On a beautiful morning, at Stevenson college...
"Yeah!!!" Sky exclaimed.
"Uh, Sky? What's so happy with English class?" Chris ask.
"If you having English class after Maths class." said Sky
"I see..."
"Let's go, shall we?"
"Okay."
And so, Sky and Chris walked out from the Maths room while others still copying the notes in the room. Just 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 students' sitting on the staircase which almost blocked half of the path of the stair.
"Shi... So this is the reason for the 'traffic jam'." said Sky as he squished 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. A guy with side sleek wavy hair 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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Later, during English class.
"The student next door?" Sky asked
"Yeah... See this record?" said Chris while showing a school record he got from the school management.
"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?!" said Sky.
"Hah! Who knows? We will just wait and see..." said Chris.
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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!" said Sky
"This is the only words you will say... Hmm?... Hey! Sky! Look!" Chris point at a big crowd.
"Shi... not again?!"
The two run towards the crowd. Pushing away the crowd, Sky saw a boy kneeling on the ground in a gazing state...
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After school, Sky's house...
"Damn! This is the third case in this month" said Sky.
"Yeah, luckily that boy is alright." said Chris.
"But the victim of the previous cases is not so lucky, we need to find who did this... fast." said Sky.
"It's true... Hey! Sky! I think there is a big possibility that 'he' is behind all this." said Chris.
"That's what I'm thinking." said Sky.
"And most importantly the special event in New World (an online game) is starting today!" said Chris, rather excited.
"Ah yes! Totally forgot about it." said Sky as he quickly on the computer.
The next day, in the school cafeteria…
"Hai… here's your juice…"
"Alcohol-free?" Sky asked.
"Yes…"
"Really? Prove it and show me the evidence." said Sky.
"Sky, stop teasing Nakamura-san, he got lots of work to do." said Chris.
(*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?" said Sky with puppy eyes.
"Just drink it." said Chris, rather annoyed.
"You have no sense of humor at all, Chris." Chris ignored Sky and headed to a table where Ai-chan is sitting and having her meal.
"Alone again?" Chris asked.
Ai is a bit surprised to see Sky and Chris. "Maybe..." said Ai before turns her head 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.
"Then how friendly should I be?" said Ai, a bit annoyed.
"At least say something like 'Hey! Sky! How are you today?" said Sky, still teasing.
"Not my style..." said Ai.
"Geez... such a cold girl. Hey, Ai... *serious tone*...do you know the guy from the next class, the one with a dangerous look?" Sky asked.
"Not sure...why?" said Ai.
"Well, just as a kind advice, I need to warn you that you need to be extra careful with that guy, he is not anyone you would want to mess with... even when you are doing your quest." said Sky.
"My quest...what do you know about that?!" said Ai, a bit shocked.
"*smile*...Ah!!! Almost forgot! Chris! Have you complete your maths assignment?" said Sky as he pull out his maths workbook from his bag.
"Yeah." said Chris.
"He-he... I know you are nice and handsome and..."
"Enough. Here." said Chris as he took out his Maths book and give it to Sky.
"Aww...'love' you so much."
"Err..." Chris is a bit disgusted by that.
"Says, where's Seito and his cousin?" Sky asked.
"In the hall." said Chris.
"Eh? What are they doing in the hall?" Sky asked.
"You forgot? The public speech from some random guy." said Chris.
"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...
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In the hall...
"Sky..."
"Zzzzz..."
"Ah… I thought he said he wanted to complete his maths." Chris took Sky's Maths book and help Sky to 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." said Chris.
"Why?"
Chris smiled and look at another direction.
"But that boy is really a troublemaker..." said Chris.
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?" Chris asked.
"Yes..."
"You interested at that guy?" said Chris with a teasing tone.
"I... I need to go to the bathroom..." said so, Ai left the hall.
"Ha! You are right after all." said Chris.
"When am I ever get wrong?" said Sky
"When doing maths?" said Chris.
"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." said Sky with an exaggerated smile.
"Don't smile at me, you are disgusting. Hmm... Ai-chan sure takes her time... Hmm? Sky, do you notice something weird?" said Chris.
"Of course I do, I'm not blind nor deaf..." said Sky.
"The speaker has stopped speaking and the students are not moving..." said Chris.
"Someone seems to have activated a 'kage'(a binding skill that numb the five senses of normal humans)..." said Sky.
"Who could have did this?" Chris asked.
"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." said Sky as he is pointing at the empty seat which supposed to be sat by 'the staircase guy'... And so everyone left for their own searching.
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"Hey Chris! Where should we start searching?" Seito asked
"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..." said Seito.
"Well, let's just ignore it, it could be just your hallucination." said Chris
"Chris... *looking at Chris*... You look so wrong, are you trying to hide something from me?" Seito asked.
"No, you are thinking too much." said Chris.
"That makes me even more curious about the washroom." and so, Seito starts stepping towards a direction.
"Wait!"
Seito ignores Chris.
"Hmm... I did tried to stop him." Chris murmured.
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 'doodled' 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." said Sky who suddenly walked into the locker room.
"*still calm* I wonder what makes you think that I'm not the one that activates this Kage." said the boy.
"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..." said Sky.
"So what?" the boy asked.
"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?" Sky asked.
"That doesn't prove anything!" the boy shouted, rather frustrated.
"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." said Sky with a weird smile.
"What else did you know?!" said the boy, getting annoyed.
"Well~I don't know, but I think you have an encounter with Ai-chan last night don't you?" said Sky.
"What is your intention telling me this?" the boy asked.
"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..." said Sky.
"You know my boss?!" the boy is a bit shock as he heard about 'Dark Prince'.
"I know him more than you do."
"What?"
"He's an old friend of mine."
"..."
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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...What? Although I'm the top killer, it's..."
"Hmm... that voice sounds familiar." Seito is about to open the door.
"Kenji!!!"
Ignoring Chris, Seito opened the door.
"Ai-chan! It's you!" said Seito, rather surprised to see Ai.
"Seito-kun..."