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He woke up finding himself on his bed, alive and kicking. His dreams had haunted him every night ever since his friend's death. He would dream of a boy dressing in a baggy clown suit and holding a 'Joker' card with a picture of a familiar looking girl with turquoise eyes printed on it. That mysterious boy would tell him weird and strange things which he could not comprehend nor remember what he had said when he woke up.
Maybe he did remember one sentence from that mysterious boy. Yes, only one sentence.
"Oliver, your impending death will glorify Miku Hatsune and Kami."
He clutched onto his shirt tightly and cried. What if what that boy had said was true? But he did not want to die. It was too early for him to die. Neither did he care about the legend of Miku Hatsune. He believed strongly that all those deaths could be explained using science. If not, everything would sound very ridiculous.
Suddenly, something dropped and rolled on the floor towards his bed. He looked at it and flinched.
It was a soft toy in a clown suit grinning mischievously at him. It looked like that mysterious boy in his dream. Getting out of his bed, he picked that toy up and scanned it from front to back.
"Weird... How did it get into my room? Whose toy is it?"
Case #13: Mysteriously Missing
It was the seventh week and five days had passed smoothly. It was too good to be true. Ten perfect and smooth going days were totally too good to be true. There were no deaths or any weird incidents took place over the past ten days. School lessons resumed as per normal and some students were just as paranoid as ever while some of them were acting as if nothing had ever happened in this school and their lives.
It was lunch break. Rin opened her slingbag and took out her huge lunchbox. She adjusted her tie and walked towards Piko's desk.
"Yo!" Rin gave Piko a toothy grin and slammed the lunchbox on his desk. "As promised, I have made you lunch."
Piko raised his eyebrow at her and asked, "Since when we promised on that?"
"It's yesterday," she replied. "How could you not remember? I promised you that I would make curry chicken rice for you and you said that you were fine with it."
"I forgot about it."
Rin pursed her lips and opened the lunchbox. The aroma of the curry entered into her nose, making her mouth watered. She remembered how Len used to like her home-made curry when they were in elementary school. The reason why she made curry for Piko was because she wanted to thank him for always taking care of her for the past few weeks in this school. She had to do it anyway because Len would be awake anytime and she had to leave this school too.
"Try the curry, Utatane. My cute little neighbour used to like it a lot."
"You mean the other Kagamine," he muttered softly. "Why don't you eat it yourself? I am going to the canteen to buy lunch for myself."
"Come on, Utatane! You should have a bite and you will never regret it!"
"And how would I know if you spiked the food?" His lips curled up into a smirk.
Rin inhaled deeper and snapped, "I didn't do that! Why are you so skeptical?"
"Because I'm born like that," he replied nonchalantly. "By the way, I am heading to the canteen now. It's up to you if you want to follow me or not because I am only trying one mouth of the curry chicken rice."
He sucked the side of his cheeks and looked away. Taking out his wallet from his bag, he walked out of the classroom hastily. Rin giggled to herself and followed him behind. If he wanted to eat it, he should just say so, she thought to herself. The day before, she was blabbering about Len's past and amidst of it, she had brought up about Len's favourite food- curry chicken rice. That was when Piko began to taunt and mock her cooking skills, although he had never tried them before. Then, she had made a promise to let him try her curry chicken rice once and also as a thank you treat from her.
As the two of them walked along the hallway where photographs, portraits and statues of Miku Hatsune were hung or placed almost every inch of, they happened to see a gang of big boys surrounding Kaito next to a small statue of Miku Hatsune. One of the big boys suddenly hurled his fist towards Kaito and punched him on his stomach. Kaito stumbled backwards and hit against the wall, earning a loud groan from him. Without thinking twice, Rin charged forward and pushed the muscular boy who had punched Kaito.
"What do you think you are doing to Kaito?" Rin shouted angrily at the muscular boy.
The boys looked at one another and started laughing. This annoyed Rin further as she prepared another punch for one of them but was immediately stopped by a hand gripped onto her extended hand tightly.
"Kagamine, don't be reckless."
Rin quickly released herself from him and shot Piko a glare.
She bellowed, "Let me handle them..."
"It's alright, Len. It's my fault," Kaito interrupted her in a weak and quivering voice. "I accidentally bumped onto Big Al's back so I think I deserve it."
Kaito had tears in his eyes and he was trembling in fear. Turning around to glare at the big boys, she folded the right sleeve of her blazer up and pursed her lips to form a straight line.
"Wow! Wow! Look, guys! Len Kagamine, the biggest sore loser of all sacrifices, is getting angry because of his sissy friend! Let's see what he has for us! Hahahaha!" the boy whom Rin had just pushed earlier jeered and the others laughed hysterically.
"Len, leave me alone. Don't involve yourself with me anymore," Kaito cried softly.
"I'm sorry, Kaito. We are friends," Rin said and grabbed Kaito's arm. "And we are all in this together. Let's go, Utatane."
Before Kaito could say anything, he felt a strong pull and realised that he was being dragged forward and away from the gang. He saw Rin trying her best to run in front of him while pulling him by his arm. At the mean time, he saw Piko running side by side with him. He turned around and saw the gang giving chase while shouting vulgarities.
