"The only thing I know about her is that she's a girl, you have at least ¾ of your class with her and she's a martial art master." Kaito counted with his fingers as he talked, "And she's a genius, nothing else."

"Don't talk like I don't know that already." Len sighed, "Are you completely sure you cannot find anything of her with that useless computer of yours?"

"Nothing," Kaito replied, "And my computer is not useless."

"I am not interested in your arguments and would be very glad if you would continue trying to search for more of her data." Len answered back.

Kaito sighed, the son of the Yakuza, getting rebuked by a kid shorter than him. This was a humiliation that Kaito's father better not know about. But then, Kaito was sometimes spooked out by Len, his way of talking generally had that effect on people. Throughout the whole school day, Len's knowledge has proven himself a talented adolescent. And one you would not try to offend.

To Kaito, Len looked like he was in a bad mood, and his lack of speed in finding information is definitely doing little to improve it. But actually, this was just Len's daily pessimism. Beneath Len's word were excitement.

Len needed to acquire more knowledge about Rin. He has never in his life found another human that would interest him in every way. A person's brain, thoughts, ability, way of epistemology, everything of her was so fascinating.

"Lenny~"

Len almost delivered a roundhouse kick to Tei, although he was tempted to do just that. The same goes for Kaito, who almost slammed his laptop's keyboard when hearing Tei's voice.

"What'cha doing?" Tei asked.

"It's none of your business." Len replied without any emotion.

"Oh, come one." Tei said flightily. "Let's eat dinner tonight!"

"I refuse to go to your dinner, and would you mind, we're busy here." Len answered, annoyed. "And do not use your strange tone on me. It is incredibly annoying."

"Isn't it impolite to decline a lady's invitation?" Tei asked.

"Yes it is. But to me, you are not a lady. And believe me, there are no chances for you to become a lady in the future." Len said sternly, "So, please, we have work to do. I am now kindly asking you to leave us alone."

"Would you please keep quiet, I'm reading."

Len recognized that voice immediately, even if he has only heard it for a few times.

Kagamine Rin was also in this library.

"You have a problem with me?" Tei glared at Rin.

"Yes I do." Rin replied, "Your sounds are disturbing me."

"Oh, shut up, Chinese." Tei shouted, "Open your eyes already. And please, you think you're so clever, aren't you? Everything about you is so annoying, your face, your ribbon, your name. Especially your name, what was it again? Car…Kane...mine-"

Rin shook her head and sighed, "First of all, I am Japanese. Second, my eyes are already open, as you can see. Third, you do understand that was racial discrimination, right? Fourth, my name is Kagamine Rin, why don't you read it with me KA-GA-MI-NE RIN, there's a difference between 'N', 'M', 'C', 'K' and 'R'. Even Mary Bell knew the difference between 'N' and 'M'."

No one knew what in Earth she was talking about. Except Len.

After the last sentence, you could hear Len chuckling a bit about it. This was not something everyone would know.

And of course, Rin didn't expect that to happened, she had thought no one would know what she was talking about. And so, she was actually quite glad to hear someone understanding her choice of words.

"You remember this, Rin," Tei gritted her teeth, "You'll regret it."

"Don't you know having feelings of regret isn't good for mental health?" Rin smiled.

Tei left the building with rage after glaring at Rin a few more times.

"Thank you for getting rid of her." Len quickly said, "She was quite aggravating. And here I thought Darwin said everything evolves."

Rin covered her mouth to hide that little laughter coming out of her mouth. But Len saw it; she was like a normal girl laughing at a normal joke. Yet, she laughed so gracefully and elegantly that Len was sure no girl could be like her.

"It's an honor to meet you, Len Strife." Rin smiled at him and held out her hands.

"You too," Len shook her hands.

The moment their hands touched, Kaito was sure he felt something cold down his spine, he didn't know what that feeling was, but he was sure it came from Rin and Len. They were like a mixture of rival and friend.

Then Rin looked over to Kaito… and the laptop.

"Erm…we're searching for…things." Kaito tried his best to come up with something. He can't just tell her that their looking for her data.

"We're searching for Gakupo's data." Len told Rin with a smile, "There's something about him that we have to know. But we couldn't find any of his information."

Rin smiled sweetly, "I've already searched for his data after school. His information was protected very well, so it was pretty hard to get."

Even though Len had also searched for his teacher's data, he wondered if Rin's source of information was the same as his, by hacking into the FBI. "So, would you tell me?"

