Chapter 12: unrequited love

"…It was me!"

That statement left everyone speechless.

"What are you saying?" You said you considered her a sister! "Saori said, stunned.

"In reality it was much more for me. I was in love of her. Her face, her nature ... Everything about her had bewitched me. "

"So why did you kill her?" Hana asked.

"The day before the final, fearing that our school had the hours counted, I decided to declare my feelings."

Start flashback

Miho and Yukari were walking through the streets of Kumamoto, one next to the other.

"So ... Tomorrow we will face the Kuro." The second said.

"Yeah ... We'll have to work hard to win the tournament and stop the school from closing." The first answered.

"It will be difficult, is not it?"

"Very ... So what I say, once I was one of them, I'm practically unbeaten, if you exclude the defeat of a year ago, caused only by me."

"You saved your teammates, right? Anyone would have acted that way."

"Yeah ..."

She snorted, while her expression darkened.

"Miho! What's up?"

"I'm afraid, Yukari ... If tomorrow we should lose for Ooarai it will be the end. The school will close its doors, and what I now consider a family will fall apart. You, Hana, Saori and the others ... I will not see you again. "

In response, Yukari took her hand, staring intently into her eyes.

"Do not be so bad! As long as you are there to guide us we will have a chance of victory! The day before yesterday we did not even have one of our team, yesterday we were cowards fleeing in panic! But you ... Yes, you made us strong, you gave us hope, you led us to victory against the strongest teams, like Saunders or Pravda! "

"Against Pravda she also played the luck ... If Katyusha had not decided to give us three hours we would have surely been defeated."

"It matters little. You are everything for us: a sincere and wonderful friend, a charismatic and talented leader, a great strategist! And above all ... You are the person who has conquered my heart ... "

Said this she did to kiss her, but Miho stepped back, shaking her head.

"No, Yukari ... We can not." She said.

"What? Why? "Yuka asked, surprised by that refusal.

"I see you as a friend, nothing more."

"But I fell in love with you, Miho! Please do not reject me! Accept my feelings! "

"No."

That answer made her angry not a little.

"I offer you my love ... And you spit in my face?"

"I love another person, Yukari ..."

"Who?"

"I can not tell you."

"Hana? Saori? Mako? "

"I can not tell you."

Yukari, angry, clutched her right hand into a fist.

"All right ... But know that if you can not be mine you will not be of any other!"

That said she turned her heels and left.

End flashback

"That same night I introduced myself into her apartment and strangled it using the fishing line I had bought in the city. I knew no one would ever suspect me, and so it was. But, given the consequences of my gesture ... "

She pointed with a finger at the landscape around them, damaged by the battle and strewn with debris and bodies, wounded or corpses.

"I had to reveal myself, to avoid worse consequences."

"Here, have you heard all of them?" Asked Maho.

"One moment! Who is it that Miho loved in secret? "Hana asked.

"Me!" Erika answered.

Nishizumi junior and the others presented looked at her in a daze.

" You did not misunderstand, but I repeat it: it's me the other girl!"

"It is not possible! You hate it! "Saori exclaimed.

"It was a sham, was not it?" Mako asked.

"However, despite your stupid face you have a good brain! In the early days I was angry with her because because of her our school had lost last year's tournament. Over the months, however, we started to get closer, we're back friends ... And finally we became lovers. But now we were on opposite sides, I a kuro and she a Ooarai ... If our relationship had been discovered Maho and Shiho on one side, Anzu and her employees on the other would have forced us to cut it off ... Or worse, we would have become pariahs . Not so much for the relationship itself (in women's schools it is inevitable that certain relationships are formed), but I could have been accused of passing information to the opposing school, such as strategies, etc. And Miho ran the same risk. Because of this, at least publicly, I was talking ill of her. But when it was possible, we met in the city in secret, sometimes making us take passion, if you understand what I mean. "

The torturers reacted differently to those words: if Silver and her friends remained impassive, Anchovy, Anzu and the others were disgusted by what they had done. Momo, for its part, tried to lash out against Yukari, but Haruka and a couple of policemen blocked her.

"Yukari! Do you realize what you did? Because of you our school will close! Stupid slut! YOU HAVE CONDEMNED ALL OF US!"

" I'm sorry ... I acted in anger!" She tried to justify Yukari, in tears.

"I swear that if I catch you I'll kill you ... I'll cut you in pieces ... I'll kill you ... I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Take her away!" Haruka ordered.

While Momo was being driven away, a stretcher with Murakami, tied and unconscious, passed close to the arrested women.

"What have you done to her?" Ogin asked, worried.

"We simply sedated her. She screamed and punched right and left. "Saying this, she put her hand on her stomach.

She turned to Maho:

"Can you order your army to withdraw? Erika is safe, after all. "

"Yes…"

That said, she put her hand on the radio:

"Mom, everything is solved here. Erika is safe, even if wounded. They also arrested the real murderer of Miho. "In fact, Yukari had just been handcuffed.

"Take her to an ambulance, I'll wait here."

"All right, but order ours to come back."

"Count on it."

The communication closed.

"Come on, let's move." Haruka said, turning to the prisoners, who set off.

I told him they were wrong!

She thought Kinuyo.

"Are you one of the kidnappers?" Agent Michiru asked her.

"She warned me about the kidnapping." Maho answered.

"And she did not lift a finger on me." Erika added.

"In any case she must come to the interrogation center."

"I have nothing against it!" She said.

Meanwhile Shiho had come down from the Maus and stood at the foot of the catwalk. From it came stretchers with girls wounded or dead during the clashes, along with the kuro; at one point she saw a group of handcuffed girls.

"Which of you killed my daughter Miho?" She asked.

"I ..." answered a girl with short brown hair and eyes of the same color, which at that moment was crying.

Furiously, the woman slapped her.

"Calm down, Miss Nishizumi!" Haruka called her back.

"There's no need to rage, now justice will think of her." Setsuna interjected.

"I count!" Shiho said.

The girls were divided according to the team they belonged to, loaded onto the police cars and taken away.