The summer vacation had ended, so many of the students are in low spirits. As usual, Kazuya walked from his house to school. He changed from his outdoor shoes to his indoor shoes and went to his class. The moment he set foot on the class, a loud voice can be heard:
"The hell! We should make a horror booth for the cultural festival!"
"No, we're not going with that! We should do a cafe!"
It seems the class representative and vice-class representative are having an argument. Kazuya doesn't want to involve himself so he quickly took a seat, and asked Yuu what's going on.
"Obviously, they're having an argument about what to do at the cultural festival."
"The cultural festival, huh?"
The cultural festival. After the summer break, the students will have an event called the cultural festival. This festival invites many people and the students will build a booth and they'll sell or perform something to the crowd.
The whole class are debating about what to do at the cultural festival, and the argument got split into two factions. The cafe faction and the horror booth faction. They tried the majority vote earlier but it's a tie, since their numbers are even.
But this whole situation will change, because Kazuya has come! Earlier, the votes are tied, but now, Kazuya had arrived. Because of that, the numbers of students on their class had become odd. In short, Kazuya's vote will decide the outcome.
When Kazuya learned that he has to vote, he folded his vote on a sheet of paper and dropped it at the ballot. After he dropped it, the class representative immediately checked it and...
"Okay, guys! With this, we're going to do a horror booth!"
With that, the Class B had decided to make a horror booth.
After Kazuya got back on his seat, Yuu asked:
"Why did you choose the horror booth?"
"I just want some thrill that's all. But I doubt that they can scare me though."
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"With that, we're going to do the Snow White play at the cultural festival! Any objections?!"
The whole Class-A gave a nod at their representatives confirmation. Since we already know the result at the Class-B, we should head towards Class-A.
""Earlier, I have decided who will be the prince at the play. I decided that the prince will be... Kazuya Satoru from Class-B! If you have any objections, just raise your hand!"
None of the students raised their hands. For the girls, they're completely agree, since Kazuya is a handsome and intelligent man. For the boys, they just don't something bothersome.
"So, okay! Since we have decided to a prince, we need to decide on a princess! Anyone who wants to be the princess should raise their hands!"
In a flash, two beauties from the same class had raised their hands. Needless to say, it was Haruka and Hideko. There are other girls who wanted to raise their hands, but gave up when they saw that they have to face those two.
"Okay, since Haruka and Hideko are the only two who raised their hands, let's go with a majority vote!"
Everyone agreed at the class representative's proposal. With that, Haruka and Hideko stood at the front. Haruka looked at Hideko as if saying "I'm not going to lose!"
Hideko returned the gaze with a nod, but her eyes is on fire!
"Everyone who was in favor of Hideko! Raised your hands!"
There's so many hands popped out of nowhere! The class representative took her time counting it, and the results are:
"19 votes for Hideko!"
There are 27 students in here so if you have 19 votes, it means that you have won already. Haruka doesn't realize it until now, what he lacks is... socializing.
True, she's beautiful and pretty, but in this class, no one knows her. She didn't opened up with anyone except Kazuya and his friends. In this class, except Hideko she has no friends.
With that, Hideko won and appointed as a princess at the play. But the representative announced something:
"Okay, folks! There's still one more flaw in this plan! It's the fact that Kazuya is from another class! We can't borrow him unless he agrees to be the prince. I'm sure he will be a tough nut to crack! Because I'm sure he's already busy because of his own class! So no matter happens, we need to convince him!"
At the representative's speech, all of the girls have raised their determination, except Hideko and Haruka. All of them have gone to Kazuya's room directly to ask for permission. Everyone has expected that they will face a fierce battle. But no matter what, they have to convince the existence named Kazuya Satoru.
"Okay, I'm in. I'll just to be the prince, right?"
"Huh?"
Mission Accomplished! Difficulty: It's Not Hard At All!
"I didn't expected Kazuya to be a goody-two shoes, but at least, we received the response that we wanted."
With that, everyone had gone back to their respective classrooms.
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Let's go at the Class-C meeting. Basically, Hajime's class. The class representative quietly walked through the crowd to reach the front desk. Even though she's just walking, all of the boys are silent, while all of the girls are excited.
All of the boys, are so scared as there's a ghost behind them. When the representative reached the front desk, all of the boy's terror had worsen.
