"Zero~ wake up."

Zero grunted. He shooed the voice away. Suddenly, the owner of the voice was poking and nudging him.

He opened his eyes. The Chairman was leaning over him in a fatherly manner. "Good morning Zero!"

Zero stared intensely at him. The Chairman flinched and took a few steps backwards. "Seriously, you have to stop skipping classes. As much as I know your condition, I may have to remind you that you are still a student. You insisted that I have no need to transfer you in the night class so I let you stay with your current one. I have to impose on you the rules of this school when needed." Then the friendly smile came back. "So~ hurry up and get ready for school." The Chairman left before Zero could react.

During the start of the morning class was the only time that Zero found out that Yuri was seated next to him. Since he skipped class last time, this was the first time that he sat next to her. A considerable amount of space was kept between them. For some reason, her blonde hair was glittered against the morning light that passed through the window. Zero stared. 'So she only ties her hair up during guardian duty.'

"Why are you looking?" asked Yuri.

"Huh?" Zero was confused. 'What?'

"You've been looking at me since class has started. Stop doing that."

"Well, it's your fault and that weird hair colour of yours."

"It's not like I begged to be seated next to you. The Chairman himself assigned this seat to me. Of course you wouldn't know because you were skipping classes."

Zero gripped his pen tighter and glared at her with more intensity. 'This girl…'

Then Yuri looked like she remembered something. She cast a swift glance at the current teacher then moved closer to Zero. Pointing her pen towards his notebook, she continued the conversation. "About hair colours, I don't want to hear such remarks from you."

Then she flipped some of the pages in her book and said, "According to this phrase, if you replace the value of y with this equation, you get the same value with the first equation. Did you get it?"

Puzzled, Zero looked at her. 'What on earth is she talking about?'

Just then, the teacher spoke to them. "Ms. Sakurai, it's a good thing you have been monitoring on him. Keep up the good work."

Yuri smiled brightly and nodded. After the teacher left, she slid away from Zero to her seat. "Stop bringing down my reputation. If you want to get scolded, then don't include me."

Zero was about to answer back but for some reason, he can't say anything offensive to her. 'I'm just stressed out. I'll just ignore this one for now.'

During lunch break, a lot of day class boys were tailing her. The day class girls were somewhat attached to her. The manner that the day class students react around her is alike to the reactions that they have when they see a night class student.

Zero and Yuri were taking a break from their nightly guardian duties. Yuri was sitting on the floor and Zero was leaning on the fence.

Zero glanced at Yuri. "You… you're not really a vampire?"

Yuri sighed. "You really are bored, Zero. Don't you have anything else to worry about?"

Zero folded his arms. His grey eyes glared at her. "As long as they exist, I will continue to hunt down each one of them."

Yuri stood up and inspected her uniform for dirt. She looked at Zero and said, "To clear your doubts about me, I'll let you run any test." She took one step closer. "Any kind of test that will end this useless debate."

Zero gulped. 'This girl, she's not ordinary that's what I can tell. For her to be able to intimidate me… No! This isn't not the time for those things. Test? What kind of test should I give her?' Then he remembered his thoughts from last night and on impulse, his hands touched the side of the coat where he hid the Bloody Rose.

It was as if Yuri was reading his thoughts when she said, "I remember something that the Chairman told me. Your gun, Bloody Rose, can only hurt or kill vampires. Would you like to test it out?"

Zero nodded as he took it out. "I'll just aim it at your arm. Don't worry; this'll just be a graze, if you are a vampire."

Yuri giggled. "We'll know about that."

As Zero pulled the trigger, the sound of the shot resounded in the cold, quiet night. The night class students continued their lesson as if nothing happened, thanks to the newly-installed sound proof glass windows.

Zero froze. His face was gaping in shock at what he saw. Yuri was clutching her arm but what came out of the injured part wasn't blood but some kind of yellow liquid.

Exactly below her arm were shattered glass-like pieces of flesh.

Yuri grimaced, trying to ignore the stinging pain. "I told you I'm not a vampire but I'm not exactly human either."