1You know about people in the upper class and lower class, right? Well, what about middle class? Yeah, upper class people are more famous, and at least people look at lower class people and think, "Oh, this man is poor. He can't really support himself. I think he should just die. I hope I don't end up like that." At least if you're lower class, it's obvious and people have an obvious opinion of you! But if you're middle class... "Oh, it's just a middle class person, I shouldn't gush over him or pity him." They barely think anything of you! Sure people are all unique (Except for Nami. She's normal.) but when you're middle class, that means people think of you as average due to your lifestyle based on the amount of money you make in a year! Even if your lifestyle is unique, they just look at your income, the house you live in, the people you hang out with... they're all middle class in the eyes of the world!

I'm in despair! Being in a class that nobody recognizes even a little has left me in despair! Even the poor people in the lower class think of me as middle class, I know it! Instead of asking for change from me, they'll look for a cool guy with expensive stuff in the upper class that looks like he's loaded for change! Just because they have more!

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Two: When it is, it will be, but if it isn't, then you're just left wondering.

Itoshiki Nozomu was in hiding. He didn't want to come out. But, as I am sure that you read the first chapter, you probably already know why. Let's move over to the one person in the group of people who love him who didn't come to comfort him because that thought had never really occurred to her, Chiri.

After about ten days of searching, Chiri grew restless, and so did the rest of the class. "Hold it! We can't just run around the school looking for a missing teacher!"

The rest of the class looked at her. 'So she's giving up on committing him?'

"We need to be running around where he would be if he's not in school; a proper manhunt!"

'..... oh.'

"We need to comb his house, his family home, everything!"

'We need to get a new class rep.'

Kagerou shouts "Hey, I'm the class rep!" But then he just sorta fades off into the background while sobbing.

The class proceeds to storm their teacher's house.

Well, let's get back to our pessimistic teacher hiding in the closet.

'I know I'm living a worthless life. There's no way around it using opinions. Opinions are opinions, but knowing something is completely different. Opinions are what you think of something, but knowing means that what you know is a fact, no matter what way you look at it.'

"Well sensei, what if what you think you know is selective disinformation?"

Yeah, he was thinking out loud.

"You mean, what if isn't true. Feh, I should know about my own life. I know, so when I'm put in front of my own judgement, I'm telling the truth when I say that I know that I'm worthless."

"... but... you could be lying to yourself."

Kiri brought up an interesting point. "Why would I lie to myself?"

"Some people don't want to face reality, so they cover it up with a lie that they themselves start to believe."

".... How did you know about stuff like that?"

Being in her room all the time has given her lots of free time. She's watched a lot of soap operas.

"Anyway, just what kind of reality would I want to avoid? Trust me, if I knew I was useful, I wouldn't hide it from anyone! Especially not myself!"

"Ah...."

She didn't have an answer.

"Under normal circumstances Komori-san, I would kill myself..."

"*Gasp*!"

"But with everybody searching for me, I can't tell them to stop with a little note. And with the fact that almost half of my class has been misguided to believe that they love me (and I only found this out recently) I would be hurting them, further proving the fact no matter what I do, there'll be a negative outcome. I at the very least don't want the outcome to hurt people.... so I'll wait until their affection subsides."

Komori looked at him calmly, yet intensely. "Affection that lasts long doesn't just 'subside.'"

"Who knows. Maybe it will. I'm already causing them trouble."

Komori had made up her mind. She needed to cheer up sensei! By any means necessary! But the problem is, he isn't really cheery. At all. At any given moment, the only thing that makes him happy is when a student gives a good example of the negative perceptions he has. But that wouldn't really help get him out, it would just throw him more in despair. What to do?

Over at Nozomu's house....

"Where is sensei?"

Majiru looked at everybody with disbelief... "You don't know? He hasn't been here for ten days..."

Chiri came up and grabbed his collar. "Listen! We need to make him fulfill his obligations so if you know where he is, tell us!"

Matoi snatched Majiru away. "He's only a kid. He wouldn't lie. So don't press him, alright?"

Chiri and the rest of the class had to go. Abiru seemed to notice that most of the suitors to their sensei weren't here. "I should say something... but then again, there will be chaos once they find him. The school festival is coming up, and the chaos uprising from committing sensei will ruin it, so I'll wait."

Matoi took Majiru into the house. "Majiru-kun, please tell noone."

"Alright. But I need to know exactly what I'm not telling, or else I can't."

"Sensei is hiding out in Kiri-chan's room."

Majiru screamed. "What?!"

"He needs to hide from his suitors, or else he'll be in despair about his own opinions on his own life. As much as I would like to be by his side, as his wife, I must respect his wish to be alone."

