Shiena tried to concentrate on what she was writing, but she couldn't ignore the gaze behind her back. Stealthily, the brunette tried to see if the girl was still looking at her. Shiena regret it when their eyes met. Shiena's classmate, a girl with long chestnut hair and brown eyes, gazed her. Since few days now, the girl tried to talk with her. Shiena didn't know her intention, so she ran away every time she tried to talk to her. With all the bullying she endured, Shiena couldn't trust anybody. The bell rang, the class was over. The brunette rose up from her chair, ready to leave.

"Kenmochi-san, come here please" asked her teacher.

Shiena blenched. Kamikuro Reiko, her first crush, was calling her. Usually, the brunette had tried to avoid her teacher, embarrassed by what she felt for her. Shiena slowly approached from Reiko, with some hesitation.

"Yes, Kamikuro-sensei?" asked Shiena, worried.

The teacher suddenly rose up, facing her student. Shiena could clearly see the height difference between them.

"Are you alright?" asked Reiko.

Shiena was a little bit surprised by her teacher's question.

"What do you mean?" asked the brunette.

"Is your life going well?"

The brunette remained silent. What she was supposed to answer? Her life wasn't good, but not bad either. Shiena had found someone she truly loved, but she was a dangerous serial killer wanted by the police. Her life wasn't going well, but she was still satisfied with her actual life.

"My life is…neutral, I suppose…" finally answered Shiena.

"You don't seem to have friends at school, Kenmochi-san. What's happen? Do you are bullied again?"

"No! That's not…I just don't want to have friends, I'm okay with my actual situation…"

Reiko smiled kindly, before patting Shiena's head. The brunette blushed a little.

"Don't close you heart to others, have faith in people's kindness. Not everyone is like those bullies, you know" said the teacher.

Shiena didn't really believe into people's kindness. After all what those bullies did to her, after all the wickedness she saw, she couldn't risk herself to trust people anymore.

"If you have any problem, you can always come to talk to me, you can trust me" added Reiko.

"I know, thanks sensei" Shiena looked at the clock. "Sorry, I have to go, I have to go at work"

"I understand, you can go. Take care of yourself, Kenmochi-san"

The brunette left the classroom. Shiena didn't seem to have noticed that they weren't alone in the classroom. Her classmate, the one who gazed her, was still there. The girl rose up and approached from the teacher.

"You're still here, Mikage-san" said Reiko.

"I heard what you said to Kenmochi-san"

"Oh, really? And? Aren't you the one who told me that you were worried for her?"

"Yes, because she's always alone, this is sad for her. I tried to talk with her, but she always ignore me"

The teacher sat back on her chair, thoughtful.

"Then, if you're really worried for Kenmochi-san, you should follow her" said Reiko.

"She'll run away, like she always did"

"Don't worry, Mikage-san. She won't ignore you, I can guarantee that she'll need you"

Shiena was walking, heading to the manga café, while thinking about what her teacher told her. Even if she really appreciated Reiko, that she liked her as a teacher, but the brunette couldn't trust her. The better way to not being hurt anymore was to never trust anyone again. Well, Otoya was maybe the only exception, along with Yukarin.

"Oh, fluffynerd! Long-time no see"

The brunette recognized the voice. This voice belonged to someone she hated. Shiena tried to ignore her and began to run. The other girl pursued her and grabbed Shiena by her arm, forcing the brunette to stop.

"That's impolite, don't ignore an old classmate like that!" she taunted.

Shiena couldn't do otherwise than facing the bully. She was a blond girl, a little bit taller than the brunette, with green eyes.

"Leave me alone, Tanaka!" shouted Shiena.

"Since when you can talk back? I see that you have some guts now, fluffynerd!"

Tanaka was one of the bullies who persecuted Shiena in the past. The reason what she wasn't dead like the other bullies was because Tanaka moved into another town few days before the bullies were murdered by the brunette's group.

"Why do you come back? You want to bully me again? You don't think that you already did enough bad things to me!?"

"Not my fault if you aren't tough enough to defend yourself" said the bully with a provocative smirk.

Shiena wasn't a really good fighter. She never fought back when the bullies maltreated her. But she changed a little since she became an assassin. She was ready now to give to this bully what she deserved. The brunette raised her fist and approached from Takana, angry.

"You killed them, don't you?" asked Takana, seriously.

The serious gaze from the bully made Shiena stopped. The brunette had the impression that Takana didn't come back only to bully her again, but for something far worst.

"I didn't kill them, the police showed that I was innocent" said Shiena.

"Don't try to fool me! Those guys bullied you, you're the only one who wanted them to be dead!"

Shiena recoiled a little bit. Takana gaze was aggressive, she seemed to be ready to attack.

"Like I said, I have an alibi, it wasn't me that…" began to say the brunette.

"You hired assassins to kill them, and I'll prove it to everyone. I'll show to everyone the disgusting freak you are!"

The brunette was worried. What Takana said was true, she asked to her group to kill the bullies. She was scared that Takana may have a proof of what she's done.

"That's enough, Takana-san! You better leave Kenmochi-san alone" said a feminine voice.

Shiena's classmate put herself between the brunette and the bully. A guy who looked like her arrived and stand in front of Takana too.

"Well, isn't the Mikage twins" said Takana, scornfully. "The brother and the sister who are a little bit too close…"

"Enough of you bullying shit, you bitch. Go away before we use your face as a punching ball" menaced the guy.

"You always being such a gentleman" taunted Takana. "Anyway, you don't interest me. I'll come back, fluffynerd, I don't have finish with you. I'll expose the truth!"

The bully ran away, while Shiena remained silent. This was the first time that someone protected her from being bullied, she didn't know how to react.

"Are you alright, Kenmochi-san?" asked the sister Mikage.

The twins Mikage were facing the brunette, waiting for an answer.

"T-thanks" stuttered Shiena. "I have to go, otherwise I'll be late at work…" she added, before beginning to run, heading to the manga café.

The twins exchanged a glance, before pursuing the brunette.

"Wait, Kenmochi-san!"