That person took off the medical mask on her face before reaching for the door knob. A girl, rather tall, with long hair streaming all the way down her waist, got out of the room. Closing the door, she carefully locked it, before noticing the existence of a group of people waiting for her outside.

“You are… Ichiko-senpai? Ichiko Ayase, our new student council`s secretary!” Kyoya gasped.

“Sougo-kun…?” Ichiko was just as shock as the boy.

“You met her before?” Takumi frowned.

“Yea… I helped her with paperwork from time to time when she was still the librarian. Why are you part of the happiness club too!?”

She lowered her head, as a low but clear voice exited her throat:

“ I`m so embarrassed that you, of all people found out about this… B-But it`s… complicated… Moreover” She jumped towards Kyoya “I never thought they would go this far! I`m really scared!”

Having his hands held tightly by the girl standing less than a meter next to him, the short boy blushed. Ichiko`s pupil widened, as she followed up.

“Please help me, Sougo-kun! I don`t know what to do!”

“H-Hai! P-Please leave first, w-we will take it from here…”

“Thank you!” Ichiko Ayase nimbly turned around before darting away.

However, Takumi was faster than her. In both thoughts and actions.

(Her tone was different when she first saw us, meaning she became much less nervous after Kyoya talked about her… She knew Kyoya before, and must have noticed how shy he acted around girls… Not avoiding looks when saying that she`s embarrassed, also the pace of her speech was unnaturally calm… Her nervous act is so inconsistent it`s obvious… No doubt, she is…)

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His big hand landed on her shoulders, pulling the girl back.

“Please stop. Ayase Ichiko-senpai, you`re not very good at lying.”

“Huh?”

“Kyoya here is dumb as rocks when a girl comes closer than a meter to him. He must have missed that you are, in fact, the admin of this forum!”

“Huh?” This time, Ichiko was nervous for real.

“Am I wrong? Then tell me why did you lock the door when you came out?”

“The-The admin is someone… close to me! S-She gave me the keys, so… So I figured I`d lock it for you guys to round them up easily!”

“You`re saying that you know we`d come then? What about the fact that our student council ignored all of the reports related to pranks ever since you became the new secretary? Many people now want Chisato-senpai here to take that position again!”

Chisato Nadeshi blushed, while Ichiko Ayase grinded her teeth against eachother.

“Yea! So what, mister smart-ass douche? I, am the leader of this organization, the one controlling all those idiots inside” She ended the sentence with a sneering laugh.

“Why?”

“Because I want to be happy!” Ichiko retorted.

Everyone looked at her in bewilderment, as Takumi sighed. Calmly, he started speaking:

“If you consider happiness as actual matter, then there always exists a constant amount of it in the world. Only sentient creatures would be able to feel, or own happiness. So if less people were happy, there would be more happiness left for you, it that correct?”

“Heh. Exactly. I`m impressed, Nishimura.”

“I simply blurted out the most stupid explanation I could think of.”

“Ahaha… That`s mean.” Her face sunk “But, isn`t that true? In the process of achieving happiness, one is certain to destroy another`s. I`m just consciously doing what other does subconsciously.” She smiled, as he voice rose higher ”And that`s how I became happy!”

“My eyes are rolling here” Endou said.

“That`s such a pessimistic kind of optimism” Kirishima frowned.

Behind them, Takumi`s face couldn`t be more disgusted. He clenched his fist, but then took a deep breath and sniggered:

“You lot of small animals are really the same.” His tone totally changed.

“Hou? Small animals? What if I say small animals can do this?”

Ichiko took out a remote, pointing it at the building. A series of small explosions could be heard, before raging flames burst out from the building.

Everyone but the Ichiko panicked, and started banging frantically on the entrances. The arsonist quickly ran away, laughing, as the screams of her trapped victims echoed through the night.