Meanwhile, in Class-D on the second floor…
"So, I assume all of you know about the separation of powers? There are three branches in our government. The National Diet is legislative, the Cabinet is executive, and the Supreme Court is judiciary. This division of power provide checks and balances, which ensures no one branch becomes unstoppable." said Ushimaru-sensei to the students.
As Akira was listening quietly and attentively to Ushimaru-sensei lecture about politicians and government, a black and white head of a cat suddenly popped out from inside Akira's desk, caused him to jumped and raised his arms a little and had a freak out look on his face when he saw Morgana suddenly popped his head out.
"Have you made up your mind, Joker?" whispered Morgana quietly to Akira (who's calm down and lowered his arms and glared down at Morgana for startling him before he quickly turned his attention back to Ushimaru-sensei's lecture). "No matter how much thinking you or the others do, there's only one option. You three would be better off just listening to me." Morgana added quietly to him.
"How did you get in there, Morgana?" whisper Akira in annoyance at Morgana.
"Hm? Did I just hear a cat just now?" said Ushimaru-sensei as he and the students started looking around the classroom for Morgana after they heard him meowing while Akira tensed a little in his seat and Morgana quickly hide himself back into Akira's desk.
"M-Meow!" said Morgana.
"Seriously, Morgana?" whisper Akira sarcastically at Morgana.
"What else am I suppose to say besides meowing?" whisper Morgana sarcastically back at Akira.
"Could that rumoured cat be somewhere nearby…? Settle down! We're in the middle of an important lecture!" snapped Ushimaru-sensei quite loudly and fiercely to wherever Morgana's meowing was coming from before he turned to write something on the blackboard.
After Ushimaru-sensei turned to the blackboard, Akira felt his phone vibrating and he discreetly pull it out to see and read the messages under his desk and near Morgana.
RS: It's no use… I can't think of any other way…
AK: What are you doing messaging us during class time? Concentrate on class. You'll be in more big trouble if the teacher in your class caught you messaging us.
RS: I can't deal with that shit right now, you guys! I mean, what're we gonna do about Kamoshida? Do we just gotta go along with what that cat say? Urgh, that damn furball…
"If he only knew I'm reading this too…" whisper Morgana slightly sad and hurtfully to Akira.
"There, there, Morgana…" said Akira in a comforting tone of voice to Morgana as he turned off and quickly put his phone back into his pocket before he heard the sound of a chair skidding quite loudly to his far right and he glance and saw that a male student had stood up from his seat and is staring out the hallway window now.
"Hey… What's that…!?" asked the male student in surprise.
"Enough! This is a classroom!" scolded Ushimaru-sensei as he glared at the male student who stood up from his seat.
"Wait…! She's going to jump…!" said the female student sitting behind the male student as she stood up as well (which caused the other students to begin chatting fervently).
"Suzui…?" said Mishima as he stood up with a shock look on his face.
"Shiho…?" said Ann with a worry look on her face as she stood up as well before she quickly run out of the classroom toward the hallway windows and look up at the school's roof.
Akira watched as Ann stood up and run out of the classroom before he stood up and run out of the classroom after her, stand behind Ann and look out the hallway windows up at the roof with her (and the other students from their class and other classrooms) and both Akira and Ann saw Shiho standing at the edge of the roof with a despair look on her face.
"Shiho… Don't do it, please…" whisper Ann in a pleading tone of voice as she closed her eyes and clasped her hands together in a prayer manner.
"What is she thinking!? And why the hell isn't anyone going up there to stop her?" thought Akira as he watched with a grim look on his face.
"Hey, isn't that the other transfer student standing behind her!?"
"What is he doing up there with her too?"
"Maybe he's trying to prevent her from jumping?"
"What? Did they just say that Arisato-senpai is up there with her?" thought Akira as he try to look clearly and saw that Minato is indeed up there with Suzui, trying to talk and prevent her from jumping.
"Shiho… Please help her…" whisper Ann worriedly for Suzui then hopefully for Minato.
