Chapter 49: Changes at Tanaba University
The next week went by rather eventful: Shortly after the - now former - director of Tanaba University had informed the university about the murder of professor Fujibayashi, the firefighters had arrived minutes later to extinguish the fire that had now nearly reached the students´ lounges.
Mr. Bagman had been found unconscious shortly after in one of the amphitheatres, but couldn´t remember how he had ended up in that room.
The next day several public officials had arrived at the university to decide if the university should be closed or not. They had been nearly everywhere in the facility, from the hallways that connected the students´ lounges to the seminars where they wrote down everything on their clipboards.
More than necessary contact among the students was to be avoided as much as possible, and so they had decided on a curfew among the students that lived on campus for now, meaning every student who didn´t have to get something to eat from the cafeteria - which they had to eat in their lounge - had to return to their lounges immediately after the seminars were over. The public officers had deemed this a necessity since they suspected the culprit to be one of the students, and wanted to protect everyone this way. Also, the warning on the wall (`YOU ARE NEXT, PROFESSOR!´) had had a great role as well in that decision since the culprit was still planning to kill other professors or also students.
Ikas Ito had excused herself as ill to professor Yamagishi hours before the murder had happened, going back to her parents for a while to get better, at least that´s what Souji had gathered from the following Informatics seminar he had had. Not only he, but also the others of the group thought that this was quite strange since Ikas had just been staying with her parents a few weeks ago because of the same reason. Was her illness really bad or was there more behind it?
Of course, Yosuke had tried to defend her again, thus earning several annoyed glared by the others. No matter if she was the culprit or not, there was definitely something strange about that woman. Also strange was that Naoto who normally would have been the first to complain about Yosuke´s stubbornness hadn´t said anything at all. In fact, the young detective had decided to rather spend her time with the police officers that were stationed at the university - or to be more precise, Akihiko Sanada and occasionally Dojima who sometimes came by to give them updates on the serial killer case throughout Japan -, her reputation allowing her to roam freely around the campus. It seemed like Yosuke had struck a nerve on that night the murder had happened in Ikas´ lounge...
After five days the public officials had finally reached a decision and decided not to close Tanaba University, although strengthening security, enforcing new rules and selecting a new director who had introduce themself to them in a few days.
Souji couldn´t believe it when he had listened to some argument between two officials after one of Mr. Bagman´s seminars. Those two officials had mentioned something about `New director´ and `Bagman´. If Mr. Bagman became the next director, they could already start pre-ordering chastity belts right now!
- OVER 9.000!!!: What do you think our new director´s gonna be like, guys?
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: Thank god you finally changed your name, Kou! -.-'
- OVER 9.000!!!: Shut it, dude! :/
- Izanagi´s Tear: I think he or she will be stricter than the last one.
- AceDetective33: He has to be, after all that has happened.
- HassouTobiCrusher5000: I´ve some of the officials talk about Bagman-sensei becoming the new director.
- Meat-Momma2000: UGH! I think I´ll have to puke my guts out!
- BlueRose: I´ll join you, Chie-san!
- Souji´s Angel: Leave some space for little old me there, Patty and Chie-senpai! ^.^
- AceDetective33: Bagman-sensei would be the most logical choice, I think.
- GottaCrush´emAll: GHUjmk j,ioöüFinal Fantasy XIII Walkthrough (Blind) Part 20 lightning snow sazh vanille hope leonyaschwj39 l
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- Meat-Momma2000: Wow, welcome to the Yukiko club, Kanji.
- Izanagi´s Tear: Hey!
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: You´re watching Final Fantasy XIII, dude? Cool!
- OVER 9.000!!!: Thanks, Naoto! Because of your comment Kanji´s just spit his drink and half-eaten Mars on my shirt!
- Souji´s Angel: Who the hell still eats Mars these days?! Snickers has nuts! That´s manly!
- Izanagi´s Tear: hzjhnmik j9io,,ög,dfdjme3fkj jujkef i4ujkoijoö
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- Meat-Momma2000: And now the hyena is clinging to the keyboard again while laughing her ass off... *rolls eyes*
- BlueRose: Hmm... I´d like to eat a Snickers now, to be honest...
- Meat-Momma2000: Patty... are you sure you and Patty aren´t siblings?
- BlueRose: ?
- Meat-Momma2000: Never mind...
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: SUUUUUGAAAAAR!!!!!!!
