CHAPTER 1

A cobbled stone path, flowers that has found their ways growing in between this stones, trees along the path, it gives off the feeling of being welcomed and at home.

Lilian School, a Catholic school founded in 1901, is depicted as an elegant, clean, pure, and very prestigious institution. Among the facilities of Lillian, aside from the classrooms, there is a church, a greenhouse, a kendo dojo, an auditorium, a park, and the Rose Mansion, where theYamayuri Council meet.

Speaking of Yamayuri Council...

"Shima-"

"Yoshino-san."

"Eh?"

"-giggles- She mean to tell you, Yuu-kun that you can, or I mean, you are oblige to call each of as with our names. That's actually an untold rule here, though you must still add honorifics at the end."

"I'm not use to it, but I'll try. Shi- I mean Yoshino-san, Rei-san we're we headed right now?"

"We're headed toward the Rose Mansion. It is some sort of a meetjng place for student council members." Yoshino-san said. "Yamayuri Council is what the student council here is called. Itself consists of three offices, named after roses: Rosa Foetida, Rosa Gigantea, and Rosa Chinensis. These are also referred to by their colors; the Yellow Rose is Rosa Foetida, the White Rose is Rosa Gigantea, and the Red Rose is Rosa Chinensis."

So engross in our conversation we didn't notice we already arrive in front of the Rose Mansion.

"Welcome to the Rose Mansion, Yuu-san." Rei-san said with a smile as he opened the door for us. "Though it's called a mansion, it's actually a small building, roughly half the size of a classroom, taking up floor space in the corner of the courtyard for high school buildings. However, being an independent building used solely by the student council and, with the aid of its wooden two-story appearance, it became known as a mansion."

'It's marvelous and it gives the feeling of home.'

It is comprised of two floors. A storage room on the first and a meeting room on the second. When entering the Rose Mansion, there is a door on the right leading to the storage room and a steep staircase on the left.

As we ascend up the stairs it made a squeaky noise, apparently it is an old mansion, maybe older that Lilian itself.

At the top of the stairs, as you reach the second floor, is a big stained-glass window. The meeting room is to the right, through a "biscuit-shaped" door. There is a door plate hanging from the knob that says, "Please be quiet, in a meeting."

The walls and floors are made of wooden boards that are worn. The meeting room is half the size of a classroom, and all the walls, except for the one adjacent to the hallway, has wooden-framed bay windows. Clean cotton curtains adorn each and are fastened with a thin ribbon. The entire building probably could only fit fifty people at once.

As I muse the beauty of this place I suddenly hear a coughing sound.

"We take it the place is to your liking, pretty boy."

There in the middle a long oval table sits in the center of the room that seats up to eight people... and five people there are.

The one who spoke has a Caucasian-like face, a blond hair with blue eyes to go with that handsome face. I knew pretty well that face and that voice that holds mirth in its tone. A living hell awaits wherever he is.

"Yo, pretty boy haven't seen you for -how many years again?" Sei-nii-sama stands and walks towards me with open arms. "Come here. I wanna hug my baby brother." reluctant as I am I can't afford to not oblige to his demands.

"Little brother?!"