On a cold rainy night...
"Rrriiingring..."
"Hello? Ai's speaking... I see. I will complete it as soon as possible... yes I know...I will...*click*...I guess I will never get a call from a friend."
"You should know that you don't have a friend." This voice comes from a spider in a jar on Ai's table.
"Shut up!" Ai grabbed the jar and threw it onto the floor, the jar broke, and Ai stepped and crushed the spider...
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The next day in school, Sky and Chris are still on their motorcycle, opening their helmet, preparing to get into the school...
"Hey, Sky! Look! Aren't that's Ai-chan?" said Chris.
"Yeah! It seems like she always comes to school alone." said Sky
"Antisocial I guess..." said Chris
"Haha! Good one!" said Sky
"Anyway, the bell almost rings, let's get in."
"Yeah! Let's go!"
So, they step into the school...
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Chapter 7-The Lonely Girl
The teacher : "Solve the equation 2x+y=3 and...blahblablah..."
Chris : "Sky, do you know how to solve..."
Sky :"Zzz..."
Chris :"Never mind."
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Maths class, as boring as usual.
Looking at those princesses, so initiative and passionate.
"Sir~I don't know how to solve this question, can you teach me?" said one of the front table's girl who stick really near to the teacher.
"It's a really easy question, perhaps you can get some help from the top boy(Seito)."
"No thanks! I'm having a nap!!!" Seito shouted from the back of the room while having a book cover his face.
"Haha, it seems like Sky is not the only one who sleeps in the class, I wonder how did he become the top boy?" Chris thought, then he continues to observe everyone in the classroom.
"Sir~Seito kun wouldn't help me~(eww~)" said the girl.
"Maybe Chris could help, he is really good at this..." the teacher slowly look at Chris and make a direct eye contact with his icy glare.
"Uh... I mean Itsuki-kun could help. Right? Itsuki-kun?" said the teacher as he flinched a bit.
"Ah... Okay..." Poor Itsuki.
"Such an irresponsible teacher, Miss Wayne did a way better job than him, why are we even having two maths teachers? Hmm... I wonder what's Ai-chan is doing?" Then, Chris turned his sight to Ai.
"That cloud looks delicious..." Ai mumbled as she staring blankly at the window.
"Uh-huh... better continue with my work..." And so, he continue solving all the equations. Poor Chris...
After a while.
"Ding dong ding dong~"
"Yes!!! Good morning!!! Have a really good sleep just now!!" Sky exclaimed.
"Mhmm... He will only wake up during recess time." Chris murmured.
"I wonder what's the meal for today~" said Sky.
"I wonder if you are trying to fail your maths again." said Chris, a bit annoyed
"That doesn't matter, cafeteria, here I come!!!"
"Ha-ha...That's Sky."
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In cafeteria...
"Look! That's the lonely girl again" said Sky.
"Want to sit with her?" said Chris.
"Good idea, never sit with a girl before."
Hearing this, Chris can't help but stared hard at Sky.
"You... Seriously?"
"I mean in this school... Let's go! Hope wouldn't get shoo."said Sky.
Then, Sky and Chris walked to the table where Ai is sitting
"Hey pretty!" said Sky while sitting down but ignored by Ai.
"Mind we sit here?" Chris ask.
"Not really..." said Ai, rather awkward. "Thanks." Chris smiled and sit down.
"You look kinda lonely. No friend?" Sky asked.
"I don't want to be friends with rubbish neither talk to a rubbish." said the girl.
"Then why are you talking with us?" Sky asked again.
"Eh? Do you think you are a rubbish?" Ai asks, slightly confused.
"At least they think so..." Sky pointed at Lucie and Haruka.
"And that junk(Kent) as well. Plus, just as a reminder, it's just 'you' not 'us'…" said Chris.
"Eh?" Sky is a bit confused at Chris's statement.
"The rubbish..." said Chris.
"Aww! Chris! That's mean! Anyway, Ai, can we be friends with you?" Sky asked.
Ai is a bit surprised by that sudden request.
"Never mind... but you have to answer this... Ai, are you a dimensional connector?" Sky asked.
"Eh?..." Ai is shocked by that sudden question and is a bit speechless.
Suddenly...
"Sky, you sensed that?" said Chris while in an alert mode.
"That energy wave..." Sky had became alerted as well.
"Ahhh!..." All the people in the cafeteria collapse onto the ground except for the immortals and esper, including Ai and Itsuki but it seems like Itsuki is experiencing a serious headache...
"Hey look! Those students seem to be pressed by that energy wave!" said Chris, rather surprised, instead of shocked.
"This is the 'Gospel Prayer', Immortal and high-rank esper wouldn't get affected by it but it can cause an impact on low-rank esper and paralyzes a normal human." said Sky.
"Ah... Gospeler again huh? Although I definitely don't know why you did all those explanation all the sudden." said Chris who doesn't show much concern on that long explanation of Sky which caused an awkwardness in the air for a second.
"Uh... Ah! Look at that!" said Sky while pointing at a big whirlpool-like thing in the middle of the cafeteria.
"That's a really big one." said Chris, rather amazed by that sight.
"If It successfully comes out from that portal, I will have a really hard work to do..." said Sky. "Not you alone. We will be having hard work." said Chris. Then, a tentacle-like thing slowly crawls out of the portal...
"Anyway, let's get this thing 'in'." said Sky. "Alright, let's do this." said Chris
"No! You can't!" said Ai.
Both Sky and Chris: "Ai-chan?"
