Unexpected Friends
Chapters 17. Have an Empathy

The police's red-and-blue lights dominate the minimal lighting on a pitch-night. Displaying a figure on a raised stretcher. His face was covered in a white cloth so it was impossible to recognize him.

The silence of the night was broken by the sound of police and Ambulance sirens being heard around every corner. No exception to the cries of an aged couple. "Kao-chan! Kauri-chan!" They called their daughter's name even though they knew she wouldn't answer.

At 10:46 the body of Kauri Mouri was found in the Stadium, precisely Basketball Court. The police installed many Police Line in the TKP and asked all witnesses around. Cwang, Naoki, and Akbar were among the first to discover Kaouri's body.

"I'm with them to find Kaouri. We thought he was in the Dormitory Park so we circled all the parks except the Southeast, East, and and and North because it was too far away. Because we are tired we go back to the stadium and.hiks, we,.. We didn't expect Kaouri to be there all this time." Cwang answered a police question in shock. There was still a sense of sadness and grief in his heart because of this terrible incident so he was a little stammered.

The policeman who asked Cwang recorded everything Cwang talked about quickly in his notebook. Then he thanked him and continued to ask Naoki whose face was still flushed hot until the end of Akbar.

For a while the school became crowded with journalists with the aim of getting an explanation of the first murder case in the famous HOKKAIDO 45 Elite High School.

The reporters stormed the police spokesman and stuffed him with commonly asked questions. But they are too impatient because this case has just happened and is under investigation. "How is the chronology?"

Just how much the spokesman tried to explain if the case was under investigation, reporters scrambled to get their Mic and HandPhone to record their voices.

Unsatisfied with the police response, the reporters turned to the victim's parents and friends. Of course Kaouri's parents went to the Hospital to see her son's outopsy, leaving the students behind. The reporters interviewed one of the students at random so that the information they could find was minimal and not very accurate.

Naoki who saw one of the passing reporters furrowed his brows furiously because what they were after was only 'news'. There is no sense of empathy for the person who has died.

Then he turned his way avoiding the crowd. Akbar who saw the figure of Naoki who was about to disappear rushed to follow him. "Naoki where are you going? We still have to be interviewed." The first words that Akbar said after a long time they were silent. You're the same! Naoki Mumbled.

"To the room, I'm tired." Akbar was not satisfied with Naoki's answer, instead he felt Naoki did not uphold solidarity. Because the other students are also tired but they are forced to ask questions at night. Including students from Nagasaki. "Naoki! It's just a question answer. We're all tired, too." Gertak Akbar while blocking Naoki's path.

Naoki tries to patiently face Akbar's irrational behavior that does not understand his point. "We've been questioned by the police. Why answer again, especially with journalists who are not necessarily true to deliver it?" Akbar's soul is stupefied. He admitted that they had been questioned by police before. But there was one small voice in his heart that was opposed. "Yes, but what do all the students see if the OSIS representative 'escapes'? You'll be mocked!"

"WHISPER! I don't care about being called anything else. Mellow prince, Loser, Coward, Not Solid, you name it all but I won't change my mind!" Naoki raised his voice until like a shout and pushed Akbar in front of him.

"Stone Head!" Not to be outdone, Akbar pushes Naoki back from the side until he falls. Naoki gasped for a moment so loudly. With the rest of his strength he tried to stand up. "Rikai si te i nai hito(People who don't understand)! You're just like them." Naoki shouted and then ran away like mist.

"Sad. Just look at the caverns. I'm tonjok lo, BASIC MP!!!" Shouted Akbar no less loudly. "Would you keep it down, would you?" Cwang who had been interviewed came to Akbar thinking that the person in front of him was crazy. "Why else?" Asked Cwang who had guessed if they had a fight, again.

With his face still tangled with annoyance, Akbar replied, "Ask the Mellow Prince why." Cwang was frustrated with Akbar's childish attitude. "Where did the fool go?!" Said Cwang while kicking Akbar's leg so he screeched.

Finally Akbar was forced to answer, "I asked him to come to the interview with reporters because he was worried that he was getting ridiculed for not coming, what's wrong?"

"Are you entitled to decide what Naoki should do? Self-conscious Akbar! He must have his own reasons. You're roommates and colleagues should understand each other."

Once again, Akbar got a scathing remark that did not defend him. Upset to admit it, but what Cwang said was true. He was too imposing because he cared about Naoki. From the beginning this child has a severe stubborn attitude so that other students stay away from him. Though what Naoki did was right, but the others did not like it because it was too firm.

Akbar remembered Naoki had been dragged into a fight with a delinquent in class for complaining they smoked in the parking lot to the teacher. But Naoki was never afraid. Never stop doing his job until he becomes a Deputy of OSIS.

A small smile began to form at the corner of Akbar's lips. "It's funny. I've only become this bike after months of being her friend. When Naoki ridiculed Mellow Prince, I followed him. What kind of friend am I?"

