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Case #11: Body Splitting Line

Oliver stretched his arms and craned his neck a few times. He brushed the imaginary dust off his polo tee shirt and sat on the bench. After taking out his paint brushes, he dipped the bushy tip into the green paint and started painting the scenery before him on the canvas.

"Nice painting you have there," a feminine voice distracted him.

He looked up and smiled warmly at Rin who was ogling at his painting.

"Thank you, Len. Can I see yours too?" Oliver asked as he pointed at her canvas.

Rin immediately hid the canvas behind her back and grinned sheepishly. The truth was, she did not draw any sceneries on it, except for a big smiley face in the middle of the canvas. If Oliver were to see it, Len would be a laughing stock when he returned or she would be in trouble as he might begin to suspect her as an imposer. The latter would be no good at all.

Oliver raised his eyebrows and tried to snatch her canvas away but as he did so, Rin would try to dodge at every angle. Finally, Oliver stopped and snorted.

"Let me, your art club senior, see what you have drawn, Len Kagamine."

Rin snorted loudly too and took a step back. She was wondering why Len would join such a weird club. Why couldn't he join basketball club or other manly club? Furthermore, she bet that Len's art was worse than hers because she could still remember how he had drawn a green alien or distorted monster which was supposedly a green cactus with a white flower on top of it. Not that she wanted to deride him, it was really true that Len could not draw. And right at this moment, she had to mimic his weird drawing style which was so difficult to draw like him.

"Kagamine," Piko called out to Rin from afar.

Rin turned around and greeted Piko by waving at him. However, she did not notice that Oliver had a full view of the canvas.

"Len, what is the meaning of this?" Oliver yelled and his mouth twitched.

Rin looked back at Oliver and laughed sheepishly, "This is Ms. Luka."

There was a dead silence. Oliver gawked at the smiley face for a minute until he saw Luka walking past them in her sports attire as if nothing had happened.

"Seriously, Len? This doesn't look anything like her! Moreover, both of us are supposed to draw a scenery because this is our task from the art club since both of us are not participating in the marathon," Oliver chided.

Rin bit her lips and nodded. She tore her canvas into half and replaced it with a new blank piece. Oliver shook his head and continued painting his masterpiece. The reason why he could not take part in the marathon was because he had a slight flu. Anyway, he did not want to take part in that either.

Piko walked over to Rin's side and sat next to her quietly. He stared at the teachers and student helpers who were busying setting up food and drink booths, and also drawing the finishing line. The marathon had started a long time ago. The marathon was said to end immediately when the sun started to set. Of course, the first few runners had to make it to the finishing line before ending it officially. And the remaining runners would be brought back by the teachers who were patrolling around the hill. It would be dangerous for those students to run in the dark, especially in places like this forested hill.

"Utatane, aren't you taking part in the marathon?" Luka shouted to Piko from afar.

Piko shook his head and replied, "I can't. I sprained my ankle last week and it is still recovering."

Luka did not say anymore and walked away. Oliver turned his head around and stared at Piko questionably.

"Are you Piko Utatane?" he asked.

"Yeah," Piko answered without bothering to look at him.

"I didn't know you and Len are friends," he mused.

Piko said nonchalantly, "Unfortunately, we are only acquaintance."

"Acquaintance?" Oliver looked confused and then he looked at Rin who was not even paying attention to their conversation. "Weird..."

"Do you have a problem with that?" Piko bellowed and when he did that, Rin immediately looked at him and shot him a glare.

"Not really, but it's weird that Len kept going into your room for the past few days... more like sleep over or something like that," Oliver said as he scratched the back of his head.

Piko and Rin stared at him with shocked looks drawn on their faces. They did not expect themselves to be discovered by someone, especially their senior. Well, it was not like they did anything bad or wrong to each other. It was just pure shock for the both of them.

"Utatane and I were playing Kitchen Mama. I am addicted to it," Rin said and laughed sheepishly, then she gave Piko a light punch on his shoulder.

Irritated by her nonsense, Piko roughly brushed her hand away from her and glared at her. He made a mental note to himself that he would never let her sleep over at his dorm ever again for fear that she would start saying that he, Piko Utatane, was playing a sissy game with her. It was gross.

"Oh! Kitchen Mama! I remember that you love that game a lot!" Oliver exclaimed and laughed too. "You said that you want to impress your crush with your cooking and serving skills in that game."