Akira watched as Suzui scream at Minato to stay away but he shook his head and talk to her some more before she started crying and screaming some more while hugging her shaking form. Akira then saw Minato's face turned pale with horror before he softly wrapped his arms around Suzui, which make her started thrashing around, causing Minato to try to calm her down to no avail before she break free from him, started to fall and he quickly crouch down, leaned over and grabbed hold of her hand before she yell at him, start struggling then raised her other hand to scratch Minato's hand holding her hand hard and make him accidentally let go of her and she fall and landed with a loud crack on the courtyard ground before Minato got taken away by another person on the roof with him.
"Oh my god! How could she do that to Arisato-senpai when he's trying to help her!? Also, what happened to her that make her wanna jump in the first place!?" thought Akira in shock and horror in his mind at what he just saw happening to Shiho and Minato trying to help her to no avail outside while the students and Ushimaru-sensei yelling around him and Ann.
"No… Why…? Shiho…!" said Ann as she widened her eyes and covered her mouth with her hands in shock and horror before she turned, pushed and run past Akira and the other students toward the courtyard.
"Takamaki-san, wait!" Akira yell out to Ann before he and Ryuji (who's just arrived after he run out of his classroom) run after Ann.
Once Akira, Ryuji and Ann arrived and pushed their way past the students (who's holding up their phones to take pictures and recording the grim scene before them) into the courtyard, they saw that an ambulance had already arrived and 2 paramedics were carefully lifting and putting Shiho down on a stretcher.
"Class is still in session!" a teacher yell out to the students to no avail.
"Shiho…!" said Ann in sorrow and pain to herself as she glance at Shiho.
"What the hell's wrong with these people…!?" said Ryuji as he glance around at the students with their phones out for taking pictures and video recordings with an angry look on his face.
"That's just how they are, Ryuji-kun. They're like onlookers at a car crash. As long as it doesn't happened to them and they don't care at all." said Akira in grim anger to Ryuji.
"We need someone to go with her… Are there any teachers around?" asked one of the paramedics concernly to the crowd of students and teachers.
"I-I'm not in charge of her class though…" said one of the teachers as he look away.
"We should leave this to Principal Kobayakawa…" said another teacher hesitantly.
"I'll go!" insisted Ann when she saw with a frustrated look on her face that none of the teachers volunteer to go with Shiho.
"Please hurry!" the paramedic urged Ann before he moved aside for her to approach and kneel down next to Shiho.
"Shiho… Why…?" whisper Ann sorrowfully at Shiho.
"A-Ann…?" said Shiho as she weakly opened her eyes and glance sadly at Ann. "I'm sorry. I-I can't take this… anymore… Also, can you tell… Arisato-san that… I'm very sorry for…. rejecting his help… and hurt him, please?" added Shiho more sadly and guiltily to Ann.
"Of course I will tell him, Shiho. But still, why would you…?" said Ann as she lowered her head closer to Shiho, listen to what she tell her before she suddenly lifted her head in shock after she heard what Shiho just told her. "…Huh? …Kamoshida!?"
"Ngh…" groaned Shiho as she closed her eyes and fell unconscious.
"No… Shiho!?" said Ann in despair to Shiho's unconscious form before she stood up, let the paramedics lifted and put the stretcher holding Shiho into the ambulance before Ann quickly got into the ambulance with her while the paramedics went to the front of the ambulance and drove out of the school.
"Volleyball team…" said Ryuji to himself and to Akira before they both noticed Mishima started freaking out and he turned and run away past the students out of the courtyard. "That guy… Hey, wasn't Mishima acting weird?" asked Ryuji with a suspicious look on his face at Mishima.
"Yeah, he does. He must know something about what happened to Shiho and why she suddenly want to killed herself and rejected Arisato-senpai's help." replied Akira. "Let's go after and corner him to make him talk then, Sakamoto-kun." said Akira firmly to Ryuji.
