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It was 7:55 a.m. on a Saturday morning in the Shibuya District of Tokyo, Japan. Our favorite narcissist sat in his desk at the newly resurrected SPR office. It was only five minutes until the SPR office was open for business for the first time in an entire year.

Oliver sat at his desk highlighting some things on a printed sheet of paper, when he heard the main office to open and then close. 'Looks like Lin is here.' Oliver thought to himself.

Without taking his eyes of the paper, he slowly stood, picking up the paper. He walked to his office door. As he opened the door, he looked over the paper one last time making sure he didn't forget anything. "Lin, I found some sources you could- Ma-Taniyama-san!" Oliver almost addressed Mai with her first name out of shock, but quickly covered it up.

Mai, who had just finished hanging up her coat on the coat rack by the door, glared. "What?" She snapped. She was, by no means, in a good mood. Not only was it still relatively early in the morning, she was working for Oliver once again. Someone who she promised herself to never interact with-let alone work for-again. So much for that promise.

"What are you doing here?" Oliver questioned still slightly wide-eyed from shock. He couldn't believe this, it wasn't even 8 o'clock yet! He honestly couldn't remember a time when Mai actually came to work on time, let alone early!

"What do you mean 'what are you doing here'? Obviously I'm here to work or is that not what we agreed, Shibuya-san?" Mai hissed.

Oliver admitted to himself that his previous inquiry was rather stupid, but he would never let anyone know that. So he covered it up with his narcissistic attitude. He crossed his arms, "Good. I was just checking considering you history of forgetting the most simplest of tasks. Now get to work!" He glared at her, but before Mai could even think of a reply, Oliver barked orders at her. "Those boxes over there need to be unpacked. Despite your forgetfulness, I am sure you remember where everything goes." He said considering how much time she used to spend at the office. "Also, a couple of those boxes have Lin's name on it- just put those in his office."

Mai huffed, looking like she wanted to retort, but her judgment got the better of her. So she marched towards the boxes muttering things like "Stupid jerk!" to herself.

Oliver looked over at the pile of boxes. He couldn't remember having that much stuff in the office. Though, all those boxes contained files, books, office supplies, and other necessities. All the furniture was already set up like how it was a year ago.

Oliver then heard a soft jingling of the bell that hung on the main door. He looked to see Lin opening the door and closing it behind him. When Lin saw Mai, he gave a confused expression.

Lin looked at Mai, who walked past the two carrying a box into Lin's office. Lin lifted his arm and pulled back his sleeve to look at his watch. Once again he looked at Mai and then back to his watch. Then at Oliver. "Is my watch wrong?" Lin asked still confused.

Oliver understood his confusion. "Actually, no." After all, neither of them remembered Mai being this responsible. Oliver was somewhat pleased with this change. The two of them looked at Mai with recognition.


A couple hours later, Oliver sat in his desk once again. He was looking over the chemistry text book he had received the day before. Though he had no interest in it, he had nothing better to do. The current cased had only just started and because of that there wasn't much to do concerning it. He had even unpacked his office already.

He sighed as he closed the book and set it down on his desk. 'I wonder if Mai is done unpacking everything yet…' Oliver thought.

There was a knock on the door. "Come in." Oliver said as his eyes flickered to the door. Oliver felt slightly disappointed when he saw Lin enter his office and close the door behind him. Lin walked up to Oliver's desk. "Here's what I've found so far on one of the sources you gave me." He said he handed Oliver a small packet of papers.

"Good, I'll look over them." Oliver said as he flipped through the pages.

Lin was about turn and leave, but then he saw the chemistry textbook. This reminded him of something.

Oliver looked up as he noticed Lin was not leaving. "Is there something else you want?" Oliver said impatiently.

Lin smirked. "I heard from Taniyama that you managed to get into all of her classes."

"And?" Oliver glared not liking where this was going.

Lin was unfazed by Oliver's glares, just like always, and continued to smirk. "Most would call that stalking, you know?"

Oliver's glare hardened. "It's for her own protection." He said venomously "Don't you have some more research to do!"

Lin smirked but left, pleased with Oliver's almost defensive reaction.


'It's over, it's finally over!' Mai thought as she ran through the streets towards her apartment complex. It was late afternoon and Oliver had just released her for the day. It was good timing too. If Oliver hadn't released her then, she would have just about blown her top. Not only did she have to unpack the seemingly endless pile of boxes for hours, but Oliver's constant demands for tea were pushing her over the edge. She did her best to remain civil through it all. Mai had to keep reminding herself that working for Oliver again was only temporary. Mai was just glad she didn't have to work Sunday.

Once Mai was inside her apartment, she kicked off her shoes and plopped down on the couch. She spent the rest of her day relaxing. Soon though, night came so she ate, showered and went to bed. Sunday came and it mostly consisted of homework and cleaning her apartment and was over too soon for Mai's taste.


The bright morning sun cast over Mai as she made her on campus. She was in a much more cheery mood compared to the last time she was on campus. After all, Oliver would not be attending her school any longer-at least that is what she assumed. Oliver had said he enrolled in her school only because she wouldn't help out in the case and implied that he needed help from someone who attended the school (which Mai was still unclear about). Now that Mai was helping, he no longer needed to attend her school…..right?

If that was so, then why did Mai see a familiar raven haired boy in the crowd of students! Mai ran after the raven haired boy and confronted him. "Shibuya-san!"

Oliver sighed and turned to face her. "Yes, Taniyama-san?"

"Why are you here? I've agreed to help you so-!" Mai said demanding to know.