Cwang did not understand Akbar's intentions. But he thought it seemed like Akbar realized his mistake.

After a long look down, Akbar's round eyes looked at Cwang so as to make his interlocutor a little shocked. Although Akbar is not good at smiling, he still tries his best. "Thank you, Brother Cwang. If you didn't 'slap' kayak earlier, Naoki might have hit me."

This brat. "Who are you going to hit?! Tumbenan also you call me use 'Sister', still healthy?" After pinched hard on Akbar's cheek, strangely Cwang checked his forehead if Akbar was really feverish or other ill.

Akbar just chuckled softly then suddenly asked for a farewell to Cwang. "Bye brother. There's someone I need to approach." Simultaneously, Akbar ran towards the street lying towards the Dormitory. Leaving Cwang who came back shocked.

"What do you mean approach? You're weird." There are some Japanese words that Akbar does not understand. So he improvised, but seemed to misunderstand.

Brakes. Naoki slammed the door. There is still a residual feeling of wrath, but he still opened both shoes and buttons his alma mater. "Si Baka is heartless!!!"

Naoki let out his frustration by shouting out loud. Fortunately no one retaliated for thinking Naoki's shout was a curious spirit cry. "A.. Let's go quickly. I'm goosebumps." Said one of the students passing through the hallway of the 2nd floor male dormitory.

...The reason why the dormitory is isolated from the school is because there are many waiters...

...Anyway, your dorms are the most haunted.¹

It was great that Naoki's shout could reach the 2nd floor when he was on the 4th floor.

Tired of screaming, Naoki laid his body on the mattress while opening the knot of his tie. "Anzu where else?" Naochis grouse. After breaking the tie, Naoki began to take off his socks.

Krieet, the door opened. And at that moment, Naoki with a sour face was forced to answer the greeting. "Okarimase(Welcome)." With the lowest tone. "I haven't said hello."

This damned voice. Naoki turned his body into a right leaning one avoiding eye contact with Akbar. But the person he was referring to was still staring at his back. With an awkward tone, Akbar tried to melt the atmosphere. "If I say hello first, you won't understand."

"Whispering, you think I'm like you? Just answer Waalaikumsalam." His grunts were slow, but it was unexpected that Akbar could hear him. "Eh, you know what?"

Naoki also did not expect his voice to turn out so loud that Akbar heard it. So he chose silence so that his stupidity would not be repeated.

Confused at being ignored, Akbar started talking again. "Naoki, that was sorry. I just don't want you to be mocked anymore." To speak like this, Akbar felt like selling his pride. But he still did not get a response back.

Frustrated, Akbar approaches Naoki's bed. "Not pretend! I was caught talking about it." This sudden attitude also got a sock throw from Naoki. "Damn it! When was the last time you Laundry?"

"Look." Short answer solid nan. Akbar thought he taught Naoki too much Bahasa Indonesia so he was like a native Indonesian with a slight lisp. Though he himself taught Naoki Indonesian that is not standard.

Akbar tried to get closer, then he sat down next to Naoki and slowly rubbed his shoulders. "Honey, don't sulk teru..sss Aawh!!" A few words Naoki doesn't know. But from the word 'Honey' that second also he realized Akbar was mentally ill and hit him in the face. "Homo-sapies!" His shouting.

"Sick ***!!" Again, Akbar returned Naoki's punch but missed because the target had gotten up from the bed and ran away from him. "Anzu! Kimi(Where are you)?!!" Naoki seeks help by exiting the room door.

But some of his steps were stopped because Akbar ambushed him from behind so they both fell. Eventually they collide blows, kicks, and pulls making their clothes messy.

"Tadaima(I'm home)." Anzu was confused by the door that was still open. But do not take a headache and want to continue to open his shoes.

'Wind', before the sight he witnessed made him so stunned that he dropped his black bag. Anzu did not see Akbar and Naoki fighting, but something else. "It turns out you guys, veer." His words were clouding the atmosphere, plus his facial expression that seemed to truly believe.

"Anzu! Thank you for coming. Akbar is mentally ill!" Shouted Naoki then hit Akbar's body which was still sculpting so that he could escape. "Certainly 'Is?" Anzu's plain question made the atmosphere even more tense.

Akbar initially only wanted to joke with Naoki, but it was unexpected that Naoki took him seriously. "SOMEWHAT!!!" The red hue on his cheek even made him look serious.

Still with a face of disdain, Naoki said to Anzu, "It seems Enji won't mind if we stay in his room." Anzu agreed. "Yes, I don't want to catch HIV~"

Anzu. Although his face was plain, it turned out that he had realized this misunderstanding but was instead carried away. More precisely following the mood.

"STOOP!!" Akbar tries to hold them back, but his friends are already in the hallway.

[To Be Continue!]🍵

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¹Anzu's remarks, in Chapter 10. I'm Sick Of This Nonsense