What could be terrifying to the class-representative, you ask? It's the fact that...
"Okay, class! At the cultural festival, I decided that we will make a BL play!"
their class representative is a BL lover. The boys are scared that they might be picked as an actor for her BL play. The boys are already lucky to have a support role, but the unlucky will face the main character role.
Everyone braced themselves and prayed. Soon, the class representative had picked her main character.
"I decided that the main character will be... Kazuya Satoru! He's the top!"
Safe!
Actually, they don't care who it is, as long as it's not them. But they still can't be relieved! She only said that's he's the top. So who's the bottom? The representative took a deep breath before saying her answer:
"The bottom is... Sakurajima Hajime!"
"Eh? Ehhhh?!"
Hajime is too shocked to even move. Even though they're not talking, you can hear some monologue from the boys saying "Thanks for your sacrifice, Hajime!"
"I chose Kazuya Satoru to be the top because of the plot. Kazuya Satoru will slowly melt the ice at the gangster called Sakurajima Hajime."
Hajime is still shocked to move. So the class representative have gone to Class-B to ask Kazuya for permission.
"Sure. Why not? Although, I can't attend at the proposal, I'll make sure to memorize my lines."
"Okay, thank you!"
With that, Kazuya Satoru became the protagonist of a BL.
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"Thank you for helping with this, Yuu."
"No, we're both in the same class so we need to help each other."
Kazuya and Yuu are carrying boxes of decoration while walking at the classroom. They were appointed to buy decorations from the mall, and they just got back from doing it.
"Make way! Make way! The great Kousaka Yui will walk through this path!"
The shouting of a certain man caught the attention of Kazuya and Yuu. They tried to look at the source of the boys and saw a girl walking at the middle. The boy who shouted is in the sidelines.
"Hey, isn't that Kousaka Yui?"
Judging from Yuu's expression, it seems he knew this girl.
"Ronnie, you don't need to shout."
The girl said as she walk to the middle elegantly. The girl's silky pink hair is standing out from teh crowd. She has beautiful face too, and a porcelain skin. From her ribbon, you can tell that she's a third-year, an upperclassman.
As she walk to the middle, Kazuya sensed that sensation again. This sensation that he could never forget! Right, this girl has a Soul Seal on her!
"Yuu, do you know that girl?"
"I'm quiet surprised that you don't know her. She's Kousaka Yui, an upperclassman and an idol. She's a famous idol, and she even have a fan club.(In case you don't know, Idols are japanese young entertainers, mostly they're teenagers. They dance and sing in front of the audience) In addition, she's the madonna of the school. It seems she came here because of the cultural festival. Apparently, she's going to perform something."
"So she's someone famous, huh?"
This girl is surrounded both by women and men. She continued to walk to the middle while all her followers are walking at the sides.
Kazuya and Yuu looked at this girl once then continued to walk to the classroom. It seems this cultural festival, will be busy for the existence named Kazuya Satoru.
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Like always, Kazuya need to gather clues. The cultural festival will start in 3 days, he has until then to gather clues. But there's one hurdle that he needs to face. It's the fact that this girl is someone famous.
In short, if she's famous, she will always be surrounded by people and he can't approach her if the situation is like that.
He can't use the Presence Erasure either. Even though his presence was erased, he's still there. They can still feel him. So it's a bad idea either.
After helping his class for today, he immediately gone to the third-year's building, and searched Kousaka Yui's class. He didn't called Hajime for help since Class-C's preparation is still not over.
He searched the whole building until he found what he's searching at the 3rd Floor. He saw a class surrounded by people, so no doubt, this class is Kousaka Yui's class. It's Class 3-A.
Kazuya used one of his Soul Seal to make all of the people leave. That Soul Seal was "Fear." He inflicted Fear to all of them so they can stay away from that class.
In a flash, all of the people left, and no one stayed behind. Yui was surprised at this sudden turn of events. Just earlier, she was swarmed by so many people but now they're suddenly gone.
When Yui stood up to see if there's still some people, an airplane paper was sent flying towards her. She opened it and it said:
"Come to the library. I'll be waiting."
If there's still people outside, Yui will not even care about that letter. But since all of the people left before that letter, she got curious if the letter and the people was connected.