"It was never in our agreement that I no longer attend your school. Even if I did, do you really believe you can handle all the activity yourself during school hours?" Oliver questioned.

For the first time in a long time, Mai was speechless. She couldn't come up with a single thing to retort back at Oliver, because-though she hated to admit it- he had a point.

Oliver took the prolonged silence as his answer. "Exactly." He smirked and walked away.

Mai stood there slightly stunned. She was barely able to put up with him on Saturday, so how was she going to put up with him an entire school week after school week? Who knew when this case was going to end?

So she ignored him. She ignored him in every one of her classes. She ignored him as they past each other in the halls. She ignored him just like he ignored her and at times she had even forgotten he was there.


Mai slowly opened her eyes only to see darkness. Mai looked around to find herself standing in the midst of a black nothingness. The darkness seemed to go on forever.

For a small moment, Mai was confused. The last thing she remembered was sitting in her sixth period class. So how did she get here? Wherever this was! Then it occurred to her. "This must be one of those dreams…" She said to herself. "I haven't had one of these dreams since…"Mai's voice faded as unwanted memories began to fill her mind.

"Mai." A voice said seemingly coming from nowhere.

Mai turned around to see the man in whom Oliver believed she loved. "Gene?" Mai ran up to him. "What are you doing here? Why didn't you pass o-"

"There isn't time for questions!" Eugene interrupted her. "I'll explain everything later! Now, watch!" Eugene said hurriedly and pointed to the images that started to form.

Mai watched closely. At first the images were nothing but a mixture of colors. Slowly the colors formed blurred shapes and lines. The shapes and lines began to appear more focused. It took a moment for Mai to recognize the scene. "That's the school's courtyard!" Mai exclaimed in realization.

"Mm-hmm." Eugene nodded in response.

The scene was now completely clear. The courtyard was completely free of students, save one. "Hey, that's…" Mai began to say as she recognized the person.

"Yes." Eugene confirmed. "That's Noll."

Mai continued to watch Oliver walk through the courtyard. A moment passed and nothing unusual happened. "Is this really all you have to show me?" Mai asked with an eyebrow raised.

Eugene pointed at something in the image. "You can see it, can't you?"

Mai looked at what he was pointing at to find a white glowing orb a few meters behind Oliver. 'A spirit?' Mai thought. Mai's thoughts were confirmed when the orb expanded into a silhouette figure. 'Wait…that isn't the same ghost as before!' Though Mai couldn't see and of the fine details, she could tell the figure was not of a woman, but a man.

The spirit spotted Oliver and returned back into orb form. It was not hard to tell that Oliver was not aware of the spirit. The spirit-orb took advantage of this. The spirit-orb charged at Oliver at an inhuman speed. It was only a mere second before the spirit-orb made contact with Oliver's back.

Suddenly realizing what was going one, Oliver's eyes widened. He tried to move, but it was far too late. There was nothing Oliver could do to stop it. The spirit-orb past through Oliver and disappeared. Oliver fell to the ground, lifeless. His usually icy blue eyes were now hollow.

Mai felt her heart begin to shatter. "Is he…dead?" Mai choked back some tears.

"No, not yet." Eugene said and the imaged faded to black. "Luckily what I just showed you has yet to happen, Mai. That's why I need you to wake up now and save him! Quickly!"

Mai nodded with determination. She closed her eyes and let herself fade back into reality.


Mai woke with a start. She looked around taking in her surroundings. She sat in her sixth period desk. She must have fallen asleep during class, but then where was everyone? Mai looked at the clock; school had ended twenty minutes ago.

Mai sighed and leaned on her desk. She was confused. She was positive she needed to do something. Something important…Then it hit her.

Mai abruptly stood. "Shibuya-san!" She remembered and dashed out of the classroom and ran as fast as she could down the hall.

Mai was desperate to save Oliver. Even though she hated him- well she didn't hate him. Hate is a strong word, so let's just say she wasn't as fond of him as she used to be. Either way, she didn't want him to die.

It seemed like an eternity before Mai arrived at a door that led outside to the courtyard. Luckily the door was already open and resting on a door stop, so she didn't have to waste time opening it.

Mai suddenly stopped in the doorway when she saw the spirit-orb form a couple meters in front of her. She looked around quickly until her eyes spotted Oliver who had his back towards her and was on the other side of the courtyard. Just as she was about to call out a warning, the spirit-orb raced after Oliver. So on instinct Mai screamed, "NARUUUU!"

Hearing his nickname, Oliver turned his head only to see the spirit-orb a few centimeters from his face. Without thinking, Oliver let gravity take its course as he fell backwards from shock barely escaping the path of the spirit-orb. Oliver watched from the ground as the spirit-orb disappeared.

Mai ran up to Oliver. "Are you okay?" Mai asked as he stood.

"I believe so." Oliver brushed of the dirt on his slacks. Oliver mentally reviewed everything that just happened, and then he remembered something causing him to smirk.

"Why…why are you smirking?" Mai questioned slightly startled. Not only was he smirking, but he looked almost happy. Why on earth would he be like that when he had just barely escaped death?

"I see you're no longer addressing me so formally." Oliver said as he headed to the nearest door inside.

Mai ran after him. "It was a force of habit- slip of the tongue!" She insisted.

Oliver reached the door and unlike the door Mai came through this one was closed. As Oliver opened the door he looked back and said, "Whatever you say, Mai." He smirked and went inside letting the close behind him.

As the door fell closed another old habit of Mai's kicked in. Her fists clenched, "Naru, you narcissistic jerk!"


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