~DING-DANG DING-DONG... DING-DANGt DING-DONG~
Sound of the school bell resonates around. As usual, students walks around to their respective destination in the campus.
A gloomy looking guy entered the classroom and lay his head on his table. Some students that seems to be his classmates (since they are literally in the same classroom) stared at him perplexedly.
"Hey... is that Haise?" A girl asked in her whispering voice to the girl next to her that seems to be a part of her group.
"I think so."
Questions that resonates around reaches the gloomy guy's ears.
(And by the way it's Haise Kazumiya, the gloomy looking guy.)
Haise did not pay attention to them, he believes gossiping are the common hobby here, specially to the girls.
His thoughts were filled with nothing, but about the magical power he received out of the blue.
Given the fact that he was already planning to leave by the end of semester.
A group of guys stared at Haise, who was laying his head on his table.
They were having a smug faces and grins that seems to be having fun at their conversation about something... and that something is—
"Oh, Kazumiya..." A guy with smug looks on his face, wearing the same winter school uniform as every male students around, approached Haise. "It seems you dyed your hair black..." The smug guy was about to touch his hair when suddenly...
~STEP-STEP
*CREEEAK
Frictions of tables and chairs could be heard in a few seconds.
Everyone was all disturbed and dumfounded when they saw Haise holding the smug guy's neck while twisting his wrist.
Haise, at that moment, gave a totally different vibes. His eyes, though were covered with bangs and eyeglasses, gave a heavy pressure to the smug guy.
The smug guy began to sweat and froze in fear... and the guy who he was staring at with such fear gives a chill that crawls down to spine.
Haise immediately snapped at the scene he was causing. He helped the smug guy to stand up. "I'm sorry about that." He apologized then leave the classroom.
All of his classmates were all left dumfounded.
The smug guy, who was still under the influence of fear, glared at Haise's back, bitterly.
...
Haise walked with his head downcast.
Feeling guilty about that smug guy? No!
In his eyes, those guys who seems to be making fun of him are nothing, but a bunch chimpanzees making fun of a raccoon.
Though Haise may being considerate and an understanding person towards their nature, their points as a human-being lessen as the time passes. Acting lowly, indeed, they are just becoming more like a chimpanzees in his eyes.
And Why chimpanzees? Well, that's because their acting like a prideful kid with a smuggling smile on their face... same thing when chimpanzees get what they wanted.
_
Haise went in the comfort room near at the stairs.
The class was about to start, but he didn't mind about it.
He took out a black small sphere object, with a size of marble, of his pocket.
"Almost two and a half and still..." He said in a low voice and thought: 'It's like omnipotent, huh.'
The black small marble he had created is made of his magical ability. And why is it black? Well, he was experimenting something that will satisfied his curiosity. He was curious about to how long the black marble will last, and it's been almost two and half hours still nothing happened.
Just like in the manga and light novels he had read, he perceive his magical ability as a "cheat" like he can do anything he wanted with it.
Just by wondering about it, he can indeed create every object he wanted to use like swords, daggers, or any mechanical object he knew how it works. And how he discovered it? With trial and error. He did not even take that long to figure out.
Since, Haise does not have any elemental attributes, he has no ability to cast any elemental explosive spells. And how he figured it out? He just assumed it.
Haise reshape the black marble on his hand, and as it floats, it turns into a very small bird.
It was moving like it was alive. It flapped its wings and fly around him.
How did he do that? It because of the influence of his dreamworld magic. Given to Haise's unique rationality, the dreamworld magic aid him to cast more lively things with his magical ability, the "barrier."
Quite unique, right? It's all thanks to his nilucis.
The dreamworld magic was also the responsible to why Haise was capable of changing his the color of the barrier he cast.
Seeing the bird, that looks like made of black glass, fly around and perched on his index finger, Haise's smile euphorically grew.
The bird slowly vanished on his finger that seems to be dispelled, and Haise went back to his respective classroom.
***
Imagining what transpired at the scene Haise had cause, the classroom immersed in silence--
~Whisper ~Whisper
Wrong, it pretty much like they were gossiping in their lowered voice; avoiding to reach their subject's ears. And what are these subjects? It's the person they were talking about.
Haise, again, didn't mind them. He just didn't care.
However...
Behind the crowds, the smug guy, who was sitting at the last row second in line, glared at Haise, who was sitting at the third row first in line which near the window. Of course he was unaware of that glare of that guy.
Curious about why everyone was acting like that? Well, it because it's the first time they saw Haise acted like that, given to the fact he acted against one of the well known bully.
Thus Haise apologize...
Wrong again. Haise know his stuff to how to deal with that kind of guy. It's all about psychological warfare. He didn't even need to gamble something to escape those kind of guy with a rotten behavior.
Back then, there was a girl that was extremely close to him.
He was the one who secretly solve the case of the "Missing Panties," and because of that, the culprit got expelled.
How did he solved it?
Okay, here's the legend.
When he and the girl, who was extremely close to him, was walking to go to school. There was a guy who has a hobbit of lifting skirts by hitting it up, causing their panties to show.
That guy did it to Haise's friend while they were walking, which he found it indecent and rude.
"Kya!"
He was also doing it to the other girls. Because of his personality, the girls just perceive it as a joke..
Haise noticed that his friends was feeling uncomfortable and angrily glaring at that guy.
There was the time that his friend lost his panties. And to catch the culprit, he skipped classes and wait patiently outside the girls' changing room, since it's the girls schedule today to do swimming activity.
He even spent his savings for this matter to buy a small camera that can be connected to his smartphone through Bluetooth.
To avoid it from being notice, Haise put it in a small box. And for the complete product! It looks exactly like a pinhole camera.