But why is she so curious to why all of the people left? It's the story of the other time. She immediately left from what she's decorating and gone to the library. The library's librarian already left, and there's not much people who goes there, so they can talk peacefully there.
As soon as Yui arrived at the library, she opened the door. The sound of the door is quiet loud so she slowly opened it. As she open it, you can see a figure of a boy sitting in a bench.
"Hello, thanks for coming here."
Yui held the letter on her chest before asking him a question.
"Who are you? Are you the reason at my fans suddenly leaving?"
Kazuya smiled and said:
"Me? Of course not! How can I do that? I don't have the body to shove them away."
"Yes, but you can pay them with money to go away."
Kazuya is already certain. That the disappearance of the crowd is a huge impact for her. The crowd just left and she's already panicking this much. It means that the disappearance of the crowd has something to do with her depression. He have to keep digging clues!
"I didn't paid them and I have no reason to, but why do you care for the crowd this much?"
"That's..."
"A normal celebrity will care for their fans, yes, but if they disappeared she's not going to find them again. Why are you so obsessed at your fans?"
Yui just looked at the ground, finding some answers to retort against Kazuya. Kazuya on the other hand, is just staring at her, observing her actions. Actions speak louder than words, and it can be a clue.
Since there's not much people who goes there, and the librarian had left, dead silence is what occurring at this library. After some minutes, Yui finally talked.
"Anyway, how did you made the crowd leave?"
"Like I said, I didn't do it."
"Then, why did you made me come here?!"
Kazuya returned her statement with a smile, then took one step towards her. So far, everything is going along with Kazuya's plan. He have to council this girl, bit by bit.
"No, I'm just a problem councilor. It looks like your troubled, so I think you want some advice, am I wrong?"
"Advice? No, thank you, I don't need it. If that's what you want, then I'm off."
Said by Yui as she left the library. Kazuya is still sitting at the bench, thinking his next approach. Of course, he already calculated that Yui would refuse but if she agrees then that's the best outcome.
"Let's just hope that the Soul Seal will be fine. It looks like she can't use it's powers yet."
But Kazuya doesn't have any idea that his calculations are off the mark.
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Like any other day, Kazuya prepared for school, and walked towards it. As soon as he entered his class, he was immediately called by his classmates to help with the costumes. He's just beside Yuu, and they're both sewing the costumes.
"Now that I think about it, Yuu, could you please tell me more about Kousaka Yui."
"Huh? Kousaka Yui? Who's that?"
Kazuya became wide-eyed to what's before eyes. It's possible that it's just a prank from Yuu so he asked again, but this time, he said to took it seriously.
"I'm serious, man! I don't who is that."
"It seems he's not lying, but why the hell did he forgot about Kousaka Yui?"
Kazuya thought to himself. To assure himself, Kazuya asked a few more people from his class, all of them has the same reaction. Things like "I don't know her" or "Who is that?" is the only replies he's receiving.
He asked all of the people from his building, but the responses are the same. This time, Kazuya is already sure. Kousaka Yui's Soul Seal is "Erased."
Erased is one of Soul Seals and it can be used to erase your own or someone's memories. In this case, Kousaka Yui used the Soul Seal to erase herself from everyone's memories. But for some reason, he was unaffected.
Kazuya has a theory to why he's unaffected. To confirm his theory, he whispered:
"Aki, please come here."
Only 5 minutes have passed since he called and Aki suddenly appeared in front of him. Of course, he whispered that in a secluded place.
"Sorry for being late, I'm still finding some place where I can teleport."
"That's okay, more importantly, do you know someone called "Kousaka Yui"? She's famous so you should know her."
Aki touched his chin for a bit before answering. It seems she's really racking her head for this one. Kazuya is just waiting for her answer, anxiously.
"Oh? Are you talking about that model? I saw her in a commercial once."
"Seriously!? Good thing, my theory is correct."
Kazuya release a sigh of relief after hearing that. His theory is that someone with a Soul Seal will be unaffected. The Soul Seal acts like a barrier shield.
"Kazuya, could you please explain this to me?"
"I'll explain later. There's no time to waste! I have to pay the host a visit!"
Only 2 days remain until the cultural festival. Can Kazuya manage it? Can Kazuya return everything to normal in just 2 days?
END OF CHAPTER 11