9 Chapter 9 - Student Next Door

On a beautiful morning, at Stevenson college... "Yeah!!!" "Uh, Sky? What's so happy with English class?" Chris ask. "If you having English class after Maths class." "I see..." "Let's go shall we?" "Okay!" So Sky and Chris get out from the Maths room while others still copy the notes in the room when they headed to the stair(as the maths room is on 2nd floor while Language room in on the ground floor) they saw some 'scumbag student' sitting on the staircase which almost blocks half of the path of the stair. Sky: "Shi... this is the reason for 'traffic jam'." said so he squishes through the narrow path. However after they walk down the stair to the first floor, someone else is walking through the stair but in a totally different way. He kicked the back of one of those students and step directly on his back and head to pass through the staircase... Seeing this scene, Sky grabbed that guy and push him to a wall while Chris is checking the condition of that student... "Hey you..." That guy slightly pushed Sky away, and Sky felt some unusual power oozed out from him. "None of your concern..." then, that guy leaves "Hey Sky! What's wrong." Chris ask. "Nothing..."...

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"The student next door?" "Yeah... See this record?" "Unbelievable... This school is surely the central of all the chaos. Why would anyone think to build a school in the middle of all dimensional link?!" "Hah! Who knows? We will just wait and see..."

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Chapter 9 - Student Next Door!

After the English class, recess time... "Ha! Finally! Let's get to the cafeteria, I'm starving!" "This is the only words you will say... Hey! Sky! Look! *point at a big crowd*." "Shi... not again?! *ran to the crowd*..." Pushing away the crowd, Sky saw a boy kneeling on the ground in a gazing state...

After school, Sky's house... "Damn! This is the third case in this month" "Yeah, luckily that boy is alright." "But the victim of the previous cases is not so lucky, we need to find who did this... fast." "It's true... Hey! Sky! I think there is a big possibility that 'he' is behind all this." "That's what I'm thinking." "And most importantly the special event in New World (an online game) is starting today!" "Ah yes! Totally forgot about it *on the computer*..."...

The next day, in the school cafeteria… "Hai…here's your juice…" "Alcohol-free?" "Yes…" "Really? Prove it and show me the evidence." "Sky, stop teasing Nakamura-san, he got lots of work to do." (*Mr. Nakamura, cafeteria operator, a middle-age man that wears a bandanna and always smile no matter what happens)

"Hey! What if my juice contains alcohol?" "Just drink it." "You have no sense of humor at all Chris." Chris ignore Sky and headed to a table where Ai-chan is sitting and having her meal. "Alone again?" "*turn to look at Chris* Maybe...* turns back again*" Sky walk to the table and sit down, "I'm sure my lovely Ai-chan is waiting for me, right Ai-chan?" said Sky, in a teasing tone but get ignored by Ai. "Aww~ don't be like that, a sweet girl like you should be more friendly." Sky teased her again. "*annoyed* Then how friendly should I be?" "At least say something like 'Hey! Sky! How are you today?" "Not my style..." "Geez... such a cold girl. Hey, Ai *serious tone*...do you know the guy from the next class, the one with a dangerous look?" "Not sure...why?" "Well, since you are now our friend, I need to warn you to be extra careful...even when you are doing your quest." "*shock* My quest...what do you know about that?!" "*smile*...Ah!!! Almost forgot!*took out the Maths book* Chris! Have you complete it?" "Yeah." "He-he... I know you are nice and handsome and..." "Enough.*took out his Maths book and give it to Sky* Here." "Aww...'love' you so much." "Err.." "Says, where's Seito and his cousin?" "In the hall." "Eh? What are they doing in the hall?" "You forgot? The public speech from some random guy." "Ah... That two hours long speech will give me enough time to complete my maths..." As those two continue talking, Ai-chan seems to be staring at a direction or perhaps staring at someone...

