As i opened the door to my apartment room i sigh and stretch my arm, i look around the room it is really messy, i always too lazy to even do chores, i lay flat on the couch "ugh, why is it so hard to find money now" i sit down and grab the alcohol bottle and drink it "fuuwaa" i empty out the bottle and drop it, i look at the celling "ugh, this is so tiresome" i try to stand up and walk toward the kitchen, i go to the sink and turn the sink on "maybe tomorrow will be a critical success" after that i fell asleep in the kitchen.
***
'Knock knock knock' the door to my room is being knocked really hardly, "ugh, yeah wait up" i grab the kitchen stoll and lift myself up, i walk toward the door and open it, the one who knocked was my friend, kento. "Yo akuma, good morning" i rub my eyes "yeah, yeah, let's go"
***
I get on the passanger seat and close the door, i relaxed over on the seat, then kento open his mouth "hey akuma, have you ever think about that time when you were still at school"
i glance at him and then go back to look at the window "not really, im really bad at academic stuff anyway" kento then nods "i see"
After a while of driving we made it to the place, it is an extreamly crowded place, i get out of the car and then walk toward the crowd, this year's new year festival is much more noisy than last year, as i walk through the crowd i stole wallets from people without them noticing, i walk around the festival from the minigames and food stall
'it has been 2 years since i dropped out of highschool, now i risk of getting into jail every month, well atleast i don't need to do homework everyday'
after that, i start to walk to the car, but then i see a girl who is talking to the guard, and ofcourse i already know what is about to happen, the girl then point at me and the guard look directly at me "fuck" i began to run the other way, the guard then chases me "HEY STOP!" My heartbeat is extreamly rapid right now, i frowned and grit my teeth
'all i need to do is getting lost in the crowd' i then see someone with a hoodie, a ran to him and pull the hoodie from him the guy then fell to the ground
"hey give that back!" The guard then ran past him, i wear the hoodie and then force my way in the crowd, i push alot of people away, once i can't see the guard, i take off the hoodie and then i throw it at someone's face.
***
I managed to get away from the guard, the guard probably thought the guy wearing the hoodie was me, but i doubt the guy got accused because the guard probably remember the clothes im wearing, i stop thinking and began my way back to the car.
The car is ahead of me, i began to walk and open the passanger seat and sit on the seat
"haaaa" i let out a sigh of relief, kento then ask "so how did it go?" I grin and lift the pouch full of wallet "it's a success"
kento just look at me for a while, and then he say "akuma, do you think you can do this forever?" I put down the pouch and lean on the seat "probably not, the more i do this, the more possibility i will get caught, but what can i do? It's not like i have a degree or anything"
kento then nods a little and then he began to search his backpack i look at him curiously. He grabbed a paper from the backpack, then i saw it. It was an acceptance letter, i looked at it in disbelief "what? Did you get accepted into a school?"
Kento then look at the paper "yeah, a week ago someone knocked at my door, there was two people there a girl who seem to be the same age as us, and a guy who look like in his 20's, they gave me this"
i then nods slowly and relax again on my seat "i see, you are going to highschool, i guess you can't do this more often" and he say "it's in tokyo" i was shocked again "tokyo!? You got accepted into a highschool in TOKYO!?" And then kento anwser "yeah, i think it's called the Nakamura Highschool"
i think for a bit "i don't remember any school in tokyo named Nakamura Highschool? And it really doesn't sound like a school's name at all"
kento then shrugs "honestly me neither, but im bored about what we do, and maybe we can get into a better job" when he said that, i ask "we?"
He then realized "oh yeah, i forgot to tell you, the man who came to my house said that they want another student and told me to invite anyone"
i ask "anyone?" He then anwser "yeah, anyone. that is why i want to tell you this, do you want to join me?"
'Highschool huh, i have only been in highschool for a year, but he got a point, this job will backfired soon enough'
i then sigh deeply and say "yeah i guess that is the best option i have here" kento then smiles "alright! We gonna go to school again!"
***
It's the next day kento said that he will tell about me by using mail, and kento said the man would drive both of us to the stasion, while i was thinking about it, there is knock on my door, i walk to the door and open it, it is a man possibly in his 20's he is wearing a tuxedo, he look really fancy, then he open his mouth and say "you are akuma, correct?" I anwser him "yeah", "follow me, your friend is waiting in the car"
i followed him out of the apartment, and i see a black car and it look really expensive, i get inside the car and kento is already sitting there "yo" he greeted me with his hand up.
