"Why did you wake me up at this time, Akito?"
My eyes were heavy but my vision was clear although I had just been woken up by Akito. I looked at Akito. His face looked eager to tell me something and his fingers were fidgeting with each other.
"Tadashi," He said with a serious expression on his face now. "I have a feeling there's something wrong."
I looked at Akito's face. He didn't feel like he was lying and the fact that he dragged me out of my soft bed which I could still feel like it was calling me isn't something to overlook. Akito has never woken me up like this before and now we were sitting in the living room opposite each other and he was telling me this.
"What do you mean?" I asked him as a yawned.
"I can tell something is going on with Harumi, Kaori, Nakamoto, Yanagizawa and Yatogami." Akito explained.
"Us two are the only normal ones?"
"Obviously not, you have your secrets and I have mine but there's something that agitates me all the time about the others." Akito didn't seem like he was lying. "Harumi seems distressed and ever since her brother woke up from his coma she doesn't seem to have a rest. Kaori seems like she had a dark side that we don't know of and Yatogami and Nakamoto seem to hate each other but they don't show it and Yanagizawa always avoids everyone but I and that usually isn't anything that makes me suspicious but it's also the fact that anytime we are together he always seems bored like he doesn't even want to be with me."
"So you're saying…he's like that?"
"NOO! I'm not saying that!" Akito yelled.
"I'm joking." I said but my facial expression said otherwise. "Well the fact you're telling me this at three o'clock in the morning means that you think I know something about it."
"I did suspect you before but everything's suspicious ever since the second semester started." Akito explained why he felt like he did and his thoughts on the others. "I know you know something so tell me."
"Most of it isn't confirmed but they're still ideas I have deducted from my observations." I spoke as Akito listened attentively. "I don't know about the others but I'm sure of it that Kaori didn't become friends with Harumi just because of the first martial arts lesson. She's hiding something and I know she is and I think she will use Harumi."
"I thought so as well." Akito added. "Tadashi, Kaori-chan is extremely intelligent isn't she?"
"Yeah she is." I answered Akito's question.
"I have another question." Akito said. I looked at him, expecting the question. "What do you know about Yatogami?"
The questions Akito was asking almost felt like an interview. I couldn't help but feel as if Akito had brought me down here for a reason and I felt as if someone else had planned this.
"All I know is that she is extremely dangerous."
"Oh well, I guess I found out some more information." Akito sighed as he leaned back on the couch. "Tadashi, I know you're smarter than you seem so let's do things like this more often."
"Well, Akito, I underestimated your skills. I had initially thought you weren't as smart as you seemed but I was wrong." Akito looked at me as he listened to what I had to say. "You didn't talk to me on the first day because you felt like it, you knew from the start even without knowing my grades you would've found out that I was intelligent."
"You knew as well didn't you that I wasn't an idiot?"
"Yeah, I did know." We both sighed as we rested on the couch and looked up at the ceiling.
"Let's destroy everyone in these exams, Tadashi."
"Yeah, let's destroy them, Akito."
* * * * * *
I heard my phone vibrating on my nightstand. I tried to zone out the noise but its perpetuate buzzing sound resonated in my head until I finally got up and answered the call and put the phone on my ear.
"What do you want?" I asked them.
"No 'good morning'? No wonder you have bad social skills." It was Ishigami and she had already started to ridicule me so early in the morning. "I need your help."
"I need you to shut up so I can sleep peacefully." I replied. I could see her face getting enraged even though I couldn't see her.
"Please help me!" She pleaded.
"Alright fine, I'll help you but someone else is also going to join our "meetings"."
There wasn't an immediate answer as Ishigami took a moment to think.
"Who is it?" She asked sternly.
"Kishimoto Akito from my group."
"Alright then. Come to the usual meeting spot after school." She said before she hung up.
* * * * * *
I arrived at our usual meeting spot, the restaurant. Akito had come with me after I had explained to him the situation with Ishigami and he agreed to help.
"So you're Kishimoto Akito from Class A?" Ishigami said as she glared at him almost as if she was analysing him.
"And you must be Ishigami Hanako-san from Class B." Akito said with a smile.
We entered the restaurant and sat down in our usual spot. There was another person, someone both me and Akito have met before.
She was wearing the school uniform and looked at us with a smile. Her light blue eyes stared at us as we sat down. Her silky hair matched the colour of her eyes. Her face was extremely attractive and would make any man fall for her. She also wore white gloves which covered her hands.
