It is after the cleanup and the badgeless are getting their meal bars, only one per person. Yet Mineko attempted to take two and got her hand wacked with a billy club by an enforcer.
As Mineko wallows in self-pity, she notices Kumi and tells her that she is weird for getting bad treatment from Hime while still managing to be serious about her work. She next asks Kumi what she had been doing from noticing the dirt on her uniform. To which, Kumi thanks her, annoying Mineko. Kumi ends the conversation by stating that she is tired and will see her in class tomorrow as she walks away, leaving Mineko wondering what it is that Kumi is doing exactly.
Back in her room, it is revealed why Kumi got her clothes dirty: she had been crawling around in the maintenance passages to get a sense of everything and everywhere. On her wall is a map of the island with all of the passages and various X's to indicate entrance doors.
"What's left is Burai Sachiko," she said.
Veikko is walking through a hallway. He passes two enforcers who predictably greet him with smiles.
"Hey, Veikko-kun," one of them said. A pretty girl named Motoko with long hair and a well-endowed chest. "You've been here for a month and I've got a question for you."
"What is it?"
"Does masturbating relieve you?" While making a broad shrunken iris grin, causing her comrade to giggle with the same expression and with a hand over her own mouth.
He reddens and sputters.
"It's okay," she assured him. "I do it too . . . And I think of you as I do it to myself." Adding that last part sultrily.
His sputtering and unease grow even more.
"Here's something for you to think about when you do it to yourself again," she crooned as she takes out her collapsible billy club.
She playfully licks the handle and sucks on it, making an overt pucker. In a flash, she lifts her skirt to flash her panties at him.
Veikko gasps and turns away quickly as his heart skips a beat. The duo squeals with laughter. He hurries away, almost running. That only too familiar hardness coming on. He hurries upward toward another floor. All the way up to the top floor where the members of the Student Council reside. Each door is flanked by a pair of girls standing on either side. In front of one door, he notices none other than Yagiyuuin Hime standing before one such door and carefully listens in.
"So," Hime ventured, "how's she doing?"
"Nothing to report," one enforcer answered.
"She's not willing to talk," the other answered.
"I . . . see," Hime said with a tone of disappointment, then turns away. He ducks out of sight and listens.
"I got all these badges," Hime said to herself with disappointment tinging her tone, "but my sister still won't accept me."
She rounds the corner and is startled by Veikko standing there, casually leaning up against a wall with folded arms.
"And here I thought you were just a greedy little brat," he said. "When really all along, you were only trying to impress your sister."
Hime furls her lip in annoyance as she makes a grumbling sigh.
"Then I'm glad that I cleared up any misconception that you may have had about me, Ryynänen-san," she said with mellow sarcasm, only to turn frosty once again. "Just don't patronize me with your pity."
"I'm only making an observation," Veikko said as he unfolds his arms and straightens. "And from what I just observed . . . your efforts didn't work."
Hime glares up at him, then walks past him.
"I don't know what kind of family you come from," Veikko ventured, "but my guess is that no matter how many badges you get, your sister won't change her mind. I'm starting to believe that it may have backfired, meaning that she probably sees you as a threat now. Why else would she continue refusing you?"
Hime stops and is silent for a moment.
"You're absolutely right," she said coldly, then turns to fix him with her iris now shrunk to a pinpoint. "You don't know what kind of family I come from!"
Over the past month whenever Veikko encountered her, he was always greeted with a blank expression from her, although her eye twinkling with cool bemusement toward him. That and the extra badge she had every time. When they first met, she seemed softer. Then she had knocked him out afterwards unseen for seemingly no apparent reason other than to amuse herself. Veikko chalked all that up to merely relieving her boredom.
He understands that she is seething beneath that stoic exterior of hers. If it not for her discipline, she would be having a screaming fit.
Hime storms away and Veikko continues watching her. He can't help but wonder what she will do about the situation now, given that theory he gave her. Knowing that this is a school period, he decides to go outside and ends up following after her. But only after she has used the elevator.
Once he is outside and on the steps, he bears witness to the following interaction between Kumi and Hime.
