On Wednesday morning, Ayano sought out a bucket. It pained her to do so, but she would need to dump water on her dear Senpai. She wasn't doing this out of malice or anything, but she needed to get his cell phone, and this was the easiest way to do it.
The young Aishi soon located a bucket in a girls' bathroom conveniently placed next to a sink. She filled it with water and went downstairs to the courtyard where her Senpai would be. Ayano paused to admire him for a moment before she started running towards him. When she got close enough, she intentionally tripped and fell over, sending both the bucket and its contents flying. The yandere was right on target, drenching her beloved Senpai from head to toe in water.
"Gyah!" the third-year exclaimed. He then grimaced as he surveyed his wet clothing, and sighed. "Be more careful next time, okay?" he said before he ran off to go change. Ayano watched him go before heading in another direction.
The yandere went out through the back doorway rather than the front entrance so no one would think that she was following her Senpai. She peered around the corner of the building to see the third-year enter the shower rooms building. With great caution, Ayano followed after him.
When she reached the door to the boys' washroom, Ayano peered inside to make sure her Senpai was in the bath. Confirming that he was absent, Ayano snuck over to his locker with the help of Info-chan's app. Opening it, she found Taro's wet uniform, his gym clothes, and what she was looking for; his cell phone. The temptation to steal his uniform was a great one, as was the temptation to go and snap a picture of her Senpai in the nude, but with tremendous restraint, she took only what she had come for, closed his locker, and rushed out of the room. Mere seconds after leaving the boys' changing room, while she was heading towards the exit with pilfered cell phone in her pocket, Shiromi Torayoshi appeared in front of her, blocking said exit.
The first thing that ran through Ayano's head was, 'Oh, crap!' She did not need a member of the Student Council making her life more difficult right now.
"Whatcha doin' Yan-chan?" the white-themed girl asked casually.
"Nothing." The young Aishi stated.
"Doesn't look like nothing to me," the Student Council girl persisted.
"It's nothing you should be concerned about," the yandere insisted, getting irritated.
"Oh, but I am concerned," Shiromi retorted. "After all, it just wouldn't do for one of our prestigious school's students to be engaging in… lewd behavior."
Ayano blushed, but kept her cool.
"I wasn't taking pictures," she said before trying to squeeze past the other girl. "Now will you let me through?"
"Nope!" Ayano received a shove in response, keeping her trapped. The yandere grit her teeth in frustration.
"What do you want from me Torayoshi? Some sort of signed confession to a crime I never committed?"
"There are lots of things I want Aishi," the other girl said, suddenly serious. "And there's a certain someone who you want really badly," she stated with a smirk. "Badly enough to kill for."
Ayano, unsettled by this statement, prepared to do… something, she wasn't sure what though, when Shiromi turned to leave.
"But I've wasted enough time here," she remarked flippantly. "I'll see you around Yan-chan."
Ayano, startled by the sudden departure, but not about to look a gift horse in the mouth, raced in the direction opposite of where Shiromi was headed. Finally alone, the young Aishi reached into her pocket for her Senpai's phone, only to find a note instead.
"Theft is a serious crime Yan-chan," the note said, clearly from Shiromi. "You'd best not let me catch you doing it again, or there'll be 'trouble.'"
Angered, Ayano tore the note to pieces, threw them on the ground, and proceeded to grind them into the dirt. That damn woman! She sounded teasing even in her handwriting! Now Ayano couldn't lure Musume to her doom by sending her a text message using Taro's phone.
As she fumed, Ayano pondered about how she would isolate Musume now. She couldn't throw water on her Senpai again, because doing that a second time would make him think she was doing it on purpose. The only other way would be to try and pick his pocket, but being so close to him would definitely make her lose her cool and fail, so that wasn't an option. She could've gone to find Shiromi to try and take her Senpai's phone back by force, but that girl wasn't someone she wanted to deal with in a direct confrontation, so that was also out of the question.
Ayano ultimately decided that getting Taro's phone again wasn't happening, so she thought about what she could do instead. Ayano stood and thought for a little while until she realized something. 'I could just befriend her and ask her to follow me into the Hedge Maze,' she thought with a face palm. 'No need for any complicated messaging.'
Ayano checked the time and found that she still had around an hour before class officially started. With that, Ayano decided to prepare yet again for her Hedge Maze murder plot.
The first thing Ayano did was approach Musume for a task to complete. The bully's request was simple enough: get her a pack of cigarettes. Luckily for the yandere, Info-chan sold cigarettes for only one panty shot. So as she stood outside the Info Club's window, she sent a panty shot she had in reserve and caught the cigarette pack before it could hit the ground. Soon, the cigarettes were in Musume's hands, and Ayano was in her good books.
