
by William Chao
In every academy, every club needs a name. And they are about to know why. Evelyn Carroll, Jessica Baum, Rosalia Wilde, Schnee Grimm, Christine "Alice" Anderson, Margaret Howard, and Elizabeth Gale are just average high school girls that have nothing in common with each other except a shared room in the east wing and a club that still has no purpose, no name, and no future. Their meetings end the same way every time: in arguments. Until the night the lights flicker, the walls lean in, and their room is torn out of the academy entirely. Now the girls are trapped in a series of visions no one has ever seen. Hallways that stretch without end. Portraits with no faces. Doors that all bear the same number. Each vision seems to know them, pulling secrets from the girls they thought they understood, and turning friends into suspects. Then they start counting their footsteps, and realize there are eight of them. As the room shrinks and the visions grow hungrier, the girls uncover a truth buried in the academy's history: they were not the first seven, and the name they choose may be the only thing standing between them and never going home. But in a place that is always watching, even a name can be a trap.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 6 Oct 2026, 00:58 UTC
Entry forecast updated 6 Oct 2026, 00:58 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
23%
Two or more lists
14%
Likely threshold order: Horror → Psychological → Mystery → Main.
Leading bundle: Horror + Psychological + Mystery (9%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#834 of 5,556 · 784 below RS #50
By genre
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