After that the guy drove us to the station, we got inside one of the train and sat there for about 2 hours, after that we got to tokyo "wow, so this is tokyo, i have only seen tokyo in television"
i look around in awe, then the man walk between me and kento "come on lets go" he walk into another, i whispered to kento "hey don't you think this is a bit sketchy, i mean what highschool drove their student with a fancy cars, they seem like yakuza to me", "yeah i feel a bit weirded out by this"
***
After a while we made it to a highschool 'this is probably it' the school is really large, i got out of the car and i look around, there is alot of other people there, but i kinda realized something, the school is not in a middle of a city or anything, it is infront of a shore, 'really weird' i stand infront of the gate and look up at the highschool
"alright, it's time..." and i step my foot inside the school "for a change" and then kento bump onto my shoulder "why are you being so cringy, this is not an anime" i scoff annoyingly "can't you just let me be cool for once?"
I followed him from behind, when we made it inside the school's hallway there is alot of people there, i think to myself 'huh, this school have alot of students' i look around the hallway, it is just a basic japanese school, i walked around for a while with kento checking out all the room and then i hear a voice from the speaker "attention, every student please go to the library to check your class"
***
After i get my student card and also get informed about where my class is from the poster, i immediately go and search where my class is, i mutter to myself "1-C, 1-C, 1-C" i stopped near a classroom's sliding door i looked at the sign on the door "1-C, alright"
i open the sliding door, i look around the room there is some other people sitting on their seat, no one is talking probably because this is the first day, i go to a random desk on the very back of the class and sat down
I wait around for a while, more and more seats are filled but then after a really boring silence there is a man who is in his 30's he is holding some papers on his hand, he put the papers on the homeroom teacher's desk
"Today all of you will be doing an exam" he said with a stern voice, i am suprised 'exam? Right now?' The man then give each one of the student an exam paper
He put the exam paper on my desk 'fuck...
exam? I didn't even study' i grab the paper and look at the questions 'this is a mixture of math, biology, and history...' i lower my head 'im screwed, this is not even multiple choices'
'Alright im just gonna write anything that comes to my mind' i grab my pencil and start anwsering the question
***
'Im screwed...' i put my head on the desk 'i just anwser everything that comes to my head, i just got here and already the dumbest...' then there was a bell ring, the man then stand up and grab everyone's paper
After the teacher tidy up the exam paper he left the class 'that's it?' After i think of that the speaker let out a voice again "please wait until the exam have been scored" i just sat there until someone familiar comes to my class, it is kento
"Yo akuma, how did you do?" I just stare at him hopelessly, kento seeing this he tries to make a comforting smile "i see... well i think it is not bad, i see others in my class look like they are about to cry" i raise my eyebrow "really? I thought im the only dumb one here"
We talked for a while until the speaker speaks again "all the freshmen please go to the auditorium" kento and i walked to the auditorium we sat on the front row, after everyone is in the auditorium, a woman walk up the stage and go to the podium "good morning everyone, because all you all have done your exam, i will call the top 5 lowest score in their exam and walk up stage please"
'Am i going to humilated in the first day of school' there is 10 people who got up the stage then the teacher say "Class 1-C, reiko toriyama, shintoru nagashi, amai kentoru, rika nakishi, and..." i ready up "amaya ryokashi" i almost stood up after the woman speaks 'huh? I am not one of them?' I think to myself then i sigh in relief
"Ahh, what a relief" after that the teacher calls a few more people onto the stage "these people are the one who failed the school's exam" and all of the sudden all of them were shot in the head from behind, the blood splat on my face my eyes widen is shock "h-huh?" The air in the room is quiet, until somebody broke the silence with a scream
Most of them ran away trying to go to the door, kento and i stood up looking around the room, there is alot of student trying to open the door but it was locked and the woman sigh and said "this decade's participant is going to be low" the floor infront of the door opened and most of the people there fell down, there is some who barely survived
The scream continues and then the woman said "listen everyone, if you don't want to have the same fate as them, then stay calm"
i look at the woman and say to myself with scared tone "what is going on...?"