For once, he regretted choosing to ignore 'Len' for the past few weeks due to his anger towards 'him' and had never expect 'him' to talk to him ever again, much less from saving him.
"I'm sorry, Len."
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Rin hugged her lunchbox as she squeezed in between Kaito and Piko. They had no choice but to hide in a small and cramped storeroom located near the gymnasium from the gang of big boys. What had they gotten themselves into?
The growling of the trio's stomachs became louder and louder as minutes passed by. They wanted food very badly but they could not leave the place for fear of pouncing on the gang again.
Rin placed her lunchbox on her lap and whispered, "If the two of you don't mind, why don't we share the curry chicken rice together?"
Kaito replied hesitantly, "S... Sure, I don't mind it at all. Thanks, Len."
"What? Using the same spoon?" Piko stared at the disposable spoon with disgust and shook his head. "No thanks, Kagamine. I am a very hygienic person."
"Then, Kaito and I will eat it since... you were quite reluctant to eat it anyway," Rin said as she opened the lid of the lunchbox.
"I will take one scoop of it first," Piko protested and grabbed the disposable spoon from her hand, then dug it into the rice.
After putting the rice into his mouth, he passed the spoon back to Rin. As a kind person, she allowed Kaito to eat before her so she handed the spoon to him. Kaito scooped up the rice and ate it.
"Len, it's delicious!" Kaito exclaimed. "I didn't know you can cook!"
"Thank you, Kaito. You know, I nearly burnt down my kitchen just to try making curry chicken rice for lunch," Rin lied with an assuring smile plastered on her face.
Just as when Kaito was about to return the spoon back to Rin to have her turn, Piko suddenly snatched it and scooped some rice into his mouth. Rin and Kaito stared confusedly at him as he licked his lips in contention and put the spoon back into the lunchbox.
"Hold on a minute, Utatane. I thought you said that you would only eat one mouth of it," Rin queried.
"No, I didn't."
"Liar!" Kaito and Rin said together and laughed at the coincidence.
Rin ate the rice too and savoured the curry with delight. She loved it. It had been a long time she had made curry and yet it was as delicious as ever. She shoved the spoon to Piko, thinking he might want to eat it again. And he did.
"Len," Kaito spoke. "Do you know who was that guy whom you pushed down earlier?"
"Nope," Rin answered.
Kaito sighed, "Neither did I until I bumped onto him. He said that he is a gang leader and his name is Al. His gang members call him Big Al because he is their leader and... you know, he's huge like hulk."
"Oh."
"If you happen to see him again, just try to avoid him or run away from that place. He is so scary!"
"What do you expect from a gang leader who looks like a hulk?" Rin joked and laughed.
"You're so funny," Kaito chuckled. "I can see that you are all right."
Rin continued to laugh and said, "Of course, I am."
"It must be hard on you since he suddenly went missing since yesterday and could not be found at all."
Rin stopped laughing and looked at Kaito questionably. Who went missing?
"I don't understand what you're talking about," Rin muttered softly.
Kaito frowned and asked, "Are you sure you don't even know a thing about your friend?"
"Who?"
"It's the blonde guy from the Art Club. Haven't you heard about him? It's all over the school now."
"I... I don't kn... know," Rin stammered. "What happened to him?"
There was a long silence as Kaito was debating with himself on whether he should tell her the bad news or just keep quiet about it. Rin's gaze locked on Kaito's eyes, anticipating whatever news that would come out from his mouth. Meanwhile, Piko was busying eating the curry chicken rice.
"That guy went missing without a trace since yesterday morning. Everything in his room was mysteriously gone and anything that involved him were mysteriously erased as well," Kaito said.
Still clueless about the situation, Rin asked again, "I still don't understand. What do you mean by anything involving him were erased?"
"If you try to key 'Oliver from Class 2A' in the school's server, you won't obtain any results from it. And furthermore, his worksheets, art pieces and even his school desk were gone," Kaito explained. "Worst of all, he is not even at home. The police have been trying to look for him but he was nowhere to be found."
"Do you think he has went overseas? Nobody just disappeared like that," Rin suggested calmly.
Kaito shrugged and replied, "Even his parents have no idea where he is now."
Rin stood up from their hiding place and dashed out of the storeroom before Kaito could stop her. Piko popped the last scoop of rice into his mouth and narrowed his eyes at her diminishing silhouette.
"How rash," Kaito mumbled and looked at Piko with a smile. "It can't be help, right? This is our dearest Kagamine, Piko Utatane."
-:-:-:-
Rin swung open the door and glanced around Oliver's room. It was so true that the room was empty, except for a cute little clown-like toy sitting on the window ledge. Rin walked towards it and picked it up. Taking out a penknife from her pocket, she slashed the abdomen and her fingers dug into the cotton wool. She found a small piece of paper inside the toy and unfold the paper. Similarly, there were cursive handwritings written in light grey ink on it.
From here, she knew that Oliver was gone for good. His entire existence and anything which were belonged to him were mysteriously erased from the surface of this Earth, except for the memories everyone had of him.
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