Chapter 24 - SS: Horikita

Miura Yumiko, a person I can't understand.

She is a person who defies everything.

At first I thought she believed to be above

everyone around her.

Especially the way she fought against my brother.

Like she was playing with some toy.

She may be smart and possibly stronger than me,

But even then...

She's still not superior than me.

And nowhere near Nii-san's level.

In the end that day had to be a fluke.

However I can't help but think what she wants to achieve?

I mean isn't it natural for an heir of a rich family to take over their family business.

But her...

Chabashira-Sensei was right when she said Miura-san uses her family as stepping stones.

However, I don't agree with everything else Sensei had said.

While both her and Ayanokouji-kun had manipulated me and won the island exam.

She couldn't have possibly predicted special exams such as these before she even began to attend ANHS.

It's absurd to even think that.

I was upset and angry with the school...

No, not just the school, but also at myself.

How could I possibly let myself end up in Class D out of all classes.

I won't admit I have a defect,

Because I know I don't have one.

Although I will say, I'm at least glad to not be in Class C.

But it's still infuriating to think that I was used as mere pawns by both Ayanokouji-kun and Miura-san.

No.

What irks me the most is how Miura-san sees everyone and everything.

I'm not talking about how she sees ways to use others as pawns.

She just doesn't acknowledge us

While she doesn't acknowledge me as someone capable in my class, that's not what I'm talking about.

Whenever she looks at someone and talks to them, it's like she's not looking at them at all.

Like when someone looks at a tv character or an anime,

You don't see them as a person because you know it's fake.

But we're not fake.

Maybe not fake, but I'm still unsure of which analogy would be best suitable to describe it.

But it's not just me, but also the world.

It was like she was looking at something else.

She never acknowledged anyone or anything around her, not even her friends.

It was like the world was false to her.

A minor annoyance.

Something that isn't even worth considering.

Every time she talked to someone, I noticed it.

She never acknowledged their existence.

She knew they were there, right in front of her.

Even me, when I looked at her directly in the eye.

But still...

It's not me, as a person, she's looking at.

I can still remember her cold gaze upon me and when her hand tightened around my neck.

When she was watching the fight between me and Ibuki.

But even then,

Whilst something like that had entertained her,

It still wasn't real to her.

To simply put it,

She doesn't acknowledge reality itself.

However I noticed something different.

Whenever she looked at someone or looked at anything,

It's like she was seeing something only she could.

It's like the same, when Sensei mentioned she's after not something, but someone.

I believed that person to be Ayanokouji-kun.

And I still do.

But what she's after,

It's like it's something that we can't ever imagine to comprehend.

I noticed that these past few months, ever since we started coming to ANHS,

Miura-san is now looking at Ayanokouji-kun.

On the first day, when she had laid her eyes on him there was a change,

A spark in her eyes.

Days went by and I noticed that spark grew bigger each time I looked at her.

Whenever her eyes lay on Ayanokouji-kun,

She sees him.

She acknowledges his existence.

She knows he's there.

I could tell they hadn't known each other from before attending this school,

And yet she knew what Ayanokouji-kun was capable of from the beginning.

Everytime something you wouldn't expect in a normal school to happen,

The manipulations, lies, trick etc.

The look in her eye towards Ayanokouji-kun would grow.

An example would be what happened in the staff room.

But I still couldn't understand what was so special about him...

That she would defy the existence of reality

Seeing it as only a minor convenience.

That she wouldn't acknowledge the people in this world.

But only Ayanokouji-kun.

I couldn't fathom how a person like her could ever exist.