Now came the more difficult part. Ayano took the trash can from the cafeteria and brought it down to the garden where she set it down next to the shed. The members of the Gardening Club simply assumed that she was there to pick up trash and went about caring for the plants. Ayano, making sure nobody was looking, carefully picked Uekiya's pocket for the key to the shed. Looking around once more to make sure that nobody was looking, Ayano opened up the shed and found what she wanted; the circular saw. Placing it inside the trash can, the young Aishi woman left the garden and headed over to the Hedge Maze with the trash can in tow and thankfully managed to make it without another run-in with Torayoshi. Ayano had also wanted to grab a plastic tarp from the Art Club, but only members could take tarps, and attempting to steal one would have been much too difficult, so she would have to do without one.
As Ayano placed the trash can down and removed the saw, she wondered if the spare uniform she got from Info-chan was still in her locker. She ran over to the shower rooms building and entered the girls' side to check her locker. Opening it up, she was relieved to find the spare uniform still in its place. With her preparations all set once more, Ayano went to class.
Line Break
Seven hours later, classes were over for the day, and the students were all cleaning up. Ayano, on the other hand, went to go find Musume. She knew that the bullies would converge in the same restroom after school every day, so the yandere took a route that would allow her to intercept the lead bully before she reached it.
Upon meeting with Musume, Ayano asked the bully to follow her with the promise of showing her "something cool." The yandere led her unsuspecting victim out of the school building and into the Hedge Maze where she would meet her untimely demise. They soon reached the center of the maze where Ayano had left the trash can and circular saw.
"Is this what you wanted to show me?" Musume asked with a frown. "It doesn't look very 'cool' to me."
"Oh, there never was anything 'cool' to show you," Ayano said casually as she picked up the saw. This caused Musume to become wary of what was happening.
"Wait, what are you doing?" the bully asked, suddenly afraid.
Ayano gave no reply, but instead started up the saw in her hands. "This is for Taro, you bitch!" she declared. Musume only screamed as the yandere lunged at her and shoved the saw vertically down her front. Blood fountained out of the gaping wound all over Ayano and the grass, dying it all a brilliant scarlet hue. As the young Aishi woman pulled the saw away, the corpse of the bully unceremoniously fell to the ground, creating a sizable puddle of gore.
Ayano just stood there, staring at the limp sack of flesh, blood, and bones that had once been a person. She knew that she should've felt something. Elated and overjoyed that another rival had been removed from her path towards her Senpai, horrified and nauseous that she had bloodied her hands yet again, or even satisfied and justified with herself that such an awful person was now gone. Yet, Ayano Aishi felt nothing at the death of Musume Ronshaku. It made sense in a twisted sort of way. The only person who was capable of invoking emotion within her was Taro Yamada, nobody else.
With those thoughts, Ayano knelt down beside the corpse and got to work cutting it into pieces. During the process the bloody mess got even bigger than before, but the yandere didn't mind. A little mess was a small sacrifice for getting away with murder.
The next thing Ayano did wasn't to start disposing of the corpse, but to go over to the shower rooms building to get herself cleaned up. The reason why she didn't do this earlier was because cutting apart Musume's body had sprayed more blood on Ayano, and doing that with a clean uniform would've defeated the purpose of getting it in the first place. Plus, running to the incinerator all bloody would've been suspicious. She knew that the delinquents would've been the only ones to see her around this time, but she didn't want to take too many risks.
Ayano got herself clean and changed, and without further delay, returned to the Hedge Maze to proceed with disposing of the corpse. She placed the limbs, head, and bloody uniform inside the trash can, and ran to the other side of the school building to drop them in the incinerator. She didn't turn it on yet, because the incinerator would lock itself until it was done burning whatever was inside it, and that took forever.
Ayano headed back to the Hedge Maze to pick up Musume's torso and the saw and returned to the disposal area, only to find that someone had activated the incinerator in her absence. Ayano groaned at this setback, then shot a glare towards the delinquents. She was certain that one of them had activated the incinerator just to give the other students a hard time, it seemed like something they would do. With the incinerator cut off, Ayano disposed of the torso and saw in the dumpster, making certain that they were both hidden by a large garbage bag so no one would notice them.
With the body and murder weapon taken care of, the only issue was the bloodstain in the Hedge Maze. Ayano could just leave it there, since no one ever went into the Maze, and rain was predicted for tonight. However, the yandere wasn't willing to take the risk that a teacher would go in there and find the blood, then call the police over, who would find Musume's torso and the bloody saw in the dumpster, find Ayano's fingerprints on the saw, and then arrest her. Therefore, Ayano went to the girls' bathroom to grab a bucket an fill it with water. Then she returned to the Hedge Maze with it, and carefully dumped it on the bloodstain in a way to make certain that it would all soak into the ground.
With all her tasks complete, Ayano decided to stalk her Senpai until it was time to return home. When that time came, the police weren't called to the school, so the young Aishi woman knew she had succeeded in covering her tracks. With the knowledge that she had safely gotten away with murder once again, the yandere stalked her Senpai until he got home, and then she went home herself where she went to bed, satisfied that she had successfully protected her Senpai again.