"Of course," Rin nodded, "His original name was Kamui Gackt. He was a former member of the Mafia, Venomania. He was the consigliere of the family and the best friend of the don (Boss). He was famous for all his works and the police have been trying to get him since ten years ago. But ever since the 'Empress's Heart' incident, when the police had been busy with the case, Gakupo managed to flee from them and moved here. How he hasn't get caught, that I don't know."

It was the same information that Len had.

"The Empress's what?" Kaito asked dumbly at the back.

At the same time, Rin and Len rolled their eyes, thinking the same thing: How could he not know about it? But then, for these two geniuses, people with lower IQ must have annoyed them very much.

"It was a famous jade in China, and it was worth seventy-six thousand American dollars." Len said. "If it hasn't been stolen, its price would have been at least a hundred and two thousand now."

"It was stolen by the famous phantom thief at Christmas in the year 2016." Rin continued Len's words, "There was no name for the phantom thief, except for the name given to her because of the flower she always brings with her."

"And so, they gave her the name Lily." Len proceeded, "She had stolen seven jewelry, two crowns, five scrolls, one ancient book and eleven arts, including Mona Lisa's Smile and Las Meninas. Even though catching her was the priorities of all police, she had at least half a million fans all over the world."

"But then, after she stole the 'Empress's Heart', she vanished and was never seen again. Police conducted searches all over China to look for her. But she has disappeared with all the arts she had stolen." Rin finished.

Kaito looked at the identical boy and girl, "Do you two share a mind or something?"

Len looked at Rin, Rin looked at Len.

"It has been a long time since I could talk like this," Rin smiled, "To have someone with the same knowledge I have was quite an experience. Its tea time now, care to join me for a chat and some desserts?"

"Of course," Len replied, "Would you mind if I treat you to some brioche and jasmine tea?"

"You are quite the gentleman." Rin said, "But I prefer herbal tea, thank you."

As the two walked out of the library, Kaito sighed.

It has only been a day Rin and Len has meet each other, and already they're going on a date, Kaito thought to himself.


On the table lay a cup of jasmine tea and herbal tea. Each accompanied with a dessert. A girl and a boy sat there as they ate their brioche and enjoyed their conversation. To people who sat far away from them, they looked like a couple talking romantically. To people who sat where is nearer to them…they're probably having problems understanding what the two are talking about.

"What do you do in your free time?" Rin asked the boy sitting in front of her, "You don't look like you spend your time on video games like the other boys."

"Video games are for kids," Len smiled confidently, "I like to spend my time on looking at the stock prices. But most of the time, I read."

"Looks like we have the same hobby," Rin asked again. "Any favorite books?"

"The Black Requiem series, the Stolen Lullaby series and the Ghost Capriccio series, all by the author Alexander Des." Len replied, "His stories are all full of tragic and they have the best plot ever. Too bad it wasn't famous."

"If so," Rin looked at him, "We have the same favorite author too. But I prefer the Evil Symphony series than the Stolen Lullaby series."

"Oh, the story of the broken twins." Len smiled, "I like that, but the plot was quite easy compared to the other series, possibly everyone could've guessed the ending."

"Not everyone, only those people with high IQ," Rin said, "Like you."

"Oh, definitely not," Len smiled, "You must've guessed the ending too, didn't you?"

"Of course," Rin said, "It wasn't Riliane who ordered to kill Michaela, but Ney. Wasn't it?"

"Correct," Len replied. "What's your favorite poem?"

"Well…" Rin thought for a while, and then said, "LOVELESS."

The two went on for hours and hours until the sunset was in the sky. They had never talked to someone for such a long time in their whole lives, Rin's longest record for talking continuously was 27 minutes; while Len's longest record was 14 minutes.

But the two had talk for three hours this time.

By the time they realized how long they have talked, it was already seven.

"I have to go now." Len smiled to Rin, "It was nice talking to you."

"My pleasure." Rin nodded at him and went off, "See you tomorrow."

After Rin went off, that was when Len noticed the vase placed on the little corner of the table.

There was a lily in there.


Mary Bell was a ten year old killer who carved an N into the victim's skin, but later changed into an M. Which explained why Rin said Mary Bell knew the difference between N and M.

Charles Darwin was the one who found out that everything evolves slowly throughout the million years.

The poem LOVELESS is a actually a famous poem from Final Fantasy VII.

And yes, the word 'Strife' came from Cloud Strife, also from Final Fantasy VII.