Haise even troubled himself to gather some stuffs like big box, plastics with papers and books inside of it. Cleaning tools like map and brooms placed all together at not exactly in front of the girls' changing room.
He had already talked about the stuffs he gathered to the janitor and even helped him, so that no one would interfere in his plan.
And how he did it? Simple, he just talked to him with a companion by his side.
Now everything has been set in calculated angle. Haise waited patiently inside the big box.
And as expected, the guy seems to be aware of the schedule of the girls. He arrived at the expected time.
When the guy went in the girls' changing room. Haise had already texted the teacher he chose to play a role in his plan.
And who is this teacher and how did he managed to convince her?
Well, it simple, the teacher is a woman of pride which was indeed suitable to his plan.
He played words with that woman and there he caught something interesting in her behavior, and that led him to a conclusion to find that woman's weaknesses.
And what are those weaknesses? Her pride.
Haise fabricated some evidence against her that will severely drag her down.
He already tried to talked to her, but words couldn't reached her. So he did something... a little extreme.
Time was not in his side, thus, he calculated everything, carefully.
_
[Flashback]
Inside the classroom, they were only two figure, a male student and a female teacher. The teacher is pretty by the way, she gave a vibes a strong woman who has a sense of justice.
*Slam!
Haise slammed a big brown envelope onto the teachers table.
"What is this?" The teacher glanced at the envelope and stared Haise, perplexedly.
"Just opened it." Haise said with a straight face.
The teacher took the envelope and opened it. She was surprised to what she saw.
There was a picture that shows she was kissing a female student.
(Yuri!!!)
In fact, the teacher never really done something indecent like in the picture she was holding.
Haise just captured it with a calculated angle that looks like she was kissing someone.
Since pictures tells a different stories in every angle, thus, Haise come up with that kind of plan and gamble in this. He to himself that this woman will hate him and perceive as a scumbag.
"I got a lot of copies." Haise lied.
"What is this?" The teacher asked angrily, yet she was holding her voice.
"We are both aware that this was not actually happened." Haise replied without expressing any emotions in his eyes.
The teacher was speechless to his honesty, and knew she being blackmail.
While he was standing, he strummed his fingers on her table.
"Do—" The teacher was about to protest when suddenly...
"I only wanted one thing from you." [Haise]
"What is it then?" [The Teacher]
"Your cooperation."
The teacher got confused and stared at Haise perplexedly.
"Cooperation for what?" She asked.
"Hunting down a perverted monkey." [Haise]
The teacher get what's behind Haise's words, but still she was... confused.
"Why not rep—"
"Do you you the faculty would deeply care about this?"
The teachers words stock in her throat, hearing Haise's words.
Seeing him reacting like this, she couldn't help, but ask: "Why are you going this far?" She display as worried expression.
"Someone close to me lost her panties."
"Pffft"
Hearing his reasoning, the teacher almost laughed, fortunately, she managed to held it back.
"What so silly?" This time Haise's voice became serious. "She just lost her panties in that damn girls' changing room itself!" (He was not shouting, his voice was just neutral the entire time.)
The teacher snapped.
"This had already had already happened and yet no one in the faculty members went to look and solve this matter." He added.
Seeing the teacher's reaction made Haise smile. This reaction is what he was waiting for.
Honestly, he didn't even expected to be that easy.
"Then... what do you want me to do?" The teacher had become more confused and indecisive. She couldn't collect any thoughts anymore.
And that pride of her became the string for Haise to bring into his scheme.
"Oh?"
Hearing the question of the teacher made him felt euphoric.
"You just need to play a role for me." He said with a smile on his face. "After all, stealing is a crime. Right, Sensei?"
For some reason, the teacher trembled seeing Haise acted like that.
Haise took the envelope and ripped it off in front of the teacher into pieces. He took out a bottle of water from his bag then, he went to the trashcan.
The teacher was confused to why he do that...
Haise, threw the envelope that contains the picture in the trashcan after he poured the water on it in his hand.
"Now then that settled."
The teacher was dumfounded to his behavior. She couldn't help but to look forward for Haise's plan.
And that's how he convince The teacher.
_
Outside the girls' changing room.
Haise was about to go out the box when suddenly the girl who was extremely close to him arrived and went inside the changing room.
Knowing the personality of the teacher, Haise texted her to stay in the locker and wait for him to enter no matter what.
He also texted her to report the action the man.
Haise went out of the box and took out the camera from the small box he put into.
*Vrrrrt
His phone vibrated and read the message from the teacher.
The teacher: The girl was being harrass.|
Haise: Just wait, I'm about to enter with my camera. And you too mister.|
The janitor who was just waiting at the corner of the comfort room near at changing rooms also read the messages.
(By the way, Haise also created a group chat.)
Haise finally opened the of the changing room and saw the girl was being cornered and sexually harrass. His mood and experience darkened.
Haise lift the camera up making it sure for a good scoop.
The guy snapped and it was already too late for him to escape his situation.
The teacher finally went out the locker, and the janitor finally arrived at this scene.
"Oh?" The janitor was in disbelief seeing the guy with the girl being cornered against the locker. He stared Haise and internally said: 'What terrifying kid.'
The guy was in panic and didn't know what to do in the web Haise set.
Haise approached and pulled the girl away from the guy.
"Apologize for this, mister, but this missy here is too good for you to be touch by your filthiness." Haise said with a calmed voice and dark expression.
And that's how the case of "Missing Panties" had been solved.
This is also the reason why the teachers didn't question him and let him do what he wanted in campus... aside from his academic abilities.
Well, all of that was thanks to the teacher whom he blackmailed, he enjoyed such freedom.