His previously sharp and knowing gaze seems to have gone somewhere, without him.
The case of Kei Nishida's new nature and behavior confused everyone in the school.
Even as weeks passed with him like this, students (mostly the girls) still continue to talk about him.
Things he has heard them say range from:
"Not even that gorilla of a Teacher, Mister Kotobuki, can seem to get him to snap back to reality!"
to:
"Mizu-chan… d-don't you think Nishida-kun is really, beautiful… like that..?"
However, even if Nishida appeared distant from them, he was still present for everything they said.
This was proven by when he first started this strange behavior.
It was the third day in a row he was like this, when Teacher Kotobuki tried to humiliate him in English class, by giving him a difficult sentence to translate…
But it was perfect. In fact, the sentence he translated was from a romantic tragedy. The emotion he put into it… made everyone want to cry. But, even though his tone and voice projected these feelings, his face was still blank and neutral.
After this event, they mostly gave up on making him appear even a little engaged.
Every so often, teachers would call on Nishida, but he would give a perfect answer, without moving his gaze from the window.
But there's something about Nishida Kei, that no one knows.
The truth of why he was like this.
Except for the manga club.
…And a girl who is overly obsessed with Nishida, whose daily activities includes her following him.
Every day, without failure, Kei Nishida goes to the manga club room, to get tortured…
…Tortured…
…Pampered..?
Despite the outside appearance of the manga club, which looks like a ragtag group of women that could never get along, they transform when the door to their room closes.
And in a stroke of… luck..?
It's debatable as to whether its good or bad luck…
He, in a cruel twist of fate, happened to walk into the room, to bring them some documents from the teachers office, and saw them.
One of the club's members was handcuffed to a chair, with another girl putting her hands in the restrained girls shirt.
…And another was taking photos with a Polaroid camera.
This… was definitely not a manga club's normal daily activities.
Horrified, Kei tried to quietly put down the paper next to the door and leave; quickly trying to scrub the sight out of his brain.
Because what really got him, was that he thought the best of them.
The head of the class, the representative, was in the chair… Rei Kizuki, with her silky smooth long brown hair, whose signature style was two large braids and thick-rimmed glasses
Photographing it all was Yae Sugihara, who was relatively popular in his class.
She had short, dyed-blonde hair with black roots reappearing at its base, and often wore her school jacket wrapped around her waist.
To top off this cyclone of a mystery, is that the one fondling Rei Kizuki, was an idol of the school.
Collette Akabane.
Seemingly perfect in everything she did, be it sports or academics.
Her mixed blood boosted her appearance, as she attracted everyone, regardless of gender and age. But here she was… green eyes and true-blonde hair glistening so beautifully… Drooling like a pervert with a scary look in her eyes.
As Nishida set down the papers, he got back up to leave.
Doing so, he realized that their panting and strange noises were gone, and a silence filled the room.
All three were looking at him.
With faces that seemingly screamed:
"Oh shit… we've been caught."
And:
"Why… why did it have to be Nishida-kun to see me like this..!?"