'Don't you want to know why everything happened strangely?'

'Ivy, you know the reason, don’t you!?? Now! Tell me what they did! Right now!!' He grabs me by the collar.

I sigh, 'You grab my collar like this, how can I say?'

He unleashes my collar. I smirked and took a step forward, ‘Tonight at 8:30 pm, come to the old gymnasium, I'll tell you.'

He can't help his anger because the answer he wants is not unveiled. He rushes towards me, but I dodge to the side, making him fall prone. I pull up a chair nearby, sit down, cross my legs, put my chin on my hand. I say, ‘I won't reveal it until tonight. For now, I can only tell you that I am the one who made the deal with them.’

‘You're in them?’ he scowls.

‘No. I just take the money and do what we contract’ I shake my head.

‘How much did they give you? I pay double that! I want to see them suffer a slow and agonizing death’. He angrily cries and accuses his classmates, ‘The first time I stepped into that class, I got low grades, they teased me. When they knew I’m the principal's child, they bullied me into exposing the exam answer sheet to them. They threatened me. Every day I had to feed them money. You know…that time I can’t stand anymore…’

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‘Do you want revenge? I'll help you.’ I smile and say while he is looking at me with choked eyes and full of doubt, ‘I don't need your money. As long as you show me your performance and create a marvelous play.’

‘First, look through the paper and follow the instructions here. See you at 8:30 tonight!’ I give him the paper and go back to the classroom.

At 8:30 p.m, at the old gymnasium, the main door opens, and the navel of the universe finally arrives. He walks up to me with a very serious face, ‘As agreed in the morning, tell me now.’

‘Tell what?’, I looked away idly.

My ignorance causes his face to darken. He runs over and grabs me by the collar, and yells, ‘You want to play with fire, Ivy? I could kill you here right now.'

He pulls out his paper knife from his jacket pocket and boasts it in front of me, ‘Ivy, I have no patience. Say it now! Aren't you afraid of me killing you? Your calm expression disgusts me! You know!’

Yes! His emotion at the moment is the thing I desire to see. It makes me more excited than ever. I snigger, ‘So let's see... whether you can kill me or not’.

Suddenly, he looks around and freaks out. His hands tremble that the knife in his hands falls down on the floor. My collar is loosened. I step back and look at his fear. His face turned pale as if he saw ghosts. But it’s nearly true. From the darkness, the eyes flashed like wild beasts watching their prey in front of them. Everything is so terrified that he didn't move while they slowly approached, getting closer to the weapons in their hands. Getting closer and closer…