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Case #9: Heart Attack
"Len, I'm finally back to school!" a boy with a pretty cool cut at the sides of his head exclaimed and I could barely recognise him as one of Len's circle of friends and classmates.
The boy went up to her desk and grinned sheepishly at her. Rin inspected him from head to toe but she still could not figure out who he was.
"Who are you?" she asked.
The boy pointed to himself, looking extremely puzzled.
"You seriously can't recognise me?" he gasped and put on a sad smile. "I knew I shouldn't cut my hair."
He ruffled his short spiky hair with a laugh. Rin continued to stare blankly at him until he stopped laughing.
"Len, I'm Gakupo. Can you remember me now?" he said.
"Ah! You're Gakupo Kamui!" Rin pretended to be surprised when she suddenly remembered that Gakupo was one of Len's friend. "You look so different with short hair. You used to have long hair. Haha!"
Gakupo's face brightened up instantly and laughed, "As you know, I was admitted into the hospital and stayed there for two weeks. The nurses kept complaining about the length of my hair so my father cut it very short for their convenience."
This reminded her that Gakupo had heart problem and according to Kaito and Kiyoteru, he had to stay at home for at least a month.
"How are you?" she asked again.
Gakupo hit his chest once and stuck his thumb up in front of her.
"I'm feeling much better. Thanks, dude! What about you? Since when you have lots of bandages all over your body? Did something happen to you?"
"N... Nothing happened. I just happened to fall down and injured myself. But everything is good and fine," Rin assured.
"I see. Get well soon, dude."
Rin smiled warmly at him. Gakupo glanced around the classroom and then looked back to her.
"Where is Kaito?" she heard him asked loudly.
"Kaito?" Rin bit her upper lips and looked around the classroom. "I think he is in the lavatory."
Gakupo nodded slightly and walked away. He sat down on his seat and took out his textbooks from his schoolbag. Rin realised that his and Len's schoolbags looked exactly alike. Both were sling bags and were of the same colour. Well, this was called friendship.
"Kamui," a group of boys walked out to him with a worried look on their faces. "Do you know what happened to us recently?"
Rin stared at the boys in horror. She could not allow them to tell him all these weird accidents which happened over the month because he had a weak heart. What if he got all shock by the news, he might suffer from a heart attack!
"What happened?" Gakupo queried.
Rin immediately shouted at him, "Nothing is wrong, Gakupo."
Gakupo blinked at her in confusedly. Unfortunately, the boys ignored her presence and started splitting out the truth one by one.
"Do you know that Lady Miku Hatsune is back in action now?"
Gakupo looked at the boys with his eyebrows raised up in surprise.
"Ryuto, your basketball senior, died because of the ceiling fan sliced his head off his body."
Upon hearing that, Gakupo's face turned pale. Rin hurried to his side and waved her hands to the boys' faces to stop them from saying those things.
"Kiyoteru Hiyama, your friend from Class 1A, died in a road accident."
Gakupo gasped and stood up. He looked at Rin with a horrified look and grabbed her shoulders.
"What is the meaning of this, Len? Why are they dead? Len!" he yelled.
"Gakupo, calm down! Let me explain!" Rin's voice quivered.
"Dell Honne," a boy interrupted. "He had died just last week because of a concentrated acid spilled all over his body and he vanished on the spot."
That was the last straw. Rin used her free hand and punched that boy's face. That boy rubbed his cheek in response and did not even bother about her at all. She could not believe it. Why were they still playing dumb with her? She knew they could see her perfectly clear.
"Why... why?" Gakupo panted heavily as he clutched his chest tightly.
"Gakupo! Are you all right?" Rin asked.
She did not know what to do. All she could do was just staring and watching him collapsed onto the floor.
He muttered out some words, "I... don't... want... to... die... Len..."
"Hurry up and call a teacher," Rin shouted to the boys but none responded as they looked very petrified.
Rin tried to walk briskly out of the classroom and noticed Luka walking down the staircase. She shouted out to her and luckily, she turned around and stared at her blankly. As usual, Luka looked back to the front and continued walking down the stairs, ignoring Rin's presence too.
"Gakupo is in trouble!" Rin yelled.
Finally, Luka jerked and ran up the stairs. She ran past Rin and into the classroom.
Suddenly, Luka screamed.
Startled, Rin walked into the classroom and gasped. She could not believe what she saw again. Gakupo was lying lifelessly on the floor. She rushed to Gakupo's side and stooped down to shake him. After shaking him a few times, she pulled his body over and revealed his face to her.
Much to her horror, Gakupo's eyes were wide opened with tears trickling down from his lower eyelids. Thick yellowish white foam formed around his mouth area and it slowly dripped on the floor.
Rin let go of him and stumbled backwards. She wanted to scream too but something seemed to stuck in her throat. The next thing she knew, a group of teachers came in with a medic team and placed Gakupo on a structure. Then, all of them left.
There was total silence in the classroom. Luka had left the classroom top while other boys followed the teachers and the medic team. Rin slumped against her chair and rubbed her temples. It was surprising that she really did brace herself up a little because even though she was scared, she did not feel like vomiting.
Upon hearing footsteps entering the classroom, Rin looked up and saw Kaito walking in with a book in his arm. He scanned the classroom and noticed many sad and traumatised looking faces. He walked to his seat and took one last glance at his classmates. Then, his attention was shifted to where everyone was looking at- Gakupo's table. He saw a familiar looking sling bag on the desk and foams on the floor.
Narrowing his eyes at the scene, he asked loudly, "Guys, what happened?"
-:-:-:-
Luka stood at the front of the classroom with her head hung low and her body was shaking continuously, as if she was suffering from hypertension. Everyone in the Class 1B was looking at her with lots of anticipation.
