Chapter 17: #17 After the Trial
"How did the trial end?!" Hirata quickly came to Horikita and asked her.
"...we won" She said with a complex expression, perhaps she was too confused why class C withdrew the complaint.
"That's great! Sudo-kun won't be expelled" Kushida said aloud with a bright smile.
"But why the long face, Horikita-san?" Hirata asked her with a worried expression.
"It's nothing...I am just a little confused" Horikita said and started to stare out of the window.
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I was walking around the school grounds without any destination. I still didn't explore it entirely, after all, it is an extremely large school. My phone vibrated a few times so I took it out and saw a new message from Matsushita.
'I am still waiting for that invitation to lunch :P'
Crap, I almost forgot about it...
'How about we meet up on the roof tomorrow during the lunch break? Is that ok with you?' I sent the message and it started to rain. I am really unlucky.
I hid under some random roof and then looked at what Matsushita sent me as a reply to my idea.
'You know, I thought that you will buy me a meal in the cafeteria...'
Well, I don't want to spend my points on useless things plus I think that my homemade food won't lose out to the food from the cafeteria.
'I will bring some homemade food with me so you won't have to pay for anything, isn't that enough?'
Nice, the rain is getting heavier and I won't make it to the dorms without getting soaking wet now.
'Homemade food? Will I survive this lunch?' When I read her reply, a vein appeared on my forehead and I almost crushed the phone in my hand.
'Haha, you are really funny Chiaki-chan, but if you send me one more message of similar type I might as well make it so that you won't survive :)' I sent the message and not even after 6 seconds I got a reply.
'Dont call melike thatt!' I guess she was frustrated when she was typing that. She couldn't even type it correctly. I put my phone back into my pocket.
*sigh* What now? I don't really want to wait here until the rain stops. I guess I will just continue with exploring the school grounds without an umbrella. It's not like I could go and get it from my room, by that time I would already get soaking wet so the best way is to simply ignore it. There is no reason to fear the water plus I like rain anyway, it always helps me clear my mind and think of hard things. A lot of people tell that rain represents depressive emotions but I don't think so. I think that it represents life, after all, our bodies are mostly water, without the water, nothing would exist.
I continued exploring the school grounds, however, after traveling a distance of a few hundred meters, I happened to see a relatively big group of people, of course, all of them had an umbrella.
Am I really the only one who doesn't have one?
Since I was curious about what they were doing, I approached them and noticed that they were people from class C and class A. Really strange combination if you ask me. Sakayanagi and Ryuen were also present. Both sides look like they are ready for any unexpected situation.
"Playing a queen of the school already huh?" Ryuen said with a light laugh.
"That was hardly my intent" Sakayanagi just smiled and said without paying any intention to Ryuen provocative laugh.
"I am gonna crush class D, then-" I was able to hear few sentences before they noticed my presence. Well, it wasn't like I was trying to hide anyway. I didn't really care about the animosity or conversation between them but the last thing Ryuen said before he stopped talking really intrigued me.
Crush class D huh? Hehe, you can try.
"Oh? Walker-kun, I didn't notice you, it's good to see you again." Sakayanagi playfully smiled upon noticing my presence.
"Yeah, it's good to see you too" I answered her politely.
"What are you doing here anyway?" She asked me.
"Nothing much, just wandering around the school grounds"
"Without an umbrella? Do you want to borrow one from me?" When she heard my answer she looked at me with a confused expression, after all, who would be walking around in the rain without an umbrella. An ordinary person can catch a cold really easily but I am anything but ordinary after living in the wildness for years.
I really wonder why Sakayanagi has 2 umbrellas but I guess there is no meaning in thinking about it. Well, I don't think that there is any need for the umbrella since I am already soaking wet but I guess I should accept not to appear as a weird person, however, I guess they already think of me as weirdo since I said that I was walking around without the umbrella.
"Thank you, Sakayanagi-san" I nodded with a smile and went to their group, however, I was stopped by Ryuen's group who had been only listening to my conversation with Sakayanagi until now.
"We meet again. I heard you participated in the trial today and that the student council president requested you to remain there after the trial ended"
"Hmm? What about it?"
"I want to know why did he want you to remain there? It sounds quite absurd that the student council president requested for the student from class D to remain" (Ryuen)
"And don't you want to also know my amount of points? I don't see any reason for me to tell you the contents of my private conversations"
"You know, there are no security cameras in the vicinity. Do you know what does that means?" Ryuen narrowed his eyes and threatened me.
"That I can beat you up and I won't face any punishment?" I asked with a silly smile and I could already see high kick aiming for my head. I dodged it and retreated a few meters to the back.
"Heh, can't you take a small joke?" I asked him in a playful manner.
"As I thought, you are good" Ryuen said with an excited smile.
"Stop it Ryuen or do you think that we can't record you using violence against the fellow student?" Sakayanagi tried to help me but I couldn't understand a reason behind it.
"Oh? So the queen has already found her king?" Ryuen asked with a provocative smile.
"Are you perhaps jealous?" Instead of declining his questions, Sakayanagi played along and tried to irritate him.
"Jealous? Instead of being jealous, I quite pity him" Ryuen said and looked at her small body with disinterest.
"Well...I think I better go my way now" I didn't want to spend any more time in this situation where people are using sexual insults.
"Wait! I have one more question for you, Walker-kun" Sakayanagi said and I started to fear what kind of question it is. I just hope she won't ask me if I agree with Ryuen's statement.
"What about the umbrella?" She asked me and I sighed in relief.
"It's ok, I am already soaking wet so it doesn't really matter, see you later" I wanted to leave them, however, I stopped for a second when I heard Ryuen's voice
"Walker, I know that someone from your class made 3 students from my class betray me. Even after "asking" them they didn't tell me anything. I am going to find that person and crush him!"
"Hmm? Why are you telling me this anyway? Do you want me to warn my class in advance?" I asked him but I didn't even wait for his answer before leaving.
I should visit the convenience store on my way to the dorms, I will have to make something special since I gave Matsushita my word.
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