Yuki returned to her classroom after fleeing from roof. She was anxious about what happened and worried over what may happen from now on.

At the end of the school day, Yuki walked alongside with Rume, who spoke about several topics. As They reached the building’s gate, four boys wearing a different uniform from theirs stood there. Yuki shivered as she noticed that their uniforms resembled one of the delinquent’s on the day before. Instinctively, she hid inside the building.

“So what do you think, Yuki.” Rume asked, not noticing that Yuki was no longer besides her.

When she didn’t get a response, she turned to look, but there was no one there.

After a quick pause, she turned back to look for Yuki, thinking she lost her on the way. Moments later, she saw her standing behind the front gate, sneaking peeks at the boys down the road.

“What are you doing, Yuki?”.

Yuki jerked up a bit. Seeing it was just Rume, a sigh of relief passed her lips. “Nothing, I just forgot something.”

“Then why are you hiding?”

“Eh? I am not hiding.”

Yuki could see the doubt in her eyes. As she was about to say something else, a boy walked besides them.

He was walking toward the main gate where the boys were standing and waiting. As he drew near, they stood in his way. She saw them talk to each other for a moment, before the boy eventually follow them, heading to the school backyard.

“Let’s go, Rume!”

“Eh! Ah, Wait, Yuki. Did you see that?”

Reading on Amazon or a pirate site? This novel is from Royal Road. Support the author by reading it there.

“I didn’t see anything. Rume, let’s go!” she shouted.

Rume wondered why Yuki was acting strangely since the moment she saw Aries back then in the cafeteria. She was more eager to find out and figured she would get her answers by following them. After a thought, she said, “Wait here Yuki, I will be back!”

Yuki startled. “No, Don’t go, Rume! It’s not safe.”

Rume was startled. Why was Yuki so scared? Tying comfort her with smile, she said, “Don’t worry about me. You know how strong I am!”

Yuki tried to stop Rume from going, but she didn’t listen to her, and so Rume followed them to the backyard where her confidence was shattered down by what she saw there.

While she was almost to the backyard, she moved slowly, trying to sneak a peek, she heard bumping sounds. She had the thought that Aries was being beaten up.

When she reached the edge of the wall she looked to see all but one of the boys on the ground, hurt while that one was near to the fence. He was crawling on the ground trying to flee but what shocked her was that Aries did not seem hurt at all.

“What happened here?” she wondered. “Did Aries alone beat all of those boys? How?”

While she was panicked thinking what to do next, she found Aries taking action. He moved towards the remaining boy crawling on the ground.“What is he…?”

Before her thoughts could go any further, Aries lifted him to the air with one hand, the boy screamed saying, “Please, spare me. It wasn’t my idea!”

Aries smirked and said, “if it were you, would you have spared me?”

The boy was anguished. He tried to release himself from Aries hand, but it didn’t budge.

In the same time Rume was shocked. “Eh! How come with his fragile body he is able to do that? Is he even human!”

Aries threw the boy onto the fence and pushed hard. One could hear a crunching sound. Rume panicked. Shocked by what she saw, she fled back to Yuki and grabbed hers wrist as she ran out off the school campus.

After a while, Yuki wasn’t able to keep up with her pace., “Wait Rume!”, she gasped, her breath ragged.

“What happened back there?”

Rume paused for a bit and said, “I don’t know!”

Yuki didn’t believe her and pushed, “Did you see something unbelievable?”

Rume turned looked back and Yuki with wide eyes.“ Yuki is that why you was acting strange? You knew?”

Yuki said with hustle, “No! It’s...”, she paused for a bit, and looked down, “It’s just a hunch”

Rume saw Yuki’s reaction, she decided to not further push her.

“Don’t worry it’s nothing, let’s go.”

Suddenly they could hear a voice saying, “Hey, running isn’t a good thing!”