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"What... girl goes missing?" Chattering among students in class 3-B. "Please Mr. Roku, take care of my students." "Don't worry Miss Oreki, as long as they are with me, nothing will happen. Please go and collect more information." Hotaru left the school grounds and headed to the main building. Main building is where the staff rooms and administrative, principal's office and other school need areas are located.

Staffroom is a mess. Teachers are talking. They are panicking. "Are the other students safe?" "Yes. I left a few students to take care of the class." "Everyone stop panicking!" The principal yelled, standing at the staffroom door. He came inside the room and stood in front of the vice principal. "Which class?" He asked. "Class 1-F sir." The vice principal replied. "A girl or a boy?" "A girl sir." "Again?" "Yes sir." "How about the other students?" "They are probably panicking. For now we sent some senior boys and a teacher to look after them." "How did the students find out that she was missing? Who told them?" "The security sir. They went straight to class 1-F after seeing the girl go near the indoor pool building and never appeared on the other side of the road next to the indoor pool. The girl kind of disappeared. So the security went to check if the girl was in the class. That's when the students found out." The vice principal explained everything to the principal while sweating from the side of his forehead.

"Who is the teacher of that class?" The principal asked. "It's me sir." A lady came through the crowd and stood in front of him. "Who is the child? Show me the information." "Yes... sir..." A little fear in her voice. She handed over the information chart of the student. "Here it is sir. Her name is Ito Oshin. She came to my class today. She is a new first year." The teacher said, The principal raised up his head with a panicked face. So did all the other staff members. The staffroom is super silent. "What did you say? A new student?" The principal Yuudai is finally panicking. The vice principal keeps looking at the homeroom teacher's face. The staff members look at each other. "What are we going to do? Her parents won't let this slide. None will let this side if they find the truth behind the...." "Stop it you fool!" Principal shouts. "None! None! Not a single person here will let it be like that. None of you will spit the truth. It will only create chaos." The principal puts both his hands on his head and starts thinking while walking around the room.

"For now, give another announcement. All the senior section teachers make sure that the senior students don't say a word and keep quiet. They are the only ones in the school who knows what it is and who are going to face this twice. As long as the teachers won't spill it out, we just need to make the seniors keep quiet so there is no way the juniors will find out." Principal Yuudai said and left the staff room.

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The entire school is silent. Only the school prefects are seen outside of the school buildings or walking in the hallways. The rest of the students are working in silence. "You six boys head to the third floor of the senior building where some of the first year classes are. You have to stay attentively until the next six boys come and take your positions. This will be continued for sometime and eventually you'll no longer have to protect the students." "Even though this matter doesn't end?" A boy asked. "Yes. We can't let you guys miss your school work either. Just do this until we install more guards around the school. And you guys are free to go." The vice principal said. "More like trapped again in studying." "Ok now, don't say that. I'll be leaving, make sure you go to the third floor on time. The head prefect will take the lead on this. Got it? Work hard boys!" "Yes sir!" The vice principal left the student council room and headed to see the principal.

"The prefect board is on their jobs. I left the head prefect and the deputy to lead them. This will be enough for this evening and tomorrow. Next Monday, we'll have to do something so the prefects don't miss their work." The vice principal said while looking at the head principal's face. "Right. That's good. How about the announcement?" "We already sent the message to the media club. They will do it soon." "Good. Tell the homeroom teacher of class 1-F to make up some fake news so the students in that class won't panic and search for what's happening." The principal said. "Yes sir!" The vice principal replied.

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*Inside the changing room* "Yay! It's the last period." "Yeah! I have to say, although my favourite game is dodgeball, I didn't really enjoy it that much today." "Oh shut your mouth Shoto! You should say it like this... Although dodgeball is our favourite class sport game, we didn't enjoy it AT ALL TODAY! It's all cuz of the that freaking news Miss Oreki said.'' Hiroto yelled so loud that even the girls next door were able to hear it.

Silence everywhere. Nobody is talking. Even the girls. They are all standing still like statues looking at the wall which separates the two changing rooms. Some are sitting down while looking at the floor like they have depression. Ichiro walked towards Hiroto and tapped on his shoulder while shaking his head trying to say it's alright calm down. Kuromi kept looking at Rei, who was also in a bad mood. Rei took his bag and left the changing room. The changing room door opens and closes. Rei took his bag in one hand and out his other hand inside his pocket, head down looking at his own steps.

Running sounds... Breathing... "Rei wait!" "Huh? Kuromi?" Rei looked behind. "Let's go together!" Kuromi came running and stopped while putting his arm around Rei's shoulders and breathes heavily. "Jeez Bro! Can you walk any slower?" "I was." "Really? Then can you explain how you are already near the class building? Did you teleport?" "No! Idiot! Get off me!" Rei pushed Kuromi and walked away. Kuromi came running and put his arm around Rei again. "So I was right." "About what?" "You don't push people after telling them to get off you. If they don't, you simply stop and wait with a grumpy face until they get off. So that means you aren't in a good mood. Right? So what is it?" "You know me so well, why don't you try and find it too." "Oh my dear Rei! When did I tell you that I know about you. You hide everything from us stupid!" "You know why I have you as my friend?" Rei stopped and asked. "Why?" "Cuz of this. It only takes a minute for you to understand how the other person feels. Which makes you so cute that I wanna cuddle you." "Awwww! Should I cuddle you?" "NO IDIOT! That was sarcasm! You figuring out how the other one feels and then asking them straight what it is makes them even more mad. Dumb Bitch!" Rei leaves after yelling at Kuromi.

Ichiro, Hiroto, Miya, Chiyo and the rest of the classmates are behind them looking at the scenario. "Damn! Rei is mad!" Kuromi said to himself. "Yo, that was true by the way. It's fine for you to figure out other's feelings but don't go asking them about it. Try to approach slowly." Miya said while passing by Kuromi and entering the building. "And isn't this the first time Rei shouted at you? Normally he would shout at Hiroto and Ichiro but this time it's you." Miya turned around and said. "You know what that means.... He is gonna take one step away from you like he did to Ichiro and Hiroto. See you in class!" Chiyo said and went inside the building.