[b]So, here it is, the fourth chapter of my fanfic. We're going downhill from here, people. Of course, I do apologize for my English. Enjoy.[/b]

"Well, well... Looks like I'm starting to get insane", I say jokingly, looking at another visitor in my head. It's a medium-height blonde man with blue eyes and pleasant smile, but his SS uniform speaks for itself. Himler Gunsche, antagonist and First General of Alastor, Undisputed Ruler of Purgatory.
"[i]Maybe a little, but does it matter?[/i]", He respond with delicate German accent. "[i]You are an artist anyway, you need a little bit of insanity[/i]."
"Truly, you're right... But I do believe you've got here some important business, haven't you?"
"[i]Apparently. Herr Stratoavis ordered me to show you another important info about incident in Sakakino Gakuen.[/i]"
"Go on then, Herr Gunsche.", He giggles lightly.
"[i]Basically, I have got a full script of events from alternate dimension. Here it is.[/i]", He gives me piece of paper with text, of course in Polish. I take a quick look and can feel that one of my eyebrows raises a little. I take another look... And now I'm probably looking like an idiot, with such a surprised expression. "Nie mówisz poważnie... Prawda?", I say in Polish, stuttering. He gives me a slight smile and disappears in flurry of flames.

Good lord, I cannot believe what I've just read. According to Himler's informations, Itou had sex with every single girl in his class. Bastard was unfaithful, but ultimately returned to Katsura... Too bad that before that he dumped pregnant Saionji and even said that she should get an abortion. Possibly in affection, Sekai stabbed Makoto... And the rest is clear. Also the text says that Katsura was mentally unstable from the very beginning, but events from her failed relationship with Itou triggered her permanent yandere state. I get chills every time I read it. It seems so ridicolous and unlikely and yet... I do believe fictional characters in my head. Funny, isn't it? My cellphone emits a sound of Kira's luagh. Looks like I got a text message. It's from Katsura. "Can we meet at the rooftop on the big break?" Oh well, it's my job after all. "Of course, no problem", I respond and resume walking to a train station. I greet Makoto, walking at the same train. Despite being a bastard in that dimension, here he's still just another casual high school student... My task is to keep that intact.
"Harhirama. Harahirama", Mechanical voice announces. Train's door opens, but strangely, I cannot find Katsura. She seems to... not be here. Itou looks worried. Maybe he knows what's the deal...? Nah, I will ask him later. We're walking to school, without saying anything to each other. I never thought that silence can be so annoying...
"May I ask you a question?", I ask. Makoto gives me a curious look. "Out of curiosity, where have you and Katsura-san been yesterday?", He seems to be slightly nervous.
"Oh... She had class rep duties to do. I thought I can help her...", He answers, but something in his eyes tells me that this isn't true.
"I see.", I say after a while. He apparently notices that I'm not satisfied with his answer, but doesn't say a thing. On school gates I can see something like... Is that a bra? Pretty big, I would say. It's pink and after all pretty casual.
"Itou-san, would you mind taking a look?", I say, a little surprised.
"Yeah, what is... The hell?", He seems to be surprised as well. A few meters further we can see group of students, apparently looking at something in the middle of a circle. Noticing Katou's ponytail isn't a good thing.
"I do believe it has something to do with Katsura-san", I say quietly. Makoto looks concerned and puzzled.
"You mean this...", I can see he's blushing while pointing at pink bra. "Could this belong to Kotonoha?"
"Since when you're calling yourself by your first names?", I ask, surprised. He, however, doesn't have time to answer, as we can hear Otome's voice:
"Ladies and gentlemen, probably you'll never have such an opportunity to watch such a beautiful girl that closely. Go on, take a look at beauty of Katsura Kotonoha.", Mocking tones in her voice are clearly hearable, accompanied by laughters of her flunkies. We can hear also another voice, voice of mentioned Katsura. She begs to not look at her and tries to break grip of Otome's gang, trying to hide her... Oh, for the love of...!
"Katou-san!", I yell. Other students give me curious looks. Otome smiles mockingly.
"Well, well, who do we have here?", She says with waggish tone. Apparently she doesn't notice Itou who just stands shocked.
