Author's note:
A.N. - Author's note
S.S. - Side story
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I am Haru Agava, i guess you can say i am the leader of our so-called group "Three Tek Goddess".
The reason why people started to call us that is because the three of us were best friends and smartest as well, not to mention most prettiest girls not just in our school, but in the whole region.
Beside me there were two more girls in that group Lin Sakasuchi and Liz Inazuchi.
But the thing that no one else in our school knows is that we are step sisters.
But there was one more step brother Sugun Hicaguchi and his sister Darina Hicaguchi.
Their father, Zarus Hicaguchi is my father as well.
That scumbag left us as soon as he found out that my mother was pregnant with me.
Next was liz's mother and after that Lin's mother.
He always left as soon as he heard that they were pregnant.
It didn't take much time for our mothers to realize how they are connected.
Luckily for us all of our mothers were able to find their true love and they were more than happy to treat us as their own daughters, so we grew up with a lovely fathers that loved us with all their hearts.
Our mothers introduced us to each other since we were little and since then we were inseparable.
When we were little our fathers showed us a game called "Verzors", and all tips and tricks for the game.
They were among the best players in the world and also the best friends.
They used to be professional gamers back in the day, but now they are game testers. They are using their gaming knowledge to help other games reach their full potential.
Since our fathers were best friends and our mothers became close because of that scumbag, we became like a big happy family.
It reached a point where we are calling and treating each other's parents as our own.
I am the oldest born at 01.13.2050. Liz is the second oldest born at 03.20.2050. and Lin is the youngest born at 05.09.2050.
Sugun, our younger step brother, was born at 08.22.2050. and his sister Darina was born at 09.22.2054.
Liz, Lin and me, we all had the same dream ever since we were little.
That dream is for Liz, Lin and me to create our own game and to be the best in it.
But in the meanwhile we will play Verzors and be the best at it. I thought it would be easy to be the best, but i was wrong and i realized that four years ago. Because four years ago, She appeared.
The demon master.
She is a player unlike any other, she is playing with the worst class and yet became the best player in the world in a record time. I hate that.
Because we want to create our own game we decided to go to High Programing School also known as Tek star.
Currently i am ninety and this is the first day of the last school year before we graduate.
[Good morning class.]
[Good morning Vatarane sensei.]
[Alright class i hope you have rested well on your break, because now we are going to double the pace and learn twice as fast.]
[Yes ma'am.]
[But before that we have a new student.]
A few students were surprised because new students were a rare phenomenon because it isn't easy to transfer to this school. Few were curious, but honestly i couldn't care less. I mean so what if we are going to have a new student, it will change nothing.
[Please come in now.]
The door of the classroom opened and the girl entered the classroom. She has black hair, her black hair is unlike any other that i saw, besides that she looks like she is a few years younger than us. Other than that there isn't anything special about that person.
She looks kinda familiar though.
[Alright i am Karuna Vatarane, your homeroom teacher, now please introduce yourself to everyone.]
She nodded slightly.
[I am Darina Hicaguchi, i am fifteen years old.
Nice to meet you, everyone.]
She bowed her head.
Haru's eyes widened at her introduction.
No, no it can't be her. Why is she here.
I thought, no I hoped that i will never hear that family name again.
[Vatarane Sensei why is she in our class when she is just fifteen?]
[Ah. An excellent question and the answer is simple.
She passed advanced tests and her transfer to our class was approved.]
What, she passed tests that I was unable to pass.
(What, she passed tests that Haru couldn't.)
(It looks like Haru, Liz and Lin aren't the best students anymore.)
(Wow.)
Kids in the class were whispering.
She just got here and everybody thinks she is the best.
[Alright everybody stop whispering, class is still in session.]
[Sorry Vatarane sensei.]
{Some time later the cafeteria lunch break.}
[Haru what are we going to do? You know who her father is as much as i do.]
[Lin, you go talk to her. Find out everything you can about her.]
[I Will, see you after school at your place to play Verzors, today we are going to take down that Driza player.]
[Yeah.]
So now i have to talk to her huh.
Simple enough.
Lin thought to herself.
[Hey there, you are Darina Hicaguchi new girl right?]
[Yeah.]
[May i sit and eat here with you?]
[Sure.]
She said it coldly.
Lin placed the plate on the table and sat across from her
[Hey is it true that you passed advanced tests?]
[How else would i be here.]
[Fair point, but it's possible that you cheated or that you had help.]
[You aren't very smart are you?]
[What was that.]