"I'm sorry," Luka spoke and began to weep. "Kamui had a severe heart attack and the doctors could not save him on time. He... he has passed away."
Everyone gasped and looked at one another in shock. Rin was dumbfounded as well. She felt very guilty and wished that she had stopped that boys from splitting out the truth by pulling them away, but it was too late. Gakupo was gone too.
"It must be Miku Hatsune again," someone spoke out loud.
"Yeah. She must be still feeling angry," another person said.
"I don't want to die!" a boy shouted as he stood up from his seat.
Soon, some people began shouting too, "Me too! I don't want to die! Miku Hatsune! Spare my life!"
Suddenly, many fear-stricken faces turned to Rin's direction. Many pairs of eyes fixated at her, making her gulped.
"Len Kagamine, it's your fault."
Rin's eyes widened. Did they just call her?
"Because of you, they had to die."
She was confused as to why did they suddenly want to take notice of her after all that stupid ignoring game they had played over the past one month?
"And we might die."
Those boys were giving her a murderous look which looked as if they wanted her to be dead. If looks could kill, she would have been dead and joined whatever spirit of Miku Hatsune as well. Rin looked at Piko's desk and realised that he had ditched lessons again.
"I'm sorry. But it is Miku Hatsune's will to let me continue living," Rin defended herself.
"I would rather die as a sacrifice than die a horrible death like Dell and Kiyoteru!"
"What makes Len Kagamine so special that Miku Hatsune wanted to spare his life and do these to us? We're innocent!"
"For once, I don't want to die for Miku Hatsune!"
"Len Kagamine! Go and die, so that we can continue to live!"
Rin shuddered.
"All of you are so stupid," Kaito suddenly laughed, diverting everyone's attention from Rin. "You should be honoured that Miku Hatsune wants you because this shows that you are worthy enough to be with her. So please, stop blaming everything on Len. Len is not worthy enough to be with her. So now, she is picking out her favourites among all of us."
"Do you mean Miku Hatsune needs more people to die for her?"
"I think so," Kaito replied as he flicked his middle finger and his thumb together.
Rin heard loud chattering noises and a loud sigh coming from Luka. Rin stood up abruptly. Though she was relieved that Kaito had just saved her from those murderous and accusing stares from the boys, she actually had another bad feeling about how Kaito's words had influenced his classmates and even Luka. Those boys were actually relieved and chuckling away as if dying was no longer an issue to them anymore.
Of course, she was freaked out by their sinister and sick behaviour.
Her eyes trailed to the desk where Gakupo used to sit. The foam was already cleared and even his sling bag was no longer there anymore. It looked quite empty. However, she was wrong when she saw something was sticking out from underneath Gakupo's desk.
She craned her neck a little and saw the weird object. It was the same soft toy which she saw in the chemistry laboratory where Dell died. She stiffened at the sight of it.
What was the meaning of this?
She rubbed her eyes and took a look at it again. The toy was really there! She immediately looked away and stared at a figure standing outside the classroom.
"Utatane?" she muttered to herself when she realised that the figure was actually Piko.
Piko waved his hand at her and signaled her to come out of the classroom. Curious, Rin nodded hesitantly and raised up her hand.
"Ms. Luka, I need to use the washroom," Rin said.
Luka's breath hitched up and nodded without saying anything. By taking her nod as an approval, Rin strode past Gakupo's desk and swiftly grabbed the soft toy. Then, she immediately hid it in the pocket of her blazer and walked out of the classroom.
-:-:-:-
"Okay. Why do you call me out for? And where have you been too?" Rin questioned Piko who was walking ahead of her.
"I was in Class 2C earlier because I was being punished for not doing Ms. Lily's chemistry homework. And guess what, Kagamine?" Piko explained and stopped walking.
"What?"
"I realised that Ryuto's death was caused by a mere accident."
Rin stared blankly at him and he smacked his head.
"Kagamine, those ceiling fans were quite old and according to a kind soul, someone had accidentally threw a ball towards that particular fan last year and since then, that fan was already unstable but nobody reported it. It was working fine until that fateful day when the base could not support the heavy weight of the fan and the wires finally snapped. So from here, I conclude that Ryuto's death was caused by a simple accident, no involvement of any supernatural forces," Piko added.
Rin rubbed her chin and nodded. She took out the soft toy and showed it to Piko.
"Utatane, do you have any idea where this toy comes from? Or have you even see it before?"
"I have seen this toy before... wait... where did you get this from?" Piko asked as he snatched the toy and inspected it.
"I got it from Gakupo's desk when I walked out from the classroom," Rin replied. "By the way, where did you see it before?"
"On top of the shelf in the chemistry lab," Piko said without removing his eyes from the toy.
"Hey! I saw it too! Why didn't you tell me about it?" Rin pouted.
"I thought you wouldn't see it because I guessed that you were too shocked and frightened to notice that thing. Anyway, I thought it was nothing important since soft toys don't bring harm to others."
Rin retorted, "I did saw it, okay? And this time, I saw this freaking toy under Gakupo's desk and I began to have my suspicion about it. Why does it seem to appear in the death scenes? Do you think that this soft toy got to do with their deaths?"
"I don't know but all I know is that this toy only appears in Dell Honne's and Gakupo Kamui's deaths. This toy did not appear in Ryuto's and Kiyoteru Hiyama's deaths," Piko answered and gave the toy back to Rin. "Let's go back to the dorm now and find out more about this toy."
"What? But how?"
Piko glared at her and said in a low voice, "Stupid, we are going to dissect this toy for good."
Then, an evil smile slowly crept on his face.
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