with the assurance of a seat waiting for her.
Upon arriving, she immediately dug through the articles she's already gathered, sorting them by date and taking quick notes on various details. It wasn't exactly the most exciting task. Even if the news themselves were interesting, reading lots of prints in a day quickly gets tiring. Still, she had to do it, if only for her own personal reason and satisfaction.
"I found two. You wouldn't think they'd leave any files about deaths here."
The girl came up to her some time later. Haruto didn't even realize that she had been dozing off if not for the girl suddenly speaking up. Wiping off the drowsiness in her eyes, she extended a hand to take the articles. Two additional ones. Not really that impressive but, at least they were new--stories she's never come across before.
"Keeping track of these isn't too hard if you just think of them as "incidents" rather than "deaths". Besides, these are their students, regardless if we're all just garbage according to the city. Someone's got to remember them. Although--" Haruto's eyes immediately scanned through the murder article six years ago. "You'll probably wonder why such "incidents" occur in this school in the first place. Look-- At that point, Haruto didn't really mind that she was back to speaking in her normal tone of voice as she handed the article to the girl, given that they were the only ones on the second floor. "Kisa Amoruso. 17. Murdered in her sleep. Given that it happened here, I would have to assume she was in the dorms. That's an odd thing since this is a correctional school. You'd expect security to be a little tight because of it. I'm willing to bet they didn't have security cameras either."
Haruto pointed out small discrepancies between the school and the article. "Given that this one occurred six years ago, it seems that Castle's been operating for a long time. Long time to realize that what they're allowing to thrive inside this school are walking time bombs. Each of them can go off any time, given the right triggers. If you think about it that way, it makes you wonder how safe you are within these walls. And yet none of them has done anything about it. See, you usually have these people undergo a test before you let them in; see if they're actually repairable. Those who aren't...usually get locked up because let's face it: Some people are just born lacking a working moral compass. Yet Castle seems to be rather lenient on this. Do you have any idea why?"
Haruto paused for a little to see if she's still got the girl's attention. In the meantime, her attention was drawn to the suicide article, also dated six years ago. "Well, look what we have here. This is a rather interesting story you found. It's a story on a boy who--" Before she carried on though, Haruto glanced up at the clock. They've been inside for one whole class now. The next lecture may start soon so she can't really keep the girl around forever.
"Almost time for the next subject. Do you need to go? I can give you the cash now if you want since I'll be staying here for a little while longer. Either way, it's the same. You either listen to another lecture, probably on the sciences, ethics or all that stuff or you listen to a third year girl's ramblings on the things she found strange with this academy. Unless there's another place you'd rather be besides those two options?" Haruto asked her younger companion. Admittedly, she found her presence refreshing. She doesn't really get many opportunities to discuss her work with an audience.