Majiru panicked at this thought. He had been attracted to Kiri Komori for a long time, but had never really decided if it was "love". 'Well, the way she teases because I'm a child... she only does that around me because I'm a child... but I kinda... like it. Other than that, she looks so shy, and so cute with her long hair... her skin is beautiful and fair...' Okay. He had decided. He loves Kiri Komori. 'And for Nozomu... to be in her room with her... I can only imagine what they're doing...' OMITTED. Look for it in a later fic.

'I should be in that room with her!'

Majiru grew an aura, similar to something about hunting, or hunters and whatnot.

Matoi sensed this, and only inched away. "Why are you so mad Majiru-kun?"

"Matoi-san, would you forgive me if I beat up Nozomu?"

"...No."

"Is there any way for me to beat him up without anybody hating me?"

"Well, there is something going on at the school festival, but I'm not sure."

"Well then, we'll settle this there. In the meantime, I should go tell him off."

Later, in Komori's room...

"Sensei... would you like to go with me... to the school festival in a week?"

"Huh?"

This question had caught Nozomu off guard. He remembered something important about festivals, but since he only scarcely ever went, he didn't remember. So I'll tell you. Although Komori is a girl, she is taking the role that a boy should take (because Nozomu wouldn't) and asks someone to a festival.

"... I can't. My class will be there."

"It won't matter. I have a disguise."

She then holds up a long wig. She "borrowed" it from Kagerou. Well, if you take into the account that she didn't see him, you could say she, "found it". Kagerou sobs.

"I might be able to go like this," said Nozomu putting on the wig, "but what about my face? Surely they'll recognize me..."

"I borrowed this from Kei-san."

She held up a mask in Nozomu's image.

"I see. If Kei is selling his lesser artworks on a regular basis (and I know he is) then it won't be unusual to see this mask at the festival. And the students would never suspect that their target would hide behind his own face. Hmmmm...."

After thirty seconds of thinking, he answered, "Alright. I suppose I can go."

Kiri had a gleeful look on her face. She blushed a little at Sensei's accepting of her invite. "I look forward to it..."

They hear someone bust through the door.

"Yipe!" Nozomu closed the closet.

"Nozomu! I know you're here!"

'That voice... Majiru-kun?'

Komori looked at him. "Why are you here Majiru-kun?"

"Komori.... I...."

Because he falls into the categorical stereotype of people who writes a message that they could just say out loud, but can't say it out loud for a reason (embarrassment) or another. So he gave her a small note.

I love you.

"M-Majiru-kun?"

"I know Nozomu's here. I know about it. And I have a bone to pick with him!" You know, he's being really vague...

"Majiru. It's not that I don't, it's just that I do to Sensei more. It's not so wrong to love more than one person. It's different, but has the same concept of more than one person loving a single person."

Nozomu was listening. You'd think he'd have an understanding of the situation. He doesn't. 'What are they talking about? It sounds serious.'

"Majiru-kun. I don't rank people on how much I love them. If I love them I love them, but there are certain different degrees of love, and the feeling toward him is just a bit of a higher degree."

"Well now that you know, I may as well say it. I love you!"

'I had given up on understanding them, but now all my focus is on this! I never knew that Majiru liked Komori-san!'

"Is the reason because I'm a kid? Or is it personal preference that makes you.... feel for him more?" He's too embarrassed to say love again.

"..... a little of both. Mostly the personal preference part."

".... Why? Why is it you feel for him more than me? What does he have that I don't?!"

Komori put a finger to her lips, an action that made Majiru blush. "A girls preferences are hers alone. But when you can accept the degree of love I have for you, I'll tell you."

"... I have something to settle with him. Give him this note." He gave her a note.

Nozomu was still confused. 'Okay, after that, I'm completely lost.'

He could hear the door close. So he opened his door. "What did he give you?"

Komori gave him a note. It said Meet me at the mask shop at the school festival at 11:00 AM. I'll be there waiting- Majiru Itoshiki.

"Eh? What?"

And so preparation for the school festival begins.

BTW, where was Kaere this entire episode?

At a rock star prosecutor's office...

"What do you mean I can't file a lawsuit?"

"One. You can't blame them for what the divine wind does. Two. There are too many of them to sue. And three..."

DIVINE WIND! Skirt flies up. "Kyaa~!"

"... You can't expect them not to look at peaches!" When it happened, they were strawberries.

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How'd you like it? Was It dramatic? Did the ending leave you in despair? I mean Nozomu's, not Kaere's ending. Kaere's was just funny.

Did the unexplained meeting at the festival leave you in despair? It left me in despair, and I wrote it! See ya next time...

Oh hey! That guy's chopping down a tree with an axe! He's coming to greet me with his axe held high! He's getting closer... Hi!

CHOP