Ren Manami was a top-grade student at Yamabuki High School in Shinjuku, Japan.
He was one of the few most respected people in this area. Ren was always popular. He was also always praised for his intelligence, nice looks, kindness, and modesty, which made him different than all the big-looking snobs around him. From the outside, Ren was the perfect imaged man for every woman. With a fine body, expressive brown eyes and long but well-made hair. And the perfect idol for every man. But no one ever thought about what goes around in his head. In reality, Ren had always thought of himself as something bigger and more than anyone else.
Ren had the confidence of a psychologist, which had always made him want to use people in a way no one noticed it. That confidence is not something which came out of nowhere though.
Ren's intelligence, reasoning, and deductive skills had always helped him analyze people and his surroundings in a fast manner. His mentality was never the one of a normal 18-year old high schooler. And of course... No one knew of this real ''identity'' of Rens.
It's the last year of high school. Despite his popularity, Ren didn't have many friends he could speak clearly with. His only reason not to be bored at school was thanks to his best friend - Fukuda Shin. Even Fukuda had never fully understood Ren's personality. Regardless of their 3 years of high school together. The only reason Ren could conversate normally with Fukuda was that he was the closest to Ren's intelligence level. Both of them, best friends and at the top of their school. Fukuda was the always hard working kind. He was also nice, likable and the one girls would fall for. Most people couldn't tell how smart he was because of his messy hairstyle, messy clothes and funny personality.
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And of course, every school has that pair of delinquents, which is always searching for a way to get into a fight or make someone feel bad. Here come Furushima and Ken. No one really liked them. They always had bad marks and bad manners. But sometimes they knew how to make people laugh. Everyone has a little bit of good inside, right?
In a warm evening, all of the mentioned until now had a class together. As usual, Ren was just complaining to Fukuda about how nothing interesting ever happens. "Why is this place always so boring...?" and Fukuda as usually replied with a question as well. "What interesting thing can happen at school anyway?". Ren almost fell asleep when he overheard.
"Hey teach! I'm thinking about going to Waseda University, what do you think?" that was Furushima joking around with the classroom teacher again. "Ha! If you and Ken get even half the points on your upcoming exam, I'd commit suicide. Don't be funny." That was the reply of Mizumi Kanaha, the classroom teacher. No one really paid attention to the disturbing bet Furushima, Ken and the teacher took. Except for Ren. "Oi, Fukuda, did you hear that?".
Fukuda answered with a yes when Ren suddenly continued his speech. "Do you want to have fun? Let's risk our studies and lecture Fukushima and Ken, I'd love to see Kanaha-sensei's reaction." Fukuda was weirded out by Ren's strange request but still agreed. "Sure, it may be the fun thing we were looking for..." Both of them met the infamous delinquents after school who anyway looked desperate for help and asked them whether they wanted to win that bet. "Of course we do! Thank you so much, guys! Um... Not that we need you actually, but we'd appreciate some help."
A few months passed since that deal and the scores had already been leaked.
After the astonishing 100%, Furushima and Ken had on their exam, the teacher went missing for 3 days. Nobody really noticed that except for Fukuda who reminded Ren about the bet.
Both of them got a shiver down their spine. Especially Ren after Fukuda saying
"You don't think that..."