[Even if that was true and i cheated or had help and it's not, why would i tell that to you, a stranger that i just met.
As far as i know you could be trying to use it against me.]
Lin flinched at hearing that and Darina noticed it.
Wow. She is good.
Lin thought to herself.
[Oh. Come on, I just want to be friends with you.]
[Hm. And why is that.]
[W-Well i am just impressed that you passed.]
She wasn't sure what to say and she flinched earlier, she is up to something, i just know it.
Darina thought to herself.
[Alright then we are friends now.]
Wow she is like a machine, how is she able to talk so coldly.
Lin thought.
[Hey i wonder doesn't these bangs on your eyes bother you to see.]
[No]
[You know your hair is beautiful, so black, if you place some tinsels in your hair it will look like a beautiful night sky.]
That's a very old tactic and it's not gonna work on me.
Flatter me as much as you want, but i won't let my guard down around you, you will have to do better than that.
Darina thought that.
[Hey tell me do you have a brother or a sister.]
[Yes i have an older brother, why you ask.]
[Oh. No reason i just thought that you look familiar.]
[But are you sure you don't have a sister or maybe a step sister?]
[Of course i am sure.]
[Yeah it was a dumb question, please just pretend that i didn't said a thing.]
[But that brother of yours, is he like a step brother or-]
[No, he is my brother and we are related by blood and we have the same parents.]
[Our father only has eyes for our mother and no one else.]
[Both of our parents are very busy so they hardly have any time for us, but when they have both of them are very warm and caring.]
[But they didn't have any time for us in five years or more.]
Wow. Girl if you believe that your father is a good person, you can't even imagine how wrong you really are, but i guess that she can't know the truth.
Not to mention her ice cold tone.
[You know it may be a good idea to stop talking so coldly, if you do so you will not have a hard time searching for friends.]
[Thank you for your advice.]
[Lunch break is over, i will head back to the classroom.]
[Nice talking to you see you around.]
Lin said that while waving to her new "friend".
{After school, Haru's house, after Lin told them all the information that she managed to learn while they were playing a game.}
Haru's mother as well as her father were still working so they weren't home at the moment so they could play as much as they wanted.
[I can't believe it. She passed advanced tests, she is very smart and her father is a loving and caring parent, what a joke.]
[If he is such a caring parent then why did he leave our mothers as soon as he found out that they are pregnant.]
[And he has his eyes only for their mother, yeah what nonsense.]
[He left our mothers because they were pregnant because of him, but he stayed with her and made her pregnant and that not only once, but twice.]
[To make things worse she is now taking our status as the three smartest and most beautiful girls in the region away from us.]
Shouted very angry Haru.
[Uhh. Haru?]
[Yey what is it Liz?]
[We are in the middle of a fight and not just any fight, but fight against Driza. I am honestly surprised that we lasted this long with you unfocused.]
[Ohh right, i am sorry hahaha.
I will focus on a fight now.]
Haru let out an embarrassed chuckle.
{Ten minutes later.}
[I can't believe that we lost it yet again.]
[Yeah i thought we had her back there, but it was just a trap.]
[Wait guys I just got a voice message.]
Lin said it with a bit of surprise in her voice.
[A voice message, from wh- Oh wait i got one as well and it's from...]
Liz goes through the menu to see who the sender is.
[I just got one as well. Let's see the sender is...]
[DRIZA!!!]
All three of them shouted at the same time completely shocked to see who the sender is.
[Alright I'm gonna play the message now.]
Haru was a bit nervous and curious, because Driza is a mystery as well as her rival and now she is going to hear her voice.
No one on the internet doesn't know what she sounds like not to mention how she looks.
[Stop trying to surpass me, you will never be able to do so, you are too weak.]
[What, how dare she say that to us.]
This voice, it sounds somewhat familiar, but how is this my first time hearing Driza's voice.
Wait it couldn't be.
[Hey Lin why are you playing that message again?]
[I am just checking something out.]
[Ok.]
Lin's eyes widened at her discovery.
[I know who Driza is, but i don't think you guys want to know.]
[That's great, now tell us who she is.]
[Legendary, number one player of Verzors in the world is, sigh, Darina Hicaguchi.]
[What!!!]
Both girls were shocked at Lin's statement.
Later that day i told my mother about Darina and whose daughter she is. And Liz and Lin told their mothers about it.
From that day onward on every parent meeting that school organized, on every chance that parents can come to school, our mothers would go in hope of meeting that bastard so they could give him a piece of their minds. Though I doubt that a bastard would be interested in listening to them.
