"I'm... fine, I guess, but I can't get into the cafeteria for the next 24 hours. Alfendi turned into that weird flatlined version of himself again, but I think everyone's okay."

Yeah, he was just going to gloss over that bit for now. Because more importantly --

"Tell me what happened, though! When we were in there, we were trapped in a room with some kinda sick visual novel. Only the person we were supposed to be controlling was this actual girl named Alessa, who was trapped in this puzzle room. She didn't look hurt, but she had this bracelet on and she told us she'd been kidnapped..."