Hakuba woke up in a panic, hand reaching desperately for his cellphone which was somewhere on the surface of his nightstand. In he process, he knocked over his alarm clock (which he could have used to check the time with) and his lamp. Finally finding said cell phone, however, he checked the time and gave himself a moment to catch his breath.

“AGAIN? NO. I need to stop having this nightmare so often… Koizumi-san and I have more or less reconciled and are now "friends” as far as I can tell, so this dream should… stop! STOP!“