But at every single meeting her mother was going.
I think he was evading that school on purpose because of us and our mothers.
Our mothers come up with an idea of telling Darina's mother the truth, but that quickly falls apart because of reasons.
First even though her father is nothing more than a bastard Sugun and Darina as well as their mother were completely innocent.
Second is that my mother used to go to the same school as Darina's mother. They weren't best friends or even friends but they weren't enemies either.
Third Darina's mother used to get bullied every day, but my mother didn't do anything to stop it, so they didn't want to ruin her happy life that she now has.
Even though our mothers had compassion for Darina's family, i didn't.
And so i started turning her life into a nightmare.
But she never reacted or responded to any of it.
That was really getting on my nerves.
Beside Liz, Lin and me there was only one boy that was talking to her. He was nothing special, he was just some random timid and shy boy with black hair and sky blue eyes. But after every conversation with her he was looking down and disappointed. Maybe he was in love with her, who knows.
But everything changed when That happened.
{Tek star school 08:00 a.m. three days after Darina went to another world.}
After they graduate they are supposed to stay in school one more week and after that they can find a paid job
[Good morning... Class...]
[Good morning Vatarane sensei.]
(Hey look at sensei.)
(Hey she is usually a very cheerful person, but now she looks kinda depressed.)
(Did something happen to her or something.)
One student decided to ask.
[Are you alright Vatarane sensei.]
[Hm. Ah. Yeah i am fine, but today school is cancelled.]
Hm. Why would they cancel school for today. Today isn't any holiday so there isn't a reason for it.
Some students were so happy that they didn't even ask why.
[Please hold on kids, the reason for this isn't a happy one.]
She caught everyone's attention with that.
[Three days ago, your classmate Darina Hicaguchi... died.]
Class burst into uproar, while Haru, Liz and Lin were shocked to their very core.
Our step sister is... dead... How?!
Haru, Liz and Lin thought it to themselves.
[How?]
[What happened?]
[Is there any suspects?]
[When it happened, did it happen in school?]
[Are we safe?]
[Everybody please calm down. It happened after school in her house, you are completely safe.]
She managed to calm everyone.
[How are you so sure Vatarane sensei?]
[I am sure because after detailed analysis, it was confirmed that the cause of death was... Suicide.]
[What?]
Our step sister killed herself, why?
They thought that to themselves.
[Three days ago Darina's mother went to her room to clean it up, but when she entered her room, she was shocked.]
[Her daughter was lying down on the floor with multiple wounds that were caused by a cooking knife that was near her hand.]
[On her desk was a letter that says that she is sorry and that she can't take it anymore.]
[Her funeral is scheduled for this Sunday at 01:00 p.m. please attend it and pay your respect.]
She couldn't take it anymore, were we went too far with this prank.
We shouldn't fake those pictures.
I knew this was a bad idea.
Haru, Liz and Lin thought to themselves.
[Now please go home.]
And just like that classroom became empty with only their teacher staying in there and crying.
{Next day}
[Hello class today we will continue where we left.]
She is really good at hiding her emotions.
Suddenly a boy stood up from his seat and walked to the center of the classroom.
[Shuzuki what are you doi-.]
[Shut up.]
The whole classroom got surprised because he was quiet like Darina.
[Just shut up and let me blow us all up.]
He unclasped his vest and there were a lot of bombs.
[Shuzuki Akamane what is the meaning of this and how did you get those bombs?]
[My father is a military general and has this kind of stuff in house vault, but i know the password.]
He must be a good father.
The whole classroom thought.
I must talk him out of this. There's no way he would refuse me, one of three Tek Goddesses.
[Hey Shuzuki there's no need for this you don't need to do this. You don't want to kill yourself and end up like Dari-.]
[Shut up, don't even dare to say her name. You and your two friends, you three bitches were the reason that Darina killed herself.]
[Because of your torturing, but she didn't do anything, but then you three created those fake pictures and showed them to everyone.]
[No way, is that true Haru?]
[Y-Yes we created those pictures and showed them to everyone at the graduate ceremony.]
[I am so disappointed in you.]
[Shut up all of you, i loved Darina, i loved her, but now... she is gone and will never see her again, so i am going to avenge her.]
He had an insane look in his eyes and an insane smirk on his face
[But why do we have to pay as well?]
[Because you didn't do anything to help Darina.]
[And now we all are going to die together.]
He pressed the trigger and a giant explosion occurred on the last floor.
I... avenged... you... Darina...