- OVER 9.000!!!: GTFO the internet, Teddstar!
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: Damn... T-T
- Meat-Momma2000: Why is Brosuke letting him at his laptop again?
- HassouTobiCrusher5000: Teddie´s just breathed at Yosuke´s neck from behind. And, well, you know Yosuke...
- GottaCrush´emAll: Dude´s cowering in fear in the corner, righ´?
- HassouTobiCrusher5000: Yep.
- Souji´s Angel: That´s our Yosuke-senpai! *thumbs up*
*AceDetective33 went offline*
- GottaCrush´emAll: What´s wrong now?
- Izanagi´s Tear: Rise-chan?
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- HassouTobieCrusher5000: Rise?
- Souj´s Angel: She
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- Souji´s Angel: She´s turned off the laptop and left the lounge just like that without saying a word...
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: That´s our little Miss Sunshine!
- Meat-Momma2000: Oh, so you survived the eeeeeeevil homo attack, Brosuke? :P
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: Shut it, Fatonaka!
- Meat-Momma2000: Hey!
- OVER 9.000!!!: Hey!
- Souji´s Angel: Get a room!
- Meat-Momma: ...
- OVER 9.000!!!: .............
- Izanagi´s Tear: Please take care of her.
- HassouTobieCrusher5000: What do you mean, Yukiko?
- Izanagi´s Tear: Naoto.
- Izanagi´s Tear: I don´t know why. I just have this feeling. I
- Izanagi´s Tear: Please, take care of Naoto should you ever enter the TV world again.
- HassouTobiCrusher5000: I´ll promise, Yukiko.
- Izanagi´s Tear: Thank you, Souji-kun.
- BlueRose: But what exactly did you do to her to make her so mad, Yosuke-kun?
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: Hell if I know...
- GottaCrush´emAll: It ain´t good that she´s seperatin´ herself from us! All for one and one for all, righ´?
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: Riiii~ght~!
- GottaCrush´emAll: ???
- Souji´s Angel: You´re really adorable when you´re in your "Protect Naoto" mode, Kanji! ^.^
- GottaCrush´emAll: What the fuck?!
- Souji´s Angel: But I´ve got the PERFECT idea what we could do, guys!
- Meat-Momma2000: Oh?
- Souji´s Angel: Ice skating!
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- BlueRose: I looooove ice skating!
- Meat-Momma2000: .........
- Izanagi´s Tear: Me too!
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: Double-............
- HassouTobiCrusher5000: Ice skating, during the summer?
- Souji´s Angel: Exactly because it´s summer, Senpai! ^^ We could cool us and Naoto´s bad temper down a bit! I don´t know what Miss Shirogane´s problem is anyway. It´s like she´s PMS´ing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
- Izanagi´s Tear: Rise-chan!!!
- Souji´s Angel: But it´s true!
- Izanagi´s Tear: But a woman can´t be PMS´ing that long!
- Meat-Momma2000: You´re not supposed to take it literally, Yukiko! *facepalm*
- Souji´s Angel: Anyway, how about it? Ice skating, yes or no? There´s an ice skating hall a few kilometres away from here where I´d performed a few years ago when they had their grand opening. Normally it´s quite a crowd in there and fully booked, but I could use my position as an idol to get us in, if you like!
- Souji´s Angel: Well, what do ya think? ^.^
- OVER 9.000!!!: Well, it would definitely be fun, right?
- BlueRose: I think we should go!
- Izanagi´s Tear: Me too!
- Souji´s Angel: Me three!
- TonightWeGarudyneInHell: I´m in if I can see Fatonaka fall on her ass!
- Meat-Momma2000: Hey!
- OVER 9.000!!!: HEY!!!
- HassouTobiCrusher5000: Okay, try and see what you can do, Rise.
- Souji´s Angel: Yay! Love you, Senpai! XoXo
Two days after this interestingchat the students and professors of Tanaba University were to gather on the courtyard again after the seminars were over, one of the officials holding an hour-long speach to which all but Mr. Bagman who was applauding enthusiastically and professor Yamagishi out of politeness only smiled tiredly.
"... would we like to present you now the new duo that will Tanaba University from now on.", the official ended his speech, and all students looked up when the first of the duo - a man with silver hair - entered the podium. "Akihiko Sanada..." Akihiko Sanada smiled rather awkwardly while the students and professors applauded. "... and Chidori Yoshino!"