Rin coughed, "Cr... Crush?"

"Yeah, so did you manage to confess to her?" Oliver looked at her eagerly.

Though Piko seemed uninterested in their silly talk about Len's crush, he was actually looking at Rin at the corner of his eye and straining his ear to hear her answer.

"I... I guess so."

"Wait...wow! What did she say?"

"N... Nothing?"

Oliver stared blankly at her for a second and then asked softly, "Is that even supposed to be a question?"

Rin blushed and replied meekly, "I... I don't know."

How should she know Len's crush? All she knew that Len did confess to her before he attempted to commit suicide. But was she really his crush?

Piko spoke, "If I'm not wrong, Kagamine did tell me that she has no interest in dating him now because she has lots of things to do right at this moment. Am I right, Kagamine?"

Rin frowned at Piko for trying to say something which might tarnish Len's reputation. His words sounded as if Len was rejected and was probably feeling hurt by it. Oliver's eyes watered and patted Rin's back while shaking his head.

And he mourned, "What a sad love life you have here, Len. That girl has been living next to you for ten years, right? Furthermore, both of you are childhood friends. You know, she should at least give you a chance."

"Kagamine is so girlie. I doubt that the girl is interested in him," Piko muttered with a small smirk.

Rin nudged at Piko and said sarcastically, "Oh thank you, Utatane. Sadly, I'm manly and I can guarantee that she likes me too. If not, why did she say that she has no interest in dating me now? Haha! That means I can date her when she is done with her things."

Piko's obvious smirk vanished as he narrowed his eyes at Rin who was smugging away. Oliver chuckled at the optimism which Rin had portrayed.

"You're getting so full of yourself, stupid Kagamine. What do you mean by dating?" Piko bellowed again.

"Going steady, of course. Haha!"

For some reason, Rin felt that his question was not directed to Len, but to her instead. Rin pretended to smirk at Piko who was rolling his eyes but deep inside her, she could feel butterflies in her stomach. The feeling was so strange that she tried to brush it aside and focus on her painting.

Suddenly, light footsteps were heard coming towards their way. Rin looked up from her painting and saw five runners sprinting towards the finishing line. She was wondering how those boys managed to save their energies for their final sprint despite running for such a long distance.

A very good looking lad who was jogging behind the five boys took up his speed as well and made his final dash towards the finishing line. He sprinted past the five boys swiftly like a leopard, making Rin gaped in surprise.

Oliver stood up excitedly and shouted, "Go Lui Hibiki! You are going to win!"

So, that fast runner's name was Lui Hibiki. Rin stood up too and her eyes sparkled at the sight of his glistening beads of perspiration came flying in the air and his blonde hair bouncing at each step he took.

"Lui Hibiki is so cool!" Rin squealed like a fangirl, earning her a punch on her head by Piko.

Ignoring the hit, Rin continued to watch Lui closing in to the finishing line until he finally reached it. With a loud snap, the finishing line split into two as he charged forward with great force.

And with another loud and sharp snap, Lui split into two as well. The lower part of his body continued to sprint forward and suddenly collapsed as it tripped over a rock. The upper part of his body came flying backwards and hit one of the five boys. The five boys stopped running and screamed at the top of their lungs upon seeing Lui's hands outstretched and shaking. Blood splattered on the rocky ground, nearby grasses and trees, the boys, the student helpers and Luka who was resting on one of the booth. Some of the blood landed on Rin's face and her canvas.

"What is going here?" Rin muttered weakly as her fingers touched the thick fluid on her face.

Taking a look at her tainted fingers, she let out a yelp and fell onto the grass patch. She could not believe what had happened in front of her awhile ago. It was worst of than seeing Ryuto's head sitting on the cupboard while the rest of his body lying on the floor. Maybe that was because she was seeing Lui Hibiki's body splitting scene first hand, unlike Ryuto's incident whereby she did not see the whole process of it.

Oliver stared at Lui with fear painted on his face. He did not believe what he had seen either. Though Lui was younger than him by a year, they were friends with each other. They usually played tennis with each other during weekends. How did they get to know each other? Of course, they had seen each other too often in the tennis court located in St. Miku High School's sports hall and decided to be friends and rivals in tennis.

From this day onwards, they would not be seeing, playing with and rivaling against each other anymore.

Lui Hibiki from Class 1C was the fifth person to die on the sixth week of the calamity.

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