Episodes 115. Deadly Message
A few hours after visiting the woman's house and laboratory, I am now in my room, facing my desk, which is as clean as new.
Tap tap tap tap...
I press the screen of my phone.
If you're wondering why, it's because I suddenly received a lot of messages from people at school.
Is it troublesome? Yes... How could it not be when about 7 people are trying to talk to me at the same time? I need to respond and reply correctly.
First, from fellow teachers, Erika, Samuel, Xander, and Tasya asked me and were worried about my class's fate. Other teachers like Ryan and Bahar also asked me why my class did not appear. This is strange, why doesn't Bahar know the reason either? A student sent me a direct message, not through the group chat. It was none other than Dahlia... The person who now has the status of my girlfriend.
[Rasyid, I heard your class had an incident, so I'm trying to check directly, is it true?]
[If I recall, if a class fails to reach at least the top 20 out of 27 classes, then all the students in that class will have difficulty getting accepted into further education.]
[So, I hope you resolve this issue if you care about your students.]
[Hope you're okay]
[From: Dahlia}
Ah... This girl's writing style in the chat is very formal, even Erika would lose in formality to this girl.
[Don't worry, I've already solved this problem (>_<)] *send
With this, she shouldn't worry anymore.
I don't know how worried she would be hearing the news concerning my name right now.
*Message incoming
Wow, she replied right away!
[Really? How could you do it so quickly?!]
I try to reply casually, but just as I press one letter.
*Message incoming
[Did you do another amazing trick?]
*Message incoming
[Or did you intimidate them until they ran away?]
*Message incoming
[I'm sure what I'm thinking now isn't right or even able to match what's in your mind (;-;)]
*Message incoming
[Tell me more, how did you do it! (*0*)]
Calm down, calm down, calm down! Why is she bombarding me with so many messages?!
Tap tap tap
*Writing a message.
[No, it's just a misunderstanding, sometimes the system and machines often experience malfunctions, so there's no bad person involved this time.]
Click. *Send
Of course, I can't tell the truth.
That's part of the agreement, both parties must not acknowledge what happened under the flyover. And if anyone dares to say it, my position as a teacher will be threatened again, and the positions of those five teachers will be in question.
*Message incoming
[Rasyid, I want to ask you, were you walking with another woman earlier?]
Another message comes to my phone screen, this one sounds more personal rather than about class.
When I look at the name of the sender, my eyes immediately relax and look helpless.
As expected, it's her...
[What are your eyes made of, Erika?]
[Why is she so sharp? Even Samuel's eyes would lose in a competition]
*Send
I won't play innocent with her, she's too scary if I don't quickly stop her anger.
*Message incoming
[Hey, I'm asking seriously, you know!]
*Message incoming
[I saw you coming out of that STRICT teacher's house!]
As expected, she must be angry...
But rereading her messages a few times, I somehow get more scared of how she observes me.
If I were normal, I would immediately write a bold message and call her a 'STALKER'.
Of course, that's only if I were normal.
For now, I'll let myself flow into her conversation.
[Saw me coming out of Haran's place?]
[Are you a stalker?]
[I couldn't even catch your presence]
Oh damn, I wrote it. I look normal now.
*Send
[Who are you calling a stalker?! (=_=)]
[I was only there because she called me, you know...]
Called? Why did Haran suddenly call this woman? Didn't she say she was still keeping her discovery a secret? Then why did she easily invite another teacher to her house?
Calm your mind, Rasyid! Maybe there's a simpler issue than that.
[Called?]
[For what?]
*Send
I can only hope it's not something related to this problem.
*Message incoming
[I was called to bring some strange things (-_-)]
[I don't know what for]
[But for sure...]
[They looked like children's toys (=_=)]
"Ah—Ahahhaha." Without realizing it, I suddenly let out a chuckle in the middle of the night, maybe I would be considered crazy in my room if anyone heard. "I didn't expect that model can be such a natural camouflage..."
[Don't worry, you'll make a good servant... :v] (R)
[Hey, Woh are you calling a servant?!] (E)
Erika replied to my message very quickly, even making some typos.
She must really feel fooled now.
[Besides, don't change my previous question!] (E)
[What question?] (R)
[HEY!]
[Hmm...]
[Don't use that scary word!]
Note: The word 'hmm' is usually used in chat for people who don't want to talk, or are bad mood.
***
In the middle of our conversation, a message suddenly rang on our phones. The message came from the group chat of the teachers at the school where I teach.
The content of the message was very short, even if read, there was only one word, namely...
[Read!]
[2 MB, file]
A file?
*Message incoming
[Rasyid, who sent that message?]
[It's clearly from an outsider]
[Because I have saved all their (the teachers') phone numbers]
I reply:
[Thank you, I'll be careful...]
I looked at the message content in the group chat again.
The other teachers seemed to not reply and just remained silent.
Either they were immediately reading the message, or indeed not paying attention to it.
There is actually one bad possibility, but I try to think positively and assume they are mature enough not to bring it up.
When I pressed the file,
It showed a long list...
"Eh?!"
But I was immediately shocked, what was in that file was...
"This is the class ranking list in this exam!"
When I read it, my class was in an unexpected position...
Class 1 Physics 1, was in the 6th position out of all the classes.
While the class that was previously in that position ended up in the most miserable position, the last place.
That class was Xander's...
How could this happen? How careless were the students in his class to bring them to this situation, Xander?