"Damned deliquent! You're taking it definitely too far, woman!", I growl, giving her a hateful glance. She doesn't seem to be moved at all. "Maybe I am... But is there anything you can do to stop me?", She apparently has great fun.
"Give back Katsura-san her bra, for God's sake. It's wrong to do stuff like this.", I explain, trying to be cool. Of course, vision of me slamming Katou's face into wall is tempting, but... Let's just say it's out of my range of abilities. Considering amount of spectators...
"My, my, you truly are concerned about your slutty girlfriend, aren't you?", She says, giving me triumphant look.
"Enough of this nonsense.", I growl, taking a few steps forward. One of the boys watching this "show" is trying to stop me. "Out of my way, I'm gonna show this liar what I think about people like her.", I say with angry voice, but my opponent doesn't seem to be phased. He has short brown hair and wears glasses.
"There's no need to intervene", He says calmly.
"No need? Poor girl is exposed by half of the damn school!", I respond fiercely, but he just smiles and shows a person walking towards us. It seems to be a teacher and looking by his face, he doesn't seem to be really happy.
"What's the meaning of this?", He asks, demanding explanations. Boy with brown hair takes a step.
"I do believe Katou-san is abusing Katsura-san.", He says calmly. Did he just...?
"Ashikaga, you traitor!", Otome screams, unwillingly admitting her deeds. The guy named Ashikaga just smiles.
"I'm sorry, Katou-san, but there was a certain action to be comitted.", He responds. Teacher crosses his arms.
"Young lady, I do believe you're in big trouble.", He says. Crowd of students suddenly vanishes, leaving Otome, Katsura and Otome's flunkies alone. Katou's gang takes a few steps back from their leader. Who would guess...? "Please come with me.", The teacher says. Ponytail girl swears quietly and follows sensei, leaving me, Ashikaga, Itou, Katsura and Otome's gang. Katou gives me and brown-haired boy hateful glances before disappearing in school.
"Kotonoha! Are you allright?", Makoto finally wakes up from his shock and runs to Katsura, trying to help her cover from the others.
"Is that her boyfriend?", Ashikaga asks curiously.
"Yeah. As you can see, he's pretty slow.", I answer jokingly. "Oh, and by the way, I'm Wala Casper."
"Ashikaga Yuuki.", We're exchanging handshakes. "Thanks for helping, but... Why Katou-san name you a traitor?", My new acquaintance looks embarassed by something.
"I do pretty bad things for her... But certain borders shouldn't be crossed. Never."
"Certainly. Let's take this bra quickly.", I say, looking at pink element of garment.

"I cannot believe it.", Makoto says, still shocked. We're at the canteen, along with girls and Sawanaga. Katsura asked to postpone our meeting for a while, so I have a free big break for myself.
"I'm sorry that you had to learn about it that way.", Sekai apologizes. "We're trying to tell you..."
"But you didn't want to listen.", Hikari ends.
"Still... How could she actually do such an atrocity to Katsura-san?"
"Dude, we were telling you all the time that Katou-san is a bully.", Sawanaga says. "I know it hurts, but I'm afraid it's not the Katou-san you knew before Sakakino.", Makoto seems depressed. Oh well, partially it's also his fault for not believing his friends.
"She's said to be suspended, but it's only a gossip.", Nanami adds, exchanging glances with Saionji. Sekai nods in "Yes" fashion. Suddenly her cellphone rings. "Oh, excuse me, it's my boyfriend.", She says, leaving canteen.
"So, um, Makoto-kun... Wanna go with us to Radish? There's going to be a large party.", Sekai says, summoning her smile back.
"What's the Radish?", I ask, confused.
"Oh, it's a restaurant near school where I and Setsuna are working.", She explains.
"Women working there are wearing incredibly sexy outfits!", Taisuke, pretty predictably, starts to drool.
"Don't get any funny ideas, Sawanaga.", Kiyoura says quietly, smirking. "Maybe you'll go with us?", Sekai asks me.
"Well...", To go or not to go, that's the question. Apparently it's Kanroji-san's idea to cheer Itou up, but... "Nah, I'll do it... But I'm afraid I'm gonna only disturb you there."
"And why's that?", Kuroda-san asks, surprised.
"I don't think I'm going to like this place..."