"Yeah. Come on." said Ryuji as he nodded to Akira before they turned and run to pursuit Mishima. After a few minutes of searching the school for him, they caught and corner him inside an empty lockers room (while Morgana lie down at the top of the lockers and look down at them in silence).
"Ow! That hurts!" said Mishima as he winced and rubbed his sore hands.
"Why'd you run off like that? Huh!?" said Ryuji as he scowled at Mishima while Akira glance at him in silence.
"I didn't run…" muttered Mishima as he lowered his head to look down on the floor.
"She rejected Arisato-senpai's help and jumped and tried to kill herself!" yell Ryuji as he glared at Mishima and banged his fist against the lockers.
"…L-Leave me alone…" whimpered Mishima as he cowered away from Ryuji.
"That's enough, Sakamoto-kun! You are scaring him so calm down!" snapped Akira at Ryuji.
"But…!" Ryuji began protesting as he glance at Akira.
"Stop protesting and calm down, alright? Let me talk to him instead." said Akira firmly to Ryuji and he fell silent before he glance at Mishima. "Listen to me, Mishima-kun. If you know something about what happened and why Suzui rejected Arisato-senpai's help and wanted to kill herself, please tell us." asked Akira softly to Mishima.
"He's right! We ain't trying to get you busted. We won't say you talk either!" said Ryuji softly yet firmly to Mishima.
"Suzui… She was called out by Kamoshida-sensei!" confessed Mishima despairingly to them as he grabbed his head with his two hands.
"Wait, what!?" said Ryuji as he and Akira gasped and widened their eyes in surprise at Mishima.
"I was called by him a number of times too… to the PE room." Mishima resumed saying defeatedly to them. "It wasn't just me or Suzui either. He'd nominate someone when he was in a bad mood… and hit them."
"So the physical punishment thing was for real…" said Ryuji as he clench his fists angrily.
"But yesterday, he called Suzui out of the blue. She didn't make any mistakes or anything… Kamoshida-sensei seemed really irritated that day, so it must have been… worse than usual." said Mishima more despairingly to them before he trailed off into silence.
"Worse than usual? Oh my god, don't tell me that he…" thought Akira in horror than anger at Kamoshida in his mind.
"He didn't…! That son of a bitch…!" said Ryuji as he realised what Mishima meant before he turned around, let out an angry yell then run away from them out of the locker room.
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Meanwhile, in the infirmary room…
Minato winced in pain a little when Hanzo pressed and rubbed the cloth soaked with antiseptic on the scratch wounds on his right wrist. "That really stings, Hanzo-kun." complain Minato.
"Then why don't you keep quiet and stay still so that it won't sting, Minato-kun?" said Hanzo sternly to Minato as he kept on pressing and rubbing the cloth on Minato's injured wrist until he's done then he put the cloth away, take some white bandage cloth and wrapped and tied it around his wrist. "There, all done now." added Hanzo reassuringly to Minato.
"Thanks, Hanzo-kun… By the way, why didn't you help us both on the roof just now? If you had help us then Suzui-san wouldn't have…" said Minato in a disappointed tone of voice at Hanzo.
"…You're right, I could have, should have help but instead I… just froze, watch and do nothing to help you and Suzui-san. And I'm sorry for that, Minato-kun." said Hanzo sadly and guiltily to Minato.
"… It's fine and come on, Hanzo-kun. We need to report and explain what happened to the teachers right now!" said Minato firmly to Hanzo.
"… Yeah, Minato-kun. Luckily I know of one teacher who actually cares and will do something to help out." said Hanzo as he nodded at Minato.
"That's good, at least, isn't it, Minato?" said Pharos in slight relief to Minato.
"Yeah, at least, Pharos." said Minato in agreement with Pharos. "And who is this teacher that cares and will help us?" asked Minato.
"Our homeroom teacher, Kanakubo-sensei. Let's go, Minato-kun." replied Hanzo before both he and Minato quickly left the infirmary and head toward the faculty office to tell Kanakubo-sensei about it.