"Please tell me!" Kumi pleaded as she clasps hold of Hime's shoulder. "Where . . . Where is Sachiko? Is she alright?"
Hime turns and grabs hold of her wrist. Veikko begins descending the stairs.
"Amesu-san, you," she growled, "wouldn't shut up about asking me about your sister just a month ago, but now you're all about Sachiko . . . Well . . . I doubt your sister would be happy about this."
Veikko can hear the anger in Hime's tone. And could it be . . . jealously?
"Y-You got it wrong," Kumi protested. "Of course I have my sister in mind but right now Sachiko is-"
"That is just how shallow you are!" Hime snapped as her anger rises. So this is her limit, Veikko now understands.
"Yet you believe you're the only person with a sister," she continued to seethe at Kumi, "and that your sisterly love is bigger than anyone else's! And I don't like it how you go about boasting how your sister loved you!"
"I'm not really-" Kumi protested.
It is at that moment when Veikko grabs hold of Hime's wrist, causing her to let go and fix him with a dangerous glare of her one eye.
"You seem to have an annoying habit of showing up when you're not wanted, Ryynänen-san," Hime said dangerously.
"I was on my way out anyway," Veikko answered as he continues to hold her wrist. "That and you grabbing her made me concerned that you might do something foolish, so I simply wanted to remind you that this is a school hour."
"I'm touched," Hime sneered sarcastically. "Now let go of my hand."
Veikko simply opens his hand and she pulls it away,Veikko lowers his hand back to his side.
"Yagiyuuin-san, could it be," Kumi ventured, "you also have a sister?"
"She does," Veikko answered in her place. "And she is a member of the Student Council."
"Eh?" Kumi exclaimed. "R-Really?"
Hime is silent.
"Th-Then maybe," Kumi said excitedly as she clasped Hime's shoulders, "she can tell me about Towa and Sachiko?"
"I saw her trying to meet with her sister," Veikko said, "but the enforcers told her that she didn't want to see her . . . Do you think she will want to see you, Kumi?"
"I thought Finnish people minded their own business?" Hime stated coldly as she glares up at Veikko.
"What can I say?" Veikko shrugged slightly. "During my time here and from what I've been witnessing, it's hard to stay neutral."
"So that's why you've been collecting badges all along, Yagiyuuin-san," Kumi said tenderly yet triumphantly as she gets Hime's attention once again. "So that you can get your sister's approval."
"I'll answer your previous question in exchange!" Hime suddenly snapped at Kumi so as to change the subject. "But I'll only tell you one thing, so pick wisely . . . ! And promise to give up the other . . . ! It's either Burai Sachiko's whereabouts or information about your sister!"
"No way," Kumi gasped.
"To a certain extent I have heard stuff about her after she entered the Student Council," Hime continued more calmly. "I'll tell you all I know."
Then in a more contemptuous manner. "And since you're asking a favor of me, you need the right attitude. You follow me . . . ? Sachiko or Towa . . . Just one."
"Amesu! Don't take her seriously!" Sara suddenly announced as she clasped Hime's shoulder.
"Sasarano-san!" Kumi gasped.
"Sara," Veikko nodded respectfully.
"Veikko-kun," Sara nodded back with a grin, then turns serious as she turns her attention back to the pair of girls. "You were already deceived once. How can you believe her information now?"
"Oh my," Hime said slickly, "I never told any lies, you know. Actually, Amesu-san stayed quiet about Burai Sachiko to you."
Sara growls in reply.
"If you get it," Hime next said grimly with a glare, "get your hand off my shoulder already. Don't get cocky just because you got three badges."
"Then," Sara sneered as she lets go, "I'm looking forward to you saying the same stuff after school!"
Hime snickers with a vicious sneer. "Me too."
Sara turns to walk away. Veikko is about to leave as well, only to notice Kumi clasping hold of Sara's sleeve.
"It's okay, Sasarano-san," Kumi assured her.
Kumi next turns toward Hime. Her expression is a determined one.
"I just want the one answer to a single one!" Her tone matching her look.
Veikko wonders what she meant by that, then raises his eyebrows as he watches her go down on all fours and bows deeply before Hime. Her forehead touches the ground.