In the hall... "Sky..." "Zzzzz..." "Uh… I thought he said he wanted to complete his maths." Chris took Sky's Maths book and help Sky complete his maths. "He must be exhausted after a sleepless night..." "Huh?..." Ai-chan shocked and curious about what Chris had said. Chris looks at Ai and smiled. "You don't really need to know." "Why?" Chris smiled and look at another direction." But that boy is really a troublemaker..." Ai turn and look at the direction where Chris is looking at. "That guy..." Ai-chan is staring hard at a boy wearing a headset, it's the same guy Sky and Chris met yesterday at the stair. "Ai-chan? You all right?" "Yes..." "You interested at that guy?" said Chris with a teasing tone. "I...I need to go to the bathroom..*leave*" "Ha! You are right after all." "When am I ever get wrong?" "When doing maths?" "Geez...help me complete it then.*continue sleeping*" "Did I say something wrong?..."...

As the speech continues, everything goes normal or perhaps seems to be normal... "Finally! Damn you Sky! I wonder when are you ever did your maths work?!" "Never.*smile*" "Don't smile at me, you are disgusting. Hmm... Ai-chan sure takes her time... Hmm? Sky, do you notice something weird?" "Of course I do, I'm not blind nor deaf..." "The speaker has stopped speaking and the students are not moving..." "Someone seems to have activated a 'kage'(a binding skill that numb the five senses of normal humans)..." "Who have did this?" "Hell like I know." By this time Seito and Itsuki have arrived. "But we might be able to find out who did this... Chris, go investigate with Seito, and Itsuki will stay here while I'll try to track down that guy.*pointing at the empty seat which supposed to be sat by 'the staircase guy'...

"Hey Chris! Where should we start searching?" "This school is not so big, so..." "Girl's washroom?" said Seito in an excited tone. "Hey! Getting serious okay?" said Chris? "Yeah. But I'm serious when talking about the washroom, I somehow sensed a weird pressure from there..." "Well, let's just ignore it, it could be just your hallucination." "Chris... *looking at Chris*... You look so wrong, are you trying to hide something from me?" "No, you are thinking too much." "That makes me even more curious about the washroom. *stepping towards a direction*..." "Wait!" Seito ignores Chris. "Damn it!"...

At the same time, at the locker room, a boy is standing in front of a locker, drawing some invisible pattern on the door of the locker... Suddenly... "Ha! Should have known that you are here... hmm... all the lockers you 'scribbled' belong to those jerky bookworms? Think they are useless and can be 'sacrificed' for your big plan? But you are really good at choosing time, it's wise to use other people's Kage to cover your movement." "*still calm* I wonder what makes you think that I'm not the one that activates this Kage." "Easy! The Magic flow of this Kage user is the same as some incident earlier which causes the death of some students, but the frequency of this kind of incident is rather low, perhaps the purpose of that person is to get those student's souls to increase his Magic..." "So what?" "But recently the frequency of the similar incident have shoot sky-high, just the way the student been harm is rather soft, most of them survive. It seems like a totally different person is making some chaos to get attention from the third party so that they will investigate the incident and find out about the real culprit, but somehow he accidentally caused a death of a student which is in bad luck when he gains back consciousness and died falling down from the stair, after the death of this unlucky one, the frequency of this kind of incident has dropped, which implies that the person who did this feel guilty of that student's death and wonder whether he should continue or not. Am I right?" "*Frustrated* That doesn't prove anything!" "*smile* And one more thing, the real culprit didn't really choose his target, but the later one usually chooses people from the 'useless' group... well~ at least he thinks so. After the death of that unfortunate one, he keeps waiting for the third party to take action but, they didn't, so he gets impatient and decided to draw their attention again... yesterday." "*annoyed*... What else did you know?!" "Well~I don't know, but I think you have an encounter with Ai-chan last night don't you?" "What is your intention telling me this?" "Nah! That's not my concern but I'm sure Dark Prince will be really mad if he knows his underlings are in contact with the KILLER group top killer..." "*shock* You know my boss?!" "I know him more than you do." "What?" "He's an old friend of mine." "..."

Back to Chris and Seito Somewhere near the girl's restroom... "Kenji... you.." "Shhh...I heard something..." From the girl's restroom... "I know... I will complete this quest as soon as I can...bWhat? Even though I'm the top killer..."... "Hmm... that voice sounds familiar...*is about to open the door*..." "Kenji!!!" "...*Open the door*...(!)...Ai-chan! It's you!" said Seito, rather surprised to see Ai. "Seito-kun..."