"Yonamine-san?" Akito said.
"Kishimoto-san! You remembered me!" Yonamine exclaimed.
"So you've already met." Ishigami said. "Is it fine that I've brought Yonamine, Tsukamoto-san?"
"If you brought her then there shouldn't be a problem." I replied.
We then started our meeting. Akito and Yonamine both knew what the problem was and so we started quickly and it seems that Yonamine is more capable than I had initially thought.
"Who do you think is the spy, Yonamine-san?" I asked Yonamine and she had stopped smiling. Her face went from joyful to confused.
"Who I think the spy is?" She took a moment before saying anything as she thought thoroughly. "It has to be Matsushima-san."
"Matsushima-san?" Akito repeated in a confused tone.
"Matsushima Kazuki from Class C." Ishigami said which didn't make Akito seem any less confused. Ishigami saw that she hadn't explained anything and then explained. "He is quiet most of the time and has only a few friends."
"More friends than you?" I blurted out sarcastically.
"Tsukamoto-san…" Ishigami said as she controlled herself. "I can see why you would say that Matsushima-san is the spy as he is definitely a suspicious individual but we don't have enough proof—"
"Yonamine-san and…Ishigami-san?"
"Speak of the devil." Ishigami muttered in frustration.
"What's this?" A male around our age with dark black hair and green eyes with an average build was standing near Ishigami as he glared at us.
"A double date." Akito instantly replied as if it was a reflex.
"Ah yes! This is a double date, Matsushima-san!" Yonamine smiled sheepishly as we all stared at Matsushima.
"I'm sorry if interrupted anything." He said as he walked away. He then glared at Akito and then walked out of the restaurant.
"I see what you mean." I said, breaking the awkward silence that Matsushima left us with. "We only have a few days left."
"Well we've spoken enough for today so let's meet up again tomorrow and then make a conclusion on Saturday."
Everyone else agreed and we went back to our houses.
"That was nice, wasn't it, Tadashi-san?" Akito said as we walked back home.
"We make a good team don't we?"
"I guess we do." Akito agreed with me. "Let's get home quickly, Nakamoto-san's cooking dinner this time."
I caught a couple of silhouettes watching us in the corner of my eye. One of them was tall and slender while the other was extremely large and muscular.
They stood at the top of a building and watched us for some time before going away from the edge of the rooftop so that I couldn't see them.
* * * * * *
"So that's the so-called "Ace of Death"?" The man in front of me laughed at the sight of the man who many feared. "He looks so feeble and vulnerable!"
The man chuckled at his comments hysterically. His ignorance was laughable and caused me to smile a bit. I then stopped myself from smiling and thought about giving this ignorant bastard a lesson.
"He may look like that but a few years ago he destroyed the Institute." I told the man. The man stopped before laughing again uncontrollably.
"He destroyed all of you?!" The man laughed as he spoke. "You guys must've been seriously weak to lose to that shrimp!"
The man who was laughing took extreme pride in his strength which caused his confidence to be this great. At the age of five, he could overpower full-grown men and at the age of twelve, he overpowered a gorilla with his strength alone. The man stood at a staggering height of eight feet and had the physique of a gorilla on steroids.
I walked up to the man and kicked his knee faster than he could react which made him lose his balance. I then grabbed his arm and threw him into the ground. He then got up from the ground instantly and threw a punch at me which I dodged with ease. I then heard the sound of his punch follow after which was a natural thing to happen with people on his level. I then threw a punch similar to his speed and he dodged it and threw another punch at me which I took. The blow had only damaged me slightly. I then kicked the same leg I kicked before. The man fell to the ground and held his leg in pain.
"Faster than you can react?" The man looked at me with both fear and rage in his eye.
"I couldn't even see it you bastard." He said while he held his leg.
"You're lucky I went easy on you. I only did that to give you some understanding on how demonic that "feeble" boy is." I told the man as he had no choice but to listen. "Remember, that kid never lost against me and in each sparring match we had I could tell he never tried."
I walked to the edge of the building and gazed at the sun setting in the horizon. I then jumped down the building which was something I enjoyed. I then landed on the ground and walked away. I dusted my tuxedo before taking out my phone from my pocket. I then called someone.
"Take the big guy back." I ordered them.
"Alright." They replied before hanging up.
I walked through the streets as the cold air blew my purple hair around.
"The night begins." I muttered to myself.