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School hours:

There are 9 hours of school. 6 courses and 15 minutes break in the middle of each course.

School opens: 7.00 am School starts: 8.00 am

School closes: 8.00 pm School finishes: 4.00 pm

8.00 am- 8.15 am = school assembly

8.15 am - 9.15 am = period 1

9.30 am - 10.30 am = period 2

10.45 am - 11.45 am = period 3

11.45 am - 12.30 pm = lunch

12.30 pm - 1.30 pm = period 4

1.45 pm - 2.45 pm = period 5

3.00 pm - 4.00 pm = period 6 (The last period)

From 4.00 pm in the evening until 8.00 pm at night all the after school classes and activities.

School Subjects and Activities:

Each student studies 10 subjects. These school subjects are compulsory.

There are; japanese, English, Geography, History, Civic Education, Mathematics, Physical Education, Computer science and Home economics.

Activities: Soccer, Baseball, Basketball, Badminton clubs, Media club, Student Council, Photography club, Cooking club, Manga club, Literature club, Languages club, chess club etc.

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It's around 5.00pm, Rei is washing a male toilet. Some school prefects would come and go which embarrassed him. At 5.30pm he leaves the school. He goes to the bus-stop. Hotaru is waiting for the next bus at 5.35pm. Rei sees her but doesn't look at her and stays a little far away from her. She sees him. She gets upto to come and talk to Rei. Rei can see her from the corner of his eye. But the bus arrives. Rei glances at Hotaru's feet and quickly gets on the bus. He gets seated in between two people so Hotaru won't be able to talk to him.

Rei is super shy to face her in case she asks anything about the punishment. The bus arrived at the Choi station where Rei lives. That's where Hotaru lives too. Rei gets off and leaves as fast as he can. Then Hotaru descends and keeps looking at Rei who leaves in a hurry.

*Knock knock* "Come in" "What's up?" Rei asked Sen who was in Rei's room lying down on the futon. "Oh hey! Did you come back from washing? And did you get me chocolates?" "Oh crap! Sorry I forgot. I was in a hurry to get home. Didn't really see you these two days." Rei took off his bag and placed it on the table. "Yeah. After all that toilet washing yesterday... my body was hurting like crazy. That's why I didn't come to school today either." Sen stopped reading and went to close the window. "That's why you shouldn't skip physical education class. Cuz you are being lazy and stuff, your body can't handle something like cleaning without energy to keep up." Rei took off his t-shirt and went inside the bathroom. The reason for Sen's sudden absence on Thursday is that Rei had to go help out Shoyo for another task. So Sen had to clean the toilets otherwise Rei would get another extra day.

~Fifteen minutes later~

*Cell phone ringing* Rei comes out of the bathroom with the towel around his hips. He picks up the phone. It says "Bro". he answers the phone. "Hello?" "Can we meet?" A noise came out from the phone. "I'll come to your place." "No thanks. Speak on the phone or I'll come to meet you." "But aren't you tired? You probably got back from school right now right?" "No." "What's wrong with me knowing where you live?" "What do you want already?!" "Okay okay! I need you for a mission. This one is quite difficult. But you wouldn't mind about it right?" "What is it?" "Entering Inaho. I want you to go there. Meet me tomorrow at 5.00am behind my house." "Tomorrow is Saturday, right? Well... this mission better end on Sunday. Next week we have exams. Then see ya!" Rei hung up.

"Your brother again?" Sen asked. "He isn't my brother." Rei said while putting on some clothes. "What are you reading anyway?" "A book called paranormal state." "Mm, sounds fun." Rei went to Sen and lied next to him. "Am gonna take a quick nap. Wake me up at 7.00 for homeworks ok?" "Got it!" Sen said and setted up the alarm. Rei fell asleep right after.

~The next day early morning, Saturday~

Shoyo looks at the watch. 4.59am displays on the watch screen. He lifts up his head and looks around. A man approached him wearing all black clothes. Shoyo turns towards that man and keeps looking. The man came near him and took off his cap. It's Rei. Shoyo looks back at the watch. It's exactly 5.00am on the clock. "Am not late. You don't have to check the time." Rei said while putting his cap back on. "Right! I forgot you are the perfect time keeper although you are late for school." Shoyo giggles.

"Let's move it shall we?" Rei got into Shoyo's car that was parked near them. Started the car and headed to Inaho. "What's the plan?" Rei asked while drinking some water. "Yeah right. First.. put these into your eyes. They are contact lenses with cameras." Shoyo handed over a tiny box to Rei. He puts them on. Rei, who isn't used to wearing contact lenses, is having trouble fitting them in his eyes. "These contact lenses are connected to my laptop on the back seat. Once you enter Inaho, from a different place than we usually get in of course..." "Wait. Which way am I going in?" "I don't know. Since I am driving from the south side of Hyogo city, which I am not quite sure about... I don't know which side of the Inaho valley we will end up on. But one thing is for sure. Since Inaho valley is huge... They can't guard every corner of the valley. And since we are going from a different direction where we never once tried to approach... the chances for you to get in the valley secretly is high." Shoyo explained. "Right. The Skull King's building is located on the north side of the valley. Closer to the city." "Yes. Now, once you get in there I will activate the lenses. Then I will be able to see everything that you see." Shoyo said. Rei looked at the back seat. There is a laptop with a logo "SPF" and a few other pieces of equipment. "Listen... there is not much for you to do. Just simply get in there and find this man named Soma Yoshida. Open the glove compartment. There is a photo of that man." Rei quickly opened it. There is a red file. In that file are a bunch of papers with photos attached to each. He goes through the files and finds the paper with the name Soma Yoshida.

"Who is this?" "This man is the first one to betray the Skull King by complaining about him. It happened about 2 to 3 weeks ago. After that this man ran away to hide from the Skull King. But a few days after he reappeared in Hyogo city. Now he is nowhere to be found. We SPF officers highly believe that the Skull King has him." "Then he must already be gone." "Yes. That's true. But we don't think he will kill him right away. Soma must be in there somewhere. You have to find him. While you find him... Try to gather information about what they are up to. Please! We must do something and we all rely on you Rei!" "But why me?" "Because... once you are in there... you will have to do what they do in order to not be suspicious. Meaning you will even have to kill people. In these kinds of situations we need the most trustworthy of all. And as for me... it's you!" "I don't wanna kill people. But I will if it's for all of those innocent people's sake." Rei looks back at Soma's photo with rage in his eyes. He holds tight the photo, rips it and puts it in his pocket.