As we walk to school Kokoa explains her encounter with the supposed prankster last night. The report says that the victim this time was a Junior named Kokko Nakamoto and her jersey along with her skirt were cut with some sort of blade and due to the force used, she had cuts on her chest.
"The serial prankster is most likely the one who did this. I'm certain.", Kokoa says as we enter the school building.
"What all do we know about this serial prankster, Yukari?", Tsukune asks.
"Well, originally the prankster was just tearing female students' uniforms at night while hiding in the night fog, but recently it's escalated to injuring them physically though it is just lightly.", Yukari explains as we continue to the Newspaper Club room.
Kokoa looks pissed and says, "We can't allow this. I don't care about the pranks, but a cowardly bastard like that needs to be taken in right away."
I pat her on the head and say, "That's the spirit, now you said you saw this guy in his monster form, right? What did he look like?"
Kokoa seems to think about it for a split second and says, "He was a werewolf, no doubt about it."
"A werewolf?", Kurumu asks.
Kokoa nods her head and says, "He also had an Osaka accent, some sort of hairband in his hair and a silver choker around his neck."
We all are shocked by this description, because we all know exactly who that looks like. As we enter the Newspaper Club room we see our club president, Ginei Morioka, sitting in a chair reading a copy of our latest newspaper. He looks back at us and says, "Hey guys, it's been a while huh?"
Moka introduces him saying, "This is Ginei Morioka, our club president."
Kokoa gives him a death stare and shouts, "You're the culprit!", before lunging at him.
As the furious vampire bashed the wolf's head against the chalkboard, Yukari tries to pull her away, but she doesn't have the strength to get her off.
Mizore and I are able to loosen her grip and save Ginei, but he seems to slide down the board leaving a blood trail as he goes. Mizore holds Kokoa in place while telling her, "You're supposed to point out the culprit after you've gathered all the proof. And don't forget to say, 'Now every mystery has been solved', or some kind of catchy tag line."
Moka apologizes to Gin for her sister's actions, but he seems to be okay. Once he gets back to his feet he looks at Kokoa and says, "So this is the younger sister you were telling me about, Moka. This is my first time meeting her. She's quite a pretty one, isn't she?" He then stoops down and says, "But yeah, these are still sort of...", while he stared at her chest in disappointment. He then goes over to Kurumu and fondles one of her breasts while saying, "I'd love it if the developed about as much as these.", while pointing at Kokoa with his free hand.
Kurumu quickly pounds a crater into his face to free herself before he actually introduces himself to Kokoa. He says, "Well anyhow, I'm Gin, the club president. Nice to meet you eh Kokoa.", while extending his hand out to her for a handshake.
Kokoa surprisingly shakes his hand and says, "Nice to meet you.", but I know she's planning something. After Gin leaves we all leave the room, except for Moka and Tsukune, to go do our own things I guess.
I walk through the forest like I usually do on my morning smoke breaks, but today I see Kokoa stalking Gin. What is she doing? Her hair is such a bright color that anyone could spot her from that distance. I decide to follow her while hiding inside shadows like I usually do when I really need to not get caught, though this does take a bit more energy. As I watch the small vampire hide behind a trash can, it opens up and Mizore pops her head out to greet her.
Then Kurumu pops out from inside a nearby bush and after Kokoa reels back in surprise from this, the three girls all talk about tailing Gin. They find themselves some cardboard boxes and use them as mobile hiding places, though they kind of drew on them so they stand out a bit. I get close enough to hear what they are saying, but lucky for me none of them are adept at sensing monster energy. Kurumu says, "I wonder. That guy is a pervert who gropes girls' tits as a hello and steals things from the girls changing room, but,..."
Mizore jumps in to the fray, finishing the Succubus' sentence for her by saying, "Yeah, he's not that evil that he'd go out and hurt someone like this."
Kokoa raises an eyebrow at the girls and asks, "So why are you two tailing him then?"
Glancing over at the vampire, Kurumu gives the redhead a stern glare before turning her gaze back to their target and responding with, "Because you smell something, don't you? Gin is hiding something other than this incident and we're going to get to the bottom of it.", as they continue to stalk the wolf boy like he were their prey.
They find a perfect place to stop and Mizore says, "During the break Gin sort of helped us out a bit with some stuff. You know how that all goes, right?"
What exactly are they talking about? Did Gin help them with their training too? Why wasn't I invited to help train!?
"He helped you guys? Are you good friends?", Kokoa questions the two older girls as she pops out of her box.
They shake their heads no and Kurumu answers her, growling, "We've got all sorts of grudges against that guy just waiting to pay him back for one of these days." Kokoa and I see Gin turn the corner and spot all three of them while Kurumu says, "I can't wait until the day we'll be able to let out all of our anger on him."
As Kokoa points towards Gin the girls turn around to see Gin shaking his head in disappointment. He reaches to grope them again, but I'm not having any of that. He already got one today, he isn't getting two more freebies.
I leap out of the shadow that I was hiding in and slam his face into the nearby wall causing it to crack.
