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~Prologue~
~All I Want Is Ice Cream~

After a long morning pacing around arms outstretched, it was nice to have a seat and give his muscles some time to relax while he wiped chalk dust from underneath his fingernails. It was already late spring and summer was fast approaching. June was right around the corner. With the students growing restless, it seemed that an era had gone by from January to May, and Kaito Shion agreed with himself that the year simply could not go by any faster.

The day had already taken a down turn at the announcement of the upcoming field trip. Although he hadn't meant to, Kaito had included with the day's handouts the flyer he had intended to distribute at the end of class. And so, for two hours they had done nothing but chatter endlessly about this and that and whatever other insignificant blah-blah they felt the need to draw attention to. Talk about unproductive. He still had to make up for the last of the hours they had lost over the argument of BUS SEATING of all things.

And now, after a long morning spent straining his voice to be heard over uncooperative students, he was going to bury his anguish in delicious ice cream. Humming cheerfully to himself, he stooped down under his desk and opened the mini freezer he stowed, asking himself, "What flavor should I have today?" While in anticipatory delight, a young girl sitting in the front row spotted a bee sailing through the open window.

"UWAH! WHOA! A BEE! A BEE!"

"W-WHAT? WHERE? WHERE?"

"KILL IIIIIT! I'M SCARED OF BEES!"

"I'M ALLERGIC TO BEES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!"

"Uoh!" The book came crashing hard at the offending insect, batting it to the side some ways. Everyone in the room slid into the opposite most corner. But the buzzing menace was far from finished. It came around a table leg and zoomed straight at the enemy.

There was barely any margin to pay for that simple mistake. His opponent had, in the time it had taken for him to reorient himself, picked up a second book. For that he had nearly been crushed. With a rebel yell drowned out by the roaring of his wings the bee rolled away from a pre-emptive swipe and swung up to the target's face. Feet! Inches! Centimeters! And then—

"KAMIKAZE~!"

Ducking to evade, the girl took advantage of the bee's carelessness and vaulted off of a desk, books in both hands. From her throat tore a proud and wrathful howl. It was an honorable loss, the bee reflected happily, closing its eyes and flying straight ahead as fast as its wings would take it. Pulling her left arm back and bracing herself to land on the heavy desk in front of her, the victorious beast struck with all of her might.

SMACK!

Crisp, clean and clear against in his face like a meteor, Kaito fell to the floor in silence. There was a great thud as his falling body upturned his rolling chair. Everyone was breathing heavily.

"Is it... dead...?"

Kaito's hand shot up into the air, shocking the students into hysteria, clasped the edge of the table and plied the rest of himself up off of the floor. On his swollen red face was an indistinguishable lump, the fallen bee. He felt cold, and realized immediately that he was covered in chocolate frozen yogurt. His temple throbbed angrily. A low growl reverberated throughout the room as he turned his attention to the young girl wielding an emergency bee shield labeled "Poems for the Soul" in her right hand.

"Ka~..."

Sweat rolled down Teto's face. Her red twin pig tails flattened apologetically. "C-crap..."

"KASANEEEEEEE~!"