"Our names?" Hibiya looks at Seto oddly.
"Well, not yours, mostly mine and Kano..." Seto said.
"What? I'm confused... Show it to us," Hibiya said.
Seto walked over to the boys and placed the paper down.
"'Shintaro, Kano, Kano, Seto, Shintaro, Seto, Takane, Kano, Shintaro, Seto, Shintaro, Seto, Kano, Mary, Shintaro, Kano'... Whats?!" Hibiya read off the list of names and immediately got confused.
"There's something on the top too!" Kano pointed to the top of the paper. "'Do you remember the unbeatable heat?'"
"'Unbeatable heat'? I don't remember anything like that..." Haruka said.
"You forget a lot of things!" Hibiya said.
...
"What?" Haruka asked.
"You barely know anything about me though, all you know is my name when we introduced each other while Ayano was gone! We're practically strangers," Haruka said, "And I have pretty good memory, I mean, I remembered Shintaro even though he forgot about me."
"I know, I know!" Hibiya said in irritation. "It's just...!" Hibiya grumbled then sighed, "Nothing..."
I can't believe two other people besides me remember! Hibiya thought.
"'Of course I do, do you think I don't? Remember, I have an IQ of 168. Also, how can I not remember all that has happened, over, and over, again, and again,'" Kano read off.
"Eh! That's an abnormally high IQ!" Seto said, surprised. "Whoever answered to this question must have been a genius!"
"That IQ score... genius... Oh!" Haruka realized, "Shintaro! Shintaro answered this!"
"Shintaro?!" Seto and Kano asked in unison.
"Yeah! Ayano told Takane and myself about his IQ!"
"I don't get it...! What is this 'unbeatable heat'?" Seto scratched the back of his head.
"Hold on, what kind of paper is...!" Kano flipped the paper over.
"Eh? Isn't this the homework Ayano-nee did on the day we met Shintaro for the first time?" Seto pointed to the shortcake cream stain on the paper.
"Does that mean, Ayano asked Shintaro this question?" Haruka asked.
"This feels like, as though, everything that happened... was planned..." Hibiya said.
"Planned?! How is suicide planned?!" Kano snapped.
"K-Kano, calm down..." Seto pushed Kano back slightly since it looked like he would attack Hibiya any moment. "But I do agree with Kano, like, why would suicide be planned?"
"How would I know! But, it's like it is, it's just hard to explain..." Hibiya murmured.
"But that's kind of a brutal way to kill yourself, you know?" Haruka hesitated, "Just the thought if we were actually there when he..."
Haruka shivered at the thought of it and covered his ears because he thought he could hear the scissors.
He suddenly heard a chuckle.
"Come on, how come you shivered at something like that?" the voice asked, as though it enjoys talking about death.
He widened his eyes at the voice, it sounded like a boy and it was as though he was talking right in his ear. The boy's wicked voice scared him a bit, but what scared him even more was that, he sounded like Haruka's own voice. It was as though it was himself talking to him except his tone of voice sounded like it was twisted and full of poison.
"Although, that is pretty brutal, but..."
He whispered something that made Haruka's heart skip a beat.
"Didn't you do something more brutal than that to your own friends?"
"Shut up...!" Haruka murmured.
"Hm? Don't tell me you're scared!" the voice started laughing, "Priceless! You're scared of your own sin!"
"Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!" Haruka yelled, not wanting to hear anymore.
The voice kept laughing.
"Didn't you hear him? Now shut up."
"Eh?" Haruka noticed that the voice was familiar, yet not.
Haruka heard nothing. The wicked voice was no longer taunting him.
He slowly yet hesitantly let his hands fall to his lap, his heart, beating fast, and he was sweating.
He looked to the others, who were staring at him.
Seto looked worried, Kano was blankly staring, and Hibiya looked confused.
"Is something wrong...?" Seto asked.
Haruka stared blankly, trying to process everything that had just happened to him.
He slowly brought a hand to his head.
"... No... I'm fine..."