"Within a few seconds, numerous of small portals will be open around this cafeteria! You need to get all the students out of here! If not, they will be freeze by the Icy-eyes that come out from the portals!" said Ai.
"Not those things again!? Thanks for that information! Come on Chris!" said Sky
"Let's get the students out then. But what about this?" Chris asked, probably more interested to the tentacle rather than the students.
"I'll try to close that portal before that thing comes out."
"Okay! But be careful!" said Sky.
Then, Sky and Chris leave Ai and try to get all the students out.
"How many students left?" Chris asked while carrying a student out of the cafeteria.
"Hell like I know?! I didn't even count...
but I know it's still a lot!"
"And I think we are out of time..." said Chris as he pointed at the slowly opening portals.
"Hell right! Plan changes! Knock down as many Icy-eyes as you can and make sure the students are away from them!" said Sky.
Then, he runs in a direction where it is crowded with students and slashes down the Icy-eyes that just about to come out of the portal, Chris joined him. However...
"Tsk! This thing is just getting too much and I can't my use star trap here..." said Chris as he knocked down a small batch of Icy-eyes with his rod.
"Where is Seito when we need him?!" Sky shouted
"Bang!" A group of icy-eye been shoot down all the sudden.
"Here am I." said Seito.
"You are really late! Ah! This will never end!" Sky shouted as the Icy-eyes continues to swarm out of the small portals.
As those guys continue slashing and knocking down the icy-eye, Ai-chan is trying her best to close the big portal, with her hands risen and chanting some really long and complex spell...
"Damn it! They are coming from all the directions!" said Chris.
"Hey! That area is unguarded!" said Seito as he spotted an unguarded area.
"Damn!" Sky is trying to get to that particular area but he is full-handed.
Well, actually they could use some other techniques to eliminate those Icy-eyes more efficiently but those techniques are too destructive and might harm the students.
"Damn! Yuna-chan is there!" said Seito
"Don't just remember that girl, Itsuki- kun is there as well!" said Chris which makes Seito realise how bad the situation is.
"Let's just hope that he can do something to stop the icy-eyes." said Chris again.
"But not in his condition right now." said Seito.
"Shut up, there nothing we can do, if we leave here, more student is going to die!" said Sky.
"But..." Seito is uncertain of what he should do.
"Just trust me!" Sky shouted.
"Alright..." Seito had no choice but to continue shooting down the icy-eyes.
In the unguarded area, the icy-eyes are approaching Yuna and others. In the half kneeled condition, Itsuki watched all this thing and he knows that if he didn't do something, the students will surely die, including himself, with his condition, he can barely move his hand. But he realizes that no one can save him except for himself...
"Damn it! They will get kill by those icy-eyes!" said Chris.
"No! It can't be! Damn it!" Sky is getting frustrated and slashes the icy-eyes in a semi-insane state.
"Sky!" Seito shouted insanely as he watched the deadly creatures slowly approaching his cousin.
"Gah!" Sky shouted and insanely slashed through all the Icy-eyes around him, trying to find a breaking point to save Itsuki.
Suddenly, despite of that serious headache, Itsuki slowly raises his right hand and lifted the hair that covers the grey eye, stares at the icy-eyes for seconds, the icy-eyes fall onto the ground.
"Nice move!" said Sky.
Still trying to close the portal, Ai realizes that she is lacking of something to close it, so she took out a small dagger and cut her left arm, drip the blood to the portal, put her hand together chanted a quick spell. The portal has successfully been closed.
As she closed the portal, she realizes that everyone is still fighting with the icy-eyes so she decides to lend help, a really fast one. She raises her right hand and chanted something, all the portals closed. (haha)
"Ah!... What... Ai-chan, are you the one that did this?" Sky asked, a bit confused.
And she nodded.
"You should have do it earlier... Ah... Now, Shouldn't you answer my question? Why do you know that small portals are going to be opened and there are icy-eyes inside? Are you..." said Sky, trying to get an answer from Ai.
"As you know, a dimensional connector is sensitive with all the portals and links..."
"So..."
"Yes...I am a dimensional connector"...
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That night, Sky's house, living room. Sky and Chris are watching some random talent show while having a random talk.
"Tsk... The more I think of it, the more irritated I get. Seriously, we could just cancel those small portals with your magic or transfer those students into *shadow traps while we destroy those tiny creatures all in once. But we choose to act like a fool!" said Sky in an angry tone.
"Well, without doing those idiotic acts, we can't get her to show her real identity so easily, right? And most importantly, there isn't much aftermath to be handled, so, it's not all bad." said Chris while voting for a random participant in the talent show with his phone.
*shadow trap - a magic spell that creates a totally closed dimension which is a double of the real world that will not affect the outside world no matter what happens inside the spell.
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Days later...
"Hey! Chris, why are we been called here? Are we having a meeting or what?" Seito ask.
"Well, Sky said that this is an important meeting." said Chris.
"What kind of important meeting that I will have to bring Itsuki along?" Seito asked.
"You will know when Sky's here. Having the video call connected with Yuki?" said Chris
"All set." said Seito
"Guess he will be here soon enough...
Oh! He is here." said Chris as he spotted Sky.
"Hey! What's the big matter Boss??" Seito asked.
"As you all can see, there is a lot of things that happened recently and it's seems we are lack of people, so I'm thinking to have a recruit today, which means we will be having new members today." said Sky.
"What?" Seito is a bit confused
Sky smiled.