"Reiji's class, really?", he asked after noticing her finger pointing at the 3C's signboard above the classroom doors. Riro nodded as she pulled out a message from her phone.
"Reina told me, although it was during recess."
Rirota nodded and slid open the classroom door to find the class in session, the teacher in charge turned his head to find the two Rirotas by the door, "May I know what's the reason you two came during my class?"
Rirota entered with a glare pointed toward Ritoxen almost immediately. The class began to whisper among themselves in secrets.
"Are they gonna fight?"
"Oh, they've got histories?"
"Shush, let's watch what's going on first..."
Rirota nodded his head sideways to call Ritoxen over outside of the classroom, the teacher asked Rirota the moment he noticed Ritoxen standing from his seat, "What's your problem with the new student, Xalysia-san?"
Riro spoke on behalf of him, "Ritoxen's sister is in the infirmary, sir. She collapsed in class during study session."
The teacher's eyes went wide as he faced Ritoxen with a worried face. Ritoxen too, had a more expressive look of his worries for his sister's wellbeing. He approached Rirota in a hurry, "What happened?! Where's the infirmary, Rirota?!"
Rirota turned around to face the hallway, "Come with me then, worrywart! Let's go!"
The two boys dashed out of the classroom, leaving Riro to do the hard work, "Then... teacher, I'll be leaving with them now. Please forgive our sudden intrusion."
He nodded with a bitter face, "It's fine, Xalysia-san. You may go as well.", he faced the class to continue his lessons, "Attention now!"
Riro left to catch up with them back at the infirmary, upon her late arrival to the place. Her eyes caught sight of the two of them standing and discussing outside of the room rather than going inside. She narrowed her gaze to understand their talks by reading their lips' movement as she walked to reach the infirmary in her pace.
A few seconds earlier...
Ritoxen grabbed the sliding door's handle and about to swing it open but Rirota's voice stopped him from doing so, "Stop, let me tell you something she needed to know from your own voice."
"Hah?"
Rirota resisted his urge to roll his eyes after hearing Ritoxen's puzzled noise and replied with more details, "Her real name is the same as yours, right?"
Ritoxen's expression turned dark, "How did you know?"
He didn't bother to sugarcoat his words and be fully direct with what exactly happened, "Earlier, she came to the infirmary with a scissors tucked under her skirt acting a bit psychotic. I temporarily subdued her down so she won't hurt anyone else."
Ritoxen's face twitched as he heard him mentioned subduing his sister, "Did you hurt her?"
Ritoxen's tensed expression calmed down after noticing him shaking his head without hesitation, "No." [Something even worse since I kissed her.], Rirota decided to not inform him of the last bit in his thoughts.
Rirota continued his words by questioning th elven boy, "Ritoxen, I've got a question for you. Answer truthfully."
"Shoot.", Ritoxen already knew what the question was about as his expression changed from calm to serious from the question out of Rirota's lips.
"Personality disorder, do you have it as well?"
Ritoxen nodded reluctantly, "Yeah...", he bit his lips as he sighed tiredly. Rirota nodded after hearing his confirmation and dug deeper with his question, "Do you still hear your alter ego's thoughts?"
He shook his head, permanently confirming Rirota's doubts, "I knew it."
Ritoxen grabbed his collar with frustration in his voice, "Why do you ask? Is this really about my sister?!"
"Calm down, and yes it is related to your sister's odd behaviour in our classroom."
"Don't call her behaviour 'odd', you bastard!"
Ritoxen let go of his collar and back away from him while his arms crossed against chest. Rirota sighed inwardly as he continued explaining his thoughts to him, "Her personality had a major issue, and that's her intense obsession over anything she found a deep interest in."
Ritoxen furrowed his brows, "...This feels familiar to my inner self..."
Rirota nodded with a relieved expression, "At least you getting through me, now.", he patted his shoulder before leaning close to Ritoxen's ear, "Don't stay separated for too fucking long and fucking please... watch her eyes carefully. You may be a troublemaker by yourself but she's way more dangerous than she looks. She's a what they call; a Yandere, got it?"
Ritoxen's eyes shrunk as he nodded, "Got it... so... now I know why I feel more inclined to protect her more than I should for my wellbeing previously."
