Chapter 10

The police have concluded that Kizano's death was an accident, and to prevent any more deaths, Akademi had shut down the drama club completely, the likelihood of another accident was simply too high for them to risk.

So that forced Yanagi and Taeko out of the club, once again clubless.

But Taeko did not mind. What did bug her, however, was the constantly hovering presence of that cursed Rin around Yanagi. She gave him treats, cards, and kind observations. Yanagi wasn't receptive to these advances, but they still angered Taeko to an incredible extent. If she could, she would stab that robot hundreds of times, but she doubted that a knife would properly kill Rin.

So she began to think, Rin was a robot, so what would kill a robot?

Not water, she's seen Rin swimming somehow during their gym class.

Taeko has been observing and stalking Rin when she began to feel a presence following her as well. It was more than a little unsettling, and everytime Taeko turned around, she would only see a quickly escaping shadow.

Finally, she decided to put an end to this strange stalking. She was falsely observing Rin, knowing at this point, that Yanagi will reject her advances. Although I will have to do something about her eventually.

Seemingly deep in thought, she suddenly heard scribbles behind her. It was the stalker. They were… taking notes on her!

Taeko quickly whirled around, shocking the stalker. He cried out in alarm and dropped his note book and pencil. He was already sitting down, there was no escape. Taeko stepped up to him, seeing that he was shielding his face from her. "P-Please don't hurt me!" He said in terror.

"Then can you tell me why you have been stalking me for the past few days?" Taeko kneeled down and picked up the notebook. He protested, but she looked in where he was writing, and saw that he even doodled small and chibi portrait of her in the corner of the page. On it was scribbled notes about her daily habits, and… 'effects' that she was having.

Alluring aura, causing heart palpitations, no vampiric habits observed- what the hell is this!?

The boy sat back up and shakily took the notebook away, nervously looking afar. "I-I'm sorry to… I apologize I didn't mean for you to… o-oh no…"

Taeko blushed and glanced toward where Rin was, seeing that she was completely gone now. She reached out her hand to help the boy stand up. He timidly took his hand and let her pull him up to his feet. She saw that his face was dark, shadowed, and he had long and curly dark hair. His purple eyes shimmered with nervousness.

"I'm Taeko Yamada." Taeko suddenly found herself saying softly. "What's your name?"

"O… Oko Ruto… leader of the occult club." He seems to have calmed down at least a little bit.

"So, why were you stalking me?" She asked curiously, feeling the anger ebb away into curiousness.

Oko turned away nervously and spluttered, "I-It's just that… y-you've seem to have… casted a spell on me."

Taeko restrained laughter. "A spell?" She echoed.

He feverishly nodded. "Y-You think it's stupid, don't you?"

"No!" Taeko quickly reassured. "I think it's pretty cool that you have an interest in the supernatural! It's sort of rare to find kids who believe in such things." Did that come out wrong? I think that came out wrong…

His eyes suddenly lit up. "Then… would you like to watch us… perform a ritual? We are going to summon a demon."

Taeko then got a fuzzy idea in her head. But it needed time to formulate, just like the rest of her plans. "Are you doing it again tomorrow? I'll watch you then."

Oko's eyes widened and he glanced away. "Y-Yes, if tonight is… unsuccessful."

Taeko smiled. "I'll see it on one condition."

"W-What would that be?"

"...You have to stop stalking me."

Oko opened his mouth as though to refuse, but then he shut it again. Oko slowly nodded and without another word, bolted down the stairs.

Taeko sighed in relief of ridding herself of Oko for the moment, he was awfully strange, but harmless. She safely assumed it would likely be the same for the remainder of the club. For now, she still had to deal with Rin.

The drama club room had no one in it any longer, so it would be incredibly easy to snatch some gloves and use them to her advantage. She didn't like the idea of killing someone that had no relation or connection to Yanagi, but she may have to in order to rid herself of Rin.

It was easy to attain the gloves in the clubroom, the same gloves that Yanagi was wearing during the play. She nearly fainted at the idea that her skin cells were in close proximity to Yanagi's. Taeko almost fell over in a puddle of tears of pure joy. But now was not the time for that.

She was scanning her classmates, looking for a suitable victim, analyzing their movements to see who it would be easiest to kill. She did have a figure that Midori Gurin would be easy, but Taeko felt bad for her, so she decided against it. Mai was also an innocent figure, Taeko had a conscious and she hated herself for it.

