Unexpected Friends
Chapters 29. Tricksters

Enji put the phone back in his alma mater pocket after the communication with Naoki was completed. "Let's go." Take him, and then we go inside the dorm building.

We arrived in the main hall and there we met a lot of strangers who knew our names and acted like fans. "Senpai, can I have an autograph?" One of the students approached us and asked Enji for an autograph. So awkwardly Enji wrote his signature on the paper that was given using the student's pen.

"Hi, you're Alice?" Suddenly someone called my name so that my reflexes looked up and it looked like a man was smiling at me. "Yes, what's wrong?" My toot.

"I admire you so much!"

I got him a compliment. Not just one, but the compliments of the other kept coming and flooding me. Others get the same treatment. Now we have fans and be the center of attention!

But I feel uncomfortable. They blocked our way to the room and always stopped our steps for personal satisfaction.

"Can you take a photo of Senpai?" Have someone who happens to cross paths with us on the way to the stairs. We had to stop again because of her request. "1, 2, 3, cheese!"

We posed potluck. I relied on the peace finger style due to fatigue. Is this what artists often feel? Cih, we can't keep this up. Before night we were still on the ladder. And my room is on the 3rd floor, it must be a longer trip!

Think, Alice, think. What can drive the crowd. By the way where is the OB that usually cleans this place? Did you know that the House Chief wanted to maintain the concept of an 18th-century palace by not cleaning it to dust?

Suddenly my eyes were glued to one of the posters plastered on the wall of the dormitory. There is an image of Albert Einstein with one of his motivational words. For a moment I thought of an amazingly crazy idea and the only way to escape. "Hehe." My wicked laughter.

"Pai! How can you be so brave to fight the killer?" Ask a stranger again. I decided to answer it because I saw my friends who were tired of serving many people. "So like this, there are motivational sentences that I always hold fast. There may be some of you who know this motivational phrase."

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

I saw confusion in their eyes. It seems like these words are rarely known and I also cheated from the poster. They applauded and cheered. "Great! Very cool words."

Okay, now just wait a few more seconds. One, two, three. "Well what the hell is this?!" Someone screamed in front of me because there were a lot of small animals like rats wandering on the floor, then there were balls shining around the room. The ceiling darkened instantly due to the lights off, adding to the horror of the famous haunted dormitory.

"GROOARS!" There was the sound of a tiger's roar. I trembled a little, but it turned out that the tiger I had found seemed to just want to fall asleep on the couch. It should be safe by now, despite the rat invasion.

Confusion happens. Now the first floor has been ravaged by students who can see other realms. While the rest who can not see also carried away or trying to leave the dormitory.

"Our change! Run!" I said to the others and then we ran. On the way, I suddenly came across a ghostly figure similar to Albert Einstein. He seemed to be confused by moving to a new place.

But I just ignore it as it passes. Now we are safe on the 2nd floor which is still quiet.

At that time we tried to relax to the 3rd floor, the floor of my room, Eliz, and Fumika. Enji's sister's room is on the 4th floor, while Akbar's brother is on the 5th floor.

"Sir Akbar knows Jeffrey? His ex-girlfriend Kaouri?" Fumika opens the conversation with a random topic. He answered, "Who does not know? He's the most eccentric man in his force. Now it's graduated."

"Ohh, I graduated." Timpal Eliz. "If Naoki how?"

Elizabeth Van Hose!! "Shut your mouth." But of course my words were ignored by him. Worse yet Enji even returned to reply, "Sir Naoki is my best role model! He is exemplary, kind, decisive, willing to take risks, and much more. That's why I can be the Chairman of OSIS as I am now."

I don't want to hear his name now. I was still upset that he had cheated us before and likened me to a cartoon character.

Eliz nodded in understanding and nudged my elbow with Fumika while smiling. "Ehe he, role model." Say they're compact. Never mind, don't be. I'm so sick of knowing!

I don't think we're on the 3rd floor. I, Eliz, and Fumika share a break with Enji and Akbar and then part in the hall separating the male and female dormitories.

We went to the left hallway where the Princess Dormitory is located. Then look at our room number. "It's number 13." Fumika said while pointing to a door in front of us. Without further ado, we go straight in.

We rested for a while before finally taking a shower and changing clothes. To kill the time, we played Eliz's Uno card, which he carried from home until the night before we went to bed and had a good dream.