He felt disappointed in himself for not realising it sooner, [It turns out that I was protecting her not because I have worries of her safety, but because I wanna avoid others from getting too close with her, for their safety.]
Ritoxen held his head and sighed heavily, "Damn it... I'm sorry for pushing you earlier, I didn't expect you to be considerate for others, Rirota."
Rirota faced the door with his body, "I can at least keep her safe during class... Riro can also help her.", he said as he noticed Riro in his peripherals as she approached them and then placed her hand against Ritoxen's back, giving him a little push forward, "Go, I need to bring my smartass brother home since he's supposed to be sick right now."
Ritoxen blushed from the softness of Riro's hand for a moment but shook his head to replace his blush with a thankful nod, "Thank you, you two.", before entering into the infirmary in search of his sister.
*slap*
Rirota felt a sharp pain against his neck as he turned to face the assailant with puzzled expression, "Oww??"
Riro blew her fingers as she walked away from him. Rirota sighed as he chased after her, "Why the fuck you did that for?"
"Not telling."
He felt hatred from her default dead tone, he rolled his eyes while expressing his anger with a tongue click, "I can never understand you and y'all fucking girls!"
Riro sneered at him with a tongue out of her mouth, "Stay mad, dummy!", she let out a giggle which even more puzzled him.
"...Fucking hell.", he shook his head and followed Riro quietly.
[... I'll slap her neck back, watch your stupid back, moron.], he gritted his teeth, planning his own share of vengeance to pay back her provoking acts toward him.
...
Inside the infirmary...
"Nnnggh... gimme more...", murmurs escaped her lips quietly as she pulled a pillow closer to her face.
"Rio."
"...?", Rio opened up her eyes, she felt disappointed with the sudden voice waking her up on the good part of her naughty dream. She turned her head around toward the voice and a bright blush soon covered her entire head when she found her brother staring at her.
"B-Brother?", she then scanned her surroundings and found herself in a bed inside the infirmary. Her eyes darted around and found the nurse's desk tidied up as there was no one else beside her and her sibling.
Ritoxen sighed deeply with relief as he placed his hand on top of her head, giving her gentle headpats she has always loved ever since they woke up together in the same room. Rio's face became sorrow as she remembered Rirota's question before she blanked out. However, since she did remember that moment, her sorrowful face turned embarrassed in an instant.
She placed her hand against his hand above her head, stopping him from continuing to caress her hair, "Ritoxen... Rirota knew that my name's actually yours..."
Ritoxen nodded, "He told me that too, don't worry too much about it. We didn't need to change school this time, but we need to change classes."
"Huh?", she lifted her eyes to face his with bewilderment. What did he mean by that? She thought faintly in her mind as he continued to elaborate his reasoning, "Rirota also told me that... we shouldn't be too far apart from one another for too long of a period. Do you remember what made you act differently than how you usually are at home, Rito?"
She looked down with saddened eyes, she shook her head quietly but admitted some moments where she was fully aware of her actions.
"I remember some things... Ah, no! I didn't injure him, right?!", she looked around to see any blood on the floor and was relieved to find no hints of blood around the room.
Ritoxen shook his head, giving her reassurance, "He's fine... what did you do, Rito?"
Rio pouted slightly at him, "Just keep calling me 'Rio', brother Ritoxen... I-I... remember wanting to stab him with a pair of scissors."
Ritoxen sighed hearing her guilty confession, "Thankfully you didn't do that... how did he manage to keep you calm and sleeping soundly, by the way?"
Rio blushed madly as soon as his question about how she passed out. Ritoxen's heart almost cracked as something began to boil his blood, "...No way, he didn't."
Rio lifted her blanket to cover her lips as she felt a heavy pressure leaking from her brother's body, she stuttered after feeling suffocated from his overwhelming pressure, "B-Brother?"
Ritoxen yelled as loudly as he could!
"RIIIROOOOTAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
...
"Haaa-choo!!"
Rirota sneezed terribly as he felt something was badmouthing him from somewhere, "Ugh... someone's got a death wish."
Riro puckered her lips, wondering what caused Rirota to sneeze badly.