Chapter 9: Clues

I can sense that this woman right here, we will never be in good terms, she's literally holding my wrist and not letting me go, she's very forceful and It's making me pissed, but I have to control my composure. We are now inside the house of that man. The interior is really luxurious, it's very minimalistic "You can tell that this guy is very neat, and vain" hmm, that make sense, while I was being dragged here, he wears a gloves "Yeah, well... I um.." can I really tell them this, but I really want to tell Reaper this first, the two looked at me "What, did you remember something?" Miss Auburn asks, I nodded "and... Akame, please let go of her already? She will never go away, and we're here again to" her mood suddenly changes, she became more angry "find that asshole again!! gosh, why does he always leave you?" I scratch my head, well it's kind of my fault "well, I told him to go alone, because I'm really not ready to face that man, oh by the way how did you find us?" Miss Auburn shows her brooch again "Oh the shining compass." but on the other side the woman in Hakama is looking at me and about to reprimand me "Why? You'd let him go alone, you cannot be separated to you're reaper?" she asks, and clearly this woman doesn't know what I've been through, so annoying, I didn't reply to her "Hold on, why are you giving me this attitude?" she says very stern, but I just looked at her dead, like I'm remembering something again, and another white flash happens.

It's a figure of a woman, I remember that I despise her with all my heart, she's almost the same as my height, not really like that Cleanser of spirit, but she has the same aura that I really hate about someone "Joie, have you made contact with that friend of yours?" she's the epitome of 'my time, my rule' and she will let you feel that, but my personality itself contradicts towards her. "We must finish this report, If she will never come I'll just remove her to the group, ugh." and I remember her mumbling that she wishes that she'll never ever grouped with us, I want to defend my friend for not being able to catch up, since she's been so busy back and forth with club activities and part time jobs. "You know, you should know her reasons and I'm her friend" I ask her in a calm way, but she never reacts to me and just sips her tea, how rude. I remember that this girl is grade conscious but at the same time a sucker for attention seeking because she has a vast amount of friends, and I believe she acts that way to boost her ego, wow I really feel bad about this girl.

"Sorry, I'm late Joie, I was in the middle of club activity, I'm really sorry Yoshioka" Oh yes now, I remember, Yoshioka Mei (Mei Yoshioka) is that person who just sticks by her own rule and for own good reason to boast something about her friends, does her friends looks down on her? I mean she's really smart, and you can rely on her.

"You know how precious time is right? Where have you been? Boy hunting?" I remember myself flinching at that moment, but like I always do, I'm never good at confrontations, but I saw my friend snapped at her "Don't judge someone, if they're late, believe it or not.. I'm really not good with boys, since I like women, not like you." I remember that I just laughed at it, then I saw my friend's face, she's the headstrong Ito Haru (Haru Ito), and it is true, she likes women also men "How can you laugh like this, I thought you're not a terrible person Joie?" I looked at her and says "I'm a very calm person, but you're personality is very unlikely... and she's my friend, so don't judge us" Haru halts me "We're not bad persons, just because we fail some quizzes or exams, we are all students here, who just wants to survive college, yes you're gifted because you're smart, had huge amount of friends in college, gosh but do you ever feel happy, being all that competitive about who's going to pass this exam, quizzes or even this" she points our laptop concluding our reports "I work my ass of to pay my dorm and have at least have enough money to sustain my own, maybe you're too privilege Yoshioka, I envy you" Haru is one of the friends I had alongside with Miwa.. and they are great friends, we saw Yoshioka almost walking away, and I remember I was just admiring Haru for standing up, and wishing that I was also like her able to confront some situations, like what I feel right now, oh now I remember why Yoshioka and maybe her friends doesn't like us, because we're basically the, not so good kids, I of course is really not good with academics, Miwa is smart but really flirty, like what happened to me inside the hospital oh the audacity of that woman, Haru is bi, and sees her rebellious by someone, we all have flaws, but those imperfections made us close, I guess? and I wonder how Haru is right now? Did she visit me? but I think we all work at the same hospital. Me and Haru sat there and just sighed "Are we done now? Wait... I just thought of that guy you mentioned what's his name again oh it's-" a ring came into my ear, and the flashback ended.

"You remembered something?" I saw Miss Auburn asked me, you're just looking at Akame dead straight she's become concerned "well you look scary, like I'm about to cleanse you." look at her she can be funny too, did Yoshioka apologized to us, regarding her actions.

"If I ever offense you regarding my actions, It's wrong of me to judge you, Reaper 0228 here, conveyed my actions." She bowed at me... Miss Auburn is just like Haru, headstrong, maybe I'm wrong about Miss Akame too I judged her too quickly and become pissed like Yoshioka, but to be honest her actions are very much likely Yoshioka's so it's still 50/50, we continue to search for Reaper, I looked at the some things inside the house, I saw the black cupboard and a sudden flashed happened again "He's been here too you know.." the guy says his face is very blurry and I can't see it clearly but I saw myself just standing in there being held with a guy who has gloves "Who are referring too?" He laughs and just slaps me "Don't be stupid Joie, I did it because you came." Who is HE? and Who is he really, is he the handsome devil? "Miss Auburn! Miss Akame!"

I called for them but no one answered the place turns suddenly into darkness "Help!!" I looked around the area, It's like I'm trap inside of the house again. I covered my ears all of a sudden and become really scared. "Miss Auburn!! Akame!! Reaper!! Help!!" I screamed but no one is showing up, a sudden scream happen "No please, have mercy... have mercy!!" a woman's voice, I close my eyes and I'm stuck in a room with no lights on. I looked at my hands, it's clean but my clothes isn't the same like when I saw myself getting dragged I walk around the room and saw my reflection.

"Man, I'm beat" I have really dark circles around me, I'm clean but you can see that I look really really tired, I'm wearing a white frill dress, like I just got off with some party, I'm really not freshened up, "Joie?" I walk backwards it was a familiar voice, it was a man's voice and as soon as he open the door he looked at me "Joie." It just gave me a huge chill down my spine, he closes the door and locks it, I flinched because he walks towards me, now I can see his face, it's still blurry but he touches my face "Be a good girl, join me downstairs and act like my girlfriend" my eyes widened when he says that it's almost making me barf, but I automatically nodded and says "What friends are for, right?" I can feel my gut being twisted when I said those words, and it's really hard to swallow it, but I can sense that I'm trying to survive while I'm in his care.

"Fix yourself, and we'll talk first." He says in a calm voice, and he's scaring, almost thinking that I can't mess this up, If I make mistakes I'm sure I'll be in trouble, when he left the room he stops "Remember to act" he says that threatening me, and I nodded when he leave, my legs starts to give up and I just saw myself trembling.

"Please survive" I said, flashback ended and I saw myself standing in a room looking at the white frill dress I've worn before, the room is very clean and organize the white frill dress is ironed and hanged, It gave me a huge chills and I ran quickly outside of the room and saw Reaper, Miss Auburn and Akame together, without thinking anything I ran towards him and

hug Reaper.

"I found you!" those words I blurted makes me feel more at ease, and I don't care if anyone saw it, but I just want Reaper to help me, and find myself so this story should just end quickly, and finally be at peace.