At last, she settled on a victim, Saki Miyu. Saki was getting uncomfortably close to the brink of anger for her deceased friend, and Taeko had a sick stone in her gut telling her that Saki knew that Kokona's death was unintentional.

Taeko lingered outside of the science club room, watching Rin with very close eyes, waiting for her to touch something, anything that could kill someone. And eventually, that dream came true. Rin set her hand on a screwdriver to help another member with fixing something, and soon after put it back into the toolbox.

Perfect.

Taeko had already taken the liberty of putting a note in Saki's locker reading, "I know what happened to Kokona Haruka. Meet me behind the school when the last bell rings."

She knew that luring Saki was the best way to do this, and in the process, framing Rin for murder.

Rin left the lab at last and after biding her time, Taeko entered it. "Hey, Kaga, can I talk to you about something?" She asked peacefully. Kaga was the last student in there, and considering he's the club leader, of course he'd stay a little longer.

He looked at her and adjusted his glowing green visor with his rubber gloves. "Taeko Yamada, what a pleasant surprise."

She hummed happily and walked up to him, sauntering near the toolbox. "It's something about…" she swallowed hard, "My physics homework."

"Did you bring it?" He asked.

She shook her head, "No, but it's just the whole thing I don't really understand." Kaga looked preoccupied with whatever he was doing. He wasn't looking her way. So Taeko slowly and quietly reached for the screwdriver with her gloves on, internally screaming in satisfaction.

He sighed in frustration. "You're such an average student, Taeko. You're not worthy of my brilliance and time. Now get out."

The comment stung Taeko a little bit, but she nodded. "I understand, I'm sorry for wasting your time."

He huffed and waved his hand, telling her to go. She bowed and still holding the screwdriver, she rushed out to meet Saki at the back of the school. She went down all the flights of stairs and then went out the backdoor of the school. The hot summer hair hit her like a solar flare, but she endured it. Saki was already there.

"Are the delinquents gone?" Taeko asked the blue haired girl, stepping in front of her.

Saki nodded. "Yeah, they've already gone home." She turned back to Taeko, and her face was suddenly filled with annoyance. "Why would you tell me you "know what happened" to Kokona? I-I know she commit… suicide."

"It was intentional, someone framed her suicide." Taeko said sympathetically. "Kokona was… murdered."

"And how would you know this?" Saki asked, tears brimming in her eyes. "What do you know, Taeko!?"

Taeko smiled and pulled out the screwdriver. Saki looked confused until in a rush of red and anger, Taeko tackled Saki to the ground and stabbed her in the heart. "Because I did it."

Saki's blue eyes were wide in terror, and she struggled to escape. Taeko stabbed her again, Saki was screaming for help for a moment until Taeko quickly covered the girl's mouth with her gloved hands and still stabbing her, said, "No one can hear you. Everyone left. School just got out, remember?"

Saki tried to bite her hand, but Taeko gripped her cheek hard. This was straight up homicide! This wasn't the dancing around the bush that Taeko usually did when eliminating the other two girls, this was bloody and it was beautiful.

The screaming and panting continued, and if anything, that made the whole situation better. The screams as her life ebbed away at the hands of a yandere murder-

Taeko finally realized it when she stabbed the driver through Saki's forehead, blood leaking out and the red liquid dripping out of her mouth. Taeko restrained her laughter of pure ecstacy. This was murder! Beautiful homicide, the giving in of true human nature! In the end, everyone was a monster, and Taeko was the bravest of all humans to succumb to such a seductive idea of death.

Saki was dead, and Rin had no alibi, she charges herself in the school at night all alone.

Taeko had to cover her mouth to prevent the laughter from escaping. Then she finally stood up and blood-drunkenly wobbled to the incinerator, she dumped the gloves, but didn't turn it on. After that brief moment, she walked to the bathhouse of the school to wash off all the blood she got on her. The water washed away the red like sins, and her sanity was slowly restored.

She looked down at her clean hands, satisfied.

In the morning, they will find Saki's body covered in blood and a screwdriver in her face. Taeko will get away it it, as her bloody clothes and her gloves will be gone, burned away.

In the morning, that robot will be gone.

Author's Note: Kaga wanted his robot to be realistic as possible in order for people to not find out about the life he has created, so he even added fingerprints to Rin. So... yeah. It makes sense! Totally.

(Praying this doesn't bite me in the ass later...)