"Yagiyuuin-san," Kumi stated with her face still down. "Please . . . could you tell me where Sachiko is?"
Veikko glances over at Sara, who is also gaping down at Kumi. He glances back toward Hime to see what her reaction will be. He gasps upon witnessing Hime forcefully plant her foot onto the back of Kumi's head.
"There's still more, right?" Hime asked contemptuously.
"Yes," Kumi answered unwaveringly. "I won't ever ask about Towa again."
"A-Amesu," Sara gasped.
"Perkele," Veikko cursed.
Hime chuckles. "That's the attitude," she sneered triumphantly. "Good. Okay, I'll tell you. Burai Sachiko is being held captured underground here!" She thumbs at the tower. "Though I don't know what they are doing to her"
"She is?" Veikko gasped as he stares back at the tower. "And I never knew about it? Although it does explain the recently beefed up security down near the basement."
Hime starts laughing, causing Veikko to wince because he finds it so odd for her to do so.
"I knew that your feelings for your sister were that shallow," Hime gloated. "Your half-assed resolve that makes you bow before me. Don't you dare to use the word, sister, in front of me ever again!"
She removes her foot from Kumi's head and walks away. For a moment Kumi keeps that position. Sara and Veikko glance at each other with concerned looks. Finally, Kumi rises.
"Are you okay, Amesu-san?" Sara asked with concern.
"Your forehead's bleeding," Veikko noted empathetically.
"I'm okay," Kumi said assuredly. "What's important is I know Sachiko's whereabouts now!"
Her look is one of determination.
Down in the bowels of the Student Council Tower, within a soundproof cell, Burai Sachiko is chained up wearing only her underwear. She is constantly thrashing around and in pain from the shocks the collar is giving her. From a speaker, a voice is asking her who her enemy is. Whenever she is not forthcoming, the voice tells her that Amesu Towa is her enemy because she was betrayed by her.
Every denial from Sachiko causes a shock until she admits it so.
The after school bell rings, signaling the beginning of the battle royale. Hime is told that Kumi went missing during class. She wonders if Kumi ran away due to the shock from earlier. Then remembers the look that Kumi had in her eyes. It wasn't fear . . . It was determination.
Hime immediately runs off, telling the girls she has some business to take care of and that she leaves the rest to them.
As for Kumi, she is down in the cells once again and kneeling over a maintenance grating as she takes a hair clip out and picks the padlock on it. She notes that the reason Sachiko was never captured was because she could move around without people knowing about the secret passages she knew. Something Kumi herself had been studying over the past month to familiarize herself in order to rescue Sachiko.
She suddenly hears footsteps and fears that she cannot be captured now. Only to discover that it is Mineko, who demands to be let in on what she is doing. Kumi tells her that she is rescuing Burai Sachiko by use of the maintenance shafts. At first, Mineko is outraged over her foolishness of getting caught, then decides to use this to her advantage to get revenge on the arrogant Student Council. Then in turn surmises that if they were to get caught, she could just blame Kumi for all this. Finally, she asks to be let in.
"Aren't you scared by yourself, meow?" Mineko asked with phony concern.
"W-Well, yeah," Kumi admitted. "But you aren't really reliable."
As all that was going on, Hime marched right up to Kumi's dorm room, taking note that her knowing where Burai Sachiko is and her disappearance is a strange coincidence. She at first dismisses this due to the Student Council's perfect security system, but still cannot wonder what Kumi is up to. She pounds on Kumi's door, only to discover that she is not there upon gaining entrance.
She notices a pile of papers covering a section of the wall and is immediately suspicious of it as she tears some of them away to reveal a map of the island. Not just a map, but a map of the passages. She returns to the school to be confronted by a group of students intent on taking her badges. Hime ends up proving that she is deadly in unarmed combat.
Hime reaches a locker as she mutters about Kumi deceiving her. She tears the door off to reveal a samurai sword. She takes hold of the sword and faces another group of girls.
"I'll stop your laughable plot!" Hime snarled with a murderous glint in her eye as she slowly starts pulling the sword out of its sheathe. "I'll make you regret your stupidity of opposing me . . . ! I'll fucking kill you!" Ending with a shriek.