"Restaurant with young boys is about several alleys further, if that's the problem.", Sawanaga says, to my irritation.
"Since when do you know this kind of information?", Setsuna asks with shabby smile. Taisuke starts turning red, he's obviously embarassed. Sekai and Hikari bursts out laughing, also Makoto smiles a little. Looks like the idea starts to work. "But what about Katsura-san?", I want to say, but I bite my tongue. No, I'm not gonna blow up his good mood. "Allrighty then, let's go!", I say.
"Hey, that's mine line!", Sekai responds with giggle.
"Looks like you two are getting along well.", Hikari says. Saionji gives her a smile.
"Of course we do. We're friends, aren't we?", I just nod my head, listening to Sekai's speech about friendship. Of course we're friends... And better it stays that way.

Sawanaga was right, waitresses in Radish are actually wearing pretty stunning outfits. I feel I'm blushing a little. Gah, it's so embarassing to stay in the entrance and blush. I take a few steps, just to bump into waitress... What the...?
"S-Saionji-san?", I ask, surprised. Wasn't she with us? She smiles cheerfully. "Oh, it's my turn to work.", She explains. "But how did you managed to change your garment so quickly? You were with us only a few moments earlier."
"Months of practice.", She giggles and gets back to serving other customers. I gotta say, she looks pretty in this uniform... No, damnit, compose yourself! Your love is art, you cannot waste time on... other people. You cannot serve them in any other way than to entertain them by writing your stories... You're pretty much useless when you're not doing it.
"Wala-san, what's wrong with you?", Sawanaga's voice brings me back into realm of the living beings. Did I've just heard Himler's giggle...?
"Excuse me, I need to go out for a while.", I say after a short while, sighing. They give me worried looks, but don't stop. I go out and take a chunk of fresh air... Oh, how delightful.
"[i]Are you done yet, Herr Wala?[/i]", As I thought, this damned SS-man is up to something. He smiles in his casual manner.
"What's this time?", I ask, irritated.
"[i]Herr Amadeo, would you mind...?[/i]"
"[b]Don't name me Amadeo, goddamnit![/b]", The powerful, yet cheerful voice says from the abyss of my mind. Ah, yes. Skull instead of a human head, black armor, red spikes on shoulders, armored boots and two-barreled shotgun. Demon named Amadeo, alias Night Shooter, appears in front of me. "[b]Hey, how d'ya doin'?[/b]", He greets me cheerfully. Good lord, he resembles too much of a Sekai.
"Fine, thanks for concern.", I respond. I can see he's holding some papers. "Let me guess, more trouble?"
"[b]I dunno, me and Murphy found this pretty entertaining.[/b]", How can he actually smile? He doesn't even have a proper face to begin with! Oh well, blame my sick imagination.
"[i]Herr Amadeo recently has found interesting informations about Herr Ashikaga, the one you met today.[/i]", Himler explains. "[i]I do believe it can be pretty shocking for you...[/i]"
"Just gimme that.", Skull-headed demon gives me papers. I take a sketchy look at it. "So... He was included in one of the alternate dimensions as the part of love triangle."
"[i]Certainly.[/i]"
"What's so shocking about it?", I take a sip of my coke.
"[i]Keep reading, I do believe you will get the idea.[/i]", Blonde smiles and starts smoking a menthol cigarette.
"So in this dimension Sawanaga was a bastard and blackmailed Ashikaga for... Crossdressing?", To be honest, I didn't expect that. "You think I will believe every of your words just because you're characters made by me?", I ask without enthusiasm.
"[b]We've got the photos of "Yuu". That's the name that nerd used when he was crossdressing.[/b]", Amadeo says, also smoking. Is it a Cuban cigar...? Gah, nevermind. I take a look while taking another gulp of coke... And then suddenly spitting it out, shocked. Sweet Jesus, that girl was beautiful, but... Something's not right about her.
"You're expecting me to believe you?", I say after all. Himler giggles. "[i]On the last page there is a photo of Herr Ashikaga as himself. Compare them.[/i]", He says with pleasant voice. Okay, let's take a look. Another... One more...
"Sweet Alastor. This is ridiculous.", I say after a while, dropping the papers.
"[i]I shall report this compliment to Master. I do believe he will be pleased[/i].", Himler ignores my shock and keeps smiling.