"Reiji!? You were following him too?!", Kurumu asks relieved that I stopped Gin.
I dig my fingernails into his skin a bit and say, "I was just keeping an eye out for you three. I let that slide once today Gin. I don't do repeats."
I pull his head away from the wall to see that his nose is dripping with blood, for probably the first reasonable time, and he says, "Hiding in the shadows, didn't know you could do that. I'll keep that in mind next time." I let him go, hoping that he has learned something from the taste of concrete and he asks, "You still suspect me, Kokoa? That I'm the supposed prankster?"
Kokoa replies with, "Come on. I saw you yesterday at the crime scene. The way you talk, that was you, no doubt about it."
Then Gin gets a smirk on his face and turns around while wiping the blood from his nose before saying, "Then, didn't I give you a bit of advice? Don't mix yourself up in this for your own good."
Kokoa shouts, "The fact that you know that means for sure it was you!"
He turns and says with a serious face, "Yeah, I'm the prankster." Why would he admit to something like that? As he walks away, he says to Kokoa, "Tonight, come alone to yesterday's spot. If you do I'll tell you everything." As he walks out of sight, we all just kind of look at each other confused.
As day fades into night, I head out to help Kokoa if she needs my help. If she can handle Gin all by herself then I won't get involved, but if she's in danger then I'll protect her just like I would the others.
When I make it to the last crime scene, I hide in one of the nearby shadows and wait for any sign of trouble. After a bit of time passes, I see Gin walk up to the scene before stopping and standing alone, staring up at the full moon.
This isn't good. If they end up fighting Gin will be at full power. And not a cloud in sight either.
Out of the dusk coated forest, I hear Kokoa as she walks to the spot while saying, "It's obvious you want to kill me. 'I'll tell you everything,' yeah right. Calling someone out to a place like this, are you trying to silence me?"
Gin simply replies, "Nah, I will tell you everything. If you are able to beat me.", before he begins to change into his monster form.
Kokoa only grins at the werewolf and shouts out, "Fine by me! Let's do this Ko!" On command, Ko turns into a rapier and she quickly slashes at him. She seems to believe that she is hitting him, but there clearly isn't any blood.
Gin ends up behind her and says, "Pretty good. You're definitely Moka's little sister, but the thing you're hitting is just a tombstone." He goes to sweep down at her, but someone grabs her and saves her by pulling her out of the way just in time to evade his attack. As he pulls his fist from the ground he says, "You guys came too? Stupid followers."
I look over to see that Mizore and Kurumu also showed up to help and they have Kokoa by her shirt. As she dangles from Mizore's claws Kokoa looks to the girls in complete disbelief and asks, "Kurumu? Mizore? What are you two doing here? I can take this guy on myself!"
Mizore pats her on the head and says, "Silly, there's no way you can beat that pervert-wolf on you own, but actually he's our 'instructor.'" What does she mean by 'instructor?'
Kokoa seems to be as confused as I am by this as she asks, "Instructor?"
Kurumu goes on to explain, saying, "Like I said, we have grudges against him. Mizore and I learned to fight better from Gin."
"From that guy!?", Kokoa exclaims as she points at Gin.
The Succubus grits her teeth and growls, "But the thing is, the only reason he did it was to sexually harass us! The whole time we were practicing he'd touch our breasts and legs and do all sorts of horrible things to us!"
"I don't know how many times I've thought of killing him.", Mizore adds as she seems to tremble in her shoes.
"So what we've been waiting for was this chance.", Kurumu notes as she raises an eyebrow at the duo.
"Once he commits a crime, we can publicly lynch him.", they both growl in unison as they turn their gaze back to the werewolf.
"So you guys went to Gin for training advice before me? That hurts.", I sarcastically question them as I walk out from the shadows.
"Reiji? When did you get there?", Kokoa questions me as they turn to see me standing halfway out of the shadows.
"I've been waiting to see if you guys could beat Gin, but you were taking too long so I thought I'd speed things up by breaking his legs.", I reply as I light myself a cigarette. I flash the seal at him and ask the perverted werewolf, "Just like last time, right Gin?", before transforming into my SS class super monster form. The rush of energy feels better than anything I can imagine. I pull the cigarette out of my mouth and burn it to ashes in my hand while saying, "Hopefully you learned a few new tricks dog, because I sure have since we last fought."
He begins to back up, muttering to himself, "This isn't good. I can't handle the three of them let alone you on top of that!"
I laugh at the fool and tell him, "Well then, you shouldn't have got so touchy with them then. Now hold still so I can just break your legs."
"How about we team up and kill him? With this lineup we can't lose.", Mizore suggests as she walks over to my side.
"Yeah, lets quadruple team him.", Kurumu adds as she joins the snow woman.
"It's fair since he's an evil bastard.", Kokoa says as she readies her weapon and steps in front of me, ready to take on the rogue werewolf.
Suddenly I hear a rustle in the bushes and I see Gin's ears perk up too. He must've heard it too. The girls rush in to attack him, but he panics and screams, "Waaaahhhhh! You don't have to kill me! I can't handle all four of them on my own! I'm going to die! Somebody help!"