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The sky was dark because there were no stars or moons. The clouds were stormed by lightning and lightning. Rain has also fallen on the earth. No one dared to go out of his place to challenge the rain.

Lightning reappeared illuminating a room. Inside there is a school pride trophy in a glass cabinet. There is also a closet containing folders and school data in addition to a long table that is the center of the room.

Inside the room that read 'The Principal's Room' it was still inhabited by a middle-aged man who was writing his report.

"Sakamoto has been arrested. Still want to continue your demands to his uncle?"

He thought for a moment about the decision of his interlocutor. "Huh, no need. He's been doing his best all along."

"By the way, he'll be put to death. Police said school participation as an educational institution was also included. Maybe you'll come to his court."

"Tsk!" A sudden frustration permeates him when he remembers Sakamoto Anzu's stupidity. Now that he had to bother defending the child or not, was the question. "That kid. I told you not to leave evidence, and then his body was put right is it hard? Now we're dragged along." His impact.

For a few minutes no more replies crossed. Then, "Father, I've been thinking about quitting work. I can't stand it."

"How dare you stop? Remember who made this choice. If you fuck up again, just look."

His interlocutor gulped roughly with the threat of his superior. In caste, the position is under the person so it does not have more power. And he was forced to obey and confine his desire to stop. "Well, Hideyoshi-San." The reply.

"Then I suddenly wanted to talk about youki ma'am. You know he's always been wronging you, why can it happen?" Hideyoshi's tone changed to be more relaxed. While continuing the report, he listened carefully to his interlocutor.

"Anu." Next across there. "It's not clear either. But it seems I acted recklessly so he found we were talking on the phone about Ayumi's death."

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*15 June 2012. The day before Samaki Ayumi's death.

The Southeastern Garden Warehouse*.

"So we make a pattern. Is that right sir?" Tanaka remarked to the strange request of his superiors. "Yes. And make sure Sakamoto does his job properly, not like before."

"Good." His words were trying to be as normal as possible because now he was shuddering. His pride as a teacher suddenly fell for choosing this dirty path and now he teaches his students to kill for their personal gain. What kind of teacher is he?

It all starts from the greedy desire to reap the benefits of 'additional money'. Tanaka also felt lucky that Hideyoshi had a thought. Before he knew Hideyoshi's crazy plan to use the fast way because of impatience.

Though he initially had plans to make the reputation or value of scholarship children to be bad in order to be issued properly. But Mr. Hideyoshi forced his idea to completely remove the scholarship boy by imposing his fortune as the richest heir in Japan with unlimited connections and from distinguished families.

Half-heartedly, Tanaka finally felt it because he wanted to quickly feel millions, even billions of Yen in his hands.

Start the search for the right candidate for their benefit. Until the name Sakamoto Anzu came. He had no problems with his school and friends.

But after seeing her profile, they are interested in making it into a 'Tool' because of the traumatic past of losing a parent that left her suffering from a psychological disorder indirectly.

'Psychopaths' are anti-social personality disorders characterized by insensitive, abusive, manipulative attitudes, and no feelings of fear or guilt. She can act like a normal human being by pretending to look expressive. Even though he himself was confused by what his friend meant and felt.

The right candidate to do the dirty work. But surprisingly he was rejected on the grounds of "Bother." By him. So Hideyoshi pulled out an ace by blackmailing Anzu using various threats.

His scholarship was forcibly revoked and his uncle was imprisoned on false charges. But Hideyoshi also offers to pay for all the Anzu family debts he knows from one of his connections.

Although he was mentally disturbed, he was still sane enough to reconsider. He finally agreed.

"But thank God the case in the field of basketball can I silence." Hideyoshi's reply was called. "Now do your job and command the boy properly!"

His last words before hanging up the phone and leaving Tanaka in the quiet of the park. Alone, he thought that unaware a woman was listening to their conversation indirectly.

The initial intention of this woman to take flowers to give to Ayumi in the Southeast garden when visiting her, because in the morning she must be busy teaching.

But now he is forced to hide to eavesdrop on their conversation and is shocked to find his co-worker the perpetrator of the murder of Kaouri. Moreover, the fact they use Anzu as a tool.

After Tanaka left, slowly the woman named Youki Takumi stood up from hiding. Then he muttered, "I can't forgive."

[To Be Continue!]🌷