"But... Allright, it's weird and all... But why do you showing me this?", A shadow crossed between SS-man's face.
"[i]Herr Ashikaga was beaten to death with a crowbar by Frau Katsura.[/i]", Blonde says after a short while.
"And you're saying that this can happen here too?"
"[i]Certainly.[/i]"
"Tsk. Wonderful. So it's up to me to keep both Saionji and Ashikaga safe from Katsura-san?"
"[b]Kind of.[/b]", Amadeo gives me an apologizing smile. "[b]Don't worry, buddy, we're gonna support you with everything we can find.[/b]"
"Thank you... Although it's weird to thank SS-man for anything.", I say after a while. Himler shrugs his arms.
"[i]That is my duty to be a villain. I do understand your concern.[/i]", He says, turning on his feet. "[i]Let's go, Herr Amadeo.[/i]"
"[b]Stop calling me Amadeo, for Pete's sake![/b]", Skull-headed demon yells fiercely, following him. I'm alone... And yet I can hear someone's voice... It appears to be girl's voice.
"Wala-san! Wala-san!"
"Whoa!", I say after a short stop. Since when does Saionji appears in my head? Am I really that insane?
...No, it appears that Sekai is holding me. Did I pass out?
"Oh, thank goodness, you're okay", She says, hugging me tightly. "Gah, let me go, woman!", I respond, blushing. She smiles.
"That's so you, Casper-kun.", She says, giggling. She helps me to stand up. I can see that the others are watching us curiously. "Nothing happened, really...", I'm trying to explain, but Sawanaga interrupts me.
"Nothing happened? Dude, you've fainted just because!", He says and I can say he's really worried. Could he possibly be that kind of jerk that Himler described...? Oh well, maybe I've drank too much cola. "Maybe we should go in?", Hikari says.
"Yeah, definitely.", Makoto adds. He's dead serious... I've never seen him like this before, not even when he was talking with Katou-san today after that incident with bra. Hoo boy, he promptly said that he, quote, "don't want to know a bitch like you". Half of the hall observed how Otome bursted into tears and than ran away. Serves her right, she truly crossed the border.
"Besides, you've missed the custard cake that Hikari made.", Sekai says. "It's her speciality."
"Cake... Right away, ma'am.", I say, saluting and entering the restaurant. We've had pretty pleasant time. Everyone was smiling, we were exchanging jokes, I was used as a Polish language teacher... Later Katsura-san joined us. Itou apparently becomes incredibly happy around her. Well, partially it's my and Saionji's fault that these two are together. We're exchanging smiles. Everything is going smooth, no one snaps, there's no foretold by my imaginations's violence. It's suspiciously calm. Too suspiciously... Oh God, it's late.
"I'll better go.", I say, getting up. ""My parents will kill me, I'm already an hour late."
"Oh, really? Can't you stay for a little longer?", Saionji asks sadly.
"My apologizes, Saionji-san, but certain forces in the world shouldn't be startled.", I say with a slight smile.
"Oh, it's news time.", Katsura says, turning her glare into small TV hanging from the ceiling. "Oh, why's Katou-san in television? What happe... Oh, oh my God...", She says and she is absolutely terrified. I give a curious look... And freeze. Why's Otome's photo gray? Is this a black ribbon in the corner...? Good lord.
"[i]Tragedy on Sakakino Gakuen train station.[/i]", Hikari reads and with every word she's becoming paler and paler. "[i]16-year old student... ran over by a train.[/i]", I look around. Katsura and Sekai have tears in their eyes, Hikari also starts to cry. Sawanaga is totally shocked, Kiyoura, surprisingly, is only mildly surprised and Itou... He doesn't seem to mind that an old friend of his got massacred by a train. Is he... Lord, is he smirking?
"[i]Apparently Katou Otome was pushed from platform by unknown perpetrators.[/i]", He reads quietly. No one responds. Everyone's shocked. Only Itou and Kiyoura doesn't seem to be really surprised... Did they know something? Did they... Could possibly one of them i s guilty of this murder?
Suddenly, my phone rings, breaking the silence.
"I gotta go now.", I say and run from Radish in hurry. Is it really true?
Is Otome really... Dead?