They all charge at him one more time with Kokoa shouting, "Just accept it and die you bastard!"
Before they can lay into him though, a girl dressed in the female Yokai Academy uniform jumps out from the bushes and shouts, "Stop! Please just stop it!"
It looks like the girl from the report, Kokko. What is the meaning of this? "You're the girl from yesterday! What are you doing here?", Kokoa asks as they all stop their attack.
Kokko hesitates at first, seeming to back away from the hostile girls before saying, "It's all just a coincidence. I just so happened to be walking nearby when I heard the sound of fighting so I..."
But before she can finish Moka, Yukari and Tsukune show up and Moka says, "No, I don't thing it's coincidence. You protected Gin. That's proof that you have feelings for him. And those feelings were what motivated you to commit these crimes! You're the serial prankster aren't you Kokko Nakamoto?"
"Moka? Yukari? Tsukune? What's going on?", Kurumu questions them as she looks to the group with a raised eyebrow.
"You think I'm the culprit? Why would you think that?", Kokko innocently asks the master detectives, seeming cold and ignorant as she asks.
Moka hands Kurumu the case victim list and says, "All the girls had one point in common, the possible reason as to why they were targeted, but you didn't have that common point, Kokko."
With her secret revealed to us all, blood gushes out from Kokko's head as she says, "Yes, it seems you've seen through me already."
Seeing the blood rushing out from the culprit's head, Kokoa begins to panic, shouting, "Kokko, you're bleeding! You're bleeding!"
Kokko calmly tells the girl, "Don't worry about it. I'm a creature who can manipulate my blood. When you saw me on the ground yesterday I was only smeared with the same blood, to pose as a victim. I attacked the girls while hiding in a fog I made with this blood, ripping their uniforms was a 'warning' to stay away from Gin."
"It was really you? Why?", Kokoa asks as she takes a step back from the girl.
"Because they just got in the way. Since there were so many girls around him the only thing i could do was look at him from far away. 'If only they weren't there anymore.' 'If only those girls stopped going near him.' I felt so worthless! I wanted him to notice me, even if it was just once.", Kokko cries out as tears begin to well up in her eyes. As the defeated girl fights through the tears she says, "The 'common point' that the girls all had was that they were Gin's exs. The only one who wasn't was me. That was stupid of me."
Everyone just doesn't know what to do and Kurumu says, "What is that? Are you crazy? That's going way too far just for a one-way crush! People got hurt!"
To everyone's surprise, Gin begins to laugh as he changes back to his human form. "I told you, didn't I, Kokoa? There you have it! I just put on a little act to draw out the perpetrator!", Gin exclaims as he laughs.
"You used me!?", Kokoa shouts furious with being used as a pawn.
"This was just the easiest way to draw out the culprit.", the pervert replies as he continues to laugh at the situation. "Well, actually, even I didn't think she'd get snagged this easily. What a dumbass!", he continues mocking the girl, causing Kokko to cry even more. He then begins to list off as many exs as he can remember causing Mizore, Kokoa, Kurumu and myself to get sick of his shit and knock him the fuck out in a group strike.
"What a horrible man, why did I ever fall for a guy like that? 'Woah, you're pretty cute without your glasses Kokko.' Hehe, I'm really stupid huh?", Kokko tells herself as she continues to cry.
Moka and Kokoa help the crying girl to her feet and I revert back to my normal form. I make my way over to the teary-eyed girl and I say, "You know, the Headmaster might cut you a deal if you talk to him about this. And we don't have to use any names when we write our article for the newspaper, so nobody will know it was you."
As we sit in the club room the next day looking over today's paper Tsukune says, "I wonder if he did it on purpose. He was already suspected form the very beginning so he might have played the villain just to cover up the crime."
"Why are you saying that now?", Kokoa asks as she too looks over the paper.
"No, no! You're thinking about this too much Tsukune!", Kurumu suggests as she waggles her finger in front of the boy's face and Mizore shakes her head no at the thought of Gin trying to really help someone.
"I was thinking the same thing.", Moka says causing the other girls to look at her in confusion. "See, when Kokoa first mistook Gin for the culprit he didn't try to prove his innocence even though he easily could, right? I didn't understand why this whole time, but if you say that Gin was just covering for her then it all comes together quite nicely, right?", Moka explains, to which I raise an eyebrow.
I let out a heavy sigh and add, "Maybe a bit too nicely, don't you think? Real life isn't like a fairy tale book with happy endings and people saving others out of love or some shit."
"No way! That idiot can't possibly have any form of truth like that behind him!", Kurumu shouts at the pink-haired vampire, rejecting Moka's idea.
"What are we talking about?", Gin asks as he gropes her breast again. As he continues to feel her up, he says, "Hmm, nice and perky today too, huh?"
In retaliation, Kurumu shoves the wolf away and starts chasing after him with a chair as a weapon while shouting, "I'm gonna kill you here and now you perverted wolf!"
"Sexual Harassment is a far worse crime than pulling pranks.", Yukari says as Kurumu continues to miss Gin.
