Room 210

- Hina

- Hina! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

I'm slowly opening my eyes. By the time they get used to the daylight, I wonder what time it is. Useless thinking. The second hand of my alarm clock makes a deafening noise. I finally see the face of Nagi, my little brother, frowning.

- Do you see the time? You're going to be late! What did you do yesterday?

I leaned on the left side of my bed and read the time. It's 7:35 in the morning. I get up slowly, put on my frog-like slippers, and join Ame in the kitchen. Ame is the name of our cat. We took him in a few months ago. He's tiny. I prepare my breakfast: cereals, milk, orange juice, to make it original. But my brother brings me back to my senses, I must say I wasn't fully awake yet.

- Are you serious? It takes you 20 minutes to get to school!

I spit out the milk and cereal and ran for the door before I realized I didn't have my school stuff. Once I'm outside, I check the time one last time.

- 7h45 ! Arriving late the day after school, what a bummer... and then, he didn't answer.

It was a guy named Hikari who gave me his line address. I'm still skeptical. Working with a kind of hothead doesn't make me happy, he doesn't control his emotions. The classroom fire extinguisher flew almost four times, hitting many students. I have been able to identify some groups, but it is still hypothetical, and the idea of having to choose sides depresses me.

It's with a bitter taste in my throat for the second time this week that I hit the road to Koyama High School.

Bummer. Bad luck. Coming in late would be the perfect opportunity to take it all in.

Current time: 8:02 a.m.

Koyama Technological High School

Estimated travel time: 10min

These applications are much more frank than my mind, so I might as well just shout it out right now.

- I'll never make it on time, it's ruined! I shouted.

Passers-by looked at me in amazement. I looked completely stunned, some students were staring at me.

- The Formatheux, there! Let's move it!

Luck of the morning: the pain in the ass on duty is also late, which rules out any possibility of a massacre. A feeling of joy makes its entrance. I feel myself galloping like a unicorn on the asphalt darkened by the rain, and I can't help smiling a mocking smile.

- You sons of bitches! What a beautiful morning!

From here you can see the Tokyo Tower, an identical or almost identical replica of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I can see the Rainbow Bridge wedged right underneath the first floor of the tower. The frost that had settled last night was in phenomenal quantity, which is quite unusual, allowing me to do some controlled slides. A feeling of happiness warms my stomach.

- Shinzo sasageyo (1) Lodaka! A student from my class shouts at me, to my great surprise. Many buses are stopped due to the exceptional bad weather, many pupils of my class call me with rather encouraging nicknames, a first. They ended up improvising a few errands on the sidewalks opposite the boulevard, a good atmosphere settles in. My confrontation yesterday may have brought them back down to earth. In any case, I don't intend to let it happen again.

- Tokyo is great!

8h10

I'm coming up breathless in front of the school gate. The bell for the beginning of classes used in all the high schools in the area rings. I missed the morning ritual, but I'll be on time. Between the incidents that took place daily in front of the Asakusa shrine, and the elderly women who needed help crossing the road, resolving them had filled me with determination for the rest of the day. I'm going to room 210 to put down my work stuff, it's a question of being efficient this afternoon, preparing an itinerary in this labyrinth that is Tokyo should not be taken lightly. It's about being ready!

8h12

Table of absences :

Tuesday: Mrs. Chaslaine - Day

Mr. Katawarase - Morning

- How ironic.

- High five, boys!

- Absenteeism! No way! When we have to work on Friday...

Many complaints are made. I remain impassive in the face of this act of I don't know what Shinto gods. For a reason unknown to me, misfortune turned for me, and the good omen took over. Kirigaya has lost sight of me, I can say that I am saved. I see several students from my class in the news corridor. Most of them are leaving, some stay to admire the posters advertising the clubs in the school.

The hallway was getting quiet. I couldn't hear a sound. It was as if I was in a second state. The walls were breaking down, but I could still hear the sound of the pieces of plasterboard rattling against each other. The corridor slowly becomes like a catacomb. Footsteps are heard, I am alone. At least I was. Kirigaya and his gang approach me.

- He was definitely there. Thank you Kanade!

She was one of this morning's students. Why was she there? Her face shows no emotion, she seems to act without any personal will. The lure of gain quickly converts all my new knowledge. Everything was played, fictitious. Making friends is purely utopian. It smells like a setup by the class influencers ten miles away, the second one this week.

- Because now you're paying the students to beat the shit out of me? I say with some semblance of confidence. I'm struggling to reassure myself. My heartbeat becomes irregular, I breathe heavily. Their bodies of traitorous warriors come towards me at the rhythm of death that comes to annihilate a soul. I run with all my strength. I jump the steps of the staircase to reach the second floor. At the end of the corridor, there is a tomb, there is nothing more symbolic. Why does everything have to end like this? What have I done to deserve such a thing? No matter how horrible it is, I can't escape it anymore. I stumble, and without realizing it, I stumble into room 210, before meeting a young schoolgirl with her eyes.

- There he is! Let's get him! 30,000 yen (2) to whoever catches him!

The doors open one by one, countless zombies approach, my hearing gets blurred, as if I were drowning. The young girl takes my hand and pronounces my name before adding an expression straight out of a dialect unknown to me.

- Ikou (3) !

1 "Give your heart..." ... for your country, from the anime "Attack of the Titans", even if it's not a good idea to do so.

2 About 250€.

3 "Let's go! »