"With what I have recovered up to now, I decided to order you to not interfere with Shimamura-kun. They do not need to remember this. It will only hurt everyone in the process." Mayoi said.
"Why?" Ayumi asked.
"Mikoto-kun, according to what I promised with Chisato, I will never get involved with her life after I fulfilled my dreams." Mayoi said.
"But didn't it changed?" Ayumi asked.
"... You don't understand, Shimamura-kun and Chisato was only doing this out of concern. It is so that I can leave them alone as soon as possible." Mayoi said in denial.
"You knew it wasn't true do you?" Ayumi asked.
"... What do you want me to do?" Mayoi almost broke down in tears.
"According to Shinosuke-senpai, he wanted you to remind him about yourself. Then clear the doubts that fogs their memories. He wasn't so sure of this method, but at least this fog bottle given to us had worked." Keita said.
"... I still have a choice not to remind them of me. I warn you, stop this and live your normal student life, otherwise, I'll expel you." Mayoi warned.
"... Let's make this a competition." Keita proposed.
"... Are you sick in the head?" Mayoi is enraged.
"You are free to get into our way, if we failed to remind Shinosuke-senpai about you, then I'll accept expulsion as my punishment." Keita declared boldly.
"... Very well. I will only expel you if you failed to do so in a week. Is that enough?" Mayoi said.
"Sure. More than enough." Keita said confidently.
"Such bold words. I'll see what you are truly capable of." Mayoi walks off.
"She is sure very different every time we talk to her..." Itsuki sighed.
"Yeah... That is what you get if you had played so many different faces before huh?" Itsuki added.
"... She did not mean what she said. All of her actions up to now is contradicting with one another." Keita explained.
"Well, the time is no longer early, we should continue during lunch break." Itsuki said.
"Alright, let's head to class." Keita said.
"It's my first time entering class late, I wonder what will happen to us?" Ayumi said as she steps behind Keita.
"Probably detention." Keita said.
"EH?!" Ayumi was surprised.
"I'm sure Ogura-sensei won't get angry with us if we said we talked with Yukimura-senpai." Itsuki said.
"Do Ogura-sensei even knows about her?" Ayumi asked.
"Well, she is no longer a lost child, and we were lucky not to be too close to them before, otherwise, we won't even get to do some weird stuff like this." Itsuki said.
"Not everything is good huh?" Ayumi doubted.
"What do you mean?" Keita asked.
"The feelings she had harboured towards Shinosuke-senpai, and how he had came to acknowledge her feelings and even managed to make the relationship work. It only left regret and guilt in her that she remembered all that memories." Ayumi said.
"... Don't worry, we will make this work." Keita reassures.
"Aww, how dependable you are, Kei-kun." Ayumi smiled.
"Excuse me, I'm still here you know?" Itsuki said.
"Excuse me!" A girl called out to them.
"Fujioka-san? Why are you here?" Itsuki asked.
"I saw you following a senpai, so I am curious of what Shimamura-senpai had told me before." Kamika said.
"So he also asked you to help him in his memory problem?" Itsuki asked.
"... Yes." Kamika nodded.
"Curious..." Keita ponders.
"What is curious?" Ayumi asked.
"Shinosuke-senpai never told us about inviting Fujioka-san to help him. Did he tell you anything to do in particular?" Keita asked.
"No. He only asked me to observe your movements and join up when your group took action." Kamika explained.
"... So you don't know the details?" Itsuki asked.
"Yeah... He expected you to explain it to me." Kamika said.
"I see, we need a meeting spot to discuss things. Let's meet up at the end of the hallway, there is somewhere we can make our meeting spot." Keita said.
"... I see. Please take care of me." Kamika bowed before she leaves.
"Same here." Keita said.
"What was Shinosuke-senpai doing? Shouldn't he tell us about it beforehand?" Itsuki ranted.
"There is something odd about her. I suspect something behind the scenes." Keita said.
"Wow, you beat me to shame as a detective, Keita. You're sharp." Itsuki understood what happened.
"So it's Mayoi-senpai's doing." Ayumi deduced.
"Correct. It seems like Fujioka-san is either a bad liar or she wanted to do the opposite." Keita said.
"So if we lead her into traps, Mayoi-senpai will act according to what we lead her into." Itsuki said.
"What if she is genuinely helping?" Ayumi asked.
"It is not important. Mayoi-senpai will attract more attention if she acted out. She wouldn't want that to happen." Keita said.
"I see... Giving her intel will have no help at all. Perhaps she still secretly wanted Shinosuke-senpai to remember. But she couldn't bring herself to do it." Itsuki said.
"Guess we're here." Keita slid the door open and greeted Ogura-sensei.
"Good morning, we were called by the student council earlier. We will quickly return to our seats." Keita explained.
"I see. Let's begin the homeroom session." Ogura-sensei responded.
Meanwhile in class 3-A, Mayoi's seat was at the middle of the class, because of her abnormality, her seat was unnoticed, and since everyone notices her, she gathered a lot of attention.
"So you're Yukimura Mayoi-san!"
"It's weird that you have been in this class for a year huh?"
"You're not a transfer student?" Her classmates asked.
"... This is bothersome..." She muttered.
"Eh?" A classmate heard what she said.
"Did we said something rude?"
"No, I am just exhausted... Sorry for being rude."
"I see, we will leave you alone then."
"Thank you."
Mayoi knew who exactly they are, the students who spreads rumours about the others, which caused problems she had to resolve herself when she was the president. She later heard a commotion outside.
"Speaking ill of others are not good, please refrain from badmouthing Yukimura-san." Shinosuke warned his classmates.
"Oh, you're here. You forgot your memo." Shinosuke handed it over to Mayoi.
"Thank you." Mayoi accepted the notebook she had no recollection of owning.
"This must be Chisato's notebook... What?" Mayoi read the notebook and found out that the contents are hints of how the student council worked before she resolved her abnormality.
"This notebook must be destroyed." Mayoi hid this in her pocket, looking for a place to dispose it. She stood in front of the dumpster, holding the notebook in front of her.
"This notebook will remind Shin-chan... Shimamura-kun about me. I will dispose of this... So that he won't remember me." Mayoi thought as she released the notebook into the dumpster.
As she steps away her heart felt heavier and heavier, as if she had lingering feelings that she could not let go.
"... I promised her I will stop interfering with her life once I had my fill, but my feelings... Where should I dispose of them?" Mayoi cried.
Feelings of attachment, sometimes called love are like an addiction. Once you lost the feeling of it, it will tear a hole in your heart, creating a void that needs to be constantly fulfilled. Mayoi presses on her heart, like an attempt to stuff her empty heart with her hands to stop herself from feeling empty. Her decisions and her feelings contradicted each other